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Fresh Snow announce new album One, share first single ‘I Can’t Die’

31 August 2016

Fresh Snow - OneThere’s exciting news of a second full-length album from Fresh Snow arriving next week. Entitled One, the effort follows last year’s tremendous Won EP, which was a favourite of ours and has never really left our stereo. Promising their usual masterful and mesmeric fusion of genres like krautrock, noise, psych and rock, One also sees the quartet continuing to push their own boundaries, to craft an album that is more confrontational but also more accessible than their previous work. The album “is both structured and instinctual, made without ego or fear of alienating its listeners”, described the band. “Noise and texture is always prevalent, however minimalism is newly explored in places throughout the album, alongside electronic treatments, and English / French vocals.”

One was recorded in a barn in Ontario with Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh and it drops on September 9th via Hand Drawn Dracula. Lead single ‘I Can’t Die’ serves as the first taste of the musical magic Fresh Snow have in store for us. The track opens intensely and explosively with krautrock-driven drums and fuzzy guitars quickly shifting into a hypnotic and serene affair, enveloped in sinister and shimmering beauty. Listen to it below. Again and again.

Aquaserge’s Guerre EP arrives next month, listen to first track ‘Les Zouzes’

26 August 2016

Aquaserge - Guerre EPWith brilliant musicians that count numerous contributions and membership in other projects like Stereolab, Tame Impala, Melody’s Echo Chamber and Acid Mothers Temple, Aquaserge is a band you ought to know, if you don’t already. They create incredibly original music drawing influences from various genres, from psych pop, free jazz and noise to vintage French lm music and 60s/’70s rock. Julien Barbagallo, Julien Gasc and Benjamin Glibert, who formed the band in Toulouse in 2005, were “eager to explore the abyssal depths of the rock; kraut, noise, progressive, free … and explode the “song format” in the spirit of the late 60s in the manner of Wyatt, Gainsbourg, Coltrane, Zappa, Hendrix and the Beach Boys”, explains a press release. Their music, it adds, “tells of the strange mythology of Captain Serge wandering in the abyss aboard his submarine cigar…”.
Aquaserge’s ever evolving line-up has incorporated a number of different collaborators, with Audrey Ginestet and Manon Glibert now being a core part of the band.

The quintet are set to release a full-length album in early 2017 via Crammed Discs. Preceding the album’s release, Aquaserge will also be releasing an EP entitled Guerre EP which comes out September 16th. The EP features four songs, each a universe on its own. The wonderful and exotic opening track ‘Les Zouzes’ serves as a marvellous teaser for what is to come. And it comes with a video made by Olia Eichenbaum.

Royal Canoe unleash new single ‘Love You Like That’ from upcoming second album

24 August 2016

Royal Canoe - Love You Like ThatRoyal Canoe are gearing up to drop their forthcoming album Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit. The record arrives next month and ahead of it the Canadian sextet had already enticed us with two singles from it, ‘Somersault’ and ‘Living A Lie’. Now they’ve shared ‘Love You Like That’, offering another taste of things to come on their highly anticipated second album. Stream it below.

Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit is out on September 16th via Nevado Music worldwide, Embassy of Music in Europe and Moorworks in Japan.

Neil Cowley Trio premiere video for new single ‘The City and the Stars’

23 August 2016

Neil Cowley Trio- The City and the StarsWith Neil Cowley Trio‘s impending and highly anticipated sixth album, Spacebound Apes, getting excitingly close to release, they are teasing it again with a new song, the superb and sprightly ‘The City and the Stars’. As we had previously mentioned, Spacebound Apes is a concept album lacing their music with a written story, based on an ordinary guy called Lincoln. The stories are being unfolded here up until the album’s release. Due out on September 16th via Hide Inside, the record will be available on vinyl, CD and digital formats and also as an exclusive LP-sized book containing Lincoln’s full story, including illustrations and full piano transcriptions of all the tracks from the album.
Now check out the great video for ‘The City and the Stars’. You’ll want to listen to the song again and again.

Supersilent set to release new album next month, share first cut ‘13.9’

22 August 2016

Supersilent - 13Norway’s improvisational avant-jazz ensemble Supersilent have been steadily releasing exquisite albums for nearly two decades. Their most recent album, 2014’s 12, is now being followed up by 13. Helge Sten, Arve Henriksen and Ståle Storløkken, who make up the trio, recorded it live, as the album blurb describes, “while blasting their sound through a PA system, so that they can feel the physical air moving as if they were on stage”. They have evolved and adjusted to being a trio since the departure of drummer Jarle Vespestad in 2009, and we now find “all three often handling their respective instruments as if they were percussion, stabbing buttons and keys in real time”.

13 arrives on September 30th via Smalltown Supersound, and ahead of it, we can already hear the sublime ‘13.9’. Take a listen now.

Helado Negro returns with new album Private Energy

19 August 2016

Helado Negro - Private EnergyHelado Negro has announced the follow-up to his wonderful 2014 album Double Youth. Entitled Private Energy, the record was written and produced by Roberto Carlos Lange, the talented prolific musician behind the project. Revolving around the central themes of self-love, pride, and the embrace of constant change, as the press release explains,  the forthcoming album “is an interpersonal communication of sounds about his surroundings past, present, and future”.

Following the first single ‘Runaround’, Helado Negro has shared another magical cut from Private Energy called ‘Transmission Listen’. Listen to both now.

Private Energy is due out October 7th via Asthmatic Kitty.