Numbat vinyl LP

Numbat is a compilation of 10 different tracks from 10 different artists that make up the Rockton Records family.

A1. Delivery Buoy - Exercise

A2. No Nomad - Ghost

A3. asian milhouse - Ah Well

A4. Gia Como - Madeleine ft. Pool Boy

A5. Julia Wallace - Song About Lying

B1. Man Sandal - Everybody Dies

B2. Talking Trash - November

B3. Buckland - B w/ U

B4. Valdø - Balade en Bateau Gratos

B5. Medium Well - Liquid Nails

Each 12” LP on black vinyl comes with an 8-page full colour booklet and lyric sheet, Rockton possum button badge, and is wrapped up all together in a beautiful sleeve designed by Tapemind.

The first 10 pre-orders score a very limited edition cassette with some bonus Rockton tracks. Made with love by Space Cassette. (Cassettes are now sold out!)

It's been a while coming, but finally the time is here. Hiding on hard drives or in SoundCloud aliases - the idea was simple - more people might want to hear this music. Numbats, the endangered marsupial for which the record was named, are similarly elusive, and ecologically threatened. Following a string of releases over the last year and a half from debut artists and established acts alike, it's a pleasure to now present 10 tracks from the Rockton catalogue in vinyl form. Stripping away a sense of genre, the 'Numbat' record contains a sonic soup of different directions and intentions. The diversity in mood spans from nu jazz to pop electronica to glistening folk balladry to tech house and a few things in between. Delivery Buoy's 'Exercise' and asian milhouse's 'Ah Well' swell the LP's energy from its commencement, before the A side is rounded out by Gia Como's 'Madeleine' (ft. Pool Boy) and 'Song About Lying' by Julia Wallace, bringing intimate storytelling over touching instrumental pallettes. Man Sandal begin the B side with 'Everybody Dies' in self-aware melancholy that's grounded in acceptance over lush indie pop. Talking Trash's poetical leanings bloom on 'November' before the faux-joy of Buckland's theatrical universe shift the dynamic again. 'Numbat' ends with two house-inspired tracks by Valdø and Medium Well that are doubly rich in groove.

You can choose to donate $5 to either of these two charities with your order of the record:

Project Numbat works to improve numbat (IUCN Endangered classified) conservation by assisting the Numbat Recovery Program objectives including habitat management, population monitoring, feral predator control, education and awareness. They are a registered ACNC charity.

Common Ground is a First Nations-led not for profit that works to amplify First Nations people, knowledge, culture and stories. Projects they’ve worked on include advocacy against First Nations disadvantage in the criminal justice system, sharing non-secret Dreamtime stories with the next generation through short films, and growing networks and spaces for First Nations writers, creatives and storytellers.

Pressed in Japan.

RRV01. Boorloo (Perth), Whadjuk Country, Western Australia.