They’ve been knocking about for 15 years, and finally – finally – The Gaa Gaas are on the eve of releasing their debut album. Ahead of it, in a flurry of activity, they’re re-releasing 2010 single V.O.L.T.A.I.R.E. and have unveiled a video for ‘Statues’. Created by Texas-based video artist Laura Grace Robles, best known for her work with hip hop giant Rakim, and also Marcel Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta, the eye-bleeding visuals are the perfect accompaniment to the wild, angular guitar blitz. Watch it here:
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Watch: ‘Statues’ by The Gaa Gaas
Posted: 16 June 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: debut album, Laura Grace Robles, Official music video, single release, Statues, The Gaa Gaas
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Listen: ‘Television’ by The Golden Age of TV
Posted: 4 June 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: 7", alternative, Come Play With Me, Groove, Indie, Leeds, Pop, Post-Punk, single stream, Split single, Television, The Golden Age of TV
Leeds quintet The Golden Age of TV have shared their contribution to the Leeds based Come Play With Me 7” Singles Club with new track ‘Television’, which will be released on June 22nd.
The Golden Age Of TV have quickly gathered a lot of momentum with razor sharp, whip smart and perfectly crafted indie pop. Their three singles so far have all earned support from Radio 1 with Huw Stephens playing every song they’ve released. They’ve also performed at Reading & Leeds and with bands like Fickle Friends, Toothless & Alex Cameron, and nailed it at Long Division in Wakefield at the weekend.
Get your lugs round ‘Television’ here:
Joining The Golden Age of TV will be electropop quartet ENGINE. Surfing in from the outer rim of Burley and noisily settling on the Meanwood Nebula, ENGINE continue to blaze an individual DIY trail in Leeds. The group combines sampled psychedelics with introverted song-writing of a bygone era. With their recent debut album Cucumber Water now and an ever growing live reputation including support slots with Connan Mockasin, Infinite Bisous and C Duncan under their belts, ENGINE have moved forward with the driving, infectious, electronic groove ridden new flawless pop song ‘And I Say’.
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Listen: ‘Black Moon’ by Blacklab
Posted: 3 June 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Black Moon, BlackLab, Fuzz, New Heavy Sounds, Stoner, Track Steam, Under the Strawberry Moon 2.0
Following recent albums from Grave Lines and Limb, London label New Heavy Sounds have signed self described ‘dark witch, doom duo’ BlackLab who hail from Osaka Japan. They will release ’Under the Strawberry Moon 2.0′ on 20th July. Ahead of that, they’re streaming ‘Black Moon’ as a taster of their ‘fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, doom, stoner, more fuzz’ sound. It packs some heavy trudge riffery. You can get your lugs round it here:
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Listen: ‘The Changeling Prince’ by Thou
Posted: 1 June 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Magus, Sacred Bones, Stream, The Changeline Prince, Thou
Thou have announced their return with new full-length, Magus. With the impending release of Magus, the band have decided to take a different approach and release three EPs ahead of the full-length, each of which the band note “are all a complete sonic departure from Magus and from each other…”
Magus, Thou’s first full-length since 2014’s Heathen, will be released on 31st August by Sacred Bones Records. In the months leading into the new album, Thou will be releasing three drastically different EPs: The House Primordial on Raw Sugar, Inconsolable on Community Records, and Rhea Sylvia on Deathwish, Inc. Each record will focus on a particular sound-noisy drone, quiet acoustic, and melodic grunge-all of which is incorporated into the new record, subsumed in the band’s more standard doom metal.
‘The Changeling Prince’ will feature on Magus, and you can hear it here:
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Listen: ‘Victim Service’ by Baptists
Posted: 21 May 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Baptists, Beacon of Faith, Gnarly, Metal, Southern Lord, track stream, Victim Service
Baptists have shared the mid-paced rock-stomper ‘Victim Service’, which is taken from their third album Beacon Of Faith, out through Southern Lord on 25th May.
Beacon Of Faith broadly follows the same trajectory as the album’s predecessors, Bushcraft (2013) and Bloodmines (2014) – combining raw adrenaline-fuelled emotion, venomous vocal delivery, gigantic guitar sound, and a visceral rhythmic propulsion – a sonic manifestation of desolate rage, bolstered by a palpable sense of urgency.
Beacon Of Faith is densely-packed yet Baptists’ sound is far from claustrophobic, there is melody amongst the dissonance, as the band more deeply explore the noise rock vistas that have always underpinned their sound.
Lyrics are drawn from their direct experience of a broken society and general discontentment with everyday life. A multitude of issues are in the firing line, from the Canadian court system, issues surrounding substance abuse, mental health, and how the more fortunate “tend to dismiss people who have been dealt a less-fortunate hand” – as guitarist Danny also reflects.
Listen to ‘Victim Service’ here:
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Listen: ‘Faith’ by Spotlights
Posted: 19 May 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Faith, Hanging by Faith EP, Ipecac Recordings, Post Rock, Post-Metal, Spotlights, The Cure, track stream
Brooklyn-based trio Spotlights are releasing Hanging By Faith, a five-song EP featuring remixes of tracks from their 2017 LP Seismic by Void Manes and ISIS/Palms’ Aaron Harris via Ipecac on June 15th. The fifth song on the EP, ‘Faith’, is a cover of The Cure classic. It faithfully captures the bleak atmosphere of the original while bringing new dimensions, additional weight, and and expansive post-rock vibe. Listen to it here:
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Desert Mountain Tribe preface new album with ‘High Drive’
Posted: 19 May 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Desert Mountain Tribe, High Drive, Membran, New Album, Om Parvat Mystery, track stream
The London based alternative/indie rock trio Desert Mountain Tribe will release their second album on 1st June. Om Parvat Mystery is co-produced by the band with James Aparicio and was recorded in London and the Faroe Islands. Najma Akhtar, the well known British singer of Indian ancestry who has previously collaborated with the likes of Page & Plant and Jah Wobble as well as making several acclaimed solo albums in her own right, features on two songs.
Describing the new album, DMT say : “We’re very proud of this new record. It definitely shows a progression from our personal tastes in music and style of playing. We didn’t consciously make an effort to sound different from the first album but it felt like a natural development to a more experimental sound.”
Ahead of the album, and following lead single ‘Wide Eyes’, they’re streaming ‘High Drive’. Get your lugs round it here:
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Listen: ‘Premonition’ by Mayflower Madame
Posted: 13 May 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: dark, goth, Mayflower Madame, Post-Punk, Premonition, Pyschedelic, track stream
Having released one of our favourite albums of 2016 in the form of Observed in a Dream, Norwegian band Mayflower Madame return with their new Premonition EP on 18th May.
Through four tracks of psych-theatrical ingenuity, shady shoegaze and 1980s dark romanticism, the EP conveys the wintry feeling of their home country – icy and gloomy, haunting and majestic.
Title track ‘Premonition’ is an apocalyptic love song where dark psychedelic post-punk combine with haunting vocals to create a feeling of impending doom.
Stream ‘Premonition’ here:
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Watch: ‘Mind Games’ by The Kut – UK tour dates announced
Posted: 9 May 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Album, Chart Breakthrough, Grunge, Mind Games, Post-Punk, The Kut, UK Tour, video stream
With their debut album Valley of Thorns having landed last week and attendant single ‘Mind Games’ actually breaking the UK charts, it’s been a big few days for The Kut. And they’ve now announced an extensive UK tour in support of the album. We’re excited.
The dates are below, and you can watch the video to ‘Mind Games’ here:
Tour Dates –
27/07 – B2 – Norwich
28/07 – Mama Liz’s Voodoo Lounge – Stamford
29/07 – The Green Door Store – Brighton
31/07 – The Joiner’s Arm – Southampton
1/08 – Mole’s Club – Bath
03/08 – The Zanzibar – Liverpool
04/08 – The Bread Shed – Manchester
07/08 – TBC – Glasgow
08/08 – Bannerman’s Edinburgh – Edinburgh
09/08 – The Brickyard – Carlisle
10/08 – Trillian’s Rock Bar – Newcastle Upon Tyne
11/08 – The Soundhouse – Leicester
12/08 – The Verve – Leeds
13/08 – West Street Live – Sheffield
14/08 – Arches Venue – Coventry
15/08 – The Castle and Falcon – Birmingham
16/08 – The Chelsea In – Bristol
17/08 – The Moon – Cardiff
Listen: ‘The Absence of the Mirror Emperor’ by ZU93
Posted: 6 May 2018 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Apocalypse, Current 93, David Tibet, House of Mythology, The Absence of the Mirror Emperor, track stream, Zu
ZU93 is the effectively named new collaboration between David Tibet and the ever changing Italian group Zu, centred around Massimo Pupillo and Luca Mai. House of Mythology are proud to release their debut album Mirror Emperor on the 6th July.
“The album is the closing of a long circle for me,” comments Massimo Pupillo…“I’ve been following David’s work since the early days and count Current 93 as one of the main inspirations behind my work with Zu. For me his poetry and music is like a light in the depths of human experience, a soundtrack for one’s personal descent into the unconscious fields”. Tibet says of their union, “Zu made something very beautiful and very powerful for me to skip into. I love this album,” Mirror Emperor adds another chapter in Tibet’s ever expanding oblique vision, personal, dense and hallucinatory. A voice through a cloud, indeed.
On Mirror Emperor, the demiurge of our demise hides in the cracks of a broken world, beneath stones and moss, among the comets, in tears and things and on BloodBoats, as if a “cosmic melancholy” (Ligotti) is being articulated. More mourning than light. Tibet explains: "We all carry different faces, different masks, and all of them will be taken from us. We were born free, and fell through the Mirror into a UnWorld, a Mirror Empire. In this Mirror Empire we are under the Mirror Emperor, and there are MANY Bad Moons Rising. At the final curtain there is scant applause."
Ahead of the album, they’re streaming ‘The Absence of the Mirror Emperor’ as a taster. Get your lugs round it here:
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Aural Aggravation 