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TOY – ” Fast Silver “

Posted: August 15, 2016 in MUSIC
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TOY - Clear Shot

Last year UK psych-rock outfit TOY released a collaborative album with Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan and producer Dan Carey as the group project Sexwitch it grounded the band’s dreamier tendencies towards a more targeted rumble. TOY have gotten around to providing a proper follow-up to 2013’s excellent release “Join The Dots”. Their new album, “Clear Shot”  is the group’s third studio LP due out later this autumn and is led by this little taster “Fast Silver,” a playful mid-tempo trip that balances brooding overcast with punchy keyboard motifs. Vocalist Tom Dougall’s moan pushes through the band’s hazy atmospherics, punctuated by meandering guitar and flickering percussion. It’s deliriously delicious grunge-tinted acid-pop.

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‘Clear Shot’ is the title of TOY’s third album. Out on Friday October 28th via Heavenly Recordings.

Recorded with producer David Wrench.

The PARROTS – ” Jame Gumb “

Posted: June 12, 2016 in MUSIC
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Spanish garage-rock trio The Parrots have unveiled their exciting, eccentric new track ‘Jame Gumb’ and it’s everything one can expect from this emerging band, if not better. Consisting of scuzzy background noise as well as retro guitar riffs, one can appreciate this different sound of nostalgic, low-produced intrumentation that will most definitely be a hit on the live music scene. The track itself is inspired by the band’s problems with sleep paralysis, which is certainly reflected in the lyrics and vocals as well as the driving drum beat which carries the song through.

Along with the release of ‘Jame Gumb’, The Parrots have announced the release of their début album ‘Los Niños Sin Miedo’ (The boys who aren’t afraid), which is due out on August 26th via Heavenly Recordings. They have also announced an extensive headline UK tour which will take place in early September. Meanwhile, you can catch The Parrots playing at numerous festivals including Glastonbury and Super Bock Festival in Portugal and of course at FIB 2016 as part of the Chicano Bulls supergroup.

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aken from debut album ‘Los Niños Sin Miedo’, out Aug 26th via Heavenly Recordings.

PALEHOUND – ” Molly “

Posted: March 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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This is your brain on drugs! The video for Palehound’s “Molly” — off Ellen Kempner’s excellent Dry Food debut LP from last year — takes that age-old scare tactic and infamous PSA quite literally. It stars a cute little dude named EggGuy that gets fried up and served on a sandwich. After being eaten, he has some weird hallucinogenic effects on the consumer, which mostly involve deep thoughts about the circle of life and a lot of freaky moving images. Sounds like any trip ever! “EggGuy was concocted during a late morning brunch mishap,” co-directors Lara Jean Gallagher and Brian Kinkley explain. “We wanted to explore the frailty of life, what it means to have consciousness, and how much we could care about a pair of eyeballs. ‘Molly’ has just the right amount of weird sweetness to make this all seem really fun.”

From the debut album “Dry Food”, produced by Palehound and Gabe Wax. Released Aug 2015 on Exploding in Sound (US), and March 4, 2016 on  (ROW).

KID WAVE – ” Best Friend “

Posted: December 31, 2015 in MUSIC
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New Band Of The Week - Kid Wave Sound Like Lush On Diazepam

“There’s a track I wrote called ‘Baby Tiger’, which is about a dream I had last year,” explains Kid Wave’s frontwoman Lea Emmery, speaking from a park in Yorkshire during a break on the band’s tour with Palma Violets. “I had been feeling really down at the time, but then I had this dream where I was carrying a baby tiger around – just carrying it. And then I woke up… and I just felt amazing. Maybe it was a symbol that things were going to get better.”

New beginnings are a recurring theme with Kid Wave. Lea uprooted from her native Sweden to move to London in 2011 after becoming disillusioned with the indie scene on the country’s east coast; it was here in the UK that her dream-weaving grunge (think Lush on diazepam) found its feet. “I was playing in an all-girl punk band”, she explains, “but it all just felt a bit dead. There was no market for new rock music, the music they played on the radio was uninspiring, there were no gigs and there were no festivals. I just wanted to get out of there.”

It proved to be a fortuitous move for the 22-year-old. Taking up a course in sound engineering and spending the rest of her time recording demos on “GarageBand”, Lea was quickly snapped up by Heavenly Recordings just as the rest of the industry started knocking. “I started to get emails from people asking when we were going to plays gigs and I just said, ‘I dunno’, because I hadn’t even got a band together at that point. I had just moved over from a different country – I didn’t know anyone.”

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Bringing new friends Serra Petale (drums), Mattias Bhatt (guitar) and Harry Deacon (bass) on board to complete the line-up, and with a stream of loud gigs behind them (“It’s a lot more rock’n’roll live,” she says), Kid Wave released their debut LP ‘Wanderlust’ this year. And as the sun-drenched fuzz of ‘Gloom’ and the blissed-out ‘All I Want’ make clear, it’ll be a sound that’s perfectly suited for a hazy summer.

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MARK LANEGAN and BETH ORTON – ” Your Kisses Burn “

Posted: August 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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UK label Heavenly Recordings is turning 25 this year, and they’re releasing a few special singles to celebrate. They got relatively recent signee Mark Lanegan and early star Beth Orton to record a cover of “Your Kisses Burn,” the 1988 duet between Soft Cell’s Marc Almond and Nico, which ended up being Nico’s final recording before her death. Lanegan and Orton play the cover fairly straight, maintaining the original’s lushly orchestrated gothic grandeur, with maybe an added hint of dusty twang, thanks in no small part to Lanegan’s inimitable older-than-dirt voice. have a listen to the original version below from the Album: Marc Almond – The Stars We Are (1988).

HOOTEN TENNIS CLUB – ” Kathleen Sat On The Arm Of Her Favourite Chair “

Posted: July 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Hooton Tennis Club tune up in front of a Marquee packed with people sopping wet from the downpour outside. Other than a muted chant of ‘Hooton! Hooton!’ it seems like most are here to shelter.
The Liverpool quartet  with a Brooklyn Sound come offstage soaked in sweat, leaving a tent full of converts to their heavy-riffing twin guitar indie rock, Could be Merseyside’s answer to Parquet Courts. It’s all about ‘Powerful Pierre’, a three-minute barrage of sandpaper-rough guitars and shouted vocals from singing guitarists James Madden and Ryan Murphy. The fact that Hooton Tennis Club are itching to make as much noise as possible. The rain does Hooton Tennis Club a favour, and their fuzzy melodies and headbanging stage presence ensure a bustling crowd stays put. This time next year they’ll be powering through songs from debut album ‘Highest Point In Cliff Town’ due 28th August on Heavenly Recordings on the John Peel stage at Glastonbury. With a year to bed in, and on a much bigger PA, they’ll be massive. Check them out at Summer Festivals

To coincide with the track, the band have revealed a new video which seeʼs them frolicking in the park as well as performing at our Heavenly 25 birthday party earlier this year.

 

 

GWENNO – ” Patriarchaeth “

Posted: July 4, 2015 in MUSIC
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Gwenno, who has released a wonderful debut album in  Y Dydd Olaf’ (The Last Day) mixeing ethereal electronic pop, with a strong political message all sung in her mother tongue (Welsh, well except for the one sung in Cornish that is).  It’s a million pop light years away from her former life as one-third of uber girl group the Pipettes and some of her early solo tunes.  But, of course, this sort of songwriting talent doesn’t just happen overnight, it must have always been there, but many of us were probably too dazzled by polka dots and girl group chants to see it!

It’d be very lazy to describe Gwenno as morphing from polka dot pop princess into a Welsh EMA, but perhaps we could draw some parallels if only we could speak Welsh. What we do know is her album takes its name from Owain Owain’s 1976 novel Sci-fi novel of the same name, which is set in a dystopian future in which robots subjugate the human race via medication.  The album address big theme’s such as patriarchal society, government-funded media propaganda, cultural control, technology, isolation and the importance of, and the threat to minority languages. After a limited release on Peski Records last year, its about to be re-released on Heavenly Records, and it’s quite stunning whatever language you speak

HEAVENLY RECORDINGS – Kazimer Gardens Sunday 5th July 2015

Posted: June 28, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Heavenly Records is celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary this year and to mark the occasion there’s a whole day of fun and frolics scheduled to kick off at Liverpool’s legendary Kazimier and Kazimier Gardens in Liverpool from 12 pm on 5 July. It promises to be a very special event indeed ! ( Tickets are available HERE )

Founded by former Creation Records publicist Jeff Barrett, Heavenly Records is woven into the fabric of our youth and indeed record collection, so it’s time to take look back at some of our favourite moments from their past as well as highlighting the amazing new talent on their current roster. And it’s this new breed who prove that Heavenly Records look set to retain a place in the music-loving public’s heart for many more years to come.

The WYTCHES – ” Burn Out The Bruise “

Posted: May 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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New single from the debut album ‘Annabel Dream Reader’ out on Heavenly Recordings came out in the summer of 2014 in the UK/Europe. Out on Partisan Records in the USA on the 26th August 2014. The Wytches are Kristian Bell on vocals and guitar, Gianni Honey on drums and Daniel Rumsey on bass and BVs, who together boast a strong surfer/psych vibe that’s dark, menacing and totally rooted in the DIY ethos that they began with. It’s noisy and brooding, which is just how we like it.

JANE WEAVER and TOY – ” Fell From The Sun ” Heavenly Recordings Record Store Day Special

Posted: April 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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Working as an omnipresent pop figure in her genuinely independent micro-industry Jane Weaver is a rare example of a passionate and resilient Northern female artist who re-creates, re-invents and refreshes where many others come and go. Her synth-pop psych and conceptual pop LPs have earned her a faithful fan base which has extended to a long discography of collaborations often released through her own musical “Woman’s Institute” imprint Bird Records which she runs with Finders Keepers Records in Manchester. This Summer sees the release of her new self produced synth driven LP “The Silver Globe” made with a wide cast of global collaborators such as soundtrack composer David Holmes, Andy Votel with extra music from Australian prog legends Cybotron and sound effects from electronic pioneer Suzanne Ciani. Wearing her penchants for French wave, cosmic Deutch rock and European fantasy films on both of her sequinned sleeves Janes 6th studio album follows the highest critical acclaim for her previous self funded album ‘The Fallen By Watchbird’ and a campaign that bought together the unlikely coupling of artists like Wendy & Bonnie, Demdike Stare and The Focus Group. This year Jane’s new brand of motoric cold-funk and technicolor domestic synth flourishes unite 10 new conceptual pop songs about power-plant fun-fairs, sci-fi education centres and post-apocalyptic love affairs while her characteristic gossamer vocals cross octaves to theatrical deft effect.

 

 

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