R.I.P. CHRIS REIMER

It’s with a heavy heart that I’d like to offer my sympathies to the family and friends of Women guitarist – Chris Reimer, who died yesterday in his sleep.

I only met Chris on a handful of occasions but found him to be a funny and personable guy. As a musician he was incredibly talented and forward-thinking in the way he approached his compositions, I often listen in awe to Women records, in particular to the twists and turns of his guitar lines. It saddens me that I’ll never share a joke with him, or see him play again but am proud to have considered him a friend. Rest in peace.

Dan / Faux Discx x

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The Hookworms S/T 12” is now available to pre-order! The record is officially released on November 21st but if you order now you’ll receive your record 3 weeks ahead of general release. 180g black vinyl, reverse-board printed sleeve with spine AND a screenprinted insert. COOL! 

Faux Discx is over the moon to announce that we’ll be pressing Hookworms’ debut release on 12” vinyl. Hookworms features 4 songs and clocks in at around 27 minutes. Sun Ark (who issued the release on tape last month) said this about it:

“Hookworms fling themselves headlong into classic 80’s/90’s psych-rock like they’re trying to break something. Hailing from Leeds and cramming themselves giddily within the well established formal properties of the genre, they walk the scorched road behind Loop, Spectrum, and any other titan of two-chord songs who’s ever slowly wah-ed a chord until they saw colors. Most excellent burners!”

Which pretty much nails it. Hookworms will be a 500 only pressing on heavyweight vinyl, housed in a beautiful reverse-board sleeve featuring artwork by guitarist Jonny Wilkinson. This is a split release with Nottingham’s Gringo Records and should be out late October / early November if all goes to plan. More info on an exact release date when I know it.

Until then, listen to the record in full over at the Faux Discx bandcamp page.

* Photo by Peter Kopek