Geoff Barrow’s BEAK> have just shared a brand new track, ‘Mono’. The Bristolian trio released >>, their somophore album, last summer but ‘Mono’ was not featured in the album. We’re in luck now! it will be released as a 7″ single on December 10th via Barrow’s own Invada Records. Listen to it beneath.
Big Tree share lead single from upcoming EP
Big Tree, the Berkeley, California based outfit of Kaila McIntyre-Bader, Luke Bace, Dan Pirello, Anna Ghezzi and Matt Schory, have announced the release of a new EP entitled Little. The new effort, produced in partnership with Eli Crews (Mwahaha, tUnE-yArDs, Deerhoof, Geographer), features three new studio tracks and the digital release comes with three live tracks.
Little is slated for a November 6th release and you can pre-order it now on their bandcamp.
The quintet relocated from Brooklyn to the Bay Area last year and Little shows how their new home inspired and re-directed their sound.
Ahead of the release, Big Tree have shared the lead single ‘Time’. Singer-songwriter Kaila McIntyre-Bader said ‘Time’ “encompasses the band’s altered perception of time on the road, the nostalgia of building a new home in a new place, and the nervous excitement of not being able to predict what’s next, but knowing it will be okay.” Make sure you find some “time” to listen to it.
Rozi Plain premieres video for single ‘Cold Tap’
Joined Sometimes Unjoined, the second album from London based singer-songwriter Rozi Plain aka Rosalind Leyden, came out last week via Fence Records and Need No Water Records.
To coincide with the release, Rozi Plain debuted a video for the album’s opening track ‘Cold Tap’, also featuring an excerpt of ‘Days Minutes’ off Joined Sometimes Unjoined. Brothers James & Mark Hankins, members of OLO Worms, directed the video. Watch it below.
Sinkane unleashes video for ‘Runnin” from debut album
Earlier this month, we posted the excellent and catchy ‘Runnin”, the first single off Sinkane‘s debut album entitled Mars. The album is out now in the US via DFA Records and it arrives in Europe on November 17th via City Slang.
Sinkane has unveiled a video to accompany ‘Runnin”, directed by Philip Di Fiore. Watch it below.
Merz set to release new album in January
Merz, the branchild project of British multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Conrad Lambert, has announced the release of his new album No Compass Will Find Home, due out on January 7th 2013 via Accidental Records.
According to the album’s blurb, No Compass Will Find Home “is a progressive, wild and ragged record with a unique kind of psychedelia”. Merz described his new effort as “a big bowl of Romanticism and a rush of Rousseau-esque rhythms”.
Recorded in the foothills of the Swiss Alps, No Compass Will Find Home features Gyda Valtysdóttir (founding member of Icelandic band Múm), London guitarist and composer Leo Abrahams and Swiss drummer Julian Sartorius. Merz invited Matthew Herbert to help with production duties and here’s what he said about this partnership:
“I wanted to work with Matthew Herbert because of his work with Micachu and The Invisible, two really adventurous British groups. Having made the last record, which dallied with my folk roots, I became switched-on again to music that seemed to have been made in the near future, artists who were ahead of the rest, with vision. Also being in an environment like Switzerland that has quite a modernist feel about it at the same time as being very medieval, it has an appealing balance between the old and the new. High velocity Snowboarding…..replacing walks in the pastoral English countryside….definitely contributed to the more adrenalin fueled sounds.”
Listen below to ‘Toy’, the first track unveiled a while back, and ‘Goodbye My Chimera’, another cut off Merz’s forthcoming album.
The Ocean Floor unveil handcrafted new video for second cut from forthcoming album
Following the gorgeous single ‘Big Screen TV‘, Portland based quintet The Ocean Floor are offering ‘My Shelf’ as the second taste from their highly anticipated new full-length album Falling Star Castle.
The enchanting new cut comes complimented with an achingly beautiful video featuring origami puppetry.
“My Shelf is the product of a year of Thursdays of folding, cutting, gluing and laughing”, said The Ocean Floor. “The video portrays the song’s narrative interpreted by ‘Dolores’ the Loris and ‘Arthur’ the Orangutan. This tale of poorly timed feelings and unspoken longing sets the stage for the rest of Falling Star Castle’s journey into imagination and dreamings of perfection”.
Falling Star Castle will see the light on November 27th and it will be available digitally and on tape via Single Girl, Married Girl. You can pre-order it via The Ocean Floor’s bandcamp or the label.
Watch below the fittingly unique and emotive video for ‘My Shelf’, directed by Kurtis Hough.
