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    Alex Izenberg ‘Caravan Château’ out 31st July 2020

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    Posted on 20 April 2020
    Caravan Château Alex Izenberg Out 31 July 2020
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    Directed & Photographed by Juliana Giraffe and Nicky Giraffe

    Weird World / Domino 

    The beguiling 11-song reflection on the house of mirrors that is love—Izenberg creates a sophisticated world of his own. Songs that are somehow understated but lavish map the vagaries of our uncertain hearts, the way wrinkles chronicle a lifetime of experience.

    Izenberg on Caravan Château:
    “Today it is my pleasure to announce  that my new album Caravan Château is coming out via Weird World on July 31st. I’ve been working hard on it and I’m extremely proud ...

    Weird World / Domino 

    The beguiling 11-song reflection on the house of mirrors that is love—Izenberg creates a sophisticated world of his own. Songs that are somehow understated but lavish map the vagaries of our uncertain hearts, the way wrinkles chronicle a lifetime of experience.

    Izenberg on Caravan Château:
    “Today it is my pleasure to announce  that my new album Caravan Château is coming out via Weird World on July 31st. I’ve been working hard on it and I’m extremely proud of these songs. It was recorded largely at Tropico Beauty with Greg Hartunian and Derek Korat with whom I’ve spent many long days and nights in the studio, retracing steps and forging new paths. Sometimes we hit walls and other times we found bliss, but those long nights were always chock-filled with lol’s.

    I hope my music can reach people like me who don’t have a lot of money or means and be a guiding light in their lives for good, serving as a safe haven in times of sorrow, happiness, loneliness or longing and know that I’m right there with you and always will be, even if our paths never directly cross.”

    With the help of a handful of collaborators including Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear), Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Whitney, Lemon Twigs), Ari Balouzian (Tobias Jesso Jr) and others, Izenberg creates songs that are easy to adore but hard to define. Izenberg’s sharp songs are the bait that first brings you into Caravan Château, but that deliberate ambiguity is what brings you back repeatedly, hoping to tease out the riddles of being inside these stunning tunes.

    In 40 minutes, Izenberg flings open another window onto a scene of fractured beauty and romantic longing, a place where music itself is a coping mechanism. From the narcotized sway of “Saffron Glimpse” to the charming bounce of “Sister Jade,” from the backmasked blues of “Dancing Through the Turquoise” to the peppy shuffle of “Lady,” Caravan Château is visceral and gorgeous, troubled and sympathetic, instantly likable and richly textured.

    Izenberg emerged in late 2016 with Harlequin, a fetching collection of hazy art-pop hymns praised for their “sweetness and heart.” Not long after the album’s release, Izenberg became emotionally unstable, though, beset by a failed relationship and inevitable post-debut questions about what came next. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2012, Izenberg has spent a lifetime learning to cope with and overcome fear, to turn doubt into power rather than paralysis.

    For Izenberg, music is a lifeline, or the lens that helps him refocus the world and make sense of his mess of feelings. He pulls art and existence together as if by tensile wires, one giving necessary support to the other. On Caravan Château, the intensity of that connection radiates through every song, Izenberg working through some of life’s hardest feelings by writing songs as soft as his heart.

    “Izenberg has discovered a way to make classic, quirky pop touchstones into something completely his own.” —CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

    “With its staccato trumpets and keys, Alex Izenberg’s “To Move On” sounds like it might’ve come straight from the 1970s. If only moving on always sounded this joyous.”  —THE FADER

    “as pretty as all heavenly nice things” —VICE

    “just enough sweetness and heart” —PITCHFORK

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    Alice Jemima ‘Everything Changes’ out 28th February 2020

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    Posted on 21 September 2020
    Everything Changes Alice Jemima Out 28 February 2020
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    After a highly successful summer touring the UK with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alice Jemima announced , ‘Everything Changes’ and revealed a new single video for  ‘Dancing In Love’, which she co-wrote with Sophie Ellis Bextor and producer Simon Byrt.

    Alice’s new uplifting single ‘Dancing in Love’, is the second track to be revealed from her much anticipated second album. ‘Dancing In Love’  has an upbeat disco theme with retro synths and funk-infused basslines overlaid by Alice...

    After a highly successful summer touring the UK with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alice Jemima announced , ‘Everything Changes’ and revealed a new single video for  ‘Dancing In Love’, which she co-wrote with Sophie Ellis Bextor and producer Simon Byrt.

    Alice’s new uplifting single ‘Dancing in Love’, is the second track to be revealed from her much anticipated second album. ‘Dancing In Love’  has an upbeat disco theme with retro synths and funk-infused basslines overlaid by Alice’s sugar -sweet, sultry vocals. The video for ‘Dancing In Love’ stars Alice and is a sequined,  disco-ball themed affair filmed in a karaoke bar in London, where Alice is surrounded by fun party goers.

    In her own words Alice describes her new single ‘Dancing in Love’ as “…being about falling in love, and the push and pull of the relationship resembling a dance. Since the release of my debut album two years ago, I’ve moved out of my parent’s home and now share a flat with my boyfriend and so I think this record, like most of the tracks on my new album, reflects a more mature view of love and relationships.”

    Alice Jemima released her captivating debut self-titled album in 2017 to much critical acclaim and has achieved over 25-million album streams to date with several of the tracks being placed in adverts for Ralph Lauren, Simple Skincare, Macy’s and Topshop Radio support came from  Radio 1’s Huw Stephens (‘Tip Of The Week’ ) Annie Mac, Sophie Little & Monki and Alice achieved Radio 1 playlisting with her single ‘Dodged a Bullet’. Other supporters included John Kennedy (Radio X) and Tom Robinson (6Music).  Alice has also performed live at  Boardmasters, Bestival Lattitude, The Great Escape and SXSW. 

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    Alison Mosshart releases first solo songs ‘Rise’ and ‘It Ain’t Water’

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    Posted on 20 July 2020
    Rise b/w It Ain't Water The Kills Out 09 April 2020
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    Directed, Edited & Produced by Alison Mosshart

    Best known as one-half of acclaimed duo The Kills, when she’s not moonlighting as Baby Ruthless, the gnarly lead singer of blues-punk foursome The Dead Weather, Mosshart is a forever moving force. Over the years she’s collaborated with everyone from her Dead Weather bandmate Jack White to the Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, Gang Of Four, Cage The Elephant, Foo Fighters,  James Williamson and Mini Mansions.

    Releasing the first solo single of her already impressive career. “Rise” is a...

    Best known as one-half of acclaimed duo The Kills, when she’s not moonlighting as Baby Ruthless, the gnarly lead singer of blues-punk foursome The Dead Weather, Mosshart is a forever moving force. Over the years she’s collaborated with everyone from her Dead Weather bandmate Jack White to the Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, Gang Of Four, Cage The Elephant, Foo Fighters,  James Williamson and Mini Mansions.

    Releasing the first solo single of her already impressive career. “Rise” is a searing, slow-burner recorded for, and prominently featured in, today’s final episode of FacebookWatch drama Sacred Lies. The track was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Lawrence Rothman, and is available on Domino Records.

    Mosshart hunkered down at her Nashville home and has used this period of social isolation to teach herself video editing, pulling together some of her favorite footage from a recent visit to Los Angeles and editing it into a video for the song. Watch her self-produced video for “Rise” below.

    Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones is produced by Blumhouse Television and Raelle Tucker (True Blood, The Returned, Jessica Jones), starring Juliette Lewis, Ryan Kwanten, Jordan Alexander, and Kristin Bauer van Straten. “Rise”, a throughline in the story, is performed by Jordan Alexander (“Elsie”) in the first episode.
    For Mosshart, releasing music under her name is a new experience but an entirely thrilling one. It makes sense: she’s been compiling a bank of unreleased music for more than a decade now. Back in 2013, Mosshart first wrote the initial sketch of “Rise,” which finds the singer intoning, “When the sky is falling/ and the sun is black/when the sky is coming down on ya/baby don’t look back/we will rise.” Recalls Mosshart: “I didn’t ever forget it. I remember right where I was when I wrote it, sitting at my desk in London, missing someone badly.”
    For a multi-disciplinary artist like Mosshart—whose paintings have been shown in galleries across the world, and who recently published her first book, CAR MA, a collection of her art, photography and writing that doubles as a love letter to automobiles—working on a variety of projects, now including her own music, is exactly how she likes it.  Currently, she is working with Jamie Hince on the next Kills record and dreams of the day in the hopefully not so distant future, (pandemic-willing) when they’ll be back on the road with exciting new music to share.

    Written late last year, “It Ain’t Water” was recorded with Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey). Mosshart had been sitting on the track for quite some time, and every time the singer found herself battling a bout of writer’s block, she’d pick up her guitar and sing it.

    Alison on working with Alain Johannes: “Working with Alain on ‘It Ain’t Water’ was a blast. He’s such a talent and such a kind person. His mind is wide open. He understands and sees the beauty in imperfection, magic moments, accidents- the soulful human stuff, and the spirited super-human hard to explain stuff that makes a song great. Working with him was an honor, and also, hot damn he can play any instrument like a champ… like he invented the instrument himself. Alain Johannes IS music.” 

     

    Praise for Alison Mosshart and “Rise”:

    “It’s hard to believe that Alison Mosshart, of the Kills and the Dead Weather, hasn’t made a solo single until now. “Rise” stays close to the bluesy foreboding of her other bands. A thumping drum and a bare-bones guitar shuffle surge into visions of dire times and a promise to outlast them.” – The New York Times

    “a bluesy slow-burner packed with the singer’s signature yowl” – Entertainment Weekly

    “The guitar-driven track slow burns, growing into a blast at the chorus. Despite the dark tone, there’s an uplifting feel to the lyrics…sounds just like the type of words many of us need to hear right now.” – SPIN

    “The song is right up the sleazy punk-blues alley that Alison has long excelled at” – Brooklyn Vegan

    “”Rise” exhibits the fierce energy and soul of anything she’s been a part of thus far, filling the track’s four-minute runtime with powerful vocals.” – FLOOD Magazine

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    All We Are ‘Providence’ out 14th August

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    Posted on 04 August 2020
    Providence All We Are Out 14 August 2020
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    Director - Moon

    All We Are’s most euphoric and propulsive work to date, underpinned with a warmth that runs through everything the Liverpool-based trio do. With Providence, All We Are have created an album celebrating the universal virtues of love, loss, sex, friendship and dance. “The celebration of the positive things was our focal point with this record”, says Rich, “We could never have known what sort of world we’d be releasing this record into but our goal was always to try to bring people joy...

    All We Are’s most euphoric and propulsive work to date, underpinned with a warmth that runs through everything the Liverpool-based trio do. With Providence, All We Are have created an album celebrating the universal virtues of love, loss, sex, friendship and dance. “The celebration of the positive things was our focal point with this record”, says Rich, “We could never have known what sort of world we’d be releasing this record into but our goal was always to try to bring people joy amongst the sorrow”.

    Comprised of Ireland’s Richard O’Flynn (drums), Norway’s Guro Gikling (bass) and Brazil’s Luis Santos (guitar), All We Are have released two albums previously, their self-titled debut in 2015 that explored sublime late-night grooves and the psychedelia, krautrock and post-punk-informed Sunny Hills in 2017. On Providence, the band shapeshit once again.

    Having previously shared the simmering sensual “L Is For Lose” and the tropical-tinged “Bad Advice” from the album, on “Not Your Man”, amidst pulsating bass (“I think the bass line is the best I’ve ever written,” Guro proclaims) and bouncing synths, the three-piece sing the refrain: “Like a pina colada, you’re not going to waste me”,charming us into their technicolour world of expansive pop.

    All We Are describe the track: “‘If ‘Not Your Man’ wasn’t a song, it’d be your holiday romance: sticky, sexy, hot and you’re not going to waste it”.

    Moon, who directed the video for “Not Your Man” adds: “We managed to pull off a full on socially isolated lockdown shoot right in the middle of the pandemic. It was a lot of fun but both odd and unique, as there was only one person in the building at a time and because directing via the computer brings its own challenges. You have to have this whole different level of energy to keep everyone’s spirits up, and you run into the issues that become difficult to solve without any crew. All in all a fantastic shoot and I’m chuffed with what we managed to achieve despite the circumstances. All We Are did a great job, as always.”

    Having exorcised some of their collective demons about the world on Sunny Hills, All We Are took a different approach for their new record – for the first time they took time off from each other to work on other projects: “This break was much needed,” explains Luis. “Playing music outside of the band actually brought us together, helping us focus on what we do.” They came back to All We Are with a new joyful lease of life that wound itself into the music.

    Recorded in Liverpool in a retired school building (O’Flynn is a property guardian) that is integral to the group; a place that gives them both space and time to go at their own pace, the album is a cascade of colour and hooks, funky basslines and electric rhythms. Where its predecessor had been clouded by anxieties, manifesting in drone-indebted guitars and a dark heaviness, Providence lands with a lighter touch aided by working with producer Dave McCracken. Their goal whilst writing was to use it to soothe your worries and make you move. Offering respite from the gloom, the album’s driving force is the power of music to heal, no matter what your beliefs or worries.

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    Animal Collective ‘Bridge to Quiet’ out 3rd July 2020

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    Posted on 03 November 2020
    Bridge to Quiet Animal Collective Out 03 July 2020
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    Lyric video by Jack Kubizne. Artwork by Brian DeGraw.

    Animal Collective constructed Bridge to Quiet from recycled music they had been making pre-pandemic. As the band explains, “During April and May, we took a look at some of our improvisations from 2019 and early 2020. We remixed them, collaged them, and built them into songs, finding our way to Bridge to Quiet.”

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    Animal Collective ‘Sand That Moves’ (Original Score)

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    Posted on 16 February 2021
    Crestone (Original Score) Animal Collective Out 16 February 2021
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    Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler
    Crestone est le premier documentaire écrit, produit et réalisé par Marnie Ellen Hertzler en partenariat avec Memory.
    Hertzler a fait appel aux pionniers de la musique expérimentale, Animal Collective, pour en composer la musique originale, une grande première pour le groupe qui en dévoile des extraits dans « Sand That Moves ».
    Ecoutez Crestone (Original Score) en streaming ICI et regardez Crestone ICI.
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    Anna Calvi ‘Hunted’ out 6th March 2020

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    Posted on 22 September 2020
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    18 months after the release of Hunter, which explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity, Anna Calvi revisited her initial, more intimate recordings of those songs. The versions on Hunted find her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals distilled to their bare essence, in the company of collaborators Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter. The tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the in...

    18 months after the release of Hunter, which explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity, Anna Calvi revisited her initial, more intimate recordings of those songs. The versions on Hunted find her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals distilled to their bare essence, in the company of collaborators Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter. The tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the innate fragility of the compositions to the forefront and exquisitely melds together the dichotomy of the hunter and the hunted, the primal and the beautiful, the vulnerable and the strong.

    In the summer of 2018, Anna Calvi released her critically acclaimed third album Hunter. On it, she explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity. Following a stellar 18 months, which saw Calvi write her first television score (for BBC One’s Peaky Blinders), receive her third consecutive Mercury Prize nomination (the first solo artist to achieve this feat) and play sold out shows across the globe to her largest ever audiences, Calvi has now crafted a stunning reworking of Hunter into Hunted.

    Having revisited her first ever recordings for Hunter, Calvi found they offered an intimate and private view of the songs’ initial intentions. Distilled to their bare essence on Hunted: her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals, Calvi then asked Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter to collaborate with her and further transform the songs.

    Calvi says of Hunted: “During a break from touring I went back and listened to the first recordings I ever made of ‘Hunter’. These recordings capture the very moment I first wrote these songs, and recorded them on my own, in my attic studio. I find something especially intimate about sharing these most private recordings with my favourite singers and asking them to lend their voices and artistic sensibility. Courtney Barnett is an amazing artist. Her voice and guitar playing together are mind blowing. Her ability to connect the profound to the smallest moments of human experience is the unique talent of a true artist.”

    Barnett said of working together: “Anna is a completely awe-inspiring performer, it’s impossible to take your eyes off her onstage. I love her songwriting for its beautiful and perfect balance between aggression and tenderness”.

    Rawer sounding than their original incarnations, the tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the innate fragility of the compositions to the forefront and exquisitely melds together the dichotomy of the hunter and the hunted, the primal and the beautiful, the vulnerable and the strong.

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    SIDE A

    • 1Swimming Pool (feat. Julia Holter)
    • 2Hunter
    • 3Eden (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg)

    SIDE B

    • 1Away (Hunted Version)
    • 2Don’t Beat The Girl out of My Boy (feat. Courtney Barnett)
    • 3Wish (feat. IDLES)
    • 4Indies or Paradise
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    Austra ‘HiRUDiN’ out 1st May 2020

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    Posted on 20 April 2020
    Hirudin Austra Out 09 September 2020
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    Director M. Blash

    Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. Every attempt to turn a corner lands you back where you started. HiRUDiN is both a bold acknowledgement of such patterns of behaviour and a testament to the power of breaking them.

    Named after the peptide released by leeches that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world, HiRUDiN is about the importance of healing the self, letting go of harmful influences, and finding the power to rebuild through exploring your i...

    Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. Every attempt to turn a corner lands you back where you started. HiRUDiN is both a bold acknowledgement of such patterns of behaviour and a testament to the power of breaking them.

    Named after the peptide released by leeches that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world, HiRUDiN is about the importance of healing the self, letting go of harmful influences, and finding the power to rebuild through exploring your innermost desires.

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    Austra ‘Hirudin’ remixed Out 30th April 2021

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    Posted on 12 January 2021
    HiRUDiN Remixed Austra Out 30 April 2021
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    Directed / Edited by Trevor Blumas

    ‘The Shape Of You I Know Completely‘ is a short film that explores the thoughts and ideas behind “HiRUDiN,” Austra’s fourth record. Based on a conversation with Anupa Mistry (journalist and writer) and Sebastian Kvist (curator and invertebrates at Royal Ontario Museum), the film was directed by Trevor Blumas and shot between Toronto and Montreal during various stages of COVID-19 lockdown.

    Inspired by the secretions of leeches, Katie Stelmanis eloquently explains her album HiRUDiN. R...

    ‘The Shape Of You I Know Completely‘ is a short film that explores the thoughts and ideas behind “HiRUDiN,” Austra’s fourth record. Based on a conversation with Anupa Mistry (journalist and writer) and Sebastian Kvist (curator and invertebrates at Royal Ontario Museum), the film was directed by Trevor Blumas and shot between Toronto and Montreal during various stages of COVID-19 lockdown.

    Inspired by the secretions of leeches, Katie Stelmanis eloquently explains her album HiRUDiN. Released in lockdown, HiRUDiN explores the impact of toxic relationships and the empowerment one experiences. This film provides precious insight into a new era for AUSTRA whilst she explores what role musicians should play in the on-going battle for social justice.

    “Making HiRUDiN was about finding new ways of working, new people to collaborate with and also learning about how to participate in every part of the process. Although the territory was unknown it wasn’t scary – it was fun and the process felt like medicine”

     

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    Bob Moses ‘Desire’ out 28th August 2020

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    Posted on 03 November 2020
    Desire Bob Moses Out 28 August 2020
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    Directed By: Owen Brown Animation By: Airplan

    Bob Moses (Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance) have announced their next release: a concept record for the club. Presented over six continuously mixed tracks, Desire  on Domino—is a love tale for the digital age: all about the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants, especially in these technology-driven times.

    The title track, a hypnotic late-night collaboration with Grammy-nominated electronic musician ZHU, is out now with an interactive animated video, directed by Owen Brown (c...

    Bob Moses (Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance) have announced their next release: a concept record for the club. Presented over six continuously mixed tracks, Desire  on Domino—is a love tale for the digital age: all about the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants, especially in these technology-driven times.

    The title track, a hypnotic late-night collaboration with Grammy-nominated electronic musician ZHU, is out now with an interactive animated video, directed by Owen Brown (creative agency CTRL5), and animation by Airplan Studio. The video is hosted on interactive streaming company Eko’s platform, with interactive production help from Particle3, and uses anaglyph imagery to display two different sides of desire. With the press of a button, viewers can switch between worlds of ‘pleasure’ and ‘pain’, manipulating a beating heart into a burning fire, lipstick into a bullet, joy into despair. It’s a deft and delicate dive into the ups and downs of desire.

    After making their second album 2018’s Battle Lines, which focused on a tighter, more traditional song structure and touring that around the world in their full band format, Bob Moses set off on a European club tour as their original two piece setup, which served as an inspiration for their next musical offering.  “It was great being back in that environment and feeling the communal energy,” Vallance says.  Feeling inspired, studio time was booked while still on tour. “We wanted to make something that was continuously mixed, something that would take the listener on a journey and replicate that feeling we try to create when we’re playing our sets in a club,” says Howie.

    As the ideas coalesced, they realized there was a thematic through line: desire, and the ways it presents itself in our current world. “Desire can become quite destructive if you’re not self-aware. With this record, we’re trying to be self-aware by looking at our own desires and reckoning with them,” says Vallance. “Stories about desire are timeless: Icarus flying too close to the sun and ending up falling to his death…that idea inspired the falling man on the album cover. That symbolized to us how desire can lead to a downfall.”

    Howie adds, “We’ve appreciated the worlds created in concept records from bands like Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails. We thought it would be interesting to combine that kind of songwriting with the flow of modern electronic music.”

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    Bob Moses ‘Falling into Focus – Live 2020’ Out 20th November 2020

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    Posted on 07 December 2020
    Falling into Focus – Live 2020 Bob Moses Out 20 November 2020
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    Directed By: Owen Brown

    Bob Moses have released a brand-new remix from Charlotte de Witte of their single “Desire” with ZHU, extending the song to a seven-minute plus deep techno take. Her reimagined version, out now on Domino, follows the release of Falling into Focus – Live 2020, Bob Moses’ first concert film and live album. Accompanying the remix is a video animated by Airplan Studio and directed by Owen Brown, which completes the arc of the original interactive ‘Desire’ music video by focusing on the...

    Bob Moses have released a brand-new remix from Charlotte de Witte of their single “Desire” with ZHU, extending the song to a seven-minute plus deep techno take. Her reimagined version, out now on Domino, follows the release of Falling into Focus – Live 2020, Bob Moses’ first concert film and live album. Accompanying the remix is a video animated by Airplan Studio and directed by Owen Brown, which completes the arc of the original interactive ‘Desire’ music video by focusing on the blue character’s storyline of pleasure; the video for Solomun’s ‘Desire’ remix focused on the red character’s storyline of heartbreak.

    The release of de Witte’s remix bookends an unprecedented year for Bob Moses as well as the entire music industry due to the coronavirus. Unable to tour, Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance (Bob Moses) took to the digital space with their weekly online ‘BobCast’ series, now streaming exclusively through Twitch.  They released their third studio project ‘Desire’, a six-track love tale for the digital age: all about the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants, especially in these technology-driven times, bringing together a thematic style of songwriting with the flow of modern electronic music.

    Falling into Focus – Live 2020, a concert film also directed by Owen Brown, and live album of the same name, followed. An hour-long set performed from an abandoned radio tower in Topanga, California, it comprised 13 tracks, highlighting material from Desire, their previous albums Battle Lines and Days Gone By, plus an exclusive live band version of Desire.  Starting atop the skyscraping structure as night took over, Bob Moses slowly worked their way down the tower performing multiple sets in a variety of configurations, both as a band and in their original two-piece setup.

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    Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network ‘Ballet of Apes’ out 20th June 2020

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    Posted on 05 October 2020
    Ballet of Apes Out 22 May 2020
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    'Is The Season for New Incarnations' Directed by Arturo Baston

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    The striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. “Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls – in Australia with Mikey Young (Total ...

    Released by castle face

    The striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. “Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls – in Australia with Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring), in San Francisco with Mike Donovan (ex Sic Alps), Shayde Sartin (ex Fresh & Onlys/lifetime ringer) and Mike Shoun (ex Oh Sees/Peacers), and in Brooklyn with instrumental heavy-weights Sunwatchers – and the results are spellbinding. At the focal point of this maelstrom, our lady, as if illumed by candlelight, intones, pleads, consoles – white magic perhaps but it carries with it the anodized tang of blood. 

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    Buscabulla ‘Regresa’ out 8th May 2020

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    Posted on 22 September 2020
    Regresa Out 08 May 2020
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    Director Claudia Calderón Pacheco

    Buscabulla has released the single “Vámono”, with a music video directed by Claudia Calderon. Watch above.

    It is the first song both written and conceived since the duo’s members, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, moved home to Puerto Rico, from New York. The song is a rally to those who have returned as well as those whom have left. It is an urgent reminder to connect with your history, your roots, your very own self. Buscabulla were born and raised in Puerto Rico. Yet ...

    Buscabulla has released the single “Vámono”, with a music video directed by Claudia Calderon. Watch above.

    It is the first song both written and conceived since the duo’s members, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, moved home to Puerto Rico, from New York. The song is a rally to those who have returned as well as those whom have left. It is an urgent reminder to connect with your history, your roots, your very own self. Buscabulla were born and raised in Puerto Rico. Yet it wasn’t until 2011 while living in NYC that the producer, designer, songwriter, and DJ Berrios teamed up with producer and multi-instrumentalist Del Valle. Together they formed “troublemaker“, or “Buscabulla”, as it’s known in Puerto Rican slang. Buscabulla’s debut EP was co-produced with Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and subsequently released on the Kitsuné Musique label in 2014. Buscabulla’s second EP, II, was self-produced and self-released in January 2017.

    The video for “Vámono”, is an amalgam of Neo-Cultural expressions inspired by ancestral traditions which are celebrated in regions close to the group’s own personal history in Puerto Rico. The Vejigantes, from Ponce, where Del Valle was born and raised, and Festival de Las Mascaras in Hatillo, where Berrios’ ancestors are from and, like her, emigrated to NY, made a life there and came back to Puerto Rico to live out the rest of their lives.

    “With the mass-exodus of Puerto Ricans to the mainland U.S. as well as economic decline accompanied by displacement of our people and traditions, we hoped to capture the essence of these festivities,” the band says. “By their very nature and existence, these festivities are a form of celebratory resistance.”

    Regresa was recorded in its entirety in Raquel and Luis Alfredo’s home studio in Puerto Rico, and is an emotional roller coaster in which they face and ponder the issues affecting them and Puerto Rican society at large: the frustration at the lack of opportunities for locals while tax breaks lure rich investors, self-doubt and anxiety, even the rise of religious fanaticism. Full of angst and an underlying sense of loss, Regresa — which means “return” or “to come back” — is a bittersweet, introspective, eye-opening journey.

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    Coucou ‘A Take Away Show’

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    Banane Bleue Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains Out 22 April 2021
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    Coucou 'A Take Away Show' Directed by Celidja Pornon

    C’est dans le cadre du Festival de cinéma européen des Arcs 2020, que François Marry a été invité pour un Take Away Show filmé par La Blogothèque au sommet des monts enneigés. Un moment magique et poétique sans les Atlas Mountains cette fois mais au cœur des montagnes de Savoie où François a interpreté “Coucou” extrait de son 5ème album Banane Bleue.

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    Dan Deacon ‘Mystic Familiar’ out 31st January 2020

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    'The Making of 'Mystic Familiar' - Director Corey Hughes

    Dan Deacon’s most emotionally open and transcendent record, Mystic Familiar’s 11 kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic synth-pop exponentially expand his sound with unfettered imagination and newfound vulnerability. It’s the first album where Deacon presents his natural singing voice, unprocessed and with only minimal accompaniment; a vulnerable shift in a songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and distorted vocals.

     

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    Dan Deacon ‘Well Groomed’ out 13th November 2020

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    If you were making a documentary about people who dye their dogs neon hues and trim their fur into the shape of the Cheshire Cat, Dan Deacon would be the first person you’d call for the score. Since his arrival with 2007’s Spiderman of the Rings, the Baltimore producer has wielded candy-coated synthesizers and jewel-toned vibraphones with radiant joy, combining conservatory-honed classical minimalism with the all-night-rager energy of a Jersey Shore DJ. His music is bright, pastel-colored...

    If you were making a documentary about people who dye their dogs neon hues and trim their fur into the shape of the Cheshire Cat, Dan Deacon would be the first person you’d call for the score. Since his arrival with 2007’s Spiderman of the Rings, the Baltimore producer has wielded candy-coated synthesizers and jewel-toned vibraphones with radiant joy, combining conservatory-honed classical minimalism with the all-night-rager energy of a Jersey Shore DJ. His music is bright, pastel-colored, pumped full of the boundless energy of a puppy who’s just been let off its leash—and, increasingly, it’s got a lot of heart. Frankly, it’s hard to believe it took him this long to do something with dogs.

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    Dirty Projectors ‘Windows Open’ EP out 27th March 2020

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    If you’ve seen Dirty Projectors live in the last two years (2018-2020), you no doubt saw Maia Friedman rocking the Silvertone and Stratocaster stage left – now she sings lead on all of ‘Windows Open’.

    ‘Search For Life’, a classic Projectors ballad with a stunning string arrangement from Oliver Hill (Vagabon, Dust Rider). In the context of this month’s global crisis, it seems to carry a different and deeper resonance.

    Windows Open features  ‘Overlord’, a “tongue-in-cheek c...

    If you’ve seen Dirty Projectors live in the last two years (2018-2020), you no doubt saw Maia Friedman rocking the Silvertone and Stratocaster stage left – now she sings lead on all of ‘Windows Open’.

    ‘Search For Life’, a classic Projectors ballad with a stunning string arrangement from Oliver Hill (Vagabon, Dust Rider). In the context of this month’s global crisis, it seems to carry a different and deeper resonance.

    Windows Open features  ‘Overlord’, a “tongue-in-cheek critique of surveillance” (UPROXX) that’s been praised as both “disconcertingly serene” (Rolling Stone) and “a beautiful, moving, simple pleasure that’s hard to resist” (Consequence of Sound). Another track, “On The Breeze,” feels generous and retrospective, like a peace offering to an impulsive trickster spirit. And closing the collection is “Guarding The Baby,” a song of flint-eyed catharsis. An atmosphere of lightness prevails over Windows Open, and flashes of humor and sweetness carry the day.

    The music of ‘Windows Open’ was written, produced and mixed by Dave, who co-wrote the words with Maia. The whole thing was recorded at Ivo Shandor in Los Angeles, CA.

    Dirty Projectors is Dave, Maia, Felicia Douglass, Kristin Slipp and Mike Johnson.

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    DISCOVER African Connexion ‘C’est La Danse’

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    Released in 1984 on the late Charlie Gillett‘s Oval Records, this song is a joyful, brassy, celebratory anthem recorded at Mark Angelo Studio and produced by Niall Morosini.

    Mwana Musa takes the lead vocal – a singer, guitarist, and composer based in London. His band, African Connexion, formed in 1983, had a series of singles in the mid-’80s before breaking up in 1986, after which, Musa began a solo career. Pan-African by name, African Connexion had no specific country to draw upon...

    Released in 1984 on the late Charlie Gillett‘s Oval Records, this song is a joyful, brassy, celebratory anthem recorded at Mark Angelo Studio and produced by Niall Morosini.

    Mwana Musa takes the lead vocal – a singer, guitarist, and composer based in London. His band, African Connexion, formed in 1983, had a series of singles in the mid-’80s before breaking up in 1986, after which, Musa began a solo career. Pan-African by name, African Connexion had no specific country to draw upon but some members originated from Ghana and Sierra Leone. Musa’s main influences were purportedly Zairean music, but he makes a point of introducing an array of new rhythms and musical patterns. This is notably supported by lead guitarist Abdul Tee-Jay, a fascinating musician originating from Sierra Leone to parents from Guinea, who went on to form his own dance band, Rokoto.

    Released as a 4 track 12″, the song features Merto Otrem (rhythm guitar), Abdul Tee-Jay (lead guitar), Jan Sliwinski (Bass), Otis Thompson (Vox, congas), Kevin Flanagan (alto sax) and Claude Deppa (trumpet).

    The Worldwide recording and publishing rights to ‘C’est La Danse (Kwanza Kwanza)’ by African Connexion are controlled by Oval Music exclusive to Domino Publishing.

     

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER François & the Atlas Mountains ‘Coucou’

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    Quelle joie de retrouver Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains avec « Coucou », un titre léger et chaleureux qui annonce la sortie de Banane Bleue, son nouvel album à paraitre le 26 Février 2021.

    Frànçois y aborde avec simplicité la question de la communication émotionnelle après une rupture amoureuse.

    Une douceur musicale qui introduit selon moi parfaitement la couleur de ce nouveau disque qui est soulignée par la pâte sonore de Jaakko Eino Kalevi qui a produit le disque ainsi q...

    Quelle joie de retrouver Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains avec « Coucou », un titre léger et chaleureux qui annonce la sortie de Banane Bleue, son nouvel album à paraitre le 26 Février 2021.

    Frànçois y aborde avec simplicité la question de la communication émotionnelle après une rupture amoureuse.

    Une douceur musicale qui introduit selon moi parfaitement la couleur de ce nouveau disque qui est soulignée par la pâte sonore de Jaakko Eino Kalevi qui a produit le disque ainsi que par le mix de Renaud Létang (Connan Mockasin, infinite bisous).

    “Coucou”, ce single presque californien, avec sa basse moelleuse et ses guitares radieuses, donne parfaitement le ton de Banane Bleue. Centré sur les connexions émotionnelles et les malentendus, il dépeint le point final d’une liaison étiolée: « Je déteste ce mot, ‘Coucou’ » précise Frànçois. « Il exprime pour moi une forme de naïveté douceâtre, un peu fausse. Et devient d’autant plus absurde quand il vient de quelqu’un qu’on a follement aimé. »

    Banane Bleue est un disque nomade et profondément européen, né entre Berlin, Athènes et Paris. Il tire son nom du concept de la ‘banane bleue’ théorisé dans les années 80, que dessinent les grandes cités européennes, de Liverpool à Milan, et dont les limites, à force de se rejoindre, se sont entremêlées pour former une immense mégalopole. Le concept a ressurgi comme un vieux souvenir de lycée pour François. Qui l’a ensuite poétisé, imaginant une forme luminescente que l’on apercevrait depuis l’espace, quelque chose de vibrant et d’impalpable qui nous entoure et nous relie. Banane Bleue explore ce territoire commun, culturel et amoureux, fait de rendez-vous manqués, d’incompréhensions et de malentendus.

    Frànçois explique à propos du concept: « Je me suis souvent demandé ce qu’aurait été mon histoire relationnelle si j’étais né sur un autre continent. Notre idée de l’amour, qui vient des XVIII et XIXème siècles, est incrustée dans les murs et les parfums des villes, les cafés, les bars et les soirées, les vacances à deux, les week-ends dans une capitale. Comme s’il y avait un parfum romantique dans l’électricité européenne. » Un maillage affectif qui s’incarne dans Banane Bleue.

    C’est seul ou presque, que Frànçois a conçu le disque, épaulé par le finlandais Jaakko Eino Kalevi à la production et par Renaud Letang (Feist, Gonzales, Connan Mockasin) au mix.

     

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    DISCOVER King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Bubble’

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    Diamond Mine King Creosote Out 28 March 2020
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    Directed By Elliot Dear (Blinkink)

    “So who’s been unfair, Who causes you sorrow? And who’s been unkind, Who burst your bubble?”

    Lyric to Bubble by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins (video)

    Nothing quite like a pandemic to help your life flash before your very eyes but it occurred to us that 28th March 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Diamond Mine, a collaborative album from Domino and Double Six artists, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. We’ve selected the song Bubble to share with you whilst we revisit...

    “So who’s been unfair, Who causes you sorrow? And who’s been unkind, Who burst your bubble?”

    Lyric to Bubble by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins (video)

    Nothing quite like a pandemic to help your life flash before your very eyes but it occurred to us that 28th March 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Diamond Mine, a collaborative album from Domino and Double Six artists, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. We’ve selected the song Bubble to share with you whilst we revisit this remarkable album.

    ‘From squeezebox lullaby to tranquilized electronic waltz, this stunning track glides and flickers with all the grace of the Northern Lights in bloom’ – Bubble in Q magazine’s Q50 

    The album was launched with a breathtaking show at Union Chapel – a memorable moment being the mesmerizing repeat of Your Young Voice echoing through the hallowed rafters: “It’s your young voice that’s keeping me holding on to my dull life.” 

    Featuring lyrics and vocals from King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) sung over musical backdrops arranged and recorded by Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine is a genuine labour of love, recorded over a number of years without the pressure of deadlines, whenever Jon and KC could get together.

    The album, featuring instrumental moments as affecting as the lyrical, consists of newly interpreted obscure delights picked out from 20 years of King Creosote’s treasure chest of a back catalogue. Intended to be heard as a single experience, Diamond Mine produces a near classical suite of emotion ranging from cracked despair to patched-up euphoria. Described by King Creosote as a ‘soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village’, the record weaves in slices of Fife life, bike wheels, spring tides, tea cups and café chatter to produce a beautiful, unique and timeless album.

    Following a the Mercury nomination they followed this up with an EP, Honest Words featuring a reworking of album track Bats In The Attic as well as songs ‘Honest Words’ and ‘Aurora Boring Alias’. The press release called this the teasing out of the truth in an obfuscating lyric, or contemplating the truth as laid bare by feline nature and star fields. The music underneath follows these thoughts into more expansive, crystalline realms, far away from the harbours and tea-rooms where they began. The album took on a deluxe version in 2012 with the Jubilee Edition featuring extra songs (Missionary, Starboard Home) and KT Tunstall supplying vocals on Third Swan.

    Revisiting Diamond Mine through the lens of the past decade – the profundity of the concept album is heart wrenching and it’s hard to imagine the record is anything other than an anecdotal document of human experience. Featuring themes of humility, fatherhood and mortality – it is a sobering and fragile record. The instrumentation itself mixes tradition, spoken word and experiment as if it is musically stumbling it’s way through the changes from traditional to modern times.  The lonely spaces of Jon’s treatment of organic, found and piano sounds, profoundly distill Kenny Anderson‘s songwriting. The result is a potent mix and this album marks a strong milestone in the careers of two of the UK’s musical artisans.

    We would suggest that collaborations between electronic and independent songwriter whilst now fairly commonplace were still relatively pioneering when Jon and Kenny first got together to set about on this piece. It will be interesting to look back on this record in 10 years time and trace a potential musical lineage inspired by Diamond Mine.

     

    Praise for Diamond Mine

    Mercury Music Prize Nomination 2011 The Guardian

    The Guardian, Mojo, Q and Uncut listed Diamond Mine in their top albums of 2011.

    ‘[..] fragile and lovely, adjectives that apply to the whole gig: an album on which everything just clicks, deservingly getting a night on which the same thing happens’ – 5* Guardian live review

    ‘ancient and modern, complex yet blissfully sparse, and very, very beautiful’- Evening Standard – 5*

    ‘Extraordinary album? Definitely’ – Sunday Times Culture – 5* CD of the Week

    ‘a song -cycle that illuminates the exceptional in the everyday’ – Independent – 4*

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    DISCOVER The Feelies ‘Crazy Rhythms’

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    The Feelies formed in New Jersey 1976, taking their name from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. They released their first album ‘Crazy Rhythms’ in 1980. The band, influential in the development of post-punk music, have a distinctive  sound which was very original compared to the punk/new wave scene of the time. Their music is known to have influenced the likes of R.E.M, and ‘Crazy Rhythms‘ was received extremely well by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the album...

    The Feelies formed in New Jersey 1976, taking their name from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. They released their first album ‘Crazy Rhythms’ in 1980. The band, influential in the development of post-punk music, have a distinctive  sound which was very original compared to the punk/new wave scene of the time. Their music is known to have influenced the likes of R.E.M, and ‘Crazy Rhythms‘ was received extremely well by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the album largely went under the radar with little commercial success, and the band rarely played live to promote themselves. The Feelies later disbanded in 1992 having released four albums.

    TIn 2009, Bar/None and Domino Records reissued the albums ‘Crazy Rhythms’ and ‘The Good Earth’. Highlights from these albums include ‘Let’s Go’, ‘Forces At Work’ and ‘The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness’: each with the band’s signature infectious guitar and fast-paced drum beats.

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    Ela Minus ‘Acts of Rebellion’ out 23rd October 2020

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    megapunk Video by Dr.Me.

    Ela Minus’ debut album is a collection about the personal as political and embracing the beauty of tiny acts of revolution in our everyday lives. Throughout, a sense of urgency and a call to arms is mixed with this love and appreciation for reality—because even revolutionaries need to leave space for simple human interaction.

    Colombia-born/raised and Brooklyn-based musician Ela Minus debuts her new single, “megapunk”. It follows “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong”,...

    Ela Minus’ debut album is a collection about the personal as political and embracing the beauty of tiny acts of revolution in our everyday lives. Throughout, a sense of urgency and a call to arms is mixed with this love and appreciation for reality—because even revolutionaries need to leave space for simple human interaction.

    Colombia-born/raised and Brooklyn-based musician Ela Minus debuts her new single, “megapunk”. It follows “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong”, an invigorating single Minus released this spring that was recently remixed by Fort Romeau, DJ Python and buttechno.

    “megapunk” is on the same motivating wavelength. It’s driven by an array of shifting instrumentation – blipping techno, a thumping drum beat, and Minus’ tempered vocals. Written last year and prescient given today’s progressive social movements, “megapunk” is defiant, and an encouraging reminder to surge forward, despite resistance: “you don’t want to understand // you’re choosing to lead us apart // but against all odds // you still won’t make us stop.”

    Ela comments, “When I wrote this song last year, I was worried it would lose context if not released immediately. I could not have been more wrong. This is the perfect time to put this out. We have to keep going. Ánimo y fuerza.”

    Preceding her path of making electronic music, Ela drummed in a teenage hardcore band. She joined the band when she was just 12 and played with them for almost a decade. Then, Ela moved to the United States, where she attended Berklee College of Music and double-majored in jazz drumming and synthesizer design. This expansive background instilled in Ela a belief that we all have the power to change things, and as she delved deeper into her work with synthesizers, she saw a clear connection between the freedom of the DIY scene she grew up in and club culture.

    Ela uses only hardware synthesizers to perform, write, produce and record. Her music exudes a vibrant warmth, and a stark, celebratory affirmation that our breaths aren’t infinite.

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    Ela Minus ‘Dominique’

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    Acts of Rebellion Ela Minus Out 23 October 2020
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    Dominique lyric video by DR.ME and Ela Minus.

    Today I woke up at 7 p.m
    My brain feels like it’s going to break
    I haven’t seen anyone in a couple of days
    I am afraid I forgot how to talk
    To anyone else that’s not myself

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    FRANCE – Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains “Holly Golightly”

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    Posted on 11 January 2021
    Banane Bleue Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains Out 22 April 2021
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     « Holly Golightly » est le second single extrait de Banane Bleue (26/02/21)

    Ce single de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains porte le nom du personnage de Truman Capote dans Breakfast At Tiffany’s et aborde les thèmes clés de l’album : l’amour et les relations humaines dans des métropoles. Le visualizer qui l’accompagne présente des illustrations d’Audrey Hepburn dans le rôle d’Holly Golightly

    Frànçois détaille ses intentions : « ‘Holly Golightly’ fait réf...
     « Holly Golightly » est le second single extrait de Banane Bleue (26/02/21)

    Ce single de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains porte le nom du personnage de Truman Capote dans Breakfast At Tiffany’s et aborde les thèmes clés de l’album : l’amour et les relations humaines dans des métropoles. Le visualizer qui l’accompagne présente des illustrations d’Audrey Hepburn dans le rôle d’Holly Golightly

    Frànçois détaille ses intentions : « ‘Holly Golightly’ fait référence au personnage de ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, le roman de Truman Capote. J’y adopte le point de vue d’un écrivain fasciné par son attachante voisine et amie. Le narrateur, qui cache sa passion, lui écrit des lettres (“crashing into the stationary”).
    La chanson a été écrite sur une guitare acoustique bon marché, semblable à celle utilisée par Audrey Hepburn pour chanter ‘Moon River’ dans l’adaptation cinématographique.
    Renaud Letang a mixé cette chanson en pensant à Jonathan Richman. J’imagine maintenant Jonathan marchant bras dessus bras dessous avec Holly dans le centre de Manhattan. Cette chanson serait une excellente bande-son pour leur petit-déjeuner. »
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    Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Banane Bleue’ out 26th February 2021

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    'Coucou'

    “Coucou”, the quasi-Californian lead track, with its soft bassline and beaming guitars, sets the tone for Banane Bleue perfectly. With emotional connections and misunderstandings at its heart, it details the end of a failing relationship whilst exploring the nuances of the French language. “I hate this word, “coucou” (which loosely translates as ‘hey there’ in French)” Frànçois Marry notes, “because, for me, it expresses a form of indifferent, slightly fake naivety. What...

    “Coucou”, the quasi-Californian lead track, with its soft bassline and beaming guitars, sets the tone for Banane Bleue perfectly. With emotional connections and misunderstandings at its heart, it details the end of a failing relationship whilst exploring the nuances of the French language. “I hate this word, “coucou” (which loosely translates as ‘hey there’ in French)” Frànçois Marry notes, “because, for me, it expresses a form of indifferent, slightly fake naivety. What’s even more absurd is when it comes from someone with whom you were once madly in love.” 

    Banane Bleue (French for “Blue Banana”) is a nomadic and truly European record, hailing from rented workspaces in some of the continent’s key cities – Berlin, Athens and Paris – and recorded with instruments that were often borrowed from likeminded musicians. Written solely by Frànçois Marry himself, close collaborator and Weird World artist Jaakko Eino Kalevi was enlisted for production duties whilst Renaud Letang (Feist, Gonzales, Connan Mockasin) mixed the album.

    The title of the album is taken from the ‘blue banana’ concept, a geographical theory that groups together a corridor of Europe’s biggest cities, originally conceived in the 1980s. The theory states that the blurring of these cities’ boundaries has resulted in the formation of one massive, interconnected megalopolis. Expanding on the theory, Frànçois poetised it, picturing a luminescent blue banana shape that you can see from space with vibrant, ethereal currents that surround and bind us. It explores common cultural and romantic ground, creating an album full of missed meetings and misunderstandings.

    On the theory, Frànçois notes: “I have often asked myself what my relationship history would be like if I had been born on another continent. Our idea of love, which comes from the 18th and 19th centuries, is ingrained in the walls and aromas of cities, cafes, nights out in bars, text messages, artificial lights, romantic getaways and city breaks; as if European electricity emitted some kind of romantic scent.” This electric grid of romance is personified in the ‘Blue banana’ concept.

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    Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Holly Golightly’

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    Holly Golightly (single) Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains Out 11 January 2021
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    Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – ‘Holly Golightly’ taken from the album ‘Banane Bleue‘. ‘Holly Golightly’ is inspired by the main character in Truman Capote novella ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. This animation re-enacts Audrey Hepburn in the movie adaptation of the same book.

     

    “’Holly Golightly’ refers to the character in the Truman Capote novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Taken from the point of view of a writer fascinated by an endearing neighbouring frien...

    Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – ‘Holly Golightly’ taken from the album ‘Banane Bleue‘. ‘Holly Golightly’ is inspired by the main character in Truman Capote novella ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. This animation re-enacts Audrey Hepburn in the movie adaptation of the same book.

     

    “’Holly Golightly’ refers to the character in the Truman Capote novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Taken from the point of view of a writer fascinated by an endearing neighbouring friend, the narrator keeps his passion silent and writes letters instead (“crashing into the stationary”). 
    The song was written on a cheap acoustic guitar very much like the one Audrey Hepburn uses to sing Moon River in the film adaptation of the novella. Renaud Letang mixed this song with Jonathan Richman in mind. I now imagine Jonathan walking arm in arm with Holly in downtown Manhattan. This song would be a great soundtrack to their breakfast.” François Marry

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    Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Tourne Autour’

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    Posted on 11 February 2021
    Banane Bleue Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains Out 26 February 2021
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    Written by Robin Lachenal & Céline Martin-Sisteron Directed and edited by Robin Lachenal
    « Tourne Autour » est le troisième extrait de Banane Bleue de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains.

    Réalisée par Robin Lachenal, la vidéo est une odyssée spatiale, mettant en scène Frànçois dans un voyage intergalactique à travers le temps et l’espace, une métaphore de la recherche de l’amour et des liens affectifs.

    « Le morceau chante l’obsession pour une personne. L’esprit en cercle, une histoire de point de vue qui ne change jamais. Le fantasme comme une galaxie loi...

    « Tourne Autour » est le troisième extrait de Banane Bleue de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains.

    Réalisée par Robin Lachenal, la vidéo est une odyssée spatiale, mettant en scène Frànçois dans un voyage intergalactique à travers le temps et l’espace, une métaphore de la recherche de l’amour et des liens affectifs.

    « Le morceau chante l’obsession pour une personne. L’esprit en cercle, une histoire de point de vue qui ne change jamais. Le fantasme comme une galaxie lointaine. L’attraction des astres. Projection mentale, sortie extra-véhiculaire, retour à la case départ. Après tout, sans faire exprès, ce titre vif entre en résonance avec nos confinements. En boucle. ». Frànçoi Marry

     

    « Confiné dans l’espace, François tourne en rond et joue en boucle les accords de son nouveau tube intergalactique. À travers l’œilleton de son télescope, il s’imagine sur le plateau d’un télé-crochet virtuel, face à un monolithe miroir rappelant le praxinoscope d’Emile Reynaud. Le clip réactive les fantômes et les courtes boucles de cette technique d’animation, inspiré par les répétitions, le rythme et la dynamique de ce morceau minimaliste. » Robin Lachenal
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    Fuzz ‘III’ out 23rd October 2020

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    Ty Segall started 2020 by unveiling a new noise project, Wasted Shirt, with Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale, and he killed some quarantine time by recording an EP of skewed Harry Nilsson covers. Here the third album from Fuzz, the psych-metal power trio he formed in 2011 with longtime accomplice Charles Moothart. PITCHFORK

     

    One only knows one.

    Two is balanced therefore stagnant.

    III both active and reactive.

    Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich are FUZZ.

    FUZZ is three.

    And...

    Ty Segall started 2020 by unveiling a new noise project, Wasted Shirt, with Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale, and he killed some quarantine time by recording an EP of skewed Harry Nilsson covers. Here the third album from Fuzz, the psych-metal power trio he formed in 2011 with longtime accomplice Charles Moothart. PITCHFORK

     

    One only knows one.

    Two is balanced therefore stagnant.

    III both active and reactive.

    Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich are FUZZ.

    FUZZ is three.

    And III has returned. Songs for all, and music for one.

    III was recorded and mixed at United Recording under the sonic lordship of Steve Albini. Keeping the focus on the live sounds of the band, the use of overdubs and studio tricks were kept to a minimum. Albini’s mastery in capturing sound gave FUZZ the ability to focus entirely on the playing while knowing the natural sounds would land. It takes the essential ingredients of “guitar based music” and “rock and roll power trio” and puts them right out on the chopping block. It was a much more honest approach for FUZZ — three humans getting primitive, staying primitive. The goal was never to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it’s just about seeing how long you can hold on before you’re thrown off.

    Album opener “Returning” serves as a sort of mission statement for the album. It’s an auditory meditation on the power of one and the different perspectives of one,  whether it is the singular person looking inward, or a group of people coming together as a single unit. Not only is it an echo of the return of FUZZ, but also a broader return to form – raw and empowered through vulnerability.

    “Nothing People” and “Spit” served as a launching point into the new sphere that would become III. They were written around the same time, and felt like they opened two different doorways — familiar in some ways and new in others. “Time Collapse,” a rogue cut from the days of FUZZ’s II, landed soundly on the scorched surface of side A to round things out.

    “Mirror” opens up the B side and the collective consciousness. Mirroring the call to arms of “Returning,” the song asks the listener to link arms with the band, march to the same drum of love, and create a space of equality among the freaks. The pummeling rhythm demands the request to crush the mirror that feeds you lies. In the end, it’s a ballad for the unique, twisted, and natural self that should be exalted before any falsehood.

    The stomping back half of III serves as a self aware call out to the lineage in which this record calls home — both personal and general in the historical context of raw power trio records. “Blind to Vines” and “End Returning” accentuate the meditative qualities of FUZZ. While coming from opposite ends of the spectrum, they balance restraint and compulsion. FUZZ will ultimately cave to compulsion. That is without question. But what good is a freak out without an initial glance inward? “End Returning” takes that look inward and scrambles the timeline. It finds peace and challenges it in the next breath. Arguably, it brutalizes this peace to test the foundations on which it rests, inevitably bringing the origin back into focus.

    Three points reflected in three Mirrors; a pyramid of sonic destruction and psychic creation. Nothing People feed the roots while the freaks fly free in the treetops – Blind to Vines, Eyes Closed, Stuck in Spit, triumphing the Returning of beginnings and Ends Returning while beginning to see the Time Collapse. Love is the only way to annihilate hate, and Sketchy freaks live to bleed. All shades of color, truth and lies, III is the pillar of unity and singularity.

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    Georgia ‘Seeking Thrills’ out 10th January 2020

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    Singles, “Started Out” and “About Work The Dancefloor” hit Radio 1’s A playlist, and propelled Georgia to headline shows across the globe, including dates in Europe, Latin America, the US, Australia, plus a goosebump-inducing one-woman-band set on Glastonbury’s Park Stage.

    Seeking Thrills is a sharply paced and fascinating album, packed with injections of lightness and fun, pared with rich, bubbling melodies that makes listening to it an experience that takes you into the party, t...

    Singles, “Started Out” and “About Work The Dancefloor” hit Radio 1’s A playlist, and propelled Georgia to headline shows across the globe, including dates in Europe, Latin America, the US, Australia, plus a goosebump-inducing one-woman-band set on Glastonbury’s Park Stage.

    Seeking Thrills is a sharply paced and fascinating album, packed with injections of lightness and fun, pared with rich, bubbling melodies that makes listening to it an experience that takes you into the party, through electro-pop into R&B, and back again.

    Heavily inspired by Chicago House and Detroit Techno of the early 80s, Seeking Thrills fuses analogue club sounds with solid pop songwriting and showcases Georgia’s lifelong love affair with the drums.

    The album artwork features a photograph by renowned, influential American documentary and portrait photographer, Nancy Honey who allowed Georgia to use photographs from her archive. Honey’s photography is featured across all of Georgia’s artwork, including previous the singles. The image featured on Seeking Thrills is entitled “St Stephens School Disco, Bath” © Nancy Honey, 1988.

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    Georgia’s ‘Seeking Thrills’ shortlisted for 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize

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    Domino are delighted to announce that Seeking Thrills – Georgia’s second album – has been shortlisted for the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’. Georgia’s response to the news is as follows:

    “Thrilled to be included in this year’s shortlist. I so enjoyed making Seeking Thrills and seeing people’s reactions to it, especially during lockdown. I wanted Seeking Thrills to be a euphoric, uplifting and empowering record, in these times we all need this.”

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    Domino are delighted to announce that Seeking Thrills – Georgia’s second album – has been shortlisted for the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’. Georgia’s response to the news is as follows:

    “Thrilled to be included in this year’s shortlist. I so enjoyed making Seeking Thrills and seeing people’s reactions to it, especially during lockdown. I wanted Seeking Thrills to be a euphoric, uplifting and empowering record, in these times we all need this.”

    Seeking Thrills is a reflection of a year of musical exploration, telling a story of hedonism, euphoria and the transcendental power of the dancefloor.  Featuring Radio 1 A-listed singles “About Work The Dancefloor”, “Started Out” and “Never Let You Go” and recent single “24 Hours”, Seeking Thrills explores Georgia’s belief that “if you’re on a really good dancefloor with a really good DJ, you can be whoever you want to be”.

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    Hayden Thorpe ‘Aerial Songs’ EP out 16th October 2020

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    Written and self-produced by Hayden with additional production work from Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion), long-time collaborator Richard Formby and 4AD producer Fabian Prynn, Aerial Songs was originally composed as part of Hayden’s time as artist in residence at Aerial Festival – an arts, music and performance event due to take place in his native Cumbria.

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    Hen Ogledd ‘Free Humans’ out 25th September 2020

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    Consisting of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington.

    Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary, it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory,...

    Consisting of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington.

    Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary, it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory, sewers, the nature of time, human stench, and the thrills of wild swimming, it’s remarkable that, given the intense collision of influences and wide-ranging ideas at play, Free Humans somehow coheres into a marvelous whole.

    Free Humans doesn’t shy away from the fact humans are killing the earth, but it does it with spiky wit. Hen Ogledd manages to hold both the tragedy of the wrongs happening in the world, and a sense of hope and liberation, in their hands at the same time.

    Listen to it and you might just glimpse something like tree-consciousness. Listen to it and different layers and membranes and atmospheres will reveal themselves. This is not background music. It was made at a Lagrange point—the zone between the moon and the earth where gravity is cancelled out—so what you hear is the push and pull between structure and chaos, refinement and accident.

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    Hen Ogledd ‘Space Golf’

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    Building your walls to keep them out
    Building your stash to wipe them out
    You staked your claim on planets new
    You built your ship and up you flew
    Looking back on the world below
    Safe from the damage and woe
    But you cannot play golf in space
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear with you
    And blast them into the bluePlatinum club for psychopaths
    Draining the tank with dirty maths
    Plundering all to gild the few
    ...
    Building your walls to keep them out
    Building your stash to wipe them out
    You staked your claim on planets new
    You built your ship and up you flew
    Looking back on the world below
    Safe from the damage and woe
    But you cannot play golf in space
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear with you
    And blast them into the bluePlatinum club for psychopaths
    Draining the tank with dirty maths
    Plundering all to gild the few
    You built your ships and up you flew
    Infinity pool on Ganymede
    You took so much more than you need
    But you cannot play golf in space

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    Jaakko Eino Kalevi ‘Dissolution Remixes’ EP out 31st July 2020

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    Finland’s master voyager Jaakko Eino Kalevi eases out of lockdown with a look back to a simpler time: late November 2019, to be precise, and the release of his fine mini-album Dissolution.

    In keeping with that record’s wayward spirit, Jaakko has now called on friends and continental colleagues to remix some of its songs, resulting in the Dissolution RemixesEP. The five tracks present take Jaakko’s music in tantalising new directions.

    “It is always interesting to hear how other people ...

    Finland’s master voyager Jaakko Eino Kalevi eases out of lockdown with a look back to a simpler time: late November 2019, to be precise, and the release of his fine mini-album Dissolution.

    In keeping with that record’s wayward spirit, Jaakko has now called on friends and continental colleagues to remix some of its songs, resulting in the Dissolution RemixesEP. The five tracks present take Jaakko’s music in tantalising new directions.

    “It is always interesting to hear how other people interpret my music,” says Jaakko. “I like to be surprised in a good way and these remixes are very much on point and right up my alley.”

    On the first remix to be shared, Latvian dream-pop titans Domenique Dumont conjure a characteristically charming version of “The Search”, that also includes a portion of Jaakko’s song “Uutiset”. Domenique Dumont seldom venture out, so this mix should be cherished.

    Elsewhere on the EP, Timo Kaukolampi, an icon of heavy Finnish electronics, transforms “The Source of the Absolute Knowledge” into a psychedelic widescreen meditation, further cementing the Kaukolampi-Kalevi bond.

    Stockholm producer and Born Free label boss Samo DJ tackles the same track, reworking it to a jacking, sinuous groove garnished with cybernetic swirls. With his take on “I Am Looking Forward”, Francois Marry of Francois & the Atlas Mountains, who has spent much of the past 12 months working closely with Jaakko, fashions a hypnotic number that shimmers like satin.

    And new duo Ultraflex, the Berlin-based pairing of Farao and Special K, wrap things up with a blistering hi-NRG mix of ‘Dissolution’.

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    Jon Hopkins ‘Piano Versions’ EP out 16th April 2021

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    Presented as the sister record to 2014’s Asleep Versions, Piano Versions is a collection of ambient piano cover versions. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger & Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements around it.

    “Piano Versions is four minimal, ambient piano covers of song...

    Presented as the sister record to 2014’s Asleep Versions, Piano Versions is a collection of ambient piano cover versions. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger & Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements around it.

    “Piano Versions is four minimal, ambient piano covers of songs I have loved for a long time but that come from very different places. It seems to me that melody is universal and the ones that I really connect to shine out irrespective of genre or context, whether from techno, folk or whatever. I loved the simplicity of having my old upright piano be the centre of a whole record for the first time. But the importance of letting the outside world into the recordings is as present for me as ever, so there are layers of incidental noise, bird song, the sound of someone washing up in the studio kitchen – whatever was going on outside my room is included and even accentuated. I want people to hear not just the recordings but to feel how it felt to be there and make them. It was a deep experience.” Jon Hopkins

    ‘Dawn Chorus’ composed by Thom Yorke

    ‘Heron’ composed by James Yorkston

    ‘Modern Driveway’ composed by Luke Abbott

    ‘Wintergreen’ composed by Roger & Brian Eno

     

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    Julia Holter live stream from Lodge Room 25th February 2021

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    “In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested,” Holter says. In Aviary’s case, that search for sweetness — that bridging of the gulf — becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself, cutting through the hierarchies of history, language, and musical form to offer something more fluid, more inclusive, more idiosyncratic. “For a long time in music, there has been a di...

    “In a lot of the songs, when I mention love, it’s about a seeking for compassion and humility in a world where it feels like empathy is always being tested,” Holter says. In Aviary’s case, that search for sweetness — that bridging of the gulf — becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself, cutting through the hierarchies of history, language, and musical form to offer something more fluid, more inclusive, more idiosyncratic. “For a long time in music, there has been a discussion about what ‘dissonance’ and ‘consonance’ actually are,” the artist explains. But what, Holter asks, is the sound of empathy?

    TICKET INFORMATION: Julia Holter Live Stream 25th February 2021 

     

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    The Kills ‘Little Bastards’ out 11th December 2020

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    "I Put A Spell On You" (cover - originally performed by Screamin' Jay Hawkins)

    The Kills have compiled an extraordinary career spanning b-sides and rarities album titled, appropriately, Little Bastards. The songs date back from the band’s first 7-inch singles in 2002 through to 2009.

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    La Priest ‘Gene’ out 5th June 2020

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    Directed and produced by LA Priest

    LA Priest is the name Sam Dust, late of Late of the Pier, adopted to release his beguiling space-pop-psyche solo work following the demise of the band he founded when still in his teens.

    Arriving four years after the iconoclast variously known as Sam Dust, LA PRIEST and L.A. Priest thrilled the world with the cosmic pop of his debut album Inji, GENE is named after a brand new modular drum machine Sam dreamt up and built alone. Working in isolation for more than two years, soldering iron in ha...

    LA Priest is the name Sam Dust, late of Late of the Pier, adopted to release his beguiling space-pop-psyche solo work following the demise of the band he founded when still in his teens.

    Arriving four years after the iconoclast variously known as Sam Dust, LA PRIEST and L.A. Priest thrilled the world with the cosmic pop of his debut album Inji, GENE is named after a brand new modular drum machine Sam dreamt up and built alone. Working in isolation for more than two years, soldering iron in hand, Sam designed GENE using 150 electrical circuits he made up himself.

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    Lamps ‘People with Faces’ out 13th November 2020

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    These days, good news is hard to come by, but here’s some: Lamps, LA’s notoriously unprolific noise-merchant trio, are ready to release their spectacular fourth album called People With Faces, out on In The Red Records. Produced by Ty Segall at Val’s, Lamps’ first recorded output since 2012’s landmark LP Under The Water, Under The Ground finds them breaking adventurous new terrain. I’d say they’ve matured, but I’d only say it behind their backs. Stalwarts Monty Buckles (guitar...

    These days, good news is hard to come by, but here’s some: Lamps, LA’s notoriously unprolific noise-merchant trio, are ready to release their spectacular fourth album called People With Faces, out on In The Red Records. Produced by Ty Segall at Val’s, Lamps’ first recorded output since 2012’s landmark LP Under The Water, Under The Ground finds them breaking adventurous new terrain. I’d say they’ve matured, but I’d only say it behind their backs. Stalwarts Monty Buckles (guitar, voice, keyboards!!!) and Josh Erkman (drums, voice) double down on Lamps’ trademark cloak of effects-laden guitars and hammering drums, and new(ish) member Denée Segall jumps into the fray with her Poly Styrene-wail and monolithic bass, add-ing depth both sonically and lyrically. Their trademark abrasiveness is still present, but it’s bur-nished it into something richer, more layered. Don’t worry, it still kicks your head in.

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    Myrkur ‘Folkesange’ out 20th March 2020

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    It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new ...

    It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new life into a subgenre whose followers can be rigidly possessive.

    With the release of her new album, Folkesange, Amalie Bruun has set out to journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture that marked her childhood. Folkesange relinquishes black metal for a refined yet far-reaching evocation of traditional folk, combining songs ancient and new to sublimely resonant effect.

    After the nightmare-induced visions that wrought themselves throughout Mareridt, Folkesange offers an emotional sanctuary, a means to reconnect to something permanent and nature-aligned. It’s an awareness that’s become deeply bound to the album’s organic, regenerative spirit, from the opening track Ella’s heartbeat, frame-drum percussion and crystalline vocals that become the grounding for a rapt, richly textured awakening, to the gentle carousel of the closing Vinter, with its nostalgia-steeped connotations of seasonal, snowfall-bewitched awe.

    Storytelling, rites of passage, and the invocation of a continuity that passes through time and generation are all part of folk music’s tapestry, and Folkesange taps into all these currents in their most essential form. In part a purist’s approach to the genre, free from over-interpretation and fusion, the use of traditional instruments throughout, such as nyckelharpa, lyre, and mandola offer a deeper, more tactile connection to their source, an unbroken line of communication back to the past.

    But the album is no museum piece; it resonates in the here and now, aided by the spacious production of Heilung member and musical collaborator Christopher Juul. Cinematic yet intimate, Folkesange exists in a state of boundless reverie, bourne by string-led drones, cyclical, elegiac rhythms and Amalie’s frictionless voice, all carrier signals for deep-rooted, ancestral memories, and associations felt on an elemental level.

    themselves. Written by Amalie, Leaves Of Yggdrasil’s medieval cadences bind tragic love story and mythology, full of both fairytale wonder and deeply human foible. Tor i Helheim, its dreamily persistent rhythm redolent of both innocence and encroachment, is based on a poem from the Icelandic Eddas, relating a journey into the underworld of Hel where the sparse nature of the accompaniment becomes the medium that carries you along in its thrall.

    An immersive experience in its own right, but also belonging to a wider, pagan folk-based renaissance that has attracted a devoted following worldwide, Folkesange answers a need that has become ever more pressing in turbulent times. A zeroing in on a resonance that is both intrinsic and enduring, it’s a rediscovery of personal grounding, and an experience that reaches beyond culture to remind us of a shared, deeply rooted inheritance. A tuning fork that binds the personal and the universal, Folkesange is a reminder that the most transcendent experiences are those closest to home.

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    Nothing ‘The Great Dismal’ out 30th October 2020

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    The Great Dismal, NOTHING’s new full-length album explores existentialist themes of isolation, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland.

    Closing in on the band’s ten-year mark, frontman Domenic Palermo finds himself stringing together songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia with a refined and refreshed take on NOTHING’s classic sound.

    “The Great Dismal refers to a swamp, a brilliant natural trap where survival is custom fit to its inhabitants,” Paler...

    The Great Dismal, NOTHING’s new full-length album explores existentialist themes of isolation, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland.

    Closing in on the band’s ten-year mark, frontman Domenic Palermo finds himself stringing together songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia with a refined and refreshed take on NOTHING’s classic sound.

    “The Great Dismal refers to a swamp, a brilliant natural trap where survival is custom fit to its inhabitants,” Palermo states. “The nature of its beautiful, but taxing environment and harsh conditions can’t ever really be shaken or forgotten too easily.”

    The ever progressive NOTHING keep true to their chaotic outlook on life, keeping a keen eye to avoid repetition. With a radical cast of talented contributors such as harpist Mary Lattimore, classical musician Shelley Weiss, and singer/songwriter/producer Alex G., The Great Dismal showcases yet another essential side of the band’s trademark American Post-Shoegaze.

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    One True Pairing ‘Dawn at the Factory’ out 3rd September 2019

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    The third single to the album  One True Pairing aside singles “One True Pairing”, and recent single “I’m Not Afraid”. Over looming synths, Tom emphatically sings “Where the strip lights shine, I give you my life”.

    Talking about the song, he says: “2019’s satanic mills – zero hours, suicide nets, universal credit, cheap labour. The blue-white glow of the factories out on the gyratory and the plastic clad office blocks of the town centre. I wanted to strip the romance back...

    The third single to the album  One True Pairing aside singles “One True Pairing”, and recent single “I’m Not Afraid”. Over looming synths, Tom emphatically sings “Where the strip lights shine, I give you my life”.

    Talking about the song, he says: “2019’s satanic mills – zero hours, suicide nets, universal credit, cheap labour. The blue-white glow of the factories out on the gyratory and the plastic clad office blocks of the town centre. I wanted to strip the romance back and look at what makes this country run, what makes it tick. The factories are hungry and it’s you they want. I wanted it to sound like the open road but there’s just too much barbed wire around it. The same every night. You do what you have to do. Knackered synths and a Floyd rose. Hope you enjoy it, OTP 2019 x”.

    One True Pairing is “the angry northern Springsteen record that I’d always wanted to make” says Tom Fleming, “it’s neo-heartland rock”. These “heartlands” are the moors above Bradford or Cumbernauld, “places where people live their whole lives and do these things and succeed and fail.” Within this there’s a continuation of the exploration of masculinity that made his former band so unique. As well as being deeply personal, OTP has a wider political resonance, he believes that class is entirely discounted from the current conversation about inclusivity and privilege. In its 11 songs of discordant guitar and aggressive synth Fleming channels his discontent with Britain in 2019 and a “feeling of directionless rage and cheatedness which hasn’t gone away.”

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    One True Pairing ‘Golden Arches’ out 28th August 2020

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    Released globally as an Amazon Original exclusive as part of their ongoing Originals series.

    Lyric “(2 min 59) Hope is All I know … (3 min 20) … you’re my inspiration“

    Moving back into the deeper sonic tones of his debut album but always working with his charming Vulnerability, Tom’s made an ode to the grey of today with as much heart as tongue-in-cheek.

    Some words from him to you…

    We’ve all been dreaming of escape and having fantasies about what was once mundane. I’m...

    Released globally as an Amazon Original exclusive as part of their ongoing Originals series.

    Lyric “(2 min 59) Hope is All I know … (3 min 20) … you’re my inspiration“

    Moving back into the deeper sonic tones of his debut album but always working with his charming Vulnerability, Tom’s made an ode to the grey of today with as much heart as tongue-in-cheek.

    Some words from him to you…

    We’ve all been dreaming of escape and having fantasies about what was once mundane. I’m trying to capture a rain-sodden trip through ring roads and retail parks, lights smeared across car windows, and find love and inspiration in others after such a long time trapped in my own head. This track stuck out like a sore thumb in what I’m writing now but I thought it was worth pursuing. I hope the whole thing is as romantic as it is barbed, and evocative of throwing all your things away and disappearing forever.

    Alongside the Original release, Tom and collaborator Josh performed a full live show as part of the new Twitch Music.

    WATCH TOM IN METROPOLIS STUDIOS

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    One True Pairing ‘I’m Not Afraid’ remixes out 1st November 2019

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    I'm not Afraid Remixes One True Pairing Out 01 November 2019
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    I'm Not Afraid (Clarence Clarity Remix)

    Having toured with Local Natives and following the release of his acclaimed debut album, One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming – former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist – shared remixes of “I’m Not Afraid” by Clarence Clarity and Ed Nash (Bombay Bicycle Club).

    Watch the visualiser for Clarence Clarity’s remix of “I’m Not Afraid” here.

    Watch the visualiser for Ed Nash’s remix of “I’m Not Afraid” here.

    Clarence Clarity works “I’m Not Afraid” ...

    Having toured with Local Natives and following the release of his acclaimed debut album, One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming – former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist – shared remixes of “I’m Not Afraid” by Clarence Clarity and Ed Nash (Bombay Bicycle Club).

    Watch the visualiser for Clarence Clarity’s remix of “I’m Not Afraid” here.

    Watch the visualiser for Ed Nash’s remix of “I’m Not Afraid” here.

    Clarence Clarity works “I’m Not Afraid” into a glitching and twisted bombastic pop song whilst Ed Nash plays with Fleming’s recognisable baritone vocal taking it to deeper and stranger places.

    One True Pairing is an album shaped by class frustration and self-despair and there is a continuation of the exploration of masculinity that made Wild Beasts so unique. As well as being deeply personal, OTP has a wider political resonance. “This country is going through a terrible moment and if you listen to the art nobody seems to give a shit,” Fleming says emphatically. He believes that class is entirely discounted from the current conversation about inclusivity and privilege. In its 11 songs of discordant guitar and aggressive synth Fleming channels his discontent with Britain in 2019 and a “feeling of directionless rage and cheatedness which hasn’t gone away.”

    Having recently finished a UK tour with Local Natives.

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    One True Pairing ‘Zero Vulnerability’ EP out 24th April 2020

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    One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming released his eponymous debut album in 2019. The record was shaped by class frustration and self-despair, and continued the exploration of masculinity that made his previous band Wild Beasts so unique.

    Zero Vulnerability is a phrase Tom coined on his UK tour at the end of last year as he found himself for the first time in his career solo, front and centre facing the crowd, alone but finding solace and strength from its simple mantra.

    One True Pairing live stre...

    One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming released his eponymous debut album in 2019. The record was shaped by class frustration and self-despair, and continued the exploration of masculinity that made his previous band Wild Beasts so unique.

    Zero Vulnerability is a phrase Tom coined on his UK tour at the end of last year as he found himself for the first time in his career solo, front and centre facing the crowd, alone but finding solace and strength from its simple mantra.

    One True Pairing live stream via Twitch last night, with proceeds going to the NHS. You can watch the show back here – Fleming performed the new EP and a selection of covers including Richard Dawson.

    Zero Vulnerability comprises four acoustic versions of album tracks from One True Pairing; stripping the songs to their bare bones on the EP also removes the anger and swagger in them. Displays of strength can often hide weakness and bringing Fleming’s voice to the fore reveals the vulnerability to be found in his lyrics.

    As he sings on “Elite Companion”: “It’s a race to the bottom, doesn’t matter what it takes, no one escapes”, Fleming highlights fractures within our society and the effect that has on all of us. Explaining the release further, Fleming adds: “After making something of a racket and clatter of a rock record, I cut that impulse back and wanted to make something that, on the surface at least, was more gentle and comforting.” Choosing to share Zero Vulnerability now, One True Pairing wants to offer some reassurance with the EP’s parting words: “Tonight tonight tonight tonight, I’m alive”.

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    One True Pairing album out 20th September 2019

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    'I'm Not Afraid' Director: Ewan Morris

    Former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Tom Fleming, shared the first taste of his new direction with single “One True Pairing”, the titular track of the upcoming record. With its refrain – “We’ve been kicked our whole lives and I’m not afraid, But I won’t go back down to that place again” – Tom sets his intention for One True Pairing. The second single from the self-titled album, “I’m Not Afraid” punches out with the refrain – “We’ve ...

    Former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Tom Fleming, shared the first taste of his new direction with single “One True Pairing”, the titular track of the upcoming record. With its refrain – “We’ve been kicked our whole lives and I’m not afraid, But I won’t go back down to that place again” – Tom sets his intention for One True Pairing. The second single from the self-titled album, “I’m Not Afraid” punches out with the refrain – “We’ve been kicked our whole lives and I’m not afraid, But I won’t go back down to that place again”.

    “I wanted to write about the real world, I didn’t want it to be an artistic, poised, tasteful record, it’s neo-heartland rock” says Tom Fleming. “One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all.”

    Tom’s musical touchstones were Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Tom Petty alongside Depeche Mode and Swans. He wrote and played everything himself and then brought in Ben Hillier (Nadine Shah, Graham Coxon) on mixing and production duties.

    One True Pairing is an album shaped by class frustration and self-despair and there is a continuation of the exploration of masculinity that made Wild Beasts so unique. As well as being deeply personal, OTP has a wider political resonance. “This country is going through a terrible moment and if you listen to the art nobody seems to give a shit,” Fleming says emphatically. He believes that class is entirely discounted from the current conversation about inclusivity and privilege. In its 11 songs of discordant guitar and aggressive synth Fleming channels his discontent with Britain in 2019 and a “feeling of directionless rage and cheatedness which hasn’t gone away.”

    PRESS:

    “A fascinating new direction” Q 4*

    “An experimental and deeply idiosyncratic record” Mojo

    “Like an Alan Sillitoe short story set to a late-era Depeche Mode song” Uncut

    “A singular talent” DIY 4*

    “A bold move for a man embarking on a new chapter” The 405

    “The sonic influences may be pure rose-tinted Americana, but make no mistake; This Is England” Dork 4*

    “I wanted to write about the real world, I didn’t want it to be an artistic, poised, tasteful record,” says Tom Fleming of his first solo album, released under the name One True Pairing; “I wanted this to be a rock album, a protest vote against the field of good taste. One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all.” The former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist is back with a self-titled debut that’s shaped by class frustration and self-despair. In its 11 songs of discordant guitar and aggressive synth Fleming channels his discontent with Britain in 2019 and a “feeling of directionless rage and cheatedness which hasn’t gone away.”

    Fleming recalls the end of Wild Beasts at their final gig at Hammersmith Apollo in February 2018 as something of a reality check, coinciding with serious health issues and money trouble. “I felt numb and spent a couple of days in the pub afterwards, to continue that numbness,” he reflects; “I felt good about it in the fullness of time, but it wasn’t a particularly nice period, though I’m proud of what we did and it was as amicable as breakups get”. It was only after a long period of adjustment that he found the spirit to work out what to do next. “I never write anything unless I think people are going to hear it, I’m not one of these people who sits around at home making tracks on Ableton all day – I have to have pressure and feel like somebody cares,” Fleming explains. “I wish I had more of a sense of honest labour, but there’s a quicksilverness to it – I would like to present myself as a working man’s artist, but there’s a sense that it happens when it happens.” As the turmoil in Fleming’s life after the end of the band that he’d been part of for all his adult life receded, things started to change. “Once the fog cleared, I realised that this is fuel, it’s going on the furnace,” he says. The first demos Fleming sent to Laurence Bell of Domino were one microphone, acoustic guitar and shouting, laid down on the same four track cassette recorder he used to first make music as a teenager. “It was really raw,” he says of this desire to connect with his youthful self, “I felt that I wanted it to have a directness and a tastelessness to it”. 

    His musical touchstones were Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Tom Petty and Def Leppard – “big rock songs, but as it went on it started to be Depeche Mode and noisier stuff, along with Swans and Bonnie Prince Billy and the kids making hip hop, using a kick drum, a high hat and that’s it – it’s production, it’s electronic music, but it’s as small as you can make it.”  The record was fleshed out down in the Sussex studio of Ben Hillier, who contributed drums and modular synth to the album. “I didn’t want a roll call of guests, I wanted it to be ‘no I can do this’, for the synths to be cutting, digital, nasty. I really didn’t want to make a singer-songwriter record – there’s nothing less interesting than a bald guy with a hat on and an acoustic guitar. This is my sub-Reddit for all the romance and hope and rage and failure and hard-won victory I’ve seen and continue to see.”

    This seething blend of difficult emotions is explored in One True Pairing’s palette of taut and clipped guitar that flickers between New Wave and even at times 80s MOR titans Dire Straits, looming synths, trickling melodies. Above it all Fleming’s voice, ranging from haunting despair to croon like a Yorkshire Scott Walker, is at its best of his career, giving life to “the angry northern Springsteen record that I’d always wanted to make.” He says that “I want to be obvious in what I’m saying – it’s neo-heartland rock”. These “heartlands” are the moors above Bradford or Cumbernauld, “places where people live their whole lives and do these things and succeed and fail.” Within this there’s a continuation of the exploration of masculinity that made Wild Beasts so unique. “There’s a despair about it, being shown images of masculinity that either you’re expected to be, or people assume you are. Even in today’s environment you get these reflections at you.” Other big themes of the album are heard in ‘Zero Summer’, an exploration of the gravity of expectations on masculinity, and in tracks like ‘King Of The Rats’, repeated patterns of behaviour. As was the case in Wild Beasts, Fleming continues to wrestle with the complexities of male identity, looking critically back over his own life as he does so. “I always get very annoyed with things that come from the position of observer,” he says. “I want it to be from the place it purports to be from”. The characters in his songs are exaggerations of people who he grew up alongside, or himself, and how it feels to try and discover a sense of yourself within masculinity in a small northern town. ‘Weapons’, for instance, “is about male violence and how you’re marinated in it, from shit role models, hopelessness, fighting, even porn; all this contributes to a sense of who you should be”. Then there’s the sense that he’s always had, that even as a musician, he’d never be welcome in the middle-class world of the arts, as reflected in ‘Elite Companion’.

    But as well as being deeply personal, One True Pairing has a wider political resonance. “This country is going through a terrible moment and if you listen to the art nobody seems to give a shit,” Fleming says emphatically. He believes that class is entirely discounted from the current conversation about inclusivity and privilege, “which is why working-class men are so angry”. In this and through his lyricism, “Brexit looms large, why people voted for it, the Left’s response – it’s been a very depressing episode and nobody has written about it adequately. It suddenly gave people a chance to talk about these divisions that they’d never had before.” He still sees prejudice tolerated and encouraged everywhere, fuelled largely by stereotyping and wilful blindness. “Look at me, I’m the lumpen feckless proletariat – that’s what we’re telling people? Fuck. I’m on their side, deep down, that’s what it comes down to, I’m on the side of those getting shit on. That’s what I’m writing about, from that perspective. I know what it feels like to get patronised and shoved into a corner too, and I am far from unique.”

     

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    One True Pairing single out 4th July 2020

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    Posted on 30 September 2020
    Director: Clarence Clarity

    The first song from his new guise, “One True Pairing”. Amidst discordant guitar and aggressive synth, Fleming’s inimitable voice calls out: “And I’m not some kind of white knight, I was burning all my hope and all my life”. 

    Explaining the moniker, Fleming says: “One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all”...

    The first song from his new guise, “One True Pairing”. Amidst discordant guitar and aggressive synth, Fleming’s inimitable voice calls out: “And I’m not some kind of white knight, I was burning all my hope and all my life”. 

    Explaining the moniker, Fleming says: “One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all”.

    This idea and the expanding themes – male identity, class, taste – are the cornerstones of One True Pairing, “I wanted to write about the real world,” asserts Fleming. “This is a song about hope, about getting beaten down and getting up again, more wide-eyed and full of wonder than you ever were before. It’s about doing wrong and then seeing things for what they really are. It’s a love song, or as close as I’ll ever want to get to one. The name of the whole project is something of a savage joke, but this time I mean it 100% sincerely. Wear the scars proudly, wave ‘em in the faces of people who don’t, will never understand what they mean. One True Pairing, 2019, hope you enjoy it.”

     

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    OSEES ‘Protean Threat’ out 18th September 2020

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    Zebulon Session - Director Brian Lee Hughes, Cinematographer Brandon Kelly & Producer Enrique Tena Padilla

    Osees (a new iteration of Oh Sees) have announced a new album. The record is called Protean Threat and it’s out  via Castle Face. This here fantastic rehearsal video is generously provided by the band.

    A fantastic write-up of the album appears here on the Rough Trade site.

    Oh Sees released Face Stabber last year. Earlier in 2020, Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer released the new record Bug on Yonkers under his Damaged Bug alias. Next month, Dwyer and his new group Bent Arcana will release thei...

    Osees (a new iteration of Oh Sees) have announced a new album. The record is called Protean Threat and it’s out  via Castle Face. This here fantastic rehearsal video is generously provided by the band.

    A fantastic write-up of the album appears here on the Rough Trade site.

    Oh Sees released Face Stabber last year. Earlier in 2020, Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer released the new record Bug on Yonkers under his Damaged Bug alias. Next month, Dwyer and his new group Bent Arcana will release their self-titled debut.

    Domino Publishing look after the publishing and recording licenses for this release.

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    Owen Pallett “Paragon Of Order”

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    Owen Pallett, auteur-compositeur nommé aux Oscars, dévoile le clip de “Paragon Of Order,” le premier d’une série de vidéos d’animation réalisées par Eric Kostiuk Williams. Le titre est extrait du récent album d’Owen Pallett Island (Domino / Secret City). La deuxième vidéo sortira le 14 décembre. Owen Pallett décrit les deux titres comme, “une coda extravertie à un album introverti”.

    Island sera disponible en édition CD standard et double vinyle le 5 Mars 2021. Une ...

    Owen Pallett, auteur-compositeur nommé aux Oscars, dévoile le clip de “Paragon Of Order,” le premier d’une série de vidéos d’animation réalisées par Eric Kostiuk Williams. Le titre est extrait du récent album d’Owen Pallett Island (Domino / Secret City). La deuxième vidéo sortira le 14 décembre. Owen Pallett décrit les deux titres comme, “une coda extravertie à un album introverti”.

    Island sera disponible en édition CD standard et double vinyle le 5 Mars 2021. Une édition vinyle spéciale est disponible en pré commande sur le Domino mart (et le store de Secret City au Canada) qui inclut le double vinyle d’Island et une édition limitée du vinyle Island (Demos) comprenant 9 démos.

    Ces derniers mois, depuis son domicile à Toronto, Owen Pallett s’est produit pour NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, et a réalisé des sessions pour World Cafeet WNYC New Sounds.

    Presque entièrement acoustique et enregistré live aux studios d’Abbey Road avec l’Orchestre Contemporain de Londres, Island débute avec 13 accords sombres. L’introduction est telle un éveil en solitaire sur le rivage d’une terre inconnue. Ce qui suit est un album orchestral chatoyant et luxuriant qui couvre toute la discographie de Pallett, de la Technicolor de Heartland à la guitare brillante et piquée qui a marqué les premiers disques de Pallett avec son trio Les Mouches.

    Island c’est être en vie, se demander pourquoi, et toutes les choses les plus hideuses de la vie. Les chansons ne divulguent pas les réponses.  “Je ne sais pas ce qui va se passer ensuite les gars”, prévient Owen Pallett.

    Pour la première fois, Owen Pallett – de formation classique – a créé un album sans se soucier de la façon dont il pourrait être joué sur scène. Cela n’a pas été facile : la réputation d’Owen s’est fondée sur sa virtuosité en concert, jouant du violon pour des groupes comme Arcade Fire et les Hidden Cameras, ou encore par son projet solo au violon et boucles d’effets, nommé Final Fantasy. Le deuxième album d’Owen sous le nom de Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds en 2006, avait d’ailleurs reçu le premier Polaris Music Prize.

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    Owen Pallett ‘Island’ out 22nd May 2020

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    Directed by Vincent René-Lortie & Brittney Canda

    Island, the latest album from Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett, is out on Domino / Secret City Records (Canada).

    VIDEO SHOWN: conceived and filmed during the pandemic by director Vincent René-Lortie, and choreographed by Brittney Canda. The dancers—ranging in age from 6 to 72—were filmed with no physical contact, entirely through windows and doorways, including a care facility on strict lockdown.

    “Honestly, at first I wasn’t sold on the concept,” says Pallett....

    Island, the latest album from Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett, is out on Domino / Secret City Records (Canada).

    VIDEO SHOWN: conceived and filmed during the pandemic by director Vincent René-Lortie, and choreographed by Brittney Canda. The dancers—ranging in age from 6 to 72—were filmed with no physical contact, entirely through windows and doorways, including a care facility on strict lockdown.

    “Honestly, at first I wasn’t sold on the concept,” says Pallett.  “I worried that the video would end up pornographing the quarantine, and I declined.”  Convinced by the director’s enthusiasm, Owen moved forward. After seeing the near-final cut, “I was floored,” Owen says.  “I couldn’t believe how cathartic it was to see the video, how perfectly it fit the song, and how meaningful and necessary it was for me to see it when I did.”

    Almost entirely acoustic, Island begins with 13 darkened chords, and was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios with the London Contemporary Orchestra. The introduction is sound of waking up—alone, and on the shore of a strange land. What follows is a shimmering and luscious orchestral album that draws across the full breadth of Pallett’s discography, from Heartland’s Technicolor to the glittering, fingerpicked guitar that marked Pallett’s first records with their trio, Les Mouches.
    Island is about being alive, asking why, and all the most hideous stuff of life. The songs don’t divulge the answers.  “I don’t know what’s happening next, guys,” Pallett warns.

    For the first time, Pallett—who has a lifetime of classical training—created an album without brooding over the way it might be performed on stage. This wasn’t easy:  Pallett’s initial reputation was founded on their live virtuosity, playing violin for groups including Arcade Fire and the Hidden Cameras, and a solo fiddle and loop-pedal act, under the name Final Fantasy. Pallett’s second release as Final Fantasy, 2006’s He Poos Clouds, was awarded the inaugural Polaris Music Prize.

    In addition to Pallett’s Grammy award-winning work with Arcade Fire, Pallett’s commissions have included string, brass and orchestral arrangements for Frank Ocean, Caribou, the Last Shadow Puppets, the National, The Mountain Goats, Christine and the Queens, R.E.M., Linkin Park, Sigur Rós, Taylor Swift and the Pet Shop Boys. Since the release of In Conflict (2014), Pallett has earned an Oscar nomination for their film scoring work on Spike Jonze’s Her, and an Emmy for Sølve Sundsbø’s Fourteen Actors Acting. Their score for Matt Wolf’s Spaceship Earth, a documentary about a crew who spent two years quarantined inside a replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2, is out now.

    “I grab the hem and lift the fabric over my sweet head,” Owen Pallett sang once, years ago. “I know what you’re looking for / and I’m never gonna give it to you.”

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    Owen Pallett ‘Paragon Of Order’

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    Artwork by Eric Kostiuk Williams

    Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett is sharing “Paragon Of Order,” the first in a series of videos animated by Eric Kostiuk Williams. The song is from Owen’s latest album Island (Domino / Secret City), and the second video will be released on December 14th.  Owen describes the two songs as, “an extroverted coda to an introverted album.”

    Owen Pallett – Tiny Desk Home Concert

    Almost entirely acoustic, Island begins with 13 darkened chords, and was recorded live at ...

    Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett is sharing “Paragon Of Order,” the first in a series of videos animated by Eric Kostiuk Williams. The song is from Owen’s latest album Island (Domino / Secret City), and the second video will be released on December 14th.  Owen describes the two songs as, “an extroverted coda to an introverted album.”

    Owen Pallett – Tiny Desk Home Concert

    Almost entirely acoustic, Island begins with 13 darkened chords, and was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios with the London Contemporary Orchestra. The introduction is sound of waking up – alone, and on the shore of a strange land. What follows is a shimmering and luscious orchestral album that draws across the full breadth of Pallett’s discography, from Heartland’s Technicolor to the glittering, fingerpicked guitar that marked Pallett’s first records with their trio, Les Mouches.

    Island is about being alive, asking why, and all the most hideous stuff of life. The songs don’t divulge the answers.  “I don’t know what’s happening next, guys,” Pallett warns.

    For the first time, Pallett – who has a lifetime of classical training – created an album without brooding over the way it might be performed on stage. This wasn’t easy:  Pallett’s initial reputation was founded on their live virtuosity, playing violin for groups including Arcade Fire and the Hidden Cameras, and a solo fiddle and loop-pedal act, under the name Final Fantasy. Pallett’s second release as Final Fantasy, 2006’s He Poos Clouds, was awarded the inaugural Polaris Music Prize.

    In addition to Pallett’s Grammy award-winning work with Arcade Fire, Pallett’s commissions have included string, brass and orchestral arrangements for Frank Ocean, Caribou, the Last Shadow Puppets, the National, The Mountain Goats, Christine and the Queens, R.E.M., Linkin Park, Sigur Rós, Taylor Swift, and the Pet Shop Boys. Since the release of In Conflict (2014), Pallett has earned an Oscar nomination for their film scoring work on Spike Jonze’s Her, and an Emmy for Sølve Sundsbø’s Fourteen Actors Acting. Their score for Matt Wolf’s Spaceship Earth, a documentary about a crew who spent two years quarantined inside a replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2.

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    Porches ‘I Miss That’ out 7th October 2020

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    Single & Lyric Video shot by Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)

    ‘I Miss That’ from the fourth album by Porches, ‘Ricky Music’. The album featured contributions from Dev Hynes.  Porches, the one-man-band project of New York-based musician Aaron Maine, single ‘I Miss That’ has been supported by a lyric video shot by Dev Hynes. On top of a galloping pop tune carried along by bright, taut snare hits and warbling synths, Maine laments in his signature honey-coated raspy vocals, “I couldn’t believe what I had / So I threw it away I was bad / Ju...

    ‘I Miss That’ from the fourth album by Porches, ‘Ricky Music’. The album featured contributions from Dev Hynes.  Porches, the one-man-band project of New York-based musician Aaron Maine, single ‘I Miss That’ has been supported by a lyric video shot by Dev Hynes. On top of a galloping pop tune carried along by bright, taut snare hits and warbling synths, Maine laments in his signature honey-coated raspy vocals, “I couldn’t believe what I had / So I threw it away I was bad / Just thinking I liked that, I liked that, I liked that / I miss that, I miss that, now I miss that.”

    Bonus album track ‘rangerover’ recently underwent the remix treatment, courtesy of Frank Ocean collaborator Vegyn.

    VIDEOS: Patience | Do U Wanna | rangerover | Do U Wanna (Live)

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    Porches ‘Ricky Music’ out 13th March 2020

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    Directed by Nick Harwood & Aaron Maine

    Featuring contributions from Zsela and Dev Hynes, with co-production by Jacob Portrait, ‘Ricky Music’ expands on the Porches discography (The House, 2018; Pool, 2016; Slow Dance In The Cosmos, 2013) by delivering 11 emotionally open, cracked-glass pop songs.

    About his album, Aaron Maine says:
    “My new album, Ricky Music, was written and recorded between Dec 2017 and the spring of 2019.  Mostly in New York at my apartment, but some of it in Chicago, Los Angeles, and various cities while tour...

    Featuring contributions from Zsela and Dev Hynes, with co-production by Jacob Portrait, ‘Ricky Music’ expands on the Porches discography (The House, 2018; Pool, 2016; Slow Dance In The Cosmos, 2013) by delivering 11 emotionally open, cracked-glass pop songs.

    About his album, Aaron Maine says:
    “My new album, Ricky Music, was written and recorded between Dec 2017 and the spring of 2019.  Mostly in New York at my apartment, but some of it in Chicago, Los Angeles, and various cities while touring around Europe. This record is an account of the beauty, confusion, anger, joy and sadness I experienced during that time. I think I was as lost as I was madly in love.  In these songs I hear myself sometimes desperate for clarity, and other times, having enough perspective to laugh at myself in some of my darkest moments.  That’s sort of what this album is about, I hope you enjoy it.”

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    Protomartyr ‘Ultimate Success Today’ out 17th July 2020

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    'Processed By The Boys' Director: David Allen

    Ultimate Success Today is Protomartyr‘s fifth album. Following the release of Relatives In Descent, the band’s critically acclaimed headlong dive into the morass of American life in 2017.

    The video for ‘Processed By The Boys’, directed by David Allen & Nathan Faustyn and produced by HLPTV & LooseMeat.Biz, is a play on a bizarre Brazilian TV clip the band became infatuated with. A man sings to a studio audience, while a member of the audience becomes enraged by a puppet, le...

    Ultimate Success Today is Protomartyr‘s fifth album. Following the release of Relatives In Descent, the band’s critically acclaimed headlong dive into the morass of American life in 2017.

    The video for ‘Processed By The Boys’, directed by David Allen & Nathan Faustyn and produced by HLPTV & LooseMeat.Biz, is a play on a bizarre Brazilian TV clip the band became infatuated with. A man sings to a studio audience, while a member of the audience becomes enraged by a puppet, leading the whole situation to devolve into total chaos. “As soon as we heard the concept, we knew how to take the band’s ideas and coalesce them into this sort of timeless public access chaos,” says Faustyn. “Because of the nature of HLPTV & LooseMeat.Biz and who we are – professional and hobbyist technicians – we knew we could pull off a really strange, funny and sardonically dark compendium to this song that is equally such.”

    “There is darkness in the poetry of Ultimate Success Today,” says punk legend, founding member of the Raincoats, and friend of the band Ana da Silva. “The theme of things ending, above all human existence, is present and reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Our world has reached a point that makes us afraid: fires, floods, earthquakes, hunger, war, intolerance…There are cries of despair. Is there hope? Greed is the sickness that puts life in danger.”

    “The re-release of our first album had me thinking about the passage of time and its ultimate conclusion,” says singer Joe Casey of Ultimate Success Today. “Listening to No Passion All Technique again, I could hear myself hoping for an introduction and a long future, but also being cognizant that it could be ‘one and done’ for us. So, when it came time to write Ultimate Success Today, I was reminded of that first urgency and how it was an inverse of my current grapple with how terribly ill I’ve been feeling lately. Was that sick feeling coloring how I felt about the state of the world or was it the other way around?”

    “This panic was freeing in a way. It allowed me to see our fifth album as a possible valediction of some confusingly loud five-act play.  In the same light I see it as an interesting mile marker of our first decade of being a band – a crest of the hill along a long highway. Although just to cover my bases, I made sure to get my last words in while I still had the breath to say them.”

    “There are exquisite, subtle gifts from other instruments that always heighten the guitar, instead of fighting with it,” explains da Silva. “They help to create a harmonious wall of sound all of its own. This was intentional. Greg Ahee wanted to use different textures other than pedals, and the drone quality of some of those instruments colours the guitar and the whole sound with a warm, rich in reverb, yet all-consuming landscape for Joe Casey’s voice.”

    Protomartyr is Joe Casey (vocals), Greg Ahee (guitars), Alex Leonard (drums), and Scott Davidson (bass guitar). ‘Ultimate Success Today‘ was recorded at Dreamland Recording Studios, a late 19th century church, in upstate New York and co-produced by the band and David Tolomei (Dirty Projectors, Beach House) with mixing by Tolomei. Featured guest musicians on the album include Nandi Rose (vocals) a.k.a. Half Waif, jazz legend Jemeel Moondoc (alto sax), Izaak Mills (bass clarinet, sax, flute), and Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello).

    VIDEO: ‘Michigan Hammers’

    Singer  Joe Casey ’s voice is forceful and insist:“ The Michigan Hammers are on their way // A chant from the end of the bar, not all of them on pills // Break apart the surface lot // What’s been torn down can be rebuilt // What has been rebuilt can be destroyed . ”

    The accompanying video was directed by  Yoonha Park, who was responsible for the band’s “ Wheel of Fortune ” and “ Don’t Go To Anacita ” videos, and was built entirely of found stock footage. “This video is a retelling of a well-known Michigan folk tale that describes timeless themes of greed, power, death and rebirth and nothing short of the conflict of good and evil,” says Park.

    Joe Casey further explains:“Couldn’t make a ‘proper’ video due to the miasma. So why not make one using what tools remain? That’s sort of what MICHIGAN HAMMERS is about I think – building with rubble. It’s probably about that and mules, syndicates, too many parking lots, camaraderie, the ideal happy hour, failure, and takin ‘what they’re givin’ ’cause we’re workin’ for a livin ‘until we start takin’ it to the streets. Or something like that. “

    VIDEO: ‘Worm in Heaven’ Directed and Photographed by Trevor Naud

     

    “‘Michigan Hammers’…races along on chattering, virtually nonstop quadruple-time cymbals and guitars erupting in bursts of syncopated chords.” – The New York Times

    “Bleakly poetic, boozily hilarious punk-rock gems” – Rolling Stone

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    Real Estate ‘Half a Human’

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    Half a Human est tiré de l’EP du même nom, une collection de six chansons créées entre deux mondes différents. Alors que leur architecture avait été construite lors des sessions d’enregistrement de The Main Thing, album sorti en 2020, les morceaux ont pris vie lorsque le chanteur/guitariste Martin Courtney, le bassiste/chanteur Alex Bleeker, le claviériste Matt Kallman et le guitariste Julian Lynch ont commencé à échanger leurs compositions à distance tout au long de la pandé...

    Half a Human est tiré de l’EP du même nom, une collection de six chansons créées entre deux mondes différents. Alors que leur architecture avait été construite lors des sessions d’enregistrement de The Main Thing, album sorti en 2020, les morceaux ont pris vie lorsque le chanteur/guitariste Martin Courtney, le bassiste/chanteur Alex Bleeker, le claviériste Matt Kallman et le guitariste Julian Lynch ont commencé à échanger leurs compositions à distance tout au long de la pandémie. Ils ont trouvé de nouvelles façons de travailler ensemble en explorant d’avantage les paysages émotionnels qu’ils ont perfectionnés pendant plus d’une décennie. En faisant le point sur eux-mêmes et sur l’incertitude de leur avenir, Half a Human les a aidés à rédiger un nouveau manifeste pour le groupe.

    “La vie ne cesse de changer et des responsabilités et des stress supplémentaires s’ajoutent sans cesse, mais ce groupe est toujours là“, déclare Martin Courtney. “Quand j’écrivais la plupart de ces chansons, je me sentais un peu bizarre d’être dans un groupe. Je me disais : Comment peut-il encore exister ? Je me sentais idiot et je me suis ravisé en même temps. C’est ce en quoi nous sommes bons et c’est ce que nous aimons faire et voulons continuer à faire. Je ne veux rien faire d’autre”.

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    Real Estate ‘The Main Thing’ out 28th February 2020

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    Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. ‘The Main Thing’ dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictio...

    Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. ‘The Main Thing’ dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks.

    ‘The Main Thing’ arrives with a fresh commitment the members of Real Estate – Alex Bleeker (bass), Martin Courtney (vocals, guitar), Matthew Kallman (keyboards), Julian Lynch (guitar, vocals), and Jackson Pollis (drums and drum programming) – have made to each other, 10 years and 5 full-length LPs into a career spent crafting unmistakable and influential palettes of sound.

    Following his work on 2011’s Days, engineer Kevin McMahon returns as producer, and, for the first time ever, Real Estate have brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests. Across the 13 interrogative tracks – as full of depth, strangeness, and contradictions as they are lifting hooks – the band balances existential, environmental, and political anxieties with fatherly sentiments, self-satirizing lyrics, forever-lively guitar lines, and shimmering strings.

    On single – ‘Paper Cup’ and the making of ‘The Main Thing’, Martin Courtney says:
    “Paper Cup is a song about getting older and realizing that this thing that I fell into doing over ten years ago – being a musician, writing songs, being a guy in a band – this may end up being my life’s work. Watching the people around me change and evolve, take on new challenges, and feeling sort of stuck in a rut, in a way. Feeling uncertain of the validity of being an artist in an age of climate change and general political and social unrest around the world. 

    It’s a song about questioning your chosen path in life and searching for meaning in what you do.

    Those questions don’t really get resolved in this song, but ironically, the process of making this record – really diving deep and trying to make it the best thing we’ve ever made – reaffirmed in me, and I think in all of us in this band, why we are doing this.”

    Primary songwriter Martin Courtney explains, “Even before we decided where to record or who to record it with, I knew it needed to sound that good,” but as Alex Bleeker adds, “We discovered through the care and attention that we brought to this record that making music to resonate with other people is our catharsis. The ‘main thing’ is following your path of inspiration and hoping to inspire that in people around you.” 

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    Richard Dawson ‘Republic of Geordieland’ out 7th August 2020

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    “I found it ok at first but a couple of months into lockdown I started to feel quite down about all the unplayed gigs and lost moments, a bit more anxious than usual and pretty disconnected. So I wanted to make something small (but proper) to try and reconnect. I hope this collection might be something hopeful, or at least a useful distraction.
    I had the title ‘Republic of Geordieland’ in my head for years and always envisaged it would be some grand overblown quadruple-vinyl prog-folk o...
    “I found it ok at first but a couple of months into lockdown I started to feel quite down about all the unplayed gigs and lost moments, a bit more anxious than usual and pretty disconnected. So I wanted to make something small (but proper) to try and reconnect. I hope this collection might be something hopeful, or at least a useful distraction.
    I had the title ‘Republic of Geordieland’ in my head for years and always envisaged it would be some grand overblown quadruple-vinyl prog-folk opera or suchlike. Well, it’s not that. It’s turned out to be a dilapidated, disparate collection of instrumentals and vocal pieces that I’ve made during lockdown, as well as a couple of things that’ve been knocking about for ages but which never found a home.
    Frankly, it’s a dog’s dinner. But a dog’s dinner may still offer some nourishment!
    There’s a couple of songs on here I wrote for Matt Stokes’ fine film This Liberty, which I really like to sing. There’s also a long guitar and drum-machine spa called ‘The Minotaur of Cowhill’, which I hope is the aural equivalent of a maze. And, as a proud Newcastle United supporter, I’m pleased to submit a new guitar piece bearing the name of our friendly city’s anti-racist motto, ‘We are black and white’.”credits
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    Rustin Man ‘Clockdust’ out 20th March 2020

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    Paul Webb is Rustin Man. He was once a member of the legendary Talk Talk and collaborated with Beth Gibbons of Portishead on the memorable ‘Out of Season’. The debut solo Rustin Man album ‘Drift Code’ was born of recording sessions in the deep English countryside, during which contemplation was as necessary as microphone placement. The result is Timeless British Music.

    Having waited 17 years for ‘Drift Code’, some may be surprised at ‘Clockdust’s swift arrival, but the album...

    Paul Webb is Rustin Man. He was once a member of the legendary Talk Talk and collaborated with Beth Gibbons of Portishead on the memorable ‘Out of Season’. The debut solo Rustin Man album ‘Drift Code’ was born of recording sessions in the deep English countryside, during which contemplation was as necessary as microphone placement. The result is Timeless British Music.

    Having waited 17 years for ‘Drift Code’, some may be surprised at ‘Clockdust’s swift arrival, but the album’s roots can be found in the same extended sessions. Realising that Webb had two albums worth of material he took great pains to ensure that each album would stand alone. Idiosyncratic and quietly haunting, ‘Clockdust’ is seeped in sepia-tinted nostalgia, “a powerful force of nature,” Webb states, “up there with love and desire”. The album blurs the boundaries between past and present. Webb insists that he prefers to live in the here and now, but in looking back he’s found a magical, mesmerising manner in which to forge a path forward: for him, for his music, and for his audience.

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    Seamus Fogarty ‘A Bag Of Eyes’ out 6th November 2020

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    A Bag Of Eyes is Seamus Fogarty’s third album — a wholly different sonic prospect to 2017’s much-lauded The Curious Hand. Weary of the guitar, and seeking something darker than its predecessor, he chose to lean more heavily on synths and drum machines, and additionally, to self-produce.

    The album was recorded across London, Kent and East Sussex and features Fogarty’s partner Emma Smith, Meilyr Jones, long-time collaborators Leo Abrahams, Aram Zarikian & John Fogarty, as well as s...

    A Bag Of Eyes is Seamus Fogarty’s third album — a wholly different sonic prospect to 2017’s much-lauded The Curious Hand. Weary of the guitar, and seeking something darker than its predecessor, he chose to lean more heavily on synths and drum machines, and additionally, to self-produce.

    The album was recorded across London, Kent and East Sussex and features Fogarty’s partner Emma Smith, Meilyr Jones, long-time collaborators Leo Abrahams, Aram Zarikian & John Fogarty, as well as someone slightly more unexpected, an audience member recorded live at one of Seamus’ gigs in Dublin.

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    Shirley Collins ‘Heart’s Ease’ out 24th July 2020

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    Director: Grant Gee

    Heart’s Ease , her second album for Domino follows 2016’s Lodestar ; which on its arrival, seemed like a musical miracle — an enthralling new album from a woman who is widely recognized as England’s greatest female folk singer, but who had not recorded an album for 38 years.

    Shirley delivers a record even stronger than Lodestar , having completely regained her confidence, and singing so well that you can’t believe she was away for so long. As Shirley put it, “ Lodestar wasn’t to...

    Heart’s Ease , her second album for Domino follows 2016’s Lodestar ; which on its arrival, seemed like a musical miracle — an enthralling new album from a woman who is widely recognized as England’s greatest female folk singer, but who had not recorded an album for 38 years.

    Shirley delivers a record even stronger than Lodestar , having completely regained her confidence, and singing so well that you can’t believe she was away for so long. As Shirley put it, “ Lodestar wasn’t too bad, was it? But when I listen to it, it does sometimes sound rather attempt. I had to record it at home because I was just too nervous to sing in front of somebody I didn’t know. This time I was far more relaxed – even though I went into a studio. ”

    Recorded at Metway in Brighton, ‘Heart’s Ease’ is as compelling and original as Shirley’s great albums from the ’60s and’ 70s. There are traditional songs, of course, from England and the US, but there are also more new songs than in the past (four non-traditional tracks). There’s even a burst of experimentation that hints at possible new directions to come.

    The first song to be shared from Heart’s Ease is “Wondrous Love” ; its tune comes from an 18th Century English ballad about the infamous sea captain William Kidd, who was hanged for piracy in 1701. Collins first heard the hymn at a Sacred Harp Convention in Alabama (Collins and Alan Lomax recorded it on their field recording trip in 1959). Shirley has decided to sing it now, she said , “because songs are stored in my memory for a great many years, and suddenly it seems the right time to bring them out again.”

    The video, directed by Grant Gee , was filmed during lockdown. Gee says of the process: “I met Shirley in her house to talk through ideas, I had half a notion to base the video around a Vanessa Bell mural in Berwick Church, Shirley had a postcard of a John Piper stained glass window in Firle Church , just a few miles away. Also very good. Then lockdown happened and I couldn’t travel back to the location or to film Shirley, which was bad. But we improvised and worked out a way to make it happen while respecting all plague-time strictures, which was great. When Shirley sings ‘And through eternity / I’ll sing on’, you don’t doubt it. ”
    In the years between For As Many As Will (1978) and the release of Lodestar (2016), Shirley suffered from a form of dysphonia, lost her singing voice, and was never expected to sing again — certainly not in public. Lodestar was a delightful surprise to all her fans and the folk community, and once Shirley had started to sing again, she was not going to stop. “I’m absolutely consumed by this music,” she said. “I have always loved it so much. I’m still learning songs and just want to keep learning them. I thought ‘somebody has got to sing these songs, so it might as well be me!‘ ”

    Collins followed Lodestar with a remarkable blitz of activity for a lady in her eighties. There was a film, and soundtrack album, The Ballad of Shirley Collins . There was a new autobiography,  All in the Downs , which won the Penderyn Music Book Prize(beating the Beastie Boys). And there were high-profile comeback concerts, including a memorable appearance at London’s Barbican , at which she was backed by an exceptional group of friends and musicians, the Lodestar Band. She may have felt nervous being back on stage, “but I feel so supported by that band. And every song I sing I love anyway – it’s not a hardship to sing the songs! ”

    All of which is reflected in her second comeback album, Heart’s Ease . Collins’ intriguing choice of songs includes two with lyrics by her first husband Austin John Marshall , a graphic artist and poet who produced several of her albums; he also had the inspired idea of ​​getting Shirley to work with blues / jazz / world music guitarist Davy Graham on the extraordinary album Folk Roots, New Routes in 1964. There are more family memories with “Locked In Ice”, written by Dolly’s son, the late Buz Collins . The most startling new piece is the finale, “Crowlink”, named after a pathway on the South Downs overlooking the English Channel “where I love to be,” in which Shirley sings against a moody, atmospheric fusion of Ossian Brown ’s hurdy-gurdy, with electronica and field recordings of waves and sea birds from Matthew Shaw .

    ‘Heart’s Ease’ is a glorious reminder that Shirley Collins is still in a class of her own, both as a folk singer with a distinctive no-nonsense style that is all her own, and as an innovator. And she certainly doesn’t intend this album to be her last. “I have such a huge memory of songs, so many of which I still want to sing. And I wasted all those years not singing, so now I’ve got to catch up a bit! ” READ MORE

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    Sorry ‘925’ out 27th March 2020

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    Together with co-producer James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya), best friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen have woven 925 like a dreamscape in which idyllic and hellish scenes intermingle, forcing the question of what is real and what is make believe. Inspired by everything from Hermann Hesse to Dean Blunt and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, the duo’s experimental and holistic approach marks them out as a thoroughly 21st century band. Includes the singles “Starstruck”, “...

    Together with co-producer James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya), best friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen have woven 925 like a dreamscape in which idyllic and hellish scenes intermingle, forcing the question of what is real and what is make believe. Inspired by everything from Hermann Hesse to Dean Blunt and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, the duo’s experimental and holistic approach marks them out as a thoroughly 21st century band. Includes the singles “Starstruck”, “Right Round The Clock” and “More”.

    Joined by drummer Lincoln Barrett and Campbell Baum on bass, Sorry emerged from a thriving scene of bands in London, and though ‘925′ is their debut album, it is by no means their first statement. It follows a series of mixtapes, released sporadically and used as a way to experiment with the disparate influences and sounds that give ‘925′ its distinctively modern and apocalyptic sound.

    Where previous singles and mixtapes earned the band their status as one of the most vital and relentlessly creative new British bands of the moment, ‘925′ is a record which will undoubtedly cement their status as true originals and cross-genre innovators in 2020 and beyond.

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    Sorry ‘Cigarette Packet’ b/w ‘Separate’ out 16th March 2021

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    CIGARETTE PACKET / SEPARATE (single) Sorry Out 16 March 2021
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    'Separate' Directed and Edited by FLASHA Prod.

    ‘Cigarette Packet’ and ‘Separate’ were co-produced with James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya) and find the band delving back into a more experimental, cut-and-paste electronic palette harking back to their beloved home demo/ns visual mixtapes, all the while still coursing with their signature gnarled sensitivity.

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    Spinning Coin ‘Hyacinth’ out 21st February 2020

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    Directed by Joseph May. Original artwork by Rob Churm.

    Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

    Via the Domino Record Co imprint Geographic, ‘Hyacinth’ is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. It registers a number of changes for the group since their debut LP ‘Permo’ in 2017: personnel changes, geographical changes, a new context, an ever-changing world outside.

    The quartet both...

    Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

    Via the Domino Record Co imprint Geographic, ‘Hyacinth’ is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. It registers a number of changes for the group since their debut LP ‘Permo’ in 2017: personnel changes, geographical changes, a new context, an ever-changing world outside.

    The quartet both lost and gained a member, with Cal Donnelly exiting the group, and Rachel Taylor joining. Rachel and Sean Armstrong have relocated, leaving Glasgow for Berlin – Rachel, from Canada, had no choice but to leave the UK, and Sean followed her. “I think if anything the change has brought us closer as a band,” Rachel reflects, “and made it clear to us that we wanted to continue making music together”. 

    Throughout Hyacinth, there is joy in spades, but also melancholy, and a checked fury, threading the group’s political vision through their reflections on the personal and the interpersonal. Jack explains that the new songs “are about the need for love in an often very unloving world. Trying to find a balance of some kind between feelings of apathy, negativity, detachment and action, positivity and oneness.” Whilst Mellin’s songs were more pointedly political on Permo, here he has built more complexity into his writing. Elsewhere, Rachel contributes her first song to a Spinning Coin release, in the form of the beautiful “Black Cat”.

    Hyacinth was recorded during a few days, by Peter Deimel at Black Box Studios in France, while the group were on a summertime tour. It was an idyll, a restorative respite. That carries through to the album, there’s a sense of society and collectivism at the heart of these pop songs, and a commentary on the optimism of the will, no matter how bleak things can get. Ultimately, on Hyacinth, the Spinning Coin ethos stays true to itself, as Sean expands about the experiences and the motivations behind the new music: “It’s trying to connect with other people on a human level, doing something that we love, and trying to embrace the unknown.”

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    Thao & the Get Down Stay Down ‘Temple’ out 15th May 2020

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    Tthe San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen, is set to release their fifth studio album.

    “I have divided myself into so many selves. I am nervous, but hopeful that in belonging to myself, I can still belong to my family, and my Vietnamese community, especially the elders.” She continues, “I believe that shame has made my work more general, when I’ve always wanted to be specific. This record is about me finally being specific. If you listen to my music, ...

    Tthe San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen, is set to release their fifth studio album.

    “I have divided myself into so many selves. I am nervous, but hopeful that in belonging to myself, I can still belong to my family, and my Vietnamese community, especially the elders.” She continues, “I believe that shame has made my work more general, when I’ve always wanted to be specific. This record is about me finally being specific. If you listen to my music, I want you to know who you are dealing with.”

    Thao almost opted not to make another record, feeling that rock music no longer was capable of saying what she needed to express. But it turns out making a record was necessary; it forced her hand to create a space wherein she could finally exist as her entire self. Temple is an album compelled by love and the urgent need to live one full, whole life. Thao and her girlfriend got married recently, and she says, “I have my partner and our home to ground me in this life, in my one life. And everything I do now, everywhere I go, every time I present myself to people, it is finally all of me.”

    Temple is the first Get Down Stay Down record to be self-produced. Thao teamed up with longtime bandmate Adam Thompson to produce the record; he shares writing credits on five songs. Mikaelin “Blue” Bluespruce (Solange, Carly Rae Jepsen, Mariah Carey) mixed the record. “Blue mixes more in the hip-hop and pop world and that’s what we wanted,” says Thao. “More fidelity, more upfront beat and groove-heavy mixes that are filled out and immersive…high highs, low lows, lush tones.”

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    These New Puritans ‘Hidden [MMXX]’ out 4th December 2020 + XONE 1 LIVE

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    Domino are delighted to be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of These New Puritans’ Hidden with Hidden [MMXX] – a re-issue of the original album in its full glory accompanied by new and unreleased material from the Hidden sessions alongside live recordings from the same era, plus a new live film.

    As the These New Puritans canon has grown through the years, Hidden has always stood as the great indicator of the group’s detail, precision and ambition. Originally released in 2010, when ...

    Domino are delighted to be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of These New Puritans’ Hidden with Hidden [MMXX] – a re-issue of the original album in its full glory accompanied by new and unreleased material from the Hidden sessions alongside live recordings from the same era, plus a new live film.

    As the These New Puritans canon has grown through the years, Hidden has always stood as the great indicator of the group’s detail, precision and ambition. Originally released in 2010, when both Jack and George Barnett were just 22 years old, Hidden was the second album the twins released as These New Puritans.

    The album itself was produced by TNP’s Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis, Boymerang) and mixed by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, MF DOOM), it draws on both the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century post-minimalism, the recording features 6ft Japanese Taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano & a children’s choir. The result is equal parts brutal and melancholy, standing the test of time, sounding as pioneering and bold a decade on.

    Hidden is a record that crushes together menace and beauty: after the prelude of woodwind that is “Time Xone”, “We Want War” remains one of the most startling tracks to be released as a single in this millennium – a sound like swarms of invading, metallic wasps, robotic voices intoning, the martial rattle of layers of drums, Jack Barnett’s vocals an incantation. The militant funk of “Three Thousand”, strange skittish jazz in “Hologram”, and “Drum Courts – Where Corals Lie” feels like an ancient, elegiac folk song carried forth on a storm. A record of intense variety, soul and depth, Hidden is remarkable by anyone’s standards, let alone one made by a group of people barely out of their teens.

    Through the extremes of recording, These New Puritans had a critical hit. It was rightly lauded for its singularity and adventure at the time and found the group a legion of loyal fans and was given NME’s prestigious Album of the Year 2010 accolade. Further to the record, it spawned the Hidden Live tour, featuring a large ensemble, conductor Andre De Ridder, and a kids choir.

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    4th December 2020 8pm the band performs XONE 1, a streamed live set with a cast of collaborators including original These New Puritans member Thomas Hein, pianist Maria Chiara Argirio and legendary composer Henry Dagg. Hosted via the band’s website, it will be available to re-watch for 72 hours after. The performance will be broadcast from Dagg’s workshop/studio in Kent. All proceeds from the stream will go to Survival International. These New Puritans have shared a glimpse of rehearsals on Instagram; their track ‘Where The Trees Are On Fire’ performed on one of Henry Dagg’s invented instruments, The Sharpsichord. Watch here.

    Survival International fight for tribal peoples’ survival. They stop loggers, miners, and oil companies from destroying tribal lands, lives and livelihoods across the globe. They lobby governments to recognise indigenous land rights.

    FULL XONE.1 LIVE STREAM DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE

    Critical acclaim for Hidden 

    “The first masterpiece of 2010” – 5*, The Telegraph

    “One of the most powerful artistic forces in Britain today” – Album of The Year 2010, NME

    “An adventurous, challenging and futuristic recording” – 5*, MOJO

    “Hidden is not just the most original record to emerge from Britain this year, but the most unfathomable: an immaculate enigma.” – 5*, The Guardian

    “Astonishing…there are more ideas here than most bands manage in an entire career” – 4*, The Times

    “Electrifying” – 4*, Q

     

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    Tirzah ‘Send Me’

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    artwork and video for “Send Me” by Leah Walker.

    “as i hold, i am held as you heal, i heal”

    “Send Me” is a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time. The track explores recovery, gratitude and new beginnings, presenting a singer having discovered the type of love that is shared between a mother and a child for the first time whilst simultaneously working as an artist.

    The  single is the first new material from Tirzah under her own name since 2018’s critically acclaimed albu...

    “as i hold, i am held as you heal, i heal”

    “Send Me” is a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time. The track explores recovery, gratitude and new beginnings, presenting a singer having discovered the type of love that is shared between a mother and a child for the first time whilst simultaneously working as an artist.

    The  single is the first new material from Tirzah under her own name since 2018’s critically acclaimed album, Devotion and was written, recorded and performed alongside her close, long-term collaborators, Mica Levi and Coby Sey.

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    Tirzah ‘Send Me’

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    Pochette et vidéo de 'Send Me' réalisées par Leah Walker

    L’un des talents les plus énigmatiques du Royaume-Uni dévoile “Send Me”

    Démontrant une fois de plus ses talents de songwriteuse, “Send Me” est un aperçu intime d’une année où Tirzah jouait régulièrement sur scène. Le titre explore la guérison, la gratitude et les nouveaux départs, présentant une chanteuse qui a découvert l’amour partagé entre une mère et un enfant pour la première fois tout en travaillant en tant qu’artiste.

    “Send Me” est la première parut...

    L’un des talents les plus énigmatiques du Royaume-Uni dévoile “Send Me”

    Démontrant une fois de plus ses talents de songwriteuse, “Send Me” est un aperçu intime d’une année où Tirzah jouait régulièrement sur scène. Le titre explore la guérison, la gratitude et les nouveaux départs, présentant une chanteuse qui a découvert l’amour partagé entre une mère et un enfant pour la première fois tout en travaillant en tant qu’artiste.

    “Send Me” est la première parution de Tirzah sous son propre nom depuis Devotion, son album acclamé par la critique, sorti en 2018. Ce nouveau single a été écrit, enregistré et interprété aux côtés de ses proches collaborateurs de longue date, Mica Levi et Coby Sey.

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    Valkyrie ‘Fear’ out 24th July 2020

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    ‘Fear’ finds VALKYRIE sounding more progressive and diverse than ever before. Tracks such as “Feeling So Low”, “The Choice”, and “Evil Eye” showcase VALKYRIE expanding their sound, infusing their take on classic hard rock with a penchant for remarkable melodies and creative hooks.

    Recorded at Earth Analog in Illinois, Fear showcases the tone-rich, organic songwriting process VALKYRIE honed in on over the course of their career. A warm analog sound permeates throughout each of ...

    ‘Fear’ finds VALKYRIE sounding more progressive and diverse than ever before. Tracks such as “Feeling So Low”, “The Choice”, and “Evil Eye” showcase VALKYRIE expanding their sound, infusing their take on classic hard rock with a penchant for remarkable melodies and creative hooks.

    Recorded at Earth Analog in Illinois, Fear showcases the tone-rich, organic songwriting process VALKYRIE honed in on over the course of their career. A warm analog sound permeates throughout each of the album’s 8 tracks, as blistering twin leads, soaring guitar harmonies by Pete and Jake Adams, poignant lyrics, and a relentless rhythm section result in a highly textured and timeless collection of heavy rock. With Fear, VALKYRIE take the next step in their evolution as one of the most creative and dynamic forces in the hard rock scene today.

    Domino represent Relapse for publishing and recording rights.

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    Villagers ‘The First Day’

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    Directed by Daniel Brereton
    Conor O’Brien annonce le cinquième album studio de Villagers, Fever Dreams, à parâitre le 20 août chez Domino.

    L’évasion est une quête nécessaire en ce moment, et Fever Dreams la poursuit avec un effet hypnotique. Il fonctionne comme tous les meilleurs disques – il vous transporte, il vous prend là où vous êtes et vous dépose ailleurs.

    ‘The First Day’ premier extrait de l’album est une chanson inspirée d’un voyage au légendaire festival Another Love Story dans le ...

    Conor O’Brien annonce le cinquième album studio de Villagers, Fever Dreams, à parâitre le 20 août chez Domino.

    L’évasion est une quête nécessaire en ce moment, et Fever Dreams la poursuit avec un effet hypnotique. Il fonctionne comme tous les meilleurs disques – il vous transporte, il vous prend là où vous êtes et vous dépose ailleurs.

    ‘The First Day’ premier extrait de l’album est une chanson inspirée d’un voyage au légendaire festival Another Love Story dans le comté de Meath. Il s’agissait au départ d’une tentative électronique qui s’est transformée en une évocation, visuelle et richement cinématographique, des joies des relations humaines.

    Le réalisateur Daniel Brereton explique à propos de la vidéo : “Tout le processus a été assez collaboratif avec Conor. Je pense que nous avons tous les deux imaginé une certaine légèreté dans la vidéo, et évidemment le titre évoque beaucoup d’images et d’idées, ‘Le premier jour du reste de votre vie’. À quoi cela ressemble-t-il ? Quelle sensation cela procure-t-il ? Nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir tourner sur pellicule et de bénéficier d’un casting et d’un stylisme exceptionnels. Il n’est pas facile de tourner pendant une pandémie, et j’ai de la chance que nous ayons pu le faire”.
    Conor O’Brien, à propos de la genèse de Fever Dreams : “J’avais envie d’écrire quelque chose qui soit aussi généreux pour l’auditeur que pour moi-même. Parfois, les états les plus délirants peuvent entraîner les rêves les plus extatiques et euphoriques.”
    Ce sont des chansons aux formes surprenantes et vaporeuses et à l’ambivalence magique qu’ont les rêves. L’intention des chansons est à la fois mystérieuse et évidente. Avec Fever Dreams, on sent que Conor O’Brien approfondit sa maîtrise et élargit son champ d’action. L’inspiration pour cet album a été trouvée dans de nombreux endroits et est venue de tous les horizons, de baignades nocturnes sur une île néerlandaise à Flann O’Brien, Audre Lorde, David Lynch, L. S. Lowry en passant par la bibliothèque musicale de Piero Umiliani et Alessandro Alessandroni et le jazz de Duke Ellington et Alice Coltrane.
    Écrite sur une période de deux ans, la plus grande partie des chansons a été enregistrée lors d’une série de sessions en studio avec tout le groupe fin 2019 et début 2020. Pendant les longs jours de pandémie, Conor O’Brien les a affinées dans son minuscule home studio à Dublin, et l’album a ensuite été mixé par David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, FKA Twigs).

     

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    Wilma Archer ‘Western Circular’ out 3rd April 2020

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    Within A Western Circular lies an exciting and varied crew of guest artists including MF DOOM, Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Sudan Archives and Laura Groves, all contributing vocals to Wilma Archer’s rich, dextrous compositions. Supple and multi-layered, honouring his acoustic heritage and influence, A Western Circular builds a sonic universe that commands contemporary references to everything from Frank Zappa to Yasuaki Shimuzu, Robert Wyatt to Arthur Russell.

    Within A Western Circ...

    Within A Western Circular lies an exciting and varied crew of guest artists including MF DOOM, Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Sudan Archives and Laura Groves, all contributing vocals to Wilma Archer’s rich, dextrous compositions. Supple and multi-layered, honouring his acoustic heritage and influence, A Western Circular builds a sonic universe that commands contemporary references to everything from Frank Zappa to Yasuaki Shimuzu, Robert Wyatt to Arthur Russell.

    Within A Western Circular lies an exciting and varied crew of guest artists including MF DOOM, Samuel T. Herring (of Future Islands), Sudan Archives, and Laura Groves, who contribute vocals to his rich, dexterous compositions. These collaborations are the by-product of several years of writing and producing—he’s credited on debut albums by Sudan Archives (co-writing lead single “Confessions”) and Nilüfer Yanya (producing seven songs, and co-writing one, “Paralysed”). He’s also worked with Jessie Ware and Celeste.

    An album that’s been in the works for the past half-decade, A Western Circular is a bold, reflective piece that directly relates to Archer’s personal experiences of life and death, centered on one particular week where they breathed with equal intensity. The record’s themes of greed, love and loyalty all relate back to that specific time. Inspired by author John Fante, A Western Circular is a spiritual voyage through life’s pushing and pulling, and a poignant reflection on the duality of the human condition: finding beauty in the rough, sadness in the bright.

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    Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Navarasa : Nine Emotions’ out 24th January 2020

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    'Sukhe Phool' Directed by Jack Barraclough Dance. Casting Kadam Dance. Choreographer/Dancer Kali Chandrasegaram. Dancer Parbati Chaudhury

    James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan represent a continuum of the forward-thinking, musically distinctive power trio. Each individual contributes vocals to material both original and reimagined as Khan, on sarangi, Thorne, on double bass, and Yorkston, principally on guitar, improvise within their mutual space. Perhaps the greatest strength of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan is a shared spirituality, one revealed by the honesty and conviction at the heart of this universal, beautiful music....

    James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan represent a continuum of the forward-thinking, musically distinctive power trio. Each individual contributes vocals to material both original and reimagined as Khan, on sarangi, Thorne, on double bass, and Yorkston, principally on guitar, improvise within their mutual space. Perhaps the greatest strength of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan is a shared spirituality, one revealed by the honesty and conviction at the heart of this universal, beautiful music.

    ‘Navarasa : Nine Emotions’ is the transporting third album by Yorkston/Thorne/Khan. At its heart is the subcontinent’s navarasa; the nine (nava) emotions or sentiments (rasa) of the arts.

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    ZOMBI ‘2020’ out 17th July 2020

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    'Earthscraper' Directed by Tony Balko

    Relapse Records – Their first new album in 5 years, 2020 showcases the songwriting prowess that has pushed the duo of Steve Moore (synthesizers, guitars, bass) and A.E. Paterra (drums) to evolve throughout their storied, 20 year career. ZOMBI has strived to build upon and expand their sound with every release. Now more than ever, the band stays true to their ethos.

    From the pulse-pounding, dramatic opener “Breakthrough & Conquer”, to the melodic bass whirls found in “XYZT”, 20...

    Relapse Records – Their first new album in 5 years, 2020 showcases the songwriting prowess that has pushed the duo of Steve Moore (synthesizers, guitars, bass) and A.E. Paterra (drums) to evolve throughout their storied, 20 year career. ZOMBI has strived to build upon and expand their sound with every release. Now more than ever, the band stays true to their ethos.

    From the pulse-pounding, dramatic opener “Breakthrough & Conquer”, to the melodic bass whirls found in “XYZT”, 2020 proves to be ZOMBI’s most riff-intensive album. At first a soundtrack of driving musical euphoria, 2020 takes a sharp turn into uncharted waters – “Earthscraper” is reminiscent of a space where sounds of sludge and doomlike-riff crushers dominate the soundscapes. Synthwave and neon crescendos are furloughed in favor of Blue Oyster Cult inspired progressive epics.

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