(Half A Cow) hac146d1
released July 2010
iTunes download only. Handpicked by the band themselves, here is a digital double album of the best of the ep, b-sides and compilation tracks. Stay tuned for a best of Swirl cd in 2011.

(Half A Cow) hac146d2
released July 2010
iTunes download only. Handpicked by the band themselves, here is a digital double album of the best of the ep, b-sides, compilation tracks and two live songs. Stay tuned for a best of Swirl cd in 2011.

(Half A Cow ) hac30
released July 2010
iTunes download only. The second album from Swirl. Ten out of ten!

(Half A Cow) hac140
released July 2010
27 track compilation of Smudge songs from 1991-1998. First ever complete Smudge ‘best of’ compilation. Includes the classic ‘Don’t Want To Be Grant McLennan’, ‘The Outdoor Type’, ‘Tenderfoot’ and ‘Divan’ (as made famous by Evan Dando’s Lemonheads). Bet you knew that anyway! The compilation has been put together by long-time Smudge associate Nic Dalton (who produced half the songs) and includes a mammoth full-colour 36 page booklet with all the information you’ll ever need to know about Smudge. Smudge band members Tom Morgan, Alison Galloway and Adam Yee write their thoughts on each of the 27 songs. It is an incredible package! Smudge are playing a handful of shows in the UK and Spain in late May 2010. Fire Records in the UK will be licensing the two Smudge albums Manilow and Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra for release in UK and Europe in late May so there will a bit of a buzz around Smudge at this time. Available at the Smudge shows or ask you local record store to order it in via Shock or Rocket export if outside Australia, from MGM distribution (from July 2010) in Australia or direct from Half A Cow.

(Walking Bird) bird03
released June 2010
Put together by Vic Conrad (from Adelaide's great band from yesteryear The Garden Path). A collection of covers from a collection of musicians from Adelaide. Very special indeed!

(Half A Cow) hac117
released June 2010
Originally released on July 2005. Re-releassed June 2010. Melbourne's the Triangles take over Spain with their song Applejack in Estrella Damm's 2010 summer ad campaign. That's the band playing in it. In the last week of May 2010 it was the #1 song on iTunes in Spain and that was even before the ad hit the tv screens, all due to Youtube, the internet and good ol' word-of-mouth. The Triangles, from Melbourne, are self-described as 'three girls and two guys who like to play fun and frantic high energy folk-pop' and came to the attention of Half A Cow Records with their demo of the wonderful 'Let's Replace The Cityscapes'. It didn't take much for the label to be persuaded to get behind The Triangles' new album Magic Johnson. Featuring twelve joyful singalong songs, Magic Johnson is a hand-clapping, foot-stomping, head-nodding rollercoaster ride of an album. A radio single of 'Let's Replace The Cityscapes' has been sent to radio and already has received airplay on Triple J and Melbourne community radio. Firm friends since High School, The Triangles put on a very original and energetic live show and will be gaining a lot of attention from their shows they will be playing to support the new album. Possibly Sounds Like? Architecture in Helsinki, The Danielson Familie, They Might Be Giants, Polyphonic Spree, The Shop Assistants review: Listen to the opening of 'Applejack', the first song on Melbourne five-piece pop troupe’s second album Magic Johnson, and you’d swear you’re listening to a cross between the Sesame Street title theme, and the Polyphonic Spree. It shouldn’t work, but somehow it does – the sound of the Triangles is so delightfully cheery and apoplectically delightful that it’s hard to resist Magic Johnson. Where fellow Melbourne-ites Architecture in Helsinki are awfully clever about the way they pull everything together, the Triangles have more of a wide-eyed innocence to their sound. Such as it is, you get moments like the simply delightful 'Let’s Replace the Cityscapes', where the pop melody bounces along merrily. The Triangles self-recorded Magic Johnson, and the sound is occasionally thin and lightweight, but it’s nothing that isn’t made up for by the sheer quality of the songs. It’s hard to believe that a band like the Triangles can fly under the radar as effectively as they have. While Magic Johnson is their second album, not too many would know much of the band, but you get the sense that this is all going to change. There’s no denying Magic Johnson – it glides so smoothly across the hardwood. - the Electric Newspaper

(Walking Bird) bird02
released June 2010
Tamika Innis - Lead Vocals/ Bass Guitar Lauren Wells-Jones - Guitar Ariya Gabell - Drums/ Backing Vocals from their myspace page: There's nothing more natural than three 13-year-old girls getting together in a band and bashing out a few songs about life/school/home/friends/parents etc. What's perhaps more unusual is that the girls get it together to record the tunes, and the songs are of such high quality, and the recording so finely-tuned that when the tape finds its way into the hands of a local musician/ record store guy, he feels compelled to start up a label to get the record out. Vic Conrad actually knew Ariya's mum from a previous era when they would regularly make a beeline to the Union Hotel on a Saturday night to check out the Screaming Believers for maybe the 100th time. So when Kris casually passed Vic a CD of her daughters band at a mutual friends party, there weren't too many expectations on either side. Check this out. OK. I will. The band is Dandelion. On Walking Bird Records. 12 minutes of pure rock'n roll. That's enough. You want more, you play it again. 5 songs. 3 girls. Rock 'n' roll. Tamika, Lauren & Ariya. Guitar, bass, drums. Turn it up. The Kids are alright.

(Half A Cow) hac141
released May 2010
River Of Flowers is Dog Trumpet's new album, their third on Half A Cow, following 2007's classic Antisocial Tendencies. Brothers Reg Mombassa and Peter O'Doherty have spent the last three years recording some of their most personal and autobiographical songwriting to date. Universal themes are touched upon in a suite of songs that trawl through family history, memory, sex, separation, health and mortality, and traverse the globe from Ireland, England, New Zealand and back to Australia.

(Audio Anti Hero) AAH002
released March 2010
He says: Now, as you may know, Blackpool is a town built on disappointment and despair. Growing up on these windy shores, Benjamin Shaw had an awful lot of time on his hands. After a period of particular awfulness, and a short descent into madness, Ben fell for a whimsical fair lady on the other side of the planet, and promptly moved his life over to Melbourne, Australia. After a year in Melbourne, playing gaggles of shows Ben returned to England with a wife and an array of new songs and recordings. Now living in the woods of North London, Ben has recently been seen playing all the main dives you've never heard of. Neil Young mixed with the Okkervil Rivers, Jeffrey Lewises and Sparklehorses of today have become the diet, and with all the agility you would expect from a gangly, pale washing line of a man, Benjamin Shaw is coming at you like a wet duffle-coat. I Got the Pox, The Pox is What I Got: Six & a half songs of nausea, noise and hilarious anecdote. We say: DIY storyteller Benjamin Shaw makes his debut with 'I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got'. At its root a collection of beautiful , simple and homicidal songs, but one that grows in layers; keys, percussion, screeching harmonies, with claps, thuds, kettles, kittens and creaking doors all washing over this intimate and desolate lo-fi record. Musically vast and sonically awesome, Benjamin is far beyond the (now derogatory) term – "Singer Songwriter". He recalls the most essential works of Neil Young, J Mascis, Bon Iver, 'Vivadixie..' era Sparklehorse and even the early charms of a drunken Tom Waits – but brings so much of himself to his work, that it's a chore to arrogantly suggest sound-alike's or influences, Shaw is one of a kind. His concept of narrative and sense of bleak humour create involving and fascinating stories, ones that truly deserve to be carried by the fighting frailty of his voice. Benjamin's bitter bedroom recordings, swamped with fuzz, buzz, distortion, are a real shot in the arm for the sterile swarm that is today's acoustic scene. Artistic, ambitious, original and pure – there's been no one like Benjamin Shaw around in a long time. They say: "Fastidiously DIY in sound…A 'name' for 2010." – God is in the TV "Ben inspires a rare empathy in the listener... Up there with the best of this year...on the 'to watch' list for 2010 - 8/10." - The Music Fix.co.uk "Benjamin Shaw had a few more surprises tucked away than I first thought. I would definitely love to hear more. CD of the week." - Half A Cow Records "A cracked and beautiful voice, with a series of gently electronic infused laments of love, loss and disenchantment. Quite beautiful." - Subba-Cultcha.com "Underground notoriety beckons…8/10." – Rock Pulse.co.uk "A surprisingly layered record…real swells of sound. A smothering blanket of melancholy…I look forward to a full album." – Songs By Toad "Defiantly ramshackle..the only fear is that Shaw's style may fail to attract the attention it deserves." – The Skinny "A 'singer-songwriter' who obviously isn't happy with the connotations that tag would bestow upon him. He's fighting to find his own voice in a sea of tepid waters soiled by the likes of James's Morrison and Blunt" – Tasty Fanzine.org.uk "A curious, water colored dreamer" – Clicky Clicky Music.com "Defiantly lo-fi values cloak soul baring singer-songwriterliness as if essayed at the end of a very long and uncomfortably active night, throwing everything off course with electronic layers, noises and the inscrutability of his lyrical worldview." – Sweeping The Nation "A beautiful lo-fi thing indeed." – A Little Electricity "An alternative idol in waiting…" – Fractions of One.com "Benjamin Shaw is a one-man wall in a dark alleyway of sound, and I'll be looking out for him - 9/10." - Music Emissions "Hopelessly catchy." - Unpeeled.net "Alive in a raw way that was almost lost years ago." –Chaos Before Predictability.com "Enjoyed from the wrong side of a bottle of wine, like the singer appears to be - 7/10." Die Shellsuit Die! "Magnificent" – Jack Hayter (HEFNER) "Distortion, self-deprecation, and humor. I cant wait to see what he puts out next." – Creative Intersection

(Half A Cow) hac75
released February 2010
A Half A Cow Classic Reissue. Originally released in July 2000 on cd in a HAC-designed all cardboard gatefold sleeve with inserts and a 44-page booklet. February 2010: This album is back in stock and now packed in an ECO-BOX (better for the environment than a regular jewel case) with a reduced 40-page booklet (we shuffled the pages around so it's all still there except the 'Gear n Stuff' page and the Julie 7" drawing). Plus the same timeless music! The Complete Studio Recordings of Australia's Seminal Classic Punk/Pop band from the mid-Eighties. Eighteen tracks on CD for the first time including the classic ‘Julie Is A Junkie/Johnny & Dee Dee’ 7inch, the Long Live The New Flesh mini-LP (with ‘Walking’ and ‘Over Now’) single, two hard-to-find demos and live recordings of a further nine originals (from Girls On The Beach dbl 12”) plus 40 page colour booklet in ECO-BOX cd case. With a mix of Sixties-via-Ramones pop smarts, hard rock crunch and punkish energy, their slim output has produced a world-wide cult awareness. If they're not quite as well known as other Sydney groups of the period like the Hard-Ons or Beasts Of Bourbon, it's because a tragic, on-tour road accident claimed the life of singer/songwriter and guitarist James Darroch. REVIEWS: One of the great “what ifs?” in the history of rock and roll, we’ll never know how far and high the Eastern Dark would have reached in both musical accomplishments and fame and fortune. This compilation is a lasting testament to how incredible the Eastern Dark was in their short time on this Earth. Now Let Us Press Play. - Mojo Finally, it's here and yes, it's been worth the wait. So why the fuss about a Sydney group that was only around for less than two years in the first half of the 80s, played no shows outside of Australia and only released one single when it was still a going concern? Part of it is to do with the sense of loss when a road accident robbed us of guitarist-singer-songwriter James Darroch. More than enough has been written over the years about that event and the unrealised potential the Dark possessed, so I'm going to presume you know all about that (and if you don't, you can read the impressive 44-page booklet that comes with the disc). For the benefit of the initiates, let's focus on the music. The first thing that must be said is that it rocks. Hard, especially the studio cuts. And it rocks with all the abandon and raw passion of youth in a way that wipes the floor with most anything else you could care to name. Liberally taking from venerable precursors like the Ramones and the NY Dolls (and some more surprising antecedents like the Dictators), the Eastern Dark were maybe the best blending of pop's harmonies with (good) punk's boundless energies that many of us saw in many a long time. The John Encarnacao liner notes (almost worth the price of admission themselves) draw a parallel with Husker Du - and there's no argument from this quarter. Think "Candy Apple Grey", rather than their hardcore efforts, and multiply it by a factor of two or three, to get a handle on the Dark's best moments. But as Encarnacao points out, there was a blacker side to the Dark, too. Put on "Mr Clean" (a stupendous piece of guitar wash) or "Stay Alone" and you'll understand. This was a line-up that gravitated towards each other rather by virtue of being in the same place (the incestuous Sydney scene) at the same time. Geoff Milne's powerhouse drumming, Bill Gibson's fulsome and supple bass playing and on-the-money harmonising, plus (ex-Celibate Rifles bassist) James Darroch's economical guitar playing and singing, were rock solid ingredients, but they had great songs and a no bullshit approach as well. The old cliché about the whole being the sum of its parts rings true. Listening years later (and viewed against the template of the liner notes, which fill in a few gaps) it's clear that, for James, the songs were also intensely personal. Most good music is, and if you can't feel it from hearing this you need new ears. There's the Rob Younger-produced single, "Johnny & Dee Dee" b/w "Julie is a Junkie". No mere Ramones homage (although its nods to the Bruddas and James Darroch personal favorites are overt), it sounded awesome at the time and, to these ears at least, is even better now with some re-mastering tweaks and the passage of time. There's everything from the (posthumous) "Long Live the New Flesh" mini-album (with the slightly more sparse version of "Mr Clean", which appeared on Steven Danno's hard-to-find Sydney compilation, "Swinging From the Trees", winning a place ahead of the original.) Try and resist the sheer power of "Walking" or the shitstorm rhythms of "No Pictures" and the singalong harmonies of "I Don't Need the Reasons". Wrapping it up is most of the live album, "Girls on the Beach with Cars". Some take issue with the cover songs being omitted (and a couple were pretty good, like "I Wanna Destroy You") but hearing originals like "The President is Dead" and "Whore" (a stop-start part-spoken word rave that makes perfect sense) in cleaned-up form blows those quibbles out the door. As someone who caught them live too few times, I can say the Dark had a live presence and sense of humour that set them apart from many (most?) contemporaries. The Sydney scene was flowering and mutating into a slew of subsets, many of them incarnations of what had happened, or was happening, overseas. It was a great time and we were spoilt. It's great being spoilt again. This release lets the rest of the world catch up. It's essential. Recommended without reservations. - The Barman I-94 Bar

(Half A Cow) hac139
released February 2010
Following 2009's double A-side single Goldilocks/Walkabout comes The Brutals' long-overdue Debut LP the Honeymoon Period. Out on Half A Cow Records, and just in time for Valentine's Day! Recorded and mixed by Craig Harnath & Finn Keane at Hothouse. Produced by Craig Harnath & The Brutals. Assisted by Jeremy Giddings. Mastered by Jonathan Burnside at Eastern Bloc studios. Featuring appearances by Ben Butcher (Assassination Collective), Shags Chamberlain (The Smallgoods), Yolanda DeRose (Doll Squad) & Cameron Potts (Baseball, Ninety-Nine). Early last decade, local street scruffians Bjenny Montero and Emmett 'Tropical Snake' Smith formed jangling folk-rock band Treetops who went on to a short period of rapid success, followed by equally rapid obscurity. After a brief hiatus, acoustic guitars were spotted again. Verses scribbled and kicked into shape with middle eights, and misguided romantic lyrical advice ignored. From this vantage point, The Brutals was decided upon as the suitable new bag-handle for capturing late-night buzzing and fumbling-with-the-record-button-on-the-tape-deck sessions. The rhythm section soon followed with Gerald Wells; synth-enthusiast and classically trained vocalist, bringing the master musical flavourings with his melodic bass patterns and choir boy backing vocals. The line-up is not complete without local Artist/bon vivant/DJ/peculiar sportsman and wild, natural rock drum-man, Jarrad Kennedy. The Honeymoon Period. Songs about what we know - girls, friends, pizza, the death of the Roaring '20s. Things fall down and get rebuilt. Pop'n'roll detritus from Melbourne with summer on the brain and winter in their wallets. Hearts on their sleeves, dust on their jackets, sails up and steering straight for the wall. Not without knowledge, but naive enough to know better.

(Half A Cow) hac76
released December 2009
A Half A Cow Classic Reissue. Originally released in 1999 on cd in a HAC-designed all cardboard gatefold sleeve with inserts and a 40-page booklet. NEWS FLASH! 10th anniversary edition of the long-out-of-print reissue of the 1965 album by 'Australia’s wildest garage-punk band'. This reissue contains all 17 songs by the second line-up featuring Andy Anderson (these days a well-known actor) and Doug 'Masters Apprentices' Ford. The release has been re-packaged in an Eco-Box jewel case with the 40 page booklet intact. Includes 'Wild About You' (as covered by the Saints) and 'You’re Driving Me Insane' (on the Rhino Nuggets II box set). The most sought-after and anticipated Australian re-release from the '60s - first time on cd! Featuring everything they recorded, including their classic LP, EP and previously unreleased material - 28 songs in all. As a bonus, we've added tracks by legendary related bands, The Showmen and The Running Jumping Standing Still. Included is an extensive 40 page booklet with photos galore and the full history of the band. This "definitive article" is based on interviews with 8 original band members, also Richard Neville and Ed Kuepper. This is by far and away the most thorough re-issue ever put out by a label in Australia (and then The Eastern Dark cd came along...with a 44 page booklet!) and one which will be the benchmark for all those that will follow. REVIEWS: The 'Links came out on the drag end of the surf craze. Inspired by an imported Stones record they then started to brew their own brand of thuggish beat in the conservative hot-house of Sydney. The rip curl sneer vocal tells us they really didn't give a four-X about convention. I look at Peter Anson's shaggy mop and see that they should be wearing Captain Caveman uniforms, clubs and all. A Neanderthal experience from the land time forgot. the Missing Links indeed. They were billed as Australia's Pretty Things but I'd say they were closer in sound and spirit to the first incarnation of the Electric Prunes. There's a take on Bob Dylan's 'On The Road Again' and one of the best versions of 'Wooly Bully' I've heard away from the Sam the Sham original. Fuzz is omnipotent and simultaneously softens and hardens the bare bones of the tune. Y'know, the way the fuzz does. The sleevenotes are particularly extensive to the point of having half the gatefold digi-pack to themselves and adding the weight of a small feral rodent to the record company's postage bill every time they send one out. If it was a jewel case they'd have to stay there permanently. It's jammed full of anecdotes. Richard Neville puts in a word on behalf of the boys' (bad) reputation and remembers an Oz benefit they once played. They "made Oz legends look so straight", but then he would say that, they were fellow countrymen. Highly recommended Antipodean aggro. - Steve Hanson, Ptolemaic Terrascope, UK 2001 The Missing Links Driving You Insane (Half a Cow) If this is the quality of Half a Cow's retrospective series, bring 'em on! In a word: Classy. I'd been eyeing an obviously pirated CD version of the Missing Links' first album for many months, hanging around as it was at Sydney's only record fair. And just like the old faces at aforesaid fair, the CD was just...hanging around...everytime I've been there. Luckily, the fact that this was in the pipeline (and a 40 buck price tag) made me invest cash elsewhere. For the uninformed, the Missing Links were only around in Australia from 1964-66. They toured outside their home state only once. Their recorded legacy was an album (The Missing Links), a smattering of singles pressed in runs so small that no-one could have bought them if they'd heard them, and a posthumous EP (The Missing Links Unchained.) The music is rawboned, crude garage R and B at its best, though, and up until now almost impossible to find or sporadically documented on Australian 60s punk compilations. Driving You Insane is the Real Deal; 28 tracks, five of them unreleased, and even a few from offshoots like the wonderful Running Jumping Standing Still and The Showmen. Most I-94 patrons will know Wild About You (it was covered by The Saints) and Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut and You're Driving Me Insane have been compiled, but other examples of the Links' driving, low-fi rave-upmanship are thin on the ground. And you receive a 40-page history book into the bargain. - The Barman, 1-94 Nov '99 The Missing Links, Driving You Insane (Half A Cow, Australia). In addition to assembling all two dozen cuts known to exist by both the first and second lineup of the Missing Links, this exemplary reissue adds three songs by the Showmen (whose rhythm section joined the second lineup) and a live 1966 TV version of "Diddy Wah Diddy" by Running Jumping Standing Still (founded by a couple of ex-Missing Links). It's quite a package, consisting in the main of everything from their sole LP The Missing Links; the non-LP B-side "Somethin' Else"; all four songs from their 1966 EP The Links Unchained; "We 2 Should Live"/"Untrue," the only single (and only official release) of the first Missing Links lineup; and five tracks recorded by the first lineup that were unreleased at the time. Not everything here is boss, but the best of it establishes the Missing Links as the best Australian '60s garage/punk band, and one of the better ones from anywhere on the globe. Note that although, confusingly, not one of the Missing Links in the first lineup was in the second one that recorded, the recordings by the first lineup are engagingly raw R&B/British Invasion pop-style numbers, even if they lack the manic frenzy and feedback experimentation of the second lineup's best moments, such as "Speak No Evil," "Don't Give Me No Friction," and "You're Drivin' Me Insane." Another significant plus is the detailed 40-page booklet, which gives as comprehensive a lowdown on this mysterious cult band as is likely to ever appear. - www.richieunterberger.com 2001 WOW. Received CDs & 45s on Friday. They are unbelievable. What a beautiful testament to such a great underrated group. Those outtakes from '65 are great. That's really my sound. The photos and packaging are fantastic. I can't believe that the shot on the other side of the Unchained EP really existed in color, but my favorites are of the live shots of the band from '65. I would love to know what their set list was like -- it must have been pretty cool. Thanks again for mailing them out so quickly. Best regards, Bruce Kelso 9 Sep 2001 and what they've been saying about Driving You Insane: "What a fantastic package, one of the best I've seen!" - Skinny, Action Records, New Zealand DISCOGRAPHY SINGLES 3/1965 We 2 Should Live / Untrue [Parlophone A 8145] 8/1965 You're Driving Me Insane / Something Else [Philips BF 213] 9/1965 Wild About You / Nervous Breakdown [Philips BF 224] 10/65 H'tuom Tuhs Part 1 / H'tuom Tuhs Part 2 [Philips BF 231] 1999 Come My Way/Wild About You 7" [Half A Cow moo11] EPs 4/66 Links Unchained [Philips PE 31] (re-released as Raven RVEP 14, 1984) I'll Go Crazy / Don't Give Me No Friction / One More Time / Woolly Bully NOTE: a copy of this EP was sold on the internet auction site eBay for AU$1,564.77 in 2004. 1979 The Wild Cherries [Raven RV 04] 7" EP (limited edition of 1000) All I Want / We 2 Should Live / Don't Give Me No Friction / Wild About You / Some Kinda Fun / Speak No Evil LPs 12/65 The Missing Links [Philips PDS 199] / [Raven RVLP19] / [Corduroy cord50] NOTE: In August 2004 a copy of this LP sold on the internet auction site eBay for AU$2,072.98.

(Half A Cow) hac130
released October 2009
All three singles from one of the most popular Sydney bands from the 60s featuring Mal McGee on lead vocals. The band re-grouped in London in the late 60s and went on to back Rod Stewart on the Python Lee Jackson hit 'In A Broken Dream'. This 'classic reissue' contains a new version of the song by songwriter David Bentley plus all 1968-73 London recordings (except the Rod Stewart-sung tracks). All 24 songs first time on cd, including 11 unreleased-until-now. Plus 36 page booklet.

(Half A Cow) hac136
released October 2009
Wonderful digi-pack artwork. Since the release of their debut album Keep walking or I’ll kill you in August 2007, Agnes Kain made the move to London and are now about to release their second album Across the ocean grey. Penned on buses, trains and during airport sleepovers around the world, it is another beautiful collection of songs reflecting on the small things that usually go unnoticed around the bigger things. Recorded by Stef Simunic and Chanelle Afford in London then mixed and mastered in Glasgow at Ca Va Sound by Brian McNeill. interview with Agnes Kain

(Half A Cow) hac138
released October 2009
get in early - like BUY THE NEW EL MOPA CD NOW - and receive a FREE cd single! The third album from el Mopa has been described as Sydney soul, a description the band endorses. But it’s more than that – with touches of Akron / Animal Collective psych folk, mariachi intensity and roots tinged rock. El Mopa arises more powerful than ever, with three voices leading the chorus: founder Simon Wooldridge, guitarist Matthew J Toohey (Kid Cornered) and bassist producer Emma Hoy. A long time in the making, this is the distilled realisation of el Mopa’s musical values – for all who share them.

(Half A Cow ) hac45
released September 2009
iTunes download only. A Half A Cow Classic Reissue Eagle-Wise is a compilation of his LP's A Bird In The Engine and Adreneline and Richard, both albums that were originally released in 1968 and 1969 and incredibly hard to find now. Booklet written by David Nichols (Go-Betweens biographer and ex-drummer from Cannanes) who was the driving force behind the re-discovery of Pip Proud and helped Half A Cow with the release of this cd. Cd deleted.

(Half A Cow) hac46d
released August 2009
iTunes download only. The one and only album by mid-90s Sydney band Spdfgh.

(self-released) ahs02
released August 2009
It was bound to happen sooner or later. After playing in seperate bands for years, Los Angeles based brother and sister, Brad and Stacy Michelson recorded some demos together discovering THIS was the secret recipe for an Artichoke Heart Souffle. Their first CD, self titled, in 2006 garnered attention from Los Angeles radio station KCRW and Australian record label Half A Cow. Fall 2008 sees the release of Artichoke Heart Souffle's second CD Who You Know. With the recording of this 7 song EP, Brad and Stacy expanded their sound beyond guitars, bass, and drums by bringing in instruments ranging from melodica, omnichord, and glockenspiel to old favorites like hand claps, finger snaps, and tons of harmonies. Who You Know includes "Don't Confuse This" a track produced by Hunter Burgan (AFI, Tegan and Sara The Con). Burgan also contributed to the mixing of the record. Artichoke Heart Souffle proves to be more than just a tasty sounding dish - they are a band, an ongoing art project, a collaboration between two songwriters, and something you need to hear. Who You Know CD booklet contains lyrics to all songs on the album as well as artwork that will leave you gasping for air. *DISCLAIMER- Artichoke Heart Souffle is not responsible if you blow out your knee while trying to wildly dance along to every song on this album.

(Tenzenmen) 023tzm
released August 2009
from the tenzenmen site: sounding like a cross between okkervil river and dexys midnight runners with their melodic sensibilities wifey are sydney's alt-country rocker champions.