Lonely Drifter Karen add visuals to previously released single ‘Comet’

20 August 2012

Brussels based surrealistic pop outfit Lonely Drifter Karen released Poles, their third album, earlier this year via Crammed Discs.

Currently made up of Austrian singer and guitarist Tanja Frinta, Spanish Keyboard player Marc Melià Sobrevias and French guitarist and multi-insturmentalist Clément Marion, Lonely Drifter Karen also enlisted a bunch of percussionists for their latest album.

With space and extraterrestrial travels as the main theme, in Poles “analog electronics, Asiatic arpeggios, sliding bass-synths, sinuous guitar riffs and funky grooves abound, while Tanja Frinta’s voice is wilder, more vibrant, and seems to have acquired unsuspected new dimensions”, as the press release describes. “With these new shades and brushes, the band have painted an alternate version of their own, unmistakable world: dreamy, poetic, and slightly surreal, overflowing with those lush arrangements and irresistibly seductive melodies which have become the band’s trademark.”

The threesome did a video for ‘Comet’, the first single taken from Poles, and you can watch it below. And straight after listen to another two excellent tracks, the album’s opener ‘Three Colors Red’ and ‘Velvet Rope’.



Ela Orleans, U.S. Girls, Slim Twig and Dirty Beaches release split LP

19 August 2012

Earlier this month, ClanDestine Records have released The Statement, a four-way split LP featuring new songs by Ela Orleans, U.S. Girls, Slim Twig and Dirty Beaches.
The Statement is limited to 500 copies and can be ordered here.
‘The Season’ is one of tracks lifted from the split LP by Polish born, Glasgow based artist Ela Orleans. Listen to it below.

Ombre share new single days before debut album arrives

17 August 2012

Just over a month ago, we got introduced to Ombre, the new collaborative outfit of Julianna Barwick and Helado Negro.
They had released ‘Cara Falsa’, the gorgeous and hypnotic first taste off their debut album, Believe You Me.

‘Cara Falsa’, led by Barwick’s ethereal vocals, is now followed by a dazzling new single, ‘Vistate’, where Helado Negro takes the lead on the vocals.

We are in for a treat with Ombre’s debut album and there’s only a few days to go till it drops on August 21st via Asthmatic Kitty.
Here’s ‘Vistate’.

Animal Collective unleash new video for first single off upcoming album

17 August 2012

Centipede Hz, Animal Collective‘s tenth full-length album, is due out early next month and in anticipation, they have just premiered a video for the first single ‘Today’s Supernatural’. The track was unveiled last week on their new weekly radio show, Animal Collective Radio, and now it gets complimented with a trippy colourful video.

This is the first time since 2007’s Strawberry Jam that Animal Collective regroup as a four piece with original members Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin back in the band.

It’s not surprising that Animal Collective started their own radio show,  as “part of the inspiration for Centipede Hz included the band’s memories of growing up listening to station announcements and commercials on the radio and imagining the after life of radio signals from the past, forgotten transmissions that are now lost in space and broadcasting music from other planets for other life forms”, as the press released described. “This is reflected in the sound of Centipede Hz, which features the white noise of radio interference and buried frequencies overlaid with the band’s peerless melodic sensibilities and compositional methods.”

Centipede Hz will it stores on September 3rd in the UK and a day later in the US via Domino. Ahead of it, Animal Collective will stream the album in its entirety on their radio show this Sunday August 19th.

Now enjoy the video for ‘Today’s Supernatural’. Danny Perez directs.

Get Well Soon premiere video for new single ‘Roland, I Feel You’

17 August 2012

I’ve been eagerly waiting for  the release of Get Well Soon‘s third album The Scarlet Beast O’ Seven Heads – La Bestia Scarlatta Con Sette Teste, which drops on August 27th via City Slang, as previously mentioned.

Konstantin Gropper, the talented songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind Get Well Soon, has just released an epic and berserk 7-minute video for ‘Roland, I Feel You’, the new single lifted from his forthcoming album.

‘Roland, I Feel You’ is “a not-so-serious ode written by Konstantin in honour of a certain internationally-known German director of apocalyptic movies”, explained the label. “The song gave life to a symphony of cinematic tributes in this breathtaking video, which contains more references than a coffee table book on cinema.”

Philipp Kaessbohrer directed the video and you can watch it now. Enjoy.