Artist: Balrog
Title: 'Respect Our Neighbours'
Label: Khazad Records

Balrog has named a record after the state of British politics, and the sleeve tells you where he stands before you press play. It is a woodcut of villagers going at each other in the street, one of them with a knife up.

Balrog's gripe is not with one party. It is the whole spectrum, and a country where people have stopped bothering with each other. Three originals carry it.

Khazad Records is his own shop, mind. He set it up back in 2019. Twenty odd releases have gone through it since. This is the first full EP of his own on there in a couple of years.

The remixes went to a pair who run their own gaffs too. Samantha Togni, who founded Boudica, takes 'Do It Your Way'. Keepsakes, who runs Haven, has 'Renegade Breakbeat'.

Khazad is not just somewhere to park his own stuff, either. Ana Lilia's 'Invocada' went through it in October and we had that one too. He runs the label podcast on top, where the talk runs to approaching labels and what to do with a demo.

Out now, and he has had it pressed as well. The download and a limited twelve are both on Bandcamp, with the wax cut to order through Elasticstage. Get your face in it.