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    100 gecs ‘mememe’

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    Posted on 30 November 2021
    mememe Private: 100 Gecs Out 19 November 2021
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    100 gecs have returned with new single ‘mememe’. It’s the first to be lifted from their forthcoming second studio album ‘10000 gecs’, which is set to arrive early next year.

    The duo’s latest builds on the off-kilter glitchcore they explored on 2019’s ‘1000 gecs’, with ‘stupid horse’-esque staccatoed guitar upstrokes and abrasive, blown out choruses.

    ‘Mememe’ arrives alongside a kaleidoscopic video that sees the band’s Dylan Brady and Laura Les adorned in wizard cl...

    100 gecs have returned with new single ‘mememe’. It’s the first to be lifted from their forthcoming second studio album ‘10000 gecs’, which is set to arrive early next year.

    The duo’s latest builds on the off-kilter glitchcore they explored on 2019’s ‘1000 gecs’, with ‘stupid horse’-esque staccatoed guitar upstrokes and abrasive, blown out choruses.

    ‘Mememe’ arrives alongside a kaleidoscopic video that sees the band’s Dylan Brady and Laura Les adorned in wizard cloaks, dancing around in a park.

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    100 gecs share new video for single ‘Doritos and Fritos’ out 12th April

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    Posted on 17 May 2022
    Doritos and Fritos Private: 100 Gecs Out 12 April 2022
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    Latest single from US Based Dylan Brady and Laura Les’ music project 100 gecs, called ‘Doritos and Fritos’. A song littered with warped synths and auto-tuned vocals comes paired with an equally wonderful and distorted music video. This single follows the duos’s latest album ‘1000 gecs’, and teases a new album in the works ’10,000 gecs’

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    100 Gets ‘1000 Gecs & The Tree Of Clues’ out 10th July 2020

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    Posted on 06 October 2020
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    100 gecs 'money machine' Shot by gabe howell

    Their debut album 1000 gecs was released in 2019, and they’ve racked up 9,000,000 Spotify streams on “money machine” alone. They are yet to break into the mainstream electronic world, however, but with music as wobbly and industrial as theirs, it’s anyone’s guess if they ever will – or if it even matters.

    The duo’s remix album 1,000 gecs and the Tree Of Clues consists of nineteen outrageous mismatched and misaligned tracks featuring a hoarde of guests that would make the nearest...

    Their debut album 1000 gecs was released in 2019, and they’ve racked up 9,000,000 Spotify streams on “money machine” alone. They are yet to break into the mainstream electronic world, however, but with music as wobbly and industrial as theirs, it’s anyone’s guess if they ever will – or if it even matters.

    The duo’s remix album 1,000 gecs and the Tree Of Clues consists of nineteen outrageous mismatched and misaligned tracks featuring a hoarde of guests that would make the nearest hype machine explode, inclduing the likes of Charli XCX, Rico Nasty and Kero Kero Bonito.

    There’s nothing cohesive on this record other than its inconsistence. For a remix record chock full of cherrypicked edits and revisits, that’s not surprising, but it’s a bit of a difficult listen for those not wholeheartedly throwing themselves into the fray. It often feels like the sound crosses the faint line between music and Windows XP glitching which makes it a bit tricky to dance to, but then again, that’s probably not the intended vibe of this record.

    Whilst the album seems impenetrable on an emotional or classically thoughtful level, that’s not to say that there’s nothing of worth in these nineteen tracks. There are some melodic hooks in “ringtone”, innovative pop screeches in “gec 2 u”, heavy aggressive dubstep in “800db cloud”, and industrial country R&B in “gecgecgec”, but the general order is one of chaos that maybe one day will make sense.

    It feels difficult to give this album a coherent discussion. This is some of the most futuristic and far removed from mainstream music being made at the moment, and maybe that’s why the duo have sold out tours across the USA.  Line of Best Fit

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    Adrian Crowley ‘Bread and Wine’

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    Posted on 14 April 2021
    The Watchful Eye Of The Stars Adrian Crowley Out 30 April 2021
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    Second single from Adrian Crowley’s album ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’.

    “I am an incessant doodler. The stars of the video for Bread And Wine were made with a scalpel, pen and a drawing book. And they were captured on my kitchen table. Even though I consider myself to be a patient individual, I didn’t feel like going through the painstaking process of making a stop-animation. So, instead, I went an easier route and made a kind of lo-fi, 21st century parlour cut-out puppet show. I...

    Second single from Adrian Crowley’s album ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’.

    “I am an incessant doodler. The stars of the video for Bread And Wine were made with a scalpel, pen and a drawing book. And they were captured on my kitchen table. Even though I consider myself to be a patient individual, I didn’t feel like going through the painstaking process of making a stop-animation. So, instead, I went an easier route and made a kind of lo-fi, 21st century parlour cut-out puppet show. I like to think of this video as a cross between The Wickerman and Bosco. Although, I’m aware the Bosco reference will be lost on anyone who didn’t watch afternoon TV in 1980s Ireland. It was a curious thing to see the scenarios unfold there on my kitchen table, late one windy night. Armed with a simple hand-held camera and a few sticks of cardboard, I watched it all come together. The protagonist in Bread And Wine bears more than a passing resemblance to myself, which wasn’t an accident. But it’s quite spooky, in a way, how just a few dots and lines on a page can conjure someone up. Or something. All those characters spying at the window; like ghosts from someone’s past… they all seem to have an eerie and playful presence.” Adrian Crowley

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    Adrian Crowley ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ out 30th April 2021

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    Posted on 09 March 2021
    The Watchful Eye Of The Stars Adrian Crowley Out 30 April 2021
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    Northbound Stowaway - Directed by Niall Mc Cann & Adrian Crowley

    “When Adrian asked me if I would work on the video for Northbound Stowaway the first thing we had to figure out was how we make it while not being able to leave the house. Restrictions are often a good thing when making something like this. Our ability to shoot footage or meet up was obviously curtailed, but constraints can be your friend. Adrian would shoot different takes of him singing the song and would send it over to me to work on. The video is kind of like how you might feel after 24...

    “When Adrian asked me if I would work on the video for Northbound Stowaway the first thing we had to figure out was how we make it while not being able to leave the house. Restrictions are often a good thing when making something like this. Our ability to shoot footage or meet up was obviously curtailed, but constraints can be your friend. Adrian would shoot different takes of him singing the song and would send it over to me to work on. The video is kind of like how you might feel after 24 Zoom calls in a row, a pot of coffee and a smidgen of LSD. Like us all, I’ve had a lot of Zoom/ Webex calls this past year and it introduces a new type of anxiety into your day, it’s not enough to be heard, you have to be seen too. The video is a reaction to that anxiety, the sense of displacement and fragmenting that it brings, to be constantly looked at. Endlessly looking at yourself, looking at others, looking at yourself. The song itself builds and becomes more and more dense as it moves along and I wanted the video to reflect that also, to give a visual representation of this cacophony of instruments and voices.” Niall Mc Cann

    “Sometimes simple is just the way. I had thought about how to go about capturing the right imagery for this song. I spent time shooting the ocean waves, ships and seabirds, crashing waves, lighting, the whole she-bang…but then realised after sending the images to Niall that this approach had left little to the imagination. Also, Niall pointed out that he couldn’t see my eyes. And I reflected on this and thought about how sometimes the eyes of the storyteller can be the thing that invites the listener on a journey. Or voyage. I set up my camera and tripod directed at a wall opposite a south facing window in my house. And waited for the sun to travel to that right spot over the rooftops. I busied myself with other things and then just before sunset I pressed record. I did another take and then the sun set.” Adrian Crowley

    One stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley’s brother brought home a wounded crow.  After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a story, which would later become the aptly titled “Crow Song” on this, his brand new record & ninth studio album The Watchful Eye of the Stars. He sings, “And I was joyous for you, but shattered none-the-less.”

    Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes Watchful Eye’s poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. “It’s a beautiful and mysterious thing,” he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (“It’s taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldn’t find a pen,” he laments in “Bread and Wine”), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing. “The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place,” he shares.

    In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: “In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take”, says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes, and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking.

    These raw beginnings were then fleshed out more in the studio with Parish and additional musicians. Jim Barr of Portishead contributed double bass and was brought in to engineer parts of Watchful Eye in Bristol. Nadine Khouri and Katell Keineg were invited in as guest backing singers, taking a day trip from London and Cardiff respectively. Parish himself contributed instrumentation as well, his signature sense of drama lending Crowley’s work a new edge overall without disrupting its minimalism. Having members of Crash Ensemble in Dublin to record for only a few days’ time, Crowley recalls staying up all night to write string parts for “Northbound Stowaway,” which was recorded the following morning. While an ominous and steady drumbeat carries the track, Crowley laments, “And it’s drowsy work / When you’re staying invisible.”

    An ethereal escapism shines through Crowley’s lyrical imagery (“Underwater Song”), detailing his tortured return to a flooded, old neighbourhood where an unnamed acquaintance resides: “Last night in the throes of a fever / I went floating over your house.” Crowley’s voice serves as the central instrument, his deep and conversational baritone anchoring the tone on the album’s more effervescent tracks “Ships on the Water” and “The Colours of the Night”. His presence permeates the sonic and lyrical content of Watchful Eye, carrying the sorrow of the string instruments (violin, viola, viola d’amore and cello) and adding dimension to the clarinet and keyboard.

    Final track “Take Me Driving” opens with an arpeggiation, then unfolds into a swaying, melancholy outro. It highlights Crowley’s skill at transforming a quiet, repeated phrase into something magnificent, mysterious, and wholly captivating – a story. Crowley leaves us here in his world, driving in a car with a flighty companion, unsure of where we’re going, but continuing nonetheless as he steps out the passenger side.

     

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    Adrianne Lenker ‘Songs’ out 23rd October 2020

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    Posted on 03 November 2020
    Songs Adrianne Lenker Out 23 October 2020
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    Filmed by Adrianne Lenker and Philip Weinrobe

    Lenker made the record (out on 4AD) in a one-room cabin in the woods of Western Massachusetts where she holed up in spring, waiting out the early days of the pandemic and reeling from a broken heart. The simple pinewood planks of the shack’s interior reminded her, she said, of “the inside of an acoustic guitar,” which is to say it felt like home. Her friend Philip Weinrobe, a recording engineer, was summoned with a truckload of gear: half-inch tape machines, XLR cables, a binaural mic. ...

    Lenker made the record (out on 4AD) in a one-room cabin in the woods of Western Massachusetts where she holed up in spring, waiting out the early days of the pandemic and reeling from a broken heart. The simple pinewood planks of the shack’s interior reminded her, she said, of “the inside of an acoustic guitar,” which is to say it felt like home. Her friend Philip Weinrobe, a recording engineer, was summoned with a truckload of gear: half-inch tape machines, XLR cables, a binaural mic. They spent a couple weeks setting up and another three weeks recording, and the sense of presence they captured—in two cases, recording directly to Weinrobe’s Walkman—is almost overwhelming. The guitar sounds so close that you can hear the ridges of Lenker’s fingertips rubbing against coiled steel. Occasionally, her chair creaks or her foot brushes against the floor. Some songs wear a halo of birdsong or rainfall. Fragments from the sessions—orphaned chords strummed in the silence before a take begins, the thunk of what might be fingers pressing down on the keys of the tape machine—litter the final mixdown like leaves strewn across the cabin floor. PITCHFORK

     

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    Alabaster Deplume ‘GOLD’ Out 1st April 2022

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    Posted on 09 March 2022
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    Lost Map Records with Chicago label International Anthem and the Total Refreshment Centre in London for the release of the sensational new album by Mancunian born, London based poet-performer Alabaster dePlume. Released April 1, 2022,  GOLD is a tender record celebrating the spirit of being unconventional, consisting of 18 vocal and instrumental pieces that move between jazz, modern-classical and electronica. It features performers including Falle Noike, Sarathy Korwar, Rozi Plain and ...

    Lost Map Records with Chicago label International Anthem and the Total Refreshment Centre in London for the release of the sensational new album by Mancunian born, London based poet-performer Alabaster dePlume. Released April 1, 2022,  GOLD is a tender record celebrating the spirit of being unconventional, consisting of 18 vocal and instrumental pieces that move between jazz, modern-classical and electronica. It features performers including Falle Noike, Sarathy Korwar, Rozi Plain and Tom Skinner.

    GOLD is a sonorous double album that celebrates the communal act of making music and the relationships that can be explored when you purposefully avoid the standard way of doing things. It contains filmic pieces that oscillate between the otherworldly and the trenchantly grounded, rendered maximally human through the recording process. There is laughter mid-track and studio chatter. There is the music of shouting and applause generated by a handful of people who were listening from the doorframe and the corridor. Complex vocal harmonies circle the songs like small birds and there’s an undercurrent of steely toughness, necessitated by the musician’s engagement with personal vulnerability and collective politics.

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    Alabaster DePlume ‘I’m Good At Not Crying’ out 22nd March

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    Posted on 23 March 2022
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    Manchester-born, London-based Alabaster DePlume releases third single I’m Good At Not Crying, ahead of his 8th studio album Gold, out on the 1st of April via International Anthem

    A song that drifts in a balmy atmosphere of loquacious instrumentation and cooing choral vocals, “I’m Good At Not Crying” easily lulls you into its sway. Once there, DePlume’s spoken words drift down upon you, and his conversational weirdness is revealed. He ruminates on what it is to be good at not cryi...

    Manchester-born, London-based Alabaster DePlume releases third single I’m Good At Not Crying, ahead of his 8th studio album Gold, out on the 1st of April via International Anthem

    A song that drifts in a balmy atmosphere of loquacious instrumentation and cooing choral vocals, “I’m Good At Not Crying” easily lulls you into its sway. Once there, DePlume’s spoken words drift down upon you, and his conversational weirdness is revealed. He ruminates on what it is to be good at not crying and pontificates about not causing unnecessary concern, all in a voice that drips with simultaneous vulnerability and sardonicism. It’s a truly beguiling piece, made all the more confounding by the video.

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    Alabaster Deplume ‘Visit Croatia’ EP out 21st July 2020

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    Posted on 06 October 2020
    Visit Croatia EP Alabaster Deplume Out 21 July 2020
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    Prominently sampled on Bon Iver’s recent track “PDLIF,” “Visit Croatia” is the title track from a new mini EP by Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator Angus Fairbairn, aka Alabaster DePlume. It’s taken from the album To Cy & Lee Instrumentals Vol. 1 (available on vinyl and via digital services now) which was released to tremendous acclaim in February.

    “One day, I realized I was waiting for someone to give me permission to make t...

    Prominently sampled on Bon Iver’s recent track “PDLIF,” “Visit Croatia” is the title track from a new mini EP by Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator Angus Fairbairn, aka Alabaster DePlume. It’s taken from the album To Cy & Lee Instrumentals Vol. 1 (available on vinyl and via digital services now) which was released to tremendous acclaim in February.

    “One day, I realized I was waiting for someone to give me permission to make this,” says Alabaster of “Visit Croatia.” “And at the same time, I realized – no-one could ever give me permission to make this. Not because they thought it was a bad thing. But because they didn’t know what it was. I can’t give you permission to do your awesome s**t. But someone else on this earth can. And I don’t mean Cy & Lee, and I don’t mean Bernie Sanders, and I don’t mean Karen either.”

    Of the mini EP’s two previously unreleased tracks, “The Good Wine” and “Black Drifts,” Alabaster writes: “They are two of the pieces prepared around the release ‘Peach’. Created in (optional, pre-lockdown) isolation, with the aim of celebrating human connections through the sheer act of yearning for them. I love music, and words and performance, but it will never be as good as people. So, if I’m going to get my work done, I must sometimes go away from people. In the middle of a heavy gigging schedule I chose to take two cassette recorders somewhere I could be unreachable, for a week. I made many things there, including these tunes. It was winter. I chopped firewood. A chinook flew over my head. I gradually came to trust myself, to be sincere.”

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    Alejandro Escovedo ‘La Cruzada’ (the Crossing)

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    Posted on 03 November 2020
    Alejandro Escovedo 'La Cruzada' Riff City Out 24 October 2020
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    Interview CBS This Morning

    Alejandro Escovedo’s critically acclaimed album ‘The Crossing’ with the vocals recorded in Spanish, pressed on red, white and green striped double vinyl for Record Store Day.

    Scorching and cinematic ‘The Crossing’ follows the story of two young immigrants, one from Mexico and one from Italy, as they come to the United States to pursue their American dream and in search of their punk rock idols. He co-wrote and performed it with Italian band Don Antonio from Mogdilana led by guita...

    Alejandro Escovedo’s critically acclaimed album ‘The Crossing’ with the vocals recorded in Spanish, pressed on red, white and green striped double vinyl for Record Store Day.

    Scorching and cinematic ‘The Crossing’ follows the story of two young immigrants, one from Mexico and one from Italy, as they come to the United States to pursue their American dream and in search of their punk rock idols. He co-wrote and performed it with Italian band Don Antonio from Mogdilana led by guitarist and composer Antonio Gramentieri who has a rich musical history of his own in Italy with his cult band Sacri Cuori.  The album was recorded in a month in Villafranca, Italy with Brian Deck co-producing.

    ‘The Crossing’ also features a host of guest musicians, including The Stooges’ James Williamson on Teenage Luggage and Wayne Kramer from the MC5 on ‘Sonica USA’ (both bands are name checked in the album’s lyrics as well). ‘Waiting For Me’ features Peter Perrett and John Perry from The Only Ones, recording together for the first time since 1980. Joe Ely appears on his own track, ‘Silver City’. ‘Rio Navidad,’ a spoken word song about a Texas ranger, was written by novelist and Richmond Fontaine/The Delines’bandleader Willy Vlautin and read by his bandmate Freddy Trujillo.

    VIDEO: Alejandro Escovedo is a musician who truly crosses boundaries. From leading a punk band that opened for the Sex Pistols to his latest album which he recorded with an Italian band in Rome, his career has been hard to define. “CBS This Morning: Saturday” co-host Anthony Mason sits down with the music pioneer to discuss his decades-long career and his new album, “The Crossing.”

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    Alex Bleeker ‘Heaven on the Faultline’ out 5th March 2020

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    Posted on 06 January 2021
    'Heaven on the Faultline' Alex Bleeker (solo) Real Estate Out 05 March 2021
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    Mashed Potatoes

    ‘I want a cup of coffee mashed potatoes and juice I want peace and justice but really what’s the use.’ [1 min 32]

    Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

    Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

    “The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom … When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?”

    Mashed Potatoes is one of those beautiful songs ilk of ...

    ‘I want a cup of coffee mashed potatoes and juice I want peace and justice but really what’s the use.’ [1 min 32]

    Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

    Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

    “The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom … When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?”

    Mashed Potatoes is one of those beautiful songs ilk of Jack Johnson or Devandra Banhart that is so understated it is stupifying as the reaction shot of the majority of indie music makers during Covid.

    “This song is about eradicating toxicity from your life and concentrating on whatever it is that brings you joy,” he admits. “Cups of coffee, mashed potatoes, juice…. sometimes things really are that simple.” Ear Milk

     

     

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    Alex Lahey ‘Let’s Go Out (Bedroom Version)’ – Official Lyric Video

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    Posted on 03 August 2020
    Native Tongue Out 05 June 2023
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    “Let’s Go Out” has taken on a different meaning , with Alex taking a fan favourite sing along party tune into a chilled out moody iso piano ballad.

    Performed By: Alex Lahey

    Video Created by: Tom Nickeas

    Illustrations by: Felicity Case-Mejia and Tom Nickeas

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    altopalo ‘farawayfromeveryoneyouknow’ out 24th April 2020

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    Posted on 22 September 2020
    farawayfromeveryoneyouknow Rahm Out 24 April 2020
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    Art by Jackson Bernard

    altopalo is the hive-minded project of Rahm Silverglade, Mike Haldeman, Dillon Treacy, and Jesse Bielenberg. The group met in New York and have spent the few years writing, recording, touring and making music with and around one another.

    Individually the members have played live with Moses Sumney, Amber Mark, Kevin Garrett and beyond. 2018 marks the beginning of the release of their debut album ‘frozenthere’. The project spans across, rock, indie, soul, funk, and electronic soundscapes wh...

    altopalo is the hive-minded project of Rahm Silverglade, Mike Haldeman, Dillon Treacy, and Jesse Bielenberg. The group met in New York and have spent the few years writing, recording, touring and making music with and around one another.

    Individually the members have played live with Moses Sumney, Amber Mark, Kevin Garrett and beyond. 2018 marks the beginning of the release of their debut album ‘frozenthere’. The project spans across, rock, indie, soul, funk, and electronic soundscapes while remaining cohesive through the writing and production tendencies of the group.

    FADER “altopalo is your new mood ring”

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    Art School Girlfriend ‘In the Middle’

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    London-based producer, multi-instrumental musician and vocalist Art School Girlfriend shares her new single ‘In The Middle’ via Fiction Records/Wolf Tone.

    Torn from the pages of a diary kept by Art School Girlfriend’s Polly Mackey in 2019, her forthcoming debut album chronicles the period following her US tour in support of The Japanese House where, after returning to the UK, Mackey would end her six year relationship, leave her home of Margate and return to London. While sleeping on a ...

    London-based producer, multi-instrumental musician and vocalist Art School Girlfriend shares her new single ‘In The Middle’ via Fiction Records/Wolf Tone.

    Torn from the pages of a diary kept by Art School Girlfriend’s Polly Mackey in 2019, her forthcoming debut album chronicles the period following her US tour in support of The Japanese House where, after returning to the UK, Mackey would end her six year relationship, leave her home of Margate and return to London. While sleeping on a friend’s sofa, she would clock 14 hour studio days while the bones of her debut album quickly formed, beginning with its first single ‘In The Middle’. Inspired by her state of mind at the time, the single finds Mackey entirely at the mercy of her emotions. Written in the narrow corridors of Church Studios in North London, the single’s production mimics those feelings of anxiety and claustrophobia: a relentless thudding drum beat carries the track as Mackey calls out “you’re a river running fast and I jump right in” before her voice is buried in a tide of bass. In the video, by frequent collaborator and Margate connect Tom Dream, Mackey wanders alone through a club of entranced dancers. Dream remains a throughline for Mackey since their first collaboration in the ‘Distance (Blank)’ video. She has since scored a film for Dream, ‘Shy Radicals’, a documentary inspired by a book he purchased at the book shop she co-owned in Margate, Spine Books.

    Alongside her own headline tour and festival dates at Latitude, Green Man and Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Art School Girlfriend have toured Europe alongside Marika Hackman, the UK alongside Orlando Weeks and the US alongside The Japanese House. Outside of her own artist project, Mackey also lent vocals to Ghostpoet’s album ‘I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep’ and runs a monthly ambient/electronic show for womxn-lead radio station Foundation FM.

     

    Further details about Art School Girlfriend’s debut album will be announced soon.

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    Art School Girlfriend ‘Is It Light Where You Are’ out 10th September 2021

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    Is It Light Where You Are Art School Girlfriend Out 10 September 2021
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    Produced and directed by Tom Dream

    Debut album ‘Is It Light Where You Are‘ lands on September 10th, and it finds the artist – real name Polly Mackey – aligning with Fiction Records.

    Single ‘Softer Side‘ is out to accompany the announcement, the first song Art School Girlfriend recorded for the project.

    She comments: “The record starts with that feeling of being on the precipice of change. Before deciding to pull everything apart, go through it all and come out the other side.”

    Lyrically, it’s the diaristic ac...

    Debut album ‘Is It Light Where You Are‘ lands on September 10th, and it finds the artist – real name Polly Mackey – aligning with Fiction Records.

    Single ‘Softer Side‘ is out to accompany the announcement, the first song Art School Girlfriend recorded for the project.

    She comments: “The record starts with that feeling of being on the precipice of change. Before deciding to pull everything apart, go through it all and come out the other side.”

    Lyrically, it’s the diaristic account of a break up, set against beautiful, gossamer layers of digital sound.

    Polly explains…

    “I feel like it’s kind of human nature to project an ideal onto new love interests. To get infatuated and fall in love with this perfect person that you’ve created in your head. Then through no-one’s fault, we both slowly unpick this, and end up searching for this thing that never was. So when it came to the video, what better way to represent this than through a love story with the most mythical of all beings.”

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    Ascension Of Larks – A special cinematic one-person show performed by Adrian Crowley

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
    Directed by Niall Mc Cann & Adrian Crowley

    Weaving together a unique tapestry of spoken word, ambient soundscapes, songs, stories poetry and home movie footage in this special presentation for Musictown. Adrian invites us up to his room where he has prepared a simple setting, surrounded by curios and relics, each with its own history. And the journey begins. Ascension Of Larks is a look into the pages and inner life of a singular and distinctive artist that inhabits the waking and subconscious worlds.

    In collaboration with Niall Mc Ca...

    Weaving together a unique tapestry of spoken word, ambient soundscapes, songs, stories poetry and home movie footage in this special presentation for Musictown. Adrian invites us up to his room where he has prepared a simple setting, surrounded by curios and relics, each with its own history. And the journey begins. Ascension Of Larks is a look into the pages and inner life of a singular and distinctive artist that inhabits the waking and subconscious worlds.

    In collaboration with Niall Mc Cann; the creative pairing that brought to you the docu-drama, The Science Of Ghosts (2018) Filmed at Adrian’s house on 25th March 2021 by Matthew Boyd & Niall Mac Cann

    Sound mix and master by Seán Mac Erlaine

    Edited by Matthew Boyd Music & words by Adrian Crowley, published by Domino Publishing Co. Ltd

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    Each April something special happens in Dublin. Over 10 days, producers, artists and musicians work together, celebrating music of all genres in both established venues and unorthodox locations. Putting creativity, diversity, community and history, centre stage, MusicTown nurtures collaborations between artists and across disciplines and the results are very special indeed. Committed to continuing to support artists at this difficult time, Dublin City Council in association with Foggy Notions and Aiken Promotions, today unveiled the programme for MusicTown 2021, which celebrates community, durability, and adaptability.Knowing one day, we will return to live music performed in venues to physical audiences, for this year contributing producers and artists in MusicTown have been asked to present their work online in imaginative ways to engage audiences.

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    Asian Dub Foundation ‘Access Denied’ out 29th May 2020

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    Out on X-Ray Productions with collaborations featuring incendiary Palestinian shamstep warriors 47 soul, radical UK comedian Stewart Lee (‘Comin’ Over Here’), and climate activist supreme Greta Thunberg.

    The album showcases ADF in full spectrum mode from the tough Jungle Punk sound of “Stealing The Future” and “Mindlock” through to the orchestral meditations of “Realignment” and the reggae lament of the title track. Unbowed and undeterred Asian Dub Foundation continue their...

    Out on X-Ray Productions with collaborations featuring incendiary Palestinian shamstep warriors 47 soul, radical UK comedian Stewart Lee (‘Comin’ Over Here’), and climate activist supreme Greta Thunberg.

    The album showcases ADF in full spectrum mode from the tough Jungle Punk sound of “Stealing The Future” and “Mindlock” through to the orchestral meditations of “Realignment” and the reggae lament of the title track. Unbowed and undeterred Asian Dub Foundation continue their sonic opposition to the powers that be.

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    Babii ‘iii’ EP out 27th March 2020

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    DiiRECTOR - BABii

    BABii wrote and produced all the music for “SNAKE” as well as creating the concept, directing, producing, editing, styling and building the set for the video. Speaking about the meaning behind the song, BABii said “‘SNAKE’ is a vicious ode to a manipulative spiteful person who has caused me, and a lot of people who are close to me, so much emotional pain that it managed to manifest its self into this song. Making this song helped me heal and purge the poison, so I could m...

    BABii wrote and produced all the music for “SNAKE” as well as creating the concept, directing, producing, editing, styling and building the set for the video. Speaking about the meaning behind the song, BABii said “‘SNAKE’ is a vicious ode to a manipulative spiteful person who has caused me, and a lot of people who are close to me, so much emotional pain that it managed to manifest its self into this song. Making this song helped me heal and purge the poison, so I could move on with my life and fill it with positive things instead.”

    On the video, she added “The concept for the video captures the essence of part of my childhood. I was.a grubby, feral child who spent a lot of time gazing out of a lorry window at the side of the motorway. For a longtime that transient world felt like my home in a lot of ways, so metaphorically it felt right to compliment the theme of the EP.”

    BABii’s debut album HiiDE only came out in July  2019, but she has not stopped creating. In September 2019 she released XYZ, a collaborative album with fellow GLOO members Iglooghost and Kai Whiston; a glitchy electronic work decribed as “the year’s most brilliantly alienating album” by Loud & Quiet. Following UK/EU tours with Chk Chk Chk (!!!) and WHY? she joined up with GLOO again for a sold out London edition of their interactive clubnight Grid. BABii built the machines in which attendees inserted tokens that had been hidden around the club to change the music and visuals onstage.

    Speaking about the new EP, BABii said “‘iii’ is three songs about the proximity of 3 different people in my life. One who I don’t want in my proximity, another who wants me out of there’s and one who I want in mine.” 

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    BABii ‘Shadow’

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    A MYSTERiiOUS SPiiRiiT DOOMED THE RUSTiiNG SCRAPYARD WiiTH LiiFE AND A BABY WAS BORN FROM THE TWiiSTED METAL OF CRUSHED MACHiiNERY AND THE BRUiiSED COLOURS OF ENGiiNE OiiL. AND SHE SOFTLY FELT THE LOSS OF A GUARDiiAN WHO WAS NEVER THERE. SHE WAS CURSED WiiTH AN ASPHALT HEART AND DiiESEL TAiiNTED BLOOD. EVERY WOUND AND SPiiLT DROPLET OF FOSSiiL OiLED BLOOD BROUGHT LiiFE TO A DEMON, WHO HAUNTED HER AND BECAME HER SHADOW FOR ALL ETERNiiTY. MANY DEMONS LATER, SHE CAME FACE TO FACE WiiTH A MYSTERi...

    A MYSTERiiOUS SPiiRiiT DOOMED THE RUSTiiNG SCRAPYARD WiiTH LiiFE AND A BABY WAS BORN FROM THE TWiiSTED METAL OF CRUSHED MACHiiNERY AND THE BRUiiSED COLOURS OF ENGiiNE OiiL. AND SHE SOFTLY FELT THE LOSS OF A GUARDiiAN WHO WAS NEVER THERE. SHE WAS CURSED WiiTH AN ASPHALT HEART AND DiiESEL TAiiNTED BLOOD. EVERY WOUND AND SPiiLT DROPLET OF FOSSiiL OiLED BLOOD BROUGHT LiiFE TO A DEMON, WHO HAUNTED HER AND BECAME HER SHADOW FOR ALL ETERNiiTY. MANY DEMONS LATER, SHE CAME FACE TO FACE WiiTH A MYSTERiiOUS AND UNSETTELiiNG SPiiRiiT. A LOOMiiNG DRAGON LiiKE DEMON THAT FiiLLED THE DEEP GREY SKY WiiTH iiTS WiiNDiiNG BODY AND WAS DENSE WiiTH BLACK FOG AND FLECKED WiiTH BRiiGHT FiiREY EMBERS. LiiiTLE DiiD SHE KNOW THAT THiiS DEMON HAD BEEN iiN HER SHADOWS FOR HER ENTiiRE EXiiSTENCE, YET iiT WAS ONLY NOW iiT WAS NO LONGER iiNViiSiiBLE TO HER. : miirror.xyz​  

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    Ben LaMar Gay ‘Open Arms to Open Us’ out 19th November 2021

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    Director of Photography: Chris Strong

    Ben LaMar Gay’s critically-lauded 2018 break out ‘Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun’ was more like a greatest hits than a debut album, as it compiled the best of the prolific but obscurity-prone Chicago native artist’s previously unreleased music. ‘Open Arms to Open Us’ will be the first release of brand new, freshly baked tunes by Gay, a collection recorded entirely at International Anthem studios in Chicago between March-June 2021.

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    Big Eyes Family ‘The Disappointed Chair’ out 13th November 2020

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    We’ve changed our name. It isn’t radical, but with the nature of how the band of how it has been for the last eight or so years (more of a group, less of a collaborative project), we’ve decided to shorten it to ‘Big Eyes Family’. I hope that is ok with you.

    Four years have whizzed by since our last record (Oh!, 2016), and here is the follow-up. In a way it feels like a continuation of the same psychedelic pop project, except perhaps that the songs have become a little more odd and t...

    We’ve changed our name. It isn’t radical, but with the nature of how the band of how it has been for the last eight or so years (more of a group, less of a collaborative project), we’ve decided to shorten it to ‘Big Eyes Family’. I hope that is ok with you.

    Four years have whizzed by since our last record (Oh!, 2016), and here is the follow-up. In a way it feels like a continuation of the same psychedelic pop project, except perhaps that the songs have become a little more odd and the sound a little more weighted towards synths/organs than guitars. Neal Heppleston has joined on double bass/electric bass (replacing Sharron Kraus) bringing with him some off-kilter sounds. Aside from that, the family are the same. Heather Ditch is the resident singer and wordsmith, Guy Whittaker a most creative drummer, Jim Street our organ/synth aficionado, and I play guitar and do a few other things.

    We recorded the album in Sheffield at Three Galleys Studio by Jim, and at The Bowling Green with Dean Honer (of I Monster/ Eccentronic Research Council/ Moonlandingz/ International Teachers Of Pop). We were also very fortunate to again get Dean to produce the album. In the process of recording and producing he really has become a sixth member of the band, and we really enjoyed working with him.

    There are ten songs. This time, the themes vary from the fate of a satellite orbiting Saturn (Cassini’s Regret), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ cousin Edie Bouvier Beale, who features in the documentary film ‘Grey Gardens’ (The Disappointed Chair) and difficulties in connecting with people ((Sing Me Your) Saddest Song).

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    Black Midi ‘Cavalcade’ out 28th May 2021

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    'John L' Director/choreographer - Nina McNeely with the The Entity Dance Company

    The experimental UK band ‘black midi’ have announced their second album, Cavalcade (Rough Trade). To mark the occasion, they have shared the single ‘John L’ and a music video directed by choreographer and creative director Nina McNeely, whose previous projects include Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer” visual and Gaspar Noé’s Climax.

    After initially recording “John L” with producer Marta Salogni in London, the band found themselves in the aptly named Hellfire Studios, in the Dubli...

    The experimental UK band ‘black midi’ have announced their second album, Cavalcade (Rough Trade). To mark the occasion, they have shared the single ‘John L’ and a music video directed by choreographer and creative director Nina McNeely, whose previous projects include Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer” visual and Gaspar Noé’s Climax.

    After initially recording “John L” with producer Marta Salogni in London, the band found themselves in the aptly named Hellfire Studios, in the Dublin mountains, in summer 2020 under the eye of John ‘Spud’ Murphy. The track has a massive sound, driven by some gutsy Discipline-era King Crimson thrust, and energy wrought by the inclusion of Jerskin Fendrix on violin. The group tease the raging track to the point of nonexistence before leading it through caverns of reverb and gauzy snareskin landscapes, just for it to return, hitting hard as hell once more. The story painted is a jet-black comedy about what happens to cult leaders when their followers turn on them.

    More about Cavalcade:

    The groundwork for Cavalcade was laid in 2019 — musical sketches that had been brewing since the release of Schlagenheim began muscling their way into black midi set lists and finally became individual entities. But with this album, there was a “yearning” to be more considered and record something that was more harmonically interesting and challenging. “It’s easy to get wrapped up in the improvisation myth of divine intervention, that if a song doesn’t happen in the room naturally without it being guided by someone specifically, when we’re all just feeling the vibe, then it’s not proper and it’s not pure,” says Greep. “That’s kind of a dangerous thing because you end up never trying something different, or you just abandon an idea if it doesn’t work at first because you’re always waiting for that thing to arrive perfect.”

    With this new approach in mind, half of Cavalcade was written by individual members at home and brought to the table in rehearsal. black midi recruited two new members to play on the record: saxophonist Kaidi Akinnibi and keyboardist Seth Evans.

    Get to Know black midi, a New Type of British Guitar Band.

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    Black Midi ‘Slow’

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    Posted on 11 May 2021
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    'Slow' Dir. Gustaf Holtenäs

    “The  ‘Slow’  video was made to fit the oscillating dynamics of the song. Going from calm to chaos over and over again. The video tells the story of a character who creates AI-generated worlds. To emphasise this, I let real AI’s generate a lot of the backgrounds in these worlds. So they are partly AI-generated, but It isn’t long before an AI could create the whole deal and create endless iterations of fantasy worlds. It can already create a random beautiful landscape painting in ...

    “The  ‘Slow’  video was made to fit the oscillating dynamics of the song. Going from calm to chaos over and over again. The video tells the story of a character who creates AI-generated worlds. To emphasise this, I let real AI’s generate a lot of the backgrounds in these worlds. So they are partly AI-generated, but It isn’t long before an AI could create the whole deal and create endless iterations of fantasy worlds. It can already create a random beautiful landscape painting in 1 second.” Gustaf Holtenäs

    Lead vocalist Geordie Greep says of their approach, “It’s easy to get wrapped up in the improvisation myth of divine intervention, that if a song doesn’t happen in the room naturally without it being guided by someone specifically, when we’re all just feeling the vibe, then it’s not proper and it’s not pure. That’s kind of a dangerous thing because you end up never trying something different, or you just abandon an idea if it doesn’t work at first because you’re always waiting for that thing to arrive perfect.”

    Drummer Morgan Simpson adds, “The experience this time round was completely the flipside to ‘Schlagenheim’. A lot of the material was really fresh but that was something that played into our hands and we relished it.”

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    black midi ‘Welcome To Hell’ out 9th May

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    Welcome To Hell Black midi Out 09 May 2022
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    Black midi release new single Welcome To Hell with psychedelic video directed by Gustaf Holtenäs. It’s been unveiled as the first single of their upcoming new album, ‘Hellfire’, which will be released on July 15 via Rough Trade Records.

    Speaking about the new album, guitarist and vocalist Geordie Greep said: “if ‘Cavalcade’ [their last album] was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is like an epic action film”.

    A statement adds that it “delves into overlapping themes of pain, loss and a...

    Black midi release new single Welcome To Hell with psychedelic video directed by Gustaf Holtenäs. It’s been unveiled as the first single of their upcoming new album, ‘Hellfire’, which will be released on July 15 via Rough Trade Records.

    Speaking about the new album, guitarist and vocalist Geordie Greep said: “if ‘Cavalcade’ [their last album] was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is like an epic action film”.

    A statement adds that it “delves into overlapping themes of pain, loss and anguish.”

    The stories on the new album are written in the third person and “tell the tales of morally suspect characters.” A statement adds: “There are direct dramatic monologues, flamboyantly appealing to our degraded sense of right and wrong. You’re never quite sure whether to laugh at or be horrified.”

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    Black Midi announce sophomore album ‘Cavalcade’ out 28th May 2021

    Posted on 25 March 2021

    The experimental UK band ‘black midi’ have announced their second album, Cavalcade (Rough Trade). To mark the occasion, they have shared the single ‘John L’ and a music video directed by choreographer and creative director Nina McNeely, whose previous projects include Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer” visual and Gaspar Noé’s Climax.

    After initially recording “John L” with producer Marta Salogni in London, the band found themselves in the aptly named Hellfire Studios, in the Dubli...

    The experimental UK band ‘black midi’ have announced their second album, Cavalcade (Rough Trade). To mark the occasion, they have shared the single ‘John L’ and a music video directed by choreographer and creative director Nina McNeely, whose previous projects include Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer” visual and Gaspar Noé’s Climax.

    After initially recording “John L” with producer Marta Salogni in London, the band found themselves in the aptly named Hellfire Studios, in the Dublin mountains, in summer 2020 under the eye of John ‘Spud’ Murphy. The track has a massive sound, driven by some gutsy Discipline-era King Crimson thrust, and energy wrought by the inclusion of Jerskin Fendrix on violin. The group tease the raging track to the point of nonexistence before leading it through caverns of reverb and gauzy snareskin landscapes, just for it to return, hitting hard as hell once more. The story painted is a jet-black comedy about what happens to cult leaders when their followers turn on them.

    More about Cavalcade:

    The groundwork for Cavalcade was laid in 2019 — musical sketches that had been brewing since the release of Schlagenheim began muscling their way into black midi set lists and finally became individual entities. But with this album, there was a “yearning” to be more considered and record something that was more harmonically interesting and challenging. “It’s easy to get wrapped up in the improvisation myth of divine intervention, that if a song doesn’t happen in the room naturally without it being guided by someone specifically, when we’re all just feeling the vibe, then it’s not proper and it’s not pure,” says Greep. “That’s kind of a dangerous thing because you end up never trying something different, or you just abandon an idea if it doesn’t work at first because you’re always waiting for that thing to arrive perfect.”

    With this new approach in mind, half of Cavalcade was written by individual members at home and brought to the table in rehearsal. black midi recruited two new members to play on the record: saxophonist Kaidi Akinnibi and keyboardist Seth Evans.

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    black midi share video for ‘Welcome To Hell’ from recent album release ‘Hellfire’

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    Posted on 20 July 2022
    Welcome To Hell Black midi Out 15 July 2022
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    black midi bring us a suitably strange and fantastic video to accompany the first single from album ‘Hellfire’ released on the 15th July.

    Written in isolation in London, Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of its predecessor, Cavalclade, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim.  As Greep describes it: “If Cavalcade was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is like an epic action film” that delves into overlapping themes of pain, loss and angu...

    black midi bring us a suitably strange and fantastic video to accompany the first single from album ‘Hellfire’ released on the 15th July.

    Written in isolation in London, Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of its predecessor, Cavalclade, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim.  As Greep describes it: “If Cavalcade was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is like an epic action film” that delves into overlapping themes of pain, loss and anguish. Whereas the stories of Cavalcade were told in third person, Hellfire is presented in first person and tells the tales of morally suspect characters. There are direct dramatic monologues, flamboyantly appealing to our degraded sense of right and wrong. You’re never quite sure whether to laugh at or be horrified. It is their most thematically cohesive and intentional album yet.

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    Brother May and Micachu Archives 2008-2014

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    Posted on 03 November 2020
    Archives 2008-2014 Mica Levi Out 24 October 2020
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    Brother May and Micachu

    Brother May and Micachu met in 2006 in an internet cafe on white-cross street- both putting songs up on myspace – Brother May was with some friends and his brother as well. They all ended up making music together and Brother May gave Mica the name Micachu. They have been making music now for 14 years. This release is some improvised freestyles and beat making from Brother May and Micachu. Made in kitchens and bedrooms.

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    Cate Le Bon ‘Pompeii’ out 4th February 2022

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    Posted on 25 November 2021
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    Directed and Filmed by Casey Raymond

    ‘Pompeii’, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated ‘Reward’, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe — global pandemic plus climate emergency’s colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. “What would be your last gesture?” she asks.

    But just as Vesuvius remains active, ‘...

    ‘Pompeii’, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated ‘Reward’, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe — global pandemic plus climate emergency’s colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. “What would be your last gesture?” she asks.

    But just as Vesuvius remains active, ‘Pompeii’ reaches past the current crises to tap into what Le Bon calls “an economy of time warp” where life roils, bubbles, wrinkles, melts, hardens, and reconfigures unpredictably, like lava—or sound, rather. Like she says in the opener, “Dirt on the Bed,” Sound doesn’t go away / In habitual silence / It reinvents the surface / Of everything you touch.

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    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ‘Thank You’

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    Posted on 24 September 2021
    Thank You Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul Out 22 September 2021
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    Cementing themselves as a duo under both their names for the first time in their career, longterm musical partners Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul have shared new track ‘Thank You’.

    The vibrant new track is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax and released via their iconic label, DEEWEE, and is described by Charlotte as “a cheeky and cynical revenge for all the unwanted, unsolicited opinions some people generously offer us”.

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    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul give fantastic live performance at @ARTE Concert, Paris

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    Posted on 27 April 2022

    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul bring us a fantastic live 10 song performance at @ARTE Concert in the sweltering tropical greenhouses of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

    What better setting than the Jardin des Plantes and its exotic greenhouses for the damp and hot music of Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul? Surrounded by giant orchids and exuberant flora, Belgian artists allow their subtle blend of influences with multiple roots to grow: rap, soul, R’n’B, funk, disco, house and tr...

    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul bring us a fantastic live 10 song performance at @ARTE Concert in the sweltering tropical greenhouses of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

    What better setting than the Jardin des Plantes and its exotic greenhouses for the damp and hot music of Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul? Surrounded by giant orchids and exuberant flora, Belgian artists allow their subtle blend of influences with multiple roots to grow: rap, soul, R’n’B, funk, disco, house and tropical rhythms.

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    Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul ‘Topical Dancer’ out 4th March 2022

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    Posted on 25 November 2021
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    Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul release their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ via Soulwax’s iconic label Deewee.

    Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’. The Ghent-based ...

    Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul release their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ via Soulwax’s iconic label Deewee.

    Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album ‘Topical Dancer’. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.

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    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ‘New Fragility’ Out 12th February 2021

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    Where they perform miracles

    “Born in Philadelphia but now living in the south

    Your hand slipped slowly into mine somehow

    And who’s going to argue with a perfect start?

    But will you still be there when I’m down and out?

    I know a place where they perform miracles”

    “These songs are politically motivated, which is unusual for me,” Alec Ounsworth says of “Hesitating Nation’”and “Thousand Oaks”. “The only other politically motivated song I’ve written is ‘Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’....

    “Born in Philadelphia but now living in the south

    Your hand slipped slowly into mine somehow

    And who’s going to argue with a perfect start?

    But will you still be there when I’m down and out?

    I know a place where they perform miracles”

    “These songs are politically motivated, which is unusual for me,” Alec Ounsworth says of “Hesitating Nation’”and “Thousand Oaks”. “The only other politically motivated song I’ve written is ‘Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’.” That track helped launch the landmark self-titled debut back in 2005. And now, after 15 years, Alec felt compelled to once again tackle politics, and what’s happening in the US indicating how serious he believes the situation to be.

    “‘Hesitating Nation’ is a song meant to convey my sense of disappointment and alienation with the rewarded mentality of getting ahead at all costs, inevitably to the detriment of those who didn’t sign up to be part of the experiment.”  Describing “Thousand Oaks,” Ounsworth says, “In 2018, there was a shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA which killed 13 people. This song has to do with the impotence of the American government in the face of such tragedies.”

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    The Coral ‘Coral Island’ Out 30th April 2021

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    Coral Island The Coral Out 30 April 2021
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    Production and Direction by Edwin Burdis

    The Coral return with a vividly evocative body of work in the form of their Tenth and first, ever double-album: Coral Island.

    Squinting into the neon-lit penny arcades and draining an after hours glass with the displaced and dispossessed once the power is pulled, The Coral’s latest caper concerns listeners with the light, shade, thrills and profound melancholy of coastal palaces packed with fun and fright. Both now and then, or perhaps never as fiction encroaches on reality, the feverou...

    The Coral return with a vividly evocative body of work in the form of their Tenth and first, ever double-album: Coral Island.

    Squinting into the neon-lit penny arcades and draining an after hours glass with the displaced and dispossessed once the power is pulled, The Coral’s latest caper concerns listeners with the light, shade, thrills and profound melancholy of coastal palaces packed with fun and fright. Both now and then, or perhaps never as fiction encroaches on reality, the feverous anticipation of a night amongst the screams, fights and romance of the fair become part of life on the newly-built Coral Island.

    Recorded in a sense of barely-controlled, copy and paste chaos at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, Coral Island was written and performed by the multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented line-up of James Skelly, Ian Skelly, Nick Power, Paul Duffy and Paul Molloy plus a special guest.

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    Cory Hanson ‘Angeles’

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    Posted on 22 February 2021
    'Pale Horse Rider' Cory Hanson (solo) Wand Out 12 March 2021
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    Directed by: The Coconut Brothers | Animation by: Casey Hanson

    New video ‘Angeles’ from the album ‘Pale Horse Rider’.

    Directed by: The Coconut Brothers Animation by: Casey Hanson

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    Cory Hanson ‘Pale Horse Rider’ Out 12th March 2021

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    Posted on 06 January 2021
    'Pale Horse Rider' Cory Hanson (solo) Wand Out 12 March 2021
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    Directed by: Cory & Casey Hanson Liquid Visuals by: the Mad Alchemist Liquid Light Show

    Myths and truths of a country on the way down, viewed through a deep-focus lens trained on the city from the deserts on the east; a terminus of unoccupied residential parks and streets fading into craggy footpaths to nowhere, where our passage is seen as diligent, ephemeral and grotesque by turns, forgiven and made beautiful again by the sound. Drag City

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    Dan Rumsey & the Dark Days ‘The Darkest Day’ Out 15th May 2020

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    Posted on 02 November 2020
    Darkest Days The Wytches Out 15 May 2020
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    Shot & Directed by Molly Keane

    The Darkest Day EP was written, and recorded, after The Wytches finished their hotly anticipated third album. These songs are a million miles away from The Wytches. They are brooding, filled with lyrics about anxiety, love, loss and redemption. ‘Into the Fire’ sounds like a heavier Interpol. Slabs of guitars get right in your face from the start and don’t let up until it ends. However, they are also packed with hope. A hope that the pain will recede, not go away, but lessen and that eve...

    The Darkest Day EP was written, and recorded, after The Wytches finished their hotly anticipated third album. These songs are a million miles away from The Wytches. They are brooding, filled with lyrics about anxiety, love, loss and redemption. ‘Into the Fire’ sounds like a heavier Interpol. Slabs of guitars get right in your face from the start and don’t let up until it ends. However, they are also packed with hope. A hope that the pain will recede, not go away, but lessen and that everything will eventually get better, most notably on ‘Our Illusion’. Here Rumsey appears to be lamenting the end of the relationship.

    The Darkest Day is a fun EP. The five songs are packed with the kind of dark, throbbing energy that made The Wytches such an exciting prospect. But, unlike Rumsey’s day job, there is a massive dollop of pop. Catchy choruses that demand to be sung out loud. The downside is that it never quite hits the highs of The Wytches and it’s slightly unfair to compare the two. Rumsey is one member of that powerhouse of a group; here everything is on his shoulders. He has no one to confer with, no one to bounce ideas off. But what is remarkable though, is how it nearly does reach those highs. The title track could easily hold its own on a Wytches album. We are currently living in dark days but maybe, just maybe, Rumsey can illuminate that darkness with this collection of captivating songs. Taken from this article

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    DISCOVER ‘Ping Pong’ by Stereolab

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    Posted on 30 March 2021

    Tim Gane (Domino Publishing) and Laetitia Sadier (Complete):

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery 

    Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    You see, the recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry for, things will look after th...

    Tim Gane (Domino Publishing) and Laetitia Sadier (Complete):

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery 

    Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    You see, the recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry for, things will look after themselves

    It’s alright, recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry if things can only get better

    There’s only millions that lose their jobs And homes and sometimes accents

    There’s only millions that die In their bloody wars, it’s alright

    It’s only their lives and the lives Of their next of kin that they are losing 

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    Don’t worry, be happy Things will get better naturally

    Don’t worry, shut up, sit down Go with it and be happy

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    DISCOVER Amy Douglas ‘Cities In Dust’ Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cover

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    Posted on 17 March 2021
    Amy Douglas 'Cities In Dust' Siouxsie And The Banshees (single) Hard Feelings Out 13 December 2019
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    Directed by Dave Baron

    For her first release on Lady Balls, Amy Douglas covered ‘Cities In Dust‘ – Siouxsie Sioux‘s Epic tale of Pompeii.

    “Hot and burning in your nostrils
    Pouring down your gaping mouth
    Your molten bodies, blanket of cinders
    Caught in the throes
    And ohh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend“
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    DISCOVER Arthur Russell ‘Iowa Dream’

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    Posted on 30 September 2020
    Iowa Dream Arthur Russell Out 15 November 2019
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    I Never Get Lonesome from Iowa Dream

    Arthur Russell‘s climb to celebrated musician has for the most part taken place over the last 16 years, encouraged by a flow of compilation albums collected from the bottomless well of partially finished songs he left behind, much like his latest 2019 release ‘Iowa Dream’.

    Nearly half the songs on ‘Iowa Dream’ are drawn from recording sessions with both Columbia Records‘ legendary John Hammond and Mercury’s Paul Nelson. Hammond considered Russell to have the potential to become ...

    Arthur Russell‘s climb to celebrated musician has for the most part taken place over the last 16 years, encouraged by a flow of compilation albums collected from the bottomless well of partially finished songs he left behind, much like his latest 2019 release ‘Iowa Dream’.

    Nearly half the songs on ‘Iowa Dream’ are drawn from recording sessions with both Columbia Records‘ legendary John Hammond and Mercury’s Paul Nelson. Hammond considered Russell to have the potential to become the next Bob Dylan — but increasingly became frustrated with Russell’s strange musical arrangements and the large backing band he’d bring to the studio.

    From this album, the ever elegant folk strummer; ‘I Never Get Lonesome’ has quite simply been one of our favourite tracks here at Domino over the past year. It’s easy to see why when delving into the lyrics: “I never get lonesome, never in the day, never do I worry, I’ve got nothing to say…”.

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY WILL THOMMES

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    DISCOVER Dur-Dur Band ‘Yabaal’

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    Posted on 10 March 2021
    Dur Dur of Somalia - Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks Analog Africa Out 14 September 2018
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    ‘Yabaal’ from Dur Dur Band of Mogadishu Somalia – Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks by Dur-Dur Band originally performed 1986

    Watching this joyful hand camera video of Dur Dur Band is indicative that it is impossible to stand still whilst listening to the Somalian funk. It’s too easy for us to forget that before the civil war, 1980s Mogadishu was a thriving cultural hub. It is our loss that, in their heyday, we in the West didn’t recognise the sensational Dur-Dur...

    ‘Yabaal’ from Dur Dur Band of Mogadishu Somalia – Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks by Dur-Dur Band originally performed 1986

    Watching this joyful hand camera video of Dur Dur Band is indicative that it is impossible to stand still whilst listening to the Somalian funk. It’s too easy for us to forget that before the civil war, 1980s Mogadishu was a thriving cultural hub. It is our loss that, in their heyday, we in the West didn’t recognise the sensational Dur-Dur Band. Dur-Dur‘s doctrine was the fusion of traditional Somali music with whatever rhythms would make people dance: Funk, Reggae, Soul, Disco and New Wave were mixed effortlessly with Banaadiri beats, Daantho and spiritual Saar music. The concoction was explosive and when they stormed the Mogadishu music scene in 1986 with their very first hit single, ‘Yabaal‘, featuring vocals from Sahra Dawo, it was clear that a new meteorite had crash-landed in Somalia.  Abdulahi Ahmed, author of Somali Folk Dances explained: “Yabaal is a traditional song, but the way it was played and recorded was like nothing else we had heard before, it was new to us”.

    The following notes on Dur-Dur Band were written by Analog Africa:

    Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb arrived in Mogadishu in November of 2016, he was informed by his host that he would have to be accompanied at all times by an armed escort while in the country. The next morning, a neighbour and former security guard put on a military uniform, borrowed an AK-47 from somewhere and escorted him to Via Roma, an historical street in the heart of Hamar-Weyne, the city’s oldest district. Although previous Analog Africa releases have demonstrated a willingness to go more than the extra air-mile to track down the stories behind the music, the trip to Mogadishu was a musical journey of a different kind. It was the culmination of an odyssey that had started many years earlier.

    In 2007 John Beadle, a Milwaukee-based musicologist and owner of the much loved Likembe blog, uploaded a cassette he had been handed twenty years earlier by a Somalian student. The post was titled ‘Mystery Somali Funk‘ and it was, in Samy’s own words, “some of the deepest funk ever recorded”. The cassette seemed to credit these dense, sonorous tunes to the legendary Iftin Band. But initial contact with Iftin’s lead singer suggested that the ‘mystery funk’ may have actually been the work of their chief rival, Dur-Dur, a young band from the 80s.

    Back then, Mogadishu had been a very different place.
    On the bustling Via Roma, people from all corners of society would gather at the Bar Novecento and Cafe Cappucino, watch movies at the famous Supercinema, and eat at the numerous pasta hang-outs or the traditional restaurants that served Bariis Maraq, a somali Beef Stew mixed with delicious spiced rice. The same street was also home to Iftinphone and Shankarphone, two of the city’s best known music shop. Located opposite each other, they were the centre of Somalia’s burgeoning cassette distribution network. Both shops, run by members of the legendary Iftin Band, would become first-hand witnesses to the meteoric rise of Dur- Dur, a rise that climaxed in April of 1987 with the release of Volume 2, their second album.

    The first single ‘Diinleya‘ had taken Somalian airwaves by storm in a way rarely seen before or since. The next single, ‘Dab’, had an even greater impact, and the two hits had turned them into the hottest band in town. In addition to their main gig as house band at the legendary Jubba Hotel, Dur-Dur had also been asked to perform the music for the play “Jascyl Laba Ruux Mid Ha Too Rido” (May one of us fall in love) at Mogadishu’s national theatre. The play was so successful that the management had been forced to extend the run by a month, throwing the theatre’s already packed schedule into complete disarray; and each night, as soon as the play had finished, Dur-Dur had to pack their instruments into a Volkswagen T1 tour bus that would shuttle them across town in time for their hotel performance.

    The secrets to Dur-Dur‘s rapid success is inextricably linked to the vision of Isse Dahir, founder and keyboard player of the band. Isse’s plan was to locate some of the most forward-thinking musicians of Mogadishu’s buzzing scene and lure them into Dur-Dur. Ujeeri, the band’s mercurial bass player was recruited from Somali Jazz and drummer extraordinaire Handal previously played in Bakaka Band. These two formed the backbone of Dur-Dur and would become one of Somalia’s most extraordinary rhythm sections.

    Isse also added his two younger brothers to the line-up: Abukar Dahir Qassin was brought in to play lead guitar, and Ahmed Dahir Qassin was hired as a permanent sound engineer, a first in Somalia and one of the reasons that Dur-Dur became known as the best-sounding band in the country.

    On their first two albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, three different singers traded lead-vocal duties back and forth. Shimaali, formerly of Bakaka Band, handled the Daantho songs, a Somalian rhythm from the northern part of the country that bears a striking resemblance to reggae; Sahra Dawo, a young female singer, had been recruited from Somalia’s national orchestra, the Waaberi Band. Their third singer, the legendary Baastow, whose nickname came from the italian word ‘pasta’ due to the spaghetti-like shape of his body, had also been a vocalist with the Waaberi Band, and had been brought into Dur-Dur due to his deep knowledge of traditional Somali music, particularly Saar, a type of music intended to summon the spirits during religious rituals. These traditional elements of Dur-Dur‘s repertoire sometimes put them at odds with the manager of the Jubba Hotel who once told Baastow “I am not going to risk having Italian tourists possessed by Somali spirits. Stick to disco and reggae“.

    ‘Yabaal’ was one of the songs that resurfaced on the Likembe blog, and it became the symbolic starting point of this project.

    It initially seemed that Dur-Dur‘s music had only been preserved as a series of murky tape dubs and YouTube videos, but after Samy arrived in Mogadishu he eventually got to the heart of Mogadishu’s tape-copying network – an analogue forerunner of the internet file-sharing that helped to keep the flame of this music alive through the darkest days of Somalia’s civil strife – and ended up finding some of the band’s fabled master tapes, long thought to have disappeared.

    This triple LP / double CD reissue of the band’s first two albums – the first installment in a three-part series dedicated to Dur-Dur Band – represents the first fruit of Analog Africa‘s long labours to bring this extraordinary music to the wider world. Remastered from the best available audio sources, these songs have never sounded better. Some thirty years after they first made such a splash in the Mogadishu scene, they have been freed from the wobble and tape-hiss of second and third generation cassette dubs, to reveal a glorious mix of polychromatic organs, nightclub-ready rhythms and hauntingly soulful vocals.

    In addition to two previously unreleased tracks, the music is accompanied by extensive liner notes, featuring interviews with original band members, documenting a forgotten chapter of Somalia’s cultural history. Before the upheaval in the 1990s that turned Somalia into a war-zone, Mogadishu, the white pearl of the Indian Ocean, had been one of the jewels of eastern Africa, a modern paradise of culture and commerce. In the music of the Dur-Dur band – now widely available outside of Somalia – we can still catch a fleeting glimpse of that golden age.

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    VINYL FACTORY

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    Domino Publishing represent Analog Africa 

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Eilisio Vera ‘Capchona’

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    Posted on 08 December 2020
    Space Echo Analog Africa Out 27 May 2016
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    Eilisio Vera 'Capchona' from the album Space Echo compiled by Analog Africa

    Analog Africa released the compilation album “Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed” in May 2016. Compiled and produced by label founder Samy Ben Redjeb, the album consists of upbeat and energetic tracks by various artists from the remote island of Cabo Verde off the West Coast of Africa, originally recorded in the 1970’s when the island was under Portuguese colonial rule.

    The album is synth-heavy and almost futuristic sounding, but what reall...

    Analog Africa released the compilation album “Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed” in May 2016. Compiled and produced by label founder Samy Ben Redjeb, the album consists of upbeat and energetic tracks by various artists from the remote island of Cabo Verde off the West Coast of Africa, originally recorded in the 1970’s when the island was under Portuguese colonial rule.

    The album is synth-heavy and almost futuristic sounding, but what really adds to the enjoyment of the compilation is the story behind the making of this music. In 1968 a a shipment carrying various electrical musical instruments and equipment set off from Baltimore headed for Rio de Janeiro. Mysteriously, the ship disappeared off the radar and washed up on the coast of Cabo Verde. A few months later, islanders came across the abandoned ship and local police commandeered the cargo – consisting of hundreds of synths and keyboards never seen before on the island.

    An anti-colonial leader decided to distribute the equipment among schools on the island (largely due to their access to electricity), and young people created a new musical sound that combined local traditional rhythms with a modernised synth edge. The young beneficiaries of this mysterious abandoned shipment grew to become extremely talented musicians with an infectious sound unique to the island, the best of which is presented In this compilation.

    The National review (UAE)

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY SAMANTHA POTTER

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    DISCOVER Gotts Street Park – Everything ft. Rosie Lowe

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    Posted on 09 February 2021
    Gotts Street Park - Everything ft. Rosie Lowe Rosie Lowe Out 29 September 2020
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    Gotts Street Park - Everything ft. Rosie Lowe

    This beautiful collaboration between Leeds collective Gotts Street Park and Domino Publishing writer Rosie Lowe was created and released during lockdown, in October 2020. The band sent Lowe the instrumental without having met her yet, and she comments: “I had the melody in my head before the song was even finished. It sparked such a strong energy for me and I wanted to capture that as quickly as possible; by the end of the day the whole song was written.” Lowe’s vocals and the jazz/soul...

    This beautiful collaboration between Leeds collective Gotts Street Park and Domino Publishing writer Rosie Lowe was created and released during lockdown, in October 2020. The band sent Lowe the instrumental without having met her yet, and she comments: “I had the melody in my head before the song was even finished. It sparked such a strong energy for me and I wanted to capture that as quickly as possible; by the end of the day the whole song was written.” Lowe’s vocals and the jazz/soul feel of the music create a distinct neo-soul sound.

     

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    DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself’

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    Posted on 11 November 2020
    Have You Been Good To Yourself (reissue) Light In The Attic Out 19 August 2016
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    In such a chaotic time, it couldn’t be more important to check in and ‘be good to yourself’. Just as Johnnie Frierson sings on the ultra-rare home recordings drawn from his religious upbringing and his history in the music business, which was interrupted in 1970 when he was sent to fight in Vietnam.

    ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself‘ will come as a surprise to anyone expecting more of the beat-driven R&B Johnnie and his sibling produced.

    With the year we’ve all had, these lyrics...

    In such a chaotic time, it couldn’t be more important to check in and ‘be good to yourself’. Just as Johnnie Frierson sings on the ultra-rare home recordings drawn from his religious upbringing and his history in the music business, which was interrupted in 1970 when he was sent to fight in Vietnam.

    ‘Have You Been Good To Yourself‘ will come as a surprise to anyone expecting more of the beat-driven R&B Johnnie and his sibling produced.

    With the year we’ve all had, these lyrics say is all really…

    “Have you been good to yourself?
    Have you been getting your proper rest?
    Have you been sleeping at least eight hours?
    Have you been eating the right kind of food?
    Have you been getting enough exercise?”

    Johnnie joins Domino care of our Light in the Attic catalogue. 

    SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY WILL THOMMES

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    DISCOVER Johnnie Frierson ‘Miracles’

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    Posted on 07 January 2021
    Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (feat. Ty Segall) covering 'Miracles' by Johnnie Frierson Light In The Attic Out 06 January 2021
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    As part of Light in the Attic’s on-going 7″ covers series we celebrate the song “Miracles” (written by Johnnie Frierson. The a-side includes Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (feat. Ty Segall) covering “Miracles,” while the flip-side includes Johnnie’s original version, taken from our reissue of his album Have You Been Good To Yourself.

    Johnnie Frierson was a soul-singer/songwriter on the Memphis scene of the 1960s, perhaps best known for his role in The Drapels, tho...

    As part of Light in the Attic’s on-going 7″ covers series we celebrate the song “Miracles” (written by Johnnie Frierson. The a-side includes Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (feat. Ty Segall) covering “Miracles,” while the flip-side includes Johnnie’s original version, taken from our reissue of his album Have You Been Good To Yourself.

    Johnnie Frierson was a soul-singer/songwriter on the Memphis scene of the 1960s, perhaps best known for his role in The Drapels, though he played parts behind the scenes in soul, funk and gospel productions for Stax and Hi Records. His career was interrupted in 1968 by the U.S. Army. Following a stint in Vietnam, he returned to Memphis, making music only intermittently (making a single in 1975 with the gospel group The Whole Truth), while working a variety of different jobs and raising a family. In the early 90s, he got involved with music again, hosting a gospel radio show and selling cassettes of his new home-recorded songs in different places around town. According to his daughter, this was a hard time in Johnnie’s life, during which he was no doubt processing the painful experiences he’d had in Vietnam and afterwards. The songs show remarkable optimism in the face of this information — perhaps none more so than “Miracles,” with its warm and emphatic refrain:

    You can do ‘em
    have faith
    you are human
    only human
    and human beings, they do miracles

    Johnnie’s version, a guitar and vocals performance, thrills with its uncoated R’n’B and gospel inspirations. For Ty’s take on the song, the ever-darkening realities of the present-day require a different sonic platform — and so, via the riffs of the original, he takes the song to a darker area of the blues, which, driven by the funky soundings of the Rhythm King drum machine and scudded with filth-toned guitars, synths and saxes (sketchily blown by Bitchin Bajas’ Rob Frye), evokes the raw beats of Sly, the exotic tinge of Stevie and the sanctified elevation of Al Green. This clearly delights Bill and Bonny, who deliver from deep down, with Bonny supplying all the voices in the backing choir with true fervor and Bill hitting a couple of notes that make our hair stand straight up every time. A low-down, slinking celebration of our bottomless grace.

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    A-Side: Drag City – B-side: Light in the Attic

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Late of the Pier ‘Bathroom Gurgle’

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    Posted on 23 March 2021
    Fantasy Black Channel Sam Potter Out 04 August 2008
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    Photo credit: Jon Bergman

    Click here to watch ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ by Late of the Pier

    Forming in Castle Donnington in 2005, Late of the Pier were four school friends, Samuel Eastgate (vocals, guitar), Sam Potter (synths, sampler), Andrew Faley (bass), and Ross Dawson (drums) – or, as they called themselves: Samuel Dust, Jack Paradise, Francis Dudley Dance, and Red Dog Consuela.

    With social media and streaming in its infancy, people had messy lives – partying went relentlessly unchecked and anything was possible....

    Click here to watch ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ by Late of the Pier

    Forming in Castle Donnington in 2005, Late of the Pier were four school friends, Samuel Eastgate (vocals, guitar), Sam Potter (synths, sampler), Andrew Faley (bass), and Ross Dawson (drums) – or, as they called themselves: Samuel Dust, Jack Paradise, Francis Dudley Dance, and Red Dog Consuela.

    With social media and streaming in its infancy, people had messy lives – partying went relentlessly unchecked and anything was possible. You might share a toilet cubicle with Amy Winehouse and split a cab fare with a z list celeb without thinking to document it. People were still spending any money they had on going ‘out out’. There were no pop-up gastro experiences, tattoos were still Chinese mottos, the only vegan option was asking for salad pitta and chips after you checked the chippie didn’t cook the battered sausage in the same oil. The provincial towns of the UK were loaded with DIY music makers excitedly experimenting with gear they found in someone’s loft. It never occurred to anyone to sell it online. You’d get your pals round and make something with the treasures you’d find to try and make life more interesting for yourselves. Most parents would not mind – they had a music interest themselves. This is how you would end up with bands like Late of the Pier.

    2008 marked the end of an era of blind optimism in the music business. The seismic tremors of the credit crunch were underway. Venture capitalists grabbed Caesar hair-cut music executives by the ankles and yanked them abruptly into the rapidly opening crevasse which was ripping across companies like EMI Music. The Parlophone imprint was home to one album – 2008’s ‘Fantasy Black Channel’ by Late of the Pier. Caught in this metaphorical ice flow – this album became a landmark, frozen in time. They marked a new dawn of genre binaries, art and energy. Its young creators would later grow up through the Domino roster to become Soft Hair, LA Priest and perform song-writing duties with Domino artists like Franz Ferdinand and Xenoula.

    Wrestling free from usual genre constraints, Late of the Pier‘s only album release was hotly tipped at the time. Put out through EMI Music on Parlophone’s A&R structure it released on the imprint Phantasy Sound – the label founded by DJ Erol Alkan.  Based in Hoxton, the area was just on the turn to gentrification – clinging on to it’s lively arts scene. Alkan produced this album. One half of psychedelic rock group Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve (BTWS), it’s worth mentioning that the wizzard sleeve sound encapsulated the post 9/11 New York new wave sound of the mid 00s. People were tiring of 4 piece bands and tongue-in-cheek novelty rock bands. People were looking for something authentic, expressive and joyful. Unusual rhythmic patterns were popularised by a wave of Brazilian music. The music scene was bubbling with baile funk and burgeoning British hip hop – hints of fresh new music buds were appearing. BTWS had remixed Peter Bjorn and John, Midlake, Simian Mobile Disco, Franz Ferdinand, The Chemical Brothers and Goldfrapp. Their mixes filled the  impromptu dancefloors of bohemian dive bars across Europe.

    Late of the Pier shows were the most sought after to attend at a time when people could be bothered to go out. The band would crush onto small stages in silver hoods and robes of ‘neon grey’. It was almost impossible to ever describe their music or remember their song titles. Their music consumed synth pop, glam rock, IDM and thrash metal. Someone told me I had to go see this band – ‘they use wooden planks in their set mate, you gotta check em out‘. We did all pile down to UCL union bar in London to ‘check em out’. Late of the Pier kept everyone happy from the indie band guys to glam rock fashionistas.

    “Starting off like Haircut 100, this morphs into ‘Mechanical Animals’-era Marilyn Manson, followed by The Strokes’ ‘12.51’ riff, then ‘There, There’ by Radiohead, through to MGMT and Gary Numan. Just when you think it’s over, Rage Against the Machine metal-funk appears with added cock-rock guitar. Thus it is everything ace ever, distilled into a pendant of liquid-pop platinum.” NME 1st August 2008

    Whilst the band never officially split, Sam Eastgate aka Samuel Dust now better known as La Priest, worked with Sam Potter aka Jack Paradise on Fantasy Black Channel’s tenth anniversary in 2018 by creating a pamphlet for Rough Trade Books titled Ecstatic Data Sets: The Chorismos Apeiron Scanner (2028 Edition) a manual for a music-making machine of the near future.

    This entry is dedicated to the memory of drummer, Ross Dawson.

    DAZED: remembering Late of the Pier – one of the UK’s most forward thinking bands

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS WRITTEN BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Matching Mole ‘O Caroline’

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
    Matching Mole Robert Wyatt Out 08 April 2021
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    Matching Mole (1972 image Courtesy of Cuneiform Records)

    Robert Wyatt (Drums, Vocals) Phil Miller (Guitar) Bill MacCormick (Bass) Dave MacRae (Keyboards)

    Matching Mole was formed by drummer and lyricist Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine in July, 1971. Soft Machine were hugely popular in France, and the band name was inspired by the French translation of Soft Machine: Machine Molle. Midway through recording the first album, Robert was joined by guitarist Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield & The North, National Health), organist Dave Sinclai...

    Robert Wyatt (Drums, Vocals) Phil Miller (Guitar) Bill MacCormick (Bass) Dave MacRae (Keyboards)

    Matching Mole was formed by drummer and lyricist Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine in July, 1971. Soft Machine were hugely popular in France, and the band name was inspired by the French translation of Soft Machine: Machine Molle. Midway through recording the first album, Robert was joined by guitarist Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield & The North, National Health), organist Dave Sinclair (Caravan), bassist Bill MacCormick (Phil Manzanera’s 801) and electric pianist Dave MacRae (Mike Westbrook).  A second album, Little Red Record, which was produced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson, and which was released in 1972. Matching Mole disbanding soon after. The group laid down experimental, frustrating, catastrophic, unfulfilled and wonderfully meandering soundscapes. In the unique manner of Robert Wyatt, writing songs from the limitless possibility of jazz chaos allowed one particular song to emerge on the Matching Mole album – the most beautiful love song, ‘O Caroline’. 

    “David’s on piano, and I may play on a drum
    And we’ll try to make the music work, we’ll try to have some fun
    But I just can’t help thinking that if you were here with me
    I’d get all my thoughts in focus and play more excitingly
    I love you still, Caroline
    I want you still, Caroline
    I need you still, Caroline
    If you call this sentimental crap you’ll make me mad
    ‘Cause you know that I would not sing about some passing fad
    And if my attempts at rhyming aren’t convincing to your ear
    Then memories betray you through the passing of the year…
    You must think it doubtful that I mean the words I sing
    Or that all attempts to reach you this way could not mean a thing
    But you must admit we both thought we’d be man and wife
    And that I could make you happy for the best part of your life”
    Matching Mole could be a distant cousin of bands like Clinic, Girl Band and Black Midi.

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Molly Drake ‘What Can a Song Do To You?’

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    Posted on 26 May 2021
    Molly Drake Out 05 June 2023
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    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, and fleeting

    Ordinary music in an ordinary street
    Why does your heart start beating
    What can a song do to you?
    Can it wake any memory sleeping
    Can it call back a day when your heart fled away into somebody else’s keeping

    What can a song do to you?
    Can it bring back a spring in December
    Can it make with each note such an ache in your throat
    A...

    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, and fleeting

    Ordinary music in an ordinary street
    Why does your heart start beating
    What can a song do to you?
    Can it wake any memory sleeping
    Can it call back a day when your heart fled away into somebody else’s keeping

    What can a song do to you?
    Can it bring back a spring in December
    Can it make with each note such an ache in your throat
    And you find you can still remember

    For the past is a house full of treasure
    The lies buried deep in the store
    Every smile, every tear, every pleasure
    And a song is the key to the door

    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    What can a song do to you

    Can it kindle a flame that was dying

    Til it burns once again with its joy, with its pain
    And your heart’s of a sudden crying
    Oh I know, yes I know, now I see
    What a song has done to me

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    DISCOVER The Human League ‘Open Your Heart’

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
    'Open Your Heart' Director Brian Grant
    “Love is the reason, Faith or treason, Playing a part
    End concealing, Try revealing, Open your heart
    Dare to feel, Take the chance, Make the deal
    But if you can stand the test, You know your worst is better, Than their best”
    Released  28th September 1981, ‘Open Your Heart’ was written by Phil Oakey and Jo Callis. Produced by the late Martin Rushent, it’s impossible not to whistle along to Jo’s analogue synth – ‘Playing a part [toot toot toot]…‘. The song was a huge h...
    “Love is the reason, Faith or treason, Playing a part
    End concealing, Try revealing, Open your heart
    Dare to feel, Take the chance, Make the deal
    But if you can stand the test, You know your worst is better, Than their best”
    Released  28th September 1981, ‘Open Your Heart’ was written by Phil Oakey and Jo Callis. Produced by the late Martin Rushent, it’s impossible not to whistle along to Jo’s analogue synth – ‘Playing a part [toot toot toot]…‘. The song was a huge hit for the Sheffield synth-pop pioneers written specifically for the number one album ‘Dare’ aside it’s other big hits – ‘Don’t You Want Me’ and ‘Love Action’. Released on Virgin Records, it  reached number six in the UK singles chart and raised the band’s profile to the highest it had been to that point.
    Jo Callis, who was new to the band at the time, said in an interview in October 2009:
    “I had started to work out both those tunes on guitar, playing along to an early drum machine which had about six preset drum patterns, Open Your Heart did translate better on the keyboard and I think we used the same drum machine with the same preset on the original demo which was done in the League’s old 8 track studio in Sheffield“.
    Credited with changing the face of British pop, the Human League had the biggest record sales of any act for five years. Their poignant, tongue in cheek lyrics and pioneering sound influenced bands like Pet Shop Boys. Their gender fluid look without compromising their authenticity and Sheffield roots has never been more relevant than it is today.
    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL
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    DISCOVER The Immediate

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    In Towers and Clouds Villagers Out 18 August 2006
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    The Immediate were from Malahide, Ireland. They made a considerable impact on the Irish music scene despite releasing only one album  ‘In Towers and Clouds’ (2006) which was nominated for the 2006  Choice Music Prize (Irish Album of the Year).

    “The truth is, there hasn’t been an Irish band like The Immediate before or since; their mix of art-rock, alternative pop and angular indie was a breath of fresh air on the Irish music scene at the time, which up to that point had been subjuga...

    The Immediate were from Malahide, Ireland. They made a considerable impact on the Irish music scene despite releasing only one album  ‘In Towers and Clouds’ (2006) which was nominated for the 2006  Choice Music Prize (Irish Album of the Year).

    “The truth is, there hasn’t been an Irish band like The Immediate before or since; their mix of art-rock, alternative pop and angular indie was a breath of fresh air on the Irish music scene at the time, which up to that point had been subjugated by dour singer-songwriters with acoustic guitars. They released a clutch of singles and a superb debut album In Towers and Clouds in 2006, which still sounds fantastic almost a decade later.”     

    2015 – Ten Irish Acts We Wish Were Still Making Music Now – the Irish Post

    After splitting in 2007, Conor O’Brien reappeared as Villagers in 2008. Joining Domino, the first  Villagers’ album ‘Becoming a Jackal’ went on to achieve a Mercury Music Prize nomination in 2010. The track Becoming A Jackal won the coveted Ivor Novello for songwriting “Best Song Musically and Lyrically”. 

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    DISCOVER Touch and Go ‘Big Beat’

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    Taken from the 1999 Touch and Go album ‘I Find You Very Attractive‘, ‘Big Beat’ is an unexpected gem amongst an album of 90s classics.  It’s a catchy, happy, mischievous number with pop vocals, a jazzy joyful dance track with bebop sensibility . In the 90s this track was widely known to be used in comedy sketches and in clubs when the DJ wanted to get people on their feet. The most famous track of this record was ‘Would You…?‘ which achieved number 3 in the UK Charts and prov...

    Taken from the 1999 Touch and Go album ‘I Find You Very Attractive‘, ‘Big Beat’ is an unexpected gem amongst an album of 90s classics.  It’s a catchy, happy, mischievous number with pop vocals, a jazzy joyful dance track with bebop sensibility . In the 90s this track was widely known to be used in comedy sketches and in clubs when the DJ wanted to get people on their feet. The most famous track of this record was ‘Would You…?‘ which achieved number 3 in the UK Charts and proved a hilarious showstopper of the 90s student disco.

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    Domino Publishing at The Grammys 2021

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    Devonté Hynes - Big Thief - Fontaines D.C. - Thomas Bartlett

    Domino Publishing is very proud to have four of our writers nominated in six categories at the 2021 Grammy Awards.

    Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album for ‘A Hero’s Death’. This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battere...

    Domino Publishing is very proud to have four of our writers nominated in six categories at the 2021 Grammy Awards.

    Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album for ‘A Hero’s Death’. This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battered and bruised – albeit beautiful, with songs that are patient, confident, and heady takes on the modern world and its great uncertainty. ‘A Hero’s Death’ was produced by Dan Carey (Black Midi, Bat For Lashes).

    Big Thief have received two nominations for their single ‘Not’ in the Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance categories. ‘Not’ is from Big Thief’s fourth studio album ‘Two Hands’ which was released by 4AD, written by Adrianne Lenker, and produced by Andrew Sarlo. Described as the ‘Earth-Twin’ to the band’s previous album ‘U.F.O.F.’,  ‘Two hands’ dominated the end of year album lists with Spin naming it the Album of the year.

    Devonté  Hynes has received two nominations for his work with the Third Coast Percussion in which he was composer and writer for the album ‘Fields‘. Devonté Hynes is being recognized in the categories for Best Engineered Album (Kyle Pyke, engineer ; Jesse Lewis & Kyle Pyke, mastering engineers) and Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

    Thomas Bartlett co-wrote Bebel Gilberto’s album ‘Agora‘ which has received a nomination for Best Global Music Album. Released by PIAS,  this is the first album in six years from the Brazilian artist and documents three years of personal tragedy. Pitchfork expressly noted that Thomas Bartlett ‘helps color in the edges with understated electronic touches’ throughout the album.

    Congratulations to all of these writers!

     

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    DOMINO WELLNESS 2021

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    Welcome to 2021 – This year Domino bring music and wellness by creating motivating and healing playlists. 

    We have been keen to give you the opportunity to use music and the senses to ground yourselves during these anxious times. Have we lost our minds? Probably multiple times lately. When you lose your mind, sensory grounding is a fantastic way of reconnecting you to your environment. Music can help with that.

    …

    BODY AND MIND There’s been lots of healthy chatting time in lockdown an...

    Welcome to 2021 – This year Domino bring music and wellness by creating motivating and healing playlists. 

    We have been keen to give you the opportunity to use music and the senses to ground yourselves during these anxious times. Have we lost our minds? Probably multiple times lately. When you lose your mind, sensory grounding is a fantastic way of reconnecting you to your environment. Music can help with that.

    …

    BODY AND MIND There’s been lots of healthy chatting time in lockdown and we certainly got chatting. Talking to the amazing Dr Julia Jones, we learned how music helps performance from trained athletes to people with serious dementia and autism. We learned reading her book, the Music Diet, how important it is to be active and how music is important to physical and mental wellbeing. It’s also important to stretch and look after your knees! Julia launches a new brain wellness project January 2021.
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    MOOD NOT GENRE At the end of 2020, Kate Hutchinson at The Guardian acknowledged Adrianne Lenker‘s ‘Mostly Chimes’ as part of the movement toward public preference for mood music opposed to genre – classifying ambient music as healing. As part of Big Thief, Adrianne was recently nominated for two Grammy awards.
    …
    FRAGRANCE These curiosities lead us to talk to the fragrance blogger We Wear Perfume. We asked what indie fragrances exist. Could we support artisans and independents with the same values as Domino? We were kindly connected to Gallivant fragrances – an award-winning indie perfume maker from London, founded and created by Nick Steward. Nick’s fragrances are inspired by his travels to different cities. We all miss our flaneur existence we found his collection of fragrances allowed us to sit in our own spaces and go on little journeys to cities we’ve not been to or have missed. When we first started talking to Nick he told us that he wished people would ‘listen to the fragrance’. As advocates of slowness and immersion this really appealed to us. We want to start a better understanding of slowing down, engaging fully with our senses and reconnecting with ourselves and others. We want to be active around how music and scent can work better together for wellness. Inspired by Nick’s fragrances we created playlists for three of his scents which link to our Domino offices
    NEW YORK | LOS ANGELES | LONDON| PARIS
    We know things may or may not be going back to normal for everyone. We hope that we can be as optimistic and supportive as we can. But we also are aware that a lot of damage has occurred this past year.
    If you do feel a little overwhelmed, we hope you might take time out to listen to the playlists and immerse yourselves in sound.
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    Mental Health Awareness Week will take place from 10-16 May 2021. The theme is ‘Nature‘.  We have posted a series of wellness playlists in the playlist section under themes.

    NATURE – FIERCE “When we cannot spend all our time outdoors in nature, music can play a powerful role. Music replicates the effects of nature and harnesses the brain responses to natural sounds. Fast tempo, loud, music mimics exciting or dangerous outdoor natural environments.” Dr Julia Jones

    NATURE – CALM “We cannot spend all our time outdoors in nature, so music can play a powerful role at other times during our day. Music replicates the effects of nature and harnesses the brain responses to natural sounds. Slow, quiet, music mimic safe natural environments.” Dr Julia Jones

    MOTIVATION Get motivated to work in the morning or after a long lunch

    CONFIDENCE Listen to before an important meeting or if you’re feeling anxious about opening your inbox

    RESILIENCE What would you listen to that would keep you happily working away and keep your mood at a productive level 

    RECOVERY Accept the set back and acknowledge those feelings so you can move on. If you’ve had back to back zoom calls try to break them up with one song. Back to back zoom calls cause stress. Even listening to just one song is enough to help your brain pattern recover. 

    MEDITATION Take a mindfulness break. Close your eyes, shut out visual information that crowds your brain and listen to music. Perhaps try to slowly synchronise your breath to encourage slower brain patterns.

    BRISK WALK Take a screen break and give yourself a 20 minute brisk walk and  a little wind down before back to work 

    GROUNDING Songs that inspire conscious focus on the 5 senses 

     

     

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    Dub Pistols ‘Addict’ out 16th October 2020

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    Posted on 04 August 2020
    Addict Dub Pistols Out 16 October 2020
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    Directed by Dean Hennessy

    ‘​Addict​’ is the eighth studio album from the highly respected group.  The record promises a melting pot of dubwise sensibility, junglist riddims and feelgood party anthems and is already shaping up to be one of the year’s essential releases.

    “I recorded over 3 albums worth of music to get to the finished version of ‘Addict’,” says Dub Pistols mastermind Barry Ashworth.  “Every time I finished a song, I would come up with another idea for a track and an artist I wanted ...

    ‘​Addict​’ is the eighth studio album from the highly respected group.  The record promises a melting pot of dubwise sensibility, junglist riddims and feelgood party anthems and is already shaping up to be one of the year’s essential releases.

    “I recorded over 3 albums worth of music to get to the finished version of ‘Addict’,” says Dub Pistols mastermind Barry Ashworth.  “Every time I finished a song, I would come up with another idea for a track and an artist I wanted to work with. It’s been incredible to collaborate with all the legends that I have on this record, but it’s also the new emerging talent such as Natty Campbell and Gardna that have really given me new enthusiasm.  The album has taken two years to record but has been 25 years in the making.”

    Singles – Quotes from Barry Ashworth:

    Stand Together

    the Rhoda Dakar collaboration was penned “about how far we’ve come, but how much further we still have to go when it comes to the war against racism”.

    The single’s accompanying video intersperses new clips with footage from the civil rights movements of the 1950s and ’60s. “To watch what is going on over in America and how racism is still so seismic in our society is devastating,”

    Dark Days Dark Times

    “This was one of the first songs recorded for the album, drawing on the problem of gang related gun crime from a disenfranchised youth and the county line gang issue. All the while, highlighting how austerity and its effects, like closing youth clubs etc,  has driven kids onto the streets and into these gangs.”

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    Edo Funk Explosion vol 1. out 26th March 2021

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    Posted on 24 March 2021
    Edo Funk Explosion Vol​.​1 Analog Africa Out 26 March 2021
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    It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born.
    It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from West Africa ́s night-clubs. Unlike the rather polished 1980 ́s Nigerian disco productions coming out of the international metropolis of Lagos Edo Funk was raw and re...

    It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born.
    It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from West Africa ́s night-clubs. Unlike the rather polished 1980 ́s Nigerian disco productions coming out of the international metropolis of Lagos Edo Funk was raw and reduced to its bare minimum.

    Someone was needed to channel this energy into a distinctive sound and Sir Victor Uwaifo appeared like a mad professor with his Joromi studio. Uwaifo took the skeletal structure of Edo music and relentless began fusing them with synthesizers, electric guitars and 80 ́s effect racks which resulted in some of the most outstanding Edo recordings ever made. An explosive spiced up brew with an odd psychedelic note dubbed “Edo Funk”.

    That’s the sound you’ll be discovering in the first volume of the Edo Funk Explosion series which focusses on the genre’s greatest originators; Osayomore Joseph, Akaba Man, and Sir Victor Uwaifo:

    Osayomore Joseph was one of the first musicians to bring the sound of the flute into the horn-dominated world of highlife, and his skills as a performer made him a fixture on the Lagos scene. When he returned to settle in Benin City in the mid 1970s – at the invitation of the royal family – he devoted himself to the
    modernisation and electrification of Edo music, using funk and Afro-beat as the building blocks for songs that weren’t afraid to call out government corruption or confront the dark legacy of Nigeria’s colonial past.

    Akaba Man was the philosopher king of Edo funk. Less overtly political than Osayomore Joseph and less psychedelic than Victor Uwaifo, he found the perfect medium for his message in the trance-like grooves of Edo funk. With pulsating rhythms awash in cosmic synth-fields and lyrics that express a deep personal vision, he found great success at the dawn of the 1980s as one of Benin City’s most persuasive ambassadors of funky highlife.

    Victor Uwaifo was already a star in Nigeria when he built the legendary Joromi studios in his hometown of Benin City in 1978. Using his unique guitar style as the mediating force between West-African highlife and the traditional rhythms and melodies of Edo music, he had scored several hits in the early seventies, but once
    he had his own sixteen-track facility he was able to pursue his obsession with the synesthetic possibilities of pure sound, adding squelchy synths, swirling organs and studio effects to hypnotic basslines and raw grooves. Between his own records and his production for other musicians, he quickly established himself as
    the godfather of Edo funk.

    What unites these diverse musicians is their ability to strip funk down to its primal essence and use it as the foundation for their own excursions inward to the heart of Edo culture and outward to the furthest limits of sonic alchemy. The twelve tracks on Edo Funk Explosion Volume 1 pulse with raw inspiration, mixing highlife horns, driving rhythms, day-glo keyboards and tripped-out guitars into a funk experience unlike any other.

     

    Louder Than War  

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    Emily Barker ‘A Dark Murmuration of Words’ out 4th September 2020

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    A Dark Murmuration of Words Emily Barker Out 04 September 2020
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    The songs on the album are an exploration of climate change, racism, sexism, and myths of economic progress through the lens of constant questioning of what it means to feel at “home.” – searching for connections between these themes and how they shape the rapidly shifting modern world we live in. Finding meaning becomes challenging with the deafening clamour of social media in this age of fake news and algorithmically filtered conversations, but it feels important to try.

    The American ...

    The songs on the album are an exploration of climate change, racism, sexism, and myths of economic progress through the lens of constant questioning of what it means to feel at “home.” – searching for connections between these themes and how they shape the rapidly shifting modern world we live in. Finding meaning becomes challenging with the deafening clamour of social media in this age of fake news and algorithmically filtered conversations, but it feels important to try.

    The American writer Emily Dickinson once said that “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves” – like the starlings in a murmuration, where the movement of each individual bird is related to just seven of its closest neighbours, none of them aware of the mesmerising, fluctuating shapes being created by the flock.

    This album is my way of reaching out; to start a conversation that might form a small part of the larger pattern of a better future; a future we can all play an equal part in.

    Released on Thirty Tigers.

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    EVENT Parquet Courts are 10! ‘On Time’ livestream 10th December 2020

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    Hey Bug! Parquet Courts Out 10 November 2020
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    Join us to celebrate Parquet Courts’ 10th anniversary at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works 10th December 2020

    Parquet Courts have been praised as one of the decade’s essential bands. Over the years, they’ve released five acclaimed studio albums, countless EPs and singles, and played over a thousand shows.  Their influence reverberates not only through New York City’s music scene, but far beyond our shores. Lyrically, their songs have revealed a desperately prescient quality, as narratives o...

    Join us to celebrate Parquet Courts’ 10th anniversary at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works 10th December 2020

    Parquet Courts have been praised as one of the decade’s essential bands. Over the years, they’ve released five acclaimed studio albums, countless EPs and singles, and played over a thousand shows.  Their influence reverberates not only through New York City’s music scene, but far beyond our shores. Lyrically, their songs have revealed a desperately prescient quality, as narratives of isolation, climate catastrophe, technological dependence, and police brutality pepper their body of work and have materialized years later in some of this decade’s darker moments. Yet through this all, the band’s positive calls to action continue to invigorate audiences to fight through their malaise and to find it within themselves to move. It’s this polarity of cause and response, inventive action spurred by repulsed reaction, that led writer Lindsay Zoladz to call them “one of the most vital rock bands working today” in her Slate column at the end of 2018.

    Today, the band announces “On Time,” a concert livestream and retrospective in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their first show. The show, filmed live at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, will air on December 10th, commemorating their first show ever, which took place at Monster Island on December 17th, 2010. It will feature rare archival footage, new interviews, exclusive merch available only to ticket buyers, and much more. The band adds: “Ten years ago our adventure began by playing our first show to virtually no one, and to celebrate we’ve decided to play a show to everyone, virtually.” Purchase advance tickets here.

    In conjunction, Parquet Courts unveil the classically jittery “Hey Bug,” a previously unreleased track that came from “Sunbathing Animal” LP session.

     “If I remember correctly, it would have been recorded at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, during the fall of 2013.  We were working there with our pal Jonathan Schenke, who had recorded Light Up Gold, but this time in a studio rather than a practice space,” says A. Savage. “We’d have been recording material for “Tally All the Things That You Broke” and Sunbathing Animal.  Editing the sequence for a record is often a tough process, and when it’s over it’s typically such a relief that I’ll purge it from my memory entirely.  And now I’m listening to ‘Hey Bug’ these seven years later and thinking what a cool song it is.  That period was a frenzy of writing and I know it’s not the only unreleased song from that session.  So here you are, our lone musical contribution in the year 2020: ‘Hey Bug’ (recorded 2013).”

    Praise for Parquet Courts

    “Parquet Courts offer a fine testament to rock’s continued power and relevance.”Pitchfork

     “the most exciting young rock band in America” Rolling Stone

    “These musicians are self-styled rock traditionalists at a time when tradition is in short supply… you could call them a New York heritage band, if such a thing exists today.” New York Times

    “It’s workmanlike rock…rock molded to make you shake and rattle and roll; rock to enhance or expel the rage and despair you feel about everything that exists outside your front door.” GQ

    “Originality in rock music has never been about creating something out of nothing. It’s about creating something out of a previous something and making that new something feel young, vibrant, and sexy. This is what Parquet Courts does exceedingly well.” Grantland

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    EVENT Sunday Best Recordings – 20 years – Sunday 3rd October 2021

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    On Sunday 3rd October 2021, our friends at Sunday Best Recordings will celebrate 20 years of the label with an all-day festival at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. Featuring performances from LA Salami, as well as DJ sets from co-founder of the label Rob da Bank, Barry Ashworth & Wayward, the event kicks off at 2pm and is the perfect way to celebrate two decades of one of the most eclectic and respected independent labels around.

    Tickets are on sale now and available HERE.
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    On Sunday 3rd October 2021, our friends at Sunday Best Recordings will celebrate 20 years of the label with an all-day festival at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. Featuring performances from LA Salami, as well as DJ sets from co-founder of the label Rob da Bank, Barry Ashworth & Wayward, the event kicks off at 2pm and is the perfect way to celebrate two decades of one of the most eclectic and respected independent labels around.

    Tickets are on sale now and available HERE.
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    SUNDAY BEST RECORDINGS was founded by Sarah Bolshi and Rob da Bank in 2000. The label has always been renowned for its expansive roster and an unswerving dedication to the leftfield.

    Rob originally ran Sunday Best as a leftfield London club night from 1995, hosting the now legendary DJs Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and the sadly departed seminal icon Andrew Weatherall. Celebrating an ‘anything goes’ music policy, the club night formed an essential blueprint for Sunday Best the label. Rob went on to co-creat Bestival/Camp Bestival and presently broadcasts as a radio DJ on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM after departing from BBC Radio One.

    Bolshi cut her teeth working in A&R at Big Life Records, mentored by the legendary Jazz Summers (Manager to Wham, Soul II Soul, Lisa Stansfield etc) working on acts like The Orb and De Le Soul before establishing her first critically acclaimed breakbeat label Bolshi Records in 1996.  She is in the process of re-releasing the Bolshi catalogue digitally via the Sunday Best umbrella.

    da Bank and Bolshi joined forces in 2000 building a roster over the last 20 years which included releases by the legendary film director David Lynch, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Valerie June (First LP) and more recently L.A. Salami, O’Flynn and JW Francis to name but a few.

     

     

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    Fontaines D.C. ‘A Hero’s Death’ out 31st July 2020

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    Televised Mind Director: Hugh Mulhern

    Barely a year since their debut Dogrel earned them a spot as one of the most acclaimed new bands of 2019, Fontaines D.C. is back with ‘A Hero’s Death’. Arriving battered and bruised – albeit beautiful – the album is anything but a re-hash of the swaggering energy from their first record. Instead the music is patient, confident, and complex – full of heady and philosophical takes on the modern world and its great uncertainty. READ MORE

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    Fontaines D.C. ‘Skinty Fia’ out 21st March

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    Fontaines D.C. bring us their third single ‘Skinny Fia’ from upcoming album ‘Skinty Fia’ out 22nd April via Partisan Records. Fontaines D.C. grapple with the dilution and disruption of Irish culture abroad on the new track, frontman Grain says “it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. That’s skinty fia to me. That’s that mutation. That...

    Fontaines D.C. bring us their third single ‘Skinny Fia’ from upcoming album ‘Skinty Fia’ out 22nd April via Partisan Records. Fontaines D.C. grapple with the dilution and disruption of Irish culture abroad on the new track, frontman Grain says “it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. That’s skinty fia to me. That’s that mutation. That’s a new thing. It’s not unlicensed and it’s not impure. Just because it’s diaspora, it’s still pure. It’s just a completely new beast.”

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    Fontaines D.C. perform ‘A Hero’s Death’ for The Tonight Show

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    Posted on 29 January 2021
    A Hero's Death Fontaines D.C. Out 31 July 2020
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    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Dir: Samuel Taylor

    Filmed in London at The Auld Shillelagh pub (a band favourite) and directed by Samuel Taylor on air 28th January 2021 and 29th January 2021 on Sky Comedy at 10:50pm GMT.

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    Fontaines D.C. receive nomination for Best Album at The Ivors Academy Awards

    Posted on 10 August 2021

    A huge congratulations is in order for Domino Publishing writers ‘Fontaines D.C.’, the band has received an Ivor Awards nomination for their sophmore album ‘A Hero’s Death’. Grian Chatten, Thomas Coll, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Carlos O’Connell have been nominated for the prestigious Best Album award. Revisit the singles and videos from ‘A Hero’s Death’ here.

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    FRANCE Adrian Crowley ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ Album le 30 Avril 2021

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    Posted on 10 March 2021
    The Watchful Eye Of The Stars Adrian Crowley Out 30 April 2021
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    video réalisée par Niall Mc Cann et Adrian Crowley

    À propos de la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway :

    « Quand Adrian m’a demandé si je travaillerais sur la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway, la première chose que nous avons dû comprendre était de savoir comment nous y arriverions sans pouvoir quitter la maison. Les restrictions sont souvent une bonne chose pour faire quelque chose comme ça.

    Notre capacité à filmer ou à nous rencontrer était évidemment réduite, mais les contraintes peuvent être parfois votre ami. Adrian tournait diff...

    À propos de la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway :

    « Quand Adrian m’a demandé si je travaillerais sur la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway, la première chose que nous avons dû comprendre était de savoir comment nous y arriverions sans pouvoir quitter la maison. Les restrictions sont souvent une bonne chose pour faire quelque chose comme ça.

    Notre capacité à filmer ou à nous rencontrer était évidemment réduite, mais les contraintes peuvent être parfois votre ami. Adrian tournait différentes prises de lui en train de chanter la chanson et me l’envoyait pour travailler dessus. La vidéo est un peu comme ce que vous pourriez ressentir après 24 appels Zoom d’affilée, un pot de café et un soupçon de LSD. Comme nous tous, j’ai eu beaucoup d’appels Zoom / Webex l’année dernière et cela introduit un nouveau type d’anxiété dans votre journée, il ne suffit pas d’être entendu, il faut être vu aussi. La vidéo est une réaction à cette anxiété, au sentiment de déplacement et de fragmentation qu’elle apporte, à regarder en permanence. Se regarder sans cesse, regarder les autres, se regarder.

    La chanson elle-même se construit et devient de plus en plus dense au fur et à mesure qu’elle avance et je voulais que la vidéo le reflète aussi, pour donner une représentation visuelle de cette cacophonie d’instruments et de voix. »

    -Niall Mc Cann

    «Parfois, la simplicité est la meilleur manière de faire. J’avais réfléchi à la manière de capturer les bonnes images pour cette chanson.

    J’ai passé du temps à photographier les vagues, les navires et les oiseaux en bord de mer, les vagues qui se brisent, l’éclairage, etc… mais j’ai ensuite réalisé après avoir envoyé les images à Niall que cette approche avait laissé peu de place à l’imagination. Niall soulignait également qu’il ne pouvait pas voir mes yeux. J’ai réfléchi à cela et pensé à la façon dont parfois les yeux du conteur peuvent être la chose qui invite l’auditeur à un voyage. J’ai installé ma caméra et mon trépied dirigés vers un mur en face d’une fenêtre orientée au sud de ma maison. Et j’ai attendu que le soleil se trouve au bon endroit sur les toits. Je suis retourné à d’autres occupations puis juste avant le coucher du soleil, j’ai lancé le disque pour faire une autre prise, puis le soleil s’est couché. »

    – Adrian Crowley

    Une nuit orageuse en Irlande, le frère d’Adrian Crowley a ramené à la maison un corbeau blessé. Après avoir pris soin de lui pendant un certain temps, le corbeau s’est envolé de lui-même, laissant une impression derrière lui: Crowley a écrit une histoire, qui deviendra plus tard le bien intitulé «Crow Song», tiré de son neuvième album studio The The Watchful Eye Of The Stars, Il chante: «Et j’étais joyeux pour vous, mais brisé quand même.»

    Imprégné d’une qualité brumeuse et surréaliste, Crowley décrit les récits poignants de Watchful Eye comme ceux qui insistaient sur lui. Après coup, il semblait que ces chansons lui venaient plus ou moins tel quel. «C’est une chose belle et mystérieuse», dit-il. Peut-être est-ce une tendance à garder les souvenirs qui lui permet de les libérer lyriquement. Pour Crowley, le processus créatif est un événement organique plutôt qu’une pratique qu’il se sent obligé de réguler ou de contrôler. Il aborde les paroles comme il écrit une nouvelle. «Les chansons chevauchent le monde conscient et subconscient et certaines sont même psychédéliques dans mon esprit, mais pour moi, ce sont toutes à la fois des histoires vraies et nées d’un autre endroit».

    Lors de la réalisation de l’album, Crowley est passé d’un enregistrement en studio à un enregistrement à domicile, tandis que John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) le produisait.
    Le duo travaillait à partir de morceaux initialement écrits par Crowley sur une guitare ¾ à cordes de nylon  et au Mellotron: «De cette façon, John voulait garder une partie de la magie de cette première prise», dit Crowley. Les contradictions et les complexités sont laissées intactes, les enregistrements initiaux ont été limités à une ou deux prises, et les chansons ressemblent davantage à un rêve raconté au réveil.

    Ces enregistrements ont ensuite été étoffés davantage en studio avec Parish et d’autres musiciens. Jim Barr de Portishead a contribué à la contrebasse et a été amené à créer des parties de Watchful Eye à Bristol. Nadine Khouri et Katell Keineg ont été invitées en tant que choristes et Parish lui-même a également contribué à l’instrumentation, son sens dramatique caractéristique donnant au travail de Crowley un nouvel avantage global sans perturber son minimalisme. Ayant des membres du Crash Ensemble à Dublin pour enregistrer pendant seulement quelques jours, Crowley se souvient être resté debout toute la nuit pour écrire des parties de cordes pour «Northbound Stowaway», qui a été enregistré le lendemain matin. Tandis qu’un battement de tambour inquiétant et régulier porte le morceau, Crowley se lamente: «Et c’est un travail assoupi / Quand vous restez invisible.»

     

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    FRANCE Charif Megarbane “Tayyara Warak”

    France Release Single
    Posted on 19 December 2022
    Charif Megarbane - Tayyara Warak Cosmic Analog Ensemble Out 17 December 2022
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    Charif Megarbane alias Cosmic Analog Ensemble signe chez Habibi Funk et dévoile un premier single.

    Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 1960/1970, afrobeat, musique psychédélique moyen-orientale et breakbeats hip-hop.
    En un peu plus d’une décennie, Megarbane a sorti plus de 100 albums, offrant un journal intime musical de ses sessions d’enregistrement nocturnes...

    Charif Megarbane alias Cosmic Analog Ensemble signe chez Habibi Funk et dévoile un premier single.

    Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 1960/1970, afrobeat, musique psychédélique moyen-orientale et breakbeats hip-hop.
    En un peu plus d’une décennie, Megarbane a sorti plus de 100 albums, offrant un journal intime musical de ses sessions d’enregistrement nocturnes à Beyrouth, Nairobi, Paris, Londres ou Lisbonne – les différentes villes dans lesquelles il a vécu. Utilisant de multiples autres pseudonymes tels que Trans-Mara Express, Tapeman No.1, Free Association Syndicate et Monumental Detail, la vaste discographie de Megarbane est disponible sur son propre label indépendant et plateforme numérique Hisstology Records, véritable fenêtre sur son univers musical, dans lequel il joue (presque) tous les rôles.

    Depuis 2009, Megarbane a sorti 31 albums sous le nom de Cosmic Analog Ensemble, à travers lesquels il a développé une forme de signature sonore, à savoir une library music analogique et abstraite du 21eme siècle, imprégnée du soleil des côtes méditerranéennes.

    “Tayyara Warak” est le 1er EP de Charif sous son propre nom en dehors de ses sortie sur son propre label Hisstology Records. Son titre éponyme évoque le chaos de Beyrouth, les trajets en taxi à travers la ville accompagnés d’une mélodie douce et nostalgique et des sections rythmiques mouvantes comme des oiseaux de la ville volant aux travers des klaxons des voitures. “Commencer La-Bas”, expansif et narratif, mélange des cordes highlife et orchestrales, le nouveau départ de l’exil et de l’exode. “Flat Foot” quand à lui, boucle la sortie sur un “pied” plus léger avec un groove teinté de hip-hop et un motif mélodique qui pourrait illustrer quelqu’un descendant un escalier chaussé de tongs mouillées.

     

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’

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    Posted on 28 January 2022
    Ceci n'est pas un Cliché Out 05 June 2023
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    Réalisé par Bob Jeusette

    La provocatrice belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, partagent ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’, un nouvel extrait de leur album à venir.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 via  DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l’un...

    La provocatrice belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, partagent ‘Ceci n’est pas un cliché’, un nouvel extrait de leur album à venir.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 via  DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l’une des phrases les plus copiées de l’art, à l’origine par l’artiste surréaliste belge René Magritte.
    En parlant des origines du morceau, le duo explique : « Cette chanson est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées si souvent utilisées dans la musique pop. L’idée est arrivée en tournée lorsque nous avons entendu une chanson à la radio qui commencait avec “Je marchais dans la rue”, ce qui nous a fortement fait grincer des dents. Mais le fait est que grincer des dents est une passion commune de Bolis et moi. Nous en avons donc passionnément fait une chanson intitulée “Ceci n’est pas un cliché”. Encore plus passionnément, nous avons interprétés dans une vidéo, tous les clichés que nous voyons dans le monde magique des genres musicaux. Les musiciens dans toute leur splendeur, capturant l’élan et livrant une performance de premier ordre, regardant dans la lumière que l’on appelle l’inspiration. Alors, une fois pour toutes, laissez Magritte tranquille… !”

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets que l’on entend habituellement sur le dancefloor, mais Charlotte Adigéry et Bolis Pupul s’affranchissent des règles avec ce premier album. Le duo Gantois qui s’est fait connaître en 2019 avec leur EP Zandoli sont des storytellers hors-pair. Un subtil mélange de synthés enjoués et des paroles ancrées dans le contexte sociétal actuel, jamais didactiques et toujours avec un clin d’œil complice.

    Un premier disque studio qui les associe en duo sous leurs deux noms pour la première fois et qui est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax. Il est à la fois un triomphe de l’électro-pop kaléidoscopique et “un instantané de la façon dont nous pensons à la pop culture dans les années 2020. » Il capture les conversations que Charlotte et Bolis ont eues au cours des deux dernières années en tournée, ainsi que leurs perspectives en tant que Belges d’origine immigrée, Charlotte d’ascendance guadeloupéenne et franco-martiniquaise et Bolis étant d’origine chinoise.

    Pour célébrer la sortie de leur premier album, Charlotte et Bolis se lanceront dans une tournée mondiale en avril et mai 2022 avec un passage au Trabendo à Paris le 25 Avril.

    4 Avril – Bristol – Rough Trade
    5 Avril – Brighton – Green Door Store
    6 Avril – Manchester – YES
    7 Avril – London – XOYO
    10 Avril – Glasgow – Broadcast
    11 Avril – Edinburgh – Sneaky Pete’s
    17 Avril – Amsterdam – Melkweg
    19 Avril – Berlin – Berghain Kantine
    20 Avril – Brussels – Ancienne Belgique
    25 Avril – Paris – Trabendo
    10 Avril – New York – Bowery Ballroom
    12 Avril – Montreal – Bar Le Ritz PDB
    13 Avril – Toronto – Velvet Underground
    14 Avril – Chicago – Empty Bottle
    17 Avril – Los Angeles – Moroccan Lounge
    18 Avril – San Francisco – Popscene at Rickshaw Stop
    20 Avril – Seattle – Barboza

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ‘HAHA’

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    Posted on 01 December 2021
    Haha Out 05 June 2023
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    Réalisté par Hugo Campan

    La provocatrice belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, partagent un nouveau morceau de leur premier album à venir intitulé « HAHA ».

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 via  DEEWEE.

    « HAHA » est entièrement construit autour d’un échantillon du rire de Charlotte qui capture parfaitement l’essence du premier album de Charlotte & Bolis.

    Leur approche des genres...

    La provocatrice belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, partagent un nouveau morceau de leur premier album à venir intitulé « HAHA ».

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 via  DEEWEE.

    « HAHA » est entièrement construit autour d’un échantillon du rire de Charlotte qui capture parfaitement l’essence du premier album de Charlotte & Bolis.

    Leur approche des genres familiers est toujours décalée ; « HAHA » sonne défait et un peu bancal, mais il est taillé comme un chauffage nocturne pour faire vibrer le club. Le morceau est associé à une vidéo tout aussi abstraite d’Hugo Campan, présentant des visuels kaléidoscopiques de Charlotte et Bolis parmi l’imagerie d’un œuf, qui, selon eux, est «un raccourci visuel pour un potentiel non éclos» et un thème continu tout au long de leur premier album.

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets que l’on entend habituellement sur le dancefloor, mais Charlotte Adigéry et Bolis Pupul s’affranchissent des règles avec ce premier album. Le duo Gantois qui s’est fait connaître en 2019 avec leur EP Zandoli sont des storytellers hors-pair. Un subtil mélange de synthés enjoués et des paroles ancrées dans le contexte sociétal actuel, jamais didactiques et toujours avec un clin d’œil complice.

    Un premier disque studio qui les associe en duo sous leurs deux noms pour la première fois et qui est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax. Il est à la fois un triomphe de l’électro-pop kaléidoscopique et “un instantané de la façon dont nous pensons à la pop culture dans les années 2020. » Il capture les conversations que Charlotte et Bolis ont eues au cours des deux dernières années en tournée, ainsi que leurs perspectives en tant que Belges d’origine immigrée, Charlotte d’ascendance guadeloupéenne et franco-martiniquaise et Bolis étant d’origine chinoise.

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul ‘Thank You’

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    Posted on 22 September 2021
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul Out 22 September 2021
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    Réalisé par Antoni Clementi, Cristiano Gerarda, Vincente Linea et Pim Gombeer pour DEEWEE TEEVEE

    Le duo Belge-Caribéen, Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date Bolis Pupul marquent leur retour avec leur single kaleidoscopic ‘Thank You’.
    Le morceau est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax et sort sur leur label iconique DEEWEE.

    « Thank You » est un swing électro-acide tantrique caractérisé par la prestation vocale impassible de Charlotte qui le décrit comme « une vengeance effrontée et cynique pour toutes les opinions indésirables et non sollicitées que c...

    Le duo Belge-Caribéen, Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date Bolis Pupul marquent leur retour avec leur single kaleidoscopic ‘Thank You’.
    Le morceau est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax et sort sur leur label iconique DEEWEE.

    « Thank You » est un swing électro-acide tantrique caractérisé par la prestation vocale impassible de Charlotte qui le décrit comme « une vengeance effrontée et cynique pour toutes les opinions indésirables et non sollicitées que certaines personnes nous offrent généreusement ». Cette sortie cimente également Charlotte et Bolis comme duo sous leurs deux noms pour la première fois de leur carrière, le morceau fonctionnant comme une interprétation sans faille du son idiosyncratique du duo à savoir des radiateurs nocturnes qui font vibrer le club, mais avec un décalage et une sensibilité pop.

    Parallèlement à la sortie du single, Charlotte & Bolis ont également lancé leur nouveau site Web qui permet aux fans de partager leurs propres histoires personnelles en relation avec le thème du single. Ils ont tenu à souligner l’importance de la conversation, un élément intrinsèque à leur processus créatif, et sont donc ravis d’encourager la même chose avec leurs fans.

    Le single est également accompagné d’une vidéo tournée au Studio DEEWEE et réalisée et produite par l’équipe derrière DEEWEE TEEVEE.

    Le duo gantois, qui a éclaté avec son EP Zandoli en 2019, sont des conteurs rares en musique électronique. Ils prennent la température du temps et la canalise dans leurs concoctions de synthé ludiques, poussant et incitant à l’air du temps pop à l’aide de leur style électro-pop imprévisible et subversif.

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Concert à Jools Holland

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    Posted on 24 May 2022
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer Out 04 March 2022
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    Le duo Gantois Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul nous livre une superbe performance de leur titre “Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché” sur le prestigieux plateau de Later… with Jools Holland.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est disponible depuis le 4 mars 2022 via DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l&#...

    Le duo Gantois Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul nous livre une superbe performance de leur titre “Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché” sur le prestigieux plateau de Later… with Jools Holland.

    Co-écrit et co-produit avec Soulwax, leur premier album Topical Dancer est disponible depuis le 4 mars 2022 via DEEWEE.

    “Ceci n’est pas un cliché” est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées que Charlotte et Bolis ont entendues au fil des ans. Le titre est aussi un clin d’œil à l’une des phrases les plus copiées de l’art, à l’origine par l’artiste surréaliste belge René Magritte.
    En parlant des origines du morceau, le duo explique : « Cette chanson est une accumulation de toutes les paroles clichées si souvent utilisées dans la musique pop. L’idée est arrivée en tournée lorsque nous avons entendu une chanson à la radio qui commencait avec “Je marchais dans la rue”, ce qui nous a fortement fait grincer des dents. Mais le fait est que grincer des dents est une passion commune de Bolis et moi. Nous en avons donc passionnément fait une chanson intitulée “Ceci n’est pas un cliché”. Encore plus passionnément, nous avons interprétés dans une vidéo, tous les clichés que nous voyons dans le monde magique des genres musicaux. Les musiciens dans toute leur splendeur, capturant l’élan et livrant une performance de premier ordre, regardant dans la lumière que l’on appelle l’inspiration. Alors, une fois pour toutes, laissez Magritte tranquille… !”

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets que l’on entend habituellement sur le dancefloor, mais Charlotte Adigéry et Bolis Pupul s’affranchissent des règles avec ce premier album. Le duo Gantois qui s’est fait connaître en 2019 avec leur EP Zandoli sont des storytellers hors-pair. Un subtil mélange de synthés enjoués et des paroles ancrées dans le contexte sociétal actuel, jamais didactiques et toujours avec un clin d’œil complice.

    Un premier disque studio qui les associe en duo sous leurs deux noms pour la première fois et qui est co-écrit et co-produit par Soulwax. Il est à la fois un triomphe de l’électro-pop kaléidoscopique et “un instantané de la façon dont nous pensons à la pop culture dans les années 2020. » Il capture les conversations que Charlotte et Bolis ont eues au cours des deux dernières années en tournée, ainsi que leurs perspectives en tant que Belges d’origine immigrée, Charlotte d’ascendance guadeloupéenne et franco-martiniquaise et Bolis étant d’origine chinoise.

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    FRANCE Charlotte Adigéry ‘Topical Dancer’ – 04 Mars 2022

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    Posted on 04 November 2021
    Topical Dancer Out 05 June 2023
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    Réalisé par Bob Jeusette

    L’artiste belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, annoncent la sortie de leur premier album Topical Dancer à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 sur DEEWEE, le label emblématique des frères Soulwax. Pour célébrer cette annonce, Charlotte et Bolis partagent leur nouveau titre “Blenda”.

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets...

    L’artiste belgo-caribéenne Charlotte Adigéry et son partenaire musical de longue date, Bolis Pupul, annoncent la sortie de leur premier album Topical Dancer à paraitre le 4 mars 2022 sur DEEWEE, le label emblématique des frères Soulwax. Pour célébrer cette annonce, Charlotte et Bolis partagent leur nouveau titre “Blenda”.

    L’appropriation culturelle, la misogynie, le racisme, la vanité des réseaux sociaux, le post-colonialisme et le politiquement correct ne sont pas des sujets que l’on entend habituellement sur le dancefloor, mais Charlotte Adigéry et Bolis Pupul s’affranchissent des règles avec ce premier album. Le duo Gantois qui s’est fait connaître en 2019 avec leur EP Zandoli sont des storytellers hors-pair. Un subtil mélange de synthés enjoués et des paroles ancrées dans le contexte sociétal actuel, jamais didactiques et toujours avec un clin d’œil complice.

    Au-delà de sa portée thématique, Topical Dancer illustre bien la spécificité du son de Charlotte et Bolis : profond et efficace à la fois. Ils ont l’art et la manière de revisiter certains genres pourtant familiers avec toujours un petit côté décalé ; des chansons qui ne semblent pas achevées ou un peu bancales, mais qui font un carton en club. “On aime bien brouiller un peu les pistes,” déclare Bolis en riant. “Si jamais on a l’impression de faire quelque chose qui existe déjà, on change de cap aussitôt, nous sommes en permanence à la recherche de ce petit quelque chose qui fait que ça ne sonne pas vraiment comme de la pop ou du R&B, ni comme de la techno. Nous mélangeons constamment différents univers. Lorsque c’est trop prévisible, Charlotte et moi on s’ennuie.”

    Topical Dancer foisonne d’idées – parmi les 13 titres de l’album, aucun ne semble dispensable. Mais surtout cet opus est animé d’une certaine fébrilité, d’un souci permanent d’éviter d’entrer dans une case quelconque et d’échapper à toutes les catégories étriquées dans lesquelles on voudrait les classer. Une notion parfaitement résumée dans le refrain de leur deuxième single, ‘Blenda’ : “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” (Ma musique ne me ressemble pas, je ne ressemble pas à ma musique). Et Bolis d’ajouter : “De même, les gens me considèrent toujours comme le producteur et Charlotte comme la chanteuse. Ou encore, en tant que noir on est censé faire de la musique ‘urbaine’. Autant de cases dans lesquelles nous ne voulons pas être classés.”

    ‘Blenda’ en particulier explique dans quelle mesure “Je suis un produit du colonialisme,” déclare Charlotte, “et je me sens coupable de prendre de la place dans un pays blanc.” La chanson s’inspire en partie d’un livre de Reni Eddo-Lodge, traduit en français sous le titre “Le racisme est un problème de blancs”. “Ce livre évoque le passé colonial et le présent post-colonial du Royaume-Uni,” poursuit Charlotte, “mais il ne s’agit pas uniquement d’un problème britannique ou américain, la Belgique y participe également.” Et d’ajouter que son pays a aussi “oublié des pans entiers de son histoire” ce qui “entraîne une ignorance générale et un manque de compréhension et d’empathie envers les Belges issus de l’immigration.”

    Topical Dancer n’est cependant pas un album qui cherche à pointer du doigt, ni à être dogmatique, mais plutôt à parler d’émancipation par le biais de l’humour. “Je ne veux pas sentir tout ce poids sur mes épaules,” poursuit Charlotte. “Il n’est pas question pour moi de porter ces croix. Topical Dancer est une façon pour moi de me libérer de ces sujets. Et de m’amuser.”

    Tracklist:

    1. Bel DEEWEE
    2. Esperanto
    3. Blenda
    4. Hey
    5. It Hit Me
    6. Ich Mwen (with Christiane Adigéry)
    7. Reappropriate
    8. Ceci n’est pas un cliché
    9. Huile Smisse
    10. Mantra
    11. Making Sense Stop
    12. HAHA
    13. Thank You
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    FRANCE Cosmic Analog Ensemble ‘Expo Botanica’ – 24 Juin 2022

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    Posted on 03 May 2022
    Expo Botanica Cosmic Analog Ensemble Out 24 June 2022
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    Cosmic Analog Ensemble dévoile “Holy Mackerel” et annonce son prochain album Expo Botanica à paraître le 24 Juin 2022 sur Hisstology Records.

    Derrière Cosmic Analog Ensemble se trouve le multi-instrumentiste libanais Charif Megarbane, artiste unique en son genre qui écrit, interprète et produit toutes ses musiques. Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 196...

    Cosmic Analog Ensemble dévoile “Holy Mackerel” et annonce son prochain album Expo Botanica à paraître le 24 Juin 2022 sur Hisstology Records.

    Derrière Cosmic Analog Ensemble se trouve le multi-instrumentiste libanais Charif Megarbane, artiste unique en son genre qui écrit, interprète et produit toutes ses musiques. Ancré dans une philosophie DIY, Megarbane a créé un style inimitable de musique instrumentale qui navigue entre bandes originales et library music des années 1960/1970, afrobeat, musique psychédélique moyen-orientale et breakbeats hip-hop. En un peu plus d’une décennie, Megarbane a sorti plus de 100 albums, offrant un journal intime musical de ses sessions d’enregistrement nocturnes à Beyrouth, Nairobi, Paris, Londres ou Lisbonne – les différentes villes dans lesquelles il a vécu. Utilisant de multiples autres pseudonymes tels que Trans-Mara Express, Tapeman No.1, Free Association Syndicate et Monumental Detail, la vaste discographie de Megarbane est disponible sur son propre label indépendant et plateforme numérique Hisstology Records, véritable fenêtre sur son univers musical, dans lequel il joue (presque) tous les rôles.

    Depuis 2009, Megarbane a sorti 31 albums sous le nom de Cosmic Analog Ensemble, à travers lesquels il a développé une forme de signature sonore, à savoir une library music analogique et abstraite du 21eme siècle, imprégnée du soleil des côtes méditerranéennes. Expo Botanica est le nouvel album de CAE, qui sortira en vinyle via Hisstology Records le 24 juin 2022. “Expo Botanica” complète une trilogie, faisant suite aux albums déjà cultes « Une Vie Cent Détours » et « Les Sourdes Oreilles ». « Une Vie Cent Detours », a été décrit par Pitchfork comme « un tournant majeur dans les voyages musicaux de Megarbane ». “Les Sourdes Oreilles” de 2017, première sortie en vinyle de CAE, a été salué par Bandcamp comme “un rêve de digger, un tour de force de grooves contagieux et de mélodies prêtes à être samplées qui semblent rares et familières à la fois”.


    Orné d’une peinture abstraite de Megarbane, “Expo Botanica” comprend 16 pistes instrumentales, chacune représentant un thème de la vie imaginaire d’une plante. Capturant l’insouciance d’une cour de récréation dans ses mélodies sinueuses, “Expo Botanica” pourrait facilement être la bande originale d’un film pour enfants des années 70, rappelant une époque où de tels projets pouvaient être signés par des compositeurs légendaires tels que Piero Umiliani. L’album illustre la maîtrise de Megarbane dans la confection de mélodies magnifiquement simples et accrocheuses, habillées d’arrangements ludiques. L’album repose sur deux parties: la face A crée une atmosphère paisible et pleine de fantaisie au style cinématographique d’inspiration Franco-Italienne, tandis que la face B propose des grooves avec orgues contagieux, breaks de batterie et mélodies pop psychédéliques qui regardent vers l’Est de la Méditerranée. Maître illusionniste sonore, Megarbane dirige ainsi son propre orchestre fictif.

     

    TRACKLISTING

    1. Executive Summary (1:28)
    2. La Grande Bellezza  (2:24)
    3. Le Cinéma Intérieur (2:35)
    4. Vol de Jour (2:22)
    5. Ohms and Watts (3:38)
    6. Version des Faits (2:16)
    7. À Bras le Cœur (3:01)
    8. Le Droit à L’Oubli (2:30)
    9. La Corde Sensible (2:16)
    10. Holy Mackerel! (2:53)
    11. Parachute Jellyfish (2:17)
    12. The Age of the Interrobang (3:10)
    13. Unlearning to Swim (4:06)
    14. Ever So Slightly (3:50)
    15. Public Transit Limited (3:00)
    16. Mare Nostrum (4:03)

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    FRANCE Fontaines D.C. ‘Skinty Fia’

    France Release Video Single
    Posted on 29 March 2022
    Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia Out 05 June 2023
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    Réalisé par Hugh Mulhern

    Après  avoir dévoilé « I Love You » et « Jackie Down The Line », deux singles créant un enthousiasme généralisé pour le troisième album du groupe, Fontaines D.C. – qui vient d’être consacré “Meilleur groupe du monde” aux BandLab NME Awards 2022 – dévoile le titre éponyme de l’album “Skinty Fia“. Il s’agit du dernier extrait de Skinty Fia avant sa sortie le 22 avril 2022 sur Partisan Records.

    Skinty Fia est une expression irlandaise qui se traduirait en fr...

    Après  avoir dévoilé « I Love You » et « Jackie Down The Line », deux singles créant un enthousiasme généralisé pour le troisième album du groupe, Fontaines D.C. – qui vient d’être consacré “Meilleur groupe du monde” aux BandLab NME Awards 2022 – dévoile le titre éponyme de l’album “Skinty Fia“. Il s’agit du dernier extrait de Skinty Fia avant sa sortie le 22 avril 2022 sur Partisan Records.

    Skinty Fia est une expression irlandaise qui se traduirait en français comme « La Damnation du Cerf ». La pochette de l’album représente un cerf arraché à son habitat naturel et confiné dans le hall d’une maison, illuminé par une lueur rouge artificielle. L’expression, qui est utilisée pour afficher la déception ou l’agacement, a résonné chez le chanteur Grian Chatten comme l’expression correcte de ses sentiments envers la «mutation» de la culture irlandaise à l’étranger. La chanson explore cette idée à travers le prisme d’une relation condamnée par la paranoïa, l’alcool et la drogue. Le clip vidéo qui l’accompagne, réalisé par Hugh Mulhern, capture la tension dans la chanson, alors que Grian se fraye un chemin, inaperçu, à travers une foule animée de fêtes, dans ce qui s’avère être un paysage de rêve surréaliste et désorientant. “Skinty Fia” fonctionne comme l’ancre de l’album, donnant le ton pour le reste du disque, alors que le groupe explore de nouveaux terrains musicaux. Dans les paroles, ils sont aux prises avec un besoin d’élargir leurs horizons suite à un récent déménagement à Londres.

    Il y a des échos de la tourmente rock’n’ roll de Dogrel et des atmosphères sombres de A Hero’s Death, mais Skinty Fia, le troisième dans le triumvirat, est bien plus expansif et cinématique. Fontaines D.C. est un groupe en constante évolution et cette fois, le résultat est un album plein d’humeurs changeantes, d’idées surprenantes, de maturité et de force émotionnelle.

    Skinty Fia tracklist:

    1. In ár gCroíthe go deo
    2. Big Shot
    3. How Cold Love Is
    4. Jackie Down The Line
    5. Bloomsday
    6. Roman Holiday
    7. The Couple Across The Way
    8. Skinty Fia
    9. I Love You
    10. Nabokov

     

     

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    FRANCE Fontaines D.C. en live pour Echoes with Jehnny Beth

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    Posted on 03 April 2021
    produit par Walter Films

    Près d’un an après la sortie de A Hero’s Death, le second album du quatuor post-punk, Jehnny Beth invite Fontaines D.C. live pour le quatrième episode d’Echo with Jehnny Beth diffusé sur Arte TV.
    Après avoir reçu des artistes tel que Primal Scream, King Krule, Kim Gordon ou encore Rone, c’est au tour de ces cinq jeunes musiciens Irlandais d’y défendre cet album plus apaisé et introspectif que leur prédécesseur.
    Une prestation intense et cérébrale qui nous réconforte alo...

    Près d’un an après la sortie de A Hero’s Death, le second album du quatuor post-punk, Jehnny Beth invite Fontaines D.C. live pour le quatrième episode d’Echo with Jehnny Beth diffusé sur Arte TV.
    Après avoir reçu des artistes tel que Primal Scream, King Krule, Kim Gordon ou encore Rone, c’est au tour de ces cinq jeunes musiciens Irlandais d’y défendre cet album plus apaisé et introspectif que leur prédécesseur.
    Une prestation intense et cérébrale qui nous réconforte alors que le groupe devait jouer le premier avril 2021 à l’Olympia, un concert désormais reporté au 11 avril 2022.

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    FRANCE Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Coucou’ (Yelle Rework)

    Posted on 19 July 2021
    Sorti début janvier, “Coucou” le premier extrait de ‘Banane Bleue’, le nouvel album de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains, est venu éclaircir une année 2021 bien terne.

    Centré sur les connexions émotionnelles et les malentendus, le titre, presque californien avec sa basse moelleuse et ses guitares radieuses 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...

    Sorti début janvier, “Coucou” le premier extrait de ‘Banane Bleue’, le nouvel album de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains, est venu éclaircir une année 2021 bien terne.

    Centré sur les connexions émotionnelles et les malentendus, le titre, presque californien avec sa basse moelleuse et ses guitares radieuses 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 ».

    Yelle a transformé “Coucou” à sa sauce si particulière, rapprochant le titre de son propre univers. Avec GrandMarnier, son collaborateur de toujours, ils sont même allés plus loin en réalisant le rêve ultime de beaucoup d’auditeurs obsédés par une chanson: ils ont répondu à son auteur !


    Yelle
    précise : « “Coucou” était un monologue, nous avons voulu, avec GrandMarnier, en faire un dialogue. Un dialogue qui donne cette sensation d’avancer, d’aller droit au but sans perdre la cadence, comme quand tu es à 100% à ce que tu penses. On est ravi de donner notre air à celui de François, et ses montagnes, l’impression d’être à vélo, en pleine campagne. »
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    FRANCE Georgia and François Marry en live pour Rone & Friends au Théâtre du Châtelet

    Events France
    Posted on 15 April 2021
    Produit par Miligram

    Georgia Barnes et François Marry (Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains) qui ont tout deux co-écrit respectivement ‘Waves of Devotion’ et ‘Quitter la ville’ ont interprétés ces titres lors du concert spécial de Rone & Friends au Théatre du Châtelet diffusé sur Arte TV. Un concert aux côtés d’artistes tel que Flavien Berger, Wanessa Wagner, Camélia Jordana, Jehnny Beth ou encore Dominique A qui célèbre la dernière sortie du musicien électronique sur lequel figure sa c...

    Georgia Barnes et François Marry (Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains) qui ont tout deux co-écrit respectivement ‘Waves of Devotion’ et ‘Quitter la ville’ ont interprétés ces titres lors du concert spécial de Rone & Friends au Théatre du Châtelet diffusé sur Arte TV. Un concert aux côtés d’artistes tel que Flavien Berger, Wanessa Wagner, Camélia Jordana, Jehnny Beth ou encore Dominique A qui célèbre la dernière sortie du musicien électronique sur lequel figure sa collaboration avec Georgia.
    Un concert enregistré en binaural qui s’écoute de préférence au casque pour une expérience optimale.

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    Futurebirds ‘Teamwork’ out 15th January 2020

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    Posted on 21 September 2020
    Teamwork Futurebirds Out 15 January 2020
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    'Waiting on a Call' Director Alex Beaver

    Athens, Georgia (USA), has been a hotbed for great rock music (and music of all types) for the better part of the last 50 years, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change in the next 10. Raspy roots-rockers Futurebirds are four albums deep a decade into their career, but the arrival of their fifth is still a cause worth commemorating. Their earnest brand of country-tinged, sultry singsong fits right in alongside all your favorite indie-folk and Americana records. But Futurebirds are...

    Athens, Georgia (USA), has been a hotbed for great rock music (and music of all types) for the better part of the last 50 years, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change in the next 10. Raspy roots-rockers Futurebirds are four albums deep a decade into their career, but the arrival of their fifth is still a cause worth commemorating. Their earnest brand of country-tinged, sultry singsong fits right in alongside all your favorite indie-folk and Americana records. But Futurebirds are doing something different from many of those bands: Their three-part harmonies range from heartbreaking to chill-inducing, yet most of their songs possess a laid-back summery feel. The songs on LP5, ‘Teamwork’, find Futurebirds leaning into the psychedelic side of things, yet they’re as twangy as ever. ‘Trippin’ takes delight in human error, ‘All Damn Night’ is an escapist mountain holler tune and ‘Dream, Fam!’ is a suspicious jam. This record could take Futurebirds to the next level—bigger venues, heftier touring schedules—but for those of us who’ve been around with this band since the beginning, Teamwork is just another chapter in this century’s great southern rock story. [PASTE MAGAZINE]

    Rolling Stone Magazine review – January 2020

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    George FitzGerald collaborates with Lil Silva on Otherliine LP out 31st January 2020

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    Posted on 21 September 2020
    Otherliine George FitzGerald Out 31 January 2020
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    'Chimes' by Otherliine

    In 2018, Lil Silva featured on an co-wrote ‘Roll Back‘ with George FitzGerald. Released by Ministry of Sound Records, OTHERLiiNE is the debut collaborative project from producer George FitzGerald with Lil Silva.  Single “One Line” is carefully crafted, transcendent dance music – an elegant soon-to-be club classic from two of the UK’s most exciting underground producers. ‘Chimes‘ debuted on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show.

    Tracklist:

    1. ONE LINE
    2. CHIMES
    3. iiNTERLUDE 1
    4. HATES ME
    5. WH...

    In 2018, Lil Silva featured on an co-wrote ‘Roll Back‘ with George FitzGerald. Released by Ministry of Sound Records, OTHERLiiNE is the debut collaborative project from producer George FitzGerald with Lil Silva.  Single “One Line” is carefully crafted, transcendent dance music – an elegant soon-to-be club classic from two of the UK’s most exciting underground producers. ‘Chimes‘ debuted on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show.

    Tracklist:

    1. ONE LINE
    2. CHIMES
    3. iiNTERLUDE 1
    4. HATES ME
    5. WHERE WE GET TO
    6. iiNTERLUDE 2
    7. SILENCE

    Wonderland Magazine Interview

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    Good Bad Happy Sad ‘Shades’ out 16th October 2020

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    Posted on 24 November 2020
    Shades Mica Levi Out 16 October 2020
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    'Looking Up At The Sun' dir. Shane Connolly

    Mica Levi’s band, formerly known as Micachu and the Shapes, embraces imperfection, evoking late-’80s indie pop in whimsical ideas, unsteady rhythms, and meticulous detailing.

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    Heather Trost ‘Petrichor’ out 6th November 2020

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    Posted on 24 November 2020
    Petrichor Heather Trost Out 06 November 2020
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    Love It Grows

    Third Man Records present the New Mexico-based artist Heather Trost’s second or third solo full-length.

    Sonically, this modern psychedelic pop music is as experimental as it is accessible. Petrichor was recorded between 2018 and 2019 by Heather Trost and her husband Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel) at their home studio. The two are community activists in New Mexico, urban gardeners, and full-time musicians.

    “As the rain renews the thirsty soil, let Heather Trost’s ‘Petrichor’ soot...

    Third Man Records present the New Mexico-based artist Heather Trost’s second or third solo full-length.

    Sonically, this modern psychedelic pop music is as experimental as it is accessible. Petrichor was recorded between 2018 and 2019 by Heather Trost and her husband Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel) at their home studio. The two are community activists in New Mexico, urban gardeners, and full-time musicians.

    “As the rain renews the thirsty soil, let Heather Trost’s ‘Petrichor’ soothe your soul and wake up your ears. Swirling vintage keys, propulsive drum beats, and the sweetest of voices bloom and grow here.” Naomi Yang, Galaxie 500

    DIY Mag

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    Honeyglaze ‘Female Lead’ out 9th of March 2022

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    Posted on 10 March 2022
    Female Lead Honeyglaze Out 09 March 2022
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    New to Domino Publishing, London based trio Honeyglaze release their fourth single ‘Female Lead‘ ahead of their upcoming debut album ‘Honeyglaze‘ out on the 29th April.

    ‘Female Lead‘ comes with a dramatic video staring the bands singer and guitarist, Anouska Sokolow, and featuring Jojo Macari from Netflix’s Sex Education; you can checkout a behind the scenes video including a special interview HERE.

    Sokolow has explained the writing process behind ‘Female Lead’: “I was o...

    New to Domino Publishing, London based trio Honeyglaze release their fourth single ‘Female Lead‘ ahead of their upcoming debut album ‘Honeyglaze‘ out on the 29th April.

    ‘Female Lead‘ comes with a dramatic video staring the bands singer and guitarist, Anouska Sokolow, and featuring Jojo Macari from Netflix’s Sex Education; you can checkout a behind the scenes video including a special interview HERE.

    Sokolow has explained the writing process behind ‘Female Lead’: “I was overwhelmed by the state of the world during the first lockdown and constantly being surrounded by bad news… it was a time when people were playing with changing their appearance and I felt incapable of writing anything of any actual importance so I decided to write about something as completely arbitrary as dying my hair. I was inspired by the song ‘Leader of the Pack’ by the Shangri-las and the narrative heavy pop songs that were coming out of the Brill building during the 60s”

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    Hovvdy ‘True Love’ out 1st October 2021

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    Posted on 20 September 2021
    True Love Hovvdy Out 01 October 2021
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    Directed by Adam Alonzo & Zach Taylor

    Austin, Texas’ Hovvdy have announced their new album ‘True Love’ and shared a video for its title track. The LP is due out October 1 via Grand Jury. Check out the video for ‘True Love’ above.

    ‘True Love’ is the band’s fourth album, following ‘Heavy Lifter’ (2019), ‘Cranberry’ (2018), and ‘Taster’ (2017). They recorded it at co-producer Andrew Sarlo’s studio in Los Angeles in 2020.

    Of the title track, Hovvdy’s Charlie Martin said:

    “For each Hovvdy re...

    Austin, Texas’ Hovvdy have announced their new album ‘True Love’ and shared a video for its title track. The LP is due out October 1 via Grand Jury. Check out the video for ‘True Love’ above.

    ‘True Love’ is the band’s fourth album, following ‘Heavy Lifter’ (2019), ‘Cranberry’ (2018), and ‘Taster’ (2017). They recorded it at co-producer Andrew Sarlo’s studio in Los Angeles in 2020.

    Of the title track, Hovvdy’s Charlie Martin said:

    “For each Hovvdy record there’s always been a song that kinda shocks my system, kinda jolts me into a brand new and inspired place. This was definitely that song for me. I remember writing it and feeling a rush of excitement—crying a lot honestly. it feels so good to express love and appreciation when you really fucking mean it. but it’s hard to feel worthy of love, of something so rare, and all we can do is try to measure up—that’s what that last part is all about.”

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    Ian Chang ‘属 Belonging’ out 24th April 2020

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    Posted on 22 September 2020
    属 Belonging Ian Chang Out 24 April 2020
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    Directed and animated by Qieer Wang

    ‘属 Belonging’, Ian Chang’s first full-length album, is like a cyborg – part purring mechanism, part animate bio-mass rising from primordial ooze. In nine concise, largely instrumental pop songs, Chang conjures a personal cosmos: the listener feels as if we might reach out and touch Belonging’s jagged and tender aural sculptures. At every level, his music sings with earnest and deceptive simplicity. The album’s melodies are intimate, its rhythms rewarding, and yet, just beneath t...

    ‘属 Belonging’, Ian Chang’s first full-length album, is like a cyborg – part purring mechanism, part animate bio-mass rising from primordial ooze. In nine concise, largely instrumental pop songs, Chang conjures a personal cosmos: the listener feels as if we might reach out and touch Belonging’s jagged and tender aural sculptures. At every level, his music sings with earnest and deceptive simplicity. The album’s melodies are intimate, its rhythms rewarding, and yet, just beneath the surface glimmers innovation, as if the neurons firing in each melodic idea have become audible. From the tradition of Bjork, Burial, and Flying Lotus, Chang breathes a new kind of human vulnerability into electronica.

    Out on City Slang.

    FEATURED VOCALISTS
    Kiah Victoria – “Comfort Me”
    Kazu Makino – “Audacious”
    Hanna Benn – “雀舌 (Bird’s Tongue)”

    ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS
    Jackson Hill – Electric bass on “Comfort Me”
    Kendrick Lo – Electric guitar on “Comfort Me”
    Rafiq Bhatia – Electric guitar on “Zoetrope”
    吴非 Wu Fei – 古筝 on “醉罗汉 (Drunken Fist)”

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    Iglooghost ‘Big Protector’

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    Posted on 25 March 2021

    “I recently started a research institute to study a special subgenre called Lei Music. This video documents an expedition we took to a place known as the M⚮rlands. This infinite biome of rugged granite and soil surrounds the towns that practice Lei Music & very little is known about it. It is inhabited by strange organic drones knows as Celles, yet the few people who have stepped into the M⚮rlands have struggled to form any type of contact with these beings. Our expedition’s purpo...

    “I recently started a research institute to study a special subgenre called Lei Music. This video documents an expedition we took to a place known as the M⚮rlands. This infinite biome of rugged granite and soil surrounds the towns that practice Lei Music & very little is known about it. It is inhabited by strange organic drones knows as Celles, yet the few people who have stepped into the M⚮rlands have struggled to form any type of contact with these beings. Our expedition’s purpose was to establish some kind of communication with the Celles & learn more about their existence.”

     

    Directed, animated, edited & produced by Iglooghost Director of Photography – Jack Wells Production Designer – BABii

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    Iglooghost ‘Lei Line Eon’ out 2nd April 2021

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    Posted on 17 March 2021
    Lei Line Eon Iglooghost Out 02 April 2021
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    Sylph Fossil「Visualiser」by Iglooghost Violin arrangement by Vivek Menon Violin engineering by Drew Atz Additional vocals by Cuushe & BABii

    “I have spent the past year researching a lost tradition of my hilltop birthplace called ‘Lei Music.’ This special genre has the ability to summon strange, squeaking entities from invisible zones. These songs are transcribed to special discs called ‘Lei Disks’ – and are now hoarded & traded obsessively by modern-day collectors.

    There is no clear explanation of why the performance of Lei Music has such extraordinary effects. Some believe it could be related to a variety of pro...

    “I have spent the past year researching a lost tradition of my hilltop birthplace called ‘Lei Music.’ This special genre has the ability to summon strange, squeaking entities from invisible zones. These songs are transcribed to special discs called ‘Lei Disks’ – and are now hoarded & traded obsessively by modern-day collectors.

    There is no clear explanation of why the performance of Lei Music has such extraordinary effects. Some believe it could be related to a variety of properties unique to Dorset – such as the high concentration of towering granite artefacts, floating pebble circles, and nearby landmarks’ alignments with otherworldly phenomena. The musical instruments that were traditionally played are suspected to have stimulated geoglyphic ley lines – and inadvertently operated as tools that created small rifts between worlds.

    I have been working very hard on a new album of modern laptop-based Lei Music, and have been summoning lots of different clattering, shifting and clicking entities. I am excited to show you them very soon. ⛢꧂” Iglooghost

    Loud and Quiet

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    Iglooghost╰ ⋵ ⋰ ☼ ⑇ Eœ (Disk•Initiate)

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    Posted on 25 November 2020
    Eœ (Disk•Initiate) Iglooghost Out 25 November 2020
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    Directed by Iglooghost. 3D Animation by Christopher Casey Denton.

    This release is the first track marking a new era of Iglooghost. EŒ is a departure from earlier IG works sitting in a more ethereal and stripped back realm and is his unique vision on an orchestral piece of piano and violins.

    Accompanied by this release is a short film documentary. The documentary is an insight into the world of ‘Lei Music‘ , In IG’s own words “This special genre has the ability to summon strange, squeaking entities from invisible zones. These songs are transcribed t...

    This release is the first track marking a new era of Iglooghost. EŒ is a departure from earlier IG works sitting in a more ethereal and stripped back realm and is his unique vision on an orchestral piece of piano and violins.

    Accompanied by this release is a short film documentary. The documentary is an insight into the world of ‘Lei Music‘ , In IG’s own words “This special genre has the ability to summon strange, squeaking entities from invisible zones. These songs are transcribed to special discs called ‘Lei Disks’ – and are now hoarded & traded obsessively by modern-day collectors.”

    Introduction to Lei Music, the Glyph Institute², and ‘Disk•Initiate.’

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    Islands ‘Islomania’ out 11th June 2021

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    Posted on 03 March 2021
    Islomania Islands Out 11 June 2021
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    'Do It With the Lights On' directed by Tim Nackashi Nick Thorburn dancing alongside Gigi Todisco (Choreography)

    “Do It With the Lights On” is a catchy bit of dance-pop led by an irrepressible bass line and a vocal performance from Nick Thorburn (Domino Publishing) that flits between blasé, charming, and exuberant: “Dance to the song, on and on,” he sings, “We do it with the lights on/We like to do it with the lights on/Bang on a gong, on and on/We do it with the lights on.”

    Islands originally formed in 2005 and released seven albums before splitting in 2016; the group’s final two albums fro...

    “Do It With the Lights On” is a catchy bit of dance-pop led by an irrepressible bass line and a vocal performance from Nick Thorburn (Domino Publishing) that flits between blasé, charming, and exuberant: “Dance to the song, on and on,” he sings, “We do it with the lights on/We like to do it with the lights on/Bang on a gong, on and on/We do it with the lights on.”

    Islands originally formed in 2005 and released seven albums before splitting in 2016; the group’s final two albums from that run, Should I Remain Here, At Sea? and Taste, were released on the same day in 2016. In the years since, Thorburn dabbled a bit in music — scoring a few films and radio shows, collaborating with El-P, and releasing a 2017 album with the indie supergroup Mr. Heavenly — but otherwise focused on other projects, like creating a TV pilot and graphic novel. When Thorburn decided to reboot Islands, he linked up with drummer Adam Halferty and guitarist Geordie Gordon, as well as producer Chris Coady, and they began sessions at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. The sessions for Islomania also featured Islands bassist Evan Gordon and RATATAT guitarist Mike Stroud.

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    Jackie Lynn ‘Jacqueline’ is out 10th April 2020

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    Posted on 22 September 2020
    Jackie Lynn Out 10 April 2020
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    Casino Queen Directed by Haley Fohr & Krzys Piotrowski

    Jackie Lynn is the fictional alter ego of singer/songwriter Haley Fohr who is also known for her indie folk project Circuit des Yeux. The debut album told the story of Jackie’s (fictional) life to date. On ‘Jacqueline’, Jackie Lynn returns and her continuing story is brought to us by Fohr, Cooper Crain, Rob Frye and Dan Quinlivan of Bitchin Bajas.

    Along with the announcement, the band have shared the album’s first single, the driving and hypnotic opening song ‘Casino Queen’ which...

    Jackie Lynn is the fictional alter ego of singer/songwriter Haley Fohr who is also known for her indie folk project Circuit des Yeux. The debut album told the story of Jackie’s (fictional) life to date. On ‘Jacqueline’, Jackie Lynn returns and her continuing story is brought to us by Fohr, Cooper Crain, Rob Frye and Dan Quinlivan of Bitchin Bajas.

    Along with the announcement, the band have shared the album’s first single, the driving and hypnotic opening song ‘Casino Queen’ which is accompanied by a video directed by Krzys Piotrowski and the band’s Haley Fohr.

    The album is the follow-up to 2016’s widely acclaimed, self-titled debut. Speaking on the origins of the song and video, Fohr states: “‘Casino Queen’ showcases a night in the life of Jacqueline. The song and video follow the letting go of an individual’s underdog mentality, realigning it with the winner’s place. What does it take to refocus one’s internal mirror and become a Casino Queen?  All in due time shall we each define ourselves prosperous by way of intuition, self belief, nearby shoulders, a bit of luck, and maybe a wig.”

    Jackie first broke the waves with a self-titled record in 2016. The image was alluring. There were masks, and She first broke the waves with a self-titled record in 2016. The image was alluring. There were masks, and a wild backstory. Something you could project up on a screen. The music was a gritty, quicksilver sound; nocturnal, high. There was press. Rumours of a cult following in Europe. She made appearances around town for about a year, then – nothing. Unless you spun the record, then it all came alive again. We do it all the time.

    So we live with music and memories, and suddenly it’s 2020. And Jackie’s back. Forced off the grid, Jackie’s self-proclaimed hero-of-none’s story was one of revenge and reconciliation – but with the help of the benevolent spirit of strangers, Jackie Lynn has earned herself a second go-around. With a map as her guide, and all the weight of the world as her cargo,  Jacqueline, lady of the road, is born.

    These 9 tracks that tell the story of Jacqueline were written and recorded as a group, first to tape at home, then mixed at Electrical Audio by Cooper Crain.

    Out on Drag City Records.

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    James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra ‘The Wide Wide River’ out 22nd January 2021

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    ‘I flew to Sweden and made this record within hours of meeting The Second Hand Orchestra. I played them the songs, we hit record, and from then, every note of every arrangement was spontaneous. The result: this fast-footed, free-wheeling album’ James Yorkston

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    Jennifer Castle ‘Monarch Season’ out 16th October 2020

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    Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle is as open-ended and unfurnished as folk music can get. Each of its songs was recorded at Castle’s Ontario home, the windows open to let in sounds from Lake Erie just outside. The lyrics are bound by a focus on the moon, but you would be hard-pressed to find anything resembling a narrative in her writing. “I see the wings in everything,” Castle sings in the title track, offering a key into the imagistic worldview that spans her music.

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    Jens Kuross ‘The Man Nobody Can Touch’ out 25th September 2020

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    Jessy Lanza ‘All The Time’ out 24th July 2020

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    The early days of writing All the Time, Jessy Lanza’s first album since 2016’s Oh No, marked a sea change for Jessy and her creative partner Jeremy Greenspan (Junior Boys). After Oh No, Jessy left her hometown of Hamilton to go and live in New York. Written long distance for the first time, across Jessy’s new set up in New York to Jeremy’s home studio in Hamilton, and finishing in the recording studio Jeremy had been working on during this period.

    Even though the move to New York and ...

    The early days of writing All the Time, Jessy Lanza’s first album since 2016’s Oh No, marked a sea change for Jessy and her creative partner Jeremy Greenspan (Junior Boys). After Oh No, Jessy left her hometown of Hamilton to go and live in New York. Written long distance for the first time, across Jessy’s new set up in New York to Jeremy’s home studio in Hamilton, and finishing in the recording studio Jeremy had been working on during this period.

    Even though the move to New York and the change in remote working was tough, ‘All the Time’ has turned out to be the most pure set of pop songs the duo has recorded; reflective and finessed over the time and distance they allowed it. Innovative juxtapositions sound natural, such as rigid 808’s rubbing against delicate chords in ‘Anyone Around’, unusual underwater rushes underpin Baby Love . Jessy’s voice is treated, re-pitched and edited on songs like Ice creamy and gestural sounds seem to respond to her lyrics in songs such as Like Fire.

    A lot of these sounds came from live take experiments using semi modular/modular equipment like Mother 32 and Dfam and Moog Sirin. Jessy says ‘We got all of the machines talking to one another and would run patterns through. A lot of the little burps and quacks and squiggles heard on songs like Anyone Around, Like ‘Fire’, ‘Face’, and ‘Badly’ are from those experiments. That’s when I’m having the most fun, making music and improvising through takes of the song and editing together all the best gurgle sounds afterwards’.

    More than previously the lyrics on All The Time were an important focus for Jessy, articulating difficult feeling into her outwardly joyful music. ’Anger is a familiar and safe feeling for me. The album became a conversation with myself about why that is. Some songs refer to real and legitimate things to be angry about; ‘Lick in Heaven’ takes aim at what the culture expects from women. The cynicism I felt towards the people around me kept coming up and All the Time is an exploration into those feelings and a conversation with myself about other possibilities when it comes to my outlook on life.’

    As the final elements of the album were being put in place, everything changed overnight. Her European tour was cut short and she flew back to New York quickly, plans for the foreseeable future dissolved. Whatsmore her lease was up on her apartment and she couldn’t find another in New York due to quarantine restrictions, so she packed what she could into her van and drove to San Francisco to be near her family, stopping on the way in increasingly empty motels as she journeyed from coast to coast.

    ‘Even though All the Time was written in 2019 the themes feel even more relevant now. Like a lot of people,I’m still struggling with the reality that life is hard to predict and it’s even harder not to make the same mistakes over again, trying to control what i’m able to and leave the rest.’
    The cover photo of Jessy in her van was taken before these events , but it’s taken on more importance since.
    ‘Through many changing situations my minivan gives me comfort. It seems like such an American thing to say.m I realise it’s symbolic of a much larger existential struggle in my own life but regardless I wanted it to be a part of the album cover. Sitting in my van made me feel so comfortable and it’s rare for me to feel that.

    VIDEO: Live from San Francisco – Boiler Room showcase w/ Night Dreamer & Worldwide FM tonight. Streaming From Isolation series is now raising donations directly for Black Lives Matter-affiliated causes. Donations to this stream go to NAACP Legal Defence.

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    Joan As Police Woman ‘The Solution Is Restless’ out 5th November 2021

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    Joan As Police Woman – the project of Joan Wasser – has announced a collaborative new album titled ‘The Solution is Restless’, written and recorded with the late Tony Allen and The Invisible’s Dave Okumu.

    ‘The Solution is Restless’ is the ninth studio album by Wasser under her long-running project. It is also one of the final studio recordings of Allen, who died in April 2020.

    Born out of a night-long improvisation session in a Parisian studio, ‘The Solution is Restless’ w...

    Joan As Police Woman – the project of Joan Wasser – has announced a collaborative new album titled ‘The Solution is Restless’, written and recorded with the late Tony Allen and The Invisible’s Dave Okumu.

    ‘The Solution is Restless’ is the ninth studio album by Wasser under her long-running project. It is also one of the final studio recordings of Allen, who died in April 2020.

    Born out of a night-long improvisation session in a Parisian studio, ‘The Solution is Restless’ will be released on November 5th. Its first single, ‘Take Me To Your Leader’, has been released. Watch its music video above.

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    Joe Wong ‘Nite Creatures’ out 15th May 2020

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    Joe Wong is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and podcaster based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently the host of The Trap Set, a weekly podcast and radio show about the lives of musicians. Out on Decca Records, the album ‘Nite Creatures’ was produced by Mary Timony (Ex Hex, Helium), who also plays guitar on the record, and it also features Mary Lattimore, Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd, War on Drugs’ Jon Natchez, Shudder to think frontman (and fellow film/TV...

    Joe Wong is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and podcaster based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently the host of The Trap Set, a weekly podcast and radio show about the lives of musicians. Out on Decca Records, the album ‘Nite Creatures’ was produced by Mary Timony (Ex Hex, Helium), who also plays guitar on the record, and it also features Mary Lattimore, Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd, War on Drugs’ Jon Natchez, Shudder to think frontman (and fellow film/TV composer) Craig Wedren, and Anna Waronker (That Dog), not to mention a 24-piece orchestra.

    The album’s songs, which are in an orch-pop vein a la The Zombies or The Left Banke, were written over a nearly 10-year period between his father’s stroke in 2010 and death in 2019.

    “It’s basically about losing someone slowly,” says Wong. “It has a lot to do with losing elements of his personality, piece by piece. The album’s about loss, but it’s about coming to terms with it and not being afraid of it. The final loss was a relief and lots of it is kind of like my way of telling him it’s OK to go.”

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    JW Francis ‘I Love You’

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    Irresistibly catchy and packed with a blissed-out synth melody.

    Recorded in Hackney Road Studios, the single is dedicated to JW’s best friend Joe Fusco: “I wrote this song for my best friend Joe Fusco. We had lived together for 2 glorious years and then we decided to split ways for practical life reasons vowing to return to living together when it felt right. This was just me reminding him I loved him no matter what.”

    The new single is also accompanied by a highly surreal, yet heart-war...

    Irresistibly catchy and packed with a blissed-out synth melody.

    Recorded in Hackney Road Studios, the single is dedicated to JW’s best friend Joe Fusco: “I wrote this song for my best friend Joe Fusco. We had lived together for 2 glorious years and then we decided to split ways for practical life reasons vowing to return to living together when it felt right. This was just me reminding him I loved him no matter what.”

    The new single is also accompanied by a highly surreal, yet heart-warming video directed by fellow New Yorker Sara Laufer, in which JW describes as “a time capsule of my time in New York filmed with my roommates…It was an act of love”.

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    JW Francis ‘Maybe’

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    Filled with psychedelic grooves and laid-back vocals, ‘Maybe’ is the latest single in what will be a very busy year for the New York troubadour. Recorded in Hackney Studios, the track is about the anxiety of decision making; something JW himself has been dealing with personally after quitting his job to walk the Appalachian Trial.

    Accompanying the new single is also the hilarious video directed by friend and collaborator David Kong:
    “The music video for Maybe is the result of us drinkin...

    Filled with psychedelic grooves and laid-back vocals, ‘Maybe’ is the latest single in what will be a very busy year for the New York troubadour. Recorded in Hackney Studios, the track is about the anxiety of decision making; something JW himself has been dealing with personally after quitting his job to walk the Appalachian Trial.

    Accompanying the new single is also the hilarious video directed by friend and collaborator David Kong:
    “The music video for Maybe is the result of us drinking a lot of coffee and hanging out with my best friends. We all wear tracksuits to signify that we are besties”

    The new single follows an extremely successful debut album campaign with 2020’s ‘We Share a Similar Joy’. The album was named as BBC 6 Music’s Album of The Day, as well as regularly playing lead single ‘New York’.

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    JW Francis ‘We Share a Similar Joy’ out 6th November 2020

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    JW was born in Oklahoma, raised in Paris, living in New York City, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and Murder Mystery business owner, JW Francis is now the newest signing to Sunday Best Recordings. His brand of lo-fi, utterly irresistible bedroom dream-pop takes its lead from the city JW lives in, with echoes of Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground and the lo-fi sound New York has been inspiring for decades.

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    JW Francis drops album ‘Dream House’ with colourful video for lead single

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    New York’s ‘lo-fi jangle dream slacker bedroom pop’ artist JW Francis brings us his 4th album Dream House, built around a collection of glorious tracks written for other people. Every year, a few weeks before Valentine’s day, JW invites fans to share names and personal stories of their ‘Valentine’, to put this in a song on their behalf.

    Dream House takes cues from The Strokes, with hints of Lou Reed, Mac Demarco or Her’s, however the project is still quintessential J...

    New York’s ‘lo-fi jangle dream slacker bedroom pop’ artist JW Francis brings us his 4th album Dream House, built around a collection of glorious tracks written for other people. Every year, a few weeks before Valentine’s day, JW invites fans to share names and personal stories of their ‘Valentine’, to put this in a song on their behalf.

    Dream House takes cues from The Strokes, with hints of Lou Reed, Mac Demarco or Her’s, however the project is still quintessential JW Francis. The blissful melodies and dreamy instrumentation perfectly fit the album’s title.

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    JW Francis joins Domino Publishing

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    Born in Oklahoma, raised in Paris, living in New York City, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and Murder Mystery business owner, JW Francis is the newest signing to Sunday Best Recordings. His brand of lo-fi, utterly irresistible bedroom dream-pop takes its lead from the city JW lives in, with echoes of Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground and the lo-fi sound New York has been inspiring for decades.

    The first single to be released by Sunday Best is the g...

    Born in Oklahoma, raised in Paris, living in New York City, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and Murder Mystery business owner, JW Francis is the newest signing to Sunday Best Recordings. His brand of lo-fi, utterly irresistible bedroom dream-pop takes its lead from the city JW lives in, with echoes of Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground and the lo-fi sound New York has been inspiring for decades.

    The first single to be released by Sunday Best is the glorious and appropriately titled ‘New York’, serving as the perfect introduction to JW Francis, with its infectious guitar lines, lo-fi vocals and accompanying retro visual;

    “I’m a licensed tour guide of NYC. This place has taught me so much. I wanted to write an homage, but also express how I feel, which is mostly contained in the first line of the song ‘I’ll sleep when dead’”

    The DIY mentality is key throughout JW Francis’ output and he’s been working hard at it over the last 2 years, playing a total of 72 shows across 19 different states and 5 different countries – the unusual factor being that having asked fans in each city to form a different backing band for him at every show, he now has bands in L.A, San Francisco, Paris, Glasgow, New York & Costa Rica.

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    JW Francis ‘WANDERKID’ out 1st October 2021

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    JW Francis burst onto the scene with his critically acclaimed debut ‘We Share a Similar Joy’, with features from DIY and Line of Best Fit to being named Album of The Day on BBC 6 Music. His warm, affable melodies and comforting lyrics earned him fans on both sides of the Atlantic, and now he returns with his sophomore album ‘WANDERKID’, a concept album about a wandering anti-hero.

    ‘WANDERKID’ hones in on JW’s dreamy soundscapes and explores themes of escapism, whilst still maint...

    JW Francis burst onto the scene with his critically acclaimed debut ‘We Share a Similar Joy’, with features from DIY and Line of Best Fit to being named Album of The Day on BBC 6 Music. His warm, affable melodies and comforting lyrics earned him fans on both sides of the Atlantic, and now he returns with his sophomore album ‘WANDERKID’, a concept album about a wandering anti-hero.

    ‘WANDERKID’ hones in on JW’s dreamy soundscapes and explores themes of escapism, whilst still maintaining that sense of comfort and intimacy so beautifully demonstrated in his debut. To celebrate the release, JW is going on a 2,000 mile walking journey across the Eastern United States along the Appalachian Trail.

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    Kae Tempest ‘I Saw Light’ feat. Grian Chatten out 30th March

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    Ahead of the release of their new album ‘The Line Is A Curve’ on 8th April, Kae Tempest has shared the final single ‘I Saw Light’ featuring Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten.

    Produced by long term collaborator Dan Carey, Kae says of the album, “The Line Is A Curve is about letting go. Of shame, anxiety, isolation and falling instead into surrender. Embracing the cyclical nature of time, growth, love. This letting go can hopefully be felt across the record. In the musicality, the ins...

    Ahead of the release of their new album ‘The Line Is A Curve’ on 8th April, Kae Tempest has shared the final single ‘I Saw Light’ featuring Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten.

    Produced by long term collaborator Dan Carey, Kae says of the album, “The Line Is A Curve is about letting go. Of shame, anxiety, isolation and falling instead into surrender. Embracing the cyclical nature of time, growth, love. This letting go can hopefully be felt across the record. In the musicality, the instrumentation, the lyricism, the delivery, the cover art. In the way it ends where it begins and begins where it ends.I knew I wanted my face on the sleeve. Throughout the duration of my creative life, I have been hungry for the spotlight and desperately uncomfortable in it. For the last couple of records I wanted to disappear completely from the album covers, the videos, the front-facing aspects of this industry. A lot of that was about my shame but I masked it behind a genuine desire for my work to speak for itself, without me up front, commodifying what felt so rare to me and sacred. I was, at times, annoyed that in order to put the work out, I had to put myself out. But this time around, I understand it differently. I want people to feel welcomed into this record, by me, the person who made it, and I have let go of some of my airier concerns. I feel more grounded in what I’m trying to do, who I am as an artist and as a person and what I have to offer. I feel less shame in my body because I am not hiding from the world anymore. I wanted to show my face and I dreamed of it being Wolfgang Tillmans who took the portrait.”

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    Kae Tempest ‘The Line Is A Curve’ Out 8th April 2022

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    ‘The Line Is A Curve’ is the new album from writer and musician Kae Tempest, set for release on 8th April 2022 by Fiction Records. It is the fourth album from the Lewisham based artist and has been produced by long term collaborator Dan Carey. The record also follows the critically-acclaimed play ‘Paradise’, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2021. Today Kae reveals a new single entitled ‘More Pressure’ which features Kevin Abstract of the American hip-hop group...
    ‘The Line Is A Curve’ is the new album from writer and musician Kae Tempest, set for release on 8th April 2022 by Fiction Records. It is the fourth album from the Lewisham based artist and has been produced by long term collaborator Dan Carey. The record also follows the critically-acclaimed play ‘Paradise’, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2021. Today Kae reveals a new single entitled ‘More Pressure’ which features Kevin Abstract of the American hip-hop group BROCKHAMPTON. Their shared friend and collaborator Rick Rubin had played the group‘The Book of Traps and Lessons’ in his studio, and they had reached out to Kae afterwards to thank them for the inspiration.
    After the experience of touring previous album ‘The Book of Traps and Lessons’, Tempest realised that they wanted ‘The Line Is A Curve’ to be a communicative record. The concept manifested itself both in the contributions of other artists (the aforementioned Kevin Abstract, Grian Chatten of Fontaines DC, Lianne La Havas, ássia, Confucius MC) and during the recording process, when Tempest decided to do three vocal takes in one day, to three different generations of people; “a man of 78 who I’d never met, a woman of 29, the poet Bridget Minamore, who is a good friend of mine and then to three young fans of 12, 15 and 16 who had responded to a social media post.”
    Featuring artwork shot by renowned photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, the album is best described by Tempest themselves:
    “The Line Is A Curve is about letting go. Of shame, anxiety, isolation and falling instead into surrender. Embracing the cyclical nature of time, growth, love. This letting go can hopefully be felt across the record. In the musicality, the instrumentation, the lyricism, the delivery, the cover art. In the way it ends where it begins and begins where it ends. I knew I wanted my face on the sleeve. Throughout the duration of my creative life, I have been hungry for the spotlight and desperately uncomfortable in it. For the last couple of records I wanted to disappear completely from the album covers, the videos, the front-facing aspects of this industry. A lot of that was about my shame but I masked it behind a genuine desire for my work to speak for itself, without me up front, commodifying what felt so rare to me and sacred. I was, at times, annoyed that in order to put the work out, I had to put myself out. But this time around, I understand it differently. I want people to feel welcomed into this record, by me, the person who made it, and I have let go of some of my airier concerns. I feel more grounded in what I’m trying to do, who I am as an artist and as a person and what I have to offer. I feel less shame in my body because I am not hiding from the world anymore. I wanted to show my face and I dreamed of it being Wolfgang Tillmans who took the portrait.”
    With four studio albums, a novel, their first work of non-fiction (‘On Connection’), three plays and five collections of poetry to their name, Kae Tempest has firmly established themselves as one of the most unique, thought-provoking and critically-acclaimed voices of their generation. With the release of ‘The Line Is ACurve’,in 2022, that reputation is only set to grow exponentially.
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    Kae Tempest performs ‘More Pressure’ and ‘ Grace’ on Jimmy Fallon

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    Kae Tempest gives an intimate performance of  ‘More Pressure‘ and unreleased track ‘Grace‘ on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show. More Pressure, released in January, and Grace are tracks from their upcoming album The Line Is A Curve, out 8th April. The upcoming album includes features from Kevin Abstract of Brockhampton, Lianne La Havas and Grian Chatten from Fontaines D.C.

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    Kaki King ‘Modern Yesterdays’ out 23rd October 2020

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    Internationally renowned guitarist and composer Kaki King joins the Cantaloupe Music family with her latest album, Modern Yesterdays. Co-produced with sound designer Chloe Alexandra Thompson and recording engineer Arjan Miranda, it’s her first full-length studio project since the 2015 release of The Neck Is A Bridge to the Body (“bursting with masterclass talent,” as reviewed in PopMatters), and her first to be recorded almost entirely on acoustic guitar.

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    Internationally renowned guitarist and composer Kaki King joins the Cantaloupe Music family with her latest album, Modern Yesterdays. Co-produced with sound designer Chloe Alexandra Thompson and recording engineer Arjan Miranda, it’s her first full-length studio project since the 2015 release of The Neck Is A Bridge to the Body (“bursting with masterclass talent,” as reviewed in PopMatters), and her first to be recorded almost entirely on acoustic guitar.

    Rich in post-classical, jazz, folk and blues-flavored motifs, as well as electronic and electro-acoustic influences, Modern Yesterdays mines a poignant, meditative arc that not only fits the mood of these turbulent times, but once again establishes King as a tirelessly inventive composer whose imagination extends well beyond the sonic limits of her chosen instrument.

    There’s a definite “covid aesthetic” that informs the album’s title, as King explains. “We talk about ‘the before,’ or back before the outbreak,” she says. “Time has barely passed. So I think there is a bit of a looking back that we’re all doing in every way about what we miss — what was good, what was bad, all of it. We’re all yearning in some ways for our modern yesterday, and in some ways saying well, there is clearly going to be a modern tomorrow too.”

    The album’s first single “Teek” features Ethel’s Ralph Farris on viola. The second single “Forms of Light and Death” was arranged by Icelandic composer and synthesist Úlfur Hansson, and is the only song to feature King on electric guitar. “Can’t Touch This or That or You or My Face” is the album’s third single — a quietly beat-driven excursion into a multi-hued sonic future.

    Live Concert Footage is taken from a performance of Kaki’s new theater project, DATA NOT FOUND, which was filmed by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi on November 13, 2019 at The Arts Center’s Black Box, and which will begin touring globally in 2021.

    DATA NOT FOUND is a joint co-commission made possible by the The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi; International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, CT; the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech; ARTS@TECH at Georgia Tech; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Ovation Guitars. Developmental support provided by MASS MoCA. Technical support provided by POTION Design.

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    Kris Delmhorst ‘Long Day In the Milky Way’ out 14th August 2020

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    With Long Day in the Milky Way, Delmhorst takes a surefooted stride forward. Listeners should expect lush, layered vocals and immersive instrumentation. The album finds the gifted lyricist at the height of her craft and working with a strong sense of purpose. World-weary but hopeful, the songwriter in her responds to a time of global anxiety with a missive straight from the chest. Delmhorst invites the listener to look both out and in, to take in the full kaleidoscope of life’s contradictio...

    With Long Day in the Milky Way, Delmhorst takes a surefooted stride forward. Listeners should expect lush, layered vocals and immersive instrumentation. The album finds the gifted lyricist at the height of her craft and working with a strong sense of purpose. World-weary but hopeful, the songwriter in her responds to a time of global anxiety with a missive straight from the chest. Delmhorst invites the listener to look both out and in, to take in the full kaleidoscope of life’s contradictions – persistence, frustration, heartbreak, love – and to locate the grace within the struggle, the beauty in the dark.  AMERICAN SONGWRITER

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    L.A. Salami ‘Self Portrait in Sound EP’ out 4th February 2020

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    After introducing the character of Papalious Stokely with the ‘L.A. Salami’s Walkabout’ EP, L.A. Salami builds towards the January 31st release of its second chapter, ‘Self Portrait In Sound’, by sharing its lead track ‘We’ll Solve It After’. 

     ‘We’ll Solve It After’ examines a relationship which seems to be doomed from the start. Yet it’s something both partners are more than willing to overlook as they’re caught up in the moment. At the same time, howe...

    After introducing the character of Papalious Stokely with the ‘L.A. Salami’s Walkabout’ EP, L.A. Salami builds towards the January 31st release of its second chapter, ‘Self Portrait In Sound’, by sharing its lead track ‘We’ll Solve It After’. 

     ‘We’ll Solve It After’ examines a relationship which seems to be doomed from the start. Yet it’s something both partners are more than willing to overlook as they’re caught up in the moment. At the same time, however, there’s the nagging realisation that reality will eventually return with a vengeance. As the song’s insistent hook sighs, “Hey, forget it. We’ll solve it after.” 

    Whereas the initial EP found Papalious Stokely exploring the dark underbelly of a generic global metropolis, ‘Self Portrait In Sound’ is more introspective. It simmers with angst – losing and lacking love, fading friendships, and trying to redirect those personal failings that you’re irresistibly drawn to. It all comes to a head in the desolate and defeated denouement of ‘Come Back For The Rest Of Me’. 

    “This EP is a self-portrait of sorts, in sound. Of someone that once was, and who can still be found somewhere,” says L.A. Salami. “Things are forever changing but this was someone at some point, and could still yet be what I become. So I called it the ‘Self Portrait In Sound’ EP.” 

     While the themes have evolved in ‘Self Portrait In Sound’, so too has the music. It steps beyond the skeletal spoken word of the previous instalment, with one foot in the stripped-back poetry of the Greenwich Village sound and another in the bolder productions of the modern alt-folk scene.  

     L.A. Salami’s two albums to date, ‘Dancing With Bad Grammar’ (2016) and ‘The City of Bootmakers’ (2018), have seen the London-based artist present a singular vision. His evocative, poetic lyrics span everything from grand existential questions to vignettes of everyday life as well as the affairs and anxieties of modern Britain. As NPR enthused, his “poetry channels the fierceness I first heard in Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, but with a prowess found in today’s best hip-hop.” 

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    L.A. Salami ‘The Cause of Doubt & a Reason to Have Faith’ out 17th July 2020

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    Posted on 04 August 2020
    The Cause of Doubt & a Reason to Have Faith L.A. Salami Out 17 July 2020
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    The LP  sees Lookman explore experimental ground, touching on a bit of everything from rap to psychedelic folk, and sultry grooves which venture into extended hypnotic jams. This isn’t the music of a virtuoso: it’s explorative, daring, meditative and wild.  Lookman describes the inspiration behind his new album,  “I love the deliberateness, cleanness and colour of modern music, but I also miss the complete chaos of old, like some Captain Beefheart and Velvet Underground records, or e...

    The LP  sees Lookman explore experimental ground, touching on a bit of everything from rap to psychedelic folk, and sultry grooves which venture into extended hypnotic jams. This isn’t the music of a virtuoso: it’s explorative, daring, meditative and wild.  Lookman describes the inspiration behind his new album,  “I love the deliberateness, cleanness and colour of modern music, but I also miss the complete chaos of old, like some Captain Beefheart and Velvet Underground records, or even 90s HipHop records with the peaking 808s and static compressed vocals al la Wu Tang, or blues records like Robert Johnson’s. Somewhere in there is the carnival I’ve been searching for. This entire album could very well be a love letter to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.”

    Lookman began writing poetry at a very early age, which then evolved into writing lyrics and he taught himself the guitar aged 21. Fostered from birth, Lookman was periodically re-united with his birth mother from the age of 5, which he describes as being emotionally confusing, “I find it rears its ugly head consistently in my life, and music became one of the easiest ways to release that pressure valve every so often.”

    L.A. Salami’s two albums to date, ‘Dancing With Bad Grammar’ (2016) and ‘The City of Bootmakers’ (2018), have seen the London-based artist present a singular vision. His evocative, poetic lyrics span everything from grand existential questions to vignettes of everyday life as well as the affairs and anxieties of modern Britain.

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    Lauer feat. Dena ‘Make It Stay’

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    Posted on 17 March 2021
    Make It Stay (single) Dena Out 02 April 2021
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    Video director: Tobias Becker

    Dena joins Lauer on this single from his album Answers 2 Trouble (out 2nd April 2021 on Permanent Vacation)

    “I’m feeling like the sun on my face now
    Like on a hot summer day now
    Lovе don’t always have to go away
    Can we make, can wе make it stay?“

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    Laura Groves ‘A Private Road’ out 4th December 2020

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    Infinite Wisdom

    Groves says: “This record, made mostly on my own, became both a channel for the expression of an inner world and an imagined soundtrack to my physical journeys through the city. It is rooted in the stories, atmospheres, mistakes and wrong turns, desires and layers of meaning that run through and play out in the landscapes we inhabit. The songs are snapshots of late night journeys across the river, the sparks of love that transform us and keep us going, the dead ends that the mind can lead ...

    Groves says: “This record, made mostly on my own, became both a channel for the expression of an inner world and an imagined soundtrack to my physical journeys through the city. It is rooted in the stories, atmospheres, mistakes and wrong turns, desires and layers of meaning that run through and play out in the landscapes we inhabit. The songs are snapshots of late night journeys across the river, the sparks of love that transform us and keep us going, the dead ends that the mind can lead us down, the erotic, the visible and invisible places we pass through as they merge and are erased and overwritten. The ability and opportunity to create and connect through music is a gift and I’m so happy to be able to share these new explorations with you.”

    Of the eye-catching video to lead track “Infinite Wisdom” Groves adds: “The video for Infinite Wisdom is a collaboration between myself and visual artist Sophie le Roux. I shot the footage at home during the lockdown and then sent it to Sophie, who edited it and added animation. This method of working was due to necessity at the time, but I like how it reflects the self-produced nature of the record and also how rewarding and special a collaborative process can be.”

    Laura Groves is an artist and producer born in West Yorkshire and based in South London. As a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, she explores themes of inner worlds, healing, connection, and imagined environments and real-life surroundings, mixing traditional songwriting with experimental synthesised sounds, textural electronic layering, and a passion for home recording. Following on from her work as Blue Roses on XL Recordings, Laura has released two EPs under her own name on DEEK Records, created with long-time collaborator Bullion: ‘Thinking About Thinking’ (2013) and ‘Committed Language’ (2015).

    Along with her solo work and three-piece band, Nautic, Laura has built a reputation as a sought after collaborator, in both live and recorded settings, for the likes of Darkstar, Wilma Archer, Sampha, Westerman, The Paul Institute, Bat for Lashes, and Hannah Peel. Delving into the art of soundtracks, Laura scored the silent film ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ at the BFI and Latitude Festival, along with creating her own moving image work to accompany her music.

    Laura has been regularly played on BBC6 Music, championed by Guy Garvey, and continuously featured on NTS with both guest slots and performances. She has been featured in The Fader, DUMMY, Dazed, and The Line of Best Fit. Notable performances include Glastonbury, Bestival, Green Man, NTS at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, along with supporting St Vincent and Wild Beasts.

    Out on Bella Union

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    Laura Groves ‘Foolish Game’

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    A Private Road Laura Groves Out 04 December 2020
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    Foolish Game

    I can’t hear your voice
    In a long time when I hear coming around
    To the heat of all we’re burning up
    Can’t hear your voice
    In a long time, there’s nothing to talk about
    So good to facing now
    You were a hobby, yeah
    It’s just a hobby yeah

    From the album A Private Road (Bella Union)

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    Lava La Rue ‘Butter-Fly EP’ Out 19th February 2021

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    Posted on 09 December 2020
    Butter-Fly EP Lava La Rue Out 19 February 2021
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    Lava La Rue - Angel ft. Deb Never Director: Greedy Goons

    Featuring the incredible singles “Angel” ft. Deb Never and “G.O.Y.D.” ft. Clairo, the project sees production from the likes of Isom Innis (Foster The People) and Vegyn (Frank Ocean).

    Butter-Fly (Marathon Artists) showcases Lava’s incredible dexterity as an artist – flitting between a honey-tinged vocal and trademark rap flow. A collection of queer love songs in various guises, Lava takes us on a journey of her sonic capabilities; from the 2020 dream-like intro “Magpie” , thro...

    Featuring the incredible singles “Angel” ft. Deb Never and “G.O.Y.D.” ft. Clairo, the project sees production from the likes of Isom Innis (Foster The People) and Vegyn (Frank Ocean).

    Butter-Fly (Marathon Artists) showcases Lava’s incredible dexterity as an artist – flitting between a honey-tinged vocal and trademark rap flow. A collection of queer love songs in various guises, Lava takes us on a journey of her sonic capabilities; from the 2020 dream-like intro “Magpie” , through the 2020 love ballad “Goofy Hearts”, to the psychedelic pop of “Lift You Up” ft. Karma Kid.

    Fans will be overjoyed to have a solid body of work from Lava and the first collection of tracks since 2019’s STITCHES mixtape. A truly matured sound, Lava’s Butter-Fly is an iconic moment for the young star, who is truly cemented as a firm one to watch for 2021. Without a doubt, one of the UK’s most exciting artists, Lava’s success far outweighs their young years. The West London musician has seen themself collaborating with, and recognised by, the likes of COLORS Berlin, Converse, The Tate, ELLE, Noisey, The Guardian, Dazed, British Vogue, i-D, Crack, Aries, Henry Holland, Tyler The Creator, Calvin Klein, Aries and more.

    A true creative, and multi-hyphenate talent, musician, singer and artist, Lava La Rue has been making music for the past few years as both herself, and a part of her collective NiNE8. It was only two years ago that she began a true journey of creative releases, with her debut single “Widdit” flooring critics – a song that went on to feature on the coveted COLORS. Since then, her catalogue has gone on to accumulate millions of streams.

    As the founding member of the creative group NiNE8, Lava has curated incredible projects across the worlds of art, music and fashion- perhaps most notably a show at Men’s Fashion Week, and a TATE Modern “LATE” takeover. Lava is setting the pace, with her motivated, all-encompassing creativity – introducing herself to new fans, old fans and critics alike.

    An incredible performer, Lava is set to announce new dates for 2021. Having sold out her solo shows and after supporting 070 Shake, Christine and the Queens, Clairo, not to mention hosting a party takeover with Tyler The Creator, Lava is set for world domination. 

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    Lava La Rue ‘Magpie’

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    “The Magpie music video is London’s subcultural history timeline personified into a person walking through a tube carriage.

    Showing many elements of how British Caribbean sound system culture, UK black punk, Notting Hill carnival,

    2000s Grime & more, would become the blueprint of the contemporary music scene we know today.” Lava La Rue

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    Lawrence Hart ‘Surrender Yourself’ EP out 26th February 2021

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    Posted on 10 March 2021
    Surrender Yourself Lawrence Hart Out 26 February 2021
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    Surrender Yourself (SSEM Records)

    Lawrence Hart drops his debut solo EP with the final tracks ‘Surrender Yourself’ and ‘Sun Sets on The Eastern Bloc’. It delivers intricate electronic production, analogue mastery and a euphoric fragility through a momentous track, just begging for the return of the club dancefloor.

    The EP follows his debut solo track ‘Try Repeat’ – named Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune on BBC Radio 1. ‘Sunsets on the Eastern Bloc’ arrives with an accompanying remix by electronic great Dark ...

    Lawrence Hart drops his debut solo EP with the final tracks ‘Surrender Yourself’ and ‘Sun Sets on The Eastern Bloc’. It delivers intricate electronic production, analogue mastery and a euphoric fragility through a momentous track, just begging for the return of the club dancefloor.

    The EP follows his debut solo track ‘Try Repeat’ – named Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune on BBC Radio 1. ‘Sunsets on the Eastern Bloc’ arrives with an accompanying remix by electronic great Dark Sky.

    Lawrence Hart has already collaborated with some of the most exciting names in electronic music – writing and producing with Lil Silva and George FitzGerald (earning Annie Mac‘s Hottest Record on BBC R1 with the latter), whilst featuring his vocals with Alan Fitzpatrick.

    The record captures the moments on the dancefloor where feelings of vulnerability and invincibility intersect, fusing organic and machine-made sounds for an experience that’s both heartfelt and hypnotic.

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    Lawrence Hart ‘Try Repeat’

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    Try Repeat Lawrence Hart Out 28 October 2020
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    Lawrence Hart has collaborated with George Fitzgerald and Little Cub.

    In advance of his DEBUT EP ‘Surrender Yourself’, we share ‘Try Repeat’.

    Lawrence says “Clubs are like churches. Places, where people come to let, go of the individual, in order to connect with others, to something greater than themselves. This EP is an antidote to individualism.”

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    Leslie Winer ‘When I Hit You — You’ll Feel It’ Out 30th July 2021

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    Posted on 01 August 2021
    When I Hit You — You'll Feel It Leslie Winer Out 30 July 2021
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    Leslie Winer returns with a 16 track anthology that celebrates the extraordinary work of the musician, poet, and author. This release spans Winer’s three-decade-long musical career: from her groundbreaking solo work in the early ‘90s to her latest inspired projects. Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Helen Terry, Jah Wobble, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, and others, the collection also spotlights Winer’s diverse collaborations, and unearths previously-unreleased rec...

    Leslie Winer returns with a 16 track anthology that celebrates the extraordinary work of the musician, poet, and author. This release spans Winer’s three-decade-long musical career: from her groundbreaking solo work in the early ‘90s to her latest inspired projects. Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Helen Terry, Jah Wobble, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, and others, the collection also spotlights Winer’s diverse collaborations, and unearths previously-unreleased recordings. Released via Light In The Attic records.

    Watch the video for ‘Skin’ above.

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    LOW ‘HEY WHAT’ out 10th September 2021

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    HEY WHAT LOW Out 10 September 2021
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    Directed by Julie Casper Roth

    Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to turn the duality of existence into hymns we can share, Low present ‘HEY WHAT’.

    These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft. Layers of distor...

    Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to turn the duality of existence into hymns we can share, Low present ‘HEY WHAT’.

    These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft. Layers of distorted sound accrete with each new verse – building, breaking, colossal then restrained, a solemn vow only whispered. There will be time to unravel and attribute meaning to the music and art of these times, but the creative moment looks FORWARD, with teeth.

    ‘HEY WHAT’ is Low’s thirteenth full-length release in twenty-seven years, and their third with producer BJ Burton.

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    Luke Abbott ‘Translate’ out 20th November 2020

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    Posted on 24 November 2020
    Translate Luke Abbott Out 20 November 2020
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    Earthship

    Along with the announcement he has shared Kagen Sound, the album’s richly textured opener – menacingly driving but punctuated with endearing flourishes, it’s an assured and impossible-to-ignore return.

    Speaking of the track Abbott says: “Kagen Sound is one of the simpler tracks on the record, it’s based around the Korg Monopoly, which is one of my favourite sounding synths. The track is named after an American puzzle box maker, he makes the most incredibly intricate wooden puzzl...

    Along with the announcement he has shared Kagen Sound, the album’s richly textured opener – menacingly driving but punctuated with endearing flourishes, it’s an assured and impossible-to-ignore return.

    Speaking of the track Abbott says: “Kagen Sound is one of the simpler tracks on the record, it’s based around the Korg Monopoly, which is one of my favourite sounding synths. The track is named after an American puzzle box maker, he makes the most incredibly intricate wooden puzzle boxes. I’ve been interested in puzzle boxes since I saw Hellraiser when I was about 11 years old, maybe I shouldn’t have seen that film so young. To me the track feels like a a huge opening in the earth, like a cosmic doorway, which is why it’s the opening track on the album.”

    In the time since his last solo record, Luke Abbott has had to re-forge his relationship with making music alone. His solo work has always been deeply entwined with his sense of self and during a tumultuous time in his personal life that needed to be re-evaluated, and so did the music along with it. The result is ‘Translate’, a record that sees Abbott with a renewed sense of purpose. Written, recorded and produced by Abbott – ‘Translate’ is a strikingly direct body of work that retains a great depth and fullness. At times dark and ominous, others bright and welcoming, this is Abbott’s sound fully realised and never so sure of itself.

    Abbott’s solo artist recording career may have recently taken something of a back seat, but his explorative six year sabbatical has clearly been put to good use, with plenty of mix and remix work, a new more dancefloor-directed alias Earlham Mystics and a productive new sideline in film, with two solo soundtracks to his name to date: fellow Norfolk native Guy Myhill’s The Goob (winner of Best Music at the 2014 Stockholm Film Festival and eventually released as 2015’s Music For A Flat Landscape album) and Jessica Hynes’ The Fight (released under the title Music From The Edge of an Island in 2019). But most pivotal of all was the 2016 formation of the experimental jazz trio Szun Waves together with Jack Wyllie of Portico Quartet (saxophone) and Laurence Pike of PVT (drums), with two Abbott produced and mixed fully-improvised albums to show for it so far (and number three in the pipeline), and jazz and electronic critics united in their acclaim. (“The result is that rarest of things: an improvised album that sounds so perfect, you’d think it was all planned,” said The Line Of Best Fit of 2018’s New Hymn to Freedom.)

    A key lesson came via the time-limited recording sessions which birthed the Szun Waves albums, which saw all three musicians holed up together in a studio for an intensive period of improvisation: it was this pressure to commit to the record which Abbott sought to emulate in the making of ‘Translate’. To this end, at various intervals throughout the summer of 2019 (eleven days over four months) Abbott left behind his own compact mix studio in Norwich to make the pilgrimage to close friend and co-conspirator James Holden’s laidback London studio complex Sacred Walls. Together with “engineer and spiritual guide” Holden, who remained on hand throughout to facilitate the free flow of Abbott’s musical experiments and offer gentle encouragement, the first task was to assemble a sort of speaker-henge of up to eight speakers dotted around the room to which the various individual component parts of each track were dispersed. Positioning himself in the centre of the room and sound, Abbott approached the recording as a series of improvised solo live performances through which the essence and optimal arrangement of each track could be gradually uncovered, and sometimes instantly revealed, as he felt out the permutations of his compositions in real time. A bonus microphone set up in the corridor of the building allowed diverting documentary snippets of West London industrial estate life to bleed into the recordings: serendipitously timed car horns (‘Kagen Sound’), screaming children and a distant radio (‘Earthship’).

    “I’ve always been interested in trying to capture spontaneity in music – there’s a moment of excitement when you first make something where it’s totally fresh and new, and that’s the moment I want to record,” explains Abbott. “So when I write music now I tend to spend a long time preparing and thinking about what I’m going to do, and then when I come to make it I work very quickly.” He likens his process to the Japanese Sumi-e ink painting technique: “a kind of zen ink painting style where you meditate and try and embody the spirit of what you’re trying to paint, then you paint very quickly with only one brush stroke allowed for each mark. My music probably isn’t as elegant and refined as ink painting, but there is a similar essence to the intention. It takes a long time to prepare yourself and you try and bring all of your expertise and life experience to the work, then you focus hard make it very quickly.”

    ‘Translate’ is an album born out of a process of personal psychological re-evaluation and the rediscovery of Luke Abbott’s own solo music-making practice, but as a widescreen soundtrack to the new now it also has much to offer. The world is awaking from its collective slumber and we individually stand poised on the cusp of new directions and personal transformation, and it just so happens that Luke Abbott has made a record about exactly that. In big old unprecedented 2020, Abbott now finds himself newly-reinvigorated, with a certainty and clarity that is becoming of his years; a multi-faceted all-rounder (artist, musician, performer, producer, mixer, composer) whose creative control also extends into the visual sphere, creating the mystical geometric symbols which adorn the Translate artwork as well as several yet-to-be-unveiled videos. As his improvisational journey continues, Luke would of course very much now like to head out to showcase the ‘Translate’ album across the
    world, social distancing measures permitting, ideally via special quadrophonic in-the-round performances which seek to emulate the album’s idiosyncratic “speakerhenge” recording method; but for now, the fully formed vision of the ‘Translate’ album (and perhaps the odd live stream) will have to suffice. Long may he translate life into sound.

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    Lump ‘Animal’ Out 30th July 2021

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    'Animal' by Lump Director of Photography: Ailsa Aikoa

    LUMP – a collaboration between London singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Domino Publishing) of the band Tunng – return with their second album, ‘Animal’, on  Partisan/Chrysalis.

    Half cute, half dark and creepy, the songs Marling and Lindsay create as LUMP are unlike anything from either of their respective other projects. Marling’s lyrics are spontaneous, immediate, and playful (she drew heavily on her interest in psychoanalysis). Meanwhile Lindsay creates an access...

    LUMP – a collaboration between London singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Domino Publishing) of the band Tunng – return with their second album, ‘Animal’, on  Partisan/Chrysalis.

    Half cute, half dark and creepy, the songs Marling and Lindsay create as LUMP are unlike anything from either of their respective other projects. Marling’s lyrics are spontaneous, immediate, and playful (she drew heavily on her interest in psychoanalysis). Meanwhile Lindsay creates an accessible electronic palette that borders on psychedelic. ‘Animal’ was recorded at Lindsay’s home studio in Margate, Kent and primarily constructed around his Eventide H949 Harmonizer, the same pitch-shifter David Bowie used on ‘Low.’

    As with the first album, Marling would arrive in the studio without having heard any of Lindsay’s music, with the hope that it would bring the lyrics an immediacy and a spontaneity. There were other sources of inspiration for Marling aside from psychoanalysis: half-memories, family stories, strange dreams; things she had read, or been told or imagined. “LUMP is so the repository for so many things that I’ve had in my mind and just don’t fit anywhere in that way,” she explains. “They don’t have to totally make narrative sense, but weirdly they end up making narrative sense in some way.”

    While creating ‘Animal,’ Marling was simultaneously working on her widely acclaimed, Mercury Prize and Grammy Award nominated solo album ‘Song For Our Daughter,’ and so working on LUMP material felt liberating and distinct. “It became a very different thing about escaping a persona that has become a burden to me in some way. It was like putting on a superhero costume.” She even goes as far as to say that sometimes it feels as if she might be “edging Laura Marling off a cliff as much as I can and putting LUMP in the centre.”

    Lindsay adds, “There’s a little bit of a theme of hedonism on the album, of desires running wild. We created LUMP as a sort of persona and an idea and a creature. Through LUMP we find our inner animal, and through that animal we travel into a parallel universe.”

    LUMP’s debut earned praise from The Guardian, Pitchfork, Needle Drop + more, with Under the Radar praising the record for its “seamless sense of direction…a living, breathing piece of art.”

    LUMP has also detailed a short UK tour that will follow the record’s release, including a night at the Scala in London on the 6th September.

    www.lump.world

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    Lump ‘Climb Every Wall’

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    Posted on 18 June 2021
    Animal LUMP Out 30 July 2021
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    Shot and edited by Tamsin Topolski and Mora Larming

    “Finding it hard to believe in. Finding something hard to believe. Lately you’ve been thinking about leaving, Trying to wipe the heart from your sleeve. I can understand that you’re grieving, I can even understand how. Write yourself a map to your healing. (Linger over why to leave now…) Climb every wall.”

     

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    Malcolm Goldie ‘The Sound of Malcolm’

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    Posted on 21 September 2020
    The Sound of Malcolm Trunk Records Out 21 April 2020
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    'Ponytail'

    Malcolm Goldie – Old chum of Trunk Records. “Very talented. Has been making insane sonic cut-ups and musical designs for advertising for a while – anarchic skits for things like adidas football boots and modern wacky make up. Anyway, I really like his work, his timing and his odd ideas, so I asked him to make me an LP, This is it.” Jonny Trunk

    OVERVIEW:
    Sounds totally insane. Like made by a cage of techno chimps or minions or something. Not sure it should even be allowed. Nearest th...

    Malcolm Goldie – Old chum of Trunk Records. “Very talented. Has been making insane sonic cut-ups and musical designs for advertising for a while – anarchic skits for things like adidas football boots and modern wacky make up. Anyway, I really like his work, his timing and his odd ideas, so I asked him to make me an LP, This is it.” Jonny Trunk

    OVERVIEW:
    Sounds totally insane. Like made by a cage of techno chimps or minions or something. Not sure it should even be allowed. Nearest thing I can compare it to is absolutely nothing. You’ll just have to listen.

    HISTORY:
    Hello. Meet Malcolm. He makes all sorts of things, including music. He makes lots of music in fact, for stuff like those Adidas trainers you are wearing, or those Nike Football boots worn by International soccer superstars. When these companies need something TOTALLY OFF THE FCKING WALL for their kooky advertising films Malcolm normally gets the call. He is a master of the cut and sonic stick, the accurate and intensely random, he makes the bizarre effortlessly more so. Jonny Trunk has known Malcolm a long time. So he thought it would be a groovy idea to ask Malcolm to make his debut LP for Trunk Records. And this totally unusual set of cues proves that this was not just a good idea, but that Malcolm does actually have a DeLorean and has travelled to the future, made an LP, brought it back and given it to us now. This is the future. Right now. A new sonic language even. And ITS FCKING GENIUS. And thank fck for that.

    Lynden Campbell (Domino Publishing) “imagine the sound of Atari ‘Pong’ whilst pinging an elastic band to Add N to X and you’ve got somewhere near the Sound of Malcolm”.

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    Mara Carlyle ‘Lividly Lonely’

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    Lividly Lonely Out 12 February 2021
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    “I wrote Lividly Lonely during what can be best described as a ‘dry patch’ in my personal life in 2015. I stole some chords from Laurence Crane’s magnum opus Raimondas Rumsas, whacked on some clonky beats, played the spoons and then whinged all over it like a petulant teenager. Produced by moi with additional prodding from Paul White and Joe Goddard. …
    Lividly Lonely was the first of a batch of songs that appeared in my noodle seemingly out of nowhere five years ago. The ot...

    BANDCAMP

    “I wrote Lividly Lonely during what can be best described as a ‘dry patch’ in my personal life in 2015. I stole some chords from Laurence Crane’s magnum opus Raimondas Rumsas, whacked on some clonky beats, played the spoons and then whinged all over it like a petulant teenager. Produced by moi with additional prodding from Paul White and Joe Goddard. …
    Lividly Lonely was the first of a batch of songs that appeared in my noodle seemingly out of nowhere five years ago. The others aren’t a whole lot prettier and feature on my forthcoming album Murderous Me. I’m hoping that once I’ve got this out of my system I can to go back to making nice music again. Let’s see shall we…” Mara Carlyle

    credits

    Written by Mara Carlyle + Laurence Crane
    Produced by Mara Carlyle
    Additional production by Joe Goddard and Paul White
    Mixed by Matt Wiggins
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    Mdou Moctar ‘Afrique Victime’ out 21st May 2021

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    Posted on 02 March 2021
    Afrique Victime Mdou Moctar Out 21 May 2021
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    'Tala Tannam' Directed by Cem Misirlioglu Footage shot by WH Moustapha (Dynamique Image) & Mikey Coltun

    Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music with his unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar. In 2019, he was described by the Guardian as ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara’. With “Afrique Victime” out on Matador Records, the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field rec...

    Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music with his unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar. In 2019, he was described by the Guardian as ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara’. With “Afrique Victime” out on Matador Records, the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women’s rights, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.

    If “Ilana” was a late ’60s early ’70s ZZ Top and Black Sabbath record – “Afrique Victime” is mid-’70s to early ’80s Van Halen meets Black Flag meets Black Uhuru. The ferocity of Moctar’s electric guitar and the band’s hypnotic rhythm section are on awe-inspiring display “Chismiten” and the mournful yet incandescent title track. Elsewhere, Moctar finds inspiration in highlighting lesser-known facets of the group: “While people have gotten to know Mdou Moctar as a rock band, there is a whole different set of music with this band done on acoustic guitars, which we wanted to incorporate into this album in order to go through a sonic journey,” he says. Mdou pays homage to one of his heroes Abdallah Ag Oumbadagou, the legendary Niger musician and political revolutionary, on songs “Ya Habibti” and “Layla”. “Abdallah was a contemporary of Tinariwen and helped to pioneer the sound of Tuareg guitar music blended with drum machines and electronic sounds”.

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    The song ‘Tala Tannam’ featured in the video above is  a love song. “My love no matter where I go, you’re always on my mind I treasure you You know I never want to see you in tears I used stones to write your name in a heart Water can never wash it away because it’s surrounded by trees You know I never want to see you in tears Your laugh pleases me I adore your eyes and body shape My love no matter where I go, you’re always on my mind I treasure you You know I never want to see you in tears” – Lyrics to Tala Tannam

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    Melissa Mary Ahern ‘Stone by Stone’

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    Written and co-produced by Melissa Mary Ahern. Filmed by Albert Rudnitsky. Bass, mixing and co-production by Andy Stack. Drums by Dave Tedeschi. Hammond Organ by Jeremy Baum. Electric guitar and vocals by Melissa Mary Ahern. Released on FatCat Records, March 26, 2021.

     

    (Verse 1)

    Stone by stone

    I will rebuild

    Until I am whole again

    Until I am whole again

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    A candle burns low

    Its shadow dances on the wall

    As I drift far away

    (Chorus 1)

    The roses you gav...

    Written and co-produced by Melissa Mary Ahern. Filmed by Albert Rudnitsky. Bass, mixing and co-production by Andy Stack. Drums by Dave Tedeschi. Hammond Organ by Jeremy Baum. Electric guitar and vocals by Melissa Mary Ahern. Released on FatCat Records, March 26, 2021.

     

    (Verse 1)

    Stone by stone

    I will rebuild

    Until I am whole again

    Until I am whole again

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    A candle burns low

    Its shadow dances on the wall

    As I drift far away

    (Chorus 1)

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    Once upon another time

    (Verse 2)

    Stone by stone

    I will rebuild

    Until I am recognized

    Until I am recognized again

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    Music plays from outside of my

    Window and I see

    They’ve closed the road down for the day

    So people could dance and children could play

    As I drift further away

    (Chorus 2)

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    Once upon another time

    Once upon another time!

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    Mia Doi Todd ‘Music Life’ Out 12th February 2021

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    Music Life Mia Doi Todd Out 12 February 2021
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    Music Life

    Mia Doi Todd 12th album, Music Life, was recorded in her native Los Angeles. The album features guest performances from Jeff Parker, Money Mark, Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Laraaji.

    Ever since her debut release in 1997, singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd has created a body of work that is intensely personal and unique, with a rich variety of cultural and creative influences. A solo artist with an innate sense of connecting links between other musicians, Mia has ...

    Mia Doi Todd 12th album, Music Life, was recorded in her native Los Angeles. The album features guest performances from Jeff Parker, Money Mark, Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Laraaji.

    Ever since her debut release in 1997, singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd has created a body of work that is intensely personal and unique, with a rich variety of cultural and creative influences. A solo artist with an innate sense of connecting links between other musicians, Mia has stepped into the role of composer on Music Life. The album, produced with husband Jesse Peterson, embraces the themes of motherhood and the creative life of the artist. The songs, autobiographical with a splash of mythology, continue her lyrical journey, from the deserts of Rajasthan to the coast of Bahia, from existential questions on mortality, sexual assault and overdose to the wonder and joy of caring for a young child.

    The songs are epic and cinematic. “Take Me to the Mountain” is a symphonic call to Nature’s healing powers. In the sea shanty “My Fisherman,” based on novelist Jorge Amado’s Sea of Death, Mia sings from the perspective of the mermaid and ocean goddess, Yemanja, about her lover, the allegorical fisherman, who faces the dangers of the sea to feed his family. Like the figure of the artist, he is always chasing the muse. “Little Bird” hides its secret source of sadness behind a sweet samba flair. Mia’s cover of “If I Don’t Have You” is a fragile, folky take on Gregory Isaacs’ classic lovers rock ballad, with lilting vocals and melodica floating above earthy percussion. “Daughter of Hope” finishes the album with a prayer for the future, amidst angelic choir and triumphant horns.

    Mia describes writing the title track “Music Life”:

    “The title track begins: “If you give your life to music, it opens up the path.” My musical path started when I was a teenager, taking singing lessons from my Silver Lake neighbor who was an opera singer. Not long afterwards, I began writing songs and finding my own voice. I followed indie rock bands and started playing shows around town. Gradually music came to consume most of my being! The song addresses the ups and downs of a musician’s life. I wrote it the night I came home from a dear friend’s memorial service, another of several musician friends who have passed away at a young age. The song morphs organically through background vocals and psychedelic guitars and ultimately emerges as a celebration of life lived fully.

    We recorded the basic tracks at Barefoot Recording (formerly Crystal Sound) in Hollywood, the studio where Stevie Wonder and others recorded many great albums. I played the 9 foot grand piano there and sang my heart out, surrounded by my musical friends and collaborators: Money Mark on organ, Jesse Peterson on rhythm guitar, Will Logan on drums, Andres Renteria on percussion and Brandon Owens on bass. The song comes to a final crescendo with Jeff Parker’s swirling electric guitar solos and the lyrics “If you give your life to music, no regret, don’t forget, I loved you.”

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    Mica Levi signs to Domino Publishing

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    Monos (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Mica Levi Out 30 August 2019
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    Taken from the score for "Monos" directed by Alejandro Landes.

    Domino Publishing is happy to announce the signing of musician and composer Mica Levi. 

    From South East London Mica has spent the past decade conjuring seminal pieces of work; from scoring major award nominated motion pictures to disturbing the notion of pop music. Emerging with a classical background they have navigated their career with a heavily collaborative and punk ethic, deftly invigorating electronic music from the underground to mainstream stages. Their singular vision is one we fir...

    Domino Publishing is happy to announce the signing of musician and composer Mica Levi. 

    From South East London Mica has spent the past decade conjuring seminal pieces of work; from scoring major award nominated motion pictures to disturbing the notion of pop music. Emerging with a classical background they have navigated their career with a heavily collaborative and punk ethic, deftly invigorating electronic music from the underground to mainstream stages. Their singular vision is one we firmly support and we are overjoyed to represent them and administer their work.

    Mica Levi is a musician and composer living in South East London who uses programming software, written notation and improvisation to produce music. As well as being a composer for ensembles, film and theatrical productions, they are currently a member of the groups CURL, Good Sad Happy Bad and Tirzah.

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    Michelle Blades ‘Mi país es una idea’

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    Michelle Blades 'Mi país es una idea' Michelle Blades Out 29 September 2021
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    Réalisée par Adèle Gaucher

    Michelle Blades dévoile “Mi Pais es una idea” extrait de la compilation anniversaire des 10 ans de Midnight Special Records à paraitre le 29 novembre.

    Dans “Mi Pais es une idea”, elle tisse un patchwork de souvenirs de l’Amérique Latine. Michelle Blades explore ici un thème qui lui est cher, celui de la mémoire, des impressions qui se floutent avec le temps, elle imagine une traversée par quelqu’un qui vient d’ailleurs, éloigné de chez lui par la distance et par le temps...

    Michelle Blades dévoile “Mi Pais es una idea” extrait de la compilation anniversaire des 10 ans de Midnight Special Records à paraitre le 29 novembre.

    Dans “Mi Pais es une idea”, elle tisse un patchwork de souvenirs de l’Amérique Latine. Michelle Blades explore ici un thème qui lui est cher, celui de la mémoire, des impressions qui se floutent avec le temps, elle imagine une traversée par quelqu’un qui vient d’ailleurs, éloigné de chez lui par la distance et par le temps.

    Plusieurs fois évoqué dans sa discographie, Michelle fait référence au chanteur chilien Victor Jara (“Canto mi canto libre”) et évoque la mythologie aztèque, l’idée selon laquelle les mexicains voyaient un lapin sur la face de la lune tandis que d’autres sociétés y distinguent communément un homme ou un visage.

    “Je la vois, peu importe où je suis, ça me rappelle que je suis toujours chez moi, et que mon pays est une idée.” explique-t-elle. “Pour les arrangements, j’ai été très influencée par Quilapayun, un groupe de chant folklorique -qui comptait Victor Jara dans ses rangs- avec des choeurs secs en arrière plan, une picking à la guitare cyclique et une diction chargée en sentiments d’une tradition du continent.”

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    Michelle Blades ‘Nombrar las cosas’ out 5th June 2020

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    Nombrar Las Cosas Michelle Blades Out 05 June 2020
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    'Amor sin destino' Music video by: ZEUGL

    A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Michelle Blades reveals a discography infused with multiple sounds as an extension of her nomadic life spent between Panama, where she was born; Mexico, land of her mother’s family; Florida where she escaped from Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship, Arizona, where the young woman met Phoenix’s underground and alternative culture and France to make up a music career spanning over ten years.

    Shaping a multifaceted artistic universe

    Michelle Blades gleans uni...

    A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Michelle Blades reveals a discography infused with multiple sounds as an extension of her nomadic life spent between Panama, where she was born; Mexico, land of her mother’s family; Florida where she escaped from Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship, Arizona, where the young woman met Phoenix’s underground and alternative culture and France to make up a music career spanning over ten years.

    Shaping a multifaceted artistic universe

    Michelle Blades gleans unique sounds from her journeys, experiences and environments she lives in. Her curiosity drove her to journalism, skateboarding, filmmaking and of course to music, all while linking a strong cultural heritage. She grew up to a family of salsa pioneers in Central America; her uncle Rubén is a monument of the genre, her father a producer and composer, her grandmother was a Cuban pianist and singer… but event if music is omnipresent in her genes, it’s at the age of 16 years old that she allowed herself to speak the universal language. She learned to play guitar, bass, drums, keys, learned to play with her voice and to create variations and personify some characters in song.Michelle Blades’ universe creates a unique perception mixed with high mastery of the instruments she plays and arranges for. Rigorous and creative, she manipulates her music, experiments and allows herself total freedom in her creation, making her art evolve with her ideas and her passion, blending intensity, precision and gentleness.

    L’indépendante

    Inevitably, travel, her past, her ideals, questions on identity, interpersonal rapports are centerpieces in Blades’ work. She confesses a predisposition to the 70s, a decade she perceives as a parallel to what we lives at this time: sexual liberation, feminism, racial and class struggles, an evolving society playing tug of war with the past generations, revolutionary ideas… many aspects that open possibilities and aesthetic to musicians. It makes one think of Frank Zappa and his completely free posture to creation, of David Byrne and his taste for deconstruction and social absurdity. She discovered this priceless freedom in Phoenix at 18 where she made friends with DIY culture. In 2010, she landed in France for the first time with a debut folk EP she would present all around the country. In 2012, Michelle Blades came back to the country where she met the Midnight Special Records family, a milestone in her career, working with and releasing all her material on the independent label thereafter. Composer, singer and director (« Retiens mon désir » or « Château perdu » for CléaVincent), solo or with a band, her name and signature have started to circulate. Between 2015 and 2016 she released the album Ataraxia and two Eps: Nah See Ya and Polylust. By this time, she was playing bass with Fishbach all around the world and still finding her time to record the intimate EP Premature Love Songs. In 2019, Michelle Blades released a new album, Visitor, with Midnight Special Records. A year after, she reveals Nombrar las cosas, a new EP entirely in Spanish.

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    Middle Kids ‘Questions’

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    Posted on 22 February 2021
    Today We're the Greatest Middle Kids Out 19 March 2021
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    Director & Producer W.A.M. Bleakley @wambleakley

    ‘Questions’ from Middle Kids’ album ‘Today We’re The Greatest’ out 19th March 2021.

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    Middle Kids ‘Today We’re the Greatest’ Out 19th March 2021

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    Posted on 18 January 2021
    Today We're the Greatest Middle Kids Out 19 March 2021
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    Questions' Director & Producer W.A.M. Bleakley

    The Sydney-based three-piece Middle Kids, formed of lead singer and songwriter Hannah Joy, multi-instrumentalist Tim Fitz and drummer, Harry Day, announced ‘Today We’re The Greatest’  out on Lucky Number (Domino Records US/Domino Publishing Worldwide).

    Recorded and produced in Los Angeles by Lars Stalfors (St. Vincent, Soccer Mummy, Purity Ring), the follow-up to the band’s award-winning 2018 debut, Lost Friends, is their most personal and courageous effort to date. Moving away from...

    The Sydney-based three-piece Middle Kids, formed of lead singer and songwriter Hannah Joy, multi-instrumentalist Tim Fitz and drummer, Harry Day, announced ‘Today We’re The Greatest’  out on Lucky Number (Domino Records US/Domino Publishing Worldwide).

    Recorded and produced in Los Angeles by Lars Stalfors (St. Vincent, Soccer Mummy, Purity Ring), the follow-up to the band’s award-winning 2018 debut, Lost Friends, is their most personal and courageous effort to date. Moving away from lyrics of a more conceptual nature, Today We’re The Greatest is the open, uninhibited product of fearless collaboration. Showing a real vulnerability, Joy is pulling directly from her own experiences and breaking down barriers she had previously set for herself. About the new record, she said: “I want to make music that loves its listener. Music that makes people feel seen, seen in the tiny little places that hide away in their hearts. I want people to hear our music, and feel a sense of love. And when I say love, it can be challenging, intense and tough. But it’s in the guts.” She added: “It can be easier to live dualistically, splitting the world in two. We want to be able say it’s this or it’s that, but sometimes it’s both — and can we hold both? Can we hold the brokenness? Can we hold the beauty? That has definitely been a defining bit of this album, the fragility in that dance.”

    Single, “Questions”, is a charged three-minute odyssey which sees Joy struggle poetically with concepts of honesty and intimacy over an explosive rhythm section and a stunningly orchestrated brass-filled climax. As Joy explains, “Questions” is about the fallacies of intimate relationships; “I used to drink a lot and most of my previous relationships revolved around this. I don’t think I ever really knew them or they me as a result. Questions is about people being around each other but not being close. People who are in intimate relationships can stop asking questions of each other because they are uncomfortable and confusing.” The single is accompanied by a one-take video directed by the band’s cinematic collaborator, W.A.M Bleakley.

    “Questions” follows the release of the album’s first single, “R U 4 Me?”, which was the lead track of the week in The Guardian Guide who described it as “a nervy, Strokes-esque floorfiller about flailing around in search of emotional connection that still manages to be a sunny delight.” Other tracks on the album include “Run With You”, written when Joy was a few months into pregnancy with her and Tim Fitz, her husband and bandmate’s, first child. They recorded her 20-week sonogram, and wove the gentle, rapid thump of their baby boy’s beating heart into the last 20 seconds of the track — an exuberant declaration of devotion. Joy’s journey to motherhood and her marriage with Fitz has imbued her songs with a vibrancy that’s unabashedly romantic yet free of clichés. “Stacking Chairs,” with its unique allegories and Joy’s sunny vocals, strikes this delicate balance beautifully: it’s a testament to her deep connection with Fitz and the new, “infinitesimal” love that transformed their lives with their son’s arrival.

    Middle Kids’ critically acclaimed 2018 debut, Lost Friends, which was awarded Album of the Year by Triple J Radio and was also nominated for Best Rock Album at the ARIA Awards. The record also earned them support slots with the likes of Bloc Party, War on Drugs and Cold War Kids as well as several US TV show performances including Conan, Jimmy Kimmel and The Late, Late Show with James Corden.

    Singles: Questions and RU 4 Me

    Press quotes:

    “Timeless songs that sound like immediate classics… Lost Friends is a treat” – Best Debut Album of 2018 – NME

    “Led by the powerful vocals of Hannah Joy, the trio deal in infectious indie pop-rock.” – The Sunday Times

    “Heartfelt, clever ruminations at the intersection of indie rock and alt-country”- Rolling Stone

    “they effectively thread the winsome early-’90s alt pop of Belly and the Cranberries with the big-tent ambitions of ’00s-era ensembles like Arcade Fore and The National” – Pitchfork

    “How does a band get this good, this quickly?” – Billboard

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    Mikal Cronin ‘Switched​-​On Seeker’ out 30th June 2020

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    Posted on 05 October 2020
    Switched​-​On Seeker Out 30 June 2020
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    Limited edition companion piece to Mikal Cronin‘s 2019 Seeker album, Switched-On Seeker (Merge Records) is a completely synth-based, full-length reworking of 2019’s Seeker in the vein of Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On series.

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    Mike Polizze ‘Long Lost Solace Find’ out 31st July 2020

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    Posted on 03 November 2020
    Long Lost Solace Find Purling Hiss Out 31 July 2020
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    Directed by Mike Polizze

    The Purling Hiss frontman teams with Kurt Vile for a record of simple folk songs pairing blissful sounds with plainspoken sentiments. PITCHFORK

    “So many of these songs give me chills. I wish I wrote ‘Cheewawa’ (guess I’ll have to cover it!) … Luckily I got to play harmonica and sing ghost vocals on it… I’ve been waiting for this kinda Polizze. I think we all could use these catchy, beautiful jams in our respective quarantines (physical and mental).” Kurt Vile

    The debut solo al...

    The Purling Hiss frontman teams with Kurt Vile for a record of simple folk songs pairing blissful sounds with plainspoken sentiments. PITCHFORK

    “So many of these songs give me chills. I wish I wrote ‘Cheewawa’ (guess I’ll have to cover it!) … Luckily I got to play harmonica and sing ghost vocals on it… I’ve been waiting for this kinda Polizze. I think we all could use these catchy, beautiful jams in our respective quarantines (physical and mental).” Kurt Vile

    The debut solo album by Mike Polizze—and his first release for Paradise of Bachelors—finds the erstwhile Purling Hiss frontman and Birds of Maya shredder stepping out from behind the wall of guitar noise into the bright sunshine. Performed entirely by Polizze with longtime friend Kurt Vile (largely live and acoustic) and recorded by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, this intimate Philadelphia affair clarifies the bittersweet earworm melodicism of Dizzy Polizzy’s songwriting, revealing bona fide folk-pop chops. Long Lost Solace Find finally harvests the wild local honey from the buzzing hive of Hiss.

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    Mike Wexler with Synthetic Love Dream out 30th October 2020

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    Posted on 24 November 2020
    Mike Wexler with Synthetic Love Dream Mike Wexler Out 30 October 2020
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    'Flying Islands'

    In 2014, while wrapping up the mix sessions for Syntropy (three:four, 2016), Mike Wexler found himself writing a different kind of song. Whereas Syntropy had been beholden to a world of ideas laying just beyond the purview of the songs themselves, something new began to present itself – something more streamlined, more personal, direct, and grounded in a bedrock universality of form. Where was this shift coming from? – At the same time decidedly more straightforward and troublingly dark. ...

    In 2014, while wrapping up the mix sessions for Syntropy (three:four, 2016), Mike Wexler found himself writing a different kind of song. Whereas Syntropy had been beholden to a world of ideas laying just beyond the purview of the songs themselves, something new began to present itself – something more streamlined, more personal, direct, and grounded in a bedrock universality of form. Where was this shift coming from? – At the same time decidedly more straightforward and troublingly dark. With November 2016 came the US election – sadly and suddenly the mood fit. But bringing the songs to life proved challenging. Something was missing.

    In April of 2017, after sharing several bills at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s Troost and elsewhere, Mike got together with Synthetic Love Dream – David Lackner, Adrian Knight, Max Zuckerman, and Mike Advensky – to play through some of the new material he’d been working on. It was something of a eureka moment. In this setting, with their accompaniment, the songs turned a new and different face to the light. Here was the missing piece – a well-oiled band able to realize these subtle and complex forms with lightness, playfulness, and consistency.

    This outsider “wrecking crew” of sorts backing up Mike can be found operating under a few aka’s: whether toeing the line between smooth(ish), borderline taboo sophisti-pop and seedy art-damage as Blue Jazz TV, or exploring the territory between long-form pitch study and minimal jazz ballad as Synthetic Love Dream, amidst a plethora of other projects centered around Lackner’s Galtta Tapes label. To get a handle on their sound in the context of this record, it might help to think of LA Express backing Joni Mitchell, with its jazz chops and sophistication, or perhaps Milton Nascimento’s lps recorded in the US, with Hancock, Shorter, et al. Or imagine, if you will, a mellow Lennon, backed by Fagen and Becker, with ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny at the console! Thinking along these lines might get you into the ballpark, but drop the needle and you’ll hear for yourself that this is the meeting of a singular writer and a distinct group of players. And while there’s undoubtedly something classic about this band playing these songs, that’s not to say it’s ‘classic rock’.

    Mike Wexler with Synthetic Love Dream is a record that’s as clear as it is layered and multifaceted. An odd couple collaboration nudging out past preoccupations with experimentation and sonics in favor of an approach that spotlights music first. Its directness is in service of a new kind of urgency – call it a plea for sanity: gentle, resolute, albeit never unaware of its own probable futility. The songs take up and adapt familiar tropes, reimagining and repurposing them. That which speaks to the present is carried forward, the rest goes by the wayside.

    “The tigers leap into the past.’ That’s how Benjamin once defined the revolution. The past has unfulfilled revolutionary potentialities that are only waiting for the right moment to resonate, to ‘pass the torch’, so to speak. Certainly this is a record haunted by the spirit of discarded utopias – peace & love, et al..Staring down the darkness of the present moment it seems these sentiments suddenly don’t feel quite as passé. The challenge is to mobilize them for a culture of deep cynicism. What we have here is a modest attempt to salvage this position for the 21st century – a reminder of common humanity, of the last flickering shadows of a despair-tinged hope.

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    Moon Bounce ‘Skip Intro’ out 21st February 2020

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    Skip Intro Moon Bounce (Corey Regensburg) Out 21 February 2020
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    Art Directed by Troy Curtis Kreiner. Produced by Grind Select.

    Following nearly three years of silence and a battle with anxiety disorder, Moon Bounce returns with his sophomore full-length LP, Skip Intro, a memento of panic-ridden ruminations. Combining soulful melodies, jilted percussion and hyper-controlled synthesis, the album does not shy away from difficult topics, bringing listeners into the darkness as Corey Regensburg unabashedly confronts himself.

    Moon Bounce’s signature sound is still intact and more pristine than ever; obtuse rhythms, heliu...

    Following nearly three years of silence and a battle with anxiety disorder, Moon Bounce returns with his sophomore full-length LP, Skip Intro, a memento of panic-ridden ruminations. Combining soulful melodies, jilted percussion and hyper-controlled synthesis, the album does not shy away from difficult topics, bringing listeners into the darkness as Corey Regensburg unabashedly confronts himself.

    Moon Bounce’s signature sound is still intact and more pristine than ever; obtuse rhythms, helium-soaked vocals and larger-than-life production create an immersive environment where lyrics like “please don’t blame me if I ask you to repeat what you just said, I was just imagining what it would be like to be dead” are repeated with a cheery disposition. You might want to laugh or you might want to cry but it’s this deadpan realism that makes Regensburg’s music so relatable and anything but one-dimensional.

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    Mura Masa ‘R.Y.C.’ out 17th January 2020 featured artist

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    'Live Like We're Dancing' Mura Masa feat. Georgia performing. Directed by Thomas Hardiman

    R.Y.C. is the second studio album by Guernsey-born music producer Alex Crossan, under his alias Mura Masa. It was released on Polydor Records and Anchor Point Records (Universal). The album of guest features also includes by Clairo, Slowthai and Ellie Rowsell.

    Domino Publishing writing credits: Tirzah ‘Today’ and Georgia ‘Live Like We’re Dancing’

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    The Mysterines ‘Reeling’ out 11th March

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    Posted on 15 March 2022
    Reeling The Mysterines Out 11 March 2022
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    When it comes to pivotal life moments, having the mighty Nick Cave snatch a balloon out of your hands when you’re seven years old before smirkingly stomping on it is going to make you do one of two things. 1) Run off crying and forever commit to a quiet life or 2) Decide to be just like the big tall man who gets a kick out of scaring little kids. When it happened to Lia Metcalfe, she wisely decided to do the latter.

    On the 11th of March, Liverpool born and bred four-piece, The Mysterines, d...

    When it comes to pivotal life moments, having the mighty Nick Cave snatch a balloon out of your hands when you’re seven years old before smirkingly stomping on it is going to make you do one of two things. 1) Run off crying and forever commit to a quiet life or 2) Decide to be just like the big tall man who gets a kick out of scaring little kids. When it happened to Lia Metcalfe, she wisely decided to do the latter.

    On the 11th of March, Liverpool born and bred four-piece, The Mysterines, dropped their debut album ‘Reeling’, with catching opener, ‘Life’s A Bitch (But I Like It So Much)’. Building on the explosive energy of their 2020 3-track EP ‘Love’s Not Enough,’ The Mysterines bring us a signature, gigantic rock sound, that has sealed them as Amazon Music’s Ones To Watch 2022 and landed single, Dangerous, on 6 Music’s A-list. At just 20 years old, lead singer and writer Lia Metcalfe’s ‘confident attitude is felt at every turn… she opens up on themes of self-destruction and love, with a dark and intimate charm”

    “The first great British rock band of the post-pandemic era” – NME 

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    The Mysterines ‘Reeling’ out 4th March 2022

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    Reeling The Mysterines Out 11 March 2022
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    Directed and edited by Sam Crowston & Lia Metcalfe

    Hotly tipped Liverpool bunch The Mysterines have announced the details for their upcoming debut album.

    Titled ‘Reeling’, the full-length is set to arrive on 11th March 2022 via Fiction Records.

    “It’s a pretty ambiguous title for most people, but for me ‘Reeling’ sums up every emotion of the album in just one word,” frontwoman Lia Metcalfe explains. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she explains.

    The news also comes alongside a new single, ‘Hung Up’. Spe...

    Hotly tipped Liverpool bunch The Mysterines have announced the details for their upcoming debut album.

    Titled ‘Reeling’, the full-length is set to arrive on 11th March 2022 via Fiction Records.

    “It’s a pretty ambiguous title for most people, but for me ‘Reeling’ sums up every emotion of the album in just one word,” frontwoman Lia Metcalfe explains. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she explains.

    The news also comes alongside a new single, ‘Hung Up’. Speaking about the new track, Lia says: “Hung Up is pretty self explanatory and I intended it to be that way. It’s also a very revengeful song.”

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    NiNE8 ‘FVR105’

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    Written by Bone Slim, LorenzoRSV, Lava La Rue Produced by Nige Additional vocals by Biig Piig

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    NOMINATION Domino at the Grammy’s 2021

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    Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards for ‘A Hero’s Death’ (Partisan Records).

    This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination, and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battered and bruised – albeit beautiful, with songs that are pat...

    Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards for ‘A Hero’s Death’ (Partisan Records).

    This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination, and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battered and bruised – albeit beautiful, with songs that are patient, confident, and heady takes on the modern world and its great uncertainty. ‘A Hero’s Death’ was produced by Dan Carey (Black Midi, Bat For Lashes). Listen to the seething, surreal title track, accompanied by a music video starring Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire).

    Last week Fontaines D.C. performed stripped-down versions of ‘A Hero’s Death’ highlights “I Don’t Belong” and “Oh Such A Spring” in Paris for La Blogothèque. 

    Praise for ‘A Hero’s Death’:

    “Heady, funny, and fearless, the Dublin band’s second album is a maudlin and manic triumph, a horror movie shot as comedy, equal parts future-shocked and handcuffed to history.” – Pitchfork (8.1)

    “If Dogrel showed that they can be big, then A Hero’s Death shows that they can be whatever the hell they want. Fontaines D.C. are dead; long live Fontaines D.C” – Stereogum ‘Album of the Week’

    “Exceptional” – The Guardian ‘Album of The Week’

    “A resounding victory” – Q

    “The most electric rock’n’roll band of the 2020s” – MOJO

    “powerful, brave and endlessly rewarding” – The Line of Best Fit

     

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    Best Rock Song – Big Thief – Not

    Best Rock Performance – Big Thief – Not

    Best Rock Album Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death

    Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance – Devonté Hynes and Third Coast Percussion – Hynes: Fields

    Best Engineered Album – Classical – Kyle Pyke, engineer ; Jesse Lewis & Kyle Pyke, mastering engineers (Devonté Hynes and Third Coast Percussion) – Hynes: Fields

    Best Global Music Album – Bebel Gilberto – Agora *co-written with our writer Thomas Bartlett.

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    Nu Genea ‘Marechià’

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    Nu Genea comes back on their own imprint NG records with their brand new single “MARECHIÀ”, featuring the beautiful voice of French singer Celia Kameni.

    The outcome is a disco funk song where the Neapolitan language blends in with the French in a perfect balance of synths and guitars, baked in their distinctive signature sound. The song pays tribute to the wonderful Marechiaro, a seaside village in the gulf of Napoli. This is the world of Nu Genea that mixes and incorporates different so...

    Nu Genea comes back on their own imprint NG records with their brand new single “MARECHIÀ”, featuring the beautiful voice of French singer Celia Kameni.

    The outcome is a disco funk song where the Neapolitan language blends in with the French in a perfect balance of synths and guitars, baked in their distinctive signature sound. The song pays tribute to the wonderful Marechiaro, a seaside village in the gulf of Napoli. This is the world of Nu Genea that mixes and incorporates different sounds, cultures, and languages that’s aiming to create something new and original.

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    Optic Sink out 2nd October 2020

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    Brendan Spengler, Natalie Hoffmann and Ben Bauermeister

    Optic Sink’s Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) creates a musical paradox: an endeavor that doesn’t seem to belong to any particular time or place. She constructs with sounds that are synthesized and stripped down, yet bristling with urgency and brutalist emotion. With percussionist Ben Bauermeister (Magic Kids, Toxie, A55 Conducta) by her side, the two set up camp on the post-punk side of the minimal electronic scene.

    Out on Goner following its lead single and video “Personified”. The track fea...

    Optic Sink’s Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) creates a musical paradox: an endeavor that doesn’t seem to belong to any particular time or place. She constructs with sounds that are synthesized and stripped down, yet bristling with urgency and brutalist emotion. With percussionist Ben Bauermeister (Magic Kids, Toxie, A55 Conducta) by her side, the two set up camp on the post-punk side of the minimal electronic scene.

    Out on Goner following its lead single and video “Personified”. The track features a Trumptopian critique delivered over instrumentation that sounds like a new wave chase theme. “Personified is a chaotic reflection on the far-reaching shadows of the dystopia we’re living in. The contrasting textures in the song underline the tension between human and machine, and where that line is blurred,” Hoffmann describes.

    Optic Sink eschew computers for a warmer, decidedly human soundscape. Hoffmann’s power and the tension she generates between human and machine, evokes Maria — the rebellious teacher – turned – Maschinenmensch in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and Ripley, the swaggering, sacrificing heroine of Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise. Dadaism and the Bauhaus movement could both be cited as influences; so might the existentialist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and the jump-cuts of Maya Deren.

    These are eight fully defined, atmospheric collages crafted with plenty of room for Hoffmann to play and test an artillery of sounds. “It’s about the evasive search for comfort: the human need to have freedom from pain, and for ease in a fixed system made to exploit,” Hoffmann says of the album, which she partially wrote during an extended musical residency at the Memphis creative complex Crosstown Arts.

    “I lost two people who were inexpressibly important to me in 2018 and 2019, and it completely derailed me from working on music at all for a while. After I was able to focus on music again, the solitary and meditative endeavor of writing songs for Optic Sink became a form of therapy for me and a way of working through the grief and shock of these losses. So as much as this record is informed by the repercussions of our current political climate, it’s also shaped by a looming sense of loss.”

    Optic Sink defy categories, shape-shifting from cold wave to psychedelia to distorted noise rock. In the process—which frequently occurs in a single song—they claim unchartered territory as they cathartically fragment and reassemble sounds, concepts, and verbal constructs. The conflict they define is life in America in 2020, finding beauty in the journey despite what the final resolution might be.

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    Otta ‘Songbook’ EP out 10th July 2020

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    Otta is a Finnish-British singer-songwriter from south London whose electronic pop songs are bright, sharp and strange. On her new EP, ‘Songbook’, they have a compelling DIY fidgetiness about them – hardly surprisingly, given that she records much of her material in her home studio: “a cupboard-under-the-stairs-meets-shed”, she explains, “but still a precious altar”.

    Moving to the UK when she was five, Otta first dreamt of being a professional drummer, starting lessons at seven....

    Otta is a Finnish-British singer-songwriter from south London whose electronic pop songs are bright, sharp and strange. On her new EP, ‘Songbook’, they have a compelling DIY fidgetiness about them – hardly surprisingly, given that she records much of her material in her home studio: “a cupboard-under-the-stairs-meets-shed”, she explains, “but still a precious altar”.

    Moving to the UK when she was five, Otta first dreamt of being a professional drummer, starting lessons at seven. In her teens, acoustic guitars and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy inspired her to write songs (she’d do this in her bathroom), and at 16 she won a place at the Brit School, which introduced her to jazz and electronic production. These elements inform her sound now, as do additional details from producer Kwes (Solange, Loyle Corner, Nubya Garcia), who discovered Otta on SoundCloud and signed her to his own label, Bokkle.

    Otta’s debut EP, After It All Blew Over, came out in January, its vibe smoky and soulful, as its title suggests. Songbook’s style is much more playful, recalling the club-bound moments of early Björk, as well as new acts such as Jockstrap. On songs like ‘Never See’, Otta’s vocals are layered in delicious waterfalls of sound. Radiophonic Workshop-like electronic burbles travel through others, such as Hope Extension and Suihku. The effect is of warm, jittery waves that carry the listener in their swell. The Guardian

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    Parquet Courts ‘Sympathy For Life’ out 22nd October 2021

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    Parquet Courts have announced their new album ‘Sympathy for Life’. It arrives October 22 via Rough Trade and it features the lead single “Walking at a Downtown Pace.” The track arrives with a new video directed by street photographer Daniel Arnold.

    ‘Sympathy for Life’ evolved from a series of improvised jam sessions and was produced alongside Rodaidh McDonald and John Parish. The album is inspired by New York Clubs, Primal Scream, and Pink Floyd.

    The band has also announced The...

    Parquet Courts have announced their new album ‘Sympathy for Life’. It arrives October 22 via Rough Trade and it features the lead single “Walking at a Downtown Pace.” The track arrives with a new video directed by street photographer Daniel Arnold.

    ‘Sympathy for Life’ evolved from a series of improvised jam sessions and was produced alongside Rodaidh McDonald and John Parish. The album is inspired by New York Clubs, Primal Scream, and Pink Floyd.

    The band has also announced The Power of Eleven—a series of 11 “global happenings” with unique merch. A recent event in Manhattan included the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corp Marching Band performing the new single “Walking at a Downtown Pace” and flying a Parquet Courts flag.

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    Peter Oren ‘The Greener Pasture’ out 24th April 2020

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    The period of self-isolation that has been imposed across pretty much the whole of the globe has left everyone in varying mental states. Having your freedom or liberty evoked certainly puts things   into perspective – even when you know it is for a greater good. So to self-impose that isolation would seem a might bizarre thing to do, but for Indiana based songwriter, Peter Oren, the results of his time alone at his Nashville cabin last year have resulted in a quite sublime collection of th...

    The period of self-isolation that has been imposed across pretty much the whole of the globe has left everyone in varying mental states. Having your freedom or liberty evoked certainly puts things   into perspective – even when you know it is for a greater good. So to self-impose that isolation would seem a might bizarre thing to do, but for Indiana based songwriter, Peter Oren, the results of his time alone at his Nashville cabin last year have resulted in a quite sublime collection of thoughtful songwriting.

    Across the album, various themes weave in and out – from the mortality of the Curtis Stigers-evoking In Line To Die, to the metaphorical herding of society on the title track and Fences Ranchers and Cattle Prods. But Oren’s most certainly got an itch too – mobile phone technology and the algorithms of social media – which he scratches deep into on Whole World. While the song is steeped in country traditions, his life is firmly immersed in the now – and semantically the song could not be of any other time – ‘I’ve got the whole world in my hands / I’ve got not plans as I scroll and scan / Waiting for the page to load, as my connection slows / There are screens even in my dreams… I skip the essay expose, for memes and videos of dogs doing human things / Who could’a seen it, who would’a known we’d have WIFI in hell?’

    This, his third record, is also the first time he’s overseen almost the entire process alone – having spent the record’s advance on equipment. And it’s certainly a justified decision. The finest example of his astute ear for arrangement and production is Free – a spacious, rousing number that could be filed next to Damien Jurado’s The Horizon Just Laughed in terms of scope.

    So if you’re looking for a little headspace during this quite unusual of times, Peter Oren has carved out a beautiful little corner of the world – it’s called The Greener Pasture – and it makes for a lovely escape.

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    Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay ‘Outsider’ out 5th February 2021

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    Directed by Gabriel Jacquel for Rainbox productions

    ‘OUTSIDER’ is a musical and visual extrapolation of celebrated artist Henry Darger by Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project) and Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP). A tribute to the brave and courageous spirit of children standing up against adult cruelty. This text, written 50 years ago by the famous raw artist Henry Darger, is set to music for the first time.

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    Plastic Mermaids ‘Disco Wings’

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    Riding on the hype of their excellent critically acclaimed 2019 debut album, ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’, Isle of Wight 5-piece return with the anti-negativity anthem ‘Disco Wings’, a rousing and creative new release that wonderfully spotlights their emphatic sound.

    The track sees the outfit continue to live up to their ever-rising hype, everything from its positive message, to its stylistic creativity feels captivating and rousing. The track washes over you, melding soulful vocals a...

    Riding on the hype of their excellent critically acclaimed 2019 debut album, ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’, Isle of Wight 5-piece return with the anti-negativity anthem ‘Disco Wings’, a rousing and creative new release that wonderfully spotlights their emphatic sound.

    The track sees the outfit continue to live up to their ever-rising hype, everything from its positive message, to its stylistic creativity feels captivating and rousing. The track washes over you, melding soulful vocals and cutting edge electronics to devastating effect. If you’re having a bad day then this song might just be what you need, and if you’re having a good day then listen to it anyway.

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    PODCAST: Recent Peal with Wesley Gonzalez

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    A new monthly music podcast available on the last Tuesday of the month only on Spotify.

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    Raf Rundell ‘Monsterpiece’

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    'Monsterpiece' dir. Luke Ramsay

    Last seen a couple of years back on his debut long-player Stop Lying, Raf Rundell emerges from his Forest Hill bunker with Monsterpiece, a joyful, larger than life, good-time party anthem.

    His first release for Heavenly Recordings, the former 2 Bear, renowned DJ, and all round, man-about-town, said of this first taster from his forthcoming second album:

    “Time for new JAMS. Under the light of a silver moon we work on our Monsterpieces. One Blockhead, one Stepkid, a Showboy and a Culpepper. N...

    Last seen a couple of years back on his debut long-player Stop Lying, Raf Rundell emerges from his Forest Hill bunker with Monsterpiece, a joyful, larger than life, good-time party anthem.

    His first release for Heavenly Recordings, the former 2 Bear, renowned DJ, and all round, man-about-town, said of this first taster from his forthcoming second album:

    “Time for new JAMS. Under the light of a silver moon we work on our Monsterpieces. One Blockhead, one Stepkid, a Showboy and a Culpepper. Never knowingly undersoul’d we step unblinkingly into the future. O.M.DAYS.”

    A beautifully lithe, effortless and sophisticated South London steeped Balearic treat, it’s no coincidence ‘Monsterpiece’ possesses the idiosyncratic funk feel of peak time Blockheads given Ian Dury’s former guitar slinger Chas Jankel was roped in to provide his distinctive touch.

    A chance meeting with Chas led to a blossoming friendship and it wasn’t long before he came to the studio one day proclaiming to have something for Raf. “I tried hard to be Ian Dury,” explained Raf, “but realised I couldn’t. So I tried my best in a different way, and here we are.”

    Featuring a striking Keith Haring meets the Green Man inspired cover from acclaimed artist and long-time collaborator Ben Edge, Monsterpiece also includes vocal contributions from Joel Culpepper and Show Boy.

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    Raf Rundell ‘O.M.Days’ Out 9th April 2021

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    Earlier this year we were dreaming of a better future. Sequestered on a hilltop a plan floated over on the air. We would name the first full moon after summer solstice 2020 the O.M.Days moon. We approached a landowner who already had a small Viking encampment in his grounds. Could we..? Yes we could. We are still unsure what happened. Perhaps it was a profound magical experience. Perhaps it was a load of wankers from London who’d been indoors too long let loose on a midsummer night. Either...

    Earlier this year we were dreaming of a better future. Sequestered on a hilltop a plan floated over on the air. We would name the first full moon after summer solstice 2020 the O.M.Days moon. We approached a landowner who already had a small Viking encampment in his grounds. Could we..? Yes we could. We are still unsure what happened. Perhaps it was a profound magical experience. Perhaps it was a load of wankers from London who’d been indoors too long let loose on a midsummer night. Either way our intentions were sincere and for the good of all living things.

    Album release on Heavenly featuring guest appearances from Chas Jankel, Lias Saoudi, Teri Walker, Andy Jenkins and Man & The Echo.

    Last seen a couple of years back on his debut long-player Stop Lying, Raf has also shared Ample Change (ft. Lias Saoudi), the second track to be taken off the album following Monsterpiece on which he roped in the legendary Chas Jankel to provide his distinctive touch.

    Featuring on the cover a striking Keith Haring meets the Green Man image from acclaimed artist and long-time collaborator Ben Edge, the picture wasinspired by the folk tale of the giant of Dawson, who is both male & female, human and vegetation and lived in the imagination of Dawson’s Hill, a stretch of South London parkland a stones throw away from Dawson’s Heights, the flats featured on the cover of Raf’s debut Stop Lying.

    Edge and Rundell, for reasons they can’t entirely comprehend, concocted a rite which took place the first full moon after this year’s summer solstice (the results of which can be seen in the short film trailer for the album). This involved the giant – also known as Tommy Hill Figure – being created on Dawson’s Hill.

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    Ragz Originale ‘brush u’

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    Brush U Directed by Ragz Originale & CHAMU

    Produced by E-Whizz and Ragz himself, “brush u” is a vibrant track which the north Londoner uses to detail a situationship. The difference in feelings between Ragz and a lady are shown in the colourful but dimly-lit visuals where the artist remains in a state of blankness while a lady continues to dance on.

    Make sure you catch the video for “brush u” above while we wait for the release of Ragz Originale’s upcoming tape, WOAH.

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    Ragz Originale ‘txt ur x’ out 6th March 2020

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    '4am' Directed by Charlotte Toon

    As a producer, Ragz Originale has worked with artists such as Chip, Skepta (three songs on Mercury award-winning album Konnichiwa, most notably ‘Shut Down’, were produced by Ragz) and Krept and Konan. This is alongside working with his fellow artists in the Mini Kingz collective, BenjiFlow, Oscar #worldpeace and CARTAE.

    Ragz’s transition from producer to artist was ignited after the realisation that as a producer, you could go a year without profiting from your skills while waiting fo...

    As a producer, Ragz Originale has worked with artists such as Chip, Skepta (three songs on Mercury award-winning album Konnichiwa, most notably ‘Shut Down’, were produced by Ragz) and Krept and Konan. This is alongside working with his fellow artists in the Mini Kingz collective, BenjiFlow, Oscar #worldpeace and CARTAE.

    Ragz’s transition from producer to artist was ignited after the realisation that as a producer, you could go a year without profiting from your skills while waiting for other people to put out your work.

    Released in the Autumn of 2018, Ragz’ debut solo project ‘Nature’ featured 10 tracks and was routed in alternative R&B and rap sounds, featuring Georgia, CARTAE and Ji Nilsson.

    Ragz’s  single ‘4am’ with Eliza teases what will be on offer on his now-released ‘txt ur x’ EP, which is said to resemble a “succinct, disciplined document of independence, featuring a hand-picked list of guests”. This EP will also feature Ragz Originale’s new song, ‘Jennifer’. Read our review of the project here.

    The opening of ‘4am’ is electric, where we immediately hear Eliza’s cool vocals before transitioning into Ragz’s rapping. This continues throughout the entire song, where we hear Ragz and ELIZA’s voices flowing effortlessly back and forth between each other. The production (done by Ragz himself) is layered and intricate, forming a smooth and sexy beat. The music video is sleek and features appearances from some of the Mini Kingz crew. A nice contrast was that Eliza was surrounded by darker lighting in shades of blues, red and purple, whereas Ragz was in much brighter lights with pops of colour such as yellow.

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    Ragz Originale ‘WOAH’ out 29th January 2020

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    OG Lullaby from forthcoming EP 'Woah'

    Ragz Originale makes a strong start to the year with the release of his highly anticipated mixtape WOAH. Singles such as ‘ring out’, ‘OG lullaby’ and ‘brush u’ have created buzz around the multidimensional artist with the likes of Tiffany Calver, Benji B and Jamz Supernova championing his latest work.

    The canon of music that features on this project further cements Ragz as a leader of the underground scene with a rich and sophisticated palette, fusing elements of rap, R&B a...

    Ragz Originale makes a strong start to the year with the release of his highly anticipated mixtape WOAH. Singles such as ‘ring out’, ‘OG lullaby’ and ‘brush u’ have created buzz around the multidimensional artist with the likes of Tiffany Calver, Benji B and Jamz Supernova championing his latest work.

    The canon of music that features on this project further cements Ragz as a leader of the underground scene with a rich and sophisticated palette, fusing elements of rap, R&B and alternative electronic music. ‘mirrors’ is an atmospheric opener with it’s nuanced soundscapes and dreamy vocals from Laura Groves. ‘OG lullaby’ is a deliciously modern R&B song, in hushed tones Ragz sings about the pitfalls that come with growing success over a timeless yet forward-thinking beat. ‘nightcap’ sees Ragz effortlessly go back and forth with up and coming rapper, John Glacier on what may be one of his catchiest tracks to date whilst the slick ‘send 4 u’ is a moody ode to after hour calls and late night lovers whilst ‘brush u’ is a sultry brand of West African influenced R&B oozing with rich harmonies and island vibes. The futuristic bounce of ‘ring out’ featuring one of London’s latest talents, 24hoursav sees Ragz manoeuvring into exciting new areas with its pulsating deep bass and mystifying sounds with the mixtape closing with the twinkling, dream-like sounds of ‘low frequency’.

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    Ragz Originale – WOAH (Live)

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    brush u

    mirrors featuring Laura Groves

    nightcap

    2.0 low frequency

    Vocals by Ragz Originale & Laura Groves

    Backing Vocals: Angelina Mavanza & Tahirah Andrews

    Synth Keys: Jeauneil Baptiste

    Synth Bass: Ragz Originale

     

     

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    Róisín Murphy ‘Róisín Machine’ out 2nd October 2020

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    Murphy's Law

    “Róisín Machine” is the culmination of a rich, decades long partnership between Murphy and one of her most trusted collaborators Crooked Man aka DJ Parrot. Although packed to the rafters with masterclass singles, including “Simulation”, “Jealousy”,  Narcissus” and “Murphy’s Law”, it is also an ingeniously and seamlessly edited listening experience, designed to be listened to in one uninterrupted sitting, from start to dazzling finish.

    From the intoxicating disco-funk of...

    “Róisín Machine” is the culmination of a rich, decades long partnership between Murphy and one of her most trusted collaborators Crooked Man aka DJ Parrot. Although packed to the rafters with masterclass singles, including “Simulation”, “Jealousy”,  Narcissus” and “Murphy’s Law”, it is also an ingeniously and seamlessly edited listening experience, designed to be listened to in one uninterrupted sitting, from start to dazzling finish.

    From the intoxicating disco-funk of “Incapable”, to the quintessential “Narcissus” which crystallised New-Disco and established a high watermark for the genre, to “Murphy’s Law”, a 70s inflected stomper, “Roisin Machine” offers up everything you could ask for on an exquisite plate. Added to the familiar tunes are five new songs, including the Dalek-funk of ‘We Got Together’ and the fantastical “Shellfish Mademoiselle”. An album that works perfectly on the home sound system but also comes alive in a basement sweatbox, it impeccably sits alongside Murphy’s stellar cannon of work released across 25 boundary pushing, trailblazing years, a career encompassing iconic music, directorial, art and fashion moments.

     

    Domino publish 4 songs:  Narcisist, Murphy’s Law, Jealousy and Simulation

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    Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy ‘Son’ out 12th November 2021

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    Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy have announced a new collaborative album. Son is out November 12. They’ve shared the album’s title track, which arrives with an accompanying poem by Julianknxx.

    The album was recorded in London and Freetown between 2019 and 2021. Inspired by Lowe and Timothy’s love of choral music, Son features contributions from Daniel Koroma, Kandeh Bangura, Valentine Coker, Chino Greene, and Tom Herbert. “We were interested in bringing our surroundings into the re...

    Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy have announced a new collaborative album. Son is out November 12. They’ve shared the album’s title track, which arrives with an accompanying poem by Julianknxx.

    The album was recorded in London and Freetown between 2019 and 2021. Inspired by Lowe and Timothy’s love of choral music, Son features contributions from Daniel Koroma, Kandeh Bangura, Valentine Coker, Chino Greene, and Tom Herbert. “We were interested in bringing our surroundings into the recordings; leaving doors open, recording in different spaces and locations, inviting the listener to experience the life that was going on around us whilst capturing the process,” the duo said in a statement.

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    Rosie Lowe ‘Now, You Know’ out 1st September 2021

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    Directed & Edited by Louis Hemming-Lowe

    Rosie Lowe has returned with a new mixtape, ‘Now, You Know’, released in full via Blue Flowers. Forced, like many, to cancel her plans as the pandemic hit last Spring, Rosie Lowe retreated to a cabin in the Devon woods, converting a tiny shed into a studio to write in isolation. What emerged from those sessions was a playful, experimental, collection of songs – sparse, warped-vocal meditations ‘Freedom’ and ‘Say The Name’ juxtaposed with the groove-laden ‘I’ve Got You’ and...

    Rosie Lowe has returned with a new mixtape, ‘Now, You Know’, released in full via Blue Flowers. Forced, like many, to cancel her plans as the pandemic hit last Spring, Rosie Lowe retreated to a cabin in the Devon woods, converting a tiny shed into a studio to write in isolation. What emerged from those sessions was a playful, experimental, collection of songs – sparse, warped-vocal meditations ‘Freedom’ and ‘Say The Name’ juxtaposed with the groove-laden ‘I’ve Got You’ and ‘Would You Stay?’ and straightforward lyrical exorcisms on ‘No Idea’ or ‘Good Guy’. Empowered and emboldened following her departure after almost a decade from the Universal-owned Wolf-Tone Records, Lowe fully embraced her freedom to explore every creative impulse.

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    SAADI (self titled) out 13th July 2020

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    Posted on 06 October 2020
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    'Mephisto' Edited by Boshra AlSaadi

    This is the first LP from songrwriter/multi-instrumentalist Boshra AlSaadi, known as SAADI. Created over the course of a decade, the album chronicles a fool’s journey in the digital age.

    Boshra Al Saadi is a songrwiter/multi-instrumentalist hailing from Damascus Syria and living in New York City. With her solo project SAADI, her sound shows traces of her vast and diverse influences ranging from dancehall to traditional arabic dabke, from Brian Eno to Lady Saw, resulting in a real fusion of ...

    This is the first LP from songrwriter/multi-instrumentalist Boshra AlSaadi, known as SAADI. Created over the course of a decade, the album chronicles a fool’s journey in the digital age.

    Boshra Al Saadi is a songrwiter/multi-instrumentalist hailing from Damascus Syria and living in New York City. With her solo project SAADI, her sound shows traces of her vast and diverse influences ranging from dancehall to traditional arabic dabke, from Brian Eno to Lady Saw, resulting in a real fusion of sound that would lend itself to a sweaty dance floor or a darkened bedroom.

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    Sad13 ‘Haunted Painting’ out 25th September 2020

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    Haunted Painting Speedy Ortiz Out 25 September 2020
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    Written, directed & edited by Kimber-Lee Alston
    For nearly a decade, Sadie Dupuis has been celebrated for her literary lyrics, accomplished guitar playing, and embodied ethos of empowerment, whether with rock band Speedy Ortiz or the pop-oriented solo project Sad13, which debuted in 2016 with Lizzo co-feature “Basement Queens.” It was followed by the self-produced Slugger, featuring “Get a Yes,” a glitter-bomb of an ode to consent, and other bedroom Top 40 tributes centering feminism and inclusivity. But in the ensuing years, recon...
    For nearly a decade, Sadie Dupuis has been celebrated for her literary lyrics, accomplished guitar playing, and embodied ethos of empowerment, whether with rock band Speedy Ortiz or the pop-oriented solo project Sad13, which debuted in 2016 with Lizzo co-feature “Basement Queens.” It was followed by the self-produced Slugger, featuring “Get a Yes,” a glitter-bomb of an ode to consent, and other bedroom Top 40 tributes centering feminism and inclusivity. But in the ensuing years, reconciling with a delayed processing of grief, Dupuis felt unable to create new music.

    At the Frye Gallery in Seattle, a ghost spoke to her—or an approximation of one. It was an early 20th century painting of the dancer Saharet by German expressionist Franz von Stuck, one of many haunted-seeming gold-framed oil paintings in the gallery: washed-out faces, under-eye circles, expressions that told stories. Looking at these portraits, she related. And she started to write.

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    Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties) joins Domino Publishing

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    Posted on 21 March 2022
    Let Me Do One More Illuminati Hotties Out 05 June 2023
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    Domino Publishing are happy to announce the signing of Sarah Tudzin the writer, producer, mixer and engineer of Los Angeles based rock band ‘Illuminati Hotties‘. We look forward to seeing what she does next following on from the success of her latest album ‘Let Me Do One More’. Watch the music video for ‘Pool Hopping’ above, an energetic single that cements her as an exciting creative powerhouse.

    Illuminati Hotties will be performing at London’s Moth Club and Brighton’s Great...

    Domino Publishing are happy to announce the signing of Sarah Tudzin the writer, producer, mixer and engineer of Los Angeles based rock band ‘Illuminati Hotties‘. We look forward to seeing what she does next following on from the success of her latest album ‘Let Me Do One More’. Watch the music video for ‘Pool Hopping’ above, an energetic single that cements her as an exciting creative powerhouse.

    Illuminati Hotties will be performing at London’s Moth Club and Brighton’s Great Escape Music Festival this summer as part of their UK tour, see the full tour dates here.

     

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    Sneaker Pimps ‘Fighter’

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    Fighter Liam Howe Out 09 July 2021
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    “‘Fighter’ is a plea for courage and strength against prevailing mental health crises. ‘Squaring the Circle’ is a heartfelt ode to eternal returns of love, in the  face of desperate adversity,” founding member Liam Howe explained in a statement. “Contrasting in nature, hopefully these songs describe the diversity  and essence of the new album.”

    “It’s taken many years and many false starts to get Sneaker Pimps back in the game.  Sometimes [you] need to back the fuck off ...

    “‘Fighter’ is a plea for courage and strength against prevailing mental health crises. ‘Squaring the Circle’ is a heartfelt ode to eternal returns of love, in the  face of desperate adversity,” founding member Liam Howe explained in a statement. “Contrasting in nature, hopefully these songs describe the diversity  and essence of the new album.”

    “It’s taken many years and many false starts to get Sneaker Pimps back in the game.  Sometimes [you] need to back the fuck off and let the universe take control,” Corner added. “I’m proud and relieved to say that it is finally happening. We officially have new music.”

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    Snuff ‘The Wrath of Thoth’ out 28th August 2020

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    Snuff release their EP meant to support their May 2020 UK Tour. Six punk tracks from Duncan Redmonds.

    Originally formed in N.W. London 1986 as a three piece, Duncan Redmonds on drums and vocals, Simon Wells on guitar and vocals and Andrew Crighton on bass. Sadly Andrew Crighton passed away  1999. Original guitarist Simon can be found these days playing with his band Southport.

    Early days and gigs were few and far between until the end of 1988, then offers came flooding in. Things really to...

    Snuff release their EP meant to support their May 2020 UK Tour. Six punk tracks from Duncan Redmonds.

    Originally formed in N.W. London 1986 as a three piece, Duncan Redmonds on drums and vocals, Simon Wells on guitar and vocals and Andrew Crighton on bass. Sadly Andrew Crighton passed away  1999. Original guitarist Simon can be found these days playing with his band Southport.

    Early days and gigs were few and far between until the end of 1988, then offers came flooding in. Things really took off when John Peel got the band in for a session after seeing them play with Heresy and Rose Rose at the Sir George Robey in Finsbury park, London.

    First a 7’single was released on Workers playtime, followed with a full length album known for short as “Snuff said“, full title “Snuffsaidbutgorblimeyguvstonemeifhedidn’tthrowawobbler chachachachachachachachachachachayou’regoinghomeinacosmicambience“.

     

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    Son Lux ‘Tomorrows’

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    Tomorrows I (City Slang) Son Lux Out 14 August 2020
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    The Tomorrows artwork is by Mareo Rodriquez with additional layout and image editing by Yuanyuan Su. Photo credit: Djeneba Aduayom

    More pervasive than a virus, anxiety and urgency has spread across our physical and virtual landscapes. The growing inequities of centuries old and current day complexes of oppression has reached a critical and necessary breaking point, forcing us out of our severe isolation back together in a call for justice. All the while, the continued trajectory towards climate catastrophe still creeps across the horizon into our view, another result of the valuing of profit over people.

    These defining ...

    More pervasive than a virus, anxiety and urgency has spread across our physical and virtual landscapes. The growing inequities of centuries old and current day complexes of oppression has reached a critical and necessary breaking point, forcing us out of our severe isolation back together in a call for justice. All the while, the continued trajectory towards climate catastrophe still creeps across the horizon into our view, another result of the valuing of profit over people.

    These defining traits of the present moment find parallels on the newest body of work by Son Lux: Tomorrows, a long-format album to be released in three volumes over the course of a year. On Tomorrows, Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang train their sights on volatile principles: imbalance, disruption, collision, redefinition. But for all of its instability, Tomorrows’ exploration of breaking points and sustained frictional places is ultimately in service of something rewarding and necessary: the act of questioning, challenging, tearing down and actively rebuilding one’s own identity.

    Arriving at a time of considerable uncertainty in the world, Tomorrows is ambitious in scope and intent. Born of an active, intentional approach to shaping sound, the music reminds us of the necessity of questioning assumptions, and of sitting with the tension.

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    All songs written, produced, and performed by Son Lux
    Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang, and Ryan Lott
    Publisher – Leroy Lott Music (BMI) Administered by Domino Publishing, Rafiq Bhatia Music (SESAC) Administered by Domino Publishing, Ian Chang Music (BMI) Administered by Domino Publishing

    Additional Performances by:
    Kadhja Bonet – vocals (Plans We Made)
    Gabriel Cabezas – cello (Plans We Made)
    Nick Dunston – acoustic bass (Last Light)
    Jackson Hill – electric bass (Honesty, Undertow)
    Charles Ferguson, Jeremy Gustin – percussion (Last Light, Undertow)
    Nadia Sirota – viola (Plans We Made, Bending Shadows, Undertow, Involution)
    Rajna Swaminathan – mrudangam (Last Light)

    Strings on Only, Into Wind, Undertow, Involution:
    Audrey Hayes – violin
    Hajnal Pivnick – violin
    Andrew Griffin – viola
    Hamilton Berry – cello

    Recorded by:
    Nate Thor Odden at Red Bull Studios, New York
    Chris Tabron at Red Bull Studios, New York
    András Makay at SuperSize Recording, Budapest
    Pierre de Reeder at 64Sound, Los Angeles

    Mixed by Chris Tabron at Rumours, Brooklyn
    Engineer for mix: Brandon Peralta
    Additional mixing by Ryan Lott

    Mastered by Dave Kutch at The Mastering Palace, NYC

    Album Art by Mareo Rodriquez
    From installation series M.E.L.T.S (Matter Energy Light Time Space)
    Additional Layout and Image Editing by Yuanyuan Su

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    The Specials’ Terry Hall and Dub Pistols’ Barry Ashworth launch mental health programme with Tonic Music

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    Domino Publishing writers Terry Hall of The Specials and Dub Pistols’ Barry Ashworth have partnered with mental health organisation Tonic Music to launch a new programme for music industry workers, Tonic Rider.

    The programme aims to provide guides, mental health first aid training to grassroots venues and in-person support stands.

    Tonic Rider was piloted at the 100 Club in London and the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth. Organisers hope to roll out the programme to green rooms, festivals a...

    Domino Publishing writers Terry Hall of The Specials and Dub Pistols’ Barry Ashworth have partnered with mental health organisation Tonic Music to launch a new programme for music industry workers, Tonic Rider.

    The programme aims to provide guides, mental health first aid training to grassroots venues and in-person support stands.

    Tonic Rider was piloted at the 100 Club in London and the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth. Organisers hope to roll out the programme to green rooms, festivals and Night Time Industries Association members, as well as include it on rider lists and wall posters.

    The programme will provide guides, mental health first aid training, online workshops and in-person support stands 

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    Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection ‘Imminent Shadow’ out 24th September 2021

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    Posted on 22 June 2021
    Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 'Imminent Shadow' Steelism Out 24 September 2021
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    London born, Nashville based Spencer Cullum debut solo album, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection may pay homage to the ’60s and ‘70s psych-pop, folk and proto prog heroes of his homeland. But with a supporting cast of fellow Music City stage and studio aces like guitarist Sean Thompson and multi-instrumentalist Luke Reynolds, as well as singing and writing partners like Caitlin Rose, Andrew Combs, Erin Rae, Annie Williams and James “Skyway Man” Wallace —he’s bringing a bit of Brit...
    London born, Nashville based Spencer Cullum debut solo album, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection may pay homage to the ’60s and ‘70s psych-pop, folk and proto prog heroes of his homeland. But with a supporting cast of fellow Music City stage and studio aces like guitarist Sean Thompson and multi-instrumentalist Luke Reynolds, as well as singing and writing partners like Caitlin Rose, Andrew Combs, Erin Rae, Annie Williams and James “Skyway Man” Wallace —he’s bringing a bit of Britain to Tennessee.“I wanted to write a very quintessential English folk record, but with really good Nashville players.” Cullum says of Canterbury Scene conjuring Coin Collection, name-checking Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny. The album manifests his love for psych-prog ground-breakers the Soft Machine, digs deep into cerebral ambient inspirations like Robert Fripp and Brian Eno and even krautrock icons NEU! “I’ve always wanted to mix krautrock music into folk and psychedelia,” he explains.With an arm’s length list of credits stretching from the likes of Kesha, Dolly Parton and Deer Tick, to Miranda Lambert and Dylan Leblanc, pedal steel savant Cullum is one of Nashville’s most in-demand session cats. That’s in addition to making up half of acclaimed, primarily instrumental space-country duo “Steelism.” Clearly he’s had little trouble fitting in since moving from his native London by way of Detroit eight years ago, even if it’s mostly meant blending in. “I guess I’ve always hidden behind [the instrument],” he deadpans. “I’m always the guy who looks like he’s studying for a test in the background.”Produced by Jeremy Ferguson and recorded at the Grammy-winning Nashville indie-rock producer’s Battle Tapes Recording studio, the album boasts a wide-open, bell-clear sound fit for a deftly shimmering set of songs with non-narrative lyrics culled from the mystic corners of the subliminal mind.
    The lyrics come from “my own experience,” Cullum explains, “but [I] also wanted to not be emotionally specific, almost in a dreamlike, subconscious state. Like spidergram.”Though on the new single ‘Imminent Shadow’, Cullum reveals a little more of himself: “I wrote Imminent Shadow when I was having lucid dreams a few years ago and pondering if it had something to do with hereditary depression stemming from my grandfather. I’ve never wanted my songs to be too personal of my own situation but instead for them to have a sub-conscious dream-like aspect to them. This, I guess, is the most personal track on the record.” 
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    These New Puritans The Cut (2016-2019) out 14th February 2020

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    Posted on 21 September 2020
    The Cut (2016-2019) These New Puritans Out 14 February 2020
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    The Cut is the sister release to the 2019 album ‘Inside the Rose. It’s a vast collection of new music, orchestral interludes and reworking and remixes by friends and collaborators including the likes of Ossian Brown (Cyclobe, Coil) Andrew Lilies (Current 93, Nurse with Wound) and Scintii (Taiwanese Singer-producer featured on Inside the Rose).

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    TRAAMS ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves (IRW)’

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    Posted on 06 January 2021
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    Part motorik drum beats, part discordant guitars, pop melodies and hypnotic bass lines. All are present here. With a collection of three new tracks they have expanded further. Collaborating with friends and new instrumentation, each track is different from the last.

    The second single to be recorded in Brighton with Theo Verney after a brief hiatus is ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves’. The track was written in Paris, whilst touring with Car Seat Headrest at the tail end of 2017. ‘Interconti...

    Part motorik drum beats, part discordant guitars, pop melodies and hypnotic bass lines. All are present here. With a collection of three new tracks they have expanded further. Collaborating with friends and new instrumentation, each track is different from the last.

    The second single to be recorded in Brighton with Theo Verney after a brief hiatus is ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves’. The track was written in Paris, whilst touring with Car Seat Headrest at the tail end of 2017. ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves’ is about change. Fat Cat Records

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    Trevor Beld Jimenez ‘I Like It Here’ out 6th November 2020

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    Posted on 24 November 2020
    I Like It Here Trevor Beld Jimenez Out 06 November 2020
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    Everyone needs a moment, for Trevor Beld Jimenez that moment arrives with his solo debut ”I Like It Here”. LA’s finest singer/songwriter and best kept secret was born in Southern California in the 80s, raised on a steady diet of AM radio and soon youthful adventures like exploring the coasts, hiking the hills and Little League gave into a full-time obsession of music. If you’ve been paying any attention to the southern California music scene the last decade or so, you already know Tre...

    Everyone needs a moment, for Trevor Beld Jimenez that moment arrives with his solo debut ”I Like It Here”. LA’s finest singer/songwriter and best kept secret was born in Southern California in the 80s, raised on a steady diet of AM radio and soon youthful adventures like exploring the coasts, hiking the hills and Little League gave into a full-time obsession of music. If you’ve been paying any attention to the southern California music scene the last decade or so, you already know Trevor from his bands Tall Tales & The Silver Linings and Parting Lines, as his contribution to projects from the likes of Fruit Bats, Kacey Johansing and DIOS, and he plays a key role as co-writer and drummer for California rockers GospelbeacH. ”I Like It Here” is a classic Southern California rock record that weaves between guitar solo-driven power anthems and softer rock ballads.

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    Tunng ‘Dead Club’ out 6th November 2020

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