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.
Esmerine have a new album coming out on September 3rd via Constellation. Dalmak, their fourth full-length album, takes its name from the Turkish verb meaning to dive into, to contemplate, to lose oneself in, to be absorbed in, to bathe in, to plummet. The Turkish presence and influence on the album goes beyond the name. Esmerine, now comprising co-founder and cellist Rebecca Foon (Saltland, Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire To Flames), former Godspeed You! Black Emperor drummer Bruce Cawdron on marimba, percussionist Jamie Thompson (Unicorns, Islands) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Sanderson, recorded most of Dalmak in Istambul. After their European tour in 2011 and 2012 with stops in the city, the group was invited over for an artist residency, where they were joined by another four Turkish guest players, Hakan Vreskala, Baran Aşık, Ali Kazim Akdağ and James Hakan Dedeoğlu on various instruments, including some unknown to us like bendir, darbuka, erbane, meh, barama and saz.
The album’s press release describes Dalmak as “a tour-de-force of cross-cultural music-making, emotive but unsentimental, deeply textured and detailed but never precious, superbly guided throughout by a balance of DIY rock, new folk and modern classical/contemporary sensibilities.”
Barkin Engin and Metin Bozkurt initially recorded the album in Istanbul, and later in Montréal, Jace Lasek (Wolf Parade, The Besnard Lakes, Suuns) and Ian Ilavsky achieved “the album’s gorgeously saturated warmth, depth and pulsing grit”.
Esmerine have shared an edit of the outstanding ‘Translator’s Clos II’, the first taste from the album. Enjoy.
Julianna Barwick has unveiled ‘One Half’, the first single from her upcoming third album Nepenthe. Slated for a August 20th release via Dead Oceans, and as we previously mentioned, the album was recorded in Iceland and produced by Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Jónsi, Jónsi & Alex), who first invited Julianna to collaborate.
‘One Half’ will dazzle you, listen now.
