Not long now until we host Owl & Mouse and Model Village at the start of their tour, with support from Deerful. Advance tickets available from wegottickets.com/fikarecordings
Stanley Brinks and the Old Time Kaniks - Right Down My Alley [Digital]
Right Down My Alley is the first single taken from Stanley Brinks and The Old Time Kaniks forthcoming double album Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelles Caniques.
Spotify | iTunes | Bandcamp | Soundcloud
Pre-order the double vinyl, double CD or digital versions of the album here.
Turtle Dove now available on CD
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You've been asking us for a while for a CD version of Stanley Brinks & The Kaniks' "Turtle Dove", following it's vinyl only release for Record Store Day earlier in the year. So here it is - complete with lyrics booklet - in a gatefold style digifile sleeve. We're shipping copies now from Fika HQ, so if you were after one, now's your chance! It'll be available in shops shortly - we're expecting a mid December street date if you'd prefer to pick it up from your local record shop. Buy your copy here with an immediate mp3/wav/flac download: http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/turtle-dove
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Stanley Brinks and Freschard tour dates
November 4th MARSEILLE, France - La Machine a CoudreNovember 5th ARLES, France - Le Magasin de jouets November 23rd METZ, France – Bar 7/7 November 24th TBA November 25th NANCY, France - Home sweet home festival #4 November 26th REIMS, France - TBC November 27th REIMS, France – Quartier libre (tbc) November 28th PARIS, France – L'Olympic Cafe November 29th ZÜRICH, Switzerland – New Zitrone December 1st FREIBURG, Germany – White Rabbit December 2nd MANNHEIM, Germany - Altes Volksbad December 3rd WAIBLINGEN, Germany – Fidel's Fitz at Kulturhaus Schwanen December 4th BAERENBACH,Germany – Shorty's
Owl & Mouse on tour
Not long now until we host Owl & Mouse and Model Village at the start of their tour, with support from Deerful. Advance tickets available from wegottickets.com/fikarecordings
Come join us on the 23rd of November at Haunt N16 to see Owl & Mouse kick off their tour alongside Model Village. Joining us will be Deerful.
Advance tickets for the London show are available from WeGotTickets.
23rd Nov - Haunt, LONDON N16 26th Nov - Moat House, ROCHESTER 27th Nov - JT Soar, NOTTINGHAM 2nd Dec - The Blue Moon, CAMBRIDGE 3rd Dec - The Waiting Room, COLCHESTER 4th Dec - The Old Crown Inn, SHEFFIELD
Cosines - Transitions [10"]
Cosines return with their new EP, “Transitions”. As well as being the missing link between the band’s debut LP and next year’s follow-up, the four tracks are all about change – with themes of starting over, moving on, making changes and reacting to unexpected events.
Opening track, Let’s Start It Over, is the most personal, building over five minutes to a classic pop crescendo – coming soon to a dancefloor near you. Dunbar was written in angry response to the news that Cosines’ spiritual home, The Buffalo Bar, was to shut, and received its live debut at one of the final shows there. The song pays tribute to the latest of many vital small music venues forced to close due to property development, London’s increasing gentrification and lack of arts support from government.
Transitions is out on 10" black vinyl and as a download now.
Palomica - Petito [12"]
Petito
Petito is Palomica’s second full length album, and their first with Fika Recordings. Since 2013’s “Sometimes It’s A Struggle”, Nicol Parkinson has played with co-existing unrelated sounds, bringing tape manipulation, ambient recordings and electronic drones to his delicate pop songs. It was partially recorded in his childhood bedroom outside Brighton, with his childhood cats poking around, and finished in Bristol in late 2015 with a different cat poking around.
Petito is full of incidental outside sounds alongside tumbling words and occasional guitar flourishes: sometimes melodic, sometimes cacophonic. For fans of Real Estate, Belle & Sebastian and Tenniscoats.
Available now on 12" pigeon coloured vinyl and on download. Bandcamp | Spotify | iTunes
<a href="http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/petito">Petito by Palomica</a>
Math and Physics Club - In This Together [12"]
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We've been very excited to work with our new friends Math and Physics Club and our old friends at Matinee Recordings on this brand new compilation, gathering together 16 b-sides, rarities and unreleased treats from the band, all on vinyl for the very first time. Pre-orders have been brisk so we've only a handful of copies of this left, so don't hang around if you're keen to get a copy. If you're a MAPC fan in the USA and are hankering over a copy of the gatefold vinyl, ask your local record store to order you a copy in - RedEye are distributing it outside Europe so point them in the right direction! Matinee are looking after the CD version - we're hoping to get a few copies to the UK in time for Indietracks, otherwise you can order it directly from them here.
"this collection of Math and Physics Club's earliest work and some choice rarities works as a reminder of how good they were, how at their best they actually came quite close to being the next Lucksmiths or B&S" All Music
"So far this is easily the best compilation album of the year and quite possibility the only one you’ll need in 2016." Pennyblack Music
"there’s something stirring and anthemic in the best of these sweetly melodic, heartfelt and life-affirming songs that keeps you hooked on every word and chord change. It’s pop without cynicism, familiar in its sound but attractive all the same" Sounds XP
"Although it isn't billed as a greatest hits album, it comes close to serving as one and should become a favorite album for old and new fans alike. I've had it on repeat for several days now, and it is like having a welcome old friend drop in for an extended stay." When You Motor Away
"this is your chance to fall in love with one of the greatest bands you might have overlooked" Austin Town Hall
23rd June: Petito album launch show
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June the 23rd - it's referendum day! You've got until 10pm until polls close to cast your vote - but we'd suggest you do that early, and come and join us from 8pm at Haunt for the launch of Palomica's Petito album. Support comes from The Nervy Betters and Actual Crimes. We'll have copies of Petito available to buy ahead of it's release on the 1st of July too. Advance tickets are £5 from WeGotTickets - they'll be slightly more on the door.
To get you in the mood, you can listen to the first single taken from Petito, Honeydew, which is released today!
<a href="http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/honeydew">Honeydew by Palomica</a>
Palomica - Honeydew [Digital]
We're really rather chuffed to be able to announce that Palomica have joined the Fika Recordings fold. We'll be releasing their second album Petito on the 1st of July - but before that, you can hear the lead single Honeydew below.
Honeydew is released as a 4 track single on the 10th of June.
Then it's only a short wait until the release of Petito at the start of July. The album comes on pigeon coloured vinyl (think a soft grey base, with specks of green and purple). We'll have some copies available for sale ahead of the release at the launch show on the 23rd of June at Haunt (Stoke Newington High Street), where Palomica will be joined by The Nervy Betters and Actual Crimes. Full details over on the Facebook page - advance tickets are available from WeGotTickets.
You can pre-order Petito here.
Palomica is the home-recorded clumsy rock and roll project of Nicol Parkinson. It’s incidental outside sounds alongside tumbling words and occasional guitar flourishes: sometimes melodic, sometimes cacophonic.