Earlier this month Waterstrider graced our ears with a brand new track, ‘Frayed’. The quintet have paired the track with an interesting video using pixilation. ‘Frayed’ will be released on June 23rd as part of a compilation from OIM Records. Here’s the video directed by Marta Dymek.
Waterstrider’s debut album Nowhere Now is out now and available to order on their bandcamp.
Southend-on-Sea’s experimental industrial outfit Liberez have announced a new album, All Tense Now Lax. Slated for a July 24th release via Night School Records, the effort is described as “an all-consuming album of frightening power”. All Tense Now Lax sees the band exploring new musical territories “to produce a flawlessly engineered machine that consumes the beholder”. explains the press release. “Salient sonic ingredients swirl around chamber music drone, flowing in to chalky noise rock, and exposed to charged particles of feedback and thrumming currents.”
Ahead of the album’s release, Liberez are offering the first taste in the form of a video for the lead single “Grease The Axles”. Check it out below.
American guitar virtuoso and composer Charlie Hunter, known for his versatility and affinity with the 7 and 8-string guitar, has announced the release of a new album marking his debut as trio with the addition of Curtis Fowlkes and Bobby Previte. The three have worked together for several years but hadn’t yet recorded an album together. Let The Bells Ring On, described as “gritty, greasy, and downright celebratory”, drops on June 9th via Hunter’s own label, Charlie Hunter Music.
Following Hunter’s main duo with drummer Scott Amendola, he wanted to explore his textural possibilities further. “Conceptually, I’ve been doing a duo thing with Scott that I love, but I wanted to have that third voice,” said Hunter. “I wanted somebody with a vibe who understands free improv and Al Green and Frank Sinatra and Sam Cooke. I wanted someone who can sing on their horn. I needed Curtis.”
‘Those People’ is the first excellent taste to emerge from Let The Bells Ring On. Listen to it below.
Last month we heard the stunningly dark and gentle first single from Circuit des Yeux‘s upcoming fifth album, In Plain Speech. With just over a week to go until the album drops, Haley Fohr, the Chicago musician behind the project, is offering another taste from the album in the form of a video for the majestic ‘Do the Dishes’. Julia Dratel directs. Watch it below.
In Plain Speech is out on May 18th via Thrill Jockey.
Last month we heard the triumphantly beautiful and gritty ‘Change is Everything’, the first single taken from Son Lux‘s upcoming fourth album Bones. The album is the band’s first as a trio, with producer and composer Ryan Lott’s original solo project turned into a trio with the addition of guitarist and composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang. Son Lux have just unveiled a spectacular stop motion video to accompany ‘Change if Everything’, made by collective The Made Shop, featuring pins, yarn and boards. Watch it below and watch out for the release of Bones on June 22nd via Glassnote.
Just last month, Oakland, California’s Waterstrider released their debut album Nowhere Now and they can’t seem to stop making amazing and infectious music. ‘Frayed’ is the quintet’s brand new track, released as part of a compilation from OIM Records. Featuring 13 artists from the Bay Area, who went into the studio for three days with producer Jeff Saltzman, the compilation drops on June 23rd in vinyl, cassette and digital formats. Now listen to ‘Frayed’.
