Yonatan Gat releases new CD/Vinyl hybrid

28 July 2015
Photo: Colleen Kavanaugh

Photo: Colleen Kavanaugh

There’s no stopping Yonatan Gat, and thank goodness for that. In addition to the recent release of Director, his debut album, and several live shows in Europe and North America with his trio, the inventive and prolific guitar virtuoso has a brand new release out. It includes an unreleased A-Side from Director, ‘Ascension’, and B-Side ‘Analog Gold Rush’ lifted from Gat’s upcoming Steve Albini engineered EP.
The release comes on a lathe​-cut CD, a new hybrid format that can be played both on a turntable and in a CD player, one song for each format.
The record sold out in no time, but it’s also available digitally on his bandcamp. Now listen to ‘Analog Gold Rush’.

Midday Veil’s third album, This Wilderness, arrives in September

27 July 2015

Miday Veil - This Wilderness

Earlier this month, Seattle’s Midday Veil announced the release of their third album, This Wilderness. It follows their 2013’s The Current and is due out on September 11th via Beyond Beyond is Beyond.
This Wilderness sees co-founding members member Emily Pothast and David Golightly, and core members Garrett Moore, Jayson Kochan, and Timm Mason, assembling a stellar cast of guests, including Bernie Worrell (Parliament, Funkadelic), Eyvind Kang and Skerik.

With the previous album, Midday Veil “could be viewed as the band emerging from their kosmische chrysalis, unfurling previously unheard banners of both colour and control”, describes the press release. It adds that their upcoming album “is the sound of the band under the self-imposed hypnosis of that emergence, extending the voyage with even more discipline than ever before”.

Serving as the album’s first taste, ‘Babel’ is a delightfully engaging track overflowing with rich instrumentation and a mesmerizing vocal delivery. Undoubtedly one to listen to again and again.

United Sounds of Joy share debut track ‘The Sun That Hides A Darker Star ‘

24 July 2015

United Sounds of Joy - The Sun That Hides A Darker Star

Two decades after playing together in Dream City Film Club (1995 – 1999), Michael J Sheehy and Alex Vald join forces again to form United Sounds of Joy. “With an alluring brand of devious pop noir”, as the press release describes, they “traverse an emotionally wrought but righteous and rewarding route to a new gothic chanson, where the songs are immersed achingly in an eerie, crepuscular pool of fuzzy, warmly welcoming psychedelics.”
United Sounds of Joy will be releasing their debut album in November. Whilst we wait to hear more about it, we can already get a taste of what they have in store for us with the wonderful and velvety ‘The Sun That Hides A Darker Star’. The track is being offered with a visual accompaniment and it will be available as a free download on August 14th via their website. Till then, listen to it below.


The Chap’s sixth album arrives this Autumn

23 July 2015

The Chap - Jammer

The Chap might have been quiet for a while but they’ve been hard at work prepping their sixth album. This Autumn, the outfit of Claire Hope, Johannes von Weizsäcker, Panos Ghikas, Keith Duncan and Berit Immig, will put out The Show Must Go, a political rock album themed around the austerity inflicted on Europe in recent years.
Ahead of it, and to whet our appetite, The Chap are dropping the first single ‘Jammer’ on July 31st via Lo Recordings. It comes backed by an instrumental on the B-side called ‘That’s wrong’. Luckily, we can already stream ‘Jammer’.