Cayucas sign to Secretly Canadian and announce new 7″

10 October 2012

Cayucas, formerly known as Oregon Bike Trails, have announced the release of a new 7″ of ´Cayucos´. The outfit led by Zach Yudin has recently signed to Secretly Canadian who will release the 7″ and also their debut album earlier next year.
Cayucos will also feature the B-side ´Swimsuit´and is due out this Tuesday October 16th.

The band has just premiered a video for ´Cayucos´ directed by Nolan Wilson Goff who calls it “a throwback to the timelessness of the beach and the people you share such a fond place with”. Watch it below.

Sinkane offers new taste from forthcoming debut album

10 October 2012

We´ve recently reported on Sinkane, the new solo project of New York based Sudanese multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, who is set to release his debut album Mars in November via DFA Records and City Slang.

Mars saw Sinkane enlist some incredible 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.

The first stunning taste off Mars, ‘Jeeper Creeper’, is now followed by ´Runnin’´, another excellent and catchy cut infused with upbeat percussion and funkiness. Listen to it now.

The Mynabirds announce release of Body of Work 7″

09 October 2012

The Mynabirds, the Nebraska based outfit fronted by singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn, released their somophore album Generals earlier this year.
‘Body of Work’ was the second single lifted from the album and The Mynabirds have just announced it will have its own 7″ release.
Body of Work 7″ arrives on November 20th via Saddle Creek. The single comes backed with the previously unreleased B-side ‘In the Mouth of Wolves’.

“’Body of Work’ is a reminder of our absolute power to reimagine, redesign, and transform our lives at any given moment into something we enjoy to the utmost, something that’s wholly and fully our own,” said Burhenn. “We are not victims of the past, but artists who can shape it into the most brilliant form imaginable; we are living things, bodies of work to edit.”
To represent this idea of transformation, the vinyl will be housed in a 4-panel fold-out jacket that can be folded into an origami wild horse.
There’s only 1000 copies available and they’ll come in random colours. You can pre-order it now here.

To get you enticed, here’s the gorgeous and cheerful ‘Body of Work’.

Efterklang premiere video for ‘Apples’

06 October 2012

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

04 October 2012

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

03 October 2012

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.