Derbyshire natives Andrew Foster and Chris Jones make up noise pop duo Crushing Blows. November 12th will see the release of a new self-titled EP via their own Super Heavy Weight Records. Pre-orders are available now here and they come with a treat. The band is also offering the vinyl of their previously released double A-side single ‘Hiding Place’ / ‘You Will Always Be Lonely’.
‘The People You Will Never Meet’ is the first taste off the upcoming EP and Crushing Blows have premiered a video for it directed by Stuart Samuels. Watch it below.
Brooklyn´s Yeasayer dropped their third album last August via Secretly Canadian. As described by the label, Fragrant World is “an album that grapples with the schizophrenia of the modern world by gathering piles of electronics and molding them into something huge and often gorgeous.”
The trio of Chris Keating, Ira Wolf-Tuton and Anand Wilder are set set to release ‘Reagon’s Skeleton’, the third single off Fragrant World on October 30th. The band has just shared a video for the track where they perform it at Miloco Studios’s The Pool in London. Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard directed the video. Watch it below.
Brooklyn based Graph Rabbit, the duo of Austin Donohue (guitar, vocals) and Shy Kedmi (analogue synths), released their debut album Snowblind a couple of days ago via Butterscotch Records.
The album was produced by Allen Farmelo (The Cinematic Orchestra, Talk Normal, Mike Jorgensen of Wilco) and mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson (Björk, Sigur Rós).
According to the press release, Snowblind “follows an unnamed character as he wanders through a surreal snow-scape, in and out of sleep, following birds through fields, arguing with a river and eventually just surrendering to the silence of snowfall.” In the words of Donohue “it’s like, what if Dorothy decided to kick off the ruby slippers and stay in the poppy field while it snowed?”
Graph Rabbit are currently touring the new album in America and they are performing it in its entirety using only analogue and acoustic equipment. Speaking about it, Kedmi explained this is “the only way we can really bring the world we’ve created, the world of Snowblind, to our audience.”
Coinciding with the album´s release, Graph Rabbit have premiered a video for the second delicate and enchanting single ´Make It Stop´. The video was directed by Christopher Vetur and filmed in a single shot. Watch it underneath and straight after listen to the beautiful first single ‘Only Fields’.
Cayucas, formerly known as Oregon Bike Trails, have announced the release of a new 7″ of ´Cayucos´. The outfit led by Zach Yudin has recently signed to Secretly Canadian who will release the 7″ and also their debut album earlier next year. Cayucos will also feature the B-side ´Swimsuit´and is due out this Tuesday October 16th.
The band has just premiered a video for ´Cayucos´ directed by Nolan Wilson Goff who calls it “a throwback to the timelessness of the beach and the people you share such a fond place with”. Watch it below.
We´ve recently reported on Sinkane, the new solo project of New York based Sudanese multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, who is set to release his debut album Mars in November via DFA Records and City Slang.
Mars saw Sinkane enlist some incredible collaborators including Roberto Lange of Savath & Savathas and Helado Negro, Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr., Yeasayer’s Ira Wolf Tuton, members of Afrobeat band Nomo and saxophonist/flautist Casey Benjamin a/k/a stutzmcgee.
The first stunning taste off Mars, ‘Jeeper Creeper’, is now followed by ´Runnin’´, another excellent and catchy cut infused with upbeat percussion and funkiness. Listen to it now.
The Mynabirds, the Nebraska based outfit fronted by singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn, released their somophore album Generals earlier this year.
‘Body of Work’ was the second single lifted from the album and The Mynabirds have just announced it will have its own 7″ release. Body of Work 7″ arrives on November 20th via Saddle Creek. The single comes backed with the previously unreleased B-side ‘In the Mouth of Wolves’.
“’Body of Work’ is a reminder of our absolute power to reimagine, redesign, and transform our lives at any given moment into something we enjoy to the utmost, something that’s wholly and fully our own,” said Burhenn. “We are not victims of the past, but artists who can shape it into the most brilliant form imaginable; we are living things, bodies of work to edit.”
To represent this idea of transformation, the vinyl will be housed in a 4-panel fold-out jacket that can be folded into an origami wild horse.
There’s only 1000 copies available and they’ll come in random colours. You can pre-order it now here.
To get you enticed, here’s the gorgeous and cheerful ‘Body of Work’.
