As previously reported, electronic rockers PVT are set to release their fourth studio album entitled Homosapien early next year via their own Felte. Homosapien is “a powerful body of work built upon the concept of the human condition” according to the album’s blurb.
The Aussie trio has just unveiled ‘Nightfall’, the first powerful single taken from Homosapien. ‘Nightfall’ will be released digitally on October 23rd in North America and the day before in the rest of the world. Listen to it below.
Last month Callers unveiled the gorgeous and cheerful track ‘Heroes’ from their third full-length album Reviver, which dropped last week via Partisan Records.
The quartet led by founding members Sara Lucas and Ryan Seaton have debuted a video to accompany the track. Derrick Belcham and Beth Gill directed it and you can watch it below. You’ll be dancing too.
German electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss is returning with his first solo album in six years. A Long Way To Fall will be released via Domino in North America and via Schnauss´s own Scripted Realities in the rest of the world early next year.
Here´s what Schnauss said about the forthcoming album:
“Throughout the last decade, I recorded three albums that were trying to translate the early 90’s shoegaze aesthetic into an electronic context. After finishing the last album, Goodbye, I felt a need for a change of direction. At the same time, my music taste was changing drastically. While I had spent a couple of years mainly listening to songwriting based music (a lot of ‘indie’/band-type stuff), I was now rediscovering my love for electronic music based on more open structures. This provided the main inspiration of trying to record an album that would celebrate the synthesizer as the very capable musical instrument that it is, but without the need to disguise it behind a wall of echo and reverb. What satisfies me the most about this album is that I think I’ve managed to create a record that has a coherent, cohesive narrative.”
The first taste from the album is the title track ‘A Long Way To Fall’. Listen to it below.
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’.
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