Xiu Xiu premiere video for second single off Always

02 May 2012

‘Honeysuckle’ is the second single lifted from Xiu Xiu‘s recently released album Always and a video for it has emerged yesterday.

Always is out now via Bella Union in Europe and Polyvinyl in the rest of the world.

The brainchild project of Jamie Stewart is starting a North-American tour today, check all the dates and other info here.

Now watch the video for ‘Honeysuckle’ directed by Amir Stoucri and  featuring Xiu Xiu’s member Angela Seo as she goes about her day-to-day routine. Make sure you have finished eating because it gets pretty disturbing.

And after the video you can listen to the first single off Always, ‘Beauty Towne’, posted here a while back.


Tom Vek shares brand new track and video

01 May 2012

It’s great to find out we won’t need to wait another five years to hear new material from London-based multi-instrumentalist Tom Vek.
Yesterday he posted a brand new song, ‘You’ll Stay’, and a video for it on his website.
Listen to it below and check out the video, where Mr. Vek plays with a remote control giant truck.

New accompanying visuals for Alexander Tucker’s ‘Andromeon’

30 April 2012

Third Mouth is the sixth studio album by British avant-pop musician Alexander Tucker, written over a twelve-month period.
The album is out now in Europe and arrives on May 15th in the rest of the world via Thrill Jockey.

Tucker describes the album:
“Third Mouth is a little bit like therapy for me. It’s about the fact that when I was younger my mum would say she could speak in tongues because spirits were talking through her which used to freak me out. It is also about the idea of having a third mouth instead of a third eye. It was the idea of a voice coming through a person, as if they were a conduit from another world beyond this one.”

Last week Tucker released a video for the sci-fi influenced track ‘Andromeon’. In his own words, ‘Andromeon’ “has a totally sci-fi name, which doesn’t really have any real meaning but I imagined a sci-fi novel called ‘Andromeon’. On the track I’m playing the tambura with mallets which gives it that unique sound but the rest of the track has that real Spacemen 3, Loop, driving sound to it.”

Watch the video below, made by Tucker and Serena Korda. You can taste the album further with another mesmerizing track off it, ‘Window Sill’, embedded after the video. Enjoy.


Wintersleep give away first single from upcoming album Hello Hum

29 April 2012

Halifax, Nova Scotia based indie rockers Wintersleep are set to release their fifth full-length album entitled Hello Hum.
The record, produced by David Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT) and Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai), reflects the band’s ten-year existence and experiences.

Hello Hum will be out on June 12th Via Roll Call Records/ ILG.

‘Resuscitate’ is the first single off the album and Wintersleep are giving it away as a free download. Listen to it now.

Lyonnais premiere official video for ‘A Sign From On High / Modern Calvary’

27 April 2012

Hailing from Atlanta, Lyonnais are currently a quartet formed in 2008 by long time friends Farbod Kokabi and Farzad Moghaddam with the later addition of Lee Tesche and TJ Black.
The psych rockers have just premiered the official video for ‘A Sign From On High / Modern Calvary’, off their recent debut album Want For Wish For Nowhere released via Hoss Records.
The video, made by Lamb & Sea, was recorded in the Sahara Desert, London, and Atlanta. Watch it below, courtesy of Noisey.
You can also listen to the epic nine-minute ‘Dusted at Mount Sinai’, the first single previously lifted from the album. Head over to soundcloud to stream the whole album.


Hear two new tracks from ROM’s forthcoming album

27 April 2012

New York and Miami based Roberto Carlos Lange and Matt Crum are mostly known for being part of outfits like Savath Y Savalas, Helado Negro, Feathers and many others.
The pair also make up experimental duo ROM and they are about to deliver their somophore full-length entitled Foot Signal.
Although the album was recorded over three years in several different places and cities, it is an “entirely cohesive sonic outing” according to the issued press release. “That they used mostly broken instruments throughout the process only reinforces that soundscape they sought to create. That they played them even with their feet as the title reveals gives us a slight visual hint at the anarchy of the sessions.
Could they have used an organ that stayed in tune? Probably. But taping its keys down and pressing record in hopes to document something at all usable is part of the random fabric that makes ROM’s music so incredibly transcendent.”

Foot Signal will be out on May 21st via Pingipung.

The first two cuts from the upcoming album, ‘Whale Vomit’ and ‘Kids’ are utterly amazing and you can listen to them below.