Pre order Islets debut album – Illuminated People
Pre order the brilliant debut album from Islet – Illuminated people from our good friends at Spillers HERE
A.A. Bondy Live dates postponed
A.A. Bondy has had to postpone his December tour dates due to an illness in the Felice Brothers camp. All very sad, but nothing super serious we are glad to report. We can only apologise heartily.
The good news is that the tickets for The Lexington for 13 December are transferable to his new headline date at the Purcell Rooms on 4 March 2012, ticket info HERE.
A full set of UK headline dates will be announced very soon.
The album, Believers is out now on Fat Possum/Turnstile, order your copy HERE
Praise for Believers –
“Believers is nothing short of divine” 4/5 Q
“A beautifully paced and structured album, with a powerfully singular mood” 4/5 Uncut
“An atmospheric blinder” 4/5 Time Out
“An effortlessness that proves powerfully evocative” 4.5/5 The Fly
“Hearing is believing” 4.5/5 The Sun
“A bewitching, enthralling album” 4/5 The Times
“His pensive, personal songs often evoke nocturnal drives on dusty highways with hypnotic allure”
4/5 Daily Telegraph
“Bondy gives his songs plenty of room to breathe, the results being quite often spellbinding” Observer
“Bondy’s aching voice adds vital warmth to this sublimely immersive atmos-rock”
Indie Information
“Songs that submerge you deeper and deeper in their dark charms” Indie on Sunday
“This third solo effort, his most assured and intuitive to date, is a revelation” 8/10 drownedinsound
“Believers is the exciting sound of a remarkable songwriter finding his own, genuinely unique voice” thelineofbestfit
Perfume Genius – New Album Details
February 20th 2012 (Feb 21 U.S.) will see the release of the brand new album from Michael Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, “Put Your Back N 2 It”.
Where “Learning” was stark and confessional however, “Put Your Back N 2 It” is lush and universal, and sees an expansion of both his thematic and sonic palette, playing as a broad meditation on intimacy, power, family, secrecy and hope, not just through his impressionistic lyrics, but through the music itself as well. Check out the taster track “All Waters” here and see for yourself. Perfume Genius will also be heading over to the UK for a clutch of highly anticipated live dates in the spring.
1. AWOL Marine
2. Normal Song
3. No Tear
4. 17
5. Take Me Home
6. Dirge
7. Dark Parts
8. All Waters
9. Hood
10. Put Your Back N 2 It
11. Floating Spit
12. Sister Song
Listen and download “All Waters” from the album here: http://tinyurl.com/PerfumeGenius-AllWaters
Signed copies of “Put Your Back N 2 It” are available for pre-order now from http://www.turnstilemusic.net/shop
Follow Perfume Genius on Facebook HERE , and on Twitter HERE .
Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo Extension!
As the Gruffington Post reports -
Great developments are afoot at the flagship branch of Hotel Shampoo in Cardiff Bay, Walees..
A new extension is set to be unveiled on December 19th designed by universally acclaimed architect Zaza Hadid.
It will include all the b sides from the Hotel Shampoo related singles as well as the single Whale Trail and all three songs from the Atheist Xmas E.P.
Here’s the whole EP for your ears, order HERE.
Gruff Rhys – Atheist Xmas EP
Thanks to Douglas Hart who commissioned the song At The End Of The Line for his short film; Long Distance Information. Which in turn triggered off the other songs too.
Here’s the mega 20 song tracklisting, order HERE:
Shark Ridden Waters
Honey All Over
Sensations In The Dark
Vitamin K
Take A Sentence
Conservation Conversation
Sophie Softly
Christopher Columbus
Space Dust #2
At The Heart Of Love
Patterns Of Power
If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)
Rubble Rubble
I Totally Understand
Xenodocheionology
Follow The Sunflower Trail (Theme Tune For a National Strike)
Whale Trail
Post Apocalypse Christmas
At The End Of The Line
Slashed Wrists This Christmas
LIVE!
Dec 02
Dec 19
Cardiff, Spillers Records. 12pm
Bristol, Rise 3pm
London, Rough Trade east 8pm.
Los Campesinos! announce show at Londons Electric Ballroom
LOS CAMPESINOS!
Announce show at Camden’s Electric Ballroom, 22 March 2012 Presale link – ON SALE NOW HERE
Album Hello Sadness out now, order HERE.
“focused, punchy and beautifully poetic” **** Q
“Gareth and his gang are sounding stronger then ever” NME
“Sundry heartbreak anthems… as they’re grown, they’ve accrued a pleasingly emotional weight.” **** Uncut
Girls – Lawrence
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| November 01, 2011 |
And so goes the letter from Girls front man and songwriter Christopher Owens to Felt, Denim and Go Kart Mozart front man and songwriter, Lawrence. The letter tells you everything you need to know about the song, which will be released in the UK and Europe on limited edition, heart-shaped red vinyl through Fantasy Trashcan (Turnstile) on 28th November 2011, and December 12th in the U.S. on True Panther Sounds. U.K. and EU fans can pre-order HERE Lawrence follows the release of Girls’ third record Father, Son, Holy Ghost, which was released to widespread acclaim on Fantasy Trashcan / Turnstile in September.
Order the album HERE |
Islet announce debut album details and Japan show
ISLET announce debut album ‘ILLUMINATED PEOPLE’
January 23rd 2012 on Shape (Turnstile)
Free track ‘This Fortune’
Tour this November
Islet have announced their debut album,
to be released 23rd January 2012 on Shape (Turnstile).
Illuminated People follows 2010’s rapturously
received pair of EPs – ‘Celebrate This Place’ and ‘Wimmy’.
The ten tracks stand as a bold opening statement from the Cardiff group
who have quickly confirmed themselves as uninhibited by conventions,
relishing expanse and experimentation.
The album was largely recorded on a farm in Worcestershire
and for the first time the group worked with an outside producer,
Drew Morgan,bringing together what has now become their most
coherent record to date.
The first taster of which is ‘This Fortune’ available for free
from here: http://tinyurl.com/Islet-ThisFortune
It’s live where Islet have thus far built their reputation,
sometimes with ritualistic chants delivered offstage;
meandering off into the crowd, percussive breakdowns,
always with tumult and joy.
In person as in their music, they seek to break down walls.
Expect the unexpected when they tour this November:
11 November – Manchester, Deaf Institute
12 November – Leeds, Constellations Festival
13 November – Nottingham, Bodega
14 November – Norwich, Arts Centre
15 November – Brighton, Green Door Store
16 November – London, Lexington
17 November – Cambridge, Portland Arms
19 November – Hague, Crossing Borders Fest, The Netherlands
20 November – Antwerp, Crossing Borders Fest, Belgium
23 November – Cardiff, Buffalo
28 January – Liquid Room, Tokyo
Also available, on tour only, will be a 12″ of This Fortune,
featuring a vinyl only 15 minute sound collage made by the group;
a swirling mass of found sounds, fragmented thoughts
and previously unheard tracks.
Gruff Rhys wins Welsh Music Prize
Congratulations to Gruff Rhys on winning the first Welsh Music Prize for album Hotel Shampoo.
“Its a huge honour to win the inaugural WMP for Hotel Shampoo, the shortlist was so strong, it could have deservedly gone to anyone. It’s a beautiful award, shaped like an old VHS video tape (but is made of metal). Let’s hope it goes to a load of great albums in the future” said Gruff on winning the award.
The full list of nominees for the Welsh Music Prize was:
Al Lewis – ‘In The Wake’
Colorama – ‘Box’
Funeral For A Friend – ‘Welcome Home Armageddon’
Gruff Rhys – ‘Hotel Shampoo’
Lleuwen – ‘Tan’
Manic Street Preachers – ‘Postcards From A Young Man’
Stagga – ‘The Warm Air Room’
Sweet Baboo – ‘I’m a Dancer/Songs About Sleepin”
The Blackout – ‘Hope’
The Gentle Good – ‘Tethered for the Storm’
The Joy Formidable – ‘The Big Roar’
Y Niwl – ‘Y Niwl’
LOS CAMPESINOS!
Announce new album Hello Sadness released 14th November 2011.
Pre-order bundle available now from loscampesinos.com
Hello Sadness is the imminent fourth studio album from Los Campesinos!, recorded earlier this year in Girona, Spain.
Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back-drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare-bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process. A record whose complexion changed dramatically when, on the eve of recording, the end of a relationship meant every word that had been penned before had to be rewritten.
“It feels like we’ve done all our growing up while in this band,” says vocalist Gareth Campesinos! “Not like we’re Hanson, or anything. But we’ve been Los Campesinos! since finishing university, and in that time we’ve all changed as people massively. That’s something we want to put across in the music.”
As a result, Hello Sadness is a record made by a band united, all pulling in the same direction with the result being Los Campesinos!’ most lean, direct, coherent, and simultaneously exhilarating and debilitating collection of songs to date.
The album will be available as a pre-sale bundle from the Los Campesinos! website (loscampesinos.com). The package includes a CD/vinyl copy of Hello Sadness plus a digital download, an exclusive, limited edition DVD of footage from the recording of the new album (including a documentary and a “How To Play…” feature) plus an exclusive, pre-order only ‘Palmist’ T-shirt and Hold On Now, Youngster… The Demos, a CD of recently unearthed demo versions of songs from Los Campesinos!’s first album. It includes rare track “How I Taught Myself To Scream” and the previously unreleased “No Tetris”.
Hello Sadness tracklisting:
By Your Hand
Songs About Your Girlfriend
Hello Sadness
Life Is A Long Time
Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)
Hate For The Island
The Black Bird, The Dark Slope
To Tundra
Baby I Got The Death Rattle
Light Leaves, Dark Sees pt. II
