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Listen: ‘Cuntryfile Part 3’ by Saltwater Injection

Posted: 12 May 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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On Saturday, June 13 Ellesmere Port noise-punks, Saltwater Injection will release their new anti-anthem, ‘Cuntryfile Part 3’ into the world.

Inspired by Bleach-era Nirvana, and Black Flag, Joe Nuttal (bass) and Paul Soames (drums, vocals) are ready to smash up your expectations of what to expect from a two-piece band.

As the press release puts, it, ‘this is quite frankly, pure and proper balls-to-the-wall heaviness, and we hope you’re ready?!’ and yes, it’s as gnarly as fuck: just the way we like it here at Aural Aggravation.

Recorded at The Vic Studios in Wrexham with Michael Harmina (Def Neon), and produced by Addz Milner (The Ladder), the track is a vehicle for the band’s aggression, and an outlet for their defiant and angry creation. Vocalist Paul Soames comments: "We needed to vent our anger at the terrible actions at the policies that we can see ruining our country, and at the strongly unstable people putting those policies in place."

Formed in 2013, Saltwater Injection have toured with the likes of Baby Godzilla, Blitz Kids and Sham 69.

 

Ironically, this news piece is longer than the song itself, which you can get your soon-to-be-bleeding lugs round here:

 

 

Watch: ‘Drown’ by Mayflower Madame

Posted: 8 May 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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With Observed in a Dream, Norwegian purveyors of  psychedelic post-punk / shoegaze, Mayflower Madame, delivered one of our favourite albums of 2016. While their second album is unlikely to see the light until late 2017 or even early 2017, they’ve unveiled ‘Drown’ by way of a taster now. It’s by no means a mere stop gap: to say the signs are good for the next album would be an understatement. A whirl of echo-heavy gutars and even more echo-heavy baritone vocals, ‘Drown’ has an aching melacholy emotional pull. Watch the video and get your lugs around it here:

 

Watch: ‘Microverse’ by Lossy & Strangers Are People Too

Posted: 4 May 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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“Microverse” is the third release for composer and producer Lossy on his label Boot Cycle Audio. Having previously released with Tru Thoughts, Tessier Ashpool & Two Rivers Records, Lossy teams up with visual artist Strangers Are People Too for this live looping piece which is due to be released both as a full 20 minute film and 4 track digital EP. Originally inspired by experiments with microscopes and natural objects, this work is an exploration of the epicness within the miniscule, a journey to the extraordinary realms that can be found within the ordinary. Here you will find acid techno bass lines layered with orchestral brass, vintage synth sounds blended with overlapping saxophone, along with dystopian warped piano and noise based sound design.

The music is layered up in live loops of electronic and acoustic sounds, all based around a minimal 16 note sequence, taking us through four distinct movements while visuals of electrified organica journey through imagined inner worlds. Having performed and developed the piece at several events, including the Music Tech Fest at LSO St Luke’s in London and IRCAM in Paris, the pair are now delighted to present this polished studio version in all its quirky and colourful glory.

A longform work of immense scope, it’s accompanied by some trippy digital visuals. You can watch it, listen and lose yourself here:

 

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: ‘SALT’ by Bone Cult

Posted: 3 May 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Nottingham two-piece death-electronica band Bone Cult are set to release their new single, ‘SALT’ on 3rd May, and Aural Aggravation is immensely proud to present a video exclusive of  said video.
Formed by Sam Hartill (bass, production) and Richard Watte (vocals, guitar, production) with a desire to offer a strong alternative to “the regular four guys in jeans and t-shirt look”, the band has since gained high-profile support slots with the likes of The Qemists, Slaves, Sleaford Mods and more.
‘The track SALT, which is an acronym for Such A Long Time, was a step away from our previous releases, showcasing a different side of Bone Cult’s production whilst still reflecting the same emotions explored in their last single ‘Fortune and Sorrow’.
“There are different layers of vocals to portray the same narrative, only from alternative perspectives,” says Sam Hartill.
Championing solid production and strong visuals, ‘SALT’ carries the visceral pulsing energy of 65daysofstatic via the slick, accessible dance vibes of Daft Punk.
Watch the video here (and remember where you saw it first!)
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Listen: ‘Another Fable’ by FURR

Posted: 2 May 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Leeds quartet Furr have shared their new single ‘Another Fable’ the first track to be taken from the next instalment of Leeds’ Come Play With Me 7” Singles Club.

Previously supported by the likes of Classic Rock Magazine and Upset Magazine, Furr play QOTSA inspired pummelling riffs complete with big choruses. The band also just played a massively well received show at Live at Leeds Festival last Saturday to a packed Dork / Key Club Stage in their home city.

You can hear ‘Another Fable’ here:

 

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Watch: ‘Plasters’ by Hands Off Gretel

Posted: 30 April 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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It’s no secret that we’re fans of Hands Off Gretel here at Aural Aggro. Burn the Beauty Queen is – in our educated, objective opinion – a bona fide contemporary grunge classic.

Following the video release of ‘Bad Egg’ at the start of April, they’ve gone and done a cracking promo for ‘Plasters’ too. Watch it here:

 

Listen: ‘He Believes In Me’ by Mi Mye with James Anthony Smith

Posted: 27 April 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Mi Mye have announced details of the final single to be released from their 2016 album The Sympathy Sigh. The Wakefield quintet will release the soothing and melancholy ‘Methadone Church’ alongside a re-imagined ‘He Believes In Me’ featuring the vocals of James Smith of Post War Glamour Girls.

Inspired by Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, the album earned the band praise from the likes of The 405 and The Line Of Best Fit. (Aural Aggravation can’t take any credit here: we’re miserly bastards at times when it comes to praise and even selecting what we cover.)

‘Methadone Church’ is a thoughtful and beautiful song that deals with Jamie observing life around him at his place of work in Armley in Leeds. He explains “Chad and I were leaving the studio where I work and when we got to the bus stop we saw a mother with twin girls walk past us. The girls were identically dressed and the mother had blood on her top lip. That’s all the song is, just that, I wrote it as soon as I got on the bus. It’s a track that doesn’t judge or comment, it’s just what was there.”

The other side of this new single features a new version of album track ‘He Believes In Me’ sung by James Smith of label mates and long standing friends & collaborators Post War Glamour Girls. Jamie recently co-produced the band’s  Swan Songs album.

When asked on what made him so keen to collaborate with Mi Mye, James said “I adore the man and it was an honour to be asked to sing on He Believes in Me. To voice Jamie’s inner monologue of confusion and fear toward a religious maniac ranting and grabbing people on the streets of Wakefield was a more spiritually uplifting experience than that preacher man will ever have.”

So get your lugs round ‘He Believes In Me’  and enjoy….

STREAMING EXCLUSIVE: ‘Nightmares For Children (And Other Stories)’ by The THING

Posted: 24 April 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Aural Aggravation is pant-shittingly proud to present Nightmares For Children (And Other Stories), the debut soundtrack from York-based HFD (Hypnotic Funeral Drone) act, The THING!

Taking some inspiration from drone/doom bands like Sunn O))) and Godflesh, and  created with the sole purpose to force people to recoil in aural horror, the two-piece (featuring TC6’s Kreecha Honey [guitars, samples] and Seep Away’s Dom Smith [drums]) combine haunting samples with ferocious guitar work and intense drums to craft what can only be described as an abrasive, stomach-churning soundtrack to the death and destruction of your emotions…and hearing.

Of the track which was recorded live and raw at Melrose Yard in York, Kreecha comments: “The Thing’s most beautiful of childhood night terrors has been re-awoken for your listening displeasure.”

‘Nightmares For Children (And Other Stories)’ will be released as a free download on Friday, April 28th via Soundcloud – soundcloud.com/the-thing-the- band.

The band will shortly be working on their next instalment of predicted psychosis – ‘Now We Are SixSixSix’.

Listen to Nightmares For Children (And Other Stories) here:

 

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Listen: ‘Howl’ by Dom Sith

Posted: 7 April 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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From Chester-based instrumental-electronic artist, Dom Sith, comes this dark goth-inspired tune to soundtrack people’s struggles with themselves.

It’s nothing to do with Allen Ginsberg. Of the inspiration for ‘Howl’, which takes sonic leads from the likes of NIN, The Haxan Cloak, and Burial, Dom comments: “I wanted to create something haunting, something that’d soundtrack those long nights alone, but not in a reassuring way, like how loneliness might sound, and how depression might sound, if it was heard…in the dark.”

We like NIN, The Haxan Cloak, and Burial, and we like this: get your lugs round it here:

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Listen: ‘Crawling Back to God’ by Full of Hell

Posted: 5 April 2017 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Full Of Hell share another track from their punishing, virulent, and dynamic new album, Trumpeting Ecstasy, upcoming via Profound Lore on 5th May.

Brace yourselves for ome brutality, and get your lugs round it here:

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