Tjutjuna detail upcoming album and drop new single

19 February 2013

We had previously mentioned that Denver psych rockers Tjutjuna were working on the follow up to their self-titled debut album, and they’ve teased us then with the first taster ‘Desert Song’.
The band has now revealed the album will be called Westerner and is slated for a April 30th release via Firetalk. Westerner will be available on 12″ vinyl limited to 200 copies and difitally. Pre-order it now here.

Tjutjuna will embark on a North American tour in support of the album, starting on April 9th in Salt Lake City. Check all their tour dates here.

To entice us even more, Tjutjuna have just dropped the album’s opener, ‘Mousetrap’. It will take you into a dimension of sonic effusiveness. Here it is.

The New Slave are Bringing You a Brighter Tomorrow

18 February 2013

California’s trio The New Slave, comprising Craig M Clarke, Daniel Crowell and Troy James, are set to release a new album entitled Bringing You a Brighter Tomorrow. The effort will see the light of day on March 11th via Raw Onion Records in Europe and a day later in the US via Three Ring Records.

According to the press release, Bringing You a Brighter Tomorrow is a “positive and hopeful full-length album” that saw The New Slave embracing the idea of feeling good and trying to “find the pathway to hope, even if it means travelling through a haze of depressive and self-medicated sounds”.

The album features guest contributions from Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes, Josh Babcock and Mike Evans of The Society of Rockets and Belta Fleischmann of D.W. Holiday. Lasek had previously performed, mixed and produced The New Slave’s eponymous debut album in 2009.

Earlier this month, the threesome unleashed the first excellent feel good single from the album, ‘Golden Summer Smile’. Released as a three-track EP, Golden Summer Smile comes backed with two B-sides, which you can grab free or on a pay-what-you-want basis via their bandcamp.

Listen to the ‘Golden Summer Smile’ below, and straight after check out the album trailer featuring excerpts from every song.

CocoRosie announce new album and stream lead single

14 February 2013

Freak folk sister duo CocoRosie released last year a 7″ single, ‘We Are On Fire’, but they haven’t released a full-length album in three years. Bianca “Coco” and Sierra “Rosie” are set to release the follow-up to Grey Oceans, on May 27th via City Slang. Tales Of A Grass Widow was co-produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson (Feist, Camille, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Björk) and it marks CocoRosie’s fifth album release.

Coinciding with the announcement, the pair unveiled ‘Gravediggress’, the first single lifted from Tales Of A Grass Widow. “The song is representative of the album’s theme: transformative ecstasy in the face of harmful neglect”, says the press release. “It tells the story of an imagined conversation between an abandoned child and an outcast old woman. The young girl asks the Gravediggress to bury her love in the ground for safekeeping”. Listen to ‘Gravediggress’ below.

Inch-time releases new album Myth and Impermanence

13 February 2013

Myth and Impermanence is the brand new album from Inch-time, the electronic project of London based Australian producer and musician Stefan Panczak.
The album is out via Panczak’s own imprint Mystery Plays and it sees Panczak blending his seductive and warm electronica with beautiful jazz instrumentation. “I felt limited just using software and the occasional guitar or keyboard to create my music.”, said Panczak. “When you use a sample or a midi instrument you lose all the nuances and subtleties of a real instrument; every time it plays it is exactly the same. The brain picks up on that and it soon becomes repetitive.” This led him to invite three renown British jazz players, trumpeter Alex Bonney, bassist Olie Brice and drummer Karl Penney, to contribute to the album. “I had them play over the existing tracks, writing some melodies and motifs for them but also having them freely improvise.”

Panczak describes Myth and Impermanence as a conceptual album where “we journey from the city to the country, from light to darkness. By the end of this first song we have left the temporal world and we are ready to explore the shadow world of myths and dreams.”

Here’s a taster from the album, the stunning opening track ‘Time Of The Fire’.

Youth Lagoon shares new single ahead of somophore LP

12 February 2013

Earlier today Idaho native Trevor Powers, better known as Youth Lagoon, shared ‘Mute’, a new cut from his forthcoming somophore album Wondrous Bughouse. The follow up to his 2011’s The Year of Hibernation was co-produced by Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, Washed Out) and drops on March 18th via Fat Possum.

According to Powers, Wondrous Bughouse is based on the idea of “becoming more fascinated with the human psyche and where the spiritual meets the physical world”.

The new single ‘Mute’ is a slice of catchy psych pop. Listen to it now.

Glimpse Trio drop free EP ahead of third album release

11 February 2013

Oakland based outfit Glimpse Trio are set to release their third full-length eponymous album later in Spring. Ahead of it, and to tease us, they’ve recently dropped two ten-track EP’s, featuring some cuts from the forthcoming Glimpse Trio album. Both EP’s, the Glimpse Trio EP and The Acoustic EP, are free to download via their bandcamp.

Mike Sopko, Hamir Atwal and Chris Lopes, who make up Glimpse Trio, shared mixing and mastering duties with Oz Fritz (Tom Waits, Primus) and Doug Sax (Rolling Stones, The Who). They also collaborated with multi-instrumentalist Martin Dosh on a couple of songs.

Here’s ‘Cogan (Song For You)’ and ‘I Got This Thing’, from the Glimpse Trio EP, to get you enticed.

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