ISLET - Celebrate This Place
ISLET
‘Celebrate This Place’ mini-album
14th June
Shape (Turnstile)
12″, download
Islet are liquid, rotating between instruments, singing, howling.
Drum-duo breakdowns, splashes of guitar, searing organs. Playing music for the joy of the moment.
‘Celebrate This Place’ is a paean to possibility and the joy of sound
and being. It was recorded by the group themselves at home in a
Mid-Wales barn and a Cardiff bedroom.
This, their first record, crosses the danceable electro-wash of Gang
Gang Dance and the careful racket of no-wave, the dulcet harmonies of
Os Mutantes and the rhythmic noisiness of Can.
The group also make ‘ The Isness’, an ongoing visual project which
bridges the gap between zine and artist’s book.
‘Celebrate This Place’, the band’s first release, will be available on
limited 12″ vinyl and digitally from 14th June on Shape (Turnstile).
Those lucky enough to attend their much-praised, incredible live
performances from, and including, the Cardiff launch on 26th May will
be able to get their hands on the vinyl pre-release.
Upcoming live dates
MAY
1 // LEEDS // JOSEPHS WELL (Live at Leeds)
2 // MANCHESTER // SOUNDS OF THE OTHER CITY FESTIVAL
14 // BRIGHTON // FREEBUTT (Great Escape Festival)
20 // LIVERPOOL // KAZIMIER (Liverpool Sound City)
21 // EDINBURGH, // SNEAKY PETES (This Is Music)
22 // GLASGOW // CAPTAINS REST (Stag & Dagger)
26 // CARDIFF // CLWB IFOR BACH (SWN & SHAPE FUNCTION W/ TEAM BRICK) W/YUCK
28 // ANGLESEY // THE TRIP FESTIVAL
JUNE
2 // OXFORD // JERICHO TAVERN
3 // LONDON // BARDENS BOUDOIR (UPSET THE RHYTHM W/ MI AMI)
4 // HAY-ON-WYE // CHAPEL (HOW THE LIGHTS GET IN FESTIVAL)
JULY16 -
19th // LATITUDE FESTIVAL - Lake Stage
25th // TRUCK FESTIVAL - Barn Stage
AUGUST
21 // GREENMAN FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER
26 // GLOUCESTER // GUILDHALL (UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL)
Swanton Bombs - Wasteland on Fat Possom Records
Swanton Bombs release the second single off Mumbo Jumbo Murder through Fat Possom Records on 7″ and digital.
Out April 27, pre - order here.
Bento #8 - Curated by Jo Greenman
Turnstile are excited to release Bento #8, curated by Jo Bartlett, founder and curator of the brilliant Green Man Festival
Here’s what Jo Green Man had to say about her Bento…..
“From it’s birth in 2003 through to this Summer’s 8th festival, the Green Man has grown from 300 people to 10,000 last year. Over three nights and days, we have music across five stages, a cinema tent with live sound tracks and djs, comedy, literature and much more. All in the crazy, beautiful Welsh mountains. The huge communal campfire burns all night, the Green Man himself is set on fire on the Sunday at midnight. Here are a few acts who will be joining this year’s headliners Joanna Newsom, Doves and The Flaming Lips -
Sleepy Sun - Sandstorm Woman
Sleepy Sun is a California band from many Californias. They hail from the rolling oak and sage hills of Sierra Gold Country, The San Francisco Peninsula, where Kesey raged and the Dead were once Warlocks, and the forever-sunshine climes of the Southland. They came together-young and garage strutting in the coastal Northern California crucible of Santa Cruz. And there they birthed the Sleepy sound-dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin’, soul, sonic science and dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging…California music of beautiful contrasts for conflicted times.
Lone Wolf - 15 Letters
Lone Wolf began life in 2009 in various dusty rooms and tape studios around Sweden, songs and ideas slowly coming together through the eyes of singer and guitarist Paul Marshall and the ears of Kristofer Jonson from Jeniferever. After a month of various field recordings, sneaking into concert halls late at night to use the piano, setting up their gear in small village churches, and other places they could find, the basic album tracks were done. Paul brought all the recordings back home to England in September and together with James from Duels, started on the final stages of mixing the album.
Silver Columns - Cavalier
Their roots lie in post-rock, folk and electronica. But this synth pop duo’s warm, fuzzy sound gives Hot Chip a run for their money. Silver Columns are none other than Adem Ilhan and Johnny Lynch. The former plays bass in post-rock/electronica outfit Fridge alongside Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden while the latter is a folky singer-songwriter who trades under the name the Pictish Trail and is a key player in Scotland’s Fence Collective.
Memory Tapes - Bicycle
The work of one man, New Jersey-based Dayve Hawke, Memory Tapes’ sound is immediately accessible but entirely capable of haunting your thoughts when it’s not filling your ears. Already the recipient of ‘net-wide blog praise, Hawke’s modus operandi is comparable to those of M83 and Cut Copy - this is shape-shifting synth-pop, big on beats but almost counteractively woozy of atmosphere. It’s effortlessly, achingly cool, but also clever enough never to rest on its laurels, as arrangements flitter in and out of focus, vocals drift without ever settling, and sleek synth lines dance rings around basslines borrowed from a library of 70s funk albums, as played by Hooky himself.
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Go HERE for more info on the Green Man festival.
Tony Da Gatorra & Gruff Rhys - extra live date -
Tony Da Gatorra and Gruff Rhys have added an extra live date to their handful of forthcoming shows. The gig - which will now be the pair’s UK debut - takes place at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach on Wednesday 28th July. Tickets are available from www.clwb.net and www.wegottickets.com
Wed, 28th July - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff **Just added**
Thu, 29th July - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff **Sold out**
Fri, 30th July - Camp Bestival, Wareham
Sat, 31st July - Field Day, London