Shriekback's 15th studio album.

solo piano album from BA. Includes covers of Shriek tunes (Faded Flowers, This Big Hush) as well as songs found nowhere else and improvisations). See Shriekback Tumblr for full notes)

the second piano/vocal album by BA. Includes covers of Shriekback songs (Dreamlife of Dogs, Evaporation and others) plus unreleased songs from other projects.

Shriekback recorded live at Hatfield Polytechnic on the Jam Science tour. Guitar: Lu Edmonds.

extras from Sacred City and other pieces contemporaneous with it.

Andrews' song-driven solo album. Catchy but Wrong...

We adapted our title from a fictitious book by Kilgore Trout - Kurt Vonnegut’s alter ego - in which, after an ecological cataclysm, the forces of evolution create mutations which might stand a better chance of survival in the new conditions:

‘..the humanoids found themselves the parents of children with wings or antlers or fins, with a hundred eyes, with no eyes, with huge brains, with no brains, and on and on. These were Nature’s experiments with creatures which might, as a matter of luck, be better planetary citizens than the humanoids. Most died, or had to be shot or whatever, but a few were really quite promsing and they intermarried and had young like themselves.’ (’Galapagos’)

The tunes on this album of demos (from roughly ’86 to ’96) are all of them experiments; all in development. Some, like Black Light Trap and Over the Wire have gone on to have successful futures upon internationally released albums: here you can hear them three-quarters formed as we groped towards their ideal shape. Others were immediately abandoned and have languished for years on cassette tapes to eventually emerge, still-born, in the museum of this collection. Some of them, in our opinion, were perfectly acceptable but fell victims to adverse circumstance. There is a lot of luck in Natural Selection, after all. To all of them, though, we owe our parental allegiance. They all must have seemed like a good idea at the time Once they were all Hopeful.

(All the tracks are taken from cassettes, hyped by technology as much as we dared. Hiss and holes are deliberate - being the lesser of evils) more at: https://shriekbackmusic.tumblr.com/post/132476303077/the-island-of-the-hopeful-monsters-lost

BA solo electronical album -a kind of companion piece to Haunted Box.

studio recording of the 8 piece new band playing the set of their recent shows.