Leeds’ Post War Glamour Girls have already delivered one of the albums of the year with their second long-player, Feeling Strange, and attendant live dates have proven them to be – yet again – one of the most consistent and exhilarating live acts around.
They’re ending 2015 on a high note, with a video release for album track ‘Count Your Blessings’. Brooding and moody, the song’s dark undercurrents and cinematic guitar sound are accentuated by a magnificently-shot video which is presents a bleak narrative with some unexpected twists.
If you’ve ever been a fan of Tim Buckley, Cocteau Twins or This Mortal Coil, you’ll already know ‘Song To The Siren‘. This mesmerising rendition comes from the Wales-based trio, who have released it in sync with their performance kicking off SpaceFest, one of Eastern Europe’s top psych music festivals. It’s available as a free download from their Bandcamp page. Meanwhile, you can watch the accompanying video here.
Hot on the heals of their stunning second album, Post War Glamour Girls offer up one of the album’s (many) standout tracks, ‘Cannonball Villages’ as a digital single . It’s backed with a 12-minute remix courtesy of Richard Formby, cult producer and Wild Beasts collaborator. It perhaps goes without saying that it’s stonking. Get streaming below.
Cult of Luna and The Old Wind will be releasing an epic riff-filled EP together on 29th January via Pelagic Records. The label have posted a teaser trailer which you can watch below. We’d reccomend you do.
In reaction to the current refugee crisis, Martin Creed presents a brand new body of audiovisual work. Comprising “Let Them In” and “Border Control”, this is the Turner Prize winning artist’s sharp, pithy response to the humanitarian disaster. In keeping with his two albums, “Love To You” and “Mind Trap”, both are gloriously succinct yet potent bursts of buoyant, ramshackle pop, albeit underlaid this time around with an urgent call to arms.
Kudos to Creed. Bono he isn’t.
Stream the tracks below and download them for free from Telephone Records.
Something of a neoprog supergroup, The Mute Gods are a brand new band centred around renowned bassist, chapman stick player & vocalist Nick Beggs, accompanied by drummer Marco Minnemann (Steven Wilson), and long-time Steve Hackett collaborator & keyboardist Roger King. Their debut album, Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me is set for release on 22nd January 2016. Ahead of this, they’ve unveiled a video for the title track. It’s no criticism to note that it sounds as you might expect. You can check it out here:
Ritual Productions recently announced the signing of The Poisoned Glass, a duo comprised of two members of the legendary doom band Burning Witch – vocalist Edgy59 and bassist G.Stuart Dahlquist. Ahead of their album, 10 Swords, scheduled for release in 2016, they’ve paired up with artist Richard Forbes-Hamilton to produce a short film by way of an album trailer.
The film entitled ‘The Final Act of Geng Yaoting’, by artist Richard Forbes-Hamilton, uses a mixture of oil painting and digital animation to tell a terrifying tale of the process between dreaming and dying; the conscious and unconscious. Made ever more chilling with Dahlquist’s droning detuned bass, siren-like organ and Edgy59’s unbridled and jarring tenor, the film offers sonic snippets of new The Poisoned Glass songs ‘Low Spirits’, ‘Toil and Trouble’ and ‘Plume Veil’.
It’s as dark as hell – and makes us eager to hear the album. You can watch The Final Act of Geng Yaoting below.
The Poisoned Glass will also be touring Europe in the spring of 2016. Dates are as follows:
14th April – Roadburn / Green Room – Tilburg – NL
15th April – Magasin4 – Brussels – Belgium
16th April – Bastard Club – Osnabrueck – Germany
20th April – Blitz – Oslo – Norway
21st April – Kuudes Linja – Helsinki – Finland
More dates are set to be announced in the near future
Stephen O’Malley from SUNN O))) guest hosts BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone this Sunday (22nd November) from 8-10pm.
SOMA takes over the air waves with a playlist of artists programmed by Sunn O))) who play Le Guess Who? festival the same weekend in Utrecht, Netherlands. Expect your Sunday sonic palette to include fellow Le Guess Who? Performers – who were personally chosen to perform by Sunn O))) – such as the legendary Annette Peacock and bass clarinetist Bennie Maupin, in addition to the the likes of Southern Lord heavyweights Goatsnake and BIG|BRAVE; two bands who have both seen new releases this year.
But that’s not all – SUNN O))) will also be sharing an exclusive track from Sunn O)))’s highly anticipated forthcoming album Kannon, due for release December 4th via Southern Lord.Pre-orders are now available via the SUNN O))) store, the Southern Lord store, including the European store and via bandcamp. A limited number of white vinyl LPs will also be available at participating Record Store Day outlets Black Friday, November 27th.
And remember, even if you find yourself at Le Guess Who? you can still listen live to SOMA’s playlist for 30 days afterwards at the BBC website.
Finally, here’s recent live footage of SUNN O))) in Berlin courtesy of Boiler Room. We strongly recommend it.
Fancy a spot of raw but melodic punk rock with driving guitars and female vocals? We certainly do, and it doesn’t get much better than the second release from this London duo. Don’t just take our word for it: listen below.
We love a chunky bassline here at Aural Aggravation. ‘Attention’, the new offering from Youthless grabbed ours (attention, that is) by virtue of a bassline to die for, coupled with some soaring vocals. If it’s in any way representative of their upcoming album, set for release early next year, then it’s going to be something special. Listen to it here:
