Redundant Span

06/02/2026

WELCOME TO MUSIC CITY! The long-awaited debut album from Conor Lumsden's Music City is out TODAY!

Available on hot pink or trad black vinyl, it's also Bandcamp Friday today so why not treat yourself to both?

https://welcometomusiccity.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-music-city

The Music City gang are also back in town at Sheffield's Delicious Clam TONIGHT for a headline set & celebrations, with support from Dearthworms, The XOXOs, Shangri-Lass DJ set & late night karaoke!

Hitch a ride or buy your day saver, you're never gonna want to go home..

Some early praise for the record...

“Dazzling.. a delightful ode to 60s and 70s rock 'n' roll sounds.”
- The Line of Best Fit

"It gives me retro feelings.. we heard Tom Petty and The Cars.. lovely stuff"
- Huw Stephens, BBC6Music

“Timeless classic”
- John Kennedy, Radio X

"all-encompassing, unflagging power pop brilliance
- Rosy Overdrive

"Bursting at the seams with memorable, singalong choruses aplenty.”
- God Is In The TV

12/01/2026

"Dazzling.. a delightful ode to 60s and 70s rock 'n' roll sounds." - The Line Of Best Fit on Music City's latest single. Debut album coming 6th Feb!

The dazzling new single from Dublin-born, London-based band Music City pledges a delightful ode to 60s and 70s rock 'n' roll sounds.

05/12/2025

// FLASH SALE // Get 20% off all Redundant Span vinyl, tapes & tees today only!

To mark the final Bandcamp Friday of 2025, use the code BCF20 for a hefty discount on our entire catalogue:

https://redundantspan.bandcamp.com/music

We have MUSIC CITY Christmas flexidiscs, the new EMERGENCE COLLECTIVE album on vinyl (& some t-shirt and vinyl bundles left but act fast!), DEARTHWORMS vinyl, LERRYN and SHANGRI-LASS EPs and more!

We’ll ship all orders 1st class early next week, so treat yourself or stock up on Xmas pressies for your nearest and dearest.

02/12/2025

Now shipping Music City flexidiscs! Order yours now via our Bandcamp for delivery before Xmas:

https://welcometomusiccity.bandcamp.com/album/only-home-for-christmas

11/11/2025

It's almost time to get rockin' around the Christmas tree, and Music City has gifted us the perfect soundtrack - "Only Home For Christmas" is an instant festive classic, with duelling guitars and a sprinkling of seasonal heartbreak.

"Only Home For Christmas" will be released digitally and as a limited flexi disc Christmas tree decoration - listen & preorder here: https://musiccity.ffm.to/onlyhomeforchristmas

Music City's frontman and songwriter, Conor Lumsden, shares: "We went all in on this one — jingle bells and jangle guitars, baritone saxes, timpani. It’s a proper Christmas song: half Phil Spector, half The Office Christmas Special. It’s the flush of happiness that comes with the acceptance of a hangover and a lean January. It’s got that classic feel — like something you’d find on a charity shop Christmas compilation and assume had always existed. It feels instantly familiar, even if you’re hearing it for the first time."

28/10/2025

WELCOME TO MUSIC CITY!

We're very excited to announce the debut album from Dublin born, London based Music City (aka Conor Lumsden of The Number Ones), whose hook-driven, punk-fired debut Welcome to Music City, will be released on 6th February 2026.

Today Music City also share new single “Common Sense” is a swaggering, hook-laden anthem featuring Tina Halladay of Sheer Mag, delivered with the passion of a 12-year-old playing guitar in the mirror: https://musiccity.ffm.to/commonsense

The album blends wry storytelling with chiming guitars, stacked harmonies, and muscular rhythm sections. “I didn’t set out with a theme or story arc, but looking back the album feels like a constant fight between hope and disappointment,” shares Lumsden. “It’s the peaks and troughs of just trying to get by, in love, against the outside forces, or the ones inside your own head.”

Welcome to Music City follows a sold-out single, the cult favourite “Pretty Feelings” (via Static Shock Records a couple of years ago), which quickly became a wedding-floor staple of punks the world round.

Preorders are now live: https://musiccity.ffm.to/welcometomusiccity

February Tour Dates:

Thursday 5th February - The Social, London
Friday 6th February - Delicious Clam, Sheffield
Saturday 7th February - The Rat & The Pigeon, Manchester
Sunday 8th February - Zerox, Newcastle
Saturday 14th February - Where Else, Margate
Thursday 26th February - The Grand Social, Dublin

10/09/2025

Emergence Collective - the Sheffield group of musicians creating beautiful, improvised soundscapes - return with new album Swimming in the early hours, which also marks the collective's first studio record. The album will be released on vinyl and digitally on 7th November - preorders are now live on our Bandcamp and include a special t-shirt bundle:

https://emergencecollective.ffm.to/swimmingintheearlyhours

Operating in the liminal space between classical music, jazz and folk, Swimming in the early hours sees Emergence Collective continue to develop their unique sound, gently lit with moments of serene softness and quietly hypnotic grooves.

Via a unique concoction of acoustic instruments – one that includes a Swedish nyckelharpa and hammer dulcimer – Emergence Collective create a sound where every detail and movement is emphasised and put under a microscope. Swimming in the early hours is a record that leans into moments that are quiet, slow and delicate, as well as intricate, expansive and propulsive. There are nods to pioneering minimalist composers, such as Steve Reich, but also more versatile and unpredictable reference points that have earned them praise from The Quietus, The Guardian, The Wire and Loud & Quiet.

Listen to the title track "Swimming in the early hours" online now:
https://emergencecollective.ffm.to/swimmingintheearlyhourssingle

Live:
5th October - Sensoria Festival, Sheffield

Previous praise for Emergence Collective...

“10-piece Emergence Collective stir things to life with a beautifully subtle yet hypnotic performance of stripped back instrumental minimalism.”
- The Guardian

“Dislodged from time, fragments of older and folkier traditions seep into contemporary ones in their compositions with seamless grace, ornate patterns ambling through the reverberant space they're enclosed in.”
- The Quietus

"The album unfurls in beautiful patterns, filled with a degree of subtlety, tenderness, restraint and a cohesion that belies its improvisational foundation… it’s remarkably measured and considered music given it is being birthed in real time.”
- Loud and Quiet

“Emergence Collective kick things off in earnest the following night at the cathedral. Ten improvisors circle around repeating modes, constructing seemingly archaic compositions that slot beautifully into the grand architectural setting.”
- The Wire

23/01/2025

Emergence Collective return with new album, Chapel, out 5th February digitally via Bandcamp - pre-order here: https://emergencecollective.bandcamp.com/album/chapel

The Sheffield collective - made up of a revolving line-up of the north of England’s finest improvisers - create minimalist sound worlds that gradually evolve throughout their performance, described as “beautifully subtle yet hypnotic” by The Guardian.

Chapel, the group’s latest recorded music since 2023’s Fly Tower, was captured at the Samuel Worth Chapel, a beautiful and intimate venue set in the heart of Sheffield General Cemetery. With influences including Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Max Richter and Pharoah Sanders, Chapel sees the group refine and develop their sound, creating ambient textures that blend with the atmosphere of the venue.

Watch the performance video of album opener “SWC-1” here: https://youtu.be/_59U-GUoBGs

Album art and photo by Benji Wilson.

02/09/2024

With her debut EP out in two weeks' time, Lerryn shares second single, "You Are My Love", along with a video by her nephew Charlie Redford, premiering on Post-Trash:

https://post-trash.com/news/2024/9/2/lerryn-you-are-my-love-post-trash-premiere

Lerryn has also announced an EP launch at London's The Ivy House on 19th September - tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lerryns-ep-launch-as-a-mother-tickets-995257099777

She says of the new single: "A song about a holiday in France. I took the melody to the studio and told the band to imagine the sun was shining and that they had just lit a cigarette and were sat on some hot concrete..
When I sing it I think about how starting a family expands your capacity for love, and what a courageous act that can be."

Having been a stalwart of the South East London creative scene for over a decade, the As A Mother EP is the first offering from the next chapter of Lerryn's own life, and the debut release under her own name. It is a record written during her experience of pregnancy, motherhood and a period of profound creative reckoning.

Preorder the EP now digitally and on tangerine peel cassette via our Bandcamp:
https://redundantspan.bandcamp.com/album/as-a-mother

You don’t need to be a mother, or even a parent, to understand the love that glows from Lerryn’s songs. They speak to anyone who has ever felt immense compassion, to anyone whose world has been upended from lightness, to anyone that’s felt hope in their hearts.

06/08/2024

We’re so excited to announce the release of As A Mother - the debut EP from South East London musician and artist, Lerryn, due 13th September on tangerine peel cassette and digitally: https://lerryn.ffm.to/asamotherep

Lerryn has been a stalwart of the South East London creative scene for over a decade. The founder of cult creative space Lerryn’s Cafe and later frontwoman of post-punk band Dead Arm, her impact on a DIY scene that has defined a corner of London has been significant.

As A Mother is the first offering from the next chapter of Lerryn’s own life, and the debut release under her own name. It is a record written during her experience of pregnancy, motherhood and a period of profound creative reckoning, though the themes present in As A Mother go far beyond motherhood, and are universal. Love. Comfort. Newness. Happiness. Feeling lost. Feeling at home. Feeling loved. Confusion. Self-belief. The passing of time. The inevitability of change.

Today, Lerryn shares the EP's title track, featuring Naima Bock - listen here: https://lerryn.ffm.to/asamother