Montreal based post-punk quartet Ought have shared a video to accompany ‘Today, More Than Any Other Day’, taken from their recently released debut album More Than Any Other Day. Watch it below.
More Than Any Other Day is out now via Constellation.
Origami Arktika’s Absolut Gehor released digitally
Earlier this year, Norwegian folk droners Origami Arktika released their latest album, Absolut Gehör. Part of the artists’ collective Origami Republika, they recast traditional Norwegian folk songs and folklore into experimental and drone renditions, as the press release describes.
“The music on this new album is dim, dark, & melancholic. Some tracks bear witness to a sacral droning organ. The associations leap towards damp ecstasy in small chapels, deep in narrow valleys where meaningless rituals & prayers tempt weary souls with promises of a better afterlife. Folk beliefs, Pagan beliefs, Christian beliefs – the unintelligible has led a life in close proximity to the shallow waters of reason & perception permeating our times, breeding models of understanding for an unfamiliar & seemingly meaningless existence.”
Absolut Gehör is available on vinyl via Killer Records and digitally via Silber Records. To give you a taster of what they’re throwing at you, listen to the grand and hypnotic ‘Det syng for Storegut’ below.
Monogrenade release new video for ‘Métropolis’
Composite, the second album from Montreal based outfit Monogrenade, came out in February via Bonsound.
The album’s first single, ‘Métropolis’, which takes its name and inspiration from Fritz Lang’s 1927 German sci-fi film, has now been paired with a video directed by Christophe Collette. Watch it below.
In other related news, Composite is being released in France on September 1st via Atmosphériques.
Remember Remember preview upcoming album with lead single ‘Magnets’
It’s been three years since Remember Remember released their somophore album The Quickening. The Glasgow sextet, initially started as the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Graeme Ronald, are ready to follow it up with a new studio album entitled Forgetting The Present. Recorded with producer Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai) at Glasgow’s Castle Of Doom studios, the album will see the light of day on June 30th via Rock Action Records.
Remember Remember have unveiled the first taste off Forgetting The Present, the monumental and beautiful ‘Magnets’. Listen to it below.
Little Tornados give away new song ‘Alhambra’
Last Autumn, new band Little Tornados unveiled their first song, ‘Manifest, serving as their own manifest. Back then, the outfit of Laetitia Sadier, David Thayer, Bjoern Magnusson, Marlen Groher and Moritz Schaeder also promised to release a full-length album in 2014. We’re glad they are keeping their word. Their debut, We Are Divine, has been confirmed for an August release and it was mixed and produced by Emmuel Mario (Holden, Astrobal) in Switzerland.
‘Alhambra’ is the brand new song offered recently by Little Tornados as a free download. The song, as the band explained, is influenced and tries to influence the Colombian elections which take place today. ‘Alhambra’ will not be featured in We Are Divine but it calls to be heard.
Oy release debut album No Problem Saloon
Swiss-Ghanian vocalist Joy Frempong and drummer/producer Lleluja-Ha make up the kaleidoscopic outfit Oy based out of Berlin. Having released their debut album earlier this year in Europe, No Problem Saloon is now also being released in North America on June 24th via Crammed Discs.
The album is inspired and influenced by Joy´s travels to Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana and South Africa where “she met scores of people, listened to proverbs, heard stories, and collected bits of field recordings”, before returning to the studio in Berlin, as the press release explains.
The effervescent ‘Market Place’ was the first single to be extracted form the album and it comes with a video directed by King Luu and shot in Accra, Ghana. Here it is.
