Noro set to release debut digital 7″ single next week

05 December 2012

This Tuesday December 11th will see the free digital release of the two-track single Nightingale from Noro, the brainchild project of New York-via-Calgary musician Samuel Hoeksema.
Nightingale features the warm and radiant tracks ‘Armor’ and ‘For Joy’ and it marks Noro’s debut release.
In incubation for two years, according the press release, Nightingale also features contributions from Austin Tufts (BRAIDS), Aaron Meyer (Honeybear) and producer and member of Azeda Booth, Morgan Greenwood.

Noro is currently recording and producing his debut full-length album, due out next year. His first offerings leave us eagerly anticipating it, and we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more on this.

The release blurb describes ‘Armor’ and ‘For Joy’ as “a product of surrender; of allowing oneself to lie prone and let one’s deepest self speak without competition”. These songs are the perfect accompaniment to gorgeous winter days like today and I can’t wait for them to drop next week.

Big Deal unveil video for new cut ‘Teradactol’

05 December 2012

London based Big Deal have recently unveiled ‘Teradactol’, the first cut from their forthcoming somophore album, due out in Spring via Mute. The follow up to their 2011 debut Lights Out sees the duo of Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe enlist a drummer and bass player “to create a gorgeous wall of grungy noise” as the press release explains.
The pair have premiered a video to accompany the electrifying ‘Teradactol’, directed by Joey Ryken. Speaking about the video, Big Deal described it as “a sort of alien transmission via dreamachine”. Watch it now.


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release lead single from upcoming album

03 December 2012

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have recently announced the release of their 15th studio album. Push the Sky Away is due out on February 18th in Europe and a day later in the US.
Nick Cave describes the new album as “the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren’s loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat.” He adds that the “record just seems new, you know, but new in an old school kind of way”.

Push the Sky Away, recorded in a 19th Century mansion in the South of France, was produced by Nick Launay.
According to the album’s blurb, “at the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums”.

Today Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are premiering the first beautifully orchestrated single from Push the Sky Away, ‘We No Who U R’. Listen to it below and straight after check out the album’s trailer.


Helado Negro announces new album and drops first cut

30 November 2012

Helado Negro, the experimental electronic project of talented prolific musician Roberto Carlos Lange, has announced the release of his third full length album entitled Invisible Life. The new effort will drop on March 5th via Asthmatic Kitty.

This year alone, Roberto has been busy working on other projects. He released one of our Album Picks of the Year with ROM, his project with Matt Crum. He also started Ombre, a collaborative outfit with Julianna Barwick, and together they released a gorgeous debut album, among many other collaborations.

Invisible Life features contributions from collaborators including Bear in Heaven’s Jon Philpot, Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner, Devendra Barnhart, Matt Crum and Eduardo Alonso. As the press release explains, “each help multiply the whispered dream of Helado Negro into a full-spectrum technicolor existence”.
The upcoming album “is a wake-and-take-off kind of record, tones whittled out of time and all its impressions, not to mention Roberto’s refined love affairs with synthesis, sampling, and his own strengthening voice (always bilingual, the son of Ecuadorian immigrants)”.

‘Dance Ghost’ is the first enticing taste to emerge from the album, listen to it beneath.