Audio Antihero

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Audio Antihero
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Founded2009
FounderJamie Halliday
DistributorKudos Records Ltd.
Genre Indie / Lo-Fi / Alternative / Indie Folk / Indie Pop / Experimental
Country of origin United Kingdom
Location Staten Island, New York
Official website http://www.audioantihero.com

Audio Antihero is an independent record label founded in October 2009 [1] with a South East London base, now located in Staten Island, New York. [2] The label has released titles from Frog, [3] Nosferatu D2, [4] Cloud, [5] Magana, [6] CIAO MALZ, [7] Tiberius, [8] Avery Friedman, [9] Leilani Patao, [10] The Noisy, [11] Josaleigh Pollett, [12] and others. [13] [14] [15]

Contents

History

Early Years (2009-2013)

Audio Antihero launched in October 2009, [16] with its first two releases being Nosferatu D2's We're Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones on to Block Out the Noise [17] [18] [19] and Benjamin Shaw's I Got the Pox, the Pox Is What I Got. [20] [21] [22]

In 2011, the label released a series of EPs from Jack Hayter, [23] Broken Shoulder, [24] Wartgore Hellsnicker, [25] Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences [26] and Fighting Kites, [27] [28] and Benjamin Shaw's debut full-length album There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet. [29] [30]

Between 2012 and 2013, the label released a twelve-part singles from Jack Hayter entitled The Sisters of St. Anthony. [31] [32] [33]

Additions to the roster and hiatus (2013-2023)

Between 2013 and 2016, Cloud, [34] [35] Frog, [36] [37] Magana, [38] [39] The Superman Revenge Squad Band, [40] and CHUCK [41] [42] joined the Audio Antihero roster for a series of releases that ran until 2019. [43] [44] [45] The label also continued to issue new titles from Benjamin Shaw, [46] [47] [48] and released albums from defunct groups Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love [49] [50] and Tempertwig. [51] [52] [53]

The label became mostly inactive after a series of compilations and expanded editions of previous catalogue releases. [54] [55] [56]

Return from hiatus (2023-present)

The label returned from hiatus in late 2023 [57] for the release of Frog's Grog album. [58] [3] [59] Two more Frog albums followed in 2025. [60] [61] [62]

Magana and Ben and Adam Parker (as My Best Unbeaten Brother) returned to the label for new releases, [63] [64] [65] and roster received new additions between 2024 and 2025 in CIAO MALZ, [66] [67] Avery Friedman, [68] [69] Leilani Patao, [70] [71] Josaleigh Pollett, [72] The Noisy, [73] [74] and Tiberius. [8] [75] [76]

Discography

Albums and EPs

EPs

Singles

Live Albums

Compilations

References

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  14. ↑ Neale, Matthew (4 October 2017). "This Will Be The Last Time: DiS Meets CHUCK". DrownedInSound. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  15. ↑ "Audio Antihero — on BFF.fm". BFF.fm — Best Frequencies Forever. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  16. ↑ "Blog Archive » We're Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise". Los Campesinos!. 15 October 2009. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
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  41. ↑ "Stream "My Band is a Computer", the new album-slash-career retrospective from CHUCK". The Line of Best Fit.
  42. ↑ Robertson, Derek (18 August 2017). "CHUCK's Track By Track Guide to Frankenstein Songs For The Grocery Store". DrownedInSound.
  43. ↑ "Frog announce fourth album with lead single "Black Friday"". The Line of Best Fit.
  44. ↑ "Beat-led psych ode "Wildfire" is an entrancing new offering from Long Island native Cloud". The Line of Best Fit.
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  51. ↑ Staff, The Alt Editing (29 March 2019). "Track By Track: Tempertwig—'Fake Nostalgia: An Anthology of Broken Stuff'". The Alternative. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
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