Watch The Physics House Band’s video for ‘Calypso’ off upcoming album Mercury Fountain

21 March 2017

The Physics House Band - Calypso‘Calypso’, the mighty first single from The Physics House Band‘s upcoming mini-album Mercury Fountain, serves as a tremendous taste for what the Brighton based trio have in store for us. The track is being offered with an accompanying video, directed and produced by Adam Hutchison. Watch it below and grab the album when it drops on April 21st via Small Pond Records.


To celebrate the release of Mercury Fountain, The Physics House Band have announced a string of live dates in the UK/Europe in May. See all their confirmed stops below:

May 5th – Colossal Festival (DK)
May 7th – Darwen, Sunbird Records, UK
May 8th – Glasgow, The Hug and Pint, UK
May 9th – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club, UK
May 10th – Bristol, The Fleece, UK
May 11th – Brighton, The Haunt, UK
May 12th – London, Kamio, UK
May 15th – Berlin – Schokoladen, DE
May 17th – Brno – BajKazyl, CZ
May 18th – Prague – Underdogs Ballroom, CZ
May 20th – Bratislava – A4, SK
May 24th – Torino – Officine Ferroviarie, IT
May 25th – Piacenza – DannySays, IT
May 26th – Montova – Arci Tom, IT

Listen to Oiseaux-Tempête’s third single ‘Through The Speech Of Stars’

20 March 2017
Photo : As Human Pattern

Photo : As Human Pattern

We’re less than a month away from the release of AL-‘AN ! الآن (And your night is your shadow — a fairy-tale piece of land to make our dreams), the new album from French outfit Oiseaux-Tempête. Following their previously shared singles, the poignant and compelling ‘Carnaval feat Mondkopf’ and more recently the wonderful and ethereal ‘I Don’t Know, What Or Why (Mish Aaref Eish W Leish)’ featuring Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, one hardly needs further convincing that their album is one not to be missed. In anticipation of the album’s release, Oiseaux-Tempête are offering a new track, ‘Through The Speech Of Stars’. Clocking in at nearly eighteen minutes, ‘Through The Speech Of Stars’ is an absolute opus of a song, with guest contributions from G.W. Sok (The Ex, Cannibales & Vahinés) and Gareth Davis and featuring a poem by Mahmoud Darwich.

AL-‘AN ! الآن (And your night is your shadow — a fairy-tale piece of land to make our dreams) is out on April 14th via Sub Rosa.

Kaada/Patton share animated video for ‘Red Rainbow’

17 March 2017

Kaada/Patton - Red RainbowJohn Kaada and Mike Patton have released an animated video to accompany the magnificent, cinematic and haunting ‘Red Rainbow’. The track opens Bacteria Cult, their second collaborative album released last year through Ipecac. The stunning and spooky video is based on the short film The Absence Of Eddy, which features Mike Patton as the voice of the lead character. The video was directed by Rune Spaans and written and art directed by Dave Cooper.

Kikagaku Moyo announce new EP Stone Garden

15 March 2017

Kikagaku Moyo - Stone GardenThere’s a new EP on the way from Tokyo’s psychedelic five-piece Kikagaku Moyo, following last year’s album House In The Tall Grass. Entitled Stone Garden, the upcoming EP drops on April 21st through their own Guruguru Brain. Improvisation continues to be a key element of the band’s sound, who on Stone Garden adopt a more experimental approach than in their previously song-based effort, describes a press release. “This record enabled the band to experiment not only with instrumentation but also atonality and a playful approach to mixing.”

Kikagaku Moyo are teasing the EP with the first single from it, ‘In A Coil’, an hypnotic and exhilarating track embracing a myriad of influences from classical Indian music and Krautrock to traditional folk and 70s Rock. Take a listen now.

To celebrate the release of Stone Garden, Kikagaku Moyo are embarking on a North American tour in May, before returning to Europe this summer for several live dates, including a show in London at Moth Club on June 20th. Head over here to check out all their stops and other info.

Do Make Say Think return with new album Stubborn Persistent Illusions

11 March 2017

Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent IllusionsCanadian post-rockers Do Make Say Think have been putting out incredible records with elements of experimental rock, prog, psych, jazz, punk, and electronica and intense and hypnotic live shows since the mid 90’s. But it’s been eight long years since the band put out their last album, 2009’s Other Truths. So we’re very pleased to learn that they will return this spring with a new album called Stubborn Persistent Illusions. The record is influenced by a short Bhuddist poem about boundlessness and recurrence, as the band explains:

“There is a hint of narrative on this album which is both vague and deliberate. The idea comes from an image in a Buddhist poem about working with a wild mind. The idea is that each song is a thought or daydream, independent but at the same time connected to the other thoughts through subconscious feelings. And although the thoughts come and go, the feelings return over and over throughout our lives. The suggestion in the poem is that when your mental chatter carries you away you don’t necessarily need to tie it down or shut it up; you can instead recognize thoughts as thoughts and let them play out. Eventually all concepts must return to perception, where they started. We should probably say again that this narrative is admittedly a bit wooly around the edges – we don’t pretend that every note has a special significance.”

Stubborn Persistent Illusions arrives on May 18th through Constellation but they are already offering a supreme treat, with not one but two tracks, ‘Bound’ ‘And Boundless’, magically bonded in this stream.