Expensive Hugs out March 16 – Melbourne residency at Evelyn this month!
Jarrow has today premiered a new clip for ‘Kelp’ via Grain Zine. The exultant garage-rocker comes from his anticipated album Expensive Hugs due Friday 16 March and available now for pre-order.
As the opening track off Expensive Hugs, ‘Kelp’ perfectly sets the tone for Jarrow’s weird and wonderful second album. Hooks, yelps and a dynamic lead-guitar adorn his compelling turn of phrase as it battles to break free of the songs perfect garage pop structure.
‘Kelp’ is accompanied by an incredible experimental clip using software that links a dozen iPhones together to record simultaneously. As Dan (the mastermind behind Jarrow) explains, “I was approached by director Mike Plumridge who came up with the idea of filming a band in 360 degrees while they shredded to their hearts content. As a massive fan of The Matrix I just couldn’t help but say yes.” He goes on to say “To make this recipe you will need: 16 smartphones, a warehouse in Collingwood, a bike, a smoke machine, my friend Travis, a game of Scrabble and a cardboard cutout of yours truly. Mix it all together and you got a tasty dish indeed.”
Listen/share ‘Kelp’: https://Jarrow.lnk.to/
Click below to watch ‘Kelp’: http://bdr.ec/jarrowkelpvid
Jarrow is Footscray’s favourite self-taught, self-produced, garage-pop multi-instrumentalist. Drawing inspiration equally from 21st century meme culture and classic 90’s indie-rock, Expensive Hugs is an immensely enjoyable dash through Jarrow’s world of pop-hooks, weird soundscapes and riff-jams.
Available for a limited time on translucent purple splatter vinyl, you can pre-order it on all formats here:https://Jarrow.lnk.to/
Jarrow is also half way through his Wednesday night residency at the Evelyn Hotel. He has self curated an incredible all-star line up including visual artists each week. For all those in Melbourne – don’t miss these last 2 weeks!
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Ahead of his debut album release on March 30th via Akira Records, Bristol-based electronic artist Henry Green has shared two new tracks from the album. “Without You“ & “Shift” are streaming online now.
Henry spoke about the two tracks, explaining the meanings behind them. “‘Without You’ is about being completely absorbed by someone, that hazy feeling of being so enveloped in the present, that you just neglect any external distractions. The track was created at home in Bristol, but heavily inspired by a trip to Paris”
Speaking about “Shift” he said “It’s all about movement. The whole album is based around this theme, but none more so than this track. It felt like a very natural theme to explore and one that I constantly gravitated towards when writing lyrics or describing the evolution of a track. Lyrically, ’Shift’ refers to the sensation of falling, unaware of when you’ll reach an end but enjoying the loss of control and feeling of weightlessness.”
Listen to & “Shift” & “Without You” here:
Wander the riverbank of Berlin’s Köpenicker Chaussee for long enough, and you’ll find a grand cold war nuclear facility, or what looks like one. It was here, at the beautiful, eerie Funkhaus – actually a radio broadcast site built in the 1950s – that rising Bristol electronic artist Henry Green wrote part of his new album.
The main theme of the album for Henry Green is movement. He explains “We’re constantly moving in some manner, at some pace… whether its physically or emotionally. This year was all about progression and change for me, so I found myself constantly gravitating towards that idea of movement in my lyrics. ‘Shift‘ was a word that just kept reappearing when writing the tracks, whether I was describing the structures of the tracks, the instrumentation/arrangement and obviously, the lyrics. I wanted to exhibit a feeling of constant movement in the album and that idea that every element is constantly shifting, but at a variety of paces.”
The result is a sound both subtle and cinematic that combines intimate, confessional songwriting with an obsession with electronics that has built in him since age 16. ‘Shift’ is laden with delicate, complex electronic sounds that show a maturity far beyond Green’s age of 22.
“I’m inspired by the production of artists like Four Tet, Mount Kimbie and Bonobo. I love the collision of acoustic and synthetic sounds in music, completely contrasting elements that somehow work in harmony,” says Green. “I’m also a huge fan of Jon Hopkins, Ólafur Arnalds, and Nils Frahm (“my dream collaborator”). The use of space in their music is so powerful; each sound somehow isolated, unobscured and left to be appreciated.” It’s a different artist he’s most associated with, though – Norwegian production megastar Kygo, who in 2013 remixed Green’s cover of MGMT hit ‘Electric Feel’ to the tune of 10m SoundCloud streams.
Green has two cult adored EPs, over 8m Spotify streams and shows with London Grammar and Nick Mulvey to his name. With his debut album ‘Shift’, set for release on March 30th, recorded in both Bristol & Berlin and co-produced by Nico Rebscher and mixed by Jack Shuter, he’s continuing to push the boundaries of his sound, drifting further away from the guitar that formed the epicentre of his early songs and leaning heavier icy synth shimmers. “I’ve become obsessed with the idea of creating atmosphere. As I learnt more about production,” he explains, “I found it easier to translate my ideas and find new ways to create the sounds that would reflect my lyrical style.”
Henry Green will tour later this year with a headline London show already announced for Corsica Studios on 3rd May. More live dates will be announced soon.
‘Shift‘ tracklist:
1. i
2. Aiir
3. Shift (stream)
4. Another Light (stream)
5. Stay Here (stream)
6. We
7. Without You (stream)
8. Contra
9. Diversion
10. Something
See Henry Green live:
21/4 – Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, NL
24/4 – Paradiso (upstairs), Amsterdam, NL
25/4 – Nochtwache, Hamburg, DE
26/4 – Privatclub, Berlin, DE
27/4 – Wohngemeinschaft, Cologne, DE
2/5 – Exchange, Bristol, UK
3/5 – Corsica Studios, London, UK
17/5 – A38, Budapest, HU
The long-awaited album from the show Struggle With Glory by Australia’s premiere jazz chameleon Harry James Angus will be released on March 1st, 2018. A re-imagining of classic tales from Greek mythology set to a sublime reduction of gospel, jazz and soul, Struggle With Glory is another impressive step in an extraordinary musical journey for the Melbourne-born, Mullumbimby based musician.
Ahead of the album release the brand new single “Paper Faces” has just been issued and is another tantalising taste of what is to come. “I was drawn to Greek mythology because the myths are such great stories,” Harry explains. “Paper Faces is the story of Persephone and Hades. Persephone was the daughter of the goddess of the harvest, and she was kidnapped to become Hades bride.”
Having lapped the country in 2017 with Parlour Gigs playing intimate shows in people’s lounge-rooms to introduce his closest fans to the concept. Harry is now set to upscale the show to its full incarnation. To commemorate the album release, The Cat Empire co-front man will take his 10 piece big band, featuring some of the country’s most acclaimed jazz soloists on the road for a number of special, one-off festival show appearances throughout March including Perth Festival, Adelaide Festival and The Peninsula Picnic with more large scale shows to be announced shortly.
Harry James Angus has come far from the fresh-faced, but committed teen taking his first tentative steps on the path to jazz. Finding critical and commercial success on stages and charts across the globe with Australia’s beloved The Cat Empire, the jazz disciple, trumpeter and sublime vocalist has succeeded in branching out with a number of acclaimed projects of his own.
Exploring deep within and far outside the realms of the genre which he is enamoured, Struggle With Glory signifies an important chapter in the artist’s development and a step closer to realising his ideal musical vision.
Struggle With Glory physical pre-orders are available from the 14th till the 23rd of February. For pre-orders visit: www.vitamin.net.au
Struggle With Glory Digital pre-orders made between Feb 21st – 28th via iTunes and Google Play will instantly receive the track “Paper Faces”
Harry James Angus Struggle With Glory is out on March 1st 2018, through OP/Vitamin Records
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Tour Dates
March 1 Perth Festival, WA
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March 14 & 15 Adelaide Festival, SA
https://www.adelaidefestival.
March 17 The Peninsula Picnic, Vic
https://www.peninsulapicnic.
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Last month, Wye Oak shared the title track from their hotly anticipated new album ‘The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs’, out April 6 via Merge worldwide. Today, they debut an accompanying music video, shot in the startling desert landscape of New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument by Dan Huiting.
The band sums it up best: “We went to the desert. It might seem hot, but it was actually cold. What is the point of all this? You’ll never outrun yourself. The past is always at your heels.”
Watch the video for “The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs”
For ‘The Louder…’, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack flew to one another’s cities—she in Durham, North Carolina, he in Marfa, Texas—for a week or so at a time, hunkering in home studios to sort through and combine their separate song sketches. These shorter stints together produced less second-guessing and hesitation in their process, yielding an unabashed and unapologetic Wye Oak. They discarded past rules about how to write a record, instead funneling all those experiences and experiments into perfectly unified statements.
The result is some of the biggest, broadest and boldest music Wye Oak has ever made. ‘The Louder…’ pursues a litany of modern malaises, each of its dozen tracks diligently addressing a new conflict and pinning it against walls of sound, with the song’s subject and shape inextricably and ingeniously linked. It arrives at a time of immense doubt, when our personal problems are infinitely compounded by a world that seems in existential peril. But these songs answer the challenge by radiating self-reflection and resolve, wielding hooks and musical intricacy as a shield against the madness of the moment.
‘The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs’ will be out worldwide on April 6; pre-orders are available today on CD and “sand & sky” (opaque beige & translucent blue) Peak Vinyl in the Merge store with an optional exclusive t-shirt bundle. The album is also available to pre-order via these participating independent record shops or from these digital providers.
‘The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs’ track list:
1. (tuning)
2. The Instrument
3. The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (YouTube)
4. Lifer
5. It Was Not Natural
6. Symmetry
7. My Signal
8. Say Hello
9. Over and Over
10. You Of All People
11. Join
12. I Knot It’s Real
Wye Oak on tour:
Feb 16 New York, NY – Symphony Space (Shriek suite with William Brittelle & Metropolis Ensemble)
Apr 06 Iowa City, IA – Mission Creek Festival
Apr 20 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Noord
Apr 21 Rotterdam, NL – Motel Mozaique Festival
Apr 22 Luxembourg, LU – De Gudde Wellen
Apr 25 Berlin, DE – BiNuu
Apr 26 Prague, CZ – MeetFactory
Apr 27 Vienna, AT – Fluc
Apr 29 Zurich, CH – Bogen F
May 01 Brussels, BE – Les Nuits Botanique @ Rotonde
May 02 Paris, FR – Le Pop Up
May 03 London, UK – Village Underground
May 04 Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institue
May 05 Liverpool, UK – Liverpool Sound City
May 06 Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
May 09 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
May 10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
May 11 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
May 13 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
May 14 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
May 15 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
May 17 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
May 18 Milwaukee, WI – The Back Room at Colectivo
May 19 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
May 20 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
May 21 Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
May 23 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
May 25 St. Louis, MO – Ready Room
May 26 Louisville, KY – Zanzabar
Jul 11 Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
Jul 13 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
Jul 14 Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret
Jul 15 Seattle, WA – Neumos
Jul 17 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Jul 18 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club
Jul 19 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
Jul 20 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
Jul 21 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
Jul 23 Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
Jul 24 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
Jul 27 Birmingham, AL – Saturn
Links:
Official Web Site
Wye Oak on Twitter
Wye Oak on Facebook
Berghain’s resident Len Faki delivered his first Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 last weekend. Expect a unique selection of timeless techno, electro and house from Figure’s label boss featuring tracks from Truncate, Josh Wink, Ron Trent and Faki’s own LF RMX series of exclusive DJ edits.
Tracklist:
01. Nocow – Redlight Still [Figure]
02. Kobosil – Asle [MDR]
03. Viers – Let My Mind Free [Figure]
04. Truncate – Untitled 02 [Truncate]
05. Traxmen – Let Me See Your Butterfly [Dance Mania]
06. DJ Assault – U Can’t See Me [Electrofunk]
07. Orlando Voorn – In Da Jungle (Chocolate Puma Mix) [Big & Dirty]
08. Setaoc Mass – Mueh [Figure]
09. Erosion Flow – Emeralds [3024]
10. John Thomas & Barbara Goes – Mother’s Dance 2 [Ethique]
11. Shlomi Aber – Conexion [Be As One]
12. Setaoc Mass – Man Ray [Work Them]
13. Emmanuel Top – Tone [Attack]
14. MD III – Acid Feet [More About Music]
15. KT-19941 – Face Your Fate [Puzzlebox]
16. Alex Danilov – Inside (Len Faki Hardspace Mix) [LF RMX]
17. Rumah & Progression – Speakspell [Blueprint]
18. Trevino – Forged (Cleric Bootleg Mix) [White Label]
19. Steve Stoll – Reciproheat (Len Faki Hardspace Mix) [LF RMX]
20. Aquatrax – Stabilize [Aquatrax]
21. Eduardo De La Calle – Orange [Forbidden Colours]
22. DJ Shufflemaster – Untitled (Len Faki Hardspace Mix) [LF RMX]
23. Jock Club – Shock Pressure [Ascetic House]
24. Josh Wink – Sixth Sense [Ovum]
25. Ron Trent – Love Is The Message [Prescription]
26. Random Noise Generator – Instrument Of Change [430 West]
27. Jonas Kopp – Telergia [Indigo Aera]
28. D Func & Marcel Hesse – Patience (Lewis Fautzi Remix) [Finitude]
29. Philippe Petit – Disappearing [Decision Making Theory]
30. Pris – Dodeca [Resin]
31. Sub Space – The Bi Machine [Labrynth]
32. Jeroen Search – Steady Pulse [Figure]
33. Fango – Medulla [Degustibus Music]
34. Trax-X – Gravity [Reload]
35. Pjotr G & Dubiosity – Courser [Lateral Fragments]
36. Sculpture – Untitled [White Label]
37. Lahj – Gears & Greas [Crow Castle Cuts]
38. K. Hand feat. Parris Love – Take It To The Floor [Acacia]
39. Russian Roulette – Your Body On Me [High Octane]
40. Sonic Infusion – Unfuture [Eye Q]
41. Extrawelt – Zu Fuss (Mutter Mix) [Border Community]
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Y NOT, TRAMLINES & LIVERPOOOL SOUND CITY FESTIVAL APPEARANCES ANNOUNCED
“Another brilliant band from Sheffield” – HUW STEPHENS
“These are songs built to stand out on large festival stages” – GIGSLUTZ
“Fuzzed out psychedelia matched to crunching rock riffs, the faint traces of Britpop in RedFaces’ sound makes for something extremely addictive” – CLASH
RedFaces are no strangers to the festival circuit. After storming performances at Community, Live at Leeds, The Great Escape, Dot to Dot, Isle of Wight, TRNSMT and Kendall Calling last summer, as well as support slots with DMA’s and a sold-out hometown show at Sheffield’s Plug, the band will tour the UK throughout February (dates below).
RedFaces are Harry Lyon, Isaac White, Charlie Yapp and Ryan Laycock. Four lads from Sheffield treading what was once a well-worn path, these days the road less travelled. The journey started at 2Fly studios in Sheffield, recording demos with Alan Smyth. Taking their influences from the 50s and 60s right through to today, by way of The Beatles, Hendrix, The Smiths and The Strokes. A brand-new single is due to be announced soon.
Catch RedFaces Live:
Fri 16 Feb – The Tin At The Coal Vaults, Coventry
Sat 17 Feb – Dryden Street Social, Leicester
Sun 18 Feb – Oporto, Leeds
Tue 20 Feb – Le Pub, Newport
Thu 22 Feb – Blackmarket VIP, Hastings
Fri 23 Feb – Mama Liz’s Voodoo Lounge, Stamford
Sat 24 Feb – The Louisiana, Bristol
Sat 5 May – Liverpool Sound City
Sat 21 Jul – Tramlines Festival, Sheffield *Main Stage supporting NGHFB
Sat 28 Jul – Y Not Festival *Main Stage supporting Catfish & The Bottlemen
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