Liars unleash first taste from forthcoming album WIXIW

02 April 2012

Los Angeles based art rock outfit Liars have been teasing a new album for a few months with sound and video snippets posted on their Tumblr.

The trio comprising Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross, have recently announced the title and release date for the album. WIXIW will be released on June 4th in Europe and June 5th in the US via Mute.

According to the press release, WIXIW “saw the band working more collaboratively than on previous recordings, and began when Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill moved into an isolated cabin in the mountains to begin writing.”
Recorded in Los Angeles and produced by the band and Mute’s Daniel Miller, WIXIW “is hard to shake, tough to pin down, and impossible to get out of one’s head even after an initial listen. Simultaneously the most accessible and most challenging release from these iconoclasts, it is both a summation of Liars’ work up to now, and a complete break from anything you’d ever heard the band do previously.”

Earlier today, the threesome shared ‘No. 1 Against The Rush’, the first single off the forthcoming album. You can listen to it on their facebook or check it out below. You can also check the trailer for WIXIW.


Theme Park give away free EP

02 April 2012

Today sees the release of Theme Park‘s new single ‘Two Hours’ via Transgressive Records. The single comes as a limited edition 7″ and it includes b-side ‘Mourning Crimes’.

Coinciding with it, the foursome are giving away four exclusive tracks as a free download bundle. The EP includes the original version of previous single ‘Milk’ and its b-side ‘Ghosts’, an acoustic version of ‘Wax’ and a new remix of ‘Two Hours’.

Theme Park are currently recording their debut album set for release later in the summer.
Whilst we wait for the album to drop, head over to Theme Park’s facebook to download their free EP.

Death And Vanilla premiere brand new video for Cul-De-Sac

30 March 2012

Swedish duo Death And Vanilla dropped their self-titled debut album a couple of weeks ago via Hands In The Dark and Kalligrammofan.

The first press of Death and Vanilla sold out but the band announced a second press is expected to arrive mid april and it can be ordered now through the labels.
Head over to their bandcamp to stream the album.

Death And Vanilla have just premiered a new video made by Sarah Mosk for Cul-De-Sac, one of the tracks from the album. Check it out below.

Box set of unreleased tracks by Can arrives in June

30 March 2012

Legendary and influential krautrock outfit Can are releasing The Lost Tapes, a 3-CD box set featuring unreleased studio and live material and also soundtracks of films that were never completed.

Can’s keyboard player Irmin Schmidt and Mute’s Daniel Miller curated The Lost Tapes and Jono Podmore helped to compile and edit it.

The material was found after the Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock’ N’ Pop Museum.

“Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music.” says the issued press release.
“What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.”

The tracks were recorded between 1968 and 1977 with Can members Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and vocals from Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney on most tracks.

The Lost Tapes will be released on June 18th in Europe and a day later in the US via Mute.

The first taster from this upcoming collection is the excellent and groovy opening track ‘Millionenspiel’. Enjoy.

Jon Porras films video for track from forthcoming new album

29 March 2012

San Francisco based Jon Porras, who is also one half of guitar drone outfit Barn Owl, is set to release Black Mesa, his new solo LP.

The album was recorded by Porras at home and in his practice space over the course of ten months.
“Black Mesa is intended as a reflection on desolation and the search for light in a barren land” says the press release. “Featuring seven composed tracks of meditative electric guitar embellished with improvised atmospherics and white light feedback, the album follows an outlaw wanderer who ventures deep into the desert only to discover the Black Mesa, a bridge between worlds (as related to string theory or multiverse theory).”

Black Mesa will hit stores on April 17th via Thrill Jockey and pre-order is now available here.

Jon Porras filmed a video on Super 8 for the opening track ‘Into Midnight’. Check it out below.

Seluah return with new LP Red Parole

25 March 2012

Seluah - Red Parole

Andrew Killmeier (guitar), Matt Johnson (guitar), Edward Grimes (vocals, drums) and Andrew Peace (bass) make up Louisville, Kentucky based outfit Seluah.

The quartet, who last released a self-titled EP a decade ago, is set to drop a full-length album entitled Red Parole.

The forthcoming album will be available digitally and on CD on April 10th and on vinyl on May 8th via Karate Body Records. Hit the link to pre-order the album.

“The bulk of the record reflects an early ’70s mammoth guitar aesthetic, both fuzzed out and sweetly melodic, punctuated by mesmerizing vocals that glide over each track” says the label press release. “Red Parole is a heavy, noirish guitar album and comes with a mandate to be played loudly”.

Back in January Seluah shared the first single off Red Parole,  ‘The Other Side Of the Gun’. Their latest offering is ‘Sail Straight Into The Bombs’, a track “mapped by an insistent Rhodes that’s engulfed by huge walls of guitar and a mile-high snare drum”. You can listen to both tracks below, and remember to set the volume up.