Grumbling Fur‘s somophore album, Glynnaestra, came out last month via Thrill Jockey. The duo of British underground experimental veterans Daniel O’Sullivan and Alexander Tucker unveiled recently a kaleidoscopic visual accompaniment to the album’s track ‘Protogenesis’. The video was made by Mark Titchner, watch it below.
Zammuto‘s second album is in the works and the foursome led by Nick Zammuto launched last month a campaign to help fund the yet-to be-titled album. Over the duration of the campaign, which ends today, Zammuto promised to share three tracks from the upcoming album. We already heard the excellent ‘Sinker‘ and the funky as hell ‘Need More Sun’ and the third and final track is now streaming for our listening pleasure. Listen to ‘Corduroy’ below.
Land Of Kush, the large orchestral ensemble recruited and directed by prolific Montreal composer and musician Sam Shalabi, will release a new album this Autumn. The Big Mango, due out on October 1st via Constellation, is inspired by and dedicated to the city of Cairo where Shalabi has been residing since 2011. In Shalabi’s own words, The Big Mango is “a love letter to Cairo” framed by “the beautiful, surreal madness of the city…as joyous, horrific, historical events were unfolding”.
To get us enticed, an edit of ‘The Pit’, one of the marvellous standout tracks off The Big Mango,is now streaming. Here it is.
Botany, the brainchild project of Texas native Spencer Stephenson, has announced the release of a full-length album entitled Lava Diviner (Truestory). Botany created the album in several places around Texas using an array of gear, including old desktop computers, samplers, guitars, bells, flutes and tape recorders, amongst much more.
The press release notes that Botany initially wanted the album to be an instrumental storybook, documenting a religious sect that prays for a volcano to erupt. Lava Diviner (Truestory) ended up becoming more real and personal than any concept or allegory.
Stephenson explains:
“As work on the record progressed, I began to realize that the musical journey was a direct reflection of my most hard-to-quantify life experiences. Lava Diviner is about very real transformations in my being, so it’s a true story in that sense… I always imagined my first album being like a volcano, with years of pent-up emotion and musical ideas bubbling up to a cathartic release. So, I always knew that symbolism would end up being a part of my first full-length.”
Lava Diviner (Truestory) drops on October 29th via Western Vinyl. Ahead of it, Botany has shared the first single ‘Anchor’. Listen to it below.
We couldn’t be more excited about the forthcoming new album from the incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist and loop master Martin Dosh, better known as Dosh. Milk Money, which follows his 2010’s magnificent album Tommy, will see the light of day on October 22nd via Graveface Records.
Milk Money “brims with a warmth that can’t be digitized”, says the blurb that accompanies the record. “It’s the satisfying, immediate thwack of drumstick again drumhead, the visceral pleasure of a grown-up boy at play inside a musical fort.”
Dosh has unveiled the first tremendous taste from the album, ‘We Are The Worst’, and there’s good reason to anticipate Milk Money as a pick of the year. Listen to the track below.
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