After The End

4AD and Remote Control records are excited to announce 'After The End', the new album from Florida's Merchandise. First gaining notoriety with the LPs 'Children of Desire' (2012), which Pitchfork hailed for its "glistening and emotive, ear-bleeding noise pop", and then 'Totale Nite' (2013), which NME likened to "a cultural jump-start” in their 9/10 review"; Merchandise continue their ascent.

Drawing from too many places to be classified punk, they've certainly been informed by its ethics. Still self-recording and producing their music, this time over a six month period in the house they share in Tampa, 'After The End' is a real achievement in showing what bands can achieve themselves. The only outside influence this time came when they enlisted mixing help from Gareth Jones, the man famed for his work with everyone from Depeche Mode to Interpol, These New Puritans and Grizzly Bear.