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DREAM WIFE – ” Dream Wife “

Posted: January 4, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Marvellous indie trio Dream Wife, who delivered one of our favourite live sets of the year at Truck Festival have announced details of their much anticipated self-titled debut album. There are plenty of options to buy the record including a very special limited edition transparent vinyl with blood red splatter, a gatefold vinyl edition and CD and various bundles with signed novellas – check the pre-order options here.

They have also shared a new track, Let’s Make Out, which is another top notch track of catchy, feminist post punk swirl… with teeth!

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FEATURE – ” Banishing Ritual “

Posted: January 4, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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A superb album with a lot of various influences such as Sonic Youth, the Slits, the Fall, the Ramones and even the Gogo’s but I forget many others. Every song is a success and could be a hit if times were different.

Make a record. Break up. Release the record. This trio of women seemed to have it somewhat backwards, but their Wire inspired pop that scratches, rubs and soothes sometimes all at once makes for a winning record.

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LIV WILLARS (guitar, vox)
JEN CALLEJA (drums, vox)
HEATHER PERKINS (bass, vox)

BEACH RIOT – ” B.A.D. “

Posted: December 31, 2017 in MUSIC
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Beach Riot unveiled their debut single ‘B.A.D’. The mysterious London four-piece surfaced just some weeks ago with their first single, keeping their band members and future plans under wrap. These East Londoners Beach Riot are so new  January 2017 formed – that you won’t find a lot about them online and with just their first track out, there’s a so far limited repertoire. But on the basis of ‘B.A.D’ alone, they have already been signed up to play their maiden gig next month, and caught the attention of This Feeling promoter Mike Jonns who is also liking what he’s heard.

“We we put it [‘B.A.D’] online a couple of weeks ago, after recording with Steve Ansell in Brighton,” frontman Rory O’Connor “We’ll have more tunes ready to go and will be putting them out over the next weeks. We hope to make plenty more noise and get people jumping around in the coming months!”

Speaking of their debut track, the band explained: “B.A.D is a song about an apathetic girl and a disillusioned guy who can’t figure out why she isn’t interested in him anymore after he missed his chance with her. The cliche story of everyone’s failed relationship life…”

Beach Riot are: Rory O’Connor – vocals/guitar, Cami Menditeguy – guitar/vocals, Jimi Suza – bass/vocals, Jonny Ross – drums.

ARTIFICIAL PLEASURE – ” Wound Up Tight ” EP

Posted: December 31, 2017 in MUSIC
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The London electro-pop outfit caused all manner of excitement in 2017 with singles like ‘Wound Up Tight’ and December EP release. Sounding like a Franz Ferdinand and WHITE mash-up, with killer beats and 80s grooves

Artificial Pleasure are coming through with the sort of infectious and glam-soaked pop that has us on our feet, throwing our arms all over the shop.

After the opening crescendo of debut EP ‘Like Never Before’ – they’re back with another bonafide statement of intent with their ‘Wound Up Tight’ EP . Three tracks, sizzling with the big leagues, it’s an absolute scorcher.

To find out more, we got the chaps to run through each track on the EP – giving an inside scoop to their world.

Wound Up Tight
This one is about the feeling of constantly being on edge. I think that worrying is now just our normal state of mind. I feel so overwhelmed sometimes it feels like my head is about to fucking explode. If you watch the video for this song it probably sums it up better, I look like I’ve got a part as an old boxer who’s let himself go. We recorded the track in my Uncle’s basement. The room was so small that I had to wait outside the back door listening in whilst Lee was doing takes.

 

Better Than Nothing
At the time of writing that track I was listening to Todd Rundgren’s album A Wizard, A True Star and I loved the way that loads of the songs went into each other. When you listen to Never Never Land and that final note resolves and takes you into Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off it makes that second song so much more exciting. So I’d already written the second half of the song and challenged myself to write an introductory piece of music so that the second part of the song would be given that lift. Lyrically it’s about how some relationships are ill suited but they’d rather be in something than have nothing.

Stay With Me Tonight
This one was inspired by the death of a friend a few years ago. The song is from the perspective of the partner that was left behind, how they had planned their life together and the struggle to move on. This track started as just me and an acoustic guitar but felt too emotionally raw so it gradually evolved into the most electronic track we have. I’m rarely one to express honest emotions, particularly in our music, hence why I used the vocoder for my vocals. The vocoder allowed me to distance myself from the emotion.

ULRIKA SPACEK – ” Modern English Decoration ” Best Albums Of 2017

Posted: December 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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London-based Ulrika Spacek released their new record on June 2nd via the good people of Tough Love Records.  Ulrika Spacek’s sound is dominated by their three guitarists. On a song like the slowly chugging “Dead Museum,” the densely enmeshed riffs and drones of this Reading five piece recall the kind of blissful noise summoned up by The Band of Susans or mid period Sonic Youth.  But there’s also something of Deerhunter about the band’s gauzy but winsome vocal melodies.  The album’s highlight is probably “Victorian Acid,” with its tense central melody drowning in waves of overdriven distortion. The hilariously titled “Protestant Work Slump” closes the album in a brighter mood, with a distinct gleam of Big Star.

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Much like their debut LP The Album Paranoia released in early 2016, the band chose to record, produce and mix the entirety of the record of Modern English Decoration in their shared house – a former art gallery called ‘KEN’. Modern English Decoration is, in part, a self-effacing play on an interior design cliché that references the meticulous creative processes the band adheres to: “Doing everything ourselves is not just necessary: it’s important to us, as it allows us to truly create our own world,” they said.

The HOLD STEADY – Boys And Girls In America ( Full Album Shows ) The Electric Ballroom 9th-10th March 2018

Posted: December 29, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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HOUSEWIVES – ” FF061116 “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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FF061116, which follows in the wake of their debut Work (released on Hands in The Dark) and previous tapes and 7” releases (on Faux Discs and Blank Editions), the band shows no sign of compromise whatsoever, being as stark, harsh and stubbornly inhospitable as the strobe-haunted, feverishly kinetic live shows that have earned them a fearsome reputation beyond the rumoured West country of their origins or the urban environs of their adopted home. Split into seven excerpts and built on powerful repetition, it’s a mind-melding travail into abstraction and abjection which draws on post-punk, jazz, drone, electronic and avant-garde tropes to create an unclassifiable assault that feels oddly timeless – innovative, invigorating and bare-boned yet tapping into a uniquely English lineage that extends back to the 1970s and forward, into the unknown.

Nonetheless, whilst some may be able to detect influences like This Heat (whose Charles Hayward approvingly described their sound as redolent of “a barely controlled anger, hypnotic and building from the simplest elements”) or Einsturzende Neubauten, Housewives are carving out their own unique place in the darker quarters of the underground, motivated by a fearsome intensity of conviction and a fearlessly experimental approach. FF061116 is the latest in a series of transmissions from a collective mindset whose manifestations are as richly rewarding as they are relentlessly intense. Wherever they go from this aural outpost, all intrepid avant adventurers would do well to buckle in for the ride.

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The COMET IS COMING – ” Death To The Planet “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Comet Is Coming, signaling an end to life as we know it, heralding the dawn of a new age. In the inevitable physical destruction of the planet, a space is created where all notions of political, social and economic hierarchy will be at once obliterated and transcended.

“Death To The Planet” was released on “Comet Fire” orange vinyl for Record Store Day in an edition of 700, which have now sold out.  This is what I listen to music for – that first hearing of a new band, that totally blows you away. Start Running is such a blistering opener of intense apocalyptic jazz, that I found myself almost in shock. They have captured an original and finely honed sound with this EP that seems more than fitting for the times.

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GEMMA THOMPSON of SAVAGES ( BASHAN ) – ” Along for the Ride “

Posted: December 26, 2017 in MUSIC
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As the landscape of the film industry continues to be turned on its head, the rules of independent cinema have remained consistent in one key way: Make a movie that finds eyeballs and turns a profit, and you’ll get to make another—probably, with a bigger budget. After Moonlight, Barry Jenkins has a TV series and a James Baldwin adaptation on the horizon. Sean Baker, who shot his breakout Tangerine on iPhones, is receiving near-unanimous critical acclaim for his latest film, The Florida Project. With surprise success comes the opportunity for more. Nick Ebeling’s documentary on the star and his assistant, Satya de la Manitou, titled Along for the Ride. 

This EP is the first release of Bashan – the project of Gemma Thompson, guitarist of the band Savages. The tracks are formed as direct responses to the work of the painter Morris Graves – repetition, waves crashing against the cliff face, vertical drops and oncoming headwinds, sound guided by the currents.
released October 16, 2017 ,Written and recorded in Leipzig, Germany.
All music written by Bashan. Guitars performed by Gemma Thompson.
Percussion and Harmonium performed by Sam Sherry.

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Ebeling infuses the documentary with flashy artistic decisions to keep the viewer engaged—utilizing black and white cinematography, reenacted scenarios, and a consistent breaking of the fourth wall—but his wisest creative choice was in employing Gemma Thompson to score the film. With her main band, Savages, Thompson hammers her guitar, creating a blend of chaos and catharsis that is one of the chief catalysts for the band’s refreshing take on punk. With Along for the Ride, however, Thompson sheds this weight significantly, adding a haunting subtlety to the film that lingers long after the final credits roll.

SECRET CAMERAS – ” Secret Cameras ” EP

Posted: December 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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Secret Cameras are a new London based indie band whose members in their previous projects have played up and down the UK, been on the Club NME Tour (ultimately headlining at Koko’s), toured in the USA, and played at numerous festivals such as Leeds, SXSW in Austin (Texas), and supporting Suede on their comeback tour.
Secret Cameras have recently finished recording their debut EP, which was produced by Fraser Smith (ex Shed Seven) and mixed by Dave Bascombe (Produced/Mixed Depeche Mode, Suede, Goldfrapp, Placebo, Courteeners).

The band have lately gained airplay on UK radio stations such as Radio X (Xfm), BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, BBC London, Amazing Radio, RTE 2FM and RTE 2XM in Ireland and other stations across the globe.
They’ve also been featured on dozens of blogs, in the UK and elsewhere.

The band’s debut EP was released in March .

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