Huntronik drop self-titled debut album

15 January 2013

Formed a couple of years ago in Brooklyn, Huntronik is the project of Greg Hunt, John Taggart and Stephen Harms, based out of Brooklyn. Originally a duo with drums and synths/guitar, they turned into a power trio with the addition of a bass player.

Earlier this month, the electronic rockers released their self-titled debut album. The effort is available to stream and download for free or on a pay-what-you-want basis on their bandcamp. Here’s the electrifying opening and closing tracks from the album, ‘Rabies’ and ‘Paradigm Shift’. Enjoy.


Piano Interrupted sign to Denovali and re-release debut album

14 January 2013

Piano Interrupted have recently signed to Denovali Records, who will re-release the quartet’s debut album Two By Four in April. This release, which includes bonus material, will precede a new full-length album, due out in October.

Piano Interrupted, originally the duo of London-based pianist and composer Tom Hodge and French electronic producer Franz Kirmann, turned into an improvising quartet with the addition of Eric Young on percussion and Greg Hall on cello. “The project blends their respective disciplines of film composition and piano on the one hand and organic electronica on the other”, says the press release, resulting in a musical blend of “post-classical and ambient, where organic electronic beats pulse over intricate sonic textures and unusual time signatures, where contemplative moments contrast with elaborative and complex melodies.”

Two By Four saw Piano Interrupted sharing mastering duties with Nils Frahm in Berlin. Speaking about it, Tom and Franz said “we wanted to finish the record with someone we felt close to in terms of sensibility and who is not only a technician but a great musician and artist- we knew it would give a extra special coherence to the record.”

Here’s a couple of magnificent cuts from Two By Four to entice you, ‘Hobi’ and ‘Son of PI’.


The Besnard Lakes announce new album and stream first single

11 January 2013

Canadian indie rockers The Besnard Lakes have announced the release of their fourth full-length album entitled Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO. The follow-up to their 2010′s The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night is due out on April 2nd via Jagjaguwar.
The forthcoming record was produced, recorded and mixed by the quartet’s own founding members Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, and mastered by Greg Calbi. Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO features guest contributions from Moonface’s Spencer Krug and Mike Bigelow, The Barr Brothers’ Sarah Page, Monica Guenter and the Fifth String Liberation Singers’ Choir.

According the issued press release, “the story of the album unfolds its introspection on the endurance of the human spirit during prophetic times as told by a spy or two, maybe more.”

Coinciding with the album’s announcement, The Besnard Lakes are previewing the first single ‘People of the Sticks’. Listen to it below.

Jerusalem In My Heart set to release debut album in March

10 January 2013

Jerusalem In My Heart is the Montreal based performance collective formed in 2005 by Lebanese artist Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, currently also comprising French musician and producer Jérémie Regnier and Chilean visual artist and filmmaker Malena Szlam Salazarof.
The result of their two-year collaboration exploring a relationship between music, visuals, projections and audience comes in the shape of a full-length album entitled Mo7it Al-Mo7it, which means “Ocean of the Ocean” according to the outfit’s own poetic interpretation. The press release explains that “the numeral 7 is pronounced like an h; all titles on the album are rendered in contemporary colloquial “mobile” Arabic (the transliterative characters used in Arabic phone texting)”. Mo7it Al-Mo7it is described as “a unique and profoundly emotive album of contemporary Arabic music” where Jerusalem In My Heart “forges a modern experimental Arabic music by wedding melismatic singing in classic Arabic styles and electronic compositions with contemporary electronic production”.
The album is slated for a March 19th release via Constellation Records and pre-order is now available.
‘Yudaghdegh el-ra3ey walal-ghanam’ is the first thrilling taste to emerge from Mo7it Al-Mo7it, listen to it below.

Flamingods preview new single from forthcoming debut LP

10 January 2013

Sun, the much anticipated debut album from London-via-Bahrain five-piece Flamingods, arrives in a couple of weeks and we couldn’t be more excited about it, having heard some of their amazing recordings over the last year and a half. The album drops on January 21st via Art is Hard Records and it will be available on 12″, CD, and digitally.

Back in October, the self-proclaimed ‘ethno-poppers’ offered the lead single ‘Quesso’ featuring guest guitarist Dustin Wong. They are following it with another mind-blowing track called ‘Taishōgoto’, named after a Japanese musical instrument, also known as the Nagoya harp. “The melody itself we thought sounded quite Arabic and since we all grew up in the middle east, we thought it would be a good idea to explore that,” said the quintet. ‘Taishōgoto’ will get you dancing. Here it is.

Mystical Weapons stream new cut ahead of debut album release

09 January 2013

Mystical Weapons‘ eponymous debut album is only a few days away from being released and they have already enticed us with two stunning tracks from it, ‘Mechanical Mammoth’ and ‘Whispers The Blue Tongue’.

To keep up the tension, the improvisational project of Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier have just unveiled a new cut from the forthcoming album, ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’. Check it out below and watch out for the album release this Tuesday January 15th via Chimera Music.