Girl In A Thunderbolt’s new Own Your Bones EP out next week

18 November 2014

Girl In A Thunderbolt - Own Your Bones

Girl In A Thunderbolt is the alias of Norwich based Maria Uzor, a one-woman multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who uses a looping pedal to craftily layer herself playing and singing. To date, she has released one full-length studio album, Seven Sisters, back in 2010 and a long due follow-up is about to drop next week. Featuring four tracks, the forthcoming Own Your Bones EP channels varied genres, from punk and blues to folk and electronica. The pulsating krautrock-ish opening track ‘Sayonara My Lover’ serves as an intoxicating taster for Own Your Bones. Listen to it below and straight after, check out the EP teaser.


Own Your Bones is out on Monday 24th via Hey Buffalo Records

Siskiyou announce third album Nervous

17 November 2014

Siskiyou - Nervous

After releasing the second album Keep Away the Dead in 2011, Vancouver-based folk rock experimentalists Siskiyou have been on a forced hiatus due to a health-related condition. A follow-up album has been in the works and details of it have now been confirmed. Siskiyou’s third album, Nervous, arrives on January 20th via Constellation.
Nervous sees the ensemble continuing “to push beyond the crisp lo-fi intimacy of its early work”, describes the press release. The album “has forged its most confident and finely-crafted recording to date, moving fully into auteur and chamber-pop territory with a song cycle that brings to mind the meticulousness of mood and sonics found in recent work by PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and Tindersticks.”.
Nervous features guest contributions from Colin Stetson, Owen Pallett, JP Carter, Ryan Driver and the St. James Music Academy Senior Choir, to name but a few.
Siskiyou have shared the first wonderful taste from the album, ‘Deserter’. Take a listen now.

Yonatan Gat’s Iberian Passage to be re-released, listen to a new cut

14 November 2014

Yonatan Gat - Iberian Passage

Iberian Passage, the debut EP from New York-by-way-of-Tel-Aviv composer and guitarist Yonatan Gat, of Monotonix fame, is being reissued on CD and white vinyl. The EP, which was first released last May via Joyful Noise Recordings, came to life after Gat played in a festival in Portugal where he met Portuguese drummer Igor Domingues (Throes + the Shine). The pair began to collaborate and Gat moved to Porto temporarily, and ended up recording Iberian Passage at Estúdios Sá da Bandeira. Inspired by Brazilian psychedelic experimentalists Os Mutantes and African ensembles such as Orchestra Baobab, Iberian Passage is a tropical and frenetic improvisational affair.

To celebrate this re-release, Yonatan Gat will embark on a European tour next week, with a stop in London on November 19th at The Shacklewell Arms. Head over here to check all the other live dates.

What’s more, the EP comes with an ace brand new song, ‘East to West’, and you can listen to it now.

Soccer96’s Jupiter Masterdrive 7″ EP out next week

13 November 2014

Soccer96 - Step Overs

November 24th will see the vinyl release of Soccer96‘s new EP Jupiter Masterdrive. A digital release will follow on December 8th via WotNot Music. The Brighton drums and keyboards duo of Dan Leavers aka Danalogue and Max Hallett aka Betamax have shared a cut off it, ‘Step Overs’, and it comes with a matching kaleidoscopic video made by Mark Ludgate. Check it out below, and straight after, listen to excerpts from the EP.


The Unthanks announce new album, share video for title track

12 November 2014

The Unthanks - Mount The Air

Four years on from the release of Last, Northumberland based folk band The Unthanks have announce the release of a new full-length album. Mount The Air will see the light of day on February 9th via their own label RabbleRouser. Luckily, we don’t have to wait till then to get a taste of what they’ll be throwing at us. The enchanting title track is being released as a limited edition 10″ single on December 8th and an accompanying video has just emerged. As the press release describes, ‘Mount The Air’ “has echoes of Miles Davis and Gill Evans in their Sketches of Spain period, and climaxes with a euphoria reminiscent of Arcade Fire or Elbow, but without guitars, creating power instead with breathtaking musical colour and beauty.”.
Watch the gorgeous animated video below, made by animator Nick Murray Willis.