Floating Mill Records

03/23/2023

Our reissue of Lack Of Knowledge's debut release, The Uninvited, is now fully available–preordered tapes are in the mail and should be arriving soon!

For a band who never sent a demo tape to a label, never had a manager or booking agency, only ever received one royalty check for £24 each, and only rehearsed with a proper vocal PA twice, Lack Of Knowledge did pretty well during their eight year run together. After their debut release in 1982, “The Uninvited” was played by John Peel, LOK was signed to Crass Records, they released three 7”s and one LP, and placed on the UK indie charts. Despite”[reveling] in people not liking” them and their best efforts “sabotaging the furthering of a career,” LOK had gained traction and a loyal fanbase around their hometown of London. But given their self-destructive nature, they “were always surprised if anybody liked” them.

We at Floating Mill hope to keep those surprises coming, reissuing LOK’s debut release (along with Germany’s No Plan Records) for the first time, adding the originally planned B-side to our tapes. The type I and type II tapes come UV printed and housed in an oversized “j-card” that takes inspiration from LOK’s original comic-book sized packaging for the original 7” release.

Really excited about this one and hope you are too!

03/06/2023

New release! Link in bio for FMR.006!

London’s Lack Of Knowlesge formed in 1978 by a group of teenagers, the youngest just 13. In 1981, they recorded their first release, a single called “The Uninvited.” Our UV-printed type I and type II tapes feature that song, the released b-side “Ritual,” and a recording that was initially intended as the b-side but was later replaced called “The Men.” The latter has never been released until this reissue (and a vinyl reissue on Germany’s No Plan Records). The self-released single was so impressive that they got asked to release their second record on Crass Records.

Our tapes, officially out on March 23, are housed in massive screen printed 18.75” x 9” trifold inserts (to mimic the original oversized packaging) and Velcro-fastened plastic sleeves. As always, all tapes recorded in real time by Floating Mill. Screen printing by Pittsburgh’s Revival Print Co.

To listen more and read the band-written release description, please visit the link in our bio!

12/20/2022

Last Friday Bandcamp announced this best punk of 2022 list, which features Self Improvement’s Visible Damage! I was so excited and thankful that I forgot to write about it here! So cool to have our fifth release celebrated like this along with 9 other awesome 2022 albums and EPs—thanks Bandcamp & Kerry! A ton of great music on the list so please check it out!

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2022/the-best-punk-of-20

04/12/2022

With 14 songs from 7 different releases between 1986 to 1998, Parsnips Under My Feet is now fully available! This compilation is a wide-ranging exploration of lofi rock music written and released by Pumf Records founder pStan Batcow (sometimes with other English musicians).

If you download the album, you now get a bonus track from Pumf’s first release in 1984 that Jennifer Kelly of Dusted Magazine describes as “too raw and dissonant to be much of a bonus”!!! If you haven’t already listened to the album, check it out. Some of it even sounds pretty good!

To me, this compilation shows lofi indie music at its purest state of being “inherently honest” (a phrase from pStan in the attached image) and truly independent. 38 years and going strong, Pumf continues to release music for the sake of doing so, and “if other people also appreciate it then that's an added bonus.”

For more of pStan on why Pumf's early recordings sound the way they do and the value of lofi music, please read the text in the image!

04/07/2022

Another review of the Pumf Records compilation, Parsnips Under My Feet!

Today’s Pressing Concerns tackles new albums from Romero, Whimsical, and Renata Zeiguer, plus a compilation of Blackpool, England’s Pumf Records compiled by Pittsburgh’s Floating …

04/04/2022

A cool review of the Pumf Records compilation!! Thanks Jennifer!

Parsnips Under My Feet by Various Artists on Pumf Records Jethro Tull and Robert Smith of the Cure come from Blackpool, but very few musical acts go there. The seaside resort down is too close to...

04/04/2022

There's an interview with pStan Batcow, Pumf Records founder (and songwriter on everything compiled for the Parsnips Under My Feet compilation), on Aquarium Drunkard courtesy of Jesse Locke! Thanks AD and Jesse!!!

Few people take the concept “create your own culture” to the extent of pStan Batcow. Since the launch of his label Pumf (Parsnips Under My Feet) in 1984, the musician, visual artist, and zine publisher from Blackpool, England has burrowed down into an unfathomably deep rabbit hole. In a rare int...