New cut unveiled from Can – The Lost Tapes

26 April 2012

As previously posted, Mute will release Can – The Lost Tapes, a three-CD box set featuring unreleased studio and live material and soundtracks of unfinished films, curated by Can’s keyboard player Irmin Schmidt and Mute’s Daniel Miller.

Can – The Lost Tapes arrives on June 18th in Europe and a day later in the US via Mute and you can pre-order it here.

Last month Mute offered the groovy track ‘Millionenspiel’ off the forthcoming triple album. Now another great track off it has just emerged, ‘Deadly Doris’. The track, recorded in a castle, features Can’s original vocalist Michael Mooney. Here’s what Irmin Schmidt said about it:

“[This was a] spontaneous live composition from the time in Schloss Nörvenich. The owner of the castle – who let us use the studio for free – was an art collector and sometimes we would play for his guests at the opening nights of exhibitions. Malcolm loved to confuse the people by using an actual event – somebody was called Doris – repeat a few words relating to that event over and over again, like a mantra, obsessively until it would actually become scary.”

Here it is.

Brian Borcherdt’s new side project Dusted with debut album on the way

25 April 2012

Toronto-by-way-of-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia singer songwriter  Brian Borcherdt, co-founder of electronic outfit Holy Fuck, teamed up with producer Leon Taheny (Final Fantasy, Rituals, Bruce Pensinsula) for a new project called Dusted.
Their debut album, Total Dust, will hit stores on July 10th via Hand Drawn Dracula and Polyvinyl. You can pre-order it from both labels.

According to the press release, the forthcoming album “resides in an atmosphere that is sometimes melodic, sometimes haunting, and always clouded by a fuzzy glow. With string arrangements and half-hidden guitar feedback held together by the occasional tambourine and minimal drum machine, the stripped down mood perfectly complements a collection of songs that are more than capable of standing on their own merits.”

The first single off Total Dust, ‘(Into the) Atmosphere’ emerged yesterday. Listen to it below and also check out the teaser clips.



Eric Copeland to release new full-length album in June

25 April 2012

Experimental musician Eric Copeland, who is also one-third of Black Dice, has announced the release of a new album, Limbo.
The follow-up to last year’s Waco Taco Combo drops on June 5th via Underwater Peoples.

“Tie up your laces and listen loud.” says the label’s blurb. “Feeling like a funked up alien comic book, Copeland’s newest full length, Limbo, extends his ouvre of layered, pitched, and all-out fucked sounds toward an easier place, a more familiar musical terrain. More fleshed out than his earlier work, Limbo’s six parts give it a capacious feel of action. Well organized and having an undeniable rhythm, the album is an excellent progression from the concepts explored within throughout his body of work.”

The first taste from Limbo is ‘Louie, Louie Louie’. Listen to it below.

AU drop kaleidoscopic visuals for ‘OJ’

25 April 2012

One of my favourite albums released this year is Both Lights by Portland based experimental pop rockers AU. The album came out earlier this month via Hometapes (US) and The Leaf Label (UK) and the outfit led by multi-instrumentalist Luke Wyland and drummer Dana Valatka have been touring it all over Europe for the last month.
After releasing two jaw-dropping singles, ‘Solid Gold’ and ‘Get Alive’, another track from the album sees the light, ‘OJ’. The track comes with tripped-out colourful visuals fittingly urging anyone to dance.
Takafumi Tsuhiya directs. You can also grab it free on the embedded soundcloud below. Enjoy.


Get Well Soon tease forthcoming third album with brand new track

24 April 2012

German outfit Get Well Soon, the project of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper, have just announced the release of their third full-length album entitled The Scarlet Beast O’ Seven Heads – La Bestia Scarlatta Con Sette Teste.
The album has a cinematic feel to it, which is not surprising since Gropper was busy scoring films and even a French TV series for the last year. Here’s how the man himself describes the album:

“To my new album, the average billionaire trustfund kid can happily cruise around the mountains atop Largo di Garda in his convertible, complete with trophy girlfriend in the passenger seat. But if he feels like it, he can also get off his medication and just go crashing through the barriers.”

The Scarlet Beast O’ Seven Heads – La Bestia Scarlatta Con Sette Teste is due out on August 27th via City Slang, just hit this link to pre-order the album.

‘You Cannot Cast Out The Demons (You Might As Well Dance)’ is the first taste from the forthcoming album and its free to download on soundcloud. Get Well Soon described it as “a tribute to all the troubled women who ever played any role in an Alfred Hitchcock movie”. Listen to it below.