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A long-overdue repress of one of 2025's standout debut albums, pressed on limited-edition orange vinyl to coincide with Rude Films' appearance at Manchester Psych Fest in early September 2026.

Straddling the boundary between discordance and serenity, Rude Films contrast light and dark to craft alt rock that is foreboding yet hopeful. Since 2018 they’ve occupied the dank mills of Manchester, heavily inspired by their precursors but determined to carve out their own sound. In early 2025 this four-piece delivered their debut album, a self-financed, self-titled underground masterpiece. Initially a self-pressed vinyl-only release, sold only at shows and via their local record shop, Piccadilly Records, it was released as a CD later in the year to help get their music further afield—a wise decision.

From the opening brooding moments of Where Have You Been Lately?, the Manchester quartet explode into a cacophony of shoegaze-infused noise rock on Mort Subite. From there, things don't even begin to let up as Rude Films slam into the monster that is Death Hex, pummelling walls of sound that perfectly showcase what the band is capable of. That intensity continues with the fuzzed-out, driving Religion and the sprawling, frenetic Serenity. Elsewhere, Blood On The Tracks, Wide-Eyed Boy and A Lonely Moon take a more atmospheric and texturally rich route, while the jangly, anthemic You're The Image I Can't Forget sets its sights on your heart. Closing with Black Snow, the album builds to a cataclysmic crescendo, with frontman Aaron Hill-Southern delivering a visceral performance over a Deafheaven-esque finale.

Immediate, massive and with plenty of noise to back them up, we've not been this excited about a new band from Manchester in a while.

The album follows a standout 2024, during which the band played a string of shows supporting post-punk heavyweights IST IST and were labelled as "ones to watch" by their local BBC Introducing show.