Give Me The Sonic Kill : 1999-2003

by Pop Threat

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Very limited edition CD compilation in DVD style packaging with 4-page inner booklet and artwork construction by Jon Aldersea/Goldphone Creative Media. Includes free fold-out poster of "Pop Threat's Last Stand" in January, 2003 at The Moles Club, Bath.

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1.	Intro ("This Is The Last Pop Threat Gig You'll Ever See") 00:40	info	buy track
2.	Filth 02:50	info	buy track
3.	Sludgy 01:49	info	buy track
4.	Vivia 03:24	info	buy track
5.	No Way Out (7" version) 03:26	info	buy track
6.	Semtex Vortex 04:55	info	buy track
7.	Monochrome 03:57	info	buy track
8.	Falling Spike 05:27	info	buy track
9.	Ingrained 02:13	info	buy track
10.	Sugar Fuck 02:07	info	buy track
11.	D 4th S 05:43	info	buy track
12.	Cheri 02:54	info	buy track
13.	Dark Black 03:21	info	buy track
14.	Amarantal Meltdown 05:34	info	buy track
15.	On Full Speed 03:13	info	buy track
16.	Hit It ! 01:10	info	buy track
17.	Ripen 02:54	info	buy track
18.	Hardcore Disco 03:28	info	buy track
19.	So It Seemed 02:05	info	buy track
20.	No Way Out (Demo) 03:27	info	buy track
21.	Rediffusion 04:09	info	buy track
22.	One Track Mind 04:15	info	buy track
23.	Outro ("The Greatest Thing I've Ever Seen") 00:55	info	buy track

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Originally released in October 2021 on Next Phase : Normal Records and then deleted some time later, "Give Me The Sonic Kill : 1999-2003" is THE definitive Pop Threat compilation.

If you have even a slight interest in the music of The Manhattan Love Suicides, The Blanche Hudson Weekend, Girl One And The Grease Guns, The Edible Eyes and Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators, you might want to dive in to the scuzzy, dirty, fuzzy, knockabout, often ramshackle skewed sounds of Pop Threat. This is where it all started. This is the band that launched Squirrel Records. This is the band who burned brightly on the fringes of the Leeds music scene in the final days of the 20th century and into the early noughties. Motivated, sonically, by The Jesus And Mary Chain, Sonic Youth and early My Bloody Valentine. Inspired, visually, by The Velvet Underground with their black threads and sunglasses. All the Pop Threat recordings were cranked out quickly in small studios using analogue equipment and a definite no-frills approach which was influenced by fellow lo-fi practitioners Guided By Voices, Television Personalities and Beat Happening.

It all came crashing down in spectacular fashion in January, 2003 at The Moles Club, Bath. No need to go into details, but suffice to say things got very messy up on that stage. The unlucky (or lucky, depending on your viewpoint) few who were in attendance that night still talk about it to this day.

Several of the tracks on this compilation have been sourced from the only surviving masters that could be located, so they're sounding even muddier and unwashed than in previous incarnations. But this only adds to the Pop Threat charm. Never a band for the spit n' polish approach, always a group with a rough n' raw aesthetic...but often with some genuinely infectious melodies seeping through those shambling compositions.

And that's got to be worth a sliver of your time and attention, surely ?

credits

released November 12, 2025

Pop Threat were :-

Caroline - Vocals
Darren - Guitars
Juliet - Bass
Mick - Drums (and keyboards on a few tracks)

Rob was a member of Pop Threat between 1999 and 2000, and delivered fantastic guitar sonics on the following tracks - Falling Spike, Amarantal Meltdown, Vivia and D 4th S.

Thanks to Pete B at The Glass Factory for remastering on several of these tracks.

Artwork construction by Jon Aldersea/Goldphone Creative Media.

This compilation was originally released in October 2021 on Next Phase : Normal Records and then deleted some time after that.

All tracks sourced from the best known masters available at this time. Some sonic imperfections can be detected...if you're lucky.

Keep it raw. Keep it rough. Keep it real...to reel.

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Pop Threat Leeds, UK

Pop Threat were a rough-around-the-edges band who burned brightly on the music scene of Leeds in the late 1990s to early 2003 - when they imploded on stage at The Moles Club in Bath. Lo-fi, ultra-fuzzy pop tunes combined with off-kilter compositions and a truckload of Velvet Underground inspired cool. Keep it raw, make it loud. No frills attached ! ... more

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