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THAI BRIDE non contact sports ep sov0012	`"Moody, broody, modern and pretty damn good. Glam sneering over an electro-tech garage rock thingy, Pulp with muscles? First-stage Roxy Music taking Suede out for the night? Doesn’t really matter as Thai Bride are more their own monster than a stitched up bag of bolts. Listen, learn and love" - UNPEELED (New Issue)`
[MISSED HER BLISS] if destroyed still true - album (sov010)	“Capable of shifting between the dark dynamics of Girls Against Boys or Mogwai and all out schizo art rock …Missed-Her-Bliss ambitiously use strings to enhance some impressive songs….could well be the next underground heroes “ - Kerrang!
GLASS glass - ep (sov009)	"From the micro-instant the bass lays down that kind of epic progression we know this is anthem territory…powerful but joyfully disjointed - the vocal flights of Yorke with the angst of Kobain..."
THE SONAR YEN slow picture - album (sov008) poison light - ep (sov005)	The Sonar Yen, deliver Soviet Unions first full length, single artist long player. The future of inner city alt.rock. “Glammed up noise-core switchback…the kind of metalled, laid back menace you’d have got if Lou Reed had the technology back in Transformer days. By the by, simple and simply fucking superb” Unpeeled “A band in the purest sense, driven by a compulsion to make outstanding music. Sonically intense without being overcomplicated” City Life Magazine, Manchester
THE OBSESSION wise blood - ep (sov007)	“A performance that’s part Baptist evangelism, part nervous breakdown. These are but the first green shoots of greatness, but amid the rushes of ‘Under The Night’ or the chaos of ‘Wires’, you can feel the crowd suck it in, growing an inch or two taller and bolder.” : NME “Cue: Manchester’s The Obsession, four black-clad provocateurs of the soul who can transfer a low-down lust for life in a short, sharp burst which positively vibrates with energy” : i-D Magazine
TRANSELEMENT pendletones - album (sov006)	“Stirring psychedelic punk rock – myriad tripped-out ideas suffused in strange melodies and surreal humour - Gilded ballad “Delta Wing” burns with subliminal angst…elsewhere, moody mangled guitars recall the cathartic fury of Joy Division or Mogwai…a bright burst of leftfield creativity” 8/10 – NME – 7/12/02
TSUJI GIRI poison light - ep (sov005)	Tsuji Giri - on a joint single (The Poison Light EP) are one of Manchester's most exciting acts - vicious, complex, raw, uncompromised - sonics for a new generation
POLITBURO the new language - ep (sov003) line of wealth - ep (sov011)	Soviet Union original new generation terrorists - by far the best new wave band in the UK - dark factory-esque punk masterpieces - no quarter is given between genuine meaningful politics and their dark anthems
OCEANSIZE a very still movement - ep (sov004)	Now signed to Beggars Banquet, Oceansize were always understood by the label to be bigger than any one of us - their debut single with SU is and will remain a classic
CHAIRSMISSING (sovcm5) - album	Manchester's original and most respected alternative night - discovered most of todays hotly tipped local acts - forget the press though - just examine the track record - all CM samplers on SU
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