Robin Allender’s debut album The Bird and the Word is available to pre-order now at the reduced price of £6.

Sam Wilkins has produced a beautiful video to go with the song “Green Wound”.

Robin is also a member of Gravenhurst, and he will be appearing with them at Glastonbury Festival in June and supporting Animal Collective in France in July.

Azalea City Penis Club’s long-awaited debut and final album, The Coffin Years, is out today.

The Coffin Years is a download-only release, and is available on Bleep.com as CD-quality, DRM-free MP3s with embedded artwork. You can also get it from iTunes if you prefer. (Those are direct links which will take you straight to pages where you can stream the whole album.)

You can read reviews at Subba Cultcha, The White Noise Revisited and Rotten Meats. There are two free MP3s on our website. Tell your friends.

Robin Allender’s debut album The Bird and the Word finally has a release date: 9th July 2007. Thanks to the BBC, you’ll have a chance to hear an awful lot of whole album in the next week.

Firstly, Jon Richardson on 6 Music (currently sitting in for Russell Howard) will be playing “The Green Wound” at 10am on Sunday 22nd May. You’ll be able to listen to the show again for a week after it is broadcast.

Secondly, Fine Tuned on BBC Bristol spoke to Allender, and played clips from “Winter” and “The Bower” on 14th April. You can listen again on the BBC website right now.

Finally, you can have a look at the artwork, read the lyrics and download MP3s of “The School Field” and “Black Wave Part One” on this website.

As you’ll know if you subscribe to our mailing list, after a long hiatus, Azalea City Penis Club will be making a very brief, noisy return for the release of their debut and final album The Coffin Years.

The Coffin Years is 45 minutes of noise-metal-kraut-prog-rock recorded in the summer of 2006, best enjoyed without the encumbrance of trousers. The album will be available only as a download from Bleep.com and iTunes. It will be released on May 21st, 2007. In the meantime, you can download MP3s of two of the tracks from our website, stream two more on ACPC’s MySpace, and read the lyrics.

If you like what you hear, don’t forget to sign up to the mailing list to get a reminder and links to Bleep and iTunes when it is released.

Dreamboat Records is very pleased to welcome our newest signing: The Gala Band. They’re a lovely, poppy Bristol-based act. We were so pleased with their contribution to Christmas 2006, our free, download-only Christmas E.P. the we were honoured to have the opportunity to be involved with their upcoming debut E.P.

Details of this (and upcoming releases from Azalea City Penis Club and Robin Allender) will follow, but in the meantime you can read and hear more about them on their their page on our website, their MySpace and their website.