Street date: 2020-12-31

Street date: 2020-12-31

Street date: 2009-06-29

Following on from Volume 1 (featuring Munch Munch; Gay Against You; Lonely Ghosts; The Tumbledown Estate) comes OIB Records Split Series Volume 2. Each split 7 inch is constructed around a loose musical theme as OIB Records select four artists per volume that have a similar ethos in their approach to music construction. As a release the OIB Records split series is designed to provide an outlet for acts to experiment more widely and create something outside the parameters of the more cohesive album or EP format. SJ Esau - Part of a Diagram Hot off the heels of his second album proper for Anticon comes the new SJ Esau recording 'Part of a Diagram'. In just three and a half minutes SJ Esau delivers driving guitar riffs, hypnotic drum rhythms, multi-layered off - kilter chanting, and delicate piano, all wrapped around his distinctive yet humble vocal delivery. Half-handed Cloud - When Overwhelmed With Dread Marking his first release since the 'Winding Currents on a Spool EP' in 2007, 'When Overwhelmed With Dread' is Half-handed Cloud at his absolute finest. John Ringhofer aka Half-handed Cloud offers up a musically complex and joyful avant-pop track that's as thought-provoking as it is exciting. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - God Save Roger Nichols After a way too long hiatus, Sweden’s finest electro-twee-pop outfit are back with the four minute pop opus 'God Save Roger Nichols'. Kopek - The Way You Are Following their debut self-release 'Lost at Sea EP', Kopek release 'The Way You Are', a heart-warming two minute pop masterpiece.

Street date: 2009-05-04

Sons of Noel and Adrian was formed in 2007 by best friends, Jacob Richardson and Tom Cowan. After years of writing and performing together in the drunken brewery town of Burton-Upon-Trent these two troubadour guitar players parted ways for art school and European travel adventures, only to be re-united years later on the south-eastern shores of Brighton. Having long shared a passion for rich, layered and intricate guitar music, the 'Sons...' deep musical exploration quickly developed into a unique and mesmerizing style, brooding on the dark fringes of folk, crossing genres and quickly setting them apart from their contemporaries. Bringing along violinist Mike Siddell (Hope of the States / Lightspeed Champion) and William Calderbank (The Miserable Rich) for the wild ride, the newly formed four piece quickly retreated to a converted chicken shed in the Quantock Hills of Devon and set about creating their debut album Sons of Noel and Adrian (Shelsmusic) which was released in 2008 to mass critical acclaim. Now recording as a twelve piece collective the Rivers EP is a collection of dark, folk-noir tracks written by Jacob Richardson that explore three very differing concepts through a single shared metaphor which was brought about by "three gruelling days in the hottest sun fishing with Jack on the wrong side of the river". EP opener and live favourite 'Black Side of the River' came directly from this experience. The theme is then continued through the powerful second track 'Big, Bad, Bold' which surrounds the concept of "the inner strength of a woman", finally 'Leaving Mary's Hand' brings the EP to a thought provoking close as Jacob contemplates his mental "state of love and trust".

Street date: 2009-03-09

Pseudo Nippon is a man from Pala Pala world where music is of hi kick and utter super joy for enter ears. He make sound like cheap, so cheap that again joy enter ear, with little toy keyboard and little vibraphone but big big big beat like an electro gabba pop beef magnet attracted to positive ear receiver and stomach rumbler. He want to come from space and cosmic vibrato is the sending of brilliants outer limit, how many you ask? 100 hundred brilliants!!!! The sounds is new of comic, and the children dance under berry bushes listening a pseudo electro jazz solo. He, I, Pseudo Nippon is try energier, and harder and fasterer so the live show is explosion. "My head explode…so much fun" the fan say with sweat. Edamame Freakout is the first to hit planet Earth but by 2015 there be many more.

Street date: 2008-08-25

Lonely Ghosts is the brainchild of Brighton-based musician Tom Denney. During the past four years Denney has been co-vocalist and guitarist in south coast indie-noise kids Help She Can’t Swim. Musically broader and more personal than Denney’s previous output in Help She Can’t Swim, Don’t Get Lost or Hurt sees electronic beats and casio keys rubbing shoulders with classical instruments and sweeping string sounds. (8 tracks 27 minutes)

Street date: 2008-08-25

Pope Joan are a 4-piece avant-pop band based out of Brighton, with a focus on fusing pop with punk. Now releasing their debut mini-album Hot Water, Lines and Rickety Machines on Brighton-based label One Inch Badge Records (O.I.B Records); Pope Joan have created a breathless assemblage of 8 tracks recorded over on hectic weekend. This collection of songs reflects the refinement of their sound and combines unforgettable pop-hooks with the lo-fi immediacy of their raw essence. The result is a firm introduction to a band with wide-reaching ambitions and a bucketful of great ideas.

Street date: 2008-08-11

Their debut single release No TV represents the band at their most hectic and unforgettable, it's two and half minutes full of unforgettable pop-hooks and scuzzy, driving guitars. Effortlessly bridging the gap between searing punk-noise and glistening pop melody, and with an acerbic wit of impressively far-reaching proportions, Pope Joan are a force to be reckoned with.

Street date: 2008-05-05

Town Topic is the soundtrack EP for the American independent film Stay The Same Never Change by the critically acclaimed New York / Los Angeles artist Laurel Nakadate. Bathed in the blinding light and sticky heat of Kansas City's summer, Stay The Same Never Change is largely improvised by its cast, who generously opened their real-life homes, yards, bedrooms and other private spaces to Nakadate's inquisitive lens as she create a fictional account of everyday lives and a portrait of a real place. It's an unsettling coming-of-age story delivered through the real-life experiences of youth in the American Midwest. Over the past ten years Ashworth has experimented with a diverse range of genres including dark synth pop, classic rock balladry, country-tinged techno, 60's bubblegum pop, and stark piano bar jazz. Through his wild experimentation and introspective character studies Ashworth's popularity has escalated rapidly making him one of the most invigorating and heartfelt songwriters working in independent music.

Street date: 2007-06-18

Gay Against You - Part of the post-punk-happy-hardcore electro scene made famous by co-vocalist in the internationally successful Help She Can't Swim. Egg, Adaadat and the Wrong Music collectives, GvsY make aggressive spaz-core electronic party music that's confrontational, demanding and very, very fun. Lonely Ghosts - Exploring pop, electro and acoustic influences Lonely Ghosts is an eclectic amalgamation of sounds all held together by a love for pure 'pop' tunes. Munch Munch - Formed in early 2006 as a self-professed 'adult' Lighthouse Family covers band, Munch Munch quickly outgrew their catalogue and started writing songs of their own in a DIY-aesthetic, utilising any instruments they could lay their hands on, including keyboards, glockenspiels, ukuleles, shakers and computerised beats. The Tumbledown Estate - A one-man avant-pop explosion, orchestrated by the indie-surf eccentric Jim Morrison (no, not that one). Frantic, passionate and off the wall, much like Stephen Merritt and Of Montreal jamming out Blur tunes with the Bronx, if you can imagine such a thing!

Street date: 2007-05-21

Mewgatz's debut release 'Underfelt' is delicate yet damaging electronica of the highest order. Constructed around the brain of a £3 Yamaha keyboard and an 80's keytar, it's dark and harrowing basement pop. Paying homage to his fascination with original keyboard presets and demo songs, Mewgatz fuses glitching preset bossanova beats with delicate guitar chord progressions and tender untrained vocals, schizophrenically remixing popular contemporary tracks until they're bent out of all recognition. These are lo-fidelity electronic ballads drenched in raw, passionate, and vulnerable emotion. With soldering-iron raised firmly towards the heavens Mewgatz is on a quest for melodic chaos, to find that fleeting moment in the void between human fragility and robotic malfunction were unpredictability and stability collide.