Below are some words from us that can also be viewed via our friends over at The Quietus: http://thequietus.com/articles/12288-brew-leeds-record-label-set-to-close

‘We’ve had the pleasure of releasing some incredible records over the years and have been fortunate to work with so many amazing people. We’d like to thank everyone that has ever supported us, bought a record or a t-shirt and spread our music in general. Humanfly’s ‘Awesome Science’ is our final release and we couldn’t think of a better record to go out on which sums up what we love about physical records both musically and aesthetically. The label will still remain active for a while as we wind things down and continue to take and fulfil orders.

To celebrate/commiserate we are currently running a big sale on our store where every CD/vinyl/shirt/poster (except the new Humanfly album) is now reduced in price. For the next 2 weeks all our releases are set to ‘pay what you like’ on bandcamp too so feel free to explore our back catalog and if you feel like paying some money we won’t complain’. http://brew.bandcamp.com

Thank you so much to our family & friends for your continued support. We are so thankful, there is a far too many people to list, you know who you are.

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The new album from Humanfly ‘Awesome Science’ is out now on CD & digital download. The double gatefold vinyl is officially released on Monday 25th February. Preview the first track ‘Golden Arrows’ below and follow the links for order info:

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T-shirt design by the ever talented Tommy Davidson

Humanfly’s previous 3 albums saw them gradually edge away from their original fast, hardcore, DIY punk sound through to post-metal, now taking them to their current form which in the case of new album ‘Awesome Science’ is a massive prog beast.

There’s been a shift in dynamics which may come as a surprise to many who were used to the ‘quiet > loud > even louder’ formula that worked so well. ‘Awesome Science’ is very much and in every sense, shape and form a prog album.

Humanfly have crafted an astonishing record that moves, shifts and at certain moments elevates the listener leaving them gobsmacked by the sheer musicianship on display. Think King Crimson meets The Mars Volta and you are almost there.

To support the release the band will take to the road opening for the legendary Cult of Luna on the UK leg of their European tour. With further tours planned for April onwards, 2013 is shaping up to Humanfly’s best year yet.

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* with Bongripper & Conan

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The new album from Humanfly ‘Awesome Science’ will be released Monday 11th February 2013 on a double gatefold LP, CD & digital download. Head over to Metal Hammer for a preview of ‘Golden Arrows’ here.

Pre-order information coming early January 2013.

Humanfly’s previous 3 albums saw them gradually edge away from their original fast, hardcore,DIY punk sound through to post-metal, now taking them to their current form which in the case of new album ‘Awesome Science’ is a massive prog beast.

There’s been a shift in dynamics which may come as a surprise to many who were used to the ‘quiet > loud > even louder’ formula that worked so well. ‘Awesome Science’ is very much and in every sense, shape and form a prog album.

Humanfly have crafted an astonishing record that moves, shifts and at certain moments elevates the listener leaving them gobsmacked by the sheer musicianship on display. Think King Crimson meets The Mars Volta and you are almost there.

To support the release the band will take to the road opening for the legendary Cult of Luna on the UK leg of their European tour. With further tours planned for April onwards, 2013 is shaping up to Humanfly’sbest year yet.

UK tour (supporting Cult of Luna)

19th Jan – Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
20th Jan – Sheffield, Corporation
21st Jan – Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton
22nd Jan –The Garage London

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The next Nine Black Alps single, Phosphorescence will be released on the 16th December with an exclusive acoustic demo of the track and an ultra limited edition t-shirt. Available to preorder on Bandcamp now: http://bit.ly/Phosphorescence

Tickets for the December tour below are available from http://bit.ly/NBATour

16th December The New Adelphi Club, Hull
17th December The Tache, Blackpool
18th December The Hop
19th December The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
20th December Norwich Arts Centre
21st December Crauford Arms, Milton Keynes
22nd December The Square – Harlow

Tickets available from http://bit.ly/NBATour.

The band are also offering the opportunity for fans of the band to design the official tour poster.

The winning entry will be put into print and used across the whole tour, while the person behind it will get two tickets to the show of their choice, a signed copy of their winning poster, album and a meet & greet with the band.

Five runners up will win a signed copy of the bands new album ‘Sirens’.

If you would like to enter please follow the instructions below:

1) Download the image assets and relevant text from here.

2) Once you have downloaded these it’s over to you (feel free to use any other images of Nine Black Alps you find or design your own).

3) Once the poster has been made either upload it to Facebook or Twitter making sure that Nine Black Alps is properly tagged along with the ticket link http://bit.ly/NBATour.

4) The closing date for entries is Wednesday 31st October, and the winner will be announced on Friday 2nd November.

5) Please use the following text only on the poster:

Nine Black Alps UK Tour December 2012

Tickets available from http://www.nineblackalps.com
New album ‘Sirens’ out now.

We’ve added a lot of content recently to our online presence, firstly our new YouTube account is now fully up and running providing literally hours upon hours of footage. Be sure to subscribe comment and let us know any features/content you’d like to see in future. http://www.youtube.com/brewrecords

Secondly, our Bandcamp account is now also fully operational. All our releases are available to stream in full and are also available to purchase on a wide variety of digital formats. This will be useful to our customers outside the UK who sometimes have trouble downloading from itunes. All albums are priced at £7.00 which we think is quite reasonable, there is also the option to pay more should you feel the release warrant’s it http://www.brew.bandcamp.com

Castrovalva’s new double AA singles ‘Señorita’ and ‘I am the Golden Widow’ is out now. Available to order from the following:

Play: http://bit.ly/WIDOWPlay
Amazon: http://bit.ly/WIDOWAmazon

Over just two tracks Castrovalva clock up a record number of influences jumping between rock, dance, noise, metal and even Motown for a brief moment. The second full length ‘Your Not In Hell, Your In Purgatory My Friend is out now on LP/CD & available to now: http://bit.ly/brewshop

Also, click here to view the video trailer.

Manchester’s Nine Black Alps fourth studio album ‘Sirens’ is out now on both LP & CD on either of the links below

http://bit.ly/brewshop | http://bit.ly/NBATour

Click here for album trailer.

The full track listing is this: Be My Girl, Don’t Forget To Breathe, My One And Only, Phosphorescence, Living In A Dream, Waiting Room, Hand Me Down, Penny Cinderella, Away From Me, Find It My Own Way, What You Wanted and Another World.

The band will also head out on a UK tour with Castrovalva immediately following the album release:

10th October – King Tuts – Glasgow
11th October – Duchess – York
13th October – Bodega Social Club – Nottingham
14th October – Joiners – Southampton
15th October – Borderline – London
16th October – Green Door Store – Brighton
17th October – Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff
18th October – The Exchange – Bristol (please note venue change)
19th October – Ruby Lounge – Manchester

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In other news the band’s new single ‘My One And Only’ is out now as digital download, complete with video and an exclusive B side.

You can order from Play here: http://bit.ly/myoneandonlyplay or Amazon here: http://bit.ly/myoneandonlyamazon

In other news, Humanfly have been locked away in Cottage Road studios putting their finishing touches to their third studio album, click the image below to view their two part studio diary. The band will also be supporting Zech Marquise in the coming weeks. Click here for their upcoming gigs.

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The term ‘unique’ is often thrown around but in 2010 when Castrovalva’s eagerly awaited début album ‘We are A Unit’ was unleashed on an unsuspecting world they really did intrigue, confuse, excite and at times disturb listeners.

Their huge and harsh bass driven-rock sound coupled with pop overtones, a hip-hop inspired album concept and one of the highest pitched voices in the UK rock scene had writers reaching out all over the place to try and find suitable comparisons. Acts such as Hella, Death from Above 1979, Lightning Bolt, N.W.A, Notorious B.I.G and even Prince were all mentioned in reviews with the likes of NME, Artrocker, Rock A Rolla, Rock Sound and Drowned in Sound heaping praise on the album.

Since then Castrovalva have kept their musical cards very close to their chest leaving many wondering what direction they’d take yet. There were brief glimpses in 2011 when new tracks featured on a split 10” between Dance to the Radio and Brew alongside Hawk Eyes, Blacklisters and Dolphins and further split with Kong, Shield Your Eyes and That F*cking Tank.

The band ended the year playing the BBC Introducing Stage at Leeds & Reading Festival where BBC Rock Show’s Daniel P Carter tipped them as one of 5 bands to watch alongside Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, Jimmy Eat World and Weezer.
Now at this point in 2012 Castrovalva are back with their new album ‘You’re not in Hell, You’re in Purgatory My Friend’ set for release through Leeds label Brew (Nine Black Alps, Kong, Blacklisters, Humanfly) on 1st October. As with everything associated with this band the only thing you can ever expect is the unexpected.

This time the flirtations with hip-hop are gone and replaced with ideas and themes focused on things closer to home where the subjects of friends, family, fatherhood and broken relationships are all explored. But while lyrically at times this may be a far more serious record the fun and excitement is still very much there with blaring synths at the forefront alongside those crushing but addictive bass-lines.

All this becomes ever so apparent when you listen to the double AA singles ‘Señorita’ and ‘I am the Golden Widow’ (released digitally on 16th September). Over just two tracks Castrovalva clock up a record number of influences jumping between rock, dance, noise, metal and even Motown for a brief moment.

In the past they have shared the stage with the likes of Health, Adebisi Shank, An Albatross, Pulled Apart By Horses, Tek One, &U&I and Melt Banana to name a few. Now in October they will hit the road as main support with label mates Nine Black Alps where they will no doubt confuse and delight people in equal measure.

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10th October – King Tuts – Glasgow
11th October – Duchess – York
13th October – Bodega Social Club – Nottingham
14th October – Joiners – Southampton
15th October – Borderline – London
16th October – Green Door Store – Brighton
17th October – Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff
18th October – Thekla – Bristol
19th October – Ruby Lounge – Manchester

We can only apologize again for such a long delay. We have been let down massively by this company which was recommended to us and won’t be using them ever again. This has never happened to us before and we’re still trying to understand what the original company have actually been doing all this time. Anyway…

We’d like to thank you all for being so patient so far. However if you would like a refund at this stage then please let us know though if you’ve come this far then you might as well hang on a bit longer..

And again if you’ve ordered the vinyl and want a download code to the Blacklisters album you ordered then please email info@brewrecords.net

Thanks again for your patience.

It is with great pleasure we announce Nine Black Alps are to return in 2012 with an October UK tour and their fourth studio album ‘Sirens’ set for release on 7th October (digitally) and 8th October (LP/CD) through Brew.

The band were formed in 2003 in Manchester, UK and were quickly signed by Island Records after just a handful of local shows and an almighty scramble amongst the music industry.

After a debut single ‘Cosmopolitan’, Nine Black Alps spent 2004 touring the UK before travelling to Los Angeles to record their debut album ‘Everything Is’ with Rob Schnapf. The success of the album led them to play several large tours in the UK, US, Europe and Japan.

After spending the majority of 2006 touring America, the band recorded their second album ‘Love/Hate’ with Dave Sardy before touring with the likes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Biffy Clyro.

In 2009, Nine Black Alps regrouped to record their third album ‘Locked Out From The Inside’ with Dave Eringa which saw them producing their heaviest work to date.

Following a UK headline tour in October 2009, the band took time out to pursue other projects with Sam Forrest releasing a string of solo albums, David Jones playing live session guitar for The Cribs and Martin Cohen leaving to form his own band Milkmaid.

Nine Black Alps regrouped in Spring 2011 to record their fourth album ‘Sirens’. The album was entirely self-produced and mixed by the band in Yorkshire and offers the clearest vision of Nine Black Alps yet.

‘Sirens’ is the sound of a band that has grown and matured but still contains all the hallmarks of a classicNine Black Alps record which saw the likes of the NME hail their music as, ‘a fantasy fairyland of college rock and surf-pop’ while Kerrang nominated them for the ‘Best New band award’ in 2005.

To coincide with the release of the album, Nine Black Alps will embark on their first UK tour in almost 3 years. Tickets as well as album pre-orders and bundles are on sale now via
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A free download of album track ‘Don’t Forget to Breath’ is available for free via:

www.nineblackalps.bandcamp.com

October UK Tour:

10th October – King Tuts – Glasgow
11th October – Duchess – York
13th October – Bodega Social Club – Nottingham
14th October – Joiners – Southampton
15th October – Borderline – London
16th October – Green Door Store – Brighton
17th October – Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff
18th October – Thekla – Bristol
19th October – Ruby Lounge – Manchester

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