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Watch: ‘Stay’ by Carrellee

Posted: 3 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Nothing last forever. Yet moments are timeless and will always have existed. This is the song’s central theme. The video, directed by Jason P. Schumacher features Volstead’s Emporium, an underground speakeasy in Minneapolis. The video plays off of the lyrics which address feeling trapped in a melodrama.

"It’s about my divorce and all. The whole album is. I was feeling like a character at the time, like I was stuck in a movie where the end was clear, and my feelings were larger than life. I realize now I did have control and responsibility but in a lot of ways it feels like fate too.” – Carrellee

‘Stay’ is the hazy, electro-ballad from electronic artist Carrellee’s latest album, Scale Of Dreams. Watch the video here:

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CARRELLEE’S 2023 SCALE OF DREAMS TOUR


2/23 Indianapolis, IN @ State Street Pub 
2/24 Louisville, KY @ Art Sanctuary 
2/25 Lexington, KY @ The Green Lantern 
2/26 Johnson City, TN @ The HideAway 
2/27 Savannah, GA @ Lodge of Sorrows 
3/1 Gainesville, GA @ Portal 4 
3/2 Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub w/ Vision Video 
3/3 St. Augustine, FL @ Sarbez! 
3/4 Tampa, FL @ New World Music Hall w/ Vision Video 
3/5 Jacksonville, FL @ 1904 Music Hall 
3/8 Tallahassee, FL @ The Bark 
3/9 Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box 
3/10 Atlanta, GA @ Sweetwater 
3/11 Huntsville, AL @ Gold Sprint w/ Snooper 
3/12 Chattanooga, TN @ Exit Off Main Street 
3/13 Nashville, TN @ The East Room 
4/1 Madison, WI @ Mickeys Tavern w/ Scott Yoder 
4/22 Madison, WI @ Crystal Corner 
4/27 Tulsa, OK @ Sound Pony 
4/28 Norman, OK @ Opolis
4/29 Wichita, OK @ Private Party 
4/30 Colorado Springs, CO @ Fritzys 
5/3 Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Mezzanine 
5/4 Tucson, NM @ Groundworks 
5/5 San Diego, NM @ The Comet 
5/6 Los Angeles, CA @ Luna Negra Goth Nights 
5/7 Oakland, CA @ The Golden Bull 
5/9 Eugene, OR @ Old Nick’s Pub 
5/10 Olympia, OR @ Le Voyeur 
5/11 Seattle, OR @ The Cherry Pit w/ Scott Yoder 
5/14 Vancouver, Canada @ Verboden Festival 
5/18 Portland, OR @ Coffin Club 
5/20 Boise, ID @ Boise Hive 
5/23 Salt Lake City, ID @ Kilby Court 
5/24 Fort Collins, CO @ Lyric Cinema 
5/25 Denver, CO @ The Crypt 
5/26 Kansas City, MO @ recordBar 
5/27 Omaha, NE @ The Sydney 
5/28 Ames, IA @ The London. Underground

Watch: ‘Eye Witness’ by Me Lost Me

Posted: 2 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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ME LOST ME led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent announces a new album RPG via Upset The Rhythm on 7th July, and is touring across the UK including support dates with Pigs x7 (dates and details here). RPG (recorded in Blank Studios with Sam Grant of Pigs x7) is ME LOST ME’s fourth outing as a collective, having transitioned from an ambitious solo project in 2017, Jayne now regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope.

ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully weave together disparate genres, drawing influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music. Hauntological in part, RPG is concerned with tales and with time – are we running out of it? Does insomnia cause a time loop? Do the pressures of masculinity prevent progress? Jayne Dent asks these questions and more on RPG, her homage to worldbuilding and the story as an artform, calling back to those oral traditions around a campfire, as well as modern day video games – bringing folk music into the present day as she does so.

Watch the video here:

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Photo credit: Amelia Read Photography

Listen: ‘Before I Knew the Truth’ by Liturgy

Posted: 1 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Ahead of the release of their sprawling double-album 93696, out March 24th, Liturgy shares new single ‘Before I Knew The Truth’. Bounding with an incalculable momentum, "Before I Knew The Truth" exemplifies the new album’s equilibrium between meticulous composition and unbound ecstasy. Incendiary guitars glitch and fracture throughout, contorting and stuttering at lightning speed as keening vocals reach toward the sublime.

Following the release of 93696, Liturgy will be touring worldwide, including U.S. dates with support from labelmates BIG|BRAVE and sets at Big Ears Festival, Long Play and ArcTanGent.
The music of Liturgy is in a constant state of searching. In pursuit of larger truths, be they philosophical or personal, Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix and her band imbue their music with a sense of urgency and ceaseless longing.

93696 is a number derived from the religions of Christianity and Thelema, a numerological representation of heaven, or a new eon for civilization. Hunt-Hendrix composed the album as an exploration of eschatological possibility divided by the four “laws” that govern her own interpretation of heaven, “Haelegen”: Sovereignty, Hierarchy, Emancipation, and Individuation. These laws constitute the four movements of 93696 which act as dramas all their own within the framework of the record. Throughout the movements Hunt- Hendrix invokes the album’s myriad of personal and conceptual themes through the ensemble’s sheer force of sound, her will and intent blossoming from each bombarding gale.

Taken in its entirety, 93696 reflects the awe of the unknowable and celebrates what revelations and mysteries lie ahead.

Listen to Liturgy’s 93696 single ‘Before I Knew The Truth’ here:

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Liturgy 2023 tour dates:

Mar. 23 – Brooklyn, NY – TV Eye (93696 album release show)
Mar. 30 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
May 7 – Brooklyn, NY – Long Play Festival
Jun. 10 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB *
Jun. 11 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison *
Jun. 13 – Buffalo, NY – Mohawk *
Jun. 14 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop *
Jun. 15 – Detroit, MI – Sanctuary *
Jun. 16 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle *
Jun. 17 – St Paul, MN – Turf Club *
Jun. 18 – Fargo, ND – The Aquarium *
Jun. 21 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival *
Jun. 23 – Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Jazz Fest *
Jun. 24 – Seattle, WA – Substation *
Jun. 25 – Portland, OR – Star Theater *
Jun. 27 – Sacramento, CA – Cafe Colonial *
Jun. 28 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent *
Jun. 29 – Los Angeles, CA – Resident *
Jun. 30 – Mesa, AZ – The Nile Underground *
Jul. 1 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar *
Jul. 3 – Austin, TX – The Lost Well *
Jul. 4 – Houston, TX – The End *
Jul. 5 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa *
Jul. 7 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl *
Jul. 8 – Raleigh, NC – The Pour House *
Jul. 9 – Philadelphia, PA – Milk Boy *
Aug 16-19 – Bristol, UK – ArcTanGent Festival
* w/ BIG|BRAVE

Watch: ‘K-Style Circuit’ by The Royal Arctic Institute

Posted: 27 February 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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From Coma To Catharsis is the second full exploratory mission in the current five-piece incarnation of NYC / NJ-based instrumental ensemble, The Royal Arctic Institute.

At present, The Royal Arctic Institute comprises five musicians who have played extensively with other groups and/or as backing/session musicians: drummer Lyle Hysen (Das Damen, Arthur Lee, The Misguided), guitarists John Leon (Roky Erickson, Summer Wardrobe, Abra Moore) and Lynn Wright (And The Wiremen, Bee And Flower, Shilpa Ray), bassist David Motamed (Das Damen, Two Dollar Guitar, Arthur Lee, Townes Van Zandt), and keyboardist Carl Baggaley (Headbrain, Gramercy Arms).

What are the first things you would feel coming out of a coma? Would it be cathartic, a full release of all your emotions? What would that sound like? From Coma To Catharsis tries to capture that auditory experience replacing the steadfast emotions expressed on From Catnap to Coma with the sounds of dreaming, then awakenings.

All the pieces were created communally, deconstructing then reconstructing material mainly composed by guitarist John Leon with a couple written by other band members. McNew recorded the band in a live setting with no digital magic and minimal overdubs except for pedal steel work by John.

This record also highlights the band’s musical development after a further year of playing together. This includes songwriting contributions by Dave (‘Angleman’s Lament’), and Lynn (‘The Elated World’) as well as more input from Carl. “This is the third record I’ve played on,” explains Baggaley, “and on this one we really broke the songs down to the bones. I was able to bring in new influences like King Crimson-style mellotron and electric piano inspired by the late Billy Preston performances during the recording of the Beatles’ Let It Be album.” Besotted by 2021’s Beatles documentary series stemming from those sessions, Lyle draped his drums in tea-towels ala Ringo for the song ‘Passover Bucket.’

Regarding that same title, John says, “During the COVID lockdown, everyone’s kids were home and parents were scrambling and grasping at straws to entertain them. A Jewish friend of mine decided to celebrate Easter with her children to give them something to do. They were fascinated by the concept of Easter baskets. The following year, instead of Easter baskets, the children were given Passover Buckets to keep them quiet.”

‘K-Style Circuit’ provides a flavour of the album, and you can watch the video here:

Watch: ‘Cymbeline’ by Terzo

Posted: 26 February 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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‘Terzo’ : an Italian word translating as ‘the third’, it represents an additional presence that new darkwave/shoegaze/post-rock duo Terzo sensed inhabiting their most creative moments when they began working together.

Karl Clinton (former bassist in post-punk act Diskoteket, plus co-founder of improvisational project Tsantsa) and Billie Lindahl (lead singer and guitarist in dream pop/dark folk act Promise and the Monster) share a mutual penchant for dark sounding music in all its forms. They have also both been itching to free the shackles binding them to strict timelines; not only those of the music industry, but society in general. “Terzo was born out of a discussion about songs we mutually liked and a wish to try a different work process to our then current projects,” they state. “We wanted to do whatever we wanted without restrictions, using our obsession and gut feeling as guidance.”

Their preference for music and art that embodies a degree of doom and gloom is evident on their upcoming self-titled debut album, with its central theme of ‘love and death’ linking all six tracks. Their very first studio session yielded the 10+ minute post-rock epic ‘Cymbeline’ (available now as a debut single), while in the midst of recording it they both had the sensation that a third presence was keeping them company. Intrigued by the thought, “we started talking about the appearance of a third element, in sleep and in dreams,” they explain. “Terzo is about acknowledging this, the swirl that light in the darkness generates, opening ourselves out toward our own weaknesses.”

‘Cymbeline’ is actually a unique cover of a 1991 song by the Celtic/world music singer-songwriter and composer Loreena McKennit, which has a lyric lifted from the William Shakespeare play of the same name. “We had a feeling that we could make something interesting with it,” says Lindahl. “Karl did most of the instrumental work, guitars and programming, while I recorded my vocal in one take. This song means so much to us because it was the first thing we did as a duo and I think we just sort of understood that we could do great things together.”

Terzo travelled to New York in the summer of 2022 to play their first live shows, with the video maker and photographer Johan Lundsten accompanying them to document the trip. Footage from this can be seen in the video for ‘Cymbeline’, with Lindahl adding that “we always pictured something in documentary style for this song. Johan filmed everything that we did, even just hanging around. It is very raw, but it feels right.”

Watch the captivating video to this immense song here:

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Listen: ‘Angel’s Trumpet’ by Botanist

Posted: 22 February 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Plant-based metal avant-gardists BOTANIST have planted the new track ‘Angel’s Tumpet’, named after the highly toxic and hallucinogenic nightshade shrub as the first single taken from their forthcoming album VIII: Selenotrope, which has been sowed now in order to bloom on the release date May 19, 2023.

Listen to ‘Angel’s Trumpet’ here:

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BOTANIST comment: “The notion of a ‘Selenotrope’, a plant that only blooms in moonlight, was in the mental vault since 2016, as were the drums that I had recorded for when the day came”, mastermind Otrebor writes. "The added solitude of the lockdown, in addition to the solitude that I normally prefer, was the conduit to entering this new place in the Verdant Realm. After I completed tracking, I sent the session to Dan Swanö, with whom I had already loved working for the Photosynthesis album. Dan felt that ‘Angel’s Trumpet’ was the album’s banger. So here it is to introduce you to the nocturnal floral world of VIII: Selenotrope.

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Watch: ‘Waiting For Your Good Days’ by Red Telephone

Posted: 19 February 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Cardiff post-punk outfit Red Telephone are set to release their highly anticipated debut album Hollowing Out on the 31st March 2023. The only single taken from it ‘Waiting For Your Good Days’ is out now.

Hailing from Cardiff, Red Telephone’s richly layered alt-rock could have emanated from a club in Blade Runner’s dystopian LA – combining angular guitars, Krautrock-inspired rhythms and New Wave-tinged synths with infectious pop sensibilities. Drawing on post punk and synth pop influences, the band has been catching the attention of DJs across BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Absolute Radio and Radio X; with comparisons to the likes of MGMT, Super Furry Animals, Mitski and Berlin-era Bowie being drawn. The band have recently appeared at BBC 6 Music Fringe Festival, Focus Wales, Swn Festival, Other Voices and Llangollen Fringe, supporting Warmduscher. With previous single releases on Welsh-based labels Libertino Records and the Popty-Ping Recording Company, the band’s highly anticipated debut album is set to be released in March 2023.

Watch the video here:

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Watch: ‘1,2,3’ by Rogue Jones

Posted: 18 February 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Like much of the album, this song was initially composed by Bethan on the piano. It features Ynyr and Bethan on trumpets but also features Ioan Hefin, the man responsible for performing Welsh music’s greatest and most iconic trumpet solo in Eryr Wen’s Gloria Tyrd Adre. It’s a song about love and the feeling of trying to comprehend the magnitude of the love that you can feel for someone. It can relate to any form of love but in this instance it was written when their daughter turned 3 years old, with Bethan trying to articulate and comprehend the outpouring of love felt for a child and the hugeness of childbirth; the challenge, escalation, triumph, glory and the raw vulnerability of it all.

Watch the video here:

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Watch: ‘Severance’ by Netherlands

Posted: 17 February 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Something unlike anything you’ve heard before, SEVERANCE is the 9th release from multi-instrumentalist, compulsive creator, and unrepentant volume addict Timo Ellis (Cibo Matto, Spacehog, Yoko Ono) under the NETHERLANDS moniker. Officially out on the 31st of March 2023 via Svart Records, SEVERANCE features all the hallmarks of Ellis’ work, including blistering post-shred guitar heroics, primal drumming, and soulful, yet searing caterwauls. But as with every NETHERLANDS release, Ellis has inexplicably found a way to ratchet up the intensity, render the dynamic shifts more extreme, and hone his menacing melange of melody and rhythm into a uniquely weaponized form of rock ‘n’ roll that reaches towards high art.

While Ellis is perpetually working, he’s not one to work with without a grander purpose than loud music for the sake of loud music. He adds:

SEVERANCE, the title track, describes the tragic predicament of how our “species” gets more and more dangerously disconnected from our experience as Earth-bound, collective animals; about how our foundational hyper-materialist (and human-supremacist) notions of civilizational “progress” and “the future” delude us to into endlessly, blindly exploiting and destroying each other, all of the Earth’s remaining life support systems…along with whatever remaining senses of beauty, magic, and mystery still even exist at this point.

An album exploring topics as heavy as the ones SEVERANCE tackles requires sonics to match. For Ellis — a prolific producer and engineer himself — the skills and peerless engineering sensibilities of tastemaking heavy music producer Kurt Ballou (Converge, High On Fire) and the hallowed walls of Ballou’s God City Studio in Salem, Mass, proved the ideal space to capture the record’s massive sounds. For Ellis, Ballou’s unmatched attention to detail and “comprehensive tuning” of the drum and organic guitar sounds on SEVERANCE proved to be an x-factor in capturing the most monstrous and fully refined NETHrock release to date.

An album which makes it easy to understand why contemporary heavy metal luminaries like Joe Duplantier of Gojira and Bill Kelliher of Mastodon count themselves amongst NETHrock’s biggest fans, SEVERANCE is another chapter in the book of a band that’s consistently released heavy music on its own terms and with its own undeniable personality.

Svart Records proudly presents SEVERANCE by NETHERLANDS out on CD, black- and transparent red vinyl colorways and digital platforms on March 31st 2023.

Check the video here:

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Watch: ‘Lovebite’ by Haken

Posted: 15 February 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Yes, we’re a day late with this, but… pah, fuck it. It’s a solid and epic tune.

Progressive rockers Haken are set to release their seventh studio album Fauna on the 3rd March 2023, the group’s most genre-busting and conceptually fascinating album to date.

Today, the band celebrate Valentine’s Day with the launch of their latest single ‘Lovebite’.

Watch the video now here:

‘Fauna’ sees the band exploring new ideas conceptually as Ross continues. “The premise of the album when we started writing it was that every song would have an animal assigned to it. They all have something related to the animal kingdom that we could write about, but they also connect to the human world. Each track has layers, and some of them are more obvious than others.”

“It reminds me of The Mountain,” adds guitarist and fellow founder Richard Henshall. “There, we had the idea of not really a narrative-based album, but more the concept of climbing a mountain and overcoming the obstacles along the way. Then we took that and thought about how it could relate to our everyday lives. All of Fauna’s animals relate to us, personally.”

‘Fauna’ also marks the return of keyboard player Peter Jones, whose sounds can be heard permeating the entire album. “What Pete’s brought sonically to the band has played a massive role in why we do have a lot of new sounds on this record,” says Ross. “It’s always a new dynamic when there’s a change in personnel, and this is a fresh and reviving one. It’s certainly helped proximity-wise, with Pete being in the country: Pete and Ray [Hearne, Haken’s drummer] would be at Rich’s place and they’d just start jamming. That’s really key to how the songs start.”

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