Fractional Farthing

31/10/2025

And today's last drop: if we hadn't snagged this before our Self Propulsion Laboratory had formed its Jazz-Funk-Fusion sub-imprint, this would have ended up there. Funky instrumental pop from some faceless brits. Not usually our thang, but it's short and sweet and, as we say, we recognize it as a "thing". Or possibly a "thang" in this case. We bring you Lubrication by Smooth Noodle:

8 track album

31/10/2025

NEW: More Phil Dole-produced "Italian Shoegaze" from Fissando.

17 track album

31/10/2025

Three things dropping today, including the first release from our newest label acquisition (Derp Street Records). LA-based UK 80s-o-philes stick to their obsessive aesthetic. We being you Deep Mode's debut Power, Seduction & Fries. You may not be able to teach an old dog a new trick, but you can be sure that old dog has nailed the trick it already knows.

10 track album

31/10/2025

Big Friday Drop Day 10/31. Nothing like what we have in store for our second annual Boxing-Day-to-Epiphany Event. But there will be albums from Fissando, Deep Mode, and Smooth Noodle plus an insane double advance drop exclusively for the subscribers of the Fractional Farthing archive, Gamall Pungur's very heavy 15+ hour rendition of Grettis Saga (the Icelandic epic poem in the original Icelandic) plus a monsterous 17+ hour album from X-Bax that is a meditative ode to the solar system. (Public release of Gamall Pungur is on Jan 9 and X-Bax is on April 17.)

Stuff from our vaults. Full Unified Deviance Archive accessible by subscription (use tab above if logged in or link below). It's vast and growing collection of our fearless leader's work under his myriad personae across disparate genres since the early 80s. [NOTE: we're not using this as designed --...

24/10/2025

Our regular Friday drop is a wonderful label deep dive from Lindsay Labs: a sampler of the Label's artists doing live versions of some of their most endearing material.
https://lindsaylabs.bandcamp.com/album/one-night-everywhere

24/10/2025

iGod back catalog updates at Bandcamp and streaming services are complete. A total of 11 albums (including a number of double and triple albums):
• Beatless (2009)
• SynthBitch (2011)
• Gulag (2015)
• cоветская дискотека (2018)
• I've Got A Bad Feeling About This (2019)
• Viral (2020)
• Little Miss Info (2020)
• Schizophonic (2021)
• Funk It Up (2022)
• UK Garage Days Revisited (2023)
• Before and After Math (2024)

22/10/2025

Have to plug the archive every once in a while: subscription to everything our fearless leader has played on (and/or owns the rights to*). Currently 178 items (Albums, EPs, singles, etc.) with more to come. From the first barely listenable quazi-punk public offering in 1984 to experimental noodlings from last week. From full bands to dubious home recordings. Currently trying to fill out items missing from the iGod discography. While the original vision was to drop something new every month, it tends to go in fits and stops. But we definitely have been averaging more than one new thing a month. $25/year to keep the degeneracy enabled.

*eg., Chord is not currently available here

Stuff from our vaults. Full Unified Deviance Archive accessible by subscription (use tab above if logged in or link below). It's vast and growing collection of our fearless leader's work under his myriad personae across disparate genres since the early 80s. [NOTE: we're not using this as designed --...

21/10/2025

It was recently pointed out that the availability iGod's (IGOD) discography has a couple of gaps in it. 3 albums from the Los Angeles years (2010's), a couple of "commissioned" projects done in San Francisco (2018-19) and an additional astonishing 6 albums that were done during COVID and the immediate aftermath (2020-2, though a couple were finished a year or two later). These albums will be just showing up randomly without much connection to our regular Friday release schedule. To kick it off, this is a 2009 effort, a more primitive electronic style than normal, focussing on the idea that you can get rhythmic pieces out of synthesizers without the use of "goddamned drum machines". Hence the title "Beatless". Which is very hard not to misread. Especially on a plain white album cover. Dig:

37 track album

18/10/2025

Sometimes people just wear their influences on their dirty, dirty sleeves. But we love this. Big big love as Kim Deal would say. But this is a deep IYKYK effort that we felt compelled to bring to you.

11 track album

10/10/2025

Friday drop day. This week is a bit of a... well... throw back. Archival recording from the Bay Area all remastered here at the mountain compound in Colorado. A bone fide rock opera from 1968. We tried not to like it, but we couldn't resist its epic pull. Simi Cult Revival does Gilgamesh. Dig it!

14 track album

04/10/2025

Sharkula’s Dirty Caviar still available from Atomic Mouse Recordings. Something new coming soon. But in the meantime if you’re in Chicago, keep you eyes peeled, you may be able to get something from him personally

03/10/2025

Friday drop day – new Supergroup Arbatro di Roma (members of Fissando and Albatross NYC). Link for CDs should be included at Bandcamp by Monday.

7 track album