We have been highly anticipating Helado Negro‘s upcoming full length album Invisible Life, since the first taste ‘Dance Ghost’ emerged back in November. The cut has now been complimented with a video, directed by David W. Merten. Check it out below and watch out for the album release on March 5th via Asthmatic Kitty.
Super Best Friends Club is a six-piece outfit based out of London, comprising Jonah Brody, Max Hallett, Jordan Copeland, Jean De Talhouet, Josh Green and James Marsh.
The sextet first started when drummer Max Hallett was invited to perform at the Royal Festival Hall and “roped in some like-minded friends”, as the press release explains. Over the course of 48 hours, they created a half hour live performance based on “optimism, nudity, body paint, frantic dance routines and blissed-out pop.”
Super Best Friends Club will release their eponymous debut on vinyl and CD early in February via Hakisak Records. Lucky us, the effort is already available to stream and download on their bandcamp.
Here’s a couple of cuts from Super Best Friends Club to get you enticed, ‘Yes You Are’ and ‘Sunshine! Super Megatron!’.
Brooklyn based cousins Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford, who make up Javelin, have announced the release of their somophore album entitled Hi Beams. The follow up to 2010’s No Más is due out on March 5th via Luaka Bop.
The pair are giving away the first intoxicating single, ‘Nnormal’, as a free download in exchange for an email. Listen to it now.
Blues Control‘s fourth album Valley Tangents, released last June via Drag City, was one of our Album Picks of the Year. The duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho have premiered a fittingly stunning and haunting video for a cut lifted from Valley Tangents, ‘Opium Den/Fade to Blue’, made by new media and performance artist Kathy Rose. Watch it below.
If you’re lucky to be in the US in the next couple of months, Blues Control are likely to be playing in a town near you. Check all their tour dates here.
Last year saw German avant-garde electronic veterans Mouse On Mars drop two releases. In February the duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma released their 10th studio album Parastrophics. They followed it in November with another album, Wow, which features collaborations with Vietnamese visual and performance artist Dao Anh Khanh and Argentinian punk rock band Las Kellies.
The pair are now offering a bonus cut from the Wow sessions as a free download. According to Mouse On Mars, this previously unreleased track was not included in Wow “because it would have blown the whole album away”. It will blow you away too.
Suuns‘ second album, Images Du Futur, will see the light of day on March 5h via Secretly Canadian. Like their 2010 debut Zeroes, QC, Images Du Futur was also produced by The Besnard Lakes’ Jace Lasek.
The Montreal band, comprising Ben Shemie, Max Henry, Liam O’Neill and Joseph Yarmush, have previously released the lead single, ‘Edie’s Dream’, and they have just unveiled an accompanying video for the track. Directed by themselves, the video was filmed in the Quebec woods where Suuns spent some time writing and recording the forthcoming album. Here’s what the foursome said about ‘Edie’s Dream’.
“At first, ‘Edie’s Dream’ started as a kind of nightmare, with burial themes and the cold and lonely woods. But gradually, it melted into a kind of bittersweet daydream. Edie is stunning, she is family to the band and at only 13, she carries herself with the poise and confidence of someone who understands the music, understands the cold, understands dreaming and its different layers.”
Check out the video below.
