Elias Krantz releases video for latest single ‘Young Ends’

06 December 2012

Elias Krantz‘s somophore album Night Ice came out last year via Country & Eastern, and earlier this year, it was re-released on vinyl.
The multi-instrumentalist, who hails from Stockholm, draws influences from various genres and bands. As the label describes, Krantz blends elements of post-rock, indie, instrumental, krautrock, neojazz, alternative, electronic, psychedelic, experimental and pop with “asymmetrical melodies, driving rhythms and ambient soundscapes”.

His latest single, ‘Young Ends’, has recently been complimented with a video, directed by Mexican artist Derzu Campos. Check it out below, and after the video, listen to the tantalizing B-side ‘Melting Point’.


Eat Skull announce new album and share first taster

06 December 2012

Portland’s Eat Skull have announced the release of their third full-length album, aptly titled III. The quartet’s new effort is slated for a February 19th release via Woodsist.
III was created “on a fever train between states, cities, community colleges and jails”, as the band puts it. III is reportedly “a more psychedelic and perfectly circular outing” than their two previous albums.

‘How Do I Know When To Say Goodnight?’ is the the first cut to emerge and you can listen to it below.

Kriget’s new single ‘Holy Mountain’ out today

05 December 2012

Hot on the heels of their recently released album Dystopico, Swedish avant-garde trio Kriget, are releasing today a new digital single, ‘Holy Mountain’, via The Control Group. The single, backed with the B-side ‘Aghori Diet’, will have a physical 7″ release in January.

“With just bass, drums and a furious saxophone”, the trio of Christoffer Roth, Gustav Bendt and Per Nordmark, “take inspiration from pioneers in the margins of pop”, as the press release explains. Some of their influential outfits include Cybotron, DAF, Peter Brötzmann, James Chance and Ornette Coleman.

A video for ‘Holy Mountain’ is the works. Whilst we wait for it drop, be sure to listen to the frantic and fierce single below.

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.