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WEAVES – ” Coo Coo “

Posted: September 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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This quirky pop band from Toronto reminds me of Micachu or tUnE-yArDs but less weird. Their debut EP is really good but they are even better live where charismatic singer Jasmyn Burke’s personality shines through. They were the best new band I saw last year. Also check out their 2016 self-titled LP on Buzz/Kanine/Memphis

One of the best things about Weaves is the way their music seems to deconstruct and rebuild standard rock tropes on the spot — “bent pop,” they call it. So it’s especially exciting to hear the Toronto take on straightforward hits, like their cover of a true classic, the Beatles’ “Help!” It’s a similarly fractured collection of squelches and sighs, one that exudes a different sort of desperation than we’re accustomed to from the Fab Four. They are a must see live catch them at Nottingham Bodega this saturday

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Weaves are:
Jasmyn Burke – vox
Morgan Waters – guitar
Spencer Cole – drums
Zach Bines – bass

THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES 17th June 2016

Posted: June 19, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC, THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL PURCHASES
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Case/Lang/Veers – case/lang/veers CD/LP+MP3 (ANTI-Records)

case/lang/veirs = Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs. Full of stunning harmonies and spellbinding rhythms, case/lang/veirs travels through aches and eras, torch songs and tributes to the undersung. Several years ago K.D. Lang sent an email to Neko Case and Laura Veirs on a whim. It read simply, “I think we should make a record together.” Though the three musicians were barely more than acquaintances “Laura and I both responded immediately,” recalls Case. “There was no question.”

But now there is an answer. ‘case/lang/veirs,’ a new album by three phenomenal, self-driven artists. ‘case/lang/veirs’ features fourteen new, original songs written by the artists over a period of two-and-a-half years. It was recorded in Portland, OR where lang and Veirs both live, and produced by Tucker Martine with the group. Sessions commenced in lang’s loft with a view of Mount St. Helens, and in Veirs‘ dining room and backyard studio.
Full of stunning harmonies and spellbinding rhythms, ‘case/lang/veirs‘ draws inspiration from alluring, mysterious subjects: a supermoon, the tumbledown story of 70s singer Judee Sill, and the “best kept secret” in Silver Lake, to name but three.

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RADIOHEAD – A Moon Shaped Pool

Radiohead’s ninth LP proper sees them once again couple with mega-producer Nigel Godrich. Together they have created possibly the band’s most coherent record of their whole career.  Some of these songs date well back in time and that coupled with the accessibility of comeback single Burn The Witch and their recent  dare-I-say fan-pleasing set-lists suggest a group finally comfortable in their own skin, embracing all that they really are.  So you do still get electronica, but less of the fractured kind. Sure, Thom still sings of alienation, doubt and paranoia, but  in the most beautiful way imaginable. These songs  build and build, swept into shape by Johnny Greenwood’s London Contemporary Orchestra strings, peppered with psych-folk and even dub reggae vibes. It’s heavy, (let’s face it) depressive, but eminently listenable. One for diehards, but crucially, the casual listeners too.

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Low Anthem – Eyeland CD (Razor & Tie)

The Low Anthem are not only musical artists, they live their lives as art. The band creates constantly for themselves and others in their home base, The Columbus Theater in Providence, Rhode Island. This new release is the return from an extraordinary five-year journey with Eyeland, an unprecedented collection of multi-dimensional future folk crafted with uncommon vision and emotional depth. The Providence, RI-based band’s fifth full-length recording, Eyeland began as a “vague and rather abstract” short story by co-founder/singer/guitarist Ben Knox Miller, based around the “sonic mythology of a moth’s dreams.”

The tall tale became real life as Low Anthem immersed themselves in the creation of their own Eyeland Studios, developing Providence’s once obsolete Columbus Theatre into an innovative and in-demand recording space and live concert venue. Eyeland proves a prism of the album’s inner themes, refracting Miller and co-founding drummer/multi-instrumentalist Jeff Prystowsky’s sonic escapades into a full-blown Möbius strip of music and meaning. Low Anthem’s lofty aspirations and creative capriciousness resonate throughout songs like “The Pepsi Moon” and “Behind The Airport Mirror,” their elegiac arrangements and lyrical frankness marked by shimmering ambience and a hauntingly defiant tension. Psychedelic in the truest sense of that overused word, Eyeland is a perspective-shifting musical experience at once elliptical and intangible yet still precise and powerfully personal.

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Mitski – Puberty 2 CD/LP/Cassette (Dead Oceans)

“Mitski Miyawaki is only 25 years old, but she’s already on her fourth album, and she’s developed an emotional vocabulary light years beyond almost anyone else working right now. With her new Puberty 2, Mitski has made one of the year’s best indie rock albums: An auteurist piece of profound, personal lo-fi music that finds sharp ways to say serious things. The album veers in different stylistic directions, but it’s also cohesive enough to get lost in.”  [Limited white color vinyl copies also available.]

WEAVES – WEAVES

Weaves have been working on their debut LP for almost as long as they have been a band, tracking with Leon Taheny (Dilly Dally, Owen Pallett, Austra) in sessions that span most of the last two years. Mixed by Alex Newport (Bloc Party, Melvins, At The Drive In) and mastered by John Greenham (Death Grips, Sky Ferreira), the result is an album that traverses the band’s history, exploring every facet of their always adventurous approach to pop music and leaving no idea unexplored. Filled beyond bursting with hooks and possibilities, it’s the sound of a band propelled forward by the thrill of discovering the limits of their sound and gleefully pushing past them. Think a mix of an angry Micachu fronting the Pixies or a punky Tune-yards with brilliant flashes of melody.
LP – Neon Pink LP with download code.

THE CULT OF DOM KELLER – GOODBYE TO THE LIGHT

12″ coloured vinyl. TCODK – a four-piece from the Midlands – make the kind of experimental goth- tinged psych that, has thus far, eluded 2016. Fans of Swans and The Icarus Line will find plenty to entertain them here – this is a band unafraid to take risks. The thing that first impresses on hearing TCODK is the sheer scale of their intentions. Speaking of first single ‘Broken Arm Of God,’ the band said “we wanted it to sound like a volcano giving birth to an atomic bomb. It has bass and baritone guitar that killed 3 guitar amps in one afternoon, then a studio preamp. It’s probably costing us a fortune in damages and repairs. The result was exactly what we wanted though” This band can make a lot of noise. To focus on that however would be to negate what makes this band truly beguiling: nuance. Take ‘Deepest Pit Of Emptiness’ for example – its prog leanings combined with a decidedly English vocal delivery are as distinctive and profound as anything released this year. TCODK have pushed themselves sonically on this album, it’s by far their most experimental release to date. It’s also an album rooted in darkness. “The new album deals with the theme of uncertainty, and put more simply – the end.” That theme resonates throughout the entire album. Fans of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will be enamoured, but play to it a Sisters Of Mercy fan and watch their reaction: there is a new contender for the throne.

LOU REED –  WALTZING MATILDA (LOVE HAS GONE AWAY)

Third in the series of Lou Reed live Concert albums these two shows taken from the 1978 Street Hassle Tour. Features in depth liner notes by author Dick Porter, Unseen photographs in the 12-page booklet plus deluxe album cover packaging. Includes classic tracks   Walk On The Wild Side & Satellite of Love from the iconic Transformer album as well as Velvet Underground tracks Sweet Jane & Rock N Roll and introducing the just shy of 13 minute brutal Street Hassle. Disc One Cleveland Music hall Ohio 26th April 1978.

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David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars [Reissue/1972] 2xLP (Rhino/Parlophone)
David Bowie – Live Santa Monica ’72 [Reissue/1973] 2xLP (Rhino/Parlophone)
HQ-180gm vinyl reissues now available.

KANINE RECORDS – Record Labels We Love

Posted: June 9, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Founded in 2002, We are a Brooklyn/NY based record label. We have releases by: Surfer Blood, Grizzly Bear, Chairlift, Fear of Men, Beverly, Pinact, Flowers, Leave the Planet, Eternal Summers, September Girls, Flowers, Bleeding Rainbow, Beach Day, Splashh, BRAIDS, The Depreciation Guild, Young Prisms, Four Volts and more. 

Kanine Records is an independent record label based in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York started at the end of 2002 by Lio and Kay. Their first release, NY: The Next Wave, was a 20 track compilation featuring mostly unsigned and emerging acts from the area. From there, they started to sign local bands and release CD EPs, 12 inch vinyl and eventually full length records. The label continues as an independent and continues to grow due to the continued success of artists like Grizzly Bear, Chairlift and Surfer Blood. Recent and upcoming releases include albums by The Blow, Bleeding Rainbow, Eternal Summers, Beach Day, Fear of Men, Valleys and Splashh.

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WEAVES – ” Weaves ” Debut Album

Posted: June 9, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In a little over two short years, Weaves has gone from a collection of voice memos on Jasmyn Burke’s iPhone to establishing themselves as one of the most stridently individual acts to emerge from Toronto’s fertile and multifaceted DIY scene. Led by the collaborative efforts of Jasmyn Burke and Morgan Waters, the band has built a devoted audience while capturing the attention of the international media with a brand of ebullient, art-damaged pop music as difficult to categorize as it is to ignore.

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Weaves has been working on their debut LP for almost as long as they have been a band, tracking with Leon Taheny (Dilly Dally, Owen Pallett, Austra) in sessions that span most of the last two years. Mixed by Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Melvins, At The Drive In) and mastered by John Greenham (Death Grips, Sky Ferreira), the result is an album that traverses the band’s history, exploring every facet of their always adventurous approach to pop music and leaving no idea unexplored. Filled beyond bursting with hooks and possibilities, it’s the sound of a band propelled forward by the thrill of discovering the limits of their sound and gleefully pushing past them. “We’re always trying to push ourselves,” says Waters, “sometimes it feels like bands aren’t necessary, like they’re not the one’s pushing music forward, so I think we’re trying to hopefully prove that bands aren’t boring. If we are going to be a band and if we are going to do this guitar, bass and drums thing then we might as well see how much we can fuck it up.”

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Weaves self-titled debut album is out June 17th, 2016 on Kanine Records

You can also catch Weaves on tour in the UK and Europe, including free instore shows at Rough Trade London and Nottingham. Full dates as follows:

Jun 08, London, UK, Dingwalls #
Jun 09, Birmingham, UK, Sunflower Lounge #
Jun 10, Edinburgh, UK, Electric Circus #
Jun 11, Liverpool, UK, Studio 2 #
Jun 12, Manchester, UK, Deaf Institute #
Jun 13, Nottingham, UK, Bodega #
Jun 14, Cardiff, UK, The Globe #
Jun 15, Cambridge, UK, Portland Arms #
Jun 17, Antwerp, BE, Trix
Jun 18, Hilvarenbeek, NL, Best Kept Secret festival
Jun 20, Nottingham, UK, Rough Trade (instore)
Jun 21, London, UK, Rough Trade East (instore)
Jun 24, Oslo, NO, Piknik I Parken
Jun 30, Derby, UK, The Venue
Jul 01, Bedford, UK, Esquires
Jul 02, Aldershot, UK, West End Centre
Jul 03, Brighton, UK, Hope and Ruin
Jul 04, Guildford, UK, Boileroom
Jul 08, Winchester, UK, Railway
Jul 09, Milton Keynes, UK, Craufurd Arms
Jul 12, Leicester, UK, The Musician
Jul 14, London, Shacklewell Arms
Jul 15, Southwold, UK, Latitude festival
Jul 17, Glasgow, UK, Nice N Sleazy
Jul 18, Newcastle, UK, Think Tank
Jul 19, Leeds, UK, Brudenell Social Club
Jul 23, Huntington, UK, Secret Garden Party festival
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WEAVES – ” One More “

Posted: March 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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“One More” is the lead single from Weaves‘ debut LP due out on June 17th via Kanine (US), and Memphis Industries . We get pretty excited around here whenever there is something new from Weaves. And this one is definitely exciting — more bold and raw than we’ve ever heard them.

“There’s a rush or intensity,” singer Jasmyn Burke tells All Songs Considered, “that comes with the imagery of nighttime that I wanted to incorporate with the tone and syncopation. It’s about extremities. One true love, one beautiful evening, one last fight. It can mean everything and nothing all in the same sentence.”

WEAVES – ” Tick “

Posted: June 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Is Toronto the newest epicenter of enthralling pop music? Last year, the city churned out the debut LP from romantic pioneers Alvvays, and now we’ve got a brand new track from Weaves, whose particularly effervescent brand of pop is super dizzying and intoxicating. Listening to “Tick,” the band’s first new song since last year’s self-titled EP, it becomes clear that this curious quartet can fashion earworms out of what appears to be pure sonic mishmash. The stuttering guitar lines sound like kazoos. Jasmyn Burke’s vocals twist around their own tails. And the rhythm section is tight. “Tick” recalls past T.O. pop moldbreakers Broken Social Scene (“Handjobs For The Holidays” mostly) injected with a squirrelly, summery flair that’ll easily outlast the season.

WEAVES – ” Weaves “

Posted: February 7, 2015 in MUSIC
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Having only released one EP and playing live as a band for little over a year, Weaves have quickly become an internationally buzzed about band. They were recently chosen as Rolling Stone’s “Band To Watch”, and have shared the stage with Constantines, Tune-Yards and Austra, playing such venues as Massey Hall and The Phoenix. Having been tagged as pop eclectics, seductive art-rockers and musicians with a delirious swirl, Weaves make bent-out-of-shape pop music that’s catchy and unpredictable. Their critically acclaimed debut EP was produced by Dave Newfeld (Broken Social Scene, Super Furry Animals) and Leon Taheny (Owen Pallett, Fucked Up).

 

Formed by lead singer Jasmyn Burke and guitarist Morgan Waters, Weaves is a violent collision of soul, punk and pop. The tension between Burke’s affinity for topsy-turvy tunes and Waters’ ear for buoyant pop hooks makes for music that revels in fun, arty, noisy weirdness yet still maintain a level of accessibility. With the addition of a virtuosic rhythm section made up of Spencer Cole and Zach Bines, and you’ve got a band that’s slick yet slimy, backwards yet forward thinking, perhaps on the tip of collapsing.

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WEAVES – ” Weaves ” EP

Posted: October 30, 2014 in MUSIC
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Toronto band Weaves at times sound like many different bands put together with lots of different sounds from Electro Pop to Weird

 

WEAVES – ” Weaves ” EP and ” Motorcycle “

Posted: October 11, 2014 in MUSIC
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WEAVES – ” Take A Dip “

Posted: October 5, 2014 in MUSIC
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Weaves on Buzz Records and the track “Take A Dip” Jasmyn Burke on vocals Morgan Waters on guitars,this Toronto band are ones to watch remember I told you about them first……… check out their other track “Motorcycle”

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