Hello!
Yes, it's time for our annual October sale. For all of this month, all HDIF records are a cut-price FIVE POUNDS. That includes this year's releases by Butcher Boy, Cats On Fire and Pocketbooks. You can pick them up here:
http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/shop.html
If you're new to the HDIF list, we run a small record label as well as the club night. We've released seven albums so far, all them gems. They are:
HDIF001 - Various Artists, "The Kids At The Club"
19 track indiepop compilation featuring Voxtrot, Butcher Boy, Fanfarlo, Lucky Soul, Tender Trap and loads more
"The story of How Does It Feel to Be Loved? is one of heartfelt love for new music, and this CD is filled with the same. Its sequenced like the most obsessed-over mixtape, one where the creator stayed up nights figuring out the best songs to select, and the perfect order to put them in." - Popmatters
HDIF002 - Butcher Boy, "Profit In Your Poetry"
Classic debut album from the Scottish orchestral indie pop band. If you own "React Or Die", you need this!
"Regret, giro-funded couplets, sensual ambiguity its all here, resurrecting a great British genre." - Uncut
HDIF003 - Antarctica Takes It!, 'The Penguin League"
Debut album from the incredibly talented Dylan McKeever and band. For fans of Sufjan Stevens, Beirut and B&S.
"A richly ambitious offering, saturated with cellos, glockenspiels, accordions and then some." - Sunday Express
HDIF004 - Saturday Looks Good To Me, "Fill Up The Room"
Magnificent swansong from the much-loved indiepop collective from Detroit. A startling, life-affirming joy.
"Dizzyingly impressive, heart-rending tales packed with epiphanies and insight." - Observer
HDIF005 - Butcher Boy, "React Or Die"
This year's breakthrough album from Scotland's Butcher Boy. Critically acclaimed and just wonderful.
"Butcher Boy have set a standard against which every other release this year must surely be judged." - The Times
HDIF006 - Pocketbooks, "Flight Paths"
Debut album from London's Pocketbooks. Gorgeous perfect pop for fans of B&S, The Sundays and The Housemartins.
"This is Bacharach, and this is Bob Stanley. This is all those 60s pop groups who never aspired to be as cocky or salacious as The Shangri-Las. This is 6pm practice for choral song after school. This is The Pale Fountains. This is Dickon Edwards. This is Sarah Records without any delusions of inadequacy. " - Everett True
HDIF007 - Cats On Fire, "Our Temperance Movement"
Second album of pristine janglepop from Finland's Cats On Fire. Suave, sardonic, and utterly irresistible.
"Our Temperance Movement, a guitar record free of cacophony, feels like the moment an entire genre can get over its inferiority & superiority complexes, and start genuinely competing with the best of pop again" - The Quietus
Just FIVE POUNDS each in October. Get 'em while this month lasts!
http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/shop.html
Plus!
This Saturday is John Peel Day, and a bunch of London promoters - HDIF, Fortuna Pop, Dirty Water, Damnably, Silver Rocket, amongst others - have joined forces to put on a commemorative all-dayer at the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes in central London. There's 20 bands - including Tender Trap, Allo Darlin, Golden Animals, Beatnik Filmstars, Airport Girl, David Thomas Broughton and MJ Hibbett - and 14 DJs - including David Gedge and Darren Hayman and John Peel producer Louise Kattenhorn - and it's all a mere five pounds in advance from
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59270 All proceeds are going to charities chosen by the promoters. The gig runs from 4pm-3am, so you can combine it with another show or just spend the entire day in our company. Hope to see you there!
That's it for now. Have a great week, and see you soon.
Ian x
