Shellshock Distribution

Shellshock Distribution, established in 1996, is an independent, UK-based, national and international music distributor.

Our services include sales and distribution of physical product to all UK and Ireland music retailers (independents, chain-stores, on-line platforms etc), efficient label management/client relations, European representation and international sales, co-operative advertising, marketing, planning and placement. We offer comprehensive worldwide digital distribution to all platforms.

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If you are interested in Shellshock's distribution services, please email info@shellshock.co.uk in the first instance.

Customers:

UK & Irish retailers who already have a trading account with our logistics partners Proper Music Distribution can order Shellshock distributed titles via their Proper Music Distribution account.

International customer enquiries should be addressed to chris@shellshock.co.uk

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ROBERT FORSTER

STRAWBERRIES

Release Date : 23 May 2025 (Tapete Records)

CD [TR584CD], LP [TR584LP]. Limited indies only Red Vinyl [TR584LTD]

Brand new album from Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens

Limited indies only red vinyl version plus black vinyl LP and CD

Picture one of our greatest living singer-songwriters in a kitchen. He is on holidays, he's just had a swim. His wife is out on the beach, and he finds himself faced with a bowl of irresistible strawberries. They're meant to be shared, of course, but their taste is “out of the ordinary”, so he just can't help himself. Minutes later all of the delicious fruit are gone, but there's the germ of a song as the phrase “Someone ate all the strawberries” has just popped into Robert Forster's mind, sounding “so weird, but normal”. Thankfully, he has taken his guitar with him

PETER BAUMANN

NIGHTFALL

Release date : 16 May 2025 (Bureau B)

CD [BB480], LP [BB480LP], Limited indies only Blue Transparent vinyl [BB480LTD]

First album in nine years from synth maestro Peter Baumann, of Tangerine Dream

Hamburg’s kosmische custodians at Bureau B proudly welcome legendary synth maestro Peter Baumann back into the studio for his first solo album since Machines Of Desire (2016). A defining force in the Berlin School of electronic music, both as a member of Tangerine

Dream in their most essential era, and as a solo artist, Baumann has always bridged the cerebral and the cinematic

ADRIAN CROWLEY

MEASURE OF JOY

Release date : 07 Feb 2025 (Valley Of Eyes)

CD [VOE001], LP [VOE001LP]

Four years after 'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars', Adrian Crowley returns with a new John Parish-produced album 'Measure of Joy' to be released on the brand new label Valley of Eyes Records.

"one of our finest songwriters of the past 20 years.." The Irish Times

"A Master storyteller..Crowley makes enthralling company"MOJO

THE DELINES

MR.LUCK & MS.DOOM

Release date : 14 February 2025 (Decor Records)

CD [DECOR70CD] LP - Brown colour vinyl [DECOR70LP]

The fourth album from The Delines released on Valentines Day 2025 - available on CD and limited edition brown colour vinyl.

Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom is The Delines at their broken-hearted, romantic best, featuring eleven new originals that follow songwriter Willy Vlautin's aesthetic of down-and-out character sketches set to rich folk-soul-country instrumentation. Amy Boone’s lush, world-worn voice floats perfectly alongside the cinematic production skills of John Morgan Askew and the horn and string arrangements of Delines keyboardist/trumpeter Cory Gray. As always, Freddy Trujillo is on bass, Sean Oldham is on drums, and Vlautin is on guitar.

“The Delines’ finest album to date... You’d have to reach for the likes of Bobbie Gentry’s Patchwork or Rickie Lee Jones’ Pirates to find a world so rich and intimately strange... Amy Boone’s voice is sweet and wry as a glass of Bourbon for breakfast, ‘Left hook Like Frazier’ grooves like prime Curtis Mayfield.” Uncut – 9/10

VARIOUS ARTISTS

KRAUTROCK ERUPTION

An Introduction To German Electronic Music 1970-1980

Release date : 21 March 2025 (Bureau B)

CD [BB478], LP [BB478LP]

Tracklist

A1 Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique A2 Faust - I’ve Heard That One Before/Watch Your Step A3 Eno Moebius Roedelius - Foreign Affairs A4 Harald Grosskopf - Emphasis A5 Cluster - 21:32 (bureau b edit) A6 Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta

B1 Roedelius - Glaubersalz B2 Pyrolator - Minimal Tape 3/7.2 B3 Riechmann - Himmelblau (bureau b edit) B4 Kluster - Kluster 2 (Electric Music) (bureau b edit) B5 Günter Schickert - Apricot Brandy II (bureau b edit) B6 Asmus Tietchens - Falter-Lamento

CHRIS ECKMAN

THE LAND WE KNEW THE BEST

Release date : 24 January 2025 (Glitterhouse)

CD [GRCD1135], LP - Crystal Clear Colour Vinyl - [GRLP1135]

Chris Eckman is one of those songwriters with the alchemist’s touch. He’s proved it over the years as the songwriter of the Seattle rock-folk band The Walkabouts, as well as across a lauded six album solo career. His songs have been recorded by Townes Van Zandt, Steve Wynn, Willard Grant Conspiracy (and others), and his last album, the spare, haunted Where the Spirit Rests, won the prestigious German Record Critics Award in 2021. Three and a half years later he’s back with The Land We Knew the Best, and new stories to tell.

There’s a rough-hewn and undeniable beauty in the varied sonic and emotional textures found on The Land We Knew the Best: dark ambiance, distorted crescendos, deep-voiced storytelling and moments of hard earned stillness. It is an album of memory and place; heart and hope. It is an immersive, vivid walk through the landscapes that Chris Eckman knows the best.

EX-VOID

IN LOVE AGAIN

Release date : 17 January 2025 (Tapete)

CD [TR586CD], LP - Limited Indies only Red Transparent Vinyl [TR586LTD], LP [TR586LP]

Ex-Vöid - featuring Lan McArdle (Joanna Gruesome, Lanny) and Owen Williams (The Tubs) - return with their second LP: In Love Again. Joined by Laurie Foster (bass) and George Rothman (drums), the record sees the band flourish from a chaotic power punk group into a fully fledged pop behemoth. Taking in elements of shoegaze (Pinhead), country (Outline), 90s indie rock (In Love Again) and pretty much the entire history of

guitar music,, In Love Again reveals McArdle and Williams to be true students of perfect pop.

"This latest iteration of Ian McArdle's and Owen Williams's Joanna Gruesome turns their lush vocals, guitar heroics and recent heartbreaks into melodic gold"- Artist of the Week 5***** The Guardian, The Observer

The Loft

THE LOFT

EVERYTHING CHANGES, EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME

Release date : 14 March 2025 (Tapete Records)

CD [TR582], LP [TR582LTD (with Flexi)], LP [TR582LP]

Available on CD, LP, and an indie exclusive LP that comes with a Flexidisc containing a cover of Sebadoh’s Brand New Love (500 only -- available from Independent Record Shops only )

The Return Of The Loft - 39 years after an acrimonious split, it seemed the time was right to record their debut album. Last year, after a sell-out show at London's MOTH club and their heralded appearance at the Glas-Goes Pop festival, the group was invited by BBC 6 Music's 'Riley & Coe' to record its fourth BBC session, at Maida Vale's famous Studio 4. Within 6 months the session was rush released by Precious Recordings of London on glorious ten inch vinyl. Enter Hamburg based, Tapete Records, who, hearing rumours about new Loft material, snapped up the album and signed the band without hearing a single note. The ten song collection, 'Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same', is released by Tapete on 14th March, 2025.

JOHN MURRY & MICHAEL TIMMINS

A LITTLE BIT OF GRACE AND DECAY

Release Date : 20 September 2024 (TENOR VOSSA)

CD / TV022CD

The Soundtrack to accompany the Award winning Documentary "The Graceless Age: The Ballad Of John Murry". Written and performed by John Murry and Mike Timmins (Cowboy Junkies). This haunting film is the story of American singer songwriter John Murry, who was on the cusp of greatness after the release of his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013), when his world fell apart. Addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on the shores of Ireland, a broken man. Now, he retraces his steps back to Mississippi into the dark heart of American life and faces his demons- a neglected childhood, traumatic assault, and resulting years of opioid addiction.

PROPAGANDA

Release date : 11 October 2024 (Bureau B)

LP/ BB468LP, LP /BB468LPINDLTD (Transparent Yellow – Indies Only), LP2/BB468LP2LTD (Orange Vinyl Double LP)

CD /BB468, 2CD/BB468CD

Brand new album from Propaganda, their 3rd album, and their first for over 30 years features guest appearances from Hauschka

and Thunder Bae.

Forty years since their inception, and almost two decades since their last release, art-synth auteurs Propaganda return with a brand new chapter in their enthralling story. This self-titled set from principal song writing partnership Ralf Dörper and Michael Mertens embodies the depth and drama of their early work, while exploring fresh sounds and styles, and reflecting the personal and societal changes since their last outing. Conceived and crafted entirely in their native Düsseldorf, a deliberate decision to help them stay true to themselves, and featuring guest appearances from the acclaimed Hauschka and ascendant Thunder Bae, this is Propaganda at their most essential.

JUNIORE
TROIS, DEUX, UN

Release Date : 13 Sept 2024 (LE PHONOGRAPHE)

CD [PHONO011CD] , LP [PHONO011V]

Four years on from Un Deux Trois, Juniore return through the looking glass... Juniore's third album was made in the world that came after the world that was before. Uncertain and unsettled, this new world, and strangely similar to the previous one - Juniore with their serious humour was already singing about "the end of the end of the world" in La Fin du Monde. And 10 years later, a new album was being made in the secret cave that is Samy Osta's studio, somewhere hidden in the catacombs of Paris.

SOFT MACHINE
HOVIKODDEN 1971

Release Date : 31 May 2024 (Cuneiform)

4LP BOX [RUNE530V]

4CD BOX [RUNE530]

Available as 4 x vinyl LPs plus LP-sized insert in hard case or as a 4 x CD set in a clamshell box.

Elton Dean alto sax, saxello, Hohner pianet, Hugh Hopper bass, Mike Ratledge Hohner pianet, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe organ, Fender Rhodes,

Robert Wyatt drums, vocals.

This well recorded and carefully mastered set captures the most famous version of the band (the 'classic quartet') on their final European tour on two consecutive nights on February 27 and 28, 1971.

EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN

RAMPEN (APM: ALIEN POP MUSIC)

Release date: 5 April 2024 (Potomak)

CDX2 [5254752]

LPX2 [5254751]

LPX2 (Yellow Vinyl) [5256091]

Einstürzende Neubauten present their new album. RAMPEN (apm: alien pop music)

Available on 2CD Digisleeve, 2LP 140g Black vinyl without inserts, and 2LP 180g Yellow vinyl limited to 5000 numbered copies worldwide, cover with embossing and numbering, printed inner sleeves, poster and 5 photo cards of the band members

LLWBYR LLAETHOG

BBC JOHN PEEL RADIO SESSIONS

(1987 + 1989)

Release date : 5 April 2024 (Ankstmusik)

LP [ANKST171]

Two seminal Peel Sessions by hip-hop pioneers Llwybr Llaethog from 1987 and 1989

Electric Sun (Uli Jon Roth)

Earthquake

Release date : 24 November 2023 (Alpha Experium)

CD [AE2023001] LP [AE2023002]

After his exit from German hard rock icons the Scorpions, guitar wizard Uli Jon Roth launched the next phase of his career via 1979's Earthquake album, which was released through his ostensible solo project, Electric Sun -- a psychedelic power trio fashioned in the image of his idol Jimi Hendrix's Experience. Rediscover the epic sound of "Earthquake", the ground breaking album by Electric Sun, reissued and better than ever.

180g Vinyl, Gatefold, includes two inserts.

The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project

The Task Has Overwhelmed Us

Release date : 29 Sept 2023 (Glitterhouse)

CD [GRCD1087] LPX2 [GRLP1087] LPX2 (Silver - Indies Only) [GRLP1087LTD]

Nearly ten years in the making, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us is the long-awaited fourth volume in The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series. Coming Sep 29 via Glitterhouse Records and starting with the first Single on June 30th “On The Other Side” by Nick Cave & Debbie Harry. Just two of many great contributors in this project, to honour the life and work of Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Wreckless Eric

Leisureland

Release date : 25 August 2023 (Tapete)

CD [TR544], LP [TR544LP], LP (Blue - Indies Only) [TR544LTD]

Brand new studio album from Wreckless Eric ...'The achievement for Wreckless Eric is to have made new music that connects to old music without

maudlin nostalgia or huffy defensiveness, refusing to let age dim the passion for the music that means the most to him. In other words, he rocks' – Ken Tucker – FRESH AIR / NPR

Various Artists

One Mile From Heaven

Release date : Out Now (Mapache)

CD [MAPA0023CD] LPx2 [MAPA0023LP]

Superb compilation of 70s Outsider Singer/Songwriter Private Press Gems‘Every single track is a masterpiece of outsider art’ - The Times 5*****
"... heroically bonkers idea….populated by acts you wish you knew better" Mojo review 4****

The Delines

The Night Always Comes

Release date : 22 April 2023 (Decor)

LP [DECOR60LP]

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE

Solid Silver colour vinyl of sound track to Willy Vlautin's book The Night Always Comes.

Only ever available as CD with the book. First time pressing on vinyl strictly limited to 1250 worldwide.

Sylvie Vartan

Salut Les Copains! Beginnings of...Ye Ye!

Release date : 22 April 2023 (Poppydisc/ Rev-Ola)

LPx2 [POPPYLP035]

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE

Double vinyl in gatefold sleeve. 29 tracks. Limited to 500 copies worldwide. Sylvie Vartan's most wonderful songs beautifully remastered by Mr. Nick Robbins at Sound Mastering... Super cute, lovely, yet Rock n Roll artwork by Mr. Allan NoMan Detailed liner notes by M.Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe, author of the acclaimed, beautiful, and definitive book "Ye-Ye Girls of '60s French Pop

Una Luz Y El Zigui

Buenos Días Juventud

Release date : 22 April 2023 (Munster Records)

LP [MR436]

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE

First time reissue of mega rare 1972 psych-folk album from Venezuela. 180g LP. One of the most obscure records ever released in Venezuela that was originally distributed in tiny quantities as a promo-only album.

A magic blend of protest songwriting, with a strong environmentalist statement, and folky pop with psych ingredients

Datblygu

Terfysgiaith 1982-2022

Release date : 24 February 2023 (Ankstmusik)

CD X 3 [ANKST160]

This is a 3CD definitive Datblygu compilation release celebrating the band's 40 year history which also works as a personal tribute to the life and work of the late David R.Edwards.

Hardback book style with 48 page booklet with essay, interviews and lyrics and photos.

2 of the disks are best of 40yrs of music - third disk is all exclusives - exclusives disk is physical only - not being streamed.

Limited to 500 copies

Robert Forster

The Candle And The Flame (Tapete Records)

Release date : 3rd February 2023

CD [TR525], LP [TR525LP] , LP [TR525LTD]

Acclaimed Australian singer - songwriter Robert Forster announces his 8th solo album 'The Candle And The Flame'. It's an album for Forster that has taken a very different path in creating than his previous works. The first single is titled 'She's A Fighter'. It reveals only part of what became a journey of creating music with family and friends with a need to find joy and solace in the face of adversity.lick to add an engaging title. High quality images go a long way in looking professional online.

Louis Philippe

Sean O'Hagan presents : The Sunshine World of Louis Philippe (Tapete Records)

Release date : 11th November 2022

CD [TR516], LP [TR516LP]

A long overdue compilation of some of the greatest Louis Philippe songs from the years 1994- 2007. Many of these songs are from albums that have been out of print for a long time, and some of them are being released on vinyl for the first time The album was expertly compiled by Louis Philippe's friend and sometime musical partner Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas)

Telefís

a Dó (Dimple Discs)

Release date : CD & CASSETTE - 07 Oct 2022, LP - 20 January 2023

CD [DEEDEE014CD], CASSETTE [DEEDEE014CAS], LP [DEEDEE014LP]

Telefís is Cathal Coughlan & Jacknife Lee.

Features guest appearances from Sean O'Hagan, Will Sergeant, A Certain Ratio and Jah Wobble.

Available on CD, Ltd edition cassette and limited RTÉ Blue Vinyl LP with poster

Gemma Cullingford

Tongue Tied (Elmo Recordings)

Release date : 02 Sept 2022

CD [ELMO1CD] LP [ELMO1LP]

Tongue Tied is the sophomore album from Gemma Cullingford. Tongue Tied blends many styles of electronica from 70's experimental and new wave, early 80's electro, acid house and techno to noughties electro clash, topped with her own vocal style to produce a unique and fresh sound.

Breathless

See Those Colours Fly (Tenor Vossa)

Release date: CD - 29 July 2022 LP - 05 August 2022

CD [BREATHCD24] LP [BREATHLP24]

Dreamlike and Hallucinogenic, a hazy luminosity billows from every pore of Breathless' forthcoming album See Those Colours Fly. The music of Dream-Pop Melancholics, Breathless has never been the sort to be hurried - after all, See Those Colours Fly, mixed by Kramer, is only their third new release this century. But while progress on the group's eighth album was unavoidably delayed by a stroke of cruel misfortune - not to mention the realities of the global pandemic - the finished work is one of their finest, brimming with melody, transfigured by its long period of gestation and the changes fate imposed on their creative process.

Oksana Linde

Aquatic and Other Worlds (Buh Records)

Release date : 15 July 2022

LP [BUHR160] Very Limited Peruvian Pressing

'Aquatic and Other Worlds (1983-1989)' marks the debut release proper by Oksana Linde. The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants to Venezuela, Oksana was born in Caracas, 1948 and began making electronic music in the early '80s

"An essential discovery. Halfway between Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Spiegel, it makes for a deeply hypnotic experience" - Shindig 5*****

Silberland Vol 1 : The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik 1972-1986

Various Artists (Bureau B)

Release date: 01 July 2022

CD [BB413] LP [BB413LP]

Fellow humans, Bureau B invite you on an expedition to Silberland, a singular span of spacetime created by Germany’s sonic futurists of the seventies and eighties. Embracing the early electronics and tape experiments of the sixties’ avant-garde, these artists aimed to boldly go, eschewing small steps for giant leaps into a nebulous and novel sound

Lightning In A Twilight Hour

Overwintering (Elefant Records)

Release date: 1 April 2022

CD [ER1276] LP [ER1276LP]

The new album from Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars), recording as Lightning In A Twilight Hour. A collection of eleven songs in collaboration with Ian Catt; a partnership dating back to the earliest days of the The Field Mice

The Delines

The Sea Drift (Decor Records)

Release date: 11 Feb 2022

CD [DECOR58CD] LP [DECOR58LP]

The third album proper for 'Country-got-Soul's finest, The Delines, on Decor Records sees them exploring the US Gulf Coast, not far from where Amy Boone grew up. The songs in this

cinematic opus all focus around this area and are inspired by when Amy asked Willy Vlautin to write her a song like Tony Joe White's 'Rainy Night In Georgia' after her tragic accident

being hit by a car in 2016 and her 3 year recovery. Produced by John Morgan Askew at his Bocce studios just outside of Portland, Oregon.

Kreidler

Spells And Daubs (Bureau B)

Release Date 28 Jan 2022

CD [BB389CD] LP [BB389LP]

For all of their Krautrock attributions, Kreidler never tire of reminding us that their musical development stemmed from a love of British pop music. So you might say the co-op with Peter Walsh is a match made in heaven. His illustrious mixing and production skills have lifted works from Shalamar or Lynx to Heaven 17 to Scott Walker, Pulp or FKA Twigs into other spheres. On SPELLS AND DAUBS, Walsh's methods and magic are especially audible in the spatial production, with his hallmark blend of depth and punch.

The Undertones

Dig What You Need (Dimple Discs)

Release date : 25 Feb 2022

CD [DEEDEE003] LP [DEEDEE003LP]

A 'best-of' collection that focuses on the band's post-reformation catalogue from 2003-2007. All music digitally remastered

All music appearing on vinyl for the first time. All tracks completely remixed by acclaimed producer Paul Tipler

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