Fresh Snow‘s second album, One, came out a couple of months ago and we just can’t put it down. Lead single ‘I Can’t Die’ was the first song to tantalize us and the Toronto quartet have just unveiled a video for it. The song opens intensely with explosive krautrock-driven drums and fuzzy guitars quickly turning to a more hypnotic and serene affair, wrapped in obscure beauty. Watch the video below. Benjamin Portas directs.
One is out now via Hand Drawn Dracula.
We’re getting excitingly close to the release of Retribution, Tanya Tagaq‘s hugely anticipated new album. Last week she offered the third single off it, the tremendous and compelling title track ‘Retribution’. Tagaq is now pairing the track with a video directed by Brian Johnson. Fellow Inuk performance artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, also featured in the video, described the effort:
“For me, the ‘Retribution’ video is an exploration of the eccentric, the stomach lining of reality. It’s about the cross-pollination of Tanya’s voice and uaajeerneq—my mask work, a denial of the linear progression of past, present and future, a reminder that the earth’s strength is a part of our culture. It’s about feminism and Inuit women.”
Watch the video below and watch out for the release of Retribution on November 18th Six Shooter.
Three years on from the release of Homosapien, Sydney based trio PVT have just announced the release of their fifth album New Spirit. Arriving on February 17th via their own Felte, New Spirit marks a sonic shift, with the electronic rockers “combining ambient electronica, warped vocals and an industrial charge that runs throughout”, as the press release explains.
PVT have let loose the first single off New Spirit, the mighty ‘Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend’, clocking in at 9 minutes. Here’s what PVT had to say about the track:
“The title ‘Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend’ comes from the name of a landscape photo by the Australian photographer Peter Dombrovskis depicting a bend in the Franklin River in Tasmania. The photo was successfully used in a 1983 campaign against the intended destruction of large areas of national forest by the government of the day.
Our hope was to examine one of the large elephants that appears to be in Australia’s living room at the moment.”
The track comes with a stunning and powerful video portraying the political themes behind the album. Director Mclean Stephenson explained his vision:
“This video is about the spiritual ruination of a nobody. A beaten person. A man who couldn’t even get a seat at a support group meeting. So he moves to the bush. And he decides to dress like a bush. And eat animal food. And erase himself. And in the depths of his erasure he encounters a new hope. He soon becomes a spirit of the bush. A spirit of the bushland night sky. And he soars through the trees and over the trees. And he is a Phoenix and a guardian of places without postcodes. A new spirit.”
If ‘Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend’ is anything to go by, we can’t wait for 2017 to arrive. Check it out below.
Back in September, composer Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie shared ‘Lithium, The New Era‘, the first utterly beautiful excerpt from the score he composed for Salero. Salero, filmed by Mike Plunkett, is a feature documentary set in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni.
Salero OST comes out on November 11th via Erased Tapes and to get us further enticed, Wiltzie has unveiled another magnificent excerpt from it, ‘The Few Of Us Left’. It comes with a video edited by Marina Katz. Watch it below.
We’re only three weeks away from the release of Tanya Tagaq’s highly anticipated new album, Retribution, an effort that portrays and protests environmental and human rights violations and abuse. When you’re itching with anticipation like we are, three weeks can seem like an eternity. Luckily she is offering the tremendous title track as a third single, following the mind-blowing ‘Centre’ featuring Shad and the poignant and intense ‘Aorta‘.
What’s more, Tagaq has announced a string of UK/European dates for early 2017 in support of the album. Starting off with a date in Brussels and wrapping up with a show in Berlin, the tour includes two London shows, on January 24th at Cafe Oto and January 26th at Corsica Studios. We caught her utterly mesmerizing, powerful and visceral performance at The Forge last June to accompany the 1922 silent film Nanook of the North, and we just can’t wait to see her bring Retribution to life.
Listen to ‘Retribution’ below and straight after check out Tagag’s full run of European dates.
Tanya Tagaq’s 2017 European tour:
January 20th – Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium
January 21st – 4AD, Diksmuide, Belgium
January 23rd – Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds UK
January 24th – Cafe Oto, London, UK
January 26th – Corsica Studios, London, UK
January 28th – C T M Festival @ HAU1 Festival Opening Show, Berlin, Germany
January 29th – C T M Festival @ HAU1, Berlin, Germany
Retribution is out now in North America and on November 18th in Europe via Six Shooter.
Synth star and composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith released Ears, her third album, earlier this year. She has just unveiled ‘Riparian’, an unreleased track recorded during the Ears sessions. It comes with a beautiful and psychedelic video, directed and animated by Andrew Benson.
Ears is out now via Western Vinyl.
