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, 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.
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.
Famous Class drops today the fourth instalment of their Less Artists More Condos 7″ series featuring a split release from Deerhoof and Half Waif.
Deerhoof contributed with the new song ‘Sexy, But Sparkly’, recorded as part of the Masters From Their Day video series with producer Chris Shaw (Super Furry Animals, Nada Surf, Leonard Cohen).
Listen to both ‘Sexy, But Sparkly’ and Half Waif’s B-side contribution ‘Black Mountains’ below.
Eels have just announced the release of their tenth studio album entitled Wonderful, Glorious. The new effort, slated for a February 5th release via Vagrant, is the follow up to their 2009/2010 trilogy album Hombre Lobo, End Time and Tomorrow Morning.
Lead member Mark Oliver Everett aka E said the new album saw the band fully collaborating in the writing and recording process. ‘Let’s try it. If anyone in the room had an idea, I’d say let’s try it.’
Other than the regular album edition featuring thirteen tracks, Wonderful, Glorious will also be available in an expanded 26-track deluxe version that includes some studio tracks, B-sides, four tracks recorded live at KEXP and other tracks recorded at live performances.
Whilst we eagerly wait to hear a new cut from Eel’s upcoming release, here’s ‘Fresh Blood’ off 2009’s Hombre Lobo.
Welsh electronic experimental rockers Gallops are set to release their debut instrumental album Yours Sincerely, Dr. Hardcore on December 10th via Blood & Biscuits.
According to the record’s blurb, “a battle between guitars and electronics is the centre piece of this LP packed with power, pace, groove and intelligence.”.
Produced by Three Trapped Tigers’ Matt Calvert, Yours Sincerely, Dr. Hardcore can be pre-ordered here.
Gallops recently dropped a taster off the forthcoming album, the colossal seven and a half minute track ‘G is for Jaile’. Listen to it below and grab it free here.
