Tricky offers new cut from upcoming album

28 April 2013

Tricky

Earlier this year, Tricky announced the release of his 10th studio album entitled False Idols. The album arrives on May 27th via Tricky’s new imprint, which also has the same name as the album, and it’s being released in association with !K7 Records.
False Idols features vocal contributions from Nneka, The Antlers’ Peter Silberman and Fifi Rong.

Calling the album “a stunning return to form”, Tricky said it brought him back to his natural instincts. “I was lost for ages. I was trying to prove something to people, trying to do something to please other people and also myself at the same time, which is never going to work. To be honest with you, I’ve been floating around since Chris Blackwell and Island. My last two albums, I thought they were good, but I realise now they weren’t. This album is about me finding myself again.”

Tricky is offering a new cut from the album, ‘Tribal Drums’, as a free download. The track features vocals from Francesca Belmonte and Tristan Cassell. Stream it below.

Watch Sinkane’s ‘Warm Spell’

25 April 2013

Sinkane - Warm Spell

Sinkane is offering a beautiful visual accompaniment to the charmingly funky new single ‘Warm Spell’, off last year’s debut album Mars. Here’s how the press release portrays the story behind it:

“A man appears in an alternate reality inhabited by foreign terrain and populated by sirens. He attempts to avoid the sirens’ spell but ultimately fails and he submits to his primal desires and fantasies. Only when he finally submits, is he ultimately able to decode the strange world which surrounds him.”

Philip Di Fiore, who had already directed a video for Sinkane’s previous single ‘Runnin’, holds again direction credits. Here it is.


Matthew Herbert reveals details on forthcoming album The End of Silence

24 April 2013

Matthew Herbert - The End of Silence

The End of Silence is the new album from British electronic composer Matthew Herbert, set for release on June 24th via his own Accidental Records.
The upcoming effort was composed “entirely from a 10-second sound recording” of an aircraft bombing captured by war photographer Sebastian Meyer in Libya in 2011.

“I wanted to freeze history, press pause, wander around inside the sound—trying to understand its component parts, wondering why it was so scary when I had never actually heard any bomb first hand,” Herbert explains. “In stark contrast to the written reports of the atrocities committed by dictators in the Arab word during the Arab Spring, here was something that rendered it real. It turned the virtual word back in to the visceral. Despite immediate and disparate access to news of world events, it’s rare to find something that punctures the safe veneer of distance that computers create. By hearing this sound, one is compelled to live inside the moment.”

Herbert “fragmented and atomised” the recording into samples, and it was then improvised by his band comprising musicians Tom Skinner, Yann Seznec and Sam Beste.
Recorded last summer in a barn in Wales over three days, The End of Silence is split into three parts. You can get a taster off it now with an excerpt from the original 24-minute ‘Part One’.

Grandmaster Gareth drops second single from upcoming solo album

22 April 2013

Grandmaster Gareth - The Dewormer

Birmingham native Gareth Jones aka Grandmaster Gareth hasn’t released an album in 7 long years but he’s been working on it and he’s ready to drop his third full-length solo album. Magical Sound Shower, the follow-up to his 2003’s An Introduction to Minute Melodies and 2006’s The Party Sounds of Grandmaster Gareth, arrives on June 10th via his own GM Sounds. The album will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally, and you can pre-order it now.

Magical Sounds Shower takes inspiration from B-movies, pulp sci-fi books, bee documentaries and an extraterrestrial state of being, as the press release explains. The album “sits alongside and builds upon its contemporaries, turning out nineteen tracks of space exotica – the soundtrack to a sci-fi movie that doesn’t exist or a modern day equivalent to Joe Meek’s ‘I Hear a New World’.”

We missed the album’s first single release, ‘The Hoarder of Moments’, but we didn’t let the second one, ‘The Dewormer’, slip through our net. Listen to both tracks below.