All The Young Droids is OUT NOW. The original pressing is sold out at source, but there are some copies remaining in the wild. Here is a by-no-means-exhaustive list of stores selling the album.
We have ordered a repress on both CD and 2LP Black Vinyl. You can pre-order here.
You can listen digitally on Spotify here.
Troth’s debut for Night School, An Unfinished Rose, is avilable to stream now where you get your digital music.
The vinyl LP is available to pre-order from stores everywhere and on Bandcamp. We hope to ship it by the beginning of September.
Slowly yet firmly blooming into focus, An Unfinished Rose is the new album from Australian duo Troth. This is their first since relocating to Hobart, Tasmania and their introduction to Night School Records. With a detailed web of past releases on labels A Colourful Storm, Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox, Knekelhuis and Bowman’s own Altered States Tapes imprint, An Unfinished Rose is the group’s most realised and composed work thus far. While still drawing on the improvisatory and DIY practices that informed Troth’s beginnings, it points to a new incarnation of the duo’s music; an intentional language emerging from the fog of obfuscation and mists of uncertainty.
Over these 9 meditations on change, acceptance, renewal and rebirth, An Unfinished Rose finds Amelia Besseny and Cooper Bowman peeling back some of the roughhewn architecture that defined their earlier releases to reveal a masterful – if auto-didactic – use of space and melody. Composition and improvisation compliment and feed each other throughout, with locked-loop earworms providing the springboard for lines of clarinet or synth melody, and the negative space between chord clusters giving ample room for Besseny’s most confident vocal performances to date.
All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985
45 years in the making.
Available on:
—500 2LP LTD Mirrorboard Sleeve, Clear Vinyl – Direct and select indie shops
(W/ poster, one of 2 designs, 8pg 12” booklet)
—500 2LP LTD Pink Vinyl w/ 8pg Booklet
—Black Vinyl w/ 8pg Booklet
—2CD w/24 pg booklet
Pre-order direct here: https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/all-the-young-droids-junkshop-synth-pop-1978-1985
All formats will be available from stores around the world.
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ANNOUNCING
Al Karpenter: Greatest Heads
LP with 8pg zine, limited to 300.
A co release between Night School nd comrades Hegoadisks
Radical Basque group combine frayed free rock, sound design and distorted afro-beat influences to create a re-imagining of sonic protest. Ecstasy as a form of freedom?
If Theodore Adorno wrote “To Write Poetry after Auschwitz is Barbaric” in 1949, Al Karpenter attempts to answer the difficult question today; what kind of music can be done in the face of a genocide? Álvaro Matilla, Marta Sainz, Enrique Zaccagnini & Mattin’s response to the planet’s slipping into a vortex of hate is to create a music ecstatic, a music of protest bursting with multiple musical languages and glossaries, full of overlapping histories and thrilling tensions.
We are all karpenters.
We are ecstatic to announce a project over 5 years in the making.
All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth pop 1978-1985 is a new Double Vinyl / Double CD compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular music. Compiled by curator Phil King , the music here connects the dots between DIY synth enthusiasts grappling with new, cheap synthesisers at the tail-end of punk and wannabe, jobbing songwriters enthral to the new music pioneered by Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller’s Mute Records. Featuring rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics, School Daze paints a picture of beautiful failure.
Complete with extensive sleeve notes written by King and never before seen imagery, all 24 tracks were remastered by RPM in-house engineer Simon Murphy, many from vinyl copies due to lost master tapes. The story told on All The Young Droids is one of the dawning opportunity presented by both the emergence to the market of cheaper analog synthesisers and the distribution networks plus indie labels that exploded with the advent of punk music in 1976. While the music that sprouted out all over the globe in the wake of these factors was decried as fake, plastic, a refutation of punk’s guitar-led revolution, it’s telling that much of the music on All The Young Droids.. was created in bedrooms, ramshackle studios and home-made set ups with often borrowed equipment. In the era of record labels jumping to capitalise on the success of The Sex Pistols, The Clash (both on major labels, of course) these artists struggled to stand out from a new gold-rush with next to no budget or PR team. With radio and labels desperate for the new Yahoo, what resulted was a testament to necessity being the mother of invention…
RELEASED JUNE 27th, 2025.
ALBUM PRE-ORDERS Begin APRIL 9th
A 7″ Sampler will be released for Record Store Day 2025: All The Young Droids – Junkshop Synth Pop Sampler features Ian North‘s We’re Not Lonely from the compilation and a previously unreleased track by John Howard, You Will See. The 7″ is available at your local indie record store on April 12th.
ALBUM TRACKLIST:
We’re thrilled to present the first taste of our monumental All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop compilation, coming June 2025.
For Record Store Day 2025, Night School / School Daze present a Double AA 7″ in new company sleeve featuring Ian North’s We’re Not Lonely (also on All The Young Droids 2LP/2CD) and the previously unreleased You Will See by John Howard (who is also featured on ATYD with I Tune Into You).
RVSN004 will be available at all good independent Record Stores on 12th April 2025
Tristwch Y Fenywod are on tour in UK/Europe this May.
MAY 2025
2nd – Cardiff, Wales: St John’s Church in Canton
3rd – Stroud, UK: Stroud NeoAncients x Weird Walk BUY TICKETS
4th – Salford, UK: Sounds from the Other City BUY TICKETS
7th – Saint-Aignan, France: New Trad Festival BUY TICKETS
8th – Luxembourg, Luxembourg: Rotondes BUY TICKETS
9th – Munich, Germany: Blitz
10th – Krems, Austria: Donau Festival BUY TICKETS
11th – Bratislava, Slovakia: T3 BUY TICKETS
12th – Prague, Czech Republic: Punctum BUY TICKETS
13th – Jena, Germany: Trafo BUY TICKETS
14th – Berlin, Germany: Urban Spree
15th – Duisburg, Germany: Liebfrauenkirche BUY TICKETS
16th – Rotterdam, Netherlands: De Doelen BUY TICKETS
17th – Groninegen, Netherlands: Vera
Strawberry Switchblade
1982 4 Piece Demo
(Night School Records)
2025 Repress:
300 on Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl (100 only for Bandcamp)
700 on Bio-Black Vinyl (available worldwide)
To acknowledge what I believe to be an important historical document and also because people still wanna own it, we’ve repressed the sold out 1982 4 Piece Demo by Strawberry Switchblade.
Like the other pressings, it comes with a booklet featuring photos from the period and a contemporary interview with Jill and Rose. Worth noting that the photos included all came from a contact sheet, the originals being lost to time, so they retain a sort of Xerox’d, rough quality.
Will never not be blown away the band trusted Night School with this and it’s a source of huge gratification that so many people have discovered this band, these songs, from this humble wee release.
Yu Ching
The Crystal Hum
(Night School)
LTD 500 Clear Vinyl Repress
We are delighted to present a limited repress of Yuching Huang’s The Crystal Hum. If you’ve not fallen for this dreamhole of a beauty, listen/order here.
Come out to play! Molly Nilsson hits down under for maximum radical times.
Molly Nilsson will be performing at the following places.
14 Feb 2025 Meanjin-Brisbane, Australia @ Echo & Bounce Tickets
15 Feb 2025 Naarm-Melbourne, Australia @ The Night Cat Tickets
16 Feb 2025 Castlemaine, Australia @ Theatre Royal Tickets
19 Feb 2025 Canberra, Australia @ Gang Gang Cafe Tickets
20 Feb 2025 Wollongong, Australia @ La La La’s Tickets
21 Feb 2025 Eora-Sydney, Australia @ Marrickville Bowling Club Tickets
23 Feb 2025 Tarntanya-Adelaide, Australia @ The Lab Tickets
28 Feb 2025 Boorloo-Perth, Australia @ Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery Tickets
Tristwch Y Fenywod take to the road this winter.
TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD are on tour in the UK (and Paris) this Winter.
Thursday 30th January – London, St. Pancras Old Church
Friday 31st January – London, St. Pancras Old Church
Saturday 1st February – Manchester, St. Michael’s Ancoats
Sunday 2nd February – Paris, Bourse de Commerce TICKETS
Monday 3rd February – Brighton, Green Door Store TICKETS
Friday 7th February – Glasgow, St. Ninian’s Church TICKETS
Satuday 9th February – Newcastle, Lubber Fiend TICKETS