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:Buy It:

 

The Dietrich EP is available from the following sources:

 

In person at: 

Forever Changes, Sheffield [link]

Record Collector, Sheffield

Jack's Records, Sheffield [link]

 

Over the web at:

The Laundrette [link]

Thee SPC [link]

 

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:The Reviews:

 

"For those looking for something out of the ordinary in their music, The Repomen continue to remain defiantly, boldly different".

Penny Black Music e-zine - December 2005  [link]

 

"The Repomen return with a bit of a stonker of a single that's brassy, guitary and slightly dark round the edges".

Radio Coma - December 2005

 

"It was starting to look like the band's EP from a couple of years ago [EP3]  with the fantastic 'Lauren Bacall' on it was going to be their recorded peak, but the first two tracks on this EP are easily rivals. Brilliant stuff that shows there's life in the old dogs yet".

Sandman Magazine - January 2006

 

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:The Press Release:

 

Released on the band's own Repo Records (cat no. CDS006, release date Thursday 1st December 2005) and recorded under the watchful eye of Alan Smyth of Arctic Monkey's fame in 2Fly Studios earlier this year, lead track Dietrich is a rip-roarer of a song. Gloriously embellished with trumpet stabs courtesy of the Balor Brass, all edgy and urgent, the song's narrative unfolds to tell its tale of a burglary that goes horribly wrong, bringing to mind the lyrical twists of The Violent Femmes. More of a double A than a B-side, A different situation, sound tracks the emotions of a lost soul whose life flashes before him minutes before he ends it all. The song ebbs and flows before swelling to a fragile crescendo reminiscent of The Flaming Lips. After the short instrumental bridging track Sixteen, the spiralling acoustic tones of Oxygen owe their beauty and warmth to the Repomen's home studio and details the altogether 'lighter' topic of the Hubble telescope. Final track Samarkand Bukhara Khiva rounds the EP off, focusing on lead-singer Denzil's wanderlust as the listener is whisked off along the Silk Road's of Central Asia.

 

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