Attacca Quartet’s new album out now, watch the video for latest single ‘Remind U’ ft. TOKiMONSTA

16 July 2021

Photo: David Goddard

Attacca Quartet‘s stunner of a new album, Real Life, has hit shelves earlier this month. Real Life is an album of electronic music arrangements featuring reworks of tracks from electronic artists such as Anne Müller, Squarepusher, Daedelus, The Halluci Nation and Mid-Air Thief. After sharing the album’s title track, a rework of Louis Cole’s ‘Real Life’, Attacca Quartet are offering a video to accompany new single ‘Remind U’ featuring TOKiMONSTA, originally by Flying Lotus. Guest collaborator TOKiMONSTA had this to day about the Grammy Award-winning string ensemble:

“The Attacca Quartet reminds me why I love music. Even in their world, they break rules to further the boundaries of classical music. It was truly a pleasure to work with them and dabble in the genre that first introduced me to music as a child.”

Violist Nathan Schram also commented on this collaboration:

“I remember the first time I heard Flying Lotus’ music. It was a confusing combination of exhilaration, envy, and deep FOMO. His music is hyper-sophisticated, endlessly nuanced, and hits all the feels you didn’t know you had. It became one of my missions in life to find a way to bring this wild energy to our ever-growing Attacca universe. Of the three FlyLo tracks on the album, ‘Remind U’ is the most gentle and sentimental – getting deep into that bittersweet territory that is so hard to describe. Bringing TOKiMONSTA into the mix was the icing on the cake that brings the nostalgia all the way home.”

The music video for ‘Remind U’ was created by Calypo Spritz. Watch it now.

Real Life is out now through Sony Classical

Run Logan Run announce details of third album For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

15 July 2021

Bristolian adventurous drum-and-sax duo Run Logan Run will release their third album, For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers, on September 17th through Worm Discs. Recorded in lockdown, following a period of intense jamming, the eight-track record finds them embracing a new direction, with the collaboration of producer Riaan Vosloo (Nostalgia 77). For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers “bolsters the dynamic improvised sound of the group with expansive synth soundscapes that add depth, warmth and emotional heft to the duo’s uniquely committed style of spiritualised jazz”, as the press release describes.
Speaking about the album title, which refers to the pandemic, saxophonist Andrew Neil Hayes explained that “for the first time in quite some time, society was together inside a collective moment”. Hayes added, ‘It didn’t last for long, and it was definitely ugly, but it was also definitely beautiful. We’re working from our intuition and our music is a reflection of the world we inhabit. It’s ugly, but it’s also beautiful, and it’s beautiful, but it’s also ugly.”

Ahead of the album release, Run Logan Run have shared ‘Screaming With The Light On’, a buoyant and boisterous track, marked by a sense of visceral energy and pure joy. Take a listen below.

Suuns preview upcoming album with second single ‘C-Thru’

14 July 2021

September 3rd will see the release of Suuns‘ new album, The Witness, through Joyful Noise. After teasing it with the lead single ‘Witness Protection’, the Canadian band are offering another glimpse into the album with new single ‘C-Thru’. “A lot of the slower and more delicate songs on this record required quite some finesse, and after all that careful work we needed a good romp,” explained the band’s Liam O’Neill. “SUUNS at our best is always secretly a little bit ‘fun,’ so when Ben writes an uncomplicated song with a good melody, we try not to overthink it – we try and get the sound of us having fun with it on tape.”

‘C-Thru’ comes with an accompanying video directed by Jared Raab and Luca Tarantini, who had this to say about it:

“‘C-Thru’ was a song that seemed to ask for an abstract and difficult image. Perhaps we were feeling exhausted from having to see everything on a screen, but the experience of making the video was a lot like viewing it. We were slowly burying ourselves under a layer after layer of static textures. We live in a world mediated more and more by screens and we started to see the song as representing something more meaningful, out of sight, under the surface. It’s quite literally a trick of the eyes. It’s an image underneath another image.”

Watch the video below.

Watch the live performance of Anoushka Shankar & Manu Delago with Metropole Orkest Strings at Le Guess Who?’s 2018 edition

13 July 2021

The 12th edition of Le Guess Who? festival in 2018 was an absolute musical paradise filled with wondrous and unforgettable performances. One that stood out for us was that of Anoushka Shankar & Manu Delago with Metropole Orkest Strings, playing on the third day of the festival. True masters of their instruments, Shankar following in the footsteps of her father on the sitar, and Delago a pioneer of the hang, the pair enthralled the audiences at TivoliVredenburg’s Grotezaal, performing with the 27-member string section of the Metropole Orkest, under the direction of conductor Jules Buckley.
Le Guess Who? has today shared the full video recording so if you’ve missed it, fear not, we can now relive this beguiling performance as it happened. Nick Helderman directs.

The 14th edition of Le Guess Who? takes place 11-14 November throughout Utrecht and festival passes are now available on leguesswho.com, where you can also find more info.

Tropical Fuck Storm set to release third album, Deep States, in August

10 July 2021

Last month Tropical Fuck Storm announced the release of Deep States, their third album following 2019’s Braindrops. The Australian four piece continues to craft killer tunes blending everything from post punk and rock to psychedelia and pop, whilst also outlining real-world issues in the socio-political context of our times. On Deep States, “the band chronicles weird adventures in statecraft and surveillance, ponders the global infatuation with resurgent fascisms”, describes the press release. “Tropical Fuck Storm shines an incandescent light on a world in which corporate media, bad-faith leaders, and charismatics of all stripes lose the ability to recognize their own deceptiveness.”

Alongside the album announcement, Tropical Fuck Storm have shared the first brilliant and blistering single ‘G.A.F.F.’, which stands for ‘Give A Fuck Fatigue’. Speaking about it, the band said:

“‘Give A Fuck Fatigue’ is an ode to the occasional dispassion brought about by the mandatory concern for every perceived injustice that happens, has happened and might yet happen that is being foisted upon the masses by super-yacht dwelling tech barons who monetise our indignation.”

‘G.A.F.F.’ is offered with a video directed by Oscar O’Shea. Here it is.


Deep States will hit stores on August 20th through Joyful Noise.

Watch Vanishing Twin’s video for ‘Big Moonlight (Ookii Gekkou)’ off upcoming album

09 July 2021

London supergroup Vanishing Twin have recently announced the release of a new album. Entitled Ookii Gekkou, the record arrives on October 15th through Fire Records. The now quartet of songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti, bassist Susumu Mukai, and synth/guitar player Phil MFU continues to push their boundaries, drawing influences from afrofunk, outer jazz and avant-garde. They cite various influential references from Sun Ra to Alice Coltrane, Martin Denny to Morricone, Can’s Holger Czukay to meditative Gamelan, or The Free Design, to library music of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

The wondrous and otherworldly ‘Big Moonlight (Ookii Gekkou)’ is the first single to emerge from the upcoming album and “tells the chaotic story of rock torn away from the earth’s outer layer and its gradual falling into the patterns that give us moon phases”, as the press release describes. The track has been paired with a clay animated music video made by Daisy Dickinson.  “We asked Daisy to take the being from the cover of our album and make it move, grow, stretch, multiply and merge with other objects”, explained Vanishing Twin. “Hypnotised by the moon, the being plays in a strange landscape populated by other mysterious objects and characters.”

Watch the video below.