We’re only two weeks away from the much anticipated release of Get The Blessing‘s fifth album, Astronautilus. The Bristolian quartet had already allured us with the first single, ‘Monkfish‘ and they’re keeping us excited with another incredible cut from the album, ‘Phaenomena’. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by James Hankins. Here it is.
Astronautilus is due out on October 2nd via Naim Jazz Records.
Photo: M Nagel
With the release of his upcoming third album Pagodes fast approaching, Jono McCleery has shared a third single off it, the marvellous and enveloping ‘This Idea Of Us’. We had already heard and loved two tracks from the album, ‘Age of Self’ and ‘Clarity’. ‘This Idea Of Us’ is another jewel within an album of gems.
And as if we needed more news to rejoice, Jono shared this week a video for the beautiful acoustic version of ‘Age of Self’. Now listen to ‘This Idea Of Us’ and watch the video straight after.
Pagodes is out on October 2nd via If Music.
We’re only in September but there’s already exciting news of records slated for a 2016 release. One in particular caught our ears – Moonlit Bang Bang, the upcoming album from five piece Phall Fatale, who have just signed to Slowfoot Records . The group comprises Joy Frempong (OY, Filewile) and Joana Aderi (Sissy Fox, Eiko) on vocals, keyboards and electronics, John Edwards (Robert Wyatt, Mulatu Astatke) and Daniel Sailer (Frachter, Pol) doubling on double bass and drummer Fredy Studer (Koch-Schütz-Studer, Doran-Stucky-Studer-Tacuma etc.).
The album arrives on January 15th but they are already enticing us with the first single ‘The Girl, The Beat’, and it comes with a super fashionable video.
Enigmatic electronic producer Levantis has announced his debut full-length, following his 2013 Believe EP on Trilogy Tapes. Entitled Romantic Psychology 1, the upcoming album is said to be “about Nigredo and possession of the shadow” and it’s due out on October 30th via Ninja Tune offshoot Technicolour Records.
The eerie ‘Jamaican Greek Style’ serves as the first taste from the album. Listen to it below.
Architect, the debut album from C Duncan, came out last July. The Scottish composer is following it up with a special limited edition 7”, featuring a gorgeous Autumnal rework of his first single ‘For’ and a version of ‘Here to There’, now sang in French and titled ‘Ici à Là’.
As the press release describes, ‘For (Autumn Rebuild)’ “is adapted from a winsome and pretty shanty into an irresistible choral collage of Beach Boys expanse, its rhythms shifted to accent a driving 4/4 and its ended lifted in glorious vocal harmonies”. The single drops on November 7th via Fat Cat but we can already hear it.
We have been eagerly waiting for a new album from Esmerine since their 2013 glorious and wonderful Dalmak, which was one of our Album Picks of the Year. Fortunately, news of their fifth full-length emerged last month. The Montréal chamber rock ensemble will release their new effort, Lost Voices, on October 16th via Constellation.
The label describes the album as “the most dynamic and incendiary record of the group’s career”, adding that it is “cerebral and visceral, controlled and volatile, and wholly cinematic in scope throughout.”.
Lost Voices sees Esmerine expand their core line-up, with the addition of bassist Jeremi Roy, who had been a touring member since 2013. The album was recorded by Vid Cousins (Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, Colin Stetson) and it was mixed and produced by Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes). Cousins and Lasek are also two of the stellar contributors guesting on some of the album tracks, alongside Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Thee Silver Mt. Zion violinist Sophie Trudeau, Colin Stetson and James Hakan Dedeoglu, amongst others.
The first taste from the album comes in the shape of ‘The Neighbourhoods Rise’, the monumental opening track. Here it is.
