Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks bring ‘Little Fang’ to life

17 March 2014

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Little Fang

Last month we got the first taste of Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks’ upcoming debut album Enter the Slasher House with the lead single ‘Little Fang’. The trio have complimented the track with a brilliant video directed by long time Animal Collective collaborator Abby Portner. The video features Little Fang as a part cat, part werewolf puppet created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and wrangled by Michael Wick (Nightmare Before Christmas), and puppet mastered by Tim Lagasse (Crash and Bernstein & Sesame Street). Speaking about the video, Abby explained she “really wanted to showcase the craft of the things that were made like the puppet and physical set pieces”. She added, “I also wanted to reference horror movies, like the car scene in Psycho and the lake in Malibu that the little girl climbs out of in the original Frankenstein. Dave [Portner] and I were inspired by Jim Henson, who had a funny dark side, so we tried to make a video that also had light hearted dark side”.
Watch the video below and watch out for the release of Enter the Slasher House on April 7th in the UK/Europe and April 8th in North America via Domino Records.

Holy Fuck share first new track in four years

14 March 2014

Holy Fuck - Sabbatics

This morning I woke up to the news I’d been waiting to hear for a very long time – Canadian outfit Holy Fuck are releasing new music. Coinciding with their upcoming Australian tour, they’ve announced the release of a new single, slated for a April 24th release via Mistletone as a limited edition tour 7”. The single is yet to be unveiled but they are already making us shake and salivate for more with the storming B-side ‘Sabbatics’, their first new track in four years. I’ve been listening to it on repeat and hope anyone who hears it gets the same visceral pleasure out of it that I do. Here it is.

New trio Watter sign to Temporary Residence, announce debut album

13 March 2014

Watter – Rustic Fog

The latest addition to the Temporary Residence family goes by the name of Watter. The newly formed trio is made up of Grails guitarist Zak Riles, Slint drummer Britt Walford, and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Trotter. “For Riles and Trotter, it’s a chance to dig deeper into the sandbox in which Grails have sculpted many mercurial masterpieces in recent years”, explains the press release, “for Walford, it’s the opportunity to play a substantial role in a new active band for the first time in nearly twenty years, since his days in the criminally-underrated EVERGREEN”.

Watter are set to release their debut album, This World, on May 27th. Ahead of it, they’re offering the first taste off it in the form of the excellent and seductive 7-minute instrumental ‘Rustic Fog’. Give it a listen below.

Landlady tease upcoming album with lead single ‘Above My Ground’

10 March 2014

Landlady - Above My Ground

Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Adam Schatz is well know for his affiliation and collaboration with numerous bands. Landlady, his brainchild project, is described as the outfit where he “seems truly at home”.
This spring, and as a quintet including Mikey Freedom Hart, Ian Chang, Ian Davis, and Booker Stardrum, Landlady will release a new full-length album via Hometapes. The yet-to-be-titled effort follows Keeping To Yourself, self-released in 2011.
‘“Above My Ground’ serves as the first enticing taste of what’s coming our way. Listen to it below.

Pevin Kinel unleashes double A-side single SEO Your Friends

09 March 2014

Pevin Kinel - SEO Your FriendsLast week, without any announcement, Pevin Kinel unveiled a double A-side single entitled SEO Your Friends, featuring ‘Fifteen’ and ‘In a Way you would Care’. It follows his outstanding 2012’s Syntactic Sugars, which was one of our Album Picks of the Year.
The London based multi-instrumentalist and one-man-orchestra, got us used to expect anything from him, with his flair for experimenting and exploring an immensity of musical territories. With SEO Your Friends, Pevin delivers again a fascinating and unique project crafted with a strong social conscience. Other than the excellent two singles, SEO Your Friends comes laced with a heartfelt and moving short speech by Leslie Pickering, the former spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front Press Office. The speech was extracted from the film Testify by Michael Becker and Stephen Gamboa.
Here’s the blurb Pevin wrote to accompany the release:

“You would do anything for the people you love. That’s why the couple of songs I’m releasing today come in a neat wrapping entitled “SEO Your Friends”. Because when you stop a minute and really think about it, if you go calling someone your friend and then don’t do anything to improve their ranking in Google search results, can you say you care for them at all? Can you say you have their best interests at heart? Or are you simply trying to isolate them from the world like some possesive freak? Think about this for a minute, and then, do the right thing. Show the ones you love that they truly matter to you. SEO your friends.”

The other good news is SEO Your Friends can now be streamed or download for free on his website. Get a taste of this absolute must listen with ‘Fifteen’.