Having just come off tours with Alt-J and Wolf Alice, Gengahr, a five-piece indie band from London, drop their latest track ‘Haunter’.
Gengahr’s sound is nothing short of enjoyable. And as the sun finally begins to show it’s lovely little face again, ‘Haunter’ is a nice track to enter the spring-season with.
Compared to their older releases, ‘Haunter’ shows the band really beginning to progress within their sound: the influences are still present, but as opposed to previous songs such as ‘Bathed in Light’ and ‘Powder’, it’s much harder to pin-point just who they sound like.
The fivesome being on tour with the Leeds-based giants Alt J, but ‘Haunter’ is in no-way a sound of the band becoming contrived.
As these influences become more attached, without the band themselves losing their roots, ‘Haunter’ shows the five-piece adding its older quirks with the new to create a charming three-minute track. Starting with an arpeggiated chord progress on an acoustic guitar, with the frontman’s hushed, whispered vocals reverberating over the top, harmonies and extra instrumentation then follow suit to create a great introduction to the track.
Following on from this are lovely, melodic guitar phrases and tasty keyboard riffs, all following an unconventional song-structure, creating a song that still surprises and contains lots of new things to listen out for on repeated listens.
Posts Tagged ‘Leeds’
WEIRDS – ” Off the Hook “
Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSICTags: Leeds, Off the Hook, Too Pure Singles Club, Weird
Too Pure Singles Club have unveiled their next single for April instalment: “Off The Hook” by Weirds.
Weirds, a noise-rock troupe hailing from Leeds, combine intergalactic road-trip rhythms, Hookworms savagery and swirling dervishes of a sandy desert rock on “Off The Hook”, which is a relentless bout of loud sounds. It will be backed by “the perfect soundtrack for a nuclear apocalypse”, a B-side entitled “Heavy Rain”.
The first new material from the band since their 2013 debut album ‘Where The Heaven Are We’. Frontman Austin Williams recently described the band’s new music as “psychedelic sex music”, comparing the record to both Kanye West and Fleetwood Mac. Williams revealed the big ambitions he and his bandmates have for the album. “We wanted to radicalise chart music,” he said of the band’s mindset going into the studio. “So we’ve taken [Kanye West’s] ‘Yeezus’ and [Fleetwood Mac album] ‘Rumours’ and put them together with acid house.”
Swim Deep are among the first acts confirmed for Live At Leeds 2015. They join Eagulls, Carl Barat & The Jackals, Slaves and Spector among the artists already confirmed.
EAVES – ” Spin “
Posted: February 5, 2015 in MUSICTags: Eaves, Leeds, singer songwriter, What Green Feels Like
Eaves is pleased to announce his debut album “What Green Feels Like” will be released on HEAVENLY RECORDINGS on Monday April 27th. You can get the song “Spin” as an instant download when you pre-order the album on iTunes now http://bit.ly/1BSjuX4
Leeds-based folk troubadour Eaves has announced his debut long-player What Green Feels Like, and a new single called “Spin”.
The 9-track album will feature previously released cuts like “Timber” and “As Old As The Grave” as well as a range of new tracks. Speaking about the upcoming LP, Eavessaid:
“My songs are very emotional and change dramatically. To perform them, I have to be in the zone. I remember where I was when I wrote them and why I wrote them. I have to perform them in the way they were written; otherwise I’m letting myself and the audience down.”
What Green Feels Like, produced by Cam Blackwood, is set to be released 27 April on Heavenly Records.
LIVE AT LEEDS Festival – ” Saturday 2nd May 2015 “
Posted: February 5, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSICTags: Leeds, Live at Leeds
The line-up’s been announced for this year’s Live at Leeds, taking place 1st-4th May 2015. With the all-day music event running on 2nd May 2015, big names have been confirmed in the shape of local heroes Hookworms and Eagulls. Tobias Jesso Jr. and Oceaán are also on the bill, with Swim Deep – finishing off their second record, due out this year – also set to play.
The first big names to catch the eye include Carl Barat & The Jackals – whose debut album Let It Reign is due to drop in a fortnight’s time – London’s much heralded bucolic folk rockers Dry The River; those art-rock cerebralists Dutch Uncles; Thurston Moore and another man with an illustrious past, the former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes,; as well as Leeds’ very own noise merchants Eagulls and their fellow Leodians the mighty Hookworms, all of whom affirm the festival’s core principle for promoting local talent alongside established international acts
An quite wonderful looking undercard already boasts garage rockers Slaves – who will be in Leeds later this month on the NME Awards Tour – rising pop quartet Lawson, the Grammy nominated singer and producer MNEK, the electric fuzz-pop of Cardiff’s Joanna Gruesome, indie-rockersSpector and MOBO Award winner Stormzy
Elsewhere, exciting names include thrashing duo Bruising, Nashville punks Bully, Brighton newcomers Black Honey and big guns Dutch Uncles, Dry the River and The Thurston Moore Band.
Get tickets for Live at Leeds here.
Live at Leeds 2015:
CARL BARAT & THE JACKALS | DRY THE RIVER DUTCH UNCLES | EAGULLS | EMMY THE GREAT GAZ COOMBES | GEORGE THE POET | HOOKWORMS LAWSON | MNEK | SLAVES | SPECTOR | STORNOWAY STORMZY | SUNSET SONS | SWIM DEEP THURSTON MOORE BAND | WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
ADY SULEIMAN | BLOSSOMS | BOXED IN | CHILDHOOD | EKKAH FLO MORRISSEY | JAGAARA | JOANNA GRUESOME | JP COOPER | LAURA DOGGETT LONELADY | MENACE BEACH | NIMMO | NOTHING BUT THIEVES | PALACE PRETTY VICIOUS | REAL LIES | TELEGRAM | TOBIAS JESSO JR
ADAM FRENCH | ALEX BUREY | ALFIE CONNOR | ALMA ELSTE | ARCANE ROOTS | ASTRONOMYY | AYLEE BAD//DREEMS | BILLIE BLACK | BLACK HONEY | BLACK PEAKS | BLOODY KNEES | BRUISING | BULLY | CAIROBI CARNABELLS | CHAIKA | CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM | CHLOE BLACK | CLAY | CLOUD CASTLE LAKE | COLD OCEAN LIES COLOUR OF SPRING | COMPNY | FEHM | FOREVER CULT | FRANCES | FRANCISCO THE MAN | GLACIER PACIFIC GULF | HONNE | HOOTON TENNIS CLUB | IYES | JAKIL | JAMIE LAWSON | JASMINE THOMPSON | JET SETTER KID WAVE | LAKE KOMO | LAUREL | LIVES | LONGFELLOW | LOUIS BERRY | MAN MADE | MARSICANS MONOGRAM | NEW VINYL | OCEAAN | ONLY GIRL | OSCA | OSCAR AND THE WOLF | PINKSHINYULTRABLAST PIXEL FIX | POLO | PORT ISLA | PROSE | RACING GLACIERS | RAT BOY | ROBYN SHERWELL | SEAFRET | SHELTER POINT SKINNY LIVING | TALOS | THABO AND THE REAL DEAL | THE ACADEMIC | THE MAGIC GANG | THE MISPERS THE RIPTIDE MOVEMENT TIBET | TWIN WILD | VITAMIN | WALKING ON CARS | WOODEN ARMS | WULF | YURS
EAVES and NICK MULVEY – ” Miss Ohio ” Cover Gillian Welch
Posted: February 3, 2015 in MUSICTags: Eaves, Heavenly Records, Leeds, singer songwriter
Eaves the Folk/Grunge/Singer-songwriter from Leeds is hitting the road with Philip Selway tomorrow, here’s a duet with Nick Mulvey who he has been supporting on a European tour this was filmed in at Machinenhaus, Berlin. Nick Mulvey is another singer songwriter features this song in his own set. Eaves is signed to Heavenly Recordings
MENACE BEACH – ” Tastes Like Medicine “
Posted: January 30, 2015 in MUSICTags: Fuzz Rock, Leeds, Memphis Industires, Menace Beach, Ratworld
Menace Beach with a new single Song: Tastes Like Medicine on Memphis Industries the Leeds-based fuzz rockers are everywhere at the moment and recently played to a packed Rough Trade Record store in Nottingham . That’s why we were positively ecstatic to wake this morning to discover the band have unveiled the video for their single ‘Tastes Like Medicine’. The premiere follows the release of the Menace Beach’s debut album “Ratworld”, which came out on Memphis Industries last week.
The track is a charming piece of noise-pop that despite all its buzzing distortion, is still anchored on an infectious melody and duet vocal from Ryan Needham and Liza Violet.
The video was directed by the band’s good pal and fellow Leeds rocker Tom Hudson, more commonly of Pulled Apart By Horses. Hudson took an unenviable amount of homemade footage of Menace Beach while they were on tour with his band last year and played around with some child-like animation upon his arrival home.
He describes the process like this: “I’ve already done a couple of music videos for them before, ‘Drop Outs’ – an eyeball popping/face melting animation – and a lo-fi VHS video for the following single ‘Tennis Court’. When they asked me to produce a video for their new single ‘Tastes Like Medicine’ I thought I would try and combine the two together.”
WALLEATER – ” Walleater “
Posted: January 30, 2015 in MUSICTags: Leeds, Tiny Engines Records, Walleater
Some bands spend years searching for their true sound as they strain under the weight of influences, trends or expectations. Other bands just sound naturally comfortable in their own skin. Walleater is one of those bands. Throw whatever tag you want upon the young UK band, Walleater occupies their own space and they do so with a remarkably clear artistic vision. The band has a penchant for melody and suspense, a certain flare for the dramatic build and release. However, this never comes at the expense of the song. Nothing is contrived or forced, every note serves a purpose and every piece of the puzzle fits. And that simplicity, that organic quality, that is where Walleater’s sound begins and ends.
MENACE BEACH – ” Where I Come From “
Posted: January 12, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSICTags: Indie, Leeds, Menace Beach, Ratworld
Leeds-based fuzz-rockers Menace Beach have been floating around here and there throughout 2014, steadily building up a reputation that that has led to their debut LP “Ratworld “– which has been released today via Memphis Industries the band will be playing instore 20th January – Nottingham, Rough Trade (Instore)
Menace Beach, who we know as Ryan Needham (vocals/guitar) and Liza Violet (vocals/guitar/synths), Nestor Matthews (Drums), Matt Spalding (Bass) and Hookworms’ very MJ (guitar) on guitar who also produced the record:
EAVES – ” As Old As The Grave “
Posted: January 9, 2015 in MUSICTags: Eaves, Heavenly Records, Leeds
Here is Eaves performing As Old As The Grave for HNDGMCHT in Berlin, The Leeds-based artist has crafted something of a dedicated following over the past year or so, thanks mainly to two simple but effective ingredients: a run of impressive, carefully-considered demos and plenty of word-of-mouth praise. With that base already solidified, he’s taken the next stride forward and signed to the much-heralded Heavenly Records for the release his debut EP (out November 10).
Arriving as something of an introduction to this new chapter comes brand new track “As Old As The Grave” and, as the title eludes to, it acts as a weighty and earnest preface. Despite the sentimental nature of the track, it retains a guarded sense of restraint, never really breaking loose but truly captivating in the way it threatens to throughout
The Fat Angel Sings 