Constellation announces new album from Matthew Patton’s project Those Who Walk Away

25 January 2017

Those Who Walk Away - The Infected MassWhen there’s new releases on Constellation, we know better to take note. So meet Winnipeg based composer Matthew Patton, who is the latest artist to join the label. Under the moniker Those Who Walk Away, Patton is set to release several works, the first of which is entitled The Infected Mass and will see the light of day on March 17th.
Recorded in Winnipeg and Reykjavik, the album is described as “a haunted and profoundly emotive requiem of minimalist composition that combines ghostly strings and choral voices with musique concrète”. Patton elaborates on the album:

“There is something very genuine and at the same time very wrong in what I am doing. The recordings are very disturbing; as we listen to these cockpit voice recordings, real people are about to die. I don’t know why I am doing something that feels so wrong. But I am. This work is disturbingly personal for me. The music is filled with ghosts and artifacts I couldn’t erase. It is filled to the saturation point with a pathology which infects everything, of decayed memories haunted by the ghost of my brother, who was killed in a plane crash.”

We can already get a taster of The Infected Mass with two delicate and affecting movements, ‘First Degraded Hymn’ and ‘First Partially Recollected Conversation’. Take a listen now.

The Evil Usses announce new album Amateur Pro Wrestling and share first single

24 January 2017

The Evil Usses - Gambino2017 is being graced with a cornucopia of exciting releases. This includes Bristol’s The Evil Usses, known for the exhilarating energy of their live performances, and broad spectrum of sounds amalgamating “rocky notjazz, jazzy notrock, post-op pop, notmuch and a lot else”, as they put it themselves. The quartet have lifted the curtain on their next full-length album, Amateur Pro Wrestling, set for release on March 31st via Stolen Body Records.
‘Gambino’ is the first single to emerge and it serves as a hell of a taster for Amateur Pro Wrestling. The track comes with an excellent and amusing video filmed by Yoshino Shigihara. Watch it now on full screen and prepare to dance.

Orchestra Baobab return with new album Tribute To Ndiouga Dieng

23 January 2017

Orchestra Baobab - Tribute To Ndiouga DiengTen years removed from the release of Made in Dakar, Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab are ready to issue its follow-up, Tribute To Ndiouga Dieng. The record is dedicated to one of their original vocalists who passed away last November. Recorded in Dakar, the album sees the band “retaining the ripeness of the sound that made Orchestra Baobab a legend”, blending Afro-Cuban rhythms and African tradition. As the press release describes, Tribute To Ndiouga Dieng “is an irresistible mix of velvet harmonies, warm and heartfelt vocals, smoky sax and sweetly shimmering kora and guitar lines, expertly crafted and masterfully delivered with a poise and virtuosity built up over a lifetime”.
Ahead of the album’s release on March 31st via World Circuit Records, Orchestra Baobab are offering the first jubilant taste from it, ‘Foulo’. The track is a rework of ‘Kanoute’, an old Baobab love song. Listen to it below.

Shobaleader One share first single from forthcoming debut album Elektrac

21 January 2017

Shobaleader OneLast month Shobaleader One shared a funky album trailer teasing their debut album. More details have now emerged and the project of Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher, Arg Nution, Strobe Nazard and Company Lazer have announced the release of Elektrac. Due out on March 10th via Warp, the record features the band’s versions of eleven Squarepusher classics, and we can already hear one of them, the mighty ‘Journey To Reedham’. Here it is.

Aquaserge unveil video for ‘Virage Sud’ off upcoming fourth album

20 January 2017

AquasergeAquaserge had promised a new album this year and comes February 3rd, their long-awaited Laisse ça être will see the light of day through Almost Musique and Crammed Discs. Preceding the record, the Toulouse based quintet released last September their Guerre EP, a magnificent four-song EP, each song a universe on its own.

“Coded messages, anadiplosis and automatic writing, dance music grooves peppered with rhythmical and metrical twists, shades of Italian or French film music, a dense political and poetic subtext” are the ingredients behind Laisse ça être, describes the press release.

‘Virage Sud’ is the first single lifted from the album and it serves as a luscious taste of what they’ll be throwing at us. The track comes with a video, directed by the band’s bassist, Audrey Ginestet. Check it out below.

Dirty Projectors announce self-titled album, share new single ‘Up In Hudson’

19 January 2017

Dirty Projectors - Up In HudsonFor nearly five years, we have been waiting with bated breath for a new album from Dirty Projectors. They are officially back, with their seventh album due next month. The outfit of Dave Longstreth had already teased the follow-up to 2012’s Swing Lo Magellan with ‘Keep Your Name’ and ‘Little Bubble’. Now that an eponymous album has been confirmed, Dirty Projectors are enticing us further with another exquisitely wonderful cut from it called ‘Up In Hudson’. The song “is an elegy — to the Obama years, to a generation of indie rock, and to a relationship”, describes the press release. “Over the course of nine verses and almost eight minutes, the lyrics situate David Longstreth & his band in the vivid textures of the recent past like a millennial Blood On The Tracks.”

Dirty Projectors arrives on February 24th via Domino. Till then, we’ll be listening to ‘Up In Hudson’ over and over again. And you might too.