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Chemikal Underground
@chemunderground.bsky.social
Independent record label est. 1995 in Glasgow. We’ve released albums by Mogwai, Arab Strap, The Delgados, The Phantom Band, Adrian Crowley, RM Hubbert, Broken Chanter, Chrysanths to name a few.

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Celebrate 30 years of Chemikal Underground with this stylish, ethical, and organic t-shirt. Dazzle passersby by tastefully displaying three decades of artists across your shoulders, safe in the knowledge you’ll be turning heads, as they squint to spot their favourite act.

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December 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
That’s our @emmaspollock.bsky.social live in session on @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social on BBC 6Music at 9pm TONIGHT.

Tune yer wireless accordingly!

Or, use the internet, if you must 👇

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Clattering into your feeds to announce that @brokenchanter.bsky.social are opening for @emmaspollock.bsky.social on her tour dates next month. For those of you who’ve yet to embrace the joy of Broken Chanter, we released their third LP ‘Chorus of Doubt’ last year to much acclaim. Good news, indeed
September 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
IT IS BANDCAMP FRIDAY ONCE MORE. Take the opportunity to PRE-ORDER @emmaspollock.bsky.social’s new record, Admiral Fallow’s forthcoming album, and the brand new @chrysanthsmusic.bsky.social EP that has re-imagined versions of songs from her stunning record and also very limited edition art prints.
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is #BandcampFriday, so why don’t you treat yourself to a pre-order of the brand new, and excellent, @emmaspollock.bsky.social album ‘Begging The Night To Take Hold’?

emmapollock.bandcamp.com/album/beggin...

You deserve a treat.
August 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A huge thanks to all of you who have already gotten yourselves a copy of @emmaspollock.bsky.social’s brand new album ‘Begging The Night To Take Hold’, out 26 September on this very label

Pre-order yourself a copy here, if you’ve yet to do so: emmapollock.bandcamp.com/album/beggin...

You deserve it
July 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sort yourself with some of these for the next day.
July 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
July 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Managed to transfer VHS straight to here to bring you something else from the vaults. A 1999 interview snippet with @emmaspollock.bsky.social and Paul Savage, a look into the indisputable glamour of the Chemikal Office at the turn of the century, and some @bistheband.bsky.social energy
#Chemikal30
July 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today is the 29th anniversary of us releasing the 538 EP by Cha Cha Cohen. We signed them to Chemikal so early on, that this EP bagged the catalogue number CHEM005, meaning they were the third band after @the-delgados.bsky.social and @bistheband.bsky.social to release on the label. #Chemikal30
June 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Fresh from telling you we’d released Admiral Fallow’s brand new single ‘Avalanche’ yesterday, we are reappearing in your feeds to tell you that tickets for their tour later in the year are now ON SALE. What news will we come up with next?

www.admiralfallow.com/shows
June 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We are very pleased to say that today sees Admiral Fallow return with their first release since 2022 — a brand new single, ‘Avalanche’ OUT NOW on Chemikal Underground.

Available everywhere you would expect, right now.

admiralfallow.lnk.to/avalanche
June 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thirty years of some things, twenty years of others…
🌳👀
June 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Also, Saturday marks one year since we had the pleasure and privilege of releasing ‘Chorus Of Doubt’, the third, SAY Award Longlisted, BC album. Get yourself along to a show. Do it:

www.brokenchanter.com/tour
March 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Broken Chanter are heading out to do three rescheduled shows this week in ABERDEEN, IRVINE, and STIRLING. This’ll be the last time to catch David and band for a while and, having seen them at Cottiers for Celtic Connections with this line-up at the end of January, it’s not something you want to miss
March 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It is #bandcampfriday once again. Today, we’ve delved into ✨The Chemikal Vault✨ and selected the last remaining copies on vinyl of our very own Alun’s solo work. Treat yourself to a copy of his excellent eponymous outing as Lord Cut-Glass, and/or his spectral and emotive score for Battle Mountain.
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Oh aye, *this* mailing list: tinyurl.com/34xu6yz5
February 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Three decades, many seminal LPs, and a multitude of hangovers later, it seems only right to mark this landmark milestone over the next 12 months. Keep your eyes peeled (sign up to our mailing list) for announcements over the coming weeks…

Posting this press shot will likely get me the sack - admin.
February 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thirty years ago today copies of ‘Monica Webster’ started to fly out of a small kitchen on Cartside Street in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the debut single of The Delgados, and the maiden release of Chemikal Underground, a brand new independent record label.
February 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Our two 2024 releases:

Chorus Of Doubt
@brokenchanter.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/album/4e44xp...

Leave No Shadow
@chrysanthsmusic.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/album/2Ie1i1...

Both excellent. Stick them in your ears.
December 9, 2024 at 8:14 PM
It’s #BandcampFriday & we’ve put the stock left over from
@the-delgados.bsky.social tour online

Have you got a copy of our first ever newspaper? Our two 2024 LPs?

The perfect time to treat yourself, and/or to get something to stuff in a loved ones’ stocking

chemikalunderground.bandcamp.com/merch
December 6, 2024 at 8:46 AM
You can now sign up to the Chemikal Mailing List again.

Which is arguably quite handy.

tinyurl.com/34xu6yz5
December 5, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Our best efforts:
November 25, 2024 at 11:25 AM
We’ve also been employing our best efforts to get Chrysanths (aka Emily Scott), whose glorious record ‘Leave No Shadow’ we’ve not so long ago released, onto here too.

Check it out (buy it) over here:

chemikalunderground.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Hello. There are an awful lot of you here now. So you probably know that we’re a record label that have been flawlessly (flawlessly) navigating the music industry for 29 3/4 years.

We’ve released two cracking albums and an actual newspaper EP this year.

Go here:

chemikalunderground.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:06 AM