View basket “Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023” has been added to your basket. Slags Umlauts, The SKU: PRAH063LP Barcode: 5060918153019 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Prah Recordings Released Date: 6th October 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info There are few things in life quite as mesmerising or outrageously euphoric as the nine-strong Umlauts army effervescing in fulsome force. Rebelling against labels, transcending borders of land and time – packed with twin vocalists equally competent in their skewering South London drawl as they are in German, Italian or French – as in touch with the nostalgias of First-Generation post-punk or 80s pop as they are with the techniks of contemporary pop or big beat dance – The Umlauts are paragons of trans-Europe excess, dripping with inarguable edge; shambling wildly from chaotic cool to bombastically exquisite order; invested with unhinging, socio-political bite, dancing in a rave of their own. Compiling the best of The Umlauts’ first two EPs – ‘Ü’ (2021) and ‘Another Fact’ (2022) – and appended with a clutch of new material – ‘Slags’ offers the most comprehensive versioning of this Umlauts experience as yet extant on record; a salacious digest of wild experiments past and present. Taking its title from the by-product of the smelting of metals – the not-so-subtle cheapness in wordplay is relevant too – the music of ‘Slags’ also represents a work of immense amounts of energy and heat. From their breakthrough EP, ‘Ü’, aptly opening the record is thunderous live staple ‘Energy Plan’, defined by quote from multi-disciplinary artist Joseph Beuys and charged with post-industrial foreboding. Also plucked from that record comes the puckish splatterpunk of ‘Um Politik’, and radio ‘hit’, ‘Boiler Suits & Combat Boots’, a mission-statement satire against cultural uniformity, and perhaps the ultimate epitome of The Umlauts’ disco war march, stylish as fuck. And if their first EP was in their own words, basically an ‘accident’, its follow-up, ‘Another Fact’, is by all evidence a work of more immaculate designs. With the addition of Italo-disco influences, and of Caroline’s Magdalena McLean on violin duties, The Umlauts’ sound lifted towards more operatic and nuances heights – the tense violin bow sweeps on ‘Non è Ancora’, or ‘Frightened’, or the delicious synthpopping sheen of ‘Sweat’ adding yet further spikes of melodrama to their sound. Not forgetting the EP’s title track, which proffers an appropriately magnificent closer here. The slow burning, heavy hitting techno vision loaded with string stabs, balalaikas, and a bicycle pump is an epic in every sense. The three new tunes included here are the ‘Slugs’ of The Umlauts’ Oeuvre. Like slugs, the band say, they are slippery, “maybe slipperiness describes our approach best, ideas glued together with plasmic sludge, searching for something, enjoying the search.” Speaking out against “acts of harassment by those whose duty should be to protect,” ‘Dance & Go’ delivers a squelchy, undulating, irresistible dance-punk drive. ‘Mad Blue Love’ rants against relationships built on the sandy grounds of false expectations, while ‘Prédateur’’s swaying Art-pop curiosities strings out one of the band’s most intricate arrangements to date. The band describe the album as the end of a chapter. This brings hope of it also being the beginning of a new one. If it achieves nothing else, ‘Slags’ stands pregnant with rich anticipation for whatever wanderings are yet to come from this most unique of bands. For sure, it’s already been a riveting ride. Artist Umlauts, The Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Prah Recordings Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Energy Plan Dance & Go Frightened Boiler Suits & Combat Boots Non è Ancora Mad Blue Love Sweat Um Politik Prédateur Another Fact Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Fugazi End Hits Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Dischord | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd February 2024 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fugazi End Hits £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Dischord SKU: DIS110VG Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Goon Dusk Of Punk / Happy Omen Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Partisan Records | 1LP Released 13th July 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Goon Dusk Of Punk / Happy Omen £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Partisan Records SKU: PTKF2157-1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jungle For Ever Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | XL Recordings | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th September 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jungle For Ever £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: XL Recordings SKU: XL927LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blinders, The Columbia Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Modern Sky Entertainment | 1LP Released 21st September 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blinders, The Columbia £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Modern Sky Entertainment SKU: 190296954634 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nine Inch Nails Not The Actual Events Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | UMC | 180g, 1LP Released 16th November 2017 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nine Inch Nails Not The Actual Events £26.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: UMC SKU: 5753091 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 16th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Urusei Yatsura We Are Urusei Yatsura Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rocket Girl | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th May 2023 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Urusei Yatsura We Are Urusei Yatsura £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rocket Girl SKU: RGIRL131LPG Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Worriers Imaginary Life Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Don Giovanni | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th January 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Worriers Imaginary Life £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG102C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bring Me The Horizon Amo Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | RCA | 2LP Released 25th January 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bring Me The Horizon Amo £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: RCA SKU: 19075895641 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 25th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Turnover Good Nature Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Run For Cover Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 25th August 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Turnover Good Nature £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Run For Cover Records SKU: 0811774027502 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 25th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Women In Revolt Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Music For Nations | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd November 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Women In Revolt £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Music For Nations SKU: 19658811231 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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