Jan St. Werner performs his new Miscontinuum Album in London this weekend

05 February 2015

Jan St. Werner, one half of German avant-garde electronic duo Mouse On Mars, released a new album, Miscontinuum Album, last week. The effort is the third instalment off his Fiepblatter Catalogue Series, and saw St. Werner recruit contributors Dylan Carlson (Earth), Markus Popp (Oval), Kathy Alberici, and Taigen Kawabe (Bo Ningen).
As the press release explains, Miscontinuum is the fruit of an electronic opera, having also been developed and performed as a radio play, over the period of four years. “The central concept of Miscontinuum explores misconceptions of time and memory, inspired by unique acoustic phenomena derived digital phasing and musical time stretching techniques”.
St. Werner’s first performed Miscontinuum as a part of his Asymmetric Studio series in Munich in June 2013. Lucky Londoners are getting the chance to see a revised version of Miscontinuum this weekend, with performances taking place this Saturday at Cafe Oto and the following day at St Luke’s Church.
Here’s an album medley to whet your appetite.

Miscontinuum Album is out now via Thrill Jockey.

Listen to Föllakzoid’s first single off upcoming new album

02 February 2015

Chilean psych rockers Föllakzoid are gearing up to release their new album, III. Diego Lorca, Juan Pablo Rodriguez and Domingo Garcia-Huidobro, who make up the band, wrote the album whist on the road last year, having played several shows all over North America and Europe.

“Whilst Föllakzoid’s output is layered and expanding, frequently becoming entwined in it’s own gravitational sonic pull, there has been a specific focus on the minimal on III, and on building an atmosphere with mainly monochords and reiteration”, states the press release.

III is due out on March 31st via Sacred Bones Records and ahead of it, the band are teasing us with the first single, the epic 12-minute cut ‘Electric’. Here it is.

Deerhoof share new video ahead of international tour

31 January 2015

Last year Deerhoof gave us La Isla Bonita, which was one of our 15 Album Picks of 2014. So we’re excited to know the band is heading to Europe for a month-long tour in support of the album, with a stop in London at the Oval Space on February 26th. They’ll head back to the US in March for more shows, including appearances at SXSW. Check all their dates and other info here.
To celebrate the upcoming tour, the foursome unveiled a video for ‘Black Pitch’, featuring Satomi on a boat going down the river Thames before disappearing into the North Sea. Gary McQuiggan directs. Watch it below.

Kaki King announces new album and multimedia performances

30 January 2015

Following the release of Everybody Glows: B-Sides & Rarities last year, Kaki King has announced details of a new album, due out in just over a month. The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body drops on March 3th via Short Stuff Records and it comes paired with a high-tech projection mapping show, that sees King touring North America from today until May. The multimedia show produced in collaboration with Glowing Pictures, who have previously worked with Animal Collective, David Byrne & Brian Eno, Beastie Boys, and TV On The Radio, amongst others.

“Although it’s a soundtrack to the multimedia show, I want the album to stand on it’s own as a collection of instrumental music,” said Kaki. “The album is an amalgam of the many different ways I’ve approached the instrument over the years. Some of it’s rough, some of it’s sad and beautiful, and some of it could be remixed for the dance floor. More than anything the process of creating this music has proven to me once again that the guitar really does the speaking, and I’m just the interpreter.”

To give us a taster, King has shared a live video of her performing ‘Battle is a Learning’. Here it is.

Liturgy’s third album, The Ark Work, out in March

29 January 2015

Brooklyn’s Liturgy have a new album on the way, following the 2011’s Aesthethica. Their upcoming third full length, The Ark Work, arrives on March 24th via Thrill Jockey. Self-called a ‘Transcendental Black Metal’ band, Liturgy’s new effort is “a quantum leap forward, a radical change in sound that paradoxically sounds more like Liturgy than ever.”, as the press release describes. It adds that the album “supplements its metal energy with motifs from unlikely, disparate genres; cross-fertilizing hardstyle beats, occult-oriented rap, and the glitched re-sampling of IDM and with structures from Medieval sacred music, Romantic classical music, and minimalism.”
The mighty ‘Quetzalcoatl’ is the first single taken from The Ark Work and we can’t wait to hear more. Check it out below, and straight after check out the album trailer.

William Ryan Fritch premieres video for ‘Thankless Deeds’

28 January 2015

A couple of weeks ago, we were completely taken by ‘In Denial’, the latest single from William Ryan Fritch‘s forthcoming album, Revisionist. Due out on February 10th via Lost Tribe Sound, Revisionist is part of the Leave Me Sessions, which celebrates and compiles Fritch‘s compositions and songs from the last couple of years.

To keep us excited till release day, Fritch has unveiled a fittingly dark and stunning video for ‘Thankless Deeds’, directed by Sam Angiulo. Watch it below.

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