Lunch Lady's debut album released today! Plus news of upcoming London shows for Mary Lattimore, Deerhoof and Kaputt!

What a morning! Today we found a feather on the floor and released ‘Angel’ by Lunch Lady, a striking debut album drawing on post-punk, kitsch and country balladry narratives to devastating effect! Available on LP, CD and digitally today through Upset The Rhythm, ‘Angel’ can be found in all the best stores as of now and from our very own webshop hither.   Lunch Lady are a sparky group from Los Angeles redolent of the desert heat and pining hearts. Numbering four, Lunch Lady consist of Rachel Birke (vocals), Juan Velasquez (guitar), Victor Herrera (bass) and Robert Wolfe (drums). The band began in 2017 when Velasquez asked Birke if she’d like to start a new music project with him, their respective other groups Abe Vigoda and Heller Keller having co-existed in LA’s DIY orbit.

Lunch Lady’s music began to grow into sun-warped vignettes, often miniaturist character-studies in outlook. Birke’s vocal is unhurried and assured, pressing her characters’ motives and words into the sprightly guitar trails and jogged rhythms that characterise the sound of the band.   ‘Angel’ is the group’s debut album, a record of resounding yearning, of cold fire and hot, sticky blood. It’s an album of troubled tales, buried hearts and wandering homeward. ‘Window’ whirls by with all the flourish of a card trick. Drums tumble whilst the guitar line twists through the taut stretch and sprint of the bass turns. Birke’s low-slung yet smouldering vocal confesses that “my hands are as clean as a remembered thing, my hands are as clean as I want them to be.”

Lunch Lady turn on all the lights in this haunted house of an album. Each room populated by a vividly drawn cast of whispered hopes and threatening dreams. ‘Angel’ is an album that murmurs like a river down the staircase, exploding with unexpected melodrama, brandishing its desire like a weapon. Let it take you by the hand and guide you out into the night. Out into the glimmer, before the stars go out and the warmth of the sun returns to cool passions.   Lunch Lady launch their debut album ‘Angel’ tonight in Los Angeles at the Hi-Hat! Check out the spot-on poster for this show of shows!

In terms of London concerts you can find below info on next week’s Mary Lattimore concert at the Courtyard Theatre with Nummo Twin in support.   We also outline our massive Deerhoof show on Sept 2nd at EartH with Trash Kit and Dog Chocolate playing too, and Kaputt's album launch party at The Islington on Sept 10th too, The Cool Greenhouse and Sniffany & The Nits on the bill also, look out!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses her Lyon and Healy concert grand harp to conjure up beautifully abstracted forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions. Across a breadth of recordings, collaborations and art commissions her music explores a realm of wordless narratives and indefinite travelogues, where – with the help of effects and occasional vocals - extended harp improvisations morph into spectral songforms. In live performance she reveals the impressionist magic of her chosen instrument, blurring classical technique and ambient electronics to beguiling effect. In 2018 Mary released Hundreds of Days, her second LP on Ghostly International, as well as a collaborative album with Meg Baird entitled Ghost Forests (Three Lobed). She has moved a long way since her classical studies at Eastman School of Music, via days in Philadelphia with the likes of Espers and Fursaxa and sound-making time with Steve Gunn, Sharon van Etten and Kurt Vile. She has also collaborated with guitarist/synth player Jeff Zeigler on their 2014 album Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey) as well as composing a live score for Philippe Garrels' 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur which they subsequently toured together. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ NUMMO TWIN plays ethereal, dream-like folk songs and noise soundscapes with an instrument she carved herself from an old christmas tree, an array of delay and reverb pedals, and feedback. She sings a lament to a forgotten place. https://nummotwin.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF is four people. Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. But what is Deerhoof really? Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as "the best band in the world.” From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they've become one of indie music's most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop. http://deerhoof.net/ TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Gill Partington (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan, Sacred Paws, Shopping and Bamboo, united by a shared decade of spry musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads with Trash Kit. Their songs once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. This new focus began with their last album ‘Confidence’ (2014) and has now grown into something exhilarating and rapturous. New songs like ‘Disco’ have had their very fabric stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision. Since forming in 2009, Trash Kit have released two albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles, this July however they made their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge Horizon album. An album that forever listens for the next moment and will meet you once more at the vanishing point. https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/ DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. 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’ (out now) was released through Upset The Rhythm, in just under 25 minutes the band manage to cram in bucket-loads of ideas, mess, confusion and fun. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   KAPUTT are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Numbering six, Kaputt feature Simone Wilson and Cal Donnelly on guitars and vocals, Chrissy Barnacle also sings and plays saxophone. Tobias Carmichael is responsible for bass, whilst Rikki Will and Emma Smith cover drums and percussion respectively. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Kaputt’s debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ will be released this September on Upset The Rhythm, this show appears as part of their tour in support of this stunner of an LP. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ THE COOL GREENHOUSE make hypnotic home-brew post-punk. Their two 7”s and tape (also released on 10” through Lumpy) are a treat of elusive DIY moves and sarcastic wit. Very reminiscent of the early 80s post-punk cassette scene and messthetics compilation groups. www.thecoolgreenhouse.bandcamp.com SNIFFANY & THE NITS are an itchy, twitchy new pogo punk outfit feat members of Artefact and The Snivellers.

Thanks for reading, have the best weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance) BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS