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Listen: ‘Improvisation for Flute and Piano’ by Forma

Posted: 15 July 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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The clue’s in the name: this is Aural Aggravation. We do ambient, but not chillout, no new age shit. We like abrasion, noise and all things unsettling. But it’s Friday night after another week of global turbulence and insanity. The news is a 24/7 scrolling atrocity exhibition and frankly, we need something to keep us from launching ourselves off a bridge. So this comes as a welcome arrival in the AA inbox.

New York City synthesis trio Forma will be releasing their third LP, Physicalist, via kranky on September 23rd, and today we can hear the first excerpt from this sublime album in the closing track, ‘Improvisation for Flute and Piano’. A slow breaking meditation in which the flute provides the soft, subtle atmosphere, and the piano pulses with expressive persistence, it’s a beautiful curtains close on a record that has no shortage of allure and mystique.

 

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Watch: ‘Short Story’ by Nosound

Posted: 12 July 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Nosound have announced that they will release their new studio album ‘Scintilla’ on 2nd September via Kscope (Anathema, Steven Wilson, Paul Draper). The album marks a major departure and includes guest appearances from Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh and acclaimed Italian singer Andrea Chimenti.

The band recently shared the first new track from the album, which may be short but is nonetheless epic. You can watch here:

Watch: ‘Upside Down (the death loop)’ by Mayflower Madame

Posted: 7 July 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Having already guaranteed themselves a slot in the AA best albums of 2016 list, Mayflower Madame are offering up a video to accompany the track ‘Upside Down (the death loop)’. The psych/goth act enlisted Norwegian art collective Born For Burning to direct the video: "We wanted to make the impression that the video consists of two different found tapes. Inspired by the gloominess of the song we sought to make the images of the video disturbing and shot with a lo-fi camera. Some key ideas were trafficking and crime scene footage, partly inspired by the movie Lilya 4-ever by Lukas Moodysson."

Watch the video here:

Listen ‘Break of Dawn’ by Saints of Patience

Posted: 6 July 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Every email and every press release which accompanies every CD – or at least every other email and every other press release – promises the arrival of a staggeing new talent, a band offering explosive riffs or massive anthems. It doesn’t take long to become immune to the hyperbole, and the spial downwards from enthusiams to despair is a rapid one when every any brings more music than an etitorial team of fifty could even contemplate let alone physically listen to.

So why do we do it? Because even when a press release makes generic promises about a band, sometimes they’re actually worth the effort.  The email says that ‘London rockers Saints Patience share their retro-electro anthem debut single ‘Break Of Dawn’ out July 8th’ and the truth is it’s hard to muster a shrug. Whaddaya know? It’s actually a decent tune and hints at a band with some serious potential.

Hear it here:

 

Watch: ‘Bad Man’ by The Kut

Posted: 4 July 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Aural Aggro favourites, female grunge trio The Kut, are supporting the release of their new single ‘Bad Man’ with their most extensive tour to date, taking in a whopping 37 dates. Yes, that’s ovr month of shows. And they’ve unveiled a video to accompany the single release. Watch it here. Go see them.

Watch: ‘Sunny Day’ by Loco Ono

Posted: 24 June 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Anyone who says that there’s no exciting new music any more is talking bollocks and simpy isn’t looking in the right places. And that’s precisely why Aural Aggravtion exists.

Bringing together contemporary dream pop vocals, fuzzy 90s-influenced guitars, and an infectious live energy, Loco Ono is an electric ukulele and guitar-driven powerhouse, based in London. Fronted by Texas-born Grace Zacarias and South African-born Pieter Stone, the two-piece combines addictive pop melodies with heavy garage rock intensity. Drawing influence from artists like Best Coast, Wolf Alice, and Pixies, Loco Ono delivers a unique sound laced with modern apathy and teenage rebellion.

This exactly what we like here at camp AA. Loco Ono look great and sound geat, and ‘Sunny Day’ is a killer tune. Check the video here:

 

Listen: ‘Samadhi (So Far Away)’ by Racing Glaciers

Posted: 23 June 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Racing Glaciers return with a stellar new single ‘Samadhi (So Far Away)’, out this June, and ahead of their debut album release through Killing Moon this August.

With well over 2million Soundcloud plays on just their first four tracks, their track ‘First Light’ featured on the Transformers 4: Age of Extinction movie and won the band support from BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music DJ’s including Annie Mac, Huw Stephens, Greg James, Fearne Cotton and Steve Lamacq.

The band have also performed at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape Festival, Secret Garden Party, London Calling in Amsterdam, Berlin Music Week, Y Not Festival, Wakestock and Beacons, as well as a 35-date UK tour late last year.

Racing Glaciers will release this new single ‘Samadhi (So Far Away)’ this June, the first exciting glimmer of what is to come from their debut album release ‘Caught In The Strange’ this August, and a track that pulls together all that is great about the 5-piece from Macclesfield, as gloriously cinematic, inventive and essential as we need right now.

Racing Glaciers release their debut album ‘Caught In The Strange’ on August 5th 2016 through Killing Moon.

 

Get your lugs round he psychdelic-tinged shoegaze belter that  is ‘Samadhi (So Far Away)’ here:

 

Listen: ‘1989’ by ELectric Pyramid

Posted: 14 June 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Influenced by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen and Fleetwood Mac, Electric Pyramid are an international bands of artists – Linda and Marco both from Italy, Emma from the UK and Oli is English “with a twist”. They all live around the corner from each other, and  began rehearsing together on Oli’s boat after they recognised the potential for collaboration. Now, they’ve become each other’s family. “If your family’s far away, then the people you’re surrounded with, spend most of your time with, they know everything about you.” As a group they have a varied musical history, and Linda is also an active figure on the ‘Girls Rock’’ scene in London and elsewhere.

Their debut single, ‘1989’ is a drawling psych-hued effort, and is out now via Transistor Project. You can hear it here:

 

Watch: ‘Rebel Black’ by angelic milk

Posted: 14 June 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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With the release of her debut single "IDK How" the Russian artist angelic milk quickly became one of the most talked about new acts around, instantly drawing praise from the likes of Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, NME and KEXP. Now she’s back with the video for new single "Rebel Black", a catchy-as-fuck statement of intent and a first taste from her upcoming debut EP. The EP is titled Teenage Movie Soundtrack and it’s due on 15th July via PNKSLM Recordings.

Her debut single “IDK How” was released in May last year along with a Grimes-y remix from fellow Saint Petersburger BLAST, and after making her international debut show in Stockholm later in the summer she started working on what was to become her debut EP Teenage Movie Soundtrack. Recorded in Stockholm in the famed Apmamman Studio and produced by Luke Reilly, it’s a showcase both of Persephona’s immense talent as a songwriter and a vocalist, as well as her range. Four tracks of expertly crafted grunge pop ranging from the sweet romance of "Rebel Black" to the grunge-punk strut of "Ripped Jeans", Teenage Movie Soundtrack is cementing angelic milk as one of the most exciting new artists around.

But enough text: here’s a tune, which appeals to our poppier sensibilities.

Watch: ‘Blue Heart Motel’ by Fighting Caravans

Posted: 13 June 2016 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Leeds-based purveyors of darkly psychedelic country, Fighting Caravans, follow up on the promise of their Beasts of England EP and a string of intense live shows with the release of the single  ‘Blue Heart Motel’  on 1st July. Released on 7” vinyl and digital formats, it’s accompanied by a suitably twisted promo video, which you can watch here – and we recommend you do.

 

 

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