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SAVAGES – ” Adore Life “

Posted: December 28, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Savages shows at London’s Barbican earlier this year as part of the Station To Staion festival of events is set to be released as a live album. The band’s sets with duo A Dead Forest Index is available as a limited edition of 300, vinyl-only release from The Vinyl Factory. The pressing also boasts handcrafted artwork.

The band played two nights (24th and 25th July) as part of artist Doug Aitken’s “30 day happening” at the London arts hub, and also included a live collaboration with choreographer/dance artist Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and dance artist Rosalie Wahlfrid. For more details and to order a copy, head to Vfeditions.com

Savages new album Adore Life to be Released January 22nd via Matador Records

When Savages stormed into our hearts and minds in 2013 with their debut, Silence Yourself, it was stunning how fully formed the young band was, so confident was their sound and so complete their selfhood. The cohesion of their identity awed listeners and critics, but it also raised the question: where will Savages go from here? Thankfully, the answer – their second album, Adore Life – is just weeks away. Some things have stayed the same: close collaborator Johnny Hostile stays on as a producer, and the band have picked a commanding imperative for the album title. But some are thrillingly different, like how Savages road-tested and fine-tuned Adore Life through a three-week residency at various New York venues last January (the crowd-centric music video for first single “The Answer” is probably a nod to that experience). The result is an album fueled by a furious lust for life. “It’s aggressive,” Beth said of the record. “Words of hope in a world of doom.” If 2015 has showed us anything, it’s the fact that the world is bleak, and so Savages are necessary evil.

CAR SEAT HEADREST – ” Times To Die “

Posted: November 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Taken from the Matador debut album “Teens Of Style”released in October 2015.

It was actually a difficult process finding the right person to work with for the album art; by the time it occurred to me to ask Max, whose art I remember impressing me from years back, the recordings were done, and we only had a month left to deliver the artwork. Looking through his gallery of work is what made me think of William Blake and his “Grave” series, and gave me inspiration for the basic concept of the cover – a bedecked skeleton summoning a nondescript character from sleep.

Max executed the figures quite beautifully in his illustration, but I ended up feeling that the overall composition wouldn’t translate perfectly into the small avatar that album covers end up being seen as nowadays. I wanted to emphasize the details and linework that Max put into it, so I decided to use a crop of the original drawing as the CD and digital cover, while preserving the full illustration on the vinyl. Mike Z went all-out in his role, delivering a hand-lettered back cover to match the style, as well as providing us with alternate color schemes to choose from. Now we have not one, but two beautiful album covers.

Behind The Cover: Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Style

I came across Will’s work several years ago, and was always consistently blown away by his unique vision and sound. So it was quite validating to hear that Matador Records had finally signed Car Seat Headrest. One day, I decided to contact Will for the purpose of complimenting him on his recent works. After a few intermittent correspondences, he proposed the project to me and laid out his plan for the album art. Already a fan, I was immediately on board… but when he cited William Blake as inspiration – along with an impressive, clearly articulated concept, and a surprising knowledge of my own work/illustration style – it made the collaboration feel all the more harmonious.

Technically, the illustration was done on a patchwork of sketchbook pages, which expanded as I worked out the composition using my preferred .5 mechanical pencil. Once digitized with a large format scanner, I cleaned up and detailed the piece in Photoshop. Actually, whilst working on the detail, a family obligation required I take the work on the road to Mt Shasta – a mysterious place which no doubt imparted some unspecified qualities. The absence of internet prompted several excursions to small, historic mill towns like McCloud, so as to correspond with Mike Zimmerman (at Matador) who made significant contributions to color and layout. Ultimately, I think we came through with a lovely finished image. I’m just super grateful to have been a part of all this in some way.

MAJICAL CLOUDS – ” Are You There ” Best Albums Of 2015

Posted: September 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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Majical Cloudz will return with their latest effort, “Are You Alone?”, out october 16th via Matador Records.  after showcasing a subtle departure from their minimalist tendencies earlier this month with “silver car crash,” the duo recently shared the album’s title track, powered by swelling organ chords that anchor Devon Welsh’s purposefully droll vocal delivery.  welsh’s lyrics have always been direct to the point of discomfort, and he adds an extra element of absurdity on “Are You Alone?” as he jockeys between a first and second-person narrative.

 

Majical Cloudz make gorgeous pop sculptures out of a dearth of building blocks, subsisting on the light touch of multi-instrumentalist Matthew Otto’s organs and drum programming and the roiling, clarion tenor of singer Devon Welsh. Welsh is to Otto what high tide is to the beach; he washes through his producer’s ramparts in a deluge of emotion. A pall of sadness hangs as a backdrop for many of the songs comprising the duo’s third album, Are You Alone?, and in the hands of a less expressive pair of performers, these songs might drag because of it. But Otto’s arrangements pulse with a livening sweetness, and Welsh’s soaring vocals belie the bleakness of his writing. “Silver Car Crash” tweezes peace in the inevitability of death out of the scene of an automotive accident, while “Downtown” muses that love never really has to end because Welsh can keep it alive in song long after the physical connection dissolves. Are You Alone? seems at home in its darkness,

ALGIERS – ” But She Was Not Flying “

Posted: January 25, 2015 in MUSIC
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Post-worldbeat” trio Algiers, who originally hail from the US’s muggy Deep South, have signed to Matador Records,they have announced a self-titled debut LP, and unveiled a fresh single.

“But She Was Not Flying” is a tormented slab of dark soul-rock; it’s a Southern Gothic death rattle, riddled with the possessed howls of lead singer Franklin James Fisher, warped gospel vox and rapture-inspired keys. It’s dramatic, horror-scorched and frighteningly fascinating. Algiers is a band of musicians born in Atlanta, Georgia, the rotten hub of the Ol’ American South, where W.E.B. Dubois once saw a riot goin’ on, and where the hell and highwater swirls ‘round to the knees.

Algiers will be released by Matador Records later this year.

DEAD MEADOW – ” That Old Temple”

Posted: January 5, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Dead Meadow is an American stoner rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1998. Currently comprising vocalist and guitarist Jason Simon, bassist Steve Kille and drummer Mark Laughlin, the band has released five studio albums, one live album, a Peel Session and a “double live” concert film.

“That Old Temple”, the new video from American heavy rockers Dead Meadow. The clip was helmed by Artificial Army, which has previously worked with THE SWORD, THE MARS VOLTA, COHEED & CAMBRIA

The song and the video provide the first glimpse of “The Three Kings” multimedia project to surface later this year on Xemu Records, which will include new music from the band as well as re-recorded classics from their catalog.

Dead Meadow have released five studio albums, three of which were on Matador Records.

THURSTON MOORE – ” The Best Day “

Posted: October 16, 2014 in MUSIC
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Thurston Moore and the title track from his new album out on October 20th on Matador Records, after a busy few years with the dissolution of his long term band Sonic Youth and his seperation from Kim Gordon with the band members all going their seperate ways, after the previous albums the more folky woods “Trees Outside The Academy” and the noise punk “Chelsea Light Moving” with this new album Moore stands ready for the future, Thurston Moore will be performing at the Bodega in Nottingham.

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