Winter 2025

We had a record number of streaming plays for Honeychild Coleman and her album Bereket Window in the last few months. She continues to be our Top Artist for 2025 for a third consecutive year. A video of Youths Eternal, the second song on the album is being especially noticed.

Synchronise Your Heart - new album from Illustration

1980's electronica group Illustration released an album of demos and radio sessions on 1 November 2025. This collection of demo recordings is the sole legacy of a band that shared rehearsal spaces with A Certain Ratio and was once tipped for success alongside future icons on the seminal Some Bizzare Album compilation.

By 1980, Illustration was on the cusp of breakthrough. Their track "Tidal Flow" was featured on The Some Bizarre Album, a legendary compilation that launched Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. After airplay on BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test and a promotional tour, they entered the renowned Strawberry Studios in Stockport with producer Martin Hannett to record their debut single, "Danceable."

Yet, as quickly as their star seemed to be rising, it vanished. In the spring of 1981, under circumstances the band members still cannot fully explain, Illustration dissolved, leaving behind these raw and powerful demo recordings.

For 45 years, these tracks have existed as a whispered secret among collectors—a testament to a band praised by critics of the day, whose potential was palpable. This album captures the essence of Illustration: melodic, post-punk soundtracks to surreal short stories, exploring themes from dystopian cityscapes to the ache of unrequited love.

This digital release offers a long-overdue opportunity to discover a missing piece of music history.

The album Synchronise Your Heart is available for streaming and purchase exclusively on Bandcamp from November 1, 2025.

The Unutterable - album reissue - The Fall - November 1, 2025

We helped with sleeve notes for this reissue. The album is included in our publishing catalogue.

Reissue of the year - The Quietus , December 2025 - The Fall

"1.
The Fall
The Unutterable
Cherry Red

Though The Unutterable would become a completely singular album within the Fall canon (something its Lovecraft referencing title, with two neat words running symmetrical to the group’s own band name, seems to acknowledge), it was a distinctly 2000 product. Its nightmare mood of post-millennium tension could be found that same year on Chris Morris’ disturbing Channel 4 horror-comedy Jam, or the techno-apocalypse of Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR, even the big budget ennui of Radiohead’s Kid A, which glumly occupied the front pages of music magazines that November. Writing in The Wire the following year, Ian Penman argued that Radiohead’s left turn was “looting other people’s transvaluations rather than clearing a stark space of its own.” The same cannot be said for The Unutterable’s oblique experiments, and today, it’s the Greater Manchester band’s sole release that sounds like a premonition of the dark electronic terrain that 2020s North West underground releases now occupy (in fact, White Hotel maverick Tom Boogizm’s NTS mix on The Fall is completely stacked with Nagle-era material).

And as the 2000s progressed, The Fall – all debts now paid – were subject to a belated and uneasy critical consensus around their past work, at the same time as their new output forged a clear third great era. But neither really allowed much accounting for The Unutterable. It was possible to watch the hour length 2004 BBC profile on the band, or read Smith’s 2009 memoir, without knowing that it had even happened. The Unutterable is a truly great Fall album: a dark forecast of the horror to come, a fascinating reflection of a band coming out of crisis, and simply one of the most vivid and exhilarating Fall products ever stocked on shelves.

Fergal Kinney"

Recent Updates

Danny Short continues with his rich output of song recordings after debuting on Invisiblegirl Records in 2008. Details and updates on his his BandCamp.

Moff Skellington's new digital album Glottal Stalk Cadets is now available. Another Invisiblegirl Records artist who debuted in 2009 and has since released numerous albums. Details and updates on his his BandCamp.

Illustration, Danny Short and Moff Skellington all feature on Decembers episode of Bob Osborne's Different Noises radio show - worth a listen.

All releases are available in our online store and through major streaming platforms.