Buke and Gase offer title track from upcoming new album

28 November 2012

Brooklyn based inventive outfit Buke and Gase, the duo of Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, have shared the title track from their upcoming somophore album. General Dome will see the light of day on January 29th via Brassland.

Buke and Gase, formerly Buke and Gass, named themselves after their own handmade instruments, the “buke”, a self-modified baritone ukulele and the “gase”, a guitar-bass hybrid created by Aron. Other than their core eponymous instruments, Arone and Aron use an array of homemade gear including ankle-played bells, toe-bourine and a bass drum with an integral snare drum and tambourine.

Whilst we eagerly wait for the album to drop, here’s the fierce and exhilarating title track ‘General Dome’.

The Mynabirds unleash video for ‘Body of Work’

27 November 2012

As previously reported, Nebraska based outfit The Mynabirds, released their ‘Body of Work’ EP last week via Saddle Creek. The uplifting and charming single, taken from the album Generals, comes backed with the B-side ‘In the Mouth of Wolves’.

To celebrate the release, The Mynabirds have unveiled a beautiful visual accompaniment to the song.
“[Director] Allie [Avital Tsypin] and I wanted to create this enchanted world that was basically a collection of moving surrealist paintings inhabited by these pure, joyous people,” explained Burhenn. “And the cinematographers, set designers and cast made it happen in a serious way.” Watch the video below.

Shugo Tokumaru shares lead single from new album

27 November 2012

2013 is getting closer and there are a lot of exciting releases to look forward to. Japanese pop wizard Shugo Tokumaro is presenting In Focus?, the follow up to his 2010’s Port Entropy. The new album has been released in his native Japan earlier this month via P-Vine Records, and it drops worldwide on January 22nd via Polyvinyl Records.

According to the press release, whilst creating In Focus? in the first half of 2012, the multi-instrumentalist “locked himself inside his home studio, often forgetting to eat and sleep for long stretches of time”.Tokumaro crafted each song in the album using “an average of 20 instruments and hundreds of recorded parts”.

Lead single ‘Decorate’ is the first joyful taste Shugo Tokumaro is offering, and it comes with video. Here it is.


Deerhoof drop new EP and video

26 November 2012

Deerhoof released their eleventh studio album, Breakup Song, early in September via ATP Recordings and Polyvinyl. Fresh on the heels of that release, they have just started a European tour. Head over here to check all their stops.

Coinciding with the tour, the quartet have a new double A-side EP, ‘Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III’ / ‘There’s That Grin’. The EP is out today digitally, and a limited tape edition arrives on December 3rd via ATP Recordings.
Other than the two excellent tracks lifted from Breakup Song, the EP features a brand new track called ‘Just For That’, a live cover of Velvet Underground’s ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ and a Silver Apples remix of ‘Mario’s Flaming Dessert’.

Deerhoof are also offering a fittingly festive and mad video to compliment ‘Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III’. Richard Huntington Swanson directed it and you can watch it below.

Ahleuchatistas premiere video for ‘Lighted Stairs’

21 November 2012

Ahleuchatistas, the North Carolina instrumental art-rock duo of Shane Perlowin and Ryan Oslance, dropped Heads Full of Poison, their seventh full-length album, a couple of months ago via Cuneiform Records and Harvest Records.

The pair, known for their improvisational flow, draw influences from varied genres. As the press release describes, Ahleuchatistas blend “elements of punk rock, jazz, classical music, speed metal, grindcore, progressive rock, noise, folk musics from Asia and North Africa, electronic music, and ambient aesthetics, along with volatile, unpredictable improvisation, flowing organically in a virtual world of their own.”

Ahleuchatistas premiered yesterday a video for ‘Lighted Stairs’, one of excellent tracks from Heads Full of Poison, directed by Courtney Chappell. Check it out beneath, and straight after listen to another cut off the album, the fierce, tribal and hypnotic ‘Wisps’.