Sad Lovers and Giants still enjoy a significant following in Europe, especially Spain where they regularly played in front of crowds of over 5000 people at each venue. Cherry Red Records releases this month a 'Best Of' includes 18 tracks that cover the bands colourful and varied career.

The CD features their Indie Hits, "Things We Never Did" and "The Best Film He Ever Made".

TRACKLIST

 Things We Never Did / Clint / Alice (Isn't Playing) / Art (By Me) / Imagination / Cowboys / On Another Day / Sleep (Is For Everyone) / In Flux / The Best Film He Ever Made / White Russians / Take Seven / Seven Kinds Of Sin / Return To Clocktower Lodge / One Man's Hell / Alaska / The Sky Is A Glove / Things We Never Did (De Puta Madre Live Version

Also out is a double CD round up of all the singles released by goth legends Alien Sex Fiend over their 12 year career with Anagram.

The indie chart hits Ignore The Machine , LipsCan t Go , Bun Ho! and Smells Like.. are all featured on this superbly packaged double CD release!

Disc One
Ignore The Machine / Lipscan To Go / R.I.P. / New Christian Music / Dead And Buried / E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) / Ignore The Machine (Electrode Mix) / I’m Doing Time In A Maximum Security Twilight Home / I Walk The Line / Smells Like / Hurricane Fighter Plane / The Impossible Mission / Here Cum Germs / Stuff The Turkey / Bun Ho! /

Disc Two
Haunted House / Now I’m Feeling Zombiefied / Magic / Inferno (Oscar Madness Mix By Youth) / Inferno (Vocal radio edit) / Here Cum Germs (Ravi Mix #9) / Stuff The Turkey (Bootiful Dub) / Bun Ho! (Time Gentlemen Please)

And finally there is the first ever 'Best Of' release from Chaos UK which spans their entire career from 1982's 'Burning Britain' EP through to their latest 'King For A Day' EP.

This 25 track album features all of their independent chart entries including 'Four Minute Warning' and 'Farmyard Boogie'.

This 'Best Of' album really does serve as a complete tribute to the classic punk tracks of Chaos UK

TRACKLIST

4 Minute Warning / Victimised / Kill Your Baby / No Security / Hypocrite / Selfish Few / False Prophets / Parental Love / Farmyard Boogie / Lawless Britain / Living In Fear / Detention / Support / Little Bastard / Take Me Back To San Clemente / Used And Abused / Bak To Skool / Depression / World Stock Exchange / Indecision / Uniform Choice / Head On A Pole / Vicious Cabaret / Happy Spastic / King For A Day

A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran.

The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end.

Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree.

One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape.

Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination.

In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the 13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’, Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing’.

The self-titled debut album of A Winged Victory For The Sullen will be released on September 9, 2011 via Erased Tapes Records worldwide except for North America where it will be released on September 13, 2011 via Kranky.

From August 26th to August 27th 2011 the Apocalyptic Factory Festival will take place in JUZ Mannheim.

So far Madre del Vizio and Guerre Froide are part of the line-up.

Other bands will be included.

Tickets are 10 and 15 Euro and can be ordered here.

Swedish label Electric Fantastic Sound has announced new releases for the upcoming weeks:

Flux will release a new single 'Concrete' on July 25th, Social Ambitions make 'Commandements' on August 1st and The Crashlanders will have a compilation out in August as well. 

www.electricfantasticsound.com

Jäger 90 is a musical duo from Rostock that was founded in 2005 by Thoralf Dietrich (vocals & program) and Stev A. (drums), Vigo Stahlmann replaced Stev A. later on.

Their musical roots reach back into the early 80s. Especially the sound of DAF and EBM shaped the body-conscious sound of the project's outputs.

After two successful albums (Muskeln & Küsse, Drischne Skasal) on Electric Tremor Dessau, the all new album ‘Fleisch macht böse’ has been announced on Out Of Line for late August.