Floating Mill Records

03/23/2023

Our reissue of Lack Of Knowledge's debut release, The Uninvited, is now fully available–preordered tapes are in the mail and should be arriving soon!

For a band who never sent a demo tape to a label, never had a manager or booking agency, only ever received one royalty check for £24 each, and only rehearsed with a proper vocal PA twice, Lack Of Knowledge did pretty well during their eight year run together. After their debut release in 1982, “The Uninvited” was played by John Peel, LOK was signed to Crass Records, they released three 7”s and one LP, and placed on the UK indie charts. Despite”[reveling] in people not liking” them and their best efforts “sabotaging the furthering of a career,” LOK had gained traction and a loyal fanbase around their hometown of London. But given their self-destructive nature, they “were always surprised if anybody liked” them.

We at Floating Mill hope to keep those surprises coming, reissuing LOK’s debut release (along with Germany’s No Plan Records) for the first time, adding the originally planned B-side to our tapes. The type I and type II tapes come UV printed and housed in an oversized “j-card” that takes inspiration from LOK’s original comic-book sized packaging for the original 7” release.

Really excited about this one and hope you are too!

03/13/2023

Listen to Frida #40 by sardinealhuile

03/06/2023

New release! Link in bio for FMR.006!

London’s Lack Of Knowlesge formed in 1978 by a group of teenagers, the youngest just 13. In 1981, they recorded their first release, a single called “The Uninvited.” Our UV-printed type I and type II tapes feature that song, the released b-side “Ritual,” and a recording that was initially intended as the b-side but was later replaced called “The Men.” The latter has never been released until this reissue (and a vinyl reissue on Germany’s No Plan Records). The self-released single was so impressive that they got asked to release their second record on Crass Records.

Our tapes, officially out on March 23, are housed in massive screen printed 18.75” x 9” trifold inserts (to mimic the original oversized packaging) and Velcro-fastened plastic sleeves. As always, all tapes recorded in real time by Floating Mill. Screen printing by Pittsburgh’s Revival Print Co.

To listen more and read the band-written release description, please visit the link in our bio!

12/20/2022

Last Friday Bandcamp announced this best punk of 2022 list, which features Self Improvement’s Visible Damage! I was so excited and thankful that I forgot to write about it here! So cool to have our fifth release celebrated like this along with 9 other awesome 2022 albums and EPs—thanks Bandcamp & Kerry! A ton of great music on the list so please check it out!

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2022/the-best-punk-of-20

04/12/2022

With 14 songs from 7 different releases between 1986 to 1998, Parsnips Under My Feet is now fully available! This compilation is a wide-ranging exploration of lofi rock music written and released by Pumf Records founder pStan Batcow (sometimes with other English musicians).

If you download the album, you now get a bonus track from Pumf’s first release in 1984 that Jennifer Kelly of Dusted Magazine describes as “too raw and dissonant to be much of a bonus”!!! If you haven’t already listened to the album, check it out. Some of it even sounds pretty good!

To me, this compilation shows lofi indie music at its purest state of being “inherently honest” (a phrase from pStan in the attached image) and truly independent. 38 years and going strong, Pumf continues to release music for the sake of doing so, and “if other people also appreciate it then that's an added bonus.”

For more of pStan on why Pumf's early recordings sound the way they do and the value of lofi music, please read the text in the image!

04/07/2022

Another review of the Pumf Records compilation, Parsnips Under My Feet!

https://rosyoverdrive.wordpress.com/2022/04/07/pressing-concerns-romero-whimsical-parsnips-under-my-feet-renata-zeiguer/

Today’s Pressing Concerns tackles new albums from Romero, Whimsical, and Renata Zeiguer, plus a compilation of Blackpool, England’s Pumf Records compiled by Pittsburgh’s Floating …

04/04/2022

A cool review of the Pumf Records compilation!! Thanks Jennifer!

Parsnips Under My Feet by Various Artists on Pumf Records Jethro Tull and Robert Smith of the Cure come from Blackpool, but very few musical acts go there. The seaside resort down is too close to...

04/04/2022

There's an interview with pStan Batcow, Pumf Records founder (and songwriter on everything compiled for the Parsnips Under My Feet compilation), on Aquarium Drunkard courtesy of Jesse Locke! Thanks AD and Jesse!!!

Few people take the concept “create your own culture” to the extent of pStan Batcow. Since the launch of his label Pumf (Parsnips Under My Feet) in 1984, the musician, visual artist, and zine publisher from Blackpool, England has burrowed down into an unfathomably deep rabbit hole. In a rare int...

03/31/2022

NEW RELEASE! FMR.004 - parsnipsundermyfeet.bandcamp.com/

Very excited to announce this new release--Parsnips Under My Feet is a compilation of 14 songs pulled from 7 different Pumf Records releases from 1986-98. Since he still runs the label in Blackpool, UK and is a songwriter on all the songs compiled, there’s no better person to describe the music of Pumf than pStan Batcow:

“Way back when, in-between running away from rampaging tyrannosaurus rex and hungry velociraptors (or maybe they’d already extinctioned by then, Year Zero, 1984, and I’m just recollecting memories of strange times), I started a tape label because nobody else wanted to release my music - I knew loads of other people and bands who were in the same situation and reckoned I could release a stack of DAMN. FINE. MUSIC. And, heck, tape labels were Way Cool, Daddio!

Since then I’ve released loads of albums and copied thousands of cassettes, moved with the times (bad-temperedly, and about ten years after everybody else, because cassettes were just better) and switched to CDs (again, thousands of CD-Rs have been burned and a fair few Pumf CDs have emerged from various big-boy-proper-and-all-that pressing plants) and find that I’m still here beavering away during a global pandemic and loving lockdowns that prevent me from having to associate with other humans. And for what it’s worth, despite an almost complete disregard for Pumf by the majority of Earth’s populace, it still fills me with joy. It’s what I was put on the planet to do, and whether or not you pay attention. . . well that’s your loss.

Pumf has slowly amassed the catalogue of DAMN. FINE. MUSIC. that I imagined some 37 years ago, with currently 118 releases under the belt (and more in the pipeline). So, the major labels won’t ever have been worried about competition from this minnow in their pond, but this whole thang was never about competing on their level; it was about doing something so much realer than they could ever do.

And did Pumf do that? HELL, yeah! Mission Accomplished - but the beat goes on. . .”

The entire release is available to stream on Bandcamp now, with tapes & CDs coming on April 12.

02/17/2022

Here’s a fantastic podcast interview between Bill Carey, Maready Evergreen, and Robert Dansby of The Stick Figures and Jeff Kaiser of . They discuss the history of The Stick Figures, the release of Archeology, and what to expect from them in the future!

02/04/2022

Happy Bandcamp Friday! We relisted most of our Bandcamp store with sale prices and added a preorder for a Stick Figures t-shirt.

The SF t-shirt (sizes s - 5xl) is a preorder where we can order from 70 different colors, so please get in contact with us with a general color request ("light blue"), or if not, The Stick Figures will pick a color for you. The preorder ends February 11, then we will place the order, and screen print the shirts with black ink as soon as we can.

Please check out the pictures above for sale prices and to see the awesome Stick Figures logo design that appears on their 1981 EP's center label, on the inner sleeve of Archeology, and now on these shirts. Link to our Bandcamp on our story.

01/14/2022

With happiness for having known him and sadness that we couldn’t know him longer, we are unfortunately informing everyone that Glenn Dallender—singer, guitarist, and songwriter of The Antelopes and The Class of ‘76—passed away on December 21, 2021. As you can read in the statements written by fellow Antelopes/’76 members and myself (attached as pictures), Glenn was a man of seemingly infinite passion, creativity, and enthusiasm, which makes the lack of his presence so felt by those that knew and loved him. Everyone here at Floating Mill is honored and grateful to have worked with Glenn, reissuing and compiling music from The Antelopes and giving The Class of ‘76 their first physical release.

It is a daunting responsibility to be trusted with preserving part of such a wonderful musical legacy, and we can’t thank anyone who has supported our work with Glenn in any fashion enough. Knowing he had new fans, writers, and retailers interested in his work meant so much to him, and it means so much to us at Floating Mill that so many of you helped us provide that to him.

In order to better honor Glenn with our physical releases, all copies of The Antelopes/’76’s music will now have an additional insert including the statements above. If you already have your copy and would like to add this insert, it is available on The Antelopes’ Bandcamp page for $1.50 to cover postage costs/fees—or if you decide to purchase a physical copy from us again, remind us that you are missing this insert and we will send one free of charge in your next shipment. Thank you for your patience as we get this ready.

But most importantly, thank you for everything, Glenn.

01/10/2022

Sorry for the recent lack of posts, busy getting a bunch of great releases ready for 2022. But before then, a few things to wrap up about 2021. A huge thanks to everyone that put our releases on end of the year lists. Here’s a list of lists!

1) as always huge huge thanks to for the constant love for The Stick Figures. So many people learned of this wonderful band through his Bandcamp article, and this best of 2021 list is another huge help.
2) super cool that of NPR Music found our release and put it on his best of 2021 list. Huge fan of his recommendations so this one was really awesome to see! Thanks Lars!
3) if I remember right, Lars (and plenty others) found The Stick Figures through . Tracy is so supportive of the independent bands and labels, and she runs a wonderful blog/shop where you can purchase Archeology. Tracy was the first at-the-time stranger to reach out to congratulate us on releasing Archeology and she was the first person to support us by buying albums wholesale to help get our releases to more fans. Thanks for all the support!
4/5) RosyOverdrive (Twitter) has also been a huge advocate for our releases, even including both of our first full-length albums on his end of the year list. So cool to see The Antelopes on a year end list along with The Stick Figures. Big thanks!
6) huge thanks to for including Archeology on your best of 2021 list. So many awesome albums on their list so definitely check it out!
7) last but certainly not least thanks to of the phenomenal band who has helped spread the word of The Stick Figures in many ways, including highlighting them on the best of 2021 list on his blog, Tone Bursting. Joe was the first person to buy a cassette from our label and is always so enthusiastic about what we are doing at FMR.

I hope everyone enjoys this list of lists. 2021 was such an exciting year for us at FMR and we can’t wait to bring you more great music this year! A huge, sincere thanks to anyone that used their platform to get more attention on these bands in 2021, it means so much to us at FMR and to the musicians we work with.

12/25/2021

Happy holidays from all of us at FMR!

11/19/2021

Thank you Destroy//Exist for a great write-up on Breaking News by The Antelopes and The Class of '76!

http://www.destroyexist.com/2021/11/the-antelopes-breaking-news.html

11/09/2021

Huge thanks to Scott Mervis for writing about Floating Mill in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Very happy to be reissuing albums from here in Pittsburgh!