Masayoshi Fujita joins Erased Tapes, announces new album Apologues

10 July 2015

Berlin based Japanese vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita, who is also known under moniker el fog, is gearing up to release a new full-length album. His new effort, entitled Apologues, is due out on September 11th via Erased Tapes.
Other than the vibraphone, Apologues sees Masayoshi using for the first time several other instruments, incluing the violin, cello, flute, clarinet, French horn, accordion, piano and percussion, all arranged by himself. Speaking about the album, Masayoshi had this to say:

“With this album the main idea was to evoke images, atmospheres, sceneries and stories in the listener, the images that have accumulated in myself. At the same time it was an exploration of the unexplored beauty of the vibraphone, and also a pursuit of the charm of the instrumentation and the music itself. Erased Tapes releases a lot of great stuff and naturally became my favourite label of late. And I thought it would fit well to my music.”

‘Tears of Unicorn’ is the first beautiful single lifted from Apologues. Listen to the track below, and straight after check out a solo vibraphone version of it performed live in Berlin.

Listen to Haiku Salut’s new single ‘Hearts Not Parts’

09 July 2015

Haiku Salut’s second album, Etch and Etch Deep, arrives on July 31st via How Does It Feel To Be Loved?. The Derbyshire based trio had already shared the first wonderful single, ‘Bleak And Beautiful (All Things)’. Now they are offering another taste from the album in the shape of ‘Hearts Not Parts’, a whimsical song featuring vocals for the first time. “We wanted to make a song that was both poppy and creepy and we used our voices to do that,” said the band’s Sophie Barkerwood. “It isn’t an act of compliance or defiance, it just seemed like the next natural step this song had to take.”
‘Hearts Not Parts’ comes out on July 13th but you can already wrap your ears around it.

Haiku Salut have announced a couple of live shows this summer, on August 7th at The Voicebox in Derby and on August 9th at The Lexington in London.

Ought set to release second album in September, share first single

09 July 2015

We’re always excited to hear about new releases coming out through Constellation Records. And there’s plenty of good reasons for that. One of them is Montreal based post-punk quartet Ought, who last year released their debut album, the outstanding More Than Any Other Day. The outfit have just announced its follow-up, entitled Sun Coming Down. According to the press release, the album “maintains the band’s tight, twitchy and economical sound, with the unfussy, understated rhythm section of drummer Tim Keen and bassist Ben Stidworthy anchoring Tim Darcy’s electric guitar and Matt May’s fuzzed-out keys (sounding, as often as not, like a second guitar)”. It adds that “Sun Coming Down confirms the distinctive vitality and purposive naturalism of this band; Ought resists facile primitivism and overhyped dynamics in equal measure, keeping things hermetic but never airless, ascetic but never dispassionate, literate but never prolix. “.
We’ll have to wait till September 18th for Sun Coming Down to drop, but luckily Ought have let loose the lead single off it, ‘Beautiful Blue Sky’. We were lucky to hear it live last month in Porto’s Primavera Sound and we’re glad we can now listen to it again and again.

Ahead of the album’s release, Ought will be hitting our shores again earlier in September, to play in London, Manchester, Birmingham and at End of the Road Festival in Dorset.

Liberez share new cut from upcoming album

07 July 2015

With only a couple of weeks to go till Liberez release their new album, All Tense Now Lax, the Southend-on-Sea experimental industrial outfit are enticing us further with a new single. ‘419 Chop Your $’, offered with an accompanying video, is described as “a brooding collage of smudged percussion and eerie strings, with obscured vocals that lead up to the refrain of “It’s just a game”, the unnerving repetition at odds with the sentence’s meaning.”
Check out the video below and watch out for the album’s release when it drops on July 24th via Night School Records.

In other related good news, Liberez are performing a record release show on July 27th at Cafe Oto in London.

Naytronix returns with second album Mister Divine

03 July 2015

We have been waiting for a new album from Naytronix since the Oakland based multi-instrumentalist and producer released his 2012 debut Dirty Glow, which was a Pick of the year then and remains a favourite. News of Naytronix’s much anticipated follow-up have finally emerged. Mister Divine will see the light of day on October 16th via City Slang. Crafted mostly on the road whilst also rocking the bass with tUnE-yArDs, as the press release explains, Mister Divine “sees him turning from the disjointedly funky party dance anthems of his debut Dirty Glow to a surrealist stream of consciousness poignancy.” The album is described as “the feeling of déjà vu between delirious post-show fevers and the road-torn sleep through the night on the way to the next city, driving the circumference of the Earth in nine weeks, dreams of Pangaea, of forever ago and infinity from now.”.

Nate Brenner, the project’s mastermind, recorded the album with the help of guitarist Mark Allen-Piccolo and percussionist Robert Lopez. Mister Divine also features contributions from fellow Beep! member Michael Coleman and fellow Oberlin Conservatory members Matt Nelson and Noah Bernstein.

It seems like a long wait till October but we can already hear a taste of what Naytronix will be throwing at us with the wondrous title track now available to stream. Listen to ‘Mister Divine’ below.

Jerusalem In My Heart share new single from upcoming second album

01 July 2015

There’s a new album on the way from Montreal based audio-visual performance collective Jerusalem In My Heart, as we had previously mentioned. The upcoming If He Dies, If If If If If If, drops on September 4th via Constellation Records. Jerusalem In My Heart have just shared ‘7ebr El 3oyoun’ (‘Ink Of The Eyes’), an entrancing single featuring a guest contribution from Pierre-Guy Blanchard (of Pacha) on hand percussion. Listen to it below.

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