AM & Shawn Lee drop first new cut from upcoming album

22 February 2013

Prolific American producers and multi-instrumentalists AM & Shawn Lee, based in Los Angeles and London respectively, released their debut album Celestial Electric to wide acclaim in 2011. The duo are ready to follow it up, and have announced the release of La Musique Numerique, due out on May 7th via Park The Van.

AM and Shawn Lee first met and “bonded over their mutual love of vintage French and Italian Soundtrack music and 80’s digital effects”, as the press release explains. They draw influences from a wide palette of musical genres like funk, pop, soul, disco, jazz, psychedelia and electro, “uniting the past and the future of music.”

‘Two Times’ is the first infectious cut to emerge from La Musique Numerique. One to play again and again.

Woman’s Hour return with new double A-side single

21 February 2013

We were first seduced by Woman’s Hour at the end of 2011, when they released a double A-side single through Dirty Bingo Records.
The London-via-Kendal quartet are back with two new stunning tracks, ‘To The End’ and ‘Our Love Has No Rhythm’, which they’ll release in the form of a 7″ single on April 8th via Parlour Records. The single is limited to 300 copies and you can pre-order yours now here. Enjoy these two gems below.

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’.

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