‘Cara Falsa’ and ‘Vistate’, the first two singles from Ombre‘s debut album, are now followed by another beautitul cut called ‘Tormentas’.
Believe You Me is out now via Asthmatic Kitty and you can stream it via Ombre’s bandcamp page.
Here’s ‘Tormentas’.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra seem to enjoy complimenting their songs with cool videos.
They released their eponymous debut album last year and this year they have been dropping videos for some tracks off it.
The last one to receive the visual treatment is ‘Jello and Juggernauts’. Behn Fannin directs and you can check it out below.
Rioux has just premiered a video for ‘Halo’, the second single from his recently self-released EP Come On All You Ghosts. The Brooklyn via Detroit multi-instrumentalist and producer moved to Berlin for a few months earlier this year to record the EP.
Come On All You Ghosts is inspired by “nightlife, Krautrock, psychedelia, and the starkly contrasting energies of the dancefloor” as the press release states.
Mike Sidow directed the video for ‘Halo’ using found footage and interpolating it with images of Rioux. Speaking about the video, Sidow said “the imagery is inspired by the overall vibe and energy of the song itself. It was edited in much the same way Rioux’s music is constructed: sampling, cutting up, distorting, and piecing together ephemeral clips and meaningful images into a final result”.
Watch the video below and head over to Rioux’s soundcloud page to stream the whole EP.
‘Halo’ follows the previously released single ‘Find the Reason’ featuring Thurmon Green. Listen to it after the video.
Rhode Island noise rock duo Lightning Bolt are set to release a seven-track EP featuring lost tracks from 2008. Aptly named Oblivion Hunter, the EP drops on September 25th via Load Records.
Oblivion Hunter is “a real cool time – loose, hard and loopy”, as the label puts it. “This record is one of the few necessary things in your grim stretch of existence, played by a band with 20 years of total conviction to the destruction of your ear drums. The net is cast decidedly further this time out with North Pole square dancing colliding with shock troop whiplash, executed with the spontaneous interplay of neutrino collision.”
The EP’s opening track ‘King Candy’ has just surfaced the web and you can check it out below.
Graveface Records is putting out a Charity Subscription Series featuring exclusive new tracks from artists and bands like Dosh, Xiu Xiu, Mount Eerie, Mike Watt, Appleseed Cast, Shearwater and many more.
Here’s how Graveface Records explained the origin of the idea:
“The idea for the Charity series was hatched in 2010 when I lost a great amount of my stock in a flood. Many amazing folks donated loot to get me out of that hole. I was so inspired by their generosity that I asked some musician friends to contribute to the project. Two years later and we’re ready to go. So the idea is simple: amazing bands, awesome music that’s exclusive to each release, fun colored vinyl, and most importantly, a large chunk of the profits hitting charities of each artists choosing.”
You can find out more and order the records here.
The first release of this series comes from the hands of Chicago rap experimentalist David Cohn aka Serengeti, who is also one-half of rap duo Serengeti & Polyphonic and one-third of indie trio S/S/S featuring Sufjan Stevens and Son Lux. Serengeti teamed up with Tobacco to deliver ‘Be a Man’, available on August 28th. The profits from this release will be donated to RBI: Reviving Baseball In Inner Cities.
Here’s Serengeti’s ‘Be a Man’ featuring Tobacco. Straight after check out the sampler for the series.
Frode Flatland, Kristian Stockhaus and Øyvind Solheim make up Norwegian dance rock outfit Ungdomskulen.
The trio have announced the release of Secrecy, their fourth full-length, due out on September 25th.
Ungdomskulen are teasing the forthcoming album with its opening track, ‘Askefast’, which translates to “stuck due to ashes’. ‘Askefast’ is inspired by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010, which grounded all European flights and left thousands of people stranded.
The press release describes ‘Askefast’ as a “a blitz of a song with rapid-fire percussion and an irregular beat that will keep you on your toes.”
Earlier today, the threesome premiered a fittingly frenetic video for ‘Askefast’, directed by singer and guitarist Kristian Stockhaus. Check it out below.
