Here’s the video that accompanies ‘Strange Colores’, a new track lifted from Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks‘ upcoming debut album Enter the Slasher House. Olivia Wyatt directs.
Enter the Slasher House is out on April 7th in the UK/Europe and April 8th in North America via Domino Records.
We’ve been eagerly waiting to hear a full taste of Yann Tiersen‘s upcoming new album, ∞ (Infinity), even more so as the French composer had teased the effort last month with a stunning album trailer. Conceived and recorded between Paris, Brittany and Iceland, ∞ (Infinity) features guest collaborations from Aidan Moffat and Amiina amongst others who contributed in their native language to some of the album tracks sung and spoken in Breton, Faroese and Icelandic.
‘A Midsummer Evening’ is the first wonderful single from the album to emerge. Tiersen explained how the track came about:
“The idea was to start with toy instruments as a reference to my early works, then manipulate the sounds electronically. Then I added a new layer of acoustic instrumentation, and repeated the same process. Finally I repeated the process once more with strings, so the whole album was a constant back and forth from acoustic to electronic to digital, and then back to analogue.”
∞ (Infinity) drops on May 19th in the UK/Europe and May 20th in North America via Mute. Now listen to ‘A Midsummer Evening’.
Over the years, drummer/percussionist Sam Ospovat has lent his talents to numerous projects, including Beep, Naytronix, tUnE-yArDs, Anteater and Kapowski, to name but a few. With PIKI, his solo project, Ospovat released a tremendous self-titled debut album in 2012, which remains a favourite of ours. So we were ecstatic to learn about ROOM, his most recent collaborative project with French guitarist and electronic musician Serge Rogalski. The pair have recently released a full-length album, La Malédiction du M, via their bandcamp. An album of absorbingly weird, rich and mostly improvised sounds, La Malédiction du M is an exceptional and powerful release that clearly showcases the duo’s talent.
To whet your appetite, listen to ‘Où les zèbres dorment’ and ‘Flashing candies under my tongue’ below. The first comes with an accompanying video. Enjoy.
Exquisite experimental producer and composer Ben Frost last released a solo album, By The Throat, back in 2009. That’s not say he’s been quiet, on the contrary, Frost has been collaborating and producing several other projects including Colin Stetson’s New History Warfare trilogy and SWANS’ The Seer. The Reykjavík based musician has recently announced his highly anticipated fifth studio album entitled A U R O R A. The effort, due out on May 26th via Mute / Bedroom Community, was largely written in Eastern DR Congo with the addition of drummers Thor Harris of Swans and Greg Fox of Guardian Alien (and formerly Liturgy) and Shahzad Ismaily.
“A U R O R A aims directly, through its monolithic construction, at blinding luminescent alchemy; not with benign heavenly beauty but through decimating magnetic force” explains the press release. “Starved of all the adornments of its predecessor; wholly absent of guitar, of piano, of string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, A U R O R A offers a defiant new world of fiercely synthetic shapes and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.”
Ahead of the album’s release, Frost has confirmed a number of live dates in support of the album, kicking off at the Village Underground in London on April 26th.
To get us excited, Frost has unveiled the album’s first single, the obscure, throbbing and intense ‘Venter’. Listen to it beneath.
Record Store Day is less than a month away and news of exclusive releases have been steadily coming through. The latest to get our attention, and one we hope to grab on April 19th, is the Deerhoof & Marc Ribot‘s Ceramic Dog Split 7″ featuring two tracks, ‘Who Sleeps, Only Dreams’ and ‘Hide With Me’. The first single has surfaced the web and you can listen to it below.
Ingenious multi-reed player Shabaka Hutchings has been on an incredibly fruitful roll of late, with last year’s magnificent debut album from his brainchild project Sons of Kemet, which was one of our Album Picks of 2013, and his numerous contributions and membership in other projects including Hello Skinny, Melt Yourself Down and The Heliocentrics, to name but a few. This high level carries on into his newest project The Comet is Coming, fittingly named after a BBC Radiophonic Workshop piece. Joining Hutchings on this cosmic adventure is drums and keyboards duo Soccer 96, made up of Dan Leavers aka Danalogue and Max Hallett aka Betamax.
The trio are prepping their debut album, due out later this year. The first taste of it comes in the form of a video accompanying ‘Neon Baby’, an infectious killer track that epitomizes The Comet is Coming’s upbeat feel. If ‘Neon Baby’ is anything to go by, their upcoming debut is among my most anticipated releases this year. Check it out below and if you’re lucky enough to be near London next month, go to see them live at Hootenanny on April 5th and Surya on April 29th.
