Remember Remember preview upcoming album with lead single ‘Magnets’

16 June 2014

Remember Remember - Forgetting The Present

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’

15 June 2014

Little Tornados - We Are Divine

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

12 June 2014

Oy - Market Place

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.


Tara Jane O’Neil and New Bums live in London tomorrow

11 June 2014

Tara Jane Oneil

If you’re not familiar with Tara Jane O’Neil, now is the perfect time to get lost in her music ahead of her show in London´s Cafe Oto tomorrow. With several solo albums and endless collaborations under her belt, the prolific multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist last released a solo album, Where Shine New Lights, last January via Kranky. After an extensive European tour presenting this sublime and triumphant album, O’Neil performs the last show of the tour tomorrow. The bill is further enriched with New Bums, the latest project of Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and Donovan Quinn (Sky Green Leopards).

To entice you, listen to Tara Jane O’Neil´s ‘Wordless in Woods’ and New Bums´ ‘Black Bough’ below and get your tickets for this tremendous double bill now.


Red Snapper are back with new album, drop first single

30 May 2014

Red Snapper - Card Trick

Lo and behold! For a new album from British ground-breaking and outstanding band Red Snapper has been announced. Hyena was inspired by the score they composed for the 1973 classic Senegalese film Touki Bouki, directed by Djibril Diop Mambety and restored recently by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation.
Ahead of Hyena‘s release on September 1st via Lo Recordings, Red Snapper got us salivating with the first funky and infectious single, ‘Card Trick’. The single, which has its own The Card Trick EP, came out last Monday and it also features remixes by Auntie Flo, Tici Taci and Rich Thair.
Now play ‘Card Trick’ again and again.

Adult Jazz announce debut album release

by Anemonkey - 29 May 2014

adut Jazz - the bandWe have been following Adult Jazz since we first saw them opening for Juana Molina last year. We immediately fell in love with the voice scales of lead singer Harry Burgess and all the band’s magical melodies. Now we are super excited to see their first album Gist Is coming out through Spare Thought on 4th August. They have also revealed their newest song which tickles the ears with its beautiful composition and intrigues the mind with imaginary explorations. Enjoy ‘Spook’ below.