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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!
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