Earlier this month, Beliefs, the project led by Toronto natives Josh Korody and Jesse Crowe, released the two-track single Untitled, featuring ‘Catch My Breath’ and ‘Violets’.
Their self-titled debut album will arrive early 2013 via Hand Drawn Dracula, No Pain In Pop and Unfamiliar Records.
Here´s ‘Catch My Breath’.
Ahleuchatistas, the North Carolina instrumental art-rock duo of Shane Perlowin and Ryan Oslance, dropped Heads Full of Poison, their seventh full-length album, a couple of months ago via Cuneiform Records and Harvest Records.
The pair, known for their improvisational flow, draw influences from varied genres. As the press release describes, Ahleuchatistas blend “elements of punk rock, jazz, classical music, speed metal, grindcore, progressive rock, noise, folk musics from Asia and North Africa, electronic music, and ambient aesthetics, along with volatile, unpredictable improvisation, flowing organically in a virtual world of their own.”
Ahleuchatistas premiered yesterday a video for ‘Lighted Stairs’, one of excellent tracks from Heads Full of Poison, directed by Courtney Chappell. Check it out beneath, and straight after listen to another cut off the album, the fierce, tribal and hypnotic ‘Wisps’.
London based, Trinidad born steel pan maestro Fimber Bravo is set to release his debut album, Con-Fusion, on February 11th via Moshi Moshi.
‘Life After Doomsday’ is the lead single off Con-Fusion and was released digitally yesterday. The track was written and produced in collaboration with London based Japanese musician and producer Zongamin.
Fimber Bravo’s forthcoming album sees him enlisting other renown producers, including Alexis Taylor, Tom Hopkins, Jonnie Wilkes & James Savage (Optimo/Naum Gabo) and Mickey Moonlight.
Coinciding with the single release, Fimber Bravo unveiled an accompanying video for ‘Life After Doomsday’, directed by Alex Giomo. Watch it below.
Here’s ‘The Antidote’, St. Vincent‘s electrifying new track, featured in the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.
The soundtrack was released last week and includes contributions from Feist, Passion Pit, Green Day and several others.
As the year draws to a close, we picked our favourite Albums of 2012
Philadelphia’s Norwegian Arms, the duo of Brendan Mulvihill aka Keith Birthday and Eric Slick aka Dr. Awkward, have announced the release of their debut full-length album entitled Wolf Like A Stray Dog. The album arrives on January 15th via Big School Records.
Wolf Like A Stray Dog was written and documents the year spent by singer/mandolinist Brendan Mulvihill in Siberia, as the press release explains. “Upon returning from his year abroad in Tomsk, Russia, he reunited with other member Eric Slick, to flesh out these eleven introspective songs into rhythmically intricate, yet catchy folk influenced pop music. Touching upon themes like adapting to new environments, questioning one’s knowledge and perspective, and never being satisfied with what you know, one can say the album is wanderlust and curiosity, distilled and neatly packaged into sonic bursts of intense energy”.
In the words of the Norwegian Arms, Wolf Like A Stray Dog is an “ember glowing in the distance of an otherwise frozen taiga”.
The forthcoming album will be available digitally, on vinyl, CD and tape, and pre-order is now available here.
To whet your appetite, here’s the effervescent title track off Wolf Like A Stray Dog.
