‘Why Am I on This Cloud?’ is the brand new single from Dan Deacon, set for for release this Monday as part of the 2013 Adult Swim Singles series.
Since this latest series kicked off earlier this month, Adult Swim have already released singles by El-P and Killer Mike, Kitty and Metz and there’ll be more treats over the next eleven weeks from the likes of Autre Ne Veut, Mac DeMarco, Lightning Bolt, Marnie Stern and Pig Destroyer, to name but a few.
Now put your headphones up for Dan Deacon’s ‘Why Am I on This Cloud?’.
Last time we heard from Fuck Buttons‘ Benjamin John Power and Andrew Hung, they had released Tarot Sport, back in 2009. Slow Focus, their much anticipated follow-up album, will see the light of day on July 22nd via ATP Recordings.
Fully produced by themselves for the first time in their own Space Mountain studio, the pair kept their fundamental rule of writing together. “We are in the same room when we write”, says Power. “The rest is all fair game”. Speaking about the album’s title, Power described it as fitting the sentiment of the music. “It almost feels like the moment your eyes take to readjust when waking, and realising you’re in a very unusual and not a particularly welcoming place. There’s a brooding and almost violent theme throughout. We like to think that we create our own new landscapes, and with this it’s a very alien landscape.”
The first storming and hypnotic single taken from the album, ‘The Red Wing’, has just dropped last Monday on gold 12″ vinyl. Fuck Buttons are offering an edit of the track, make sure you head over here to get your hands on the proper 8-minute goodie. Hung has also filmed, edited and directed a video for ‘The Red Wing’, watch it below.
London based cosmic psych rockers Higamos Hogamos dropped a new EP yesterday entitled Inwards Empire. The effort features four tracks and sees the project of Steve Webster adding “a solid muscular funk to the cosmiche sound” of their the eponymous debut album. Here’s ‘Dendron’, the mind-blowing opening track off Inwards Empire to entice you. Get the EP now via Upstairs Recordings.
Last year saw London based producer Dean Blunt release his debut album The Redeemer. Now Blunt has just shared a couple of new tracks, ‘Felony / Stalker 7’, pieced together in the shape of a video. The visual effort is the latest from the Stalker video series that Blunt has been releasing under Hype Williams, his other musical outfit with Inga Copeland.
Watch the video for ‘Felony / Stalker 7’ below.
The Redeemer is out now via World Music and Hippos In Tanks.
The ingenious Montréal based saxophonist Colin Stetson has just premiered a beautiful new video for the breathtaking ‘Who the Waves Are Roaring For’, off his recently released album New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light. Isaac Gale & David Jensen, who had previously directed the video for ‘Among the Sef’, take again the director seat. ‘Who the Waves Are Roaring For’ is one of the four songs from the album which features vocal guest contributions from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Watch the video on Constellation Records‘ Vimeo channel.
London based cosmic krautpop duo Walls have announced the release of a new double a-side 12″ single. Limited to a run of 300 copies, ‘Urals/I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ is due out on July 29th via their own Kompakt imprint Ecstatic.
Ahead of the release, we can already listen to ‘Urals’, a track that “creates a pulsating, hypnotic atmosphere through its trippy synth melodies, swirling guitar incantations and fizzing analogue drum machine percussion”, as the press release explains. Check it out below.
