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ROZI PLAIN – ” Conditions “

Posted: February 8, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Winter can be tough. Staying indoors for three months (or longer, depending on your latitude) is already a drag, but it can be even worse when you’re searching for warm pockets of air in a drafty house. U.K. artist Rozi Plain fights off the chill on her new song, “Conditions,” the second single from her forthcoming album What A Boost (out April 5th on Memphis Industries).

While the idea for this song sprung from the cold, Plain actually laid down the original recording in sunny Los Angeles while playing bass on tour with This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables, one of her close friends. Plain and Stables share some sonic sensibilities—they both favor airy effects, looped drum beats and whimsical sounds, and they’re also both frequenters of the Bristol music scene. In addition to those collaborations, Plain is also a part of Justin Vernon’s and Aaron Dessner’s PEOPLE collective.

What A Boost is Rozi Plain’s fifth solo effort, following 2016’s Friend of a Friend. “Conditions” follows previously released single “Symmetrical.” The new track is warm, pliable and colorful, even as Plain sings about more frigid forecasts. “When the conditions are right,” Plain sings, “It can be freezing at night.” Here’s what she said about the new tune:

This song is about hunting for drafts in a well insulated house. Searching for the rooftop without any frost on a freezing day. Wondering about the heating situation. Inside feelings. Outside feelings. We recorded the guitar and drums of this song in LA with Chris Cohen on a day off whilst on tour with This Is The Kit. And then spent the next year adding bits here and there. It was a song I tried to record before that needed a bit of a new prism applied to it. Maybe re-recording a song about minus freezing weather in the 35 degree Californian sun was just what it needed. Warm the place up a bit. Gerard Black (from Babe and François & the Atlas Mountains) added his synths in Glasgow and I added quite a bit of Jupiter (that I recently acquired) in London. Alabaster de Plumes saxophone appears right at the end.

Taken from Rozi Plain’s new album ‘What a Boost’ (out 05th April 2019),

YOU TELL ME – ” Water Cooler “

Posted: December 1, 2018 in MUSIC
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As if Field Music weren’t prolific enough creators in their own right, the Brewis brothers have also created a litany of excellent solo and side-projects as well. The latest one comes in the form of You Tell Me, a collaboration between Peter Brewis and Admiral Fallow member, Sarah Hayes. The pair met at a Kate Bush celebration concert, bonded over a shared love for Rufus Wainwright, The Blue Nile and Tortoise, and set about writing the songs that make up their debut album, out early next year on Memphis Industries.

This week ahead of the release, You Tell Me have shared their new single, Water Cooler, a track that, as Peter explains, is fairly self-explanatory, “it was intended to be a look at an inept office romance. I was literally imagining two office workers failing to talk to each other at the water cooler. No metaphors here”. Musically, the trademark Brewis rhythmic angularity is all present and correct, although it’s a more organic, less polished take on the sound. Much of You Tell Me’s debut album, and even their name, seems to deal with the idea of communication; conversations new and old, misunderstandings and shared moments of clarity. Now go make sure you stay hydrated, and if you happen to bump into your colleague on the way, you could try saying hello, if you want to, you tell us?

Brand new single from You Tell Me, taken from their self-titled debut album which is out 11th January via Memphis Industries.

ODETTA HARTMAN – ” Old Rockhounds Never Die “

Posted: July 15, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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With a heart – stopping voice & wide – ranging instrumental talent, Odetta Hartman carries cowboy soul into an era where country can clash with computers, and bluegrass isn’t afraid of bass. Her debut LP 222 – an experimental, bedroom-produced hybrid of folk, musique concrète and psychedelia – was released on Northern Spy Records in 2015 to critical acclaim. Alongside her partner, sound artist & radio producer Jack Inslee, Odetta continues to explore the sonic vernacular created by their uncanny collaboration: badass banjos, detuned violins, field recordings, superstitious soundscapes, and vocal stylings ranging from sensual to spooky. A new album, Old Rockhounds Never Die, is slated for release on Northern Spy Records / Memphis Industries on August 10th, 2018.

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MENACE BEACH – ” Black Rainbow Sound ” feat. Brix Smith

Posted: June 13, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Menace Beach announce new album ‘Black Rainbow Sound’ with the dark, probing title track ft Brix Smith

Leeds band Menace Beach are back with details of a new album! Now billed as a duo are set to release new record ‘Black Rainbow Sound’ in August via Memphis Industries, the brilliantly bleak title track, which features Brix Smith, formerly of The Fall.

A kraut-influenced rollercoaster, ‘Black Rainbow Sound’ is an intoxicating ride, with the band pushing the limits of last LP – 2017’s ‘Lemon Memory’ – to its extremes, to stunning results. The affect is just heightened by Brix’s vicious, moving spoken word.

“We’ve always used synths and electronic elements,” the band’s Ryan Needham says of the new record, ”but for me the eureka moment in defining the sound of this record was hearing Dean Honer’s (Moonlandingz/add n to x/all seeing eye) remix of ‘Maybe We’ll Drown’ from the last record. He just tele=ported the song in another world but it totally worked not only sonically but by retaining all the wonkiness and kinda low-fi ’Menace Beach’ character. It was really inspiring that something we’d been reaching for sonically for ages, and almost given up on, just sounded so perfect.”

Liza adds: “There’s always been a bit of artistic push and pull between us on the balance of synth noise vs guitars noise and the guitars have previously always taken over by the time we leave the studio, probably because we all know now how to make loud guitars sound really exciting in a room. But lately I’ve been feeling too much reality in the sound of a guitar and I really wanted to give something more this time. I wasn’t really prepared to compromise”

‘Black Rainbow Sound’ is out on 31st August. The band have also announced UK headline tour dates.

OCTOBER
18 Derby, The Hairy Dog
20 Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
22 Glasgow, Broadcast
23 Newcastle, The Cluny 2
24 Manchester, Deaf Institute
25 London, Oslo
26 Bristol, Rough Trade
27 Sheffield, Picture House Social

NOVEMBER
02 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

HAYLEY BONAR – ” My Wave “

Posted: June 2, 2018 in MUSIC
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My Wave, the first new material from, Haley who seems to be stepping into uncharted musical waters.

My Wave is according to Haley, “intentional in its use of repetition and very few lyrics”, the vocal kept deliberately minimal to become engulfed into the music, just another texture among instrumentation. Yet even in the repeated phrase, “if I lost you, would I find you”, Haley hints at meaning, in her own words, “finding the strength to recognise that you hold the power to finding yourself or controlling your own connection to the world around you and others is simple, and powerful.” It’s not just lyrically, but also musically that this is a new direction, the maudlin waves of synths and minimal percussion, creating something denser and gloomier than we’ve come to expect. The track is the first hint of an as yet unannounced upcoming album, a tantalising glimpse of the potential experimentation to come.

My Wave is out now via Memphis Industries. 

FIELD MUSIC – ” Live At Rough Trade Performing Open Here “

Posted: January 4, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Field Music will be live in-store at Rough Trade Nottingham, performing tracks from their new album ‘Open Here’, released 2nd February on Memphis Industries.

7.00pm Doors // 7.30pm On-stage // 8.15pm Signing // 10.00pm close.

Field Music, Peter and David Brewis, have announced their sixth album “Open Here”. The brothers are just putting the finishing touches to the record and plan on releasing via Memphis Industries on 2nd February 2018.

The two years since Commontime have been strange and turbulent. If you thought the world made some kind of sense, you may have questioned yourself a few times in the past two years. And that questioning, that erosion of faith – in people, in institutions, in shared experience – runs through every song on the new Field Music album.

The brother’s studio, on the banks of the river Wear, became a sanctuary away from everything political and personal, a cocoon of creativity. And conversely, making the album became an alternative way to connect to people, with a wide array of musicians invited to leave their mark, notably Sarah Hayes on flute and piccolo, Liz Corney on vocals, Pete Fraser on saxophone, Simon Dennis on trumpet and flugelhorn, a Cornshed Sisters choir and the regular string quartet of Ed Cross, Jo Montgomery, Chrissie Slater and Ele Leckie. The result is a record that is bigger in scale, grander than anything they’ve done before.

David and Peter Brewis took a five year break after 2011’s Plumb to work on other projects (some of which involved them both). They returned in 2016 with their best record to date, Commontime. Now they’re back almost two years to the day with Open Here, which reflects both the state of the band and the state of the world. Brexit and the U.S. election inform the lyrics, while Madonna inspired the inventive first single “Count it Up.” “Where Commontime felt like a distillation of all of the elements that make up Field Music,” says David, “this feels like an expansion; as if we’re pushing in every direction at once to see how far we can go.”

FIELD MUSIC – ” Count It Up “

Posted: December 2, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Back on November. 7th, the British art-rock duo Field Music announced that their sixth studio album, “Open Here”, which will be released February. 2nd via Memphis Industries. On Tuesday, they shared the first single, “Count It Up.” The song uses a deceptively fun Devo-esque synth lead and strutting cadence to soundtrack a series of entitlements that the listener should consider when taking stock of his or her privilege: “If you can go through day to day without the fear of violence, count that up / If people don’t stare at you in the street because of the color of your skin, count that up / If your body makes some kind of sense to you, count that up.

Taken from the upcoming album ‘Open Here’ (out 2nd February 2018)

WEAVES – ” Walkaway “

Posted: August 25, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Weaves are a fantastic, noisy, and infectious rock band based in Toronto, Ontario. In 2016, Buzz Records released Weaves self titled debut album and it went on to be regarded as one of the finest records to ever come out of Toronto and was recently shortlisted for Canada’s top music prize . Singer and songwriter Jasmyn Burke, guitarist Morgan Waters, and drummer Spencer Cole, the band just announced that their follow-up record, “Wide Open” will be out October 6th,

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WEAVES – ” #53 “

Posted: August 3, 2017 in MUSIC
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Weaves have announced a new album, Wide Open. It’s due to be released October 6th via Buzz, Kanine and Memphis Industries. Listen to the first song to be available, “#53,” a. In a press release, singer Jasmyn Burke said, “It felt right to try to represent my own experience in the world while knowing that everyone in my age group is poor or having a tough time with life in one way or another, so I was thinking about how to blow those feelings up into these kinds of songs. Blowing up a regular life into something like an anthem. In a way I was thinking about it like Bruce Springsteen, but in a lot of ways my experience of the world couldn’t be less like Bruce Springsteen’s.” They will be embarking on a tour beginning in August with stops throughout North America, then the UK, and Europe.

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#53 is the first single from our sophomore LP “Wide Open” out October 6th, 2017 via Buzz Records, Kanine Records, & Memphis Industries.

MENACE BEACH – ” Holidays Are Heavy “

Posted: January 14, 2017 in MUSIC
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Set to firmly blast away any lingering Winter blues, Leeds psych-pop heroes Menace Beach return with a brand new album in the early months of 2017. the group will be touring in support of second LP Lemon Memory, due for release on January 20th.

Signed to storied indie label Memphis Industries (The Go! Team, Field Music, POLICA) the LP is the band’s second following praised 2014 debut Ratworld and was recorded in Sheffield by revered producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, The Fall, MIA).

Artist: Menace Beach
Song: Holidays Are Heavy
Label: Memphis Industries

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