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Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo score David Gordon Green’s new film Manglehorn

15 October 2015

Explosions In The Sky and David Wingo - Manglehorn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

After scoring David Gordon Green’s film Prince Avalanche in 2013, Explosions in the Sky and composer David Wingo teamed up again to score Green’s new movie, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino.
With very minimal guitar work included in the score, it sees Explosions In The Sky go back to their primary instrument, as the press release describes, “opting to harness that same emotional resonance from an array of percussive instruments”.

The good news is that Temporary Residence is putting out this magical soundtrack as a special limited edition. It drops on December 18th on CD and vinyl and it will be mail order exclusive. Pre-orders are now available so be quick to get yours.

Here’s a couple of wonderful tracks from Manglehorn‘s soundtrack, ‘Manglehorn Lock And Key’ and ‘Kylie And The Lion’.

Kristian Harting shares new single ‘Ship Of Fools’ ahead of album release

14 October 2015

Kristian Harting - Summer Of Crush

With just over two weeks from unveiling his second solo album, Summer Of Crush, Danish experimental singer/songwriter Kristian Harting has shared a new single off it called ‘Ship Of Fools’. The entire album was written, played and recorded by Harting himself, using guitars, loop pedals, a foot-operated synth and analogue electronics. Harting describes the album as, “Motown meets metal meets Morricone.” Speaking about the track, he said this:

“’Ship Of Fools’ is about abusing yourself in a system you know is bad for you but still fascinates and attracts you to a degree where you are willing to compromise yourself to be part of it. About knowing the world is on the brink of ecological disaster and you are still traveling around in airplanes, pouring plastic in the waste and eating pesticides. It’s about the driving force of Western capitalism fuelled by money and power, glam and cocaine, seducing and enslaving people and nature. I’m not a saint. I’m caught up in it. It’s everywhere I go. I try to breathe freely but everywhere are exhaust pipes.”

‘Ship Of Fools’ is a beautiful beast of a track. Listen to ir below and watch out for the release of Summer Of Crush on October 30th via Exile on Mainstream.

Listen to Leo Abrahams’ latest single from forthcoming fifth album

12 October 2015

Leo Abrahams - Daylight

Leo Abrahams’s fifth full-length album, Daylight, arrives next month and ahead of it, the producer and guitarist has already teased the effort with two excellent tracks. ‘Halo Effect’ served as the album’s first taste and last week saw the release of new single ‘Chain’, featuring vocals from Brian Eno.

“The sound of Brian’s stacked vocals is, for me, one of the greatest sounds in music history,” explained Abrahams. “On ‘Chain’ I originally sang all the vocals myself, but as a result of some unconscious plagiarism people started saying it reminded them of Brian! So I asked him to do it, and the end result is both of us singing together. He is very generous with his time and, luckily for me, loves to sing.”

Other than Eno, Daylight also features guest contributions from Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa on drums.
Now take a listen to both ‘Chain’ and ‘Halo Effect’.


Daylight is out on November 20th via Lo Recordings.

Fresh Snow unveil video for ‘Don’t Fuck A Gift Horse In The Mouth’

11 October 2015

Fresh Snow - Don't Fuck A Gift Horse In The Mouth

A month in from the release of Won, the new EP from Toronto’s four-piece Fresh Snow, they have unleashed a fittingly cinematic and epic video for the album’s intensely beautiful, hypnotic and fierce closing track ‘Don’t Fuck A Gift Horse In The Mouth’, featuring guest Damian Abraham (Fucked Up) on vocals. Ghostprom directs. Watch it below.



Won is out now on vinyl and digitally via Hand Drawn Dracula and on limited cassette edition via Reel Cod Records.

Bitchin Bajas set to kick off European tour, first UK shows later this month

11 October 2015
Photo: Jeremiah Chiu

Photo: Jeremiah Chiu

Chicago’s experimental trio Bitchin Bajas are about to embark on an extensive European tour, starting this Wednesday 14th in San Sebastian, Spain. This tour also marks their first ever performances in the UK, with a handful of shows taking place, including a London date on October 26th at Cafe Oto.

Bitchin Bajas’ latest musical explorations saw them joining forces with fellow Chicago based band National Information Society. Automaginary is the fruit of this perfect collaboration, a full-length album released last August via Drag City. As the label described, “the exploratory sonics of these two groups emerge from different, yet occasionally parallel paths to meld into a psychedelic, ambient and jazz-fried coalescence – yet their sum is equal to none of these things in particular, either, arriving on an astral plane unique and of its own.”.
Listen to Automaginary‘s opening track ‘Anemometer’ and straight after let yourself be absorbed by ‘Pieces of Tape’, taken from Bitchin Bajas’ 2014 eponymous album.