Ugly Pop is a long-running Canadian independent record label specializing in punk rock vinyl. Find our records at quality local record stores or online at uglypop.bigcartel.com
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
New releases out now from TEENGENERATE and THE VICTIM PARTY.
DISCHARGE - Toronto ‘83 LP
Discharge are one of the greatest punk bands of all time, and this 1983 set captures them in ferocious form. Rescued from an old tape, the sound is violent, dirty and powerful, a raw document of a raw band blazing through 14 tracks of relentlessly furious hardcore. (UP058)
TAKING PRE ORDERS NOW, FIRST 150 ON OPAQUE RED
THE VICTIM PARTY - Getting To Know… LP
I’m extremely stoked to be releasing this, the second LP by one of the best Canadian punk bands in ages– it’s not a reissue, but once I heard the recording, it became my most-listened to music of 2014 and I had to get it on vinyl. THE VICTIM PARTY hail from Toronto, and feature members of various ‘name’ bands of the past couple decades, including frontman Colin of Marilyn’s Vitamins, whose first EP came out on Ugly Pop seventeen years ago! The music here is very strong, tuneful punk rock, fast-paced and tough with smart lyrics spat out by the duel male/female vocals, and the songwriting is exceptional. This draws on too many influences to be easily pinned down, but it’s a good bet you’ll dig it if you like Dillinger Four, Leatherface, Marked Men or Cleveland Bound Death Sentence. First batch on purple vinyl!
In production now, pre orders will ship immediately upon February release.
http://uglypop.bigcartel.com/product/the-victim-party-getting-to-know-lp
VICTIM PARTY - Getting To Know The… LP
Just submitted this, and it’ll turn a lot of heads. Not the usual Ugly Pop fare, but a current Toronto band doing extremely strong, perfectly-executed melodic punk reminiscent of early Dillinger Four, Leatherface and the like (not NOFX-style foodcourt skatepunk, lest that need be emphasised). Only 500 to be pressed, but an essential grip– I’m very stoked about this one.
REAL KIDS - Shake…Outta Control LP
COMING SOON ON UGLY POP!
X - Spurts LP (UP053)
X - Aspirations LP (UP054)
Absolutely top notch first-wave Australian punk; first time ever on vinyl for the essential 1977 demo (Spurts); the 1979 debut (Aspirations) back in print again.
Out in a week!
Beer : Taras Boulba (Brasserie de la Senne - BE)
Record : DFA - Destined For Assimilation (2002 - Ugly Pop Records)
X “X-Spurts” LP (UP053)
This is a revelation— ten tracks of incredibly tense, desperate Australian punk recorded in 1977 and somehow forgotten for the next 35 years. Absolutely essential stuff for fans of the era, coming across like nothing so much as a berserk mix of “Pink Flag”, early Black Flag and the toughest early AC/DC, or Gang Of Four as played by belligerent Australian drunks.
Out August on Ugly Pop, alongside a new reissue of their legendary 1979 debut LP.
