The Biweekly 5" Pizza Club

by Art Is Hard Records

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  • PIZZAIH10 - DESPAIRORONI

    Sink your despair into the ever reliable combination of meat and spicy stuff, with this Pepperoni and Jalapeno pizza. Topped with a double serving of Jalapenos, just to make those spicy tears even more painful. As always, the one physical copy of a CD single encased in a pizza box will go on sale at 1pm.

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In 2012 we plan to release a free download single every other week. As well as being available for free download from our blog, each week there will also be 1 copy of the release available in pizza CD form (encased in a 5" pizza box). The pizza will be available to the first person to buy it from this page, today's pizza 'Formaggio Hit' will go live at 1pm.

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released 20 February 2012

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tags: alternative alternative indie lo-fi Weymouth

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Small independent record label run by two friends, one of us works in an office and the other doesn't. The label was started by two friends influenced by the attitude and ethics of labels such as Factory, Wichita, Anticon and Dischord.

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Track Name: Bos Angeles - When You Look At Me (KEEL HER cover) 2am nofi version
Bos Angeles are currently recording their debut EP, this is something they put together in the time that they weren't recording future pop hits. It sees a departure from their standard tropical beach jams into something a lot more grungy as they take on something written by prolific Winchester songstress KEEL HER.
Track Name: Fruschian Void and Thee Headfolks - Youth (Black Tambourines Cover)
Firstly let’s just get this straight, the pizza club is not specifically for covers but when one as blindingly good as this turns up, it’s hard to let it pass. There’s just something about one person reimagining another’s work that really hooks me in, particularly when it’s a rainy Thursday morning and the cover comes in the form of an anon covering The Black Tambourines ‘Youth’.

Nothing against the original ‘Youth’, but this cover by Fruschian Void and Thee Headfolks is completely beautiful. Whereas the original almost risked drowning in its own sea of fuzz the cover almost verges over into shoegaze territory with haunting girl/boy vocals that wouldn’t be out of place on a Slumberland release. Having spent a couple of days getting madly excited over the prospects of this new band, Thomas Crang of Gorgeous Bully revealed it was just him and his girl ‘messing around’. Good gag Thom.
Track Name: Perfect Hair Forever - My Teen Idol
Perfect Hair Forever are a band located as far away from our hometown of Plymouth as you can possibly get; Auckland, NZ. 'My Teen Idol' invokes a bedroom Buddy Holly, particularly appropriate given that today marks the 50th anniversary of his death. Perfect pop that despite its candid lofi nature conjures up a colourful kaleidoscope of ice cream vans, water sprinklers and listening to beat-up Beat Happening cassettes on lazy evenings.

We asked Perfect Hair Forever what they thought this weeks pizza should be, their answer "a burrito, except a pizza". At least if the whole band thing doesn't work out they've got a future in pizza development labatories. We've heard Buddy Holly loved pizza, so in tribute to the late great we have named this weeks pizza Burrito Holly.
Track Name: Little Leagues - A Problem Solved
This week's free download/pizza combo comes from Falmouth four piece Little Leagues, originally from Barnstaple in North Devon. Last year I somehow ended up living with a man from Barnstaple, he cooked Sainsburys Basics Drumsticks 7 days a week and left skid marks in the toilet. Thankfully these guys are a bit more legit and make the sort of memorable math-pop that has been distinctly vacant in recent months. 'A Problem Solved' is a four minute burst of handclaps, trumpets and lyrics about parachutes that manages to transport me right back to the summer of '08.
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They actually released their EP last week so I'm really pleased they're allowing us to exclusively give away 'A Problem Solved' as a free download. The EP artwork is lovely and is being released in handcrafted/numbered cases, so go take a look.
Track Name: SPLASHH - All I Wanna Do
From what we can work out, Splashh are a two piece from London and as I excitedly remarked on Twitter yesterday 'All I Wanna Do' is the best song I've heard in almost a whole year, the kind of song you play until your sick of its sugar-sweet vibes, but just when you think you're over it...it hooks you right back in.

I'm not surely exactly how to describe it other than the sweetest garage pop you've never heard. A guitar/bass riff that would put Malkmus to shame, swirls in a sea of fuzziness with effeminate vocals and off kilter keys all combined with the most bittersweet lyrics "well I wonder if the secret lies beneath your simple smile".I can see this song soundtracking my spring, summer, autumn and beyond. Credit has to go to Mike of Yoofs for the tip off on this one!
Track Name: Year of Birds - The Black Spiders
Something I really miss when down in Plymouth, is the train journeys me and Rich share between Weymouth and London. Many of aih’s biggest decisions are made on these journeys, whether its the colour of the latest cassette release or whether we should include temporary tattoo’s with our releases. This Wednesday’s journey was no different, as I played Rich todays’ exclusive Pizza Club track looking for the Ric(Hard) seal of approval. 1 mins 42 later it arrived with a firm “this sounds like The Fall, lets put it out”.

It comes from Middlesbrough’s Year of Birds, who fully embrace the DIY punk spirit with the mantra “Write some songs with 2 parts. (The shorter the better, it makes learning them easier). Rehearse a few times (No more than 2 hours a time). Record via yr mate with a 4 track. Put out stuff on various formats.)” As if this wasn’t enough, frontman Oli also owns a record shop and a record label (both named Ack! Ack! Ack! Records).

Although I differ from Rich’s assesment, we’re both agreed on the fact this is the best piece of noisy discordant punk we’ve heard in a long time. Imagine Flipper were forced to condense their songs into minute and a half bursts and you’d pretty much have this. Free download as always and congratulations has to go to frontman Oli for coming up with the most intriguing (also see disgusting) sounding pizza yet.
Track Name: Playlounge - Boner Hit (KEEL HER cover)
Incase you didn't see us joking on Twitter about todays' Pizza, it's starting to make us consider whether we should just rename our weekly pizza giveaway the 'KEEL HER club'.

You see, we kicked off the project with Bos Angeles covering KEEL HER. Then the star of PIZZAIH03 - Perfect Hair Forever went and covered her too (not released by us) and not to forget Rose's own contribution (PIZZAIH06) a tribute to Weezer on their 20th anniversary. So we were wondering how we could possibly top all that....when our favourite noise-pop two piece told us they'd recorded a KEEL HER cover that they'd been playing live for a couple of months.

They are of course Playlounge, recently announced to feature on our latest split 7" (their tracks for that to be unveiled soon). In the meantime here is them giving 'Boner Hit' a new coat of fuzz, whilst not losing any of the boorish charm of the original. I dare you not to whistle that melody all day long (even if it's still raining, you're sitting at a bus stop, the bus is late and your plans for this Friday involve nothing more than sitting at home, waiting until its late enough to go to sleep). KEEL HER is queen, long live Playlounge.
Track Name: Hehfu - Two and a Half Years
If you're one of the only people I know who isn't waking up this morning with a giant hangover somewhere in Brighton, we have a cracking pizza club for you. Hehfu is the moniker of Caerphilly (Wales) based Bradley Clarke and sounds like pretty much every Slumberland release, we wish we'd heard but never had the time.

This weeks pizza/name isn't intended to make light of the situation, let's just get this straight 'Two More Years' is heart wrenching. Although the song flaunts it's fuzzy limbs like Japandroids and Pains of Being Pure at Heart at a party; the lyrics paint a much more sobering picture "two and a half years thrown away, we'll never be friends, you're just a girl who broke my heart". In normal circumstances, this would probably be a little too much for us, but Hehfu nails the break up song like only Bonnie Tyler knows how. Apparently he's just got a band together, so hopefully you'll be able to catch Hehfu somewhere in Wales soon.