Yann Tiersen premieres animated video for ‘Another Shore’

14 March 2012

Skyline is Yann Tiersen‘s seventh-studio album, the follow-up to his 2010 Dust Lane. Skyline was released in Europe last October via Mute and is set for release in the US and Canada on April 17th via Anti- Records.

‘Another Shore’ is one of the tracks included in the album and it just received visual treatment.
In the words of Tiersen, ‘Another Shore’ “muses on a long melody with colorful sounds and lot’s of guitars, with light and dark dynamic. The distorted Toy Piano at the beginning is a reference to instruments that were used in my early albums – the distortion brings the old to the new.”

The new animated video was created by Ivan Rusev from a story by Gergana Zabunova. Speaking about the video, Rusev said “Yann really wanted something absurd for this video. A linear story that was simple but strange. It follows the story of an old lady waiting for a bus seemingly in the middle of nowhere where everything is maddeningly against her. Everyone in the video is out to get everyone else in their own little way, but they are all just as weak and silly as each other.”

The video was premiered by Under The Radar yesterday. Watch it below.

Greenpot Bluepot’s new LP Ascend at the Dead End out in April

13 March 2012

Greenpot Bluepot is the solo project of New York based avant-garde experimentalist Natalie LeBrecht.

April 3rd will see the release of her new LP Ascend at the Dead End. LeBrecht performed and produced the album and she brought in Matt Mannelli and Animal Collective’s Avey Tare to co-mix it.

Here’s what the issued press release says about it:

“It’s both Greenpot Bluepot’s liveliest record to date and the most disorienting thing you’re likely to hear any time soon, a party with tiny mutated creatures writhing right under the dance floor. The idea, LeBrecht explains, was to make pop music with the tools of experimental music, or vice versa. (A lot of the album was written in microtonal tunings; some of it was composed over the course of many months; some of it, including the closing “Melting Sword,” was improvised.) The closer attention you pay to its songs, the richer and more complicated they get.”

Before Ascend at the Dead End drops, check out one of its offspring, ‘Royal Parade’, and the carnivalesque video directed by Tara Subkoff.

First taste from Vinyl Williams’ forthcoming Ultimate World EP

12 March 2012

Vinyl Williams, the moniker of Los Angeles based audio visual artist Lionel Williams, announced the release of a new EP entitled Ultimate World.
The upcoming EP, featuring four new songs and two tracks from his album Lemniscate released last year, also comes with a bespoke limited A3 screen print designed by the Williams himself.

Ultimate World was recorded in the high peaks of Utah and it’s due out on April 9th via Warmest Chord. You can pre-order it here.

Ahead of the album release, Vinyl Williams shared the first single off it, ‘Chroma Heart’. Get a taste of it now.

Delicate Steve unveils first single from upcoming new album

10 March 2012

Delicate Steve is the brainchild project of multi-instrumentalist Steve Marion who hails from New Jersey.

His somophore album Positive Force is set to be released on ~~May 15th~~ July 10th via David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label.
The album was written, played, recorded and mixed by Steve.

Quoting the label, “Positive Force is an interplanetary step forward from the bedroom sounds of his debut Wondervisions. What remains true on Positive Force is Marion’s dedication to hyper-melody– put simply, the ability to make you ready and able to sing his wordless songs.”

‘Afria Talks To You’ is the first single lifted from Positive Force, a stunning instrumental summer jam free to download via Luaka Bop’s soundcloud.
Listen to it below.

New cut from Clark’s forthcoming album Iradelphic

10 March 2012

Clark‘s sixth full-length album Iradelphic is due out in less than a month. Following first singles ‘Com Touch’ and ‘The Pining pt2’, ‘Secret’ is the third cut from the album to emerge. The new track features the sweet and hazy vocals of Martina Topley-Bird and is by far the most acoustic effort from the electronic veteran producer..

Here’s what Clark said about his collaboration with Martina:

“I’ve wanted to get Martina on a track for a while now, but really wanted a proper hook/melody and set of lyrics for her to sing, rather then doing that cliché producer thing of going ‘sexy female vocals chopped up over fat masculine beats,’. I mean, there is nothing wrong with that, but you can’t use someone of Martina’s awesome talent flippantly. I didn’t want it to be decorative. I wanted it to be her and me, together on something.”

Recorded in Australia, Berlin, Wales, Brussels, Cornwall, Norway and London, Iradelphic drops on April 2nd in the UK and a day later in the US via Warp Records. Pre-order is now available here.

Now it’s ‘Secret’ time.

Elfin Saddle return with third new LP

09 March 2012

Multi-instrumentalists Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie are the pair behind Elfin Saddle, named after their favourite wild mushroom.
Emi, originally from Japan, and Jordan, from Canada, first met when working together as visual artists on the west coast of Canada.
Their influences are vast and vary from folk to baroque and classical Japanese music but ultimately Elfin Saddle create a unique world of their own.

The band released last week (March 6th) their third full-length album Devastates via Constellation Records. With this new effort, they continue to investigate the tensions between nature and technology and engage “with issues of environmental sustainability and the emotional impact of economic/political ideologies that continually foreclose on the possibility of genuine, progressive renewal and redirection.” The press release adds that “the new album weds an operetta-style song cycle to an organic, junkshop aesthetic to great effect, forging a unique hybrid folk music that weaves Honda’s trilling vocals (often singing in Japanese) and McKenzie’s woodsy, unaffected baritone with threads of clattering steam-engine percussion, ukulele, accordion, glockenspiel and pump organ.”

Devastates was recorded in an abandoned chapel in rural Quebec and it sees the duo being joined by long-standing third member Nathan Gage on double bass and tuba and Kristina Koropecki on cello.

Listen below to the epic opening track ‘The Changing Wind’, which evolves from an acoustic guitar and haunting vocals into powerful percussions and chaos. You can download it free here.

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