The Fat Angel Sings

When Maya Bon and Ryan Albert met with their future label Double Double Whammy for the first time, they brought a collection of plump, homegrown tomatoes for the occasion. That pastoral touch mirrors what the duo accomplish in their music as Babehoven. As practitioners of homespun indie rock, there’s a picturesque quality to their work that renders each listen multi-sensory. The Babehoven sound has a cooling texture, a verdant visual, an organic taste. But over six EPs in four years, the duo presented diverse approaches to cultivating those sensations, including soft, frank rock on “Demonstrating Visible Differences in Height”, haunting tape manipulation on “Yellow Has a Pretty Good Reputation” and molasses-slow folk on “Sunk”. The duo combine each of these styles and more on “Light Moving Time”, their long-anticipated debut LP.

On “Light Moving Time”, Babehoven are not in a rush. Relaxed tempos are central to their discography.

Babehoven are Duster superfans and their shared preference for DIY recording gives the music its contemplative, hand-hewn texture. Their music rests at the intersection of the observant lyricism of Roy Orbison and the rhythmic creativity of Dear Nora. The resultant artifact is as crisp and pensive as the undulating Appalachian foothills. 

It is a dream come true that I get to write songs and put them out there for folks to connect with. it’s a dream within a dream that @ryanalbertsound and I to get to record these songs together to expand and support them into their fullest forms. it’s even a wilder dream within all the dreams that we get to release these songs on our favourite label Double Double Whammy. we feel so grateful!

These songs were recorded in our bedroom in upstate New York during the icy, pensive, and beautiful months of winter 2022. Ryan and I holed up in our room and poured all of our love and attention into them. for Ryan, I feel too much gratitude to even know how to begin sharing. he cradles the songs I write and brings the most sensitive and expansive ear to each one.

Babehoven’s debut album ‘Light Moving Time’ available everywhere on LP/CD/digital October 28th, 2022 on Double Double Whammy

Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering stars in a horrific love story in the official video for “Grapevine,” her epic new road ballad from “And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow”. Beauty meets the beast in this visual tale which features a car crash, a humanoid with glowing red eyes, and a haunted grapevine graveyard.  Who is this ominous figure, and what does it want with Natalie? Watch and find out in the “Grapevine” video, directed by Actual Objects.

“And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow” is out November 18th on Sub Pop Records. The second in a trilogy, this dystopian romance novel took a lot of dark juice to birth. Forged in fire as they say. I’m so relieved to finally share the opening track, “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody.” Listen on earbuds with an open soul, maybe you’ll get a creepy chest glow if you’re lucky It’s good to be Bach, I’ve missed all you dears immensely. You can pre-order, listen to the tunage and scope some tour dates on my website www.weyesblood.com.

Can’t wait to hear the new album? “And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow” out November 18th, 2022 on Sub Pop Records.

my new album is coming out January 13th 2023. It’s called ‘Dawn Sounds’. I’m so so happy with it. I’ve recently taken to getting up at about 4.45 AM and making a cup of tea and lighting some candles and writing my songs. They come straight out of dreams and seem to stem from a deeper place in my heart. Less mind in there you know. So we recorded ‘Dawn Sounds’ out the back of Byron over three days during sunrise.

I have a little taster from ‘Dawn Sounds’ for you. ‘Come Back Free’ comes out today! It’s a song about failure. How important it is for growth. How it represents an occasion in which you rose – regardless of the outcome. Rising to occasions is the real path of life. This is growth and the journey. ‘Come Back Free’ celebrates that moment, sometime’s a bit down the line, where you realise you’re ok and you’re stronger and you’re back baby! I shot the film clip with my dear friend Saskia Burmiester around the Hunter Valley

forthcoming album Dawn Sounds:

Good things come to those who wait, and the magnificent “Changes” is worth every one of the 2,628,000 minutes King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard invested in it. Soaked in the warm sonics of 70s r’n’b and guided by simple chord-changes that contain multitudes and rounding out another remarkable year for the group, their fifth album of 2022 is a luminous, soft-pop marvel. Come lose yourself in its slow-cooked brilliance.

We wanted to see how far we could take a single idea; a chord+key change from D major to F# major. What would it sound like if we oscillated between those two keys? Turns out, it sounded pretty good so we took the idea pretty far; we made a whole record.

It felt easy to be dissonant working within this format so we aimed for beautiful, fluid, purposeful, musical. This record is like one big song. It’s a song cycle.

Thanks to YOU for coming along on this WILD ride. It feels surreal to release this music into the world, but it feels good too.

I love you all, Stu xoxoxox

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is:
Mickey Cavanagh
Cookie Craig
Lukey Harwood
Amby Kenny-Smith
Stu Mackenzie
Joey Walker

Recorded between 2017 – 2022 in various studios, home studios, buses, hotel rooms, green rooms, planes, parking lots etc…

Released October 28th, 2022

Only The Strong Survive is the new album from Bruce Springsteen, and his first new album since 2020’s Letter To You. The album is a collection of soul music gems, that celebrate the legendary songbooks of Gamble and Huff, Motown, Stax and many more.

“Only The Strong Survive” features vocals from Springsteen and instrumentation primarily from his long time producer Ron Aniello. The album also features guest vocals from Sam Moore, as well as contributions from The E Street Horns, full string arrangements by Rob Mathes and backing vocals from Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Curtis King Jr., Fonzi Thornton and Dennis Collins.

The previous two tracks released from Springsteen’s “Only the Strong Survive” were “Do I Love You (Indeed I Do),”  and “Nightshift,”. 

Bruce Springsteen released a third song from his upcoming “Only the Strong Survive” soul covers album, posted along with the message, “Ready for another one? Don’t Play That Song out this Friday October 28th.

Co-written by Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun and Betty Nelson (Ben E. King’s wife), “Don’t Play That Song” — usually called “Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)” — was first recorded by King in 1962, and reached the Top 20. It was the first track of King’s Don’t Play That Song! album that year, which, more famously, included his all-time classic, “Stand by Me.”

Aretha Franklin had similar success when she recorded the song in 1970.

Watch the brand new video for Bruce’s cover of the Aretha Franklin classic “Don’t Play that Song”. (Aretha’s version was a cover of the 1962 original by Ben E. King)

Taken from the forthcoming album “Only The Strong Survive” .

Conceived and recorded following Julie’s tenure with Brian Auger And The Trinity, with whom she had recorded two albums and commercial success with a version of Dylan and Rick Danko’s ‘This Wheel’s On Fire’.

Eager to break away from the heavy burden of being in the public spotlight, Julie Driscoll wrote a series of fine compositions and collaborated with her soon-to-be husband Keith Tippett on their arrangements.

The album sessions were produced by Giorgio Gomelsky and featured contributions from some of the finest musicians on the British Jazz and Rock scene, including guitarist Chris Spedding, Elton Dean, Nick Evans and Mark Charig (Soft Machine), Karl Jenkins and Jeff Clyne (Nucleus) and the members of Blossom Toes.

Featuring outstanding pieces such as ‘A New Awakening’, ‘Those That We Love’ and ‘Break Out’, ‘1969’ was an artistic triumph, but was destined to remain unreleased until 1971, due to the collapse of Giorgio Gomelsky’s Marmalade Records.

One of my favorites from Julie’s solo album “1969” (recorded in 1969, released in 1971). This slide show features photos of Julie from her early days with Long John Baldry in the mid-1960’s, with Brian Auger’s Trinity in the late ’60’s, and one dating from the early ’70s. I loved her work with Brian Auger, but this track is one of our favourite’s of the solo work she’s done. This track features Julie on acoustic guitar and her future husband Keith Tippett on piano.

This edition has been newly remastered and is a most welcome reissue of a true classic.

FEATURING MEMBERS OF BLOSSOM TOES, NUCLEUS AND SOFT MACHINE. WITH FULLY RESTORED ARTWORK AND ESSAY.

Released October 28th, 2022.

TVAM is the project of bedroom producer Joe Oxley and his debut ‘Psychic Data’ is already being seen as a cult classic in some quarters despite only being released in 2018. Now four long-seeming years later we get ‘High Art Lite’ – an album that is even brighter and bolder than the debut  – it’s all squelchy, dystopian basslines, vintage synth soundtrack vibes and haunting atmospherics. 

TVAM returns aboard a Starline tourbus, peeping through the privets and leering over the fences of the rich and famous with a suspicious, cynical eye. “High Art Lite” is his first long-player for Invada Records. TVAM self-released his much-acclaimed debut “Psychic Data” in the autumn of 2018, something of a cult-classic, the album joined the dots between Suicide’s deconstructed rock ’n’ roll, Boards of Canada’s irresistible nostalgia and My Bloody Valentine’s infinite noise.

Featuring 11 brand new tracks inc. ‘Double Lucifer’, ‘Piz Buin’ and ‘Semantics’, “High Art Lite” takes a different tilt to its predecessor by emphasising the immediate and the personal. The colours are blown-out and the brightness is cranked up. TVAM’s take on such things as role models, fictional movie character tropes, and fables of good and evil, are all tackled with the same suspicious cynicism but this time with an urgent belief in the human condition. A heady mix of Black Mirror’s modern fables, JG Ballard’s gated communities of sun-drenched wealth, and Mulholland Drive’s boulevard of broken daydreams, “High Art Lite” offers an all-inclusive package of redemption. Clocking in at just under 40 minutes – the pop music sweet spot – “High Art Lite” treads a beguiling line between blissful harmonies, crunching noise pop and childlike innocence .

“High Art Lite” takes a different tilt to its predecessor by emphasising the immediate and the personal.The colours are blown-out and the brightness is cranked up.TVAM’s High Art Lite offers an all-inclusive package of redemption.

The album is both visceral and melancholic, drifting wonderfully across dream pop, shoegaze and synth-pop without ever permanently calling one camp its home.

Taken from the album ‘High Art Lite’, out 28th October 2022

The time has come, The Lathums album number 2 is finally upon us “From Nothing To A Little Bit More”. You can pre-order it now and share this next chapter on our journey, a new era begins and the horizon is yellow The song we’ve all grown to love “Say My Name” will make an appearance, you can listen to it now anywhere and everywhere!, The Lathums state their intentions to supercharge their continued rise with the release of brand new album, on Island Records. Promising a total of eleven songs, “From Nothing to a Little Bit More” follows the uk official album charts no.1 success of the band’s 2021 debut, “How Beautiful Life Can Be“.

You asked and it’s here, we’re coming to see you all on our UK/EU tour next year! It’s been a long time coming, we can’t wait to get back on the road

Featuring the singles ‘Sad Face Baby’ and ‘Say My Name’, one of the most exciting new indie bands in recent years, The Lathums, return with their second album “From Nothing To A Little Bit More” – now available to pre-order now on deluxe edition yellow vinyl LP,