Dirty Projectors offer new video for ‘Offspring Are Blank’

13 December 2012

Dirty Projectors have just released a video for ‘Offspring Are Blank’, from their outstanding album Swing Lo Magellan. The video features footage from ‘Hi Custodian‘, their short film written and directed by frontman Dave Longstreth.
The band also announced they will release a limited edition Offspring Are Blank 7″ backed by a new song titled ‘There’s a Fire’. This release will be a white label pressing, available exclusively at their Carnegie Hall show on January 11th.
Now watch the video for ‘Offspring Are Blank’.

Noro gives away debut single Nightingale

13 December 2012

Born in Calgary and now relocated to New York, Samuel Hoeksema is the man behind Noro. We were eagerly waiting for the release of his two-track debut single Nightingale since it was announced last week. Nightingale saw the light of day yesterday via Mouser, and Noro is offering it as a free download here.

As we previously mentioned, Nightingale includes contributions from Austin Tufts (BRAIDS), Aaron Meyer (Honeybear) and producer Morgan Greenwood (Azeda Booth).
The single features the tracks ‘For Joy’ and ‘Armor’, a beautiful and heartfelt song. Listen to it below and don’t let your ears miss Nightingale.

New EP from collaborative project with Can members

12 December 2012

Can founding members Jaki Liebezeit and Irmin Schmidt formed a collaborative project with Burnt Friedman and Jono Pomdore called Cyclopean. As the release blurb reads, “the title provides a metaphor for the music: Cyclopean forms are beautiful, massive and intriguing structures that interlock, intersect and connect seemingly contradictory components”.

Mute will be releasing their self-titled debut EP on February 4th. The EP will be available on 12″ vinyl and digitally, and you can pre-order it here.

Here’s what the blurb says about the EP:
“Heavy, yet light, powerful, subtle, intriguing and playful. There’s also a flavour of the ancient in this music – an artefact from a sophisticated pre-culture perhaps. Extraordinary instrumentation – rubber band guitar, theremin, prepared piano – is unified through the monumental and unique drum patterns, as the characters of the four players are at once individually unmistakably and irrevocably intertwined.”

‘Fingers’ is Cyclopean’s debut track, listen to it beneath.

Kriget unveil accompanying video for ‘Holy Mountain’

11 December 2012

Last week we told you Sweden’s Kriget had a video in the works to accompany the excellent and electrifying single ‘Holy Mountain’, lifted from their recently released album Dystopico. The trio have just unleashed the video, a slightly unsettling and weird effort, directed by Fredrik Joelson. Speaking about video, Fredrik said it shows “a time honoured ritual celebrating and appeasing the approaching dark season [in it] a nuclear family introduce their Alpha male to the secret meaning of the five elements.” Watch it below.

‘Holy Mountain’ is out now digitally and a physical 7″ edition will follow in the new year via The Control Group.

Night Works announces debut album release and shares new cut

10 December 2012

Throughout the year, Night Works aka Gabriel Stebbing, has been teasing his debut album with the release of three singles, as we previously mentioned.
Stebbing confirmed today that Urban Heat Island will hit stores on March 4th via Loose Lips Records.
The forthcoming album “sees Stebbing plunging down very different streets on the pop landscape indeed, taking in glacial synths, off-kilter R&B, offbeat disco and more” as the press release explains.

Coinciding with the album release, Night Works will also drop the new single ‘Long Forgotten Boy’, produced by Stebbing’s former bandmate Joseph Mount, the brains behind Metronomy. The single will be released with an accompanying video. Here’s ‘Long Forgotten Boy’.