KAPUTT out today!

Today we release Kaputt’s energetic corkscrew of a debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ in all its feverish, intuitive glory! Hailing from Glasgow, Kaputt race away with the playful torn edge of no-wave song, blurting 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 Kaputt’s febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. ‘Carnage Hall’ is available digitally and on 180g vinyl in all good shops and from our webstore now: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Kaputt's debut album out tomorrow! Plus London shows for EXEK, Bamboo and Shannon Lay!

Hello you lot! Thanks so much to all of you for coming out to see Trash Kit last weekend, what a fun night that proved!   We’re back in the promoting saddle tomorrow night with UK debut performance from Melbourne avant-punks EXEK. Hot on the heels of their new dazzle of an album ‘Some Beautiful Species Left’, EXEK look set to astonish with their dubby, experimental take on post-punk and motorik focus on beat. Joining them for tomorrow’s MOTH Club concert will be cryptic satirist The Rebel and errant warps Es too, doesn’t get better than that! Live music starts around 8.30pm, tickets on the door from 7.30pm, see you there!

Full details follow, including our full listings for Bamboo’s album launch with The Silver Field and Synergie DJs next week on October 5th at Servant Jazz Quarters.   Acoustic fingerstyle ace, Shannon Lay’s show with Emmett Kelly and No Home at SET Dalston on Oct 21st is also glossed.

Tomorrow we also release our final record of 2019, Kaputt’s feverish, intuitive and often surreal debut album ‘Carnage Hall’. Hailing from Glasgow, Kaputt number six, featuring 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.

The songs on ‘Carnage Hall’, Kaputt’s debut album released by Upset The Rhythm this September, were all written in Glasgow between 2016-2018. Following on from the independence referendum and the subsequent Brexit vote these songs couldn’t help but be influenced by the maelstrom of political hypocrisy and confusion in the air. Other themes prevalent on this energetic corkscrew of an album include the offbeat happenchance of life in 2019, notions of surveillance, identity (personal as well as the biscuit-tin styled persona of the Scottish Highlands), industrialisation and family.

‘Highlight’ is an A-grade anthem doubling up as an eulogy for shipbuilding, ‘Drinking Problems Continue’ parts 1 and 2  are about Ullapool and generational holidays spent watching “the sun set on the ferry”. “This could be your life” attest Kaputt on the deliriously labyrinthine ‘Very Satisfied’. ‘Carnage Hall’ is an empathic album dealing with memory and place, but most importantly with people. “Swallow your thumbprints” demand the band in rampant stomper  ‘Hi, I’m The Wasp’. Maybe this is all the push we need to drop tired notions of belonging. This record asks us to clasp dear what makes us connect with each other over division.   ‘Carnage Hall’ will be available tomorrow to pick up in all good record shops (including our webstore here) on limited 180g black vinyl, listen up!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   EXEK thrive amidst noirish, dub-dilated post-punk, with lyrics skirting the sardonic, mired in disdain. Situated in a reservoir of space echo and assisted by the heavyweight bass-and-drum brunt of Henry Wilson and Sam Dixon, vocalist Albert Wolski conveys an oblique, literate nihilism that resembles both a sneer and a smirk. Wicked turns of phrase are spiked with black humour and surrealism as the rest of the band summon sparse, reverb-drenched runs of percussion and a thickset low end prone to detour and dysfunction. Exek recently followed up their ‘Ahead Of Two Thoughts’ LP released last year on W.25TH (Superior Viaduct) with their astonishing ‘A Casual Assembly’ EP. This new record from Melbourne's audio-wranglers coalesces around a stirring theme for synthesizer, trumpet and bass, bringing together reference points to Laurie Spiegel, Jah Wobble and The Velvet Underground's ‘The Gift.’ Frontman Albert Wolski's disembodied narration – at times reminiscent of Samuel Beckett or Robert Ashley – unfolds over a series of dark vignettes set in a dystopian near-future. Autotune has been banned, secret police patrol the redoubts of the wealthy, and world beaches have been cleared of their sand for the construction of enormous urban prisons. As these events turn more fraught and absurd, Wolski reveals just how much is gained through EXEK's stripped-down arrangements and dreamlike tones. https://exek.bandcamp.com/ THE REBEL is prolific London outsider Ben Wallers; a charismatic lone wolf in a cowboy hat or trilby and a tie whose electrified howls are too idiosyncratic to be broken down into market-oriented terms. It is difficult to sketch a thumbnail summary of a musician who has amassed a vast and unwieldy discography under a variety of names and genres: the most widely acclaimed is probably the Country Teasers, but he also moonlights as, or in, the Rebel, the Company, the Male Nurse, the Beale, the Stallion, the Black Poodle and Skills on Ampex, across folk, country, garage, post-punk, no wave and electronic pop. In the main part The Rebel is centred around twisted Casio drones, clanging guitar and some defiantly deadpan vocals, all thrown in the pan and pressure-cooked in Wallers' mind. Wallers has amassed a near-unquantifiable discography over the past 20 years, from scores of more or less "official" LPs, EPs and 7"s to seemingly endless self-released cassettes. https://therebelband.bandcamp.com/ ES are the soundtrack to your no-wave nightmares, proffering 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present' (Jes Skolnik). Ethereal synths, tense basslines, wired drums and cold vocals collide, proving curiously dark, intense and unrelenting. After releasing their debut 'Object Relations' 12" EP on La Vida Es Un Mus in 2016, all members now reside in London and are working towards their debut album. ES feature members of Public Service, The Worms, Primetime and Scrap Brain. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases

Upset The Rhythm presents…   BAMBOO THE SILVER FIELD SYNERGIE DJs (Serafina Steer & Oliver Marchant) Saturday 5 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £5 | https://link.dice.fm/xD0iyxnRiZ BAMBOO is the majestic pop project of Nick Carlisle and Rachel Horwood. Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic pull between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick's pristine synth-pop production. Live Bamboo are a quartet and they're ready to launch their third record Daughters of the Sky with this intimate show. http://www.bamboosongs.co.uk/ THE SILVER FIELD is a sound world of Coral Rose & friends. Voice, tapes, bass, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. https://thesilverfield.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/1gnIYwwCXY   SHANNON LAY is a L.A. singer-songwriter whose work is of a plainspoken mysticism that goes to the small, bright truth of things, showcasing her unusual songwriting and quietly commanding voice. Shannon has been dominating the local scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. Her new album for Sub Pop is called ‘August’, the title referring to the month in 2017 when Lay quit her day job and fully gave herself over to music. This was her liberation as an artist, and the album is devoted to paying that forward to her listeners. “It’s a thank you to the universe,” says the L.A. artist. The title track is a mystical, folk-psych expression that builds into a gentle gallop. “Open the doors that you cannot,” she sings with a feathery lightness. In keeping with the humbled, contemplative nature of ‘August’, most tracks clock-in at three minutes or less. She saved indulgence for the production. “Some songs as they were had this room to grow,” says Lay, who recorded the album with her longtime friend, musician Ty Segall at his home studio on the East Side. “I believe whoever you record with tends to affect the mood of music and Ty really brought this jovial sense that I hadn’t really explored yet,” she says. “Once you get rolling with him, he just throws these ideas at the wall. And you’re like, ‘I would never have thought of that!’ I couldn’t have hoped for a better guide and energy to help create this record.” https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/ EMMETT KELLY is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from Van Nuys, California. He is the primary songwriter and recording artist of The Cairo Gang, and has contributed vocal and instrumental work to a variety of international musical projects, appearing on recordings by the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy, Azita, Joan of Arc, Ty Segall, Edith Frost, Women and Children, John Webster Johns, Jeff Harms, Chicago poet/singer Marvin Tate, Matteah Baim, Japanese musician Takuma Watanabe, Angel Olsen, and Joshua Abrams. Kelly has toured in several of the aforementioned acts in addition to with Sonny Smith, Baby Dee, Beth Orton, and Terry Reid, and in other instances, performed live with Scott Tuma and Pillars and Tongues. https://thecairogang.bandcamp.com/ NO HOME is the lo-fi rock solo project of Charlotte Valentine, who fuses the grunge and ambient songs of early 00s new york rock, with an urgent, captivating call to self preservation. Having enthralled audiences at Decolonise Fest and support slots with Downtown Boys, Moor Mother and Big Joanie, No Home's third EP 'hello this is exploitation' is full of unease and disorientation, modal melodies interwoven with rolling rhythms and noise. https://nohome.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for reading and listening, see you tomorrow night! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   BAMBOO THE SILVER FIELD SYNERGIE DJs (Serafina Steer & Oliver Marchant) Saturday 5 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO CUCINA POVERA LOW COMPANY DJs 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 JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN   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 HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

Trash Kit, Exek and Bamboo London shows!

Hey there!   We have a total party planned for Saturday night at Cafe OTO, let’s warmly welcome Trash Kit back from tour with Child’s Pose, The Plan and DJs Tree Trunks & Rozi Plain all performing!   If you need more cyclical abandon, euphoric punk and technicolour dance moves in your life then this is the opportunity to jump at, going to be a fun one!

Next week, we’re also looking forward to hosting a Friday night headrush with Melbourne avant-punks EXEK. Hot on the heels of their newly released, dazzling album ‘Some Beautiful Species Left’, EXEK are set to wow with their dubby, experimental post-punk and Krautrock focus on beat.   Joining EXEK for this show at Moth Club we have cryptic satirist The Rebel and errant warps Es too, bring it!

Read on for all the detail, including our full listing for Bamboo’s 'Daughters Of The Sky' album launch with The Silver Field and Synergie DJs on October 5th at Servant Jazz Quarters!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   TRASH KIT CHILD’S POSE THE PLAN DJs: TREE TRUNKS & ROZI PLAIN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   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/ CHILD’S POSE play punk-inflected pop music, something like if Elastica had built their home in the Slampt Underground instead of making a #1 record. Their caustic slash-and-burn style is sneering and ebullient all at once, detached yet intimate, trim and nervy songs that reward listen after listen, personnel from Woolf, Sauna Youth, Sarcasm, and Nekra sparking joy and dread in equal measure. It’s the sound of the first warm day of spring and the accompanying cans in the park and the crisp cool wind chasing you home at dusk, that sinister manic magic feeling of learning how to inhabit your body again after a long cold winter. It’s been winter for years now and we all need warming up. Let Child’s Pose take you with them. https://childspose.bandcamp.com/ THE PLAN have perfected a stop/start abrasiveness with their stirring, woman-powered dispatches from Southend-On-Sea. Boasting members of Wetdog and Vic Goddard’s Subway Sect, they fuse post- punk with folk, no wave with psych. It’s a heady brew and endlessly inventive. Jangly Kinks guitar, cryptic lyricism, cherubic vocal harmonising, dervish leaps into The Ex-like noise... there’s enough room under this tarpaulin for everyone. https://theplan1.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents…   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   EXEK thrive amidst noirish, dub-dilated post-punk, with lyrics skirting the sardonic, mired in disdain. Situated in a reservoir of space echo and assisted by the heavyweight bass-and-drum brunt of Henry Wilson and Sam Dixon, vocalist Albert Wolski conveys an oblique, literate nihilism that resembles both a sneer and a smirk. Wicked turns of phrase are spiked with black humour and surrealism as the rest of the band summon sparse, reverb-drenched runs of percussion and a thickset low end prone to detour and dysfunction. Exek recently followed up their ‘Ahead Of Two Thoughts’ LP released last year on W.25TH (Superior Viaduct) with their astonishing ‘A Casual Assembly’ EP. This new record from Melbourne's audio-wranglers coalesces around a stirring theme for synthesizer, trumpet and bass, bringing together reference points to Laurie Spiegel, Jah Wobble and The Velvet Underground's ‘The Gift.’ Frontman Albert Wolski's disembodied narration – at times reminiscent of Samuel Beckett or Robert Ashley – unfolds over a series of dark vignettes set in a dystopian near-future. Autotune has been banned, secret police patrol the redoubts of the wealthy, and world beaches have been cleared of their sand for the construction of enormous urban prisons. As these events turn more fraught and absurd, Wolski reveals just how much is gained through EXEK's stripped-down arrangements and dreamlike tones. https://exek.bandcamp.com/ THE REBEL is prolific London outsider Ben Wallers; a charismatic lone wolf in a cowboy hat or trilby and a tie whose electrified howls are too idiosyncratic to be broken down into market-oriented terms. It is difficult to sketch a thumbnail summary of a musician who has amassed a vast and unwieldy discography under a variety of names and genres: the most widely acclaimed is probably the Country Teasers, but he also moonlights as, or in, the Rebel, the Company, the Male Nurse, the Beale, the Stallion, the Black Poodle and Skills on Ampex, across folk, country, garage, post-punk, no wave and electronic pop. In the main part The Rebel is centred around twisted Casio drones, clanging guitar and some defiantly deadpan vocals, all thrown in the pan and pressure-cooked in Wallers' mind. Wallers has amassed a near-unquantifiable discography over the past 20 years, from scores of more or less "official" LPs, EPs and 7"s to seemingly endless self-released cassettes. https://therebelband.bandcamp.com/ ES are the soundtrack to your no-wave nightmares, proffering 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present' (Jes Skolnik). Ethereal synths, tense basslines, wired drums and cold vocals collide, proving curiously dark, intense and unrelenting. After releasing their debut 'Object Relations' 12" EP on La Vida Es Un Mus in 2016, all members now reside in London and are working towards their debut album. ES feature members of Public Service, The Worms, Primetime and Scrap Brain. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases

Upset The Rhythm presents…   BAMBOO THE SILVER FIELD SYNERGIE DJs (Serafina Steer & Oliver Marchant) Saturday 5 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £5 | https://link.dice.fm/xD0iyxnRiZ BAMBOO is the majestic pop project of Nick Carlisle and Rachel Horwood. Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic pull between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick's pristine synth-pop production. Live Bamboo are a quartet and they're ready to launch their third record Daughters of the Sky with this intimate show. http://www.bamboosongs.co.uk/ THE SILVER FIELD is a sound world of Coral Rose & friends. Voice, tapes, bass, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. https://thesilverfield.bandcamp.com/

Have a great week, see you Saturday! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN DJs: Tree Trunks & Rozi Plain 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   BAMBOO THE SILVER FIELD SYNERGIE DJs (Serafina Steer & Oliver Marchant) Saturday 5 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME 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 HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

KAPUTT: "Like a slinky falling down the stairs"

Winning insights from Kaputt about their forthcoming debut album in the new issue of The Skinny! 'Carnage Hall' out on Sept 27th through Upset The Rhythm!

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WATCH: Bamboo's 'A World Is Born' video!

Here's a first glimpse of the highly visually rewarding 'A World Is Born' video, up now on 20 Jazz Funk Greats! Bamboo's new single, out now! What a SONG!

TOUR DATES too:

• Oct 5th – London, Servant Jazz Quarters
• Nov 7th – London, EartH
• Nov 8th – Northampton, The Garibaldi Hotel
• Nov 9th – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, venue TBC
• Nov 10th – Edinburgh, Henry’s Cellar
• Nov 11th – Manchester, Gullivers

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Robert Sotelo's 'Infinite Sprawling' released today!

Fantastic news! Today Upset The Rhythm releases ‘Infinite Sprawling’, Robert Sotelo’s staggering new album! Sotelo is a cosmic pop melodist, a heartfelt multi-instrumentalist whose direct songs are curiously affecting and this third album from him really sets the songwriting bar high before vaulting clean over it!   ‘Infinite Sprawling’ is Robert Sotelo’s first record since his relocation from London to Glasgow and is partly inspired by his new city’s inclusive and collaborative musical world. Recorded with Ruari MacLean (of Vital Idles, Golden Grrrls) and Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa) at their home studio Namaste Sound, ‘Infinite Sprawling’ grew out of Sotelo’s sketchbook of skeletal songs, with MacLean and Stevens developing their own drum, guitar and keyboard parts. These songs pulled together like a wakeful stretch on a Sunday morning, flowering with a lightness of touch, sounding both carefree and brisk.

Sotelo has always excelled at matching up the prosaic with the profound and on ‘Infinite Sprawling’ he does this with aplomb. A collection of casual revelations, lifted out of the mundane, are explored throughout the album’s ten sprightly tracks. The minuscule and overlooked elements of the everyday are held dear and become in the hands of Sotelo something poignant, even monumental at times. Title track, ‘Infinite Sprawling’, refers to Sotelo’s final trip to Buenos Aires as a regular excursion to visit his mother, it’s a farewell to the city and makes for an interesting counterpoint to the other songs’ new starts. Commencing with the sound of babbling frogs the track builds up with scrappy digital percussion, snaking keyboard motifs and strummy guitar into something tangibly majestic. The lyric bounces calmly along “what a way to feel small in the infinite sprawling”.

This keenly robust album of new beginnings and strategies for living is encapsulated by album closer ‘Message Of Beauty’, a relaxed, drowsy ballad. With it’s swoons of violin and swirled clouds of organ drone, this song occupies the very heart of the album, interested in adjustment and resolution in a muted, delicate manner. ‘Infinite Sprawling’ is a work in search of quietude, a sublime treatise on the nostalgic threads of rock music, but more than that it’s a signpost to the next destination, a place where Sotelo knows he’s content to have arrived already.   ‘Infinite Sprawling’ is available now digitally and on heavyweight dark-green vinyl from all good shops, including our webshop here!

OK, back to concert mode, we’ve got a cabinet of wonders lined up! Tonight at The Lexington we have planned for a remarkably ambitious performance from experimental, multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan (Grumbling Fur, Mothlite, Æthenor etc), who hot on the heels of his excellent ‘Folly’ album (O Genesis) has pieced together an ensemble of performers collectively known as Dream Lyon to interpret his work. Thighpaulsandra (of Coil and Spiritualized) will feature in the group among it’s many talents, and the ever-hypnotic Brigid Mae Power will present a batch of brand new songs in support too.   What a start to the weekend!

Then tomorrow at New River Studios we have a pummelsome face-off from Kurws and Handle! Kurws are a deconstructed rock group from Wrocław, Poland, who since they formed in 2008 have released more than 10 albums drawing on post-punk, krautrock, funk and noise to bolster their brusque, musical arm-wrestle.   Equally impressive are Handle from Manchester, who stunned at Supernormal this year. On guitar and drums you have Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire, former members of the much-loved punk band DUDS; while upfront on vocals and keyboards is Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work in their city’s arts and literary scenes. A colossal double-headline show in every way!

Read on for all the particulars including details of next week’s Trash Kit party planned for Saturday 21st September at Café OTO with Child’s Pose, The Plan and Sept 27th’s MOTH Club event with Australian avant-punks EXEK and errant warps The Rebel and Es too. Turning into a vintage month this!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN is a composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer living and working in South West London and has been contributing a vibrant, chameleonic brew to the music landscape since the late 1990's. He has achieved acclaim writing, recording and performing with a myriad of groups including Grumbling Fur (with longtime friend and collaborator Alexander Tucker), Ulver, Mothlite, Sunn O))), Guapo, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Miracle, Æthenor and This Is Not This Heat. He has composed several sound works for film and installation. Whether solo or in his varied collaborative projects, O’Sullivan’s work is remarkable in the way it infuses familiar everyday experience with traces of the uncanny, the secret and the magickal. His 2017 solo album VELD distilled these tangled realities into a rich and complex soundworld, strikingly dense and allusive. Released in April by O Genesis, Folly is O’Sullivan’s second album under his own name and embodies a confident, evolution from VELD. This cycle of twelve songs deftly illustrates O'Sullivan's ascent as a unique and multidimensional songwriter. Moving from the familiar pantheon of experimental music and arriving upon a universal narrative probing the human condition from the inside out. Both lyrically and within the intricate lattice of arrangements, traditional forms are reshaped into transcendent pop symphonies. Both intimate and alien, archetypal and atypical, joyous and melancholic, the aperture of Folly is wide open and light streams in. For this special performance O’Sullivan will perform his new songs as an ensemble of eight, featuring Thighpaulsandra (Coil, Julian Cope Band, Spiritualized) who also recorded and mixed Folly at his Aeriel studio premises in Wales. http://mothlite.blogspot.com/ BRIGID MAE POWER is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, like Judee Sill, Micky Newburyor Linda Perhacs before her, paints her songs in dreamily expansive strokes, transporting earthly compositions into universal and exultant realms. Her self-titled debut on Tompkins Square was a majestic suite of reverb-swathed laments for voice, guitar, piano, accordion, and harmonium, recorded at the Portland studio of key musical foil Peter Broderick. Themes include transformation, change, motherhood, acceptance, strength, courage and trust. In the words of Power, the album was about "trusting if you lose yourself or your way - you can come back". New album 'The Two Worlds' is another masterful collection of effortless, hypnotic folk, and an album that furthers the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's already stellar reputation. Live, Brigid can encapsulate the timeless magic of her songs either solo or as a duo with Peter. Thus far she has toured throughout Ireland, UK and the US together with artists including Lee Ranaldo, Richard Dawson, Alasdair Roberts, Peter Broderick and Ryley Walker, with performances at Le Guess Who? and TUSK festivals along the way. http://www.brigidmaepower.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   KURWS (from Wroclaw, Poland) formed in May 2008 as an unexpected result of a ping pong session. Since then together they pursue their own search, not as much in areas of defined genres, but within the very foundations of rock “base”, expression and sound. It is a workshop, where improvisations penetrate through composed material, which seems to be a congealed form of the creation process. Armed with repetitions, recombinations, variations and contrasts, they frolic with memory and expectations. Post punk, krautrock, rock in opposition, funk, no wave - modes of playing, motives, riffs we heard time and time again, are being here presented in a totally different context - they are dissected from their original environment, placed side by side, used in a brand new manner, deconstructed and distilled. https://kurws.bandcamp.com/album/alarm HANDLE are a recently formed trio featuring a few familiar faces from Manchester’s creative underground scene. On bass guitar and drums, there’s Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire, former members of the much-loved punk band DUDS; while upfront on vocals and keyboards is Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work on the city’s arts and literary scenes. The end result, in Handle, is a wonderful amalgam of each member’s respective CVs – a band which absorbs punk, poetry, politics and the avant-garde, while wearing its Manc DIY credentials proudly on its sleeve. Powered by looping, hypnotic synth lines, tribal percussion and urgent, agitated vocals, their songs – all of which clock in around the two minute mark – owe as much to performance poetry as they do to post-punk and new wave. In these times of anxiety and confusion, Handle provide a much-needed dose of musical catharsis. https://absolutefiction.bandcamp.com/album/handle-demonstrations

Upset The Rhythm presents…   TRASH KIT CHILD’S POSE THE PLAN DJs: TREE TRUNKS & ROZI PLAIN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   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/ CHILD’S POSE play punk-inflected pop music, something like if Elastica had built their home in the Slampt Underground instead of making a #1 record. Their caustic slash-and-burn style is sneering and ebullient all at once, detached yet intimate, trim and nervy songs that reward listen after listen, personnel from Woolf, Sauna Youth, Sarcasm, and Nekra sparking joy and dread in equal measure. It’s the sound of the first warm day of spring and the accompanying cans in the park and the crisp cool wind chasing you home at dusk, that sinister manic magic feeling of learning how to inhabit your body again after a long cold winter. It’s been winter for years now and we all need warming up. Let Child’s Pose take you with them. https://childspose.bandcamp.com/ THE PLAN have perfected a stop/start abrasiveness with their stirring, woman-powered dispatches from Southend-On-Sea. Boasting members of Wetdog and Vic Goddard’s Subway Sect, they fuse post- punk with folk, no wave with psych. It’s a heady brew and endlessly inventive. Jangly Kinks guitar, cryptic lyricism, cherubic vocal harmonising, dervish leaps into The Ex-like noise... there’s enough room under this tarpaulin for everyone. https://theplan1.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents…   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   EXEK thrive amidst noirish, dub-dilated post-punk, with lyrics skirting the sardonic, mired in disdain. Situated in a reservoir of space echo and assisted by the heavyweight bass-and-drum brunt of Henry Wilson and Sam Dixon, vocalist Albert Wolski conveys an oblique, literate nihilism that resembles both a sneer and a smirk. Wicked turns of phrase are spiked with black humour and surrealism as the rest of the band summon sparse, reverb-drenched runs of percussion and a thickset low end prone to detour and dysfunction. Exek recently followed up their ‘Ahead Of Two Thoughts’ LP released last year on W.25TH (Superior Viaduct) with their astonishing ‘A Casual Assembly’ EP. This new record from Melbourne's audio-wranglers coalesces around a stirring theme for synthesizer, trumpet and bass, bringing together reference points to Laurie Spiegel, Jah Wobble and The Velvet Underground's ‘The Gift.’ Frontman Albert Wolski's disembodied narration – at times reminiscent of Samuel Beckett or Robert Ashley – unfolds over a series of dark vignettes set in a dystopian near-future. Autotune has been banned, secret police patrol the redoubts of the wealthy, and world beaches have been cleared of their sand for the construction of enormous urban prisons. As these events turn more fraught and absurd, Wolski reveals just how much is gained through EXEK's stripped-down arrangements and dreamlike tones. https://exek.bandcamp.com/ THE REBEL is prolific London outsider Ben Wallers; a charismatic lone wolf in a cowboy hat or trilby and a tie whose electrified howls are too idiosyncratic to be broken down into market-oriented terms. It is difficult to sketch a thumbnail summary of a musician who has amassed a vast and unwieldy discography under a variety of names and genres: the most widely acclaimed is probably the Country Teasers, but he also moonlights as, or in, the Rebel, the Company, the Male Nurse, the Beale, the Stallion, the Black Poodle and Skills on Ampex, across folk, country, garage, post-punk, no wave and electronic pop. In the main part The Rebel is centred around twisted Casio drones, clanging guitar and some defiantly deadpan vocals, all thrown in the pan and pressure-cooked in Wallers' mind. Wallers has amassed a near-unquantifiable discography over the past 20 years, from scores of more or less "official" LPs, EPs and 7"s to seemingly endless self-released cassettes. https://therebelband.bandcamp.com/ ES are the soundtrack to your no-wave nightmares, proffering 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present' (Jes Skolnik). Ethereal synths, tense basslines, wired drums and cold vocals collide, proving curiously dark, intense and unrelenting. After releasing their debut 'Object Relations' 12" EP on La Vida Es Un Mus in 2016, all members now reside in London and are working towards their debut album. ES feature members of Public Service, The Worms, Primetime and Scrap Brain. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases

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UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

DANIEL O’SULLIVAN 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 DJs: Tree Trunks & Rozi Plain 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 EMMETT KELLY NO HOME 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 HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS