UPSET THE RHYTHM: New DEERHOOF album released, plus Eartheater tonight!

Hello everyone!

We’re positively running cartwheels around Upset The Rhythm HQ today as we’re immensely proud to help guide Deerhoof’s new album The Magic out into the world. Released now on Upset The Rhythm, The Magic is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery; boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. It is a mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you've ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

After all the accolades from press and peers, what’s a legendary band left to do? Rent out an abandoned office space in the middle of the desert in New Mexico in lieu of a regular recording studio, go in with little or no preconceived notions of what would happen, set up, plug in and get loud! After seven days Deerhoof had found (you guessed it) ‘The Magic’, a raw and refreshing wallop of an album about leaving your comfort zone and finding a pineapple.

This new album is an alchemy of '77 punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, spandex, shadows, and attitude. It turns poetry into noise, volume knobs into pleasure, friendship into rock band. "Maybe it came from the music we liked when we were kids, when music was like magic - before we knew about the industry and before there were rules - sometimes hair metal is the right choice. We all showed up in the mood to sing," says drummer Greg Saunier.

You can buy The Magic on LP (white 180g vinyl) or CD from shops right now or if you’d prefer from out web-shop here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

We also have the option of buying the record in combination with an exclusive cassette tape of Deerhoof covering all their favourite songs by the likes of Sonic Youth, Madonna, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Malaria, Van Halen and Def Leppard! Tasty! Pour some sugar on that!

Thank you to everyone for coming to our recent CC Dust and Ty Segall shows! We have one more show this week for you as we’re heading to Café OTO tonight for the stratospheric, crystalline balladry of Eartheater, visionary sound abstraction from Gabriel Saloman and enigmatic, pastoral psych-outs from Common Eider, King Eider. Literally a triple headline show, this is the concert that just keeps coming up with the goods! Tickets for this are £9 in advance from the link below, read on!

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EARTHEATER

GABRIEL SALOMAN

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER

Saturday 25 June

Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

8pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353942

EARTHEATER is Alexandra Drewchin, a New York based musician and artist who seeks on a daily basis to upgrade her mental software. Also known for her shamanic performances fronting Guardian Alien, Eartheater is Drewchin’s unshackled solo vessel, a deliberate distillation of voice, synths, guitar, and electronic production techniques into short-form compositions teeming with crystalline details. At any given moment, an Eartheater composition reads somewhere between a folk song, a musique concrète collage, and a filmic suite fit to soundtrack a cosmic montage that only she can imagine in full detail. Her intricate ballad arrangements rise from standing pools of hi-fidelity synthesis, while her dynamic vocal performances span an untold number of tactics and tonalities. Drewchin builds layered electronic productions possessed of enough detail to constitute stand-alone worlds, each weighted thick with text and texture. October 2015 saw the release of her second album in the same year on Hausu Mountain, ‘RIP Chrysalis’.

https://soundcloud.com/alex-drewchin

GABRIEL SALOMAN is a Vancouver based musician and artist who has been performing experimental, conceptual and freely improvised music for over 15 years. He is best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans and currently composes and performs solo as GMS and Sade Sade. His music investigates temporal abstractions, conceptual sound and gestural noise. There is a parallel concern with sound art as both liberating practice and praxis. In recent performances and recordings Saloman’s music has been composed of percussion, tapes, mixer-feedback, guitar, keyboards, piano and voice. In particular Saloman has explored the use of found sound, field recordings, percussion and processed blank cassettes.

https://gabrielsaloman.bandcamp.com/

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER has always been an enigmatic project, marching to the beat of its own tribal drum and operating on the fringes of an already fringe scene—one that finds comfort in sweeping drones, stirring neofolk, field recordings, and pastoral near-silence. This endeavor (the collective effort of Rob Risk, Blaine Todd, and Andrew Weathers) bends noise and feedback to his will, smoothing out harsh edges into something soothing, gentle, and quite lovely; nature infuses every note and every pause, and that the project's latest album, ‘Unhuulda’, has a heavy environmental focus and its five movements sound like a dark forest evening is no coincidence. ‘Unhuulda’ is the latest offering from Common Eider King Eider's own imprint, Caribou People. It comes with a handmade book of poetry, printed with metallic gold ink on blood red 100% recycled paper.

https://commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/

Have a terrific weekend!

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EARTHEATER

GABRIEL SALOMAN

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER

Saturday 25 June