Sinkane’s debut album is on the way

24 September 2012

Sinkane, the nom de plume of Sudanese born, New York based prolific multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, keeps himself well busy playing with the likes of Caribou, Yeasayer, Of Montreal, Born Ruffians and Eleanor Friedberger. Sinkane also has his own brainchild project and a debut album on the way. Mars is due out late October via DFA Records and City Slang.

The forthcoming album features a stellar list of 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.

According to the issued press release, Mars “is dense with deep, polyrhythmic grooves that refer as much to early 70’s underground soul as it does back to Sudan, Gallab’s home country. On another level, it’s a 21st century party record that acknowledges the international musical village in which we all now live”.

‘Jeeper Creeper’ is one of the stunning spacey jams lifted from Mars. Listen to it below.

People Get Ready share first single ahead of debut album release

24 September 2012

Steven Reker, Luke Fasano (ex-Yeasayer), James Rickman (ex-Lizzie Trulie, ex-Slow Gherkin) and Jen Goma (A Sunny Day in Glasgow) make up Brooklyn based outfit People Get Ready.
The quartet are set to release their self-titled debut album on October  22nd via Brassland. The album was recorded last year in an old farm house in New York by songwriter, producer and composer Jherek Bischoff.

‘Windy Cindy’ is the first catchy taste lifted from People Get Ready’s upcoming album. Founding member Steven Reker, who has previously toured with David Byrne as a guitarist and dancer, said this about the single:

“‘Windy Cindy’ was inspired by Cindy Sherman’s pictures, her Untitled Film Stills. I spent a long time looking at those pictures, and then I got so into them, I mean really in to them. I found myself wanting to see things from the perspective of the characters she had made. So the song is basically me having this desire to take over her spot in the picture – forever. It’s a dialogue. I try to do it, it’s fine for a bit, but I end up getting super tired because I can’t hold the pose as long as she can. And then I imagine I’d rather be an inanimate object. Like I’d rather just be her dress or the glass that she’s holding, the match that she’s striking, the book she is getting off the shelf, and stuff like that. All these objects are endowed perfectly by her, the way she handles them. It’s very romantic to me, not in a lovey-dovey way at all but in the way the work feels…livable. It’s a livable world she made.”

Listen to ‘Windy Cindy’ below.

The Ocean Floor offer first taste from upcoming album

23 September 2012

Portland based quintet The Ocean Floor are set to release their new full-length album Falling Star Castle later this year.

Speaking about the forthcoming album, which has been in the works for almost two years, The Ocean Floor said it “sounds like a ghost playing drums and spitting fireworks out of his mouth”.

Falling Star Castle,  due out on November 27th, will be available digitally and on tape via Single Girl, Married Girl.

The outfit led by multi-instrumentalist and singer Lane Barrington has just unveiled the first cut ‘Big Screen TV’, a gorgeous and heartfelt song filled with beautiful and unpredictable melodies and arrangements.

In the words of The Ocean Floor,  ‘Big Screen TV’  “is the beginning of a story about imagination’s undertow, romantic daydreams slipping on like a mask, fairy tale expectations, confrontations with perfection.”
Listen to it below, and to entice you even more, listen to their previous efforts on bandcamp.

Metronomy set to release Green Room EP in October

21 September 2012

Metronomy have announced the release of a new EP entitled Green Room.
The new effort, due out on October 1st, features an unreleased track, ‘Anna on Drums’, and four remixes of ‘Loving Arm’ by Metronomy’s own mastermind Joseph Mount, Prins Thomas, Get a room and Bullion.

Get a taste of ‘Anna on Drums’ below.

Royal Canoe self-release Purple and Gold EP

21 September 2012

Summer may have come to an end but the recently self-released Purple and Gold EP by Winnipeg’s Royal Canoe is making it easy to hold on to the sunny season.
The six-piece made up of Matt Peters, Bucky Driedger, Matt Schellenberg, Brendan Berg, Derek Allard and Michael Jordan released Purple and Gold last week via their bandcamp. The EP features two new tracks and a remix of each song. A physical edition is due out on October 8th.

Now listen to the catchy opener ‘Show Me Your Eyes’.