Hello there!
Today our new release from The Green Child sprints into a
world of future sound. Taking their name from Herbert Read’s 1935
utopian, communist, sci-fi novel, it is no surprise The Green Child draw
their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures
new.
Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly
evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their
upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Whilst, Raven’s measured vocal flits
like a will-o’-the-wisp through the tracks, proffering a guiding hand
as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions.
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Mikey Young and Raven Mahon began collaborating on The Green Child, after meeting in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow
played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs
together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn
since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of a several
years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically
recording in Mikey's home studio.
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‘The Green Child’ is released today
through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some
suitably spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra. It is available in
all good shops and directly through our webshop here.
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Upset The Rhythm presents...
DAVID NANCE
NEGATIVE SPACE
MIDNIGHT MINES
Monday 5 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
DAVID NANCE, Omaha veteran of
warble and hiss, returns with ‘Negative Boogie’ (Ba Da Bing Records),
his new concoction of chug, throb and greasy swagger. For
‘Boogie’, Nance trades in his beaten up Tascam 488 for the bulletproof,
glass walls of A.R.C. Studios. Where else can you brew the negative
boogie? It’s a bit like Canned Heat but with Pere Ubu’s queasy rhythms
and someone playing five-finger fillet with Swell Maps. Ensconced in his
ivory tower and soundproof rooms, Nance reached for unlikely weapons to
tear down his own lofty experiment. He had his pick of rare guitars,
cowbells, steel drums, vintage amps, Crazy Horse microphones, mellotron,
and the restless but indefatigable rhythm section of Kevin Donahue and
Tom May. They started at sunrise and recorded 15 songs by midnight.
Maybe it’s his Midwestern work ethic, maybe he’s a sonic cheapskate.
Maybe it’s just the sound of negative boogie. These songs stab and flow
into one other like a perfectly orchestrated classic. They’re drenched
with Nance’s most biting and comic lyrics to date, peaking on
“D.L.A.T.U.M.F. Blues”. And ripping through the entire thing is the
cracked power he yanks out of the guitar, a veritable The Good, The Bad
and the Ugly of riffage. This is a departure for Nance. It’s bigger and
grander but it’s far from easy music. It’s his Plastic Ono Band, his For
Your Pleasure, his fever dream of Rocket from the Tombs. Shredders sit
with jangling rockers, manic energy spills into depressive torpor,
providing the ultimate record experience: one of power, nuance and
emotion.
NEGATIVE SPACE play mysterious
gay hardcore. Negative Space released their debut album 'Gestalt'
through new London-based queer label Always Restrictions and Drunken
Sailor late last year. The record focuses almost exclusively on the
miasma of larger inner-city living and the effects of gender dysphoria
on the self, 'Gestalt' pushes an overbearing aural disquiet that expands
on the band's established tense minimalism while upping the ire,
recalling post-punk forefathers like Wire or a peppier Gang of Four
while simultaneously feeling wonderfully, urgently now.
MIDNIGHT MINES are a
self-styled ‘spontaneous music ensemble’ eschewing formal songwriting
for laying down improvised bursts of music during their recording
sessions. The resulting live jams are subsequently chopped, screwed and
assembled into tracks, filtered through their love of obscure 60s garage
no-hopers, outsider folk, The Fall, fried dub, early industrial and
other esoteric concerns. Baron Saturday and Private Sorrow swap
instruments and splice together tracks built out of old drum machines,
feedback, 2-note riffs, atonal harmonies, transistor organs and
repetitive mantras. Check out their recent LP on Mystery Plane and the
duo’s ‘We Are The Primitives of a New Era’ cassette.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
SHOPPING
DOG CHOCOLATE
BIG JOANIE
Tuesday 6 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
SHOPPING are propulsive bass
lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken
glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar),
Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a
plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit, Sacred Paws and
Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness
seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang
of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust
of Delta 5 . Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November
2013 in the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing.
A US re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat
records, followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The
band are tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and
spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way
including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music
session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout
Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the
USA with also awesome Gauche, look out for a new album ‘The Official
Body’ through FatCat imminently!
DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a
crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Having
played in many other bands including Yeborobo, Limn and Gasp! Cracking
Eggs, united they recognise Dog Chocolate as their one true love.
Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace
the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with
their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur
falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and
staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog
Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last.
Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's
guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing
all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them
round the room. The band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ is readying
for release through Upset The Rhythm, who also released their debut
'Snack Fans' in 2016.
BIG JOANIE are a black feminist
punk band based in London, UK. They formed in July 2013 to play First
Timers in November that year - a gig where every band played their first
set. Big Joanie are Chardine Taylor-Stone (drums & vocals),
Stephanie Phillips (guitar & vocals) and Estella Adeyeri (bass &
vocals). Big Joanie are influenced by Nirvana, Throwing Muses, X-Ray
Spex, The Bags, My Bloody Valentine, Darlene Love, Tina Turner, Jesus
and the Mary Chain, Breeders, PJ Harvey, Shop Assistants... They're like
The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling
of dashikis. Big Joanie formed to make powerful music but also to create
a continuum for black punks by presenting a strong, powerful vision of
black womanhood and discussing the black punks who came before them. By
making black punks more visible, they believe they can inspire young
black punks to start the bands they always wanted to hear.
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Hoping you have a fantastic weekend,
Thanks so much for your time,
Upset The Rhythm
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