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FROTH – ” Shut The Windows “

Posted: July 27, 2017 in MUSIC
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Froth have shared a new video today for Shut The Windows. The track is taken from their recent album, Outside (briefly) and is directed by Sean Solomon. The band say: *”When we found out Sean Solomon wanted to do a video for us we were excited because he is a musician/artist that we really respect in LA. The song is a love song but Sean took a more literal meaning of the lyrics and made a really beautiful art piece using windows and doors.”

Froth have spent the majority of 2017 touring and that shows little sign of slowing up as they continue to weave their way across the US before joining Interpol on tour in Europe.

Taken from the album, Outside (briefly) produced by Tomas Dolas available at Wichita Recordings.

RIDE – ” Charm Assault “

Posted: April 13, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“Charm Assault” is taken from Ride’s forthcoming album, “Weather Diaries”, due to be released on the 16th June 2017 by Wichita Recordings. The album was produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by the band’s longtime collaborator, Alan Moulder.

Andy Bell says “Charm Assault” is a pretty straightforward expression of frustration and disgust at the people who currently run our country. The tour in 2015 was a good way of reminding us what we were good at in the first place and Charm Assault feels like a natural continuation from our peak. When we started writing together again we tried to imagine we’d kept on making music all this time, and this was just the latest one.”

The official video for Ride’s first new material for twenty years, conceived by Anton Newcombe & Jean de Oliveira.
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RIDE – ” Charm Assault “

Posted: March 23, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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British shoegazers Ride will release their first album in over 20 years, “Weather Diaries”, June 16th via Wichita Recordings. The British band credits Americans for inspiring their reunion and reclaiming the name of their genre: “They didn’t use it as a pejorative”

Ride also unveiled a mind-bending new video for lead single, “Charm Assault.” The Jean de Oliveira-directed clip is a psychedelic collage that mixes warped archival footage of everyday life, political unrest and military actions with shots of Ride performing the blistering track.

Weather Diaries follows Ride’s 1996 album, Tarantula. DJ Erol Alkan produced the record and longtime collaborator Alan Moulder mixed the record. Moulder previously worked on Ride’s beloved 1990 LP, Nowhere and produced its follow-up, Going Blank Again. Along with “Charm Assault,” Ride previously shared album track,  “Home Is A Feeling” .

Ride announced their reunion in 2014 after the break up of the band Beady Eye, singer/guitarist Andy Bell’s project with Oasis’ Liam Gallagher (Bell previously played in Oasis as well). In February 2015, Bell and co-singer/guitarist Mark Gardener played an acoustic set, after which the full band embarked on a world tour that featured several festival stops,

“Charm Assault” is taken from Ride’s forthcoming album, “Weather Diaries”, due to be released on the 16th June 2017 by Wichita Recordings. The album was produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by the band’s longtime collaborator, Alan Moulder.

Andy Bell says “Charm Assault is a pretty straightforward expression of frustration and disgust at the people who currently run our country. The tour in 2015 was a good way of reminding us what we were good at in the first place and Charm Assault feels like a natural continuation from our peak. When we started writing together again we tried to imagine we’d kept on making music all this time, and this was just the latest one.”

The official video for Ride’s first new material for twenty years, conceived by Anton Newcombe & Jean de Oliveira

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CLOUD NOTHINGS – ” Modern Act “

Posted: December 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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Cloud Nothings have announced the follow up to 2014’s ‘Here And Nowhere Else’. Due January 27th, ‘Life Without Sound’ is the band’s new 9-song LP. To celebrate its announcement, the band shared lead single ‘Modern Act’, released through Carpark/Wichita Recordings. The announcement comes with a new single called “Modern Act” along with the album’s artwork including these handwritten lyrics, tracklist .

The album was recorded with producer John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie) in El Paso earlier this year. Dylan Baldi said in a statement:

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Dylan Baldi said in a statement I found the lyrics to modern act in the notebook I write setlists in. forgot that I actually spent time writing the lyrics this go around. also probably the most genuinely personal I’ve gotten on a record. lil bit emo. lil bit. Generally, it seems like my work has been about finding my place in the world. But there was a point in which I realized that you can be missing something important in your life, a part you didn’t realize you were missing until it’s there—hence the title. This record is like my version of new age music. It’s supposed to be inspiring.

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‘Life Without Sound’ is available in early January 2017

FROTH – ” Contact “

Posted: October 28, 2016 in MUSIC
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There’s something quietly reassuring about the slow rise of Los Angeles quartet Froth. The gentlest wave of hype has greeted their first two albums, they’ve toured hard, and now with confirmation this week that they’ve signed to Wichita Recordings.

We’ll have to wait until February to hear the bands third long player, Outside (Briefly) , but they have this week given us a taster, in the shape of new single, Contact. Starting with a clip of an interstellar space chat, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a new track from Public Service Broadcasting, but once the motorik groove and pulsing bass kick in you’re into an altogether psychier-place, the sort of record Hookworms would make if they were feeling particularly mellow. Froth have spoken about dialling back the noise on this record; if the songwriting is as good as this, that might just reveal something spectacular.

Outside (briefly) is out February 10th via Wichita Recordings. Froth tour Europe next month,

MOTHERS – ” Easy As Possible “

Posted: July 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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If we’re totally honest it’s quite rare that the deluxe edition of an album really adds anything new to the joys of the original. That said, with an album as good as the Mother’s debut, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, we’re more than willing to test out our theory. This week the Athens quartet have confirmed details of a deluxe digital edition of their debut, which will feature five previously unreleased tracks.

Mothers have also shared the first of those tracks, in the shape of Easy As Possible. The home demo was recorded between finishing their debut record and the album’s release and is the first indication of where the band’s music may go next. Easy As Possible builds around a pulsing, plodding keyboard line, rich with complex echoing tones and gentle twinkling distortions, Kristine Leschper’s haunting vocal enters, as bassy synths and fluttering processed beats drift in and out of earshot. It feels rough around the edges as demos often do, but in its unpolished, almost unfinished mood arguably lies much of its charm. It shows a band willing to experiment with a variety of song writing methods and musical textures , and it’s utterly thrilling. Many of these new tracks were showcased on the band’s superb recent tour dates, and the deluxe album’s release will coincide with European dates at the back end of the summer. If you haven’t seen this band yet, you’ve obviously not been listening to us and we don’t know what you’re waiting for.

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The deluxe edition of When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired is out July 29th via Wichita Recordings.

MEG BAIRD – ” Counterfeiters “

Posted: May 16, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Track off of her album “Don’t Weigh Down The Light”,

Meg Baird is a solo artists as well as being the lead singer with Espers, the drummer and vocalist in Heron Oblivion, Meg has collaborated with Will Oldham, Kurt Vile,Sharon Van Etten and Steve Gunn, as well as previously touring with the legendary folk-musician, Bert Jansch prior to his death.

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Loosely speaking this a folk record. Meg has long admired the 1970’s legends of the UK folk scene from Sandy Denny to Jacqui McShee, and the base for her song-writing is firmly rooted in that tradition. That said, her latest effort Don’t Weight Down The Light is a far more expansive affair than that might imply; the guitar work is dense and beautiful, layers of finger picked acoustic, electric, 12-strings, and slide guitars provide rich textures of sound. This album also see’s Meg branch out from her precise guitar picking and include pianos, organs and even very occasionally percussion to add to the albums musical pallet.

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Meg has been a frequent fixture in the renaissance of the Philadelphia music scene, but has recently relocated West and ended up in San Francisco. The second most densely populated American city, San Francisco has long represented the hopes and dreams of those who want to live outside the societal norms, being synonymous with the rise of hippie culture, the Sexual Revolution and the gay rights movement. Musically it’s one of the great historical centres, being home to the San Francisco Sound in the 1960’s spearheaded by the likes of The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane

Whilst Espers started making music as long ago as 2002, Meg’s solo career began with 2007’s Dear Companion, a collection of folk standards, covers of more modern tracks and only a couple of original numbers. That albums follow up, 2011’s Seasons On Earth focused more clearly on Meg’s own writing, a trend that continues on her upcoming third album, Don’t Weight Down The Light, which comes out on Wichita Records 

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Well for starters the sheer craftsmanship of the thing, this an album created by an artist with a singular vision for the record she wants to create, there’s not a single nod to musical fashion or trends, and as such it has a timeless quality. It sits equally easily alongside Fairport Convention or Fleet Foxes, Pentangle or Bonnie “Prince” Billy, which we’ll sure many will agree is very good company to keep.

 

 

WICHITA SUNDAY SOCIAL – Sunday 22nd May 2016 at Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff

Posted: April 21, 2016 in MUSIC
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MOTHERS – ” No Crying In Baseball “

Posted: March 7, 2016 in MUSIC
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We don’t know if Athens, Georgia based quartet MOTHERS already have a certain buzz but if not NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION is happy to jump on the bandwagon. The American four-piece delivers melancholic and soulful lo-fi melodies that are carried by the stunning voice of lead singer Kristine Leschper. Their forthcoming debut LP goes by the name When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired and was released via Wichita Recordings on February 26th and fans of dreamy dejection in the style of early Parachutes-era COLDPLAY and DAUGHTER will fall for this, 

The record was produced with the help of Drew Vandenberg (OF MONTREAL, PORCELAIN RAFT) at the Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Georgia back in December 2014. “No Crying In Baseball”, the song that now comes with a sinister music won’t be part of the record but Copper Mines will so we thought we just give you both to convince you of MOTHERS‘ quality. Prepare yourself to fall in love with this band now.

Mothers have announced news of more UK/European headline shows for May and June. Support will come from new Wichita Recordings signings,Globelamp. See all dates below:

Wednesday 18th May- Chats Palace, London UK
Friday 20th May – Great Escape Festival, Brighton UK
Sunday 22nd May – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff UK
Monday 23rd May – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham UK
Tuesday 24th May – Hug & Pint, Glasgow UK
Wednesday 25th May – Gullivers, Manchester UK
Saturday 28th May – De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam NL
Tuesday 31st May – La Mecanique Ondulatoire, Paris FRA
Thursday 2nd June – Musik & Frieden, Berlin GER

When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired features collaborations with Josh McKay of Deerhunter on vibraphone as well as McKendrick Bearden of Grand Vapids, who played bass and provided string arrangements throughout. Comprised of eight songs – the majority of which were written while Kristine Leschper was finishing art school in early 2014 – Mothers’ debut LP is an introduction to the foundations of the young band, a snapshot of a particular period of their genesis that maps both where they began and where they are heading.

MOTHERS – ” Live At Audiotree “

Posted: January 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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There is quite possibly no band on this planet who’s album we’re more excited about currently than Mothers. Up until this week that was as a result of just one track, the stunning minimal-heartbreak that was the albums lead single, Too Small For Eyes. This week the band have shared another taster of the album in the shape of second single, Copper Mines; thankfully it lives up to our self imposed hype.

What we weren’t expecting though was the huge stylistic shift; whilst Too Small For Eyes was textural music, making use of space and allowing the beautiful vocal melody room to weave its way into your mind, Copper Mines is a completely different beast. Incorporating a more traditional rock sound, it’s resplendent with distorted guitars, crashing drum beats and waves of fuzzy thrills, lurching from the intensity of Fugazi to the slacker pop of Pavement. It’s a complete curveball which begs the question just what is their debut album going to sound like, we’re now a lot more unsure and perhaps even more excited to find out.

Mothers debut album, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, is out via Wichita Recordings on February 26th. Mothers will play their first UK dates in February

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