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Zammuto’s second album arrives in September

07 July 2014

Zammuto

Zammuto have finally confirmed a release date for their hugely anticipated second album, Anchor. After leaving me psyched up with the three mind-blowing tracks they released last year as part of a crowd-funding campaign, the quartet led by Nick Zammuto have recently premiered the first official single, ‘Great Equator’.

Anchor is slated for a September 2nd release via Temporary Residence, and like their 2012 eponymous debut, Zammuto did all the recording, mixing and mastering at his own shed-turned-studio. “Anchor embodies the very DIY lifestyle and self-sufficient approach that has come to define all that is Zammuto”, describes the press release. It adds that “the arrangements have more space, the songs are more dynamic, and the vocals are delivered with a confident intimacy that is almost alarmingly beautiful.”

In support of the upcoming album, Zammuto have announced a string of live dates across the US, starting in New Haven, Connecticut on August 28th. We’re keeping our fingers and toes crossed for a European tour to follow later in the year.

Now listen to their excellent new song ‘Great Equator’.

Matthew Collings joins Denovali, announces new album release and debut album re-release

03 July 2014

Matthew Collings - Toms

Splintered Instruments, the debut album from Edinburgh based composer Matthew Collings, is being re-released by the ever wonderful Denovali Records on July 25th. Collings worked closely with frequent collaborator Ben Frost, who produced and engineered the album. There’s more to look forward to from Collings. The label is also releasing his brand new solo album, Silence is a Rhythm Too, on the same day.
Silence Is A Rhythm Too takes its title from a line from an 80’s song by The Slits called ‘In The Beginning There Was Rhythm’.
The album ”is about trying to find grace, space and expanse as much as tension and menace, and reconciling the two”, as the press release explains. It “keeps an eye on the small textural details as it is about harmony and physicality in the moment where silence and noise meet”.

‘Toms’ is the first tremendous cut to be lifted from Silence Is A Rhythm Too. Listen to it below, and straight after, check out the album trailer video.


Little Tybee tease fourth album, share new track

28 June 2014

Little Tybee - Don't Quit Your Day Job

We haven’t heard from Atlanta’s Little Tybee since they released For Distant Viewing last year. They are getting ready to record a new album, and on the run up to it, Little Tybee have just kicked off a month-long US tour. The outfit will be debuting new material live, “in hopes to get it polished”, as they said.
To tease us further, Little Tybee have unveiled a video for a new song, ‘Don’t Quit Your Day Job’, recorded at Doppler Studios. Here it is.

Sinkane’s somophore album arrives in September

24 June 2014

Sinkane - Hold Tight

Sinkane‘s debut album came out to wide acclaim in 2012 and now New York based Sudanese multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, the man behind the project, is ready to follow it up. Mean Love is set to be released on September 1st via DFA Records in North America and via City Slang in the rest of the world.

A prolific and inspired man playing and collaborating often with various stellar artists, Sinkane’s upcoming album saw him recruit guest collaborators Damon Albarn, David Byrne, The Lijadu Sisters, Money Mark and members of Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and Blood Orange.

Mean Love is “melodically beat-driven and meditatively lyrical”, describes the press release. It “rolls like an emotional, existential history of the artist. Ahmed Gallab has created an altogether unique compound of sound, stylistically nostalgic and ultramodern at the same time.”.

To get us excited, Sinkane has dropped the soulful and groovy lead single ‘Hold Tight’. You better listen to it now.

In other related good news, and in support of the new album, Sinkane has announced a string of European live shows for September, including September 11th at London’s Shacklewell Arms. A US tour will follow in October.

Astronauts’ debut album set for release next month

23 June 2014

Astronauts - Hollow Ponds

London based Dan Carney, formerly of alt-folkers Dark Captain, has a new solo project called Astronauts, and a debut album about to drop. Entitled Hollow Ponds after an area of Epping Forest in North-east London, the effort arrives on July 21st via Lo Recordings.
According to the press release, Hollow Ponds “combines the soft melancholy, psych-folky dynamics and bubbling electronic textures favoured by Dan in his former incarnation with more adventurous moments of good ol’fashioned spiky guitar abuse.”

Delivering a blissful ride, ‘Skydive’ serves as the album’s wonderful first taste. Wrap your ears around this beauty below.