Efterklang have just premiered a video for the single ‘Apples’ taken from their recently released album Piramida.
The video features shots from Piramida, the abandoned Russian mining town on the Spitsbergen Archipelago in the North Arctic where Efterklang spent nine days and after which the album is named and inspired.
Hvass&Hannibal in collaboration with Oodls directed it and you can watch it below.
The Herald Beat release lead single ahead of debut album
Dylan and Zack Burns are the two brothers hailing from Texas and now based in Los Angeles who make up indie/post-rock outfit The Herald Beat. The pair are set to release their debut full-length album, Hollow Heads, on October 15th.
The album, produced by Louie Lino (Nada Surf, Matt Pond PA, et al.), “follows themes of reflection and retrospection” as the press release describes. “Dylan’s guitar parts take subtle influences from classical training to create strong, pervading melodies over Zack’s upbeat, driving percussion that keeps the momentum even through the slow songs.”
‘Awakening’ is the first single taken from Hollow Heads and it features guest vocalist Leslie Sisson (The Wooden Birds, American Analog Set, and Broken Social Scene). Listen to it now.
Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier form Mystical Weapons and announce debut album
Mystical Weapons is the brand new project of Sean Lennon and Deerhoof’s drummer Greg Saunier.
According to the press release, the two met a couple of years ago when Deerhoof shared the bill with the Plastic Ono Band in a San Francisco show. Sean Lennon’s Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger were down to play the following day and he asked Saunier if he’d want to form a duo to open the show.
They’ve continued to collaborate since and have just announced the release of their self-titled debut album, due out on January 15th via Lennon’s own Chimera Music.
‘Mechanical Mammoth’ is the first taste they’re offering us. Listen to it below.
Anna Meredith set to release debut EP
British contemporary composer Anna Meredith will release her first EP in less than two weeks. Black Prince Fury is due out on October 15th via Moshi Moshi Records.
“A contemporary classical composer by day”, as the label describes her, “Anna creates bombastic electronic music by night.”
Following her first tremendous single ‘Nautilus’, featured in our monthly mixtape earlier this year, Anna has just unveiled ‘Never Wonder’, the second outstanding cut from the forthcoming EP. Anna humorously chucks in a sample of Jennifer Rush’s classic ballad ‘The Power of Love’ right in the middle of ‘Never Wonder’. Listen to it below, and straight after check out the video that accompanies ‘Nautilus’.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor announce first new album in a decade
It’s been a decade since Canadian post-rock veterans Godspeed You! Black Emperor released Yanqui U.X.O.. Soon after the album release, the band went on hiatus, which they’ve ended in 2010 when they got back together to play live and they’ve been on tour since.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced the release of Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, the first new album since 2002. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! drops on October 15th in Europe and the following day in the rest of the world, via Constellation Records. If you are lucky enough to go to one of the shows from their American tour, you can grab the album there.
According to the label, Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! features two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones.
The release date can’t come soon enough. Whilst we wait to hear their new material, here’s ‘motherfucker=redeemer (pt.2)’, the epic closing track from Yanqui U.X.O..
Tjutjuna set to release new single ‘Desert Song’
Denver based psych rock outfit Tjutjuna released their self-titled debut album almost two years ago and they are working on its follow up.
To whet our appetite, Tjutjuna will drop a new single, ‘Desert Song’. on November 6th via Fire Talk. It comes backed with B-side ‘Schulze and Shaffner’ and will be available on tape and digitally.
‘Desert Song’ is an exuberant jam recorded in one take. Check it out.
