LA SALAMI is released digitally through Property of the Lost 18th December 2024. A limited edition lathe 12” will be on sale at their “Last Saturday” party in Hastings on 28th December.

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“If Bauhaus Peter Murphy fronted Future Days era Can” -

Sean Kitching, The Quietus

Over the summer of ‘24, Hastings’ agit-psychoids COLUMN258 holed themselves up in a makeshift studio, on the outskirts of town industrial estate. Above a disused tool hire station, cluttered with a junk shop array of vintage equipment. For a band who could easily spend a year fine tuning one song, they set themselves ONE rule. These recording sessions WOULD BE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM.

Well rehearsed songs flowed between on the spot jams. Fine tuned lyrics butted heads against headlines read from the newspapers gaffa taped to the studio ceiling. Mic’s crackled and affects boards sparked.. This could easily have D I S A S T E R written all over it. But fortune favoured the foolish with the end recordings providing enough quality output to cover a two volumed album due out over the first half of 2025.

To coincide with a “Last Saturday of 2024” party at Hasting’s Jenny Lind, the band gave ol’ pal and studio engineer Fritz Catlin a song from the sessions. The resulting mix of “LA Salami” is a joyous high breed of 90’s indie dance with the industrial spine of early Factory recordings.

“There's a deli in San Francisco with hot salami to-go!” explains singer and guitarist, Ross Clifford, “Once you come out of that shop with a wrapper of the stuff under your arm you feel a million dollars.”

“I’ve got the LA Salami and nothing’s gonna hold me back” sang like a strutting manifesto over a big bad an’ heavy bass riff. It’s about the good times, the good vibes and not being broken down by the system’s cosh.

COLUMN258 members on this recording are:-

Ross Cliford - Vocals, guitar

Nick Weekes - Bass, FX

Matt Williams - Drums

Andy - Cornet

Kath Allsopp - Violin

The limited edition lathe cut 12” is flipped with the acid trip freak out “Silver Stream.” Andy Cooper says “Originally inspired by a poem handed to me from Ross. Silver Stream evolved into an experimental rock rave with surreal lyricism. Fronted by a vocoder performance that turns the words into raw, otherworldly emotion, the track explores themes of transformation and sonics.”

Andy Cooper - Vocals, Korg, Cornet, FX,

Nick Weekes - Bass

Matt Williams - Drums

Ross Clifford - Guitar

COLUMN258 play the POTL “Last Saturday” party with Mystic Shed at the Jenny Lind on 28th December.

Wanna know more? Karl 07762458114 karl@propertyofthelost.co.uk