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Upset The Rhythm also confirmed this week new shows for April from the harmonically inventive Bonniesongs (Shacklewell Arms, April 22nd), plus two extremely intimate fan-shows for Detroit class acts Protomartyr (Peckham Audio, April 27th / The Lexington, April 28th)
showcasing their explosive new songs! Both of those go onsale this
Friday at 10am, don’t say we didn’t warn you, tickets will fly!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
TRASH KIT HANDLE Friday 14 February The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £9 | 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 second 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 three albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles, last July however they made their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge ‘Horizon’ album. Garnering countless glowing reviews and featuring in many end of year lists for 2019 ‘Horizon’ is 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/ HANDLE incorporate a diverse range of influences from samba to no wave. The three-piece from Manchester (now based between Manchester/London/Brussels) make a uniquely minimal sound, buoyed by poetic, urgent vocals. Each instrument (bass, drums, keyboard and voice) is permitted its own space, yet somehow the result is a brilliantly unified yet understated sonic experience that demands then commands your attention. Handle is made up of Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire (former members of D.U.D.S) and Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist, renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work on the city’s arts and literary scenes. The group mesh politics with a trans experience of time and a vibrant, avant-garde freedom of approach. Powered by looping, hypnotic synth lines, quaking flexes of bass, clattering tribal percussion and expeditious, often agitated vocals that cordially sprint, Handle's songs - all of which clock in around the two minute mark - owe as much to performance poetry as they do to the vibrancy of post-punk. Handle's debut album ‘In Threes’ will be released March 6th by Upset The Rhythm and Maternal Voice and is a collection of frenetic sounds for frenzied forms. https://soundcloud.com/upset-the-rhythm/handle-punctured-time |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
EN ATTENDANT ANA
MARCEL WAVE
Saturday 15 February PinUps (formerly The Islington), 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS EN ATTENDANT ANA are a Parisian quintet who diligently craft songs that shimmer, glide and sway with sophistication. Trouble In Mind recently released the group’s second album ‘Juillet’. Many of the songs on ‘Juillet’ feel hopeful, despite their melancholic tone, lacing a lilting melody or triumphant trumpet swell (courtesy of multi-instrumentalist Camille Fréchou) or charging guitar riffs from Tomasso or Bouchaudon. Whereas the tunes on their debut ‘Lost and Found’ felt wild & reckless, the songs on ‘Juillet’ feel focused, a set of songs that feel bonded together by the magnetic pull of each other; viewed as a whole, they dazzle. Songs like "Do You Understand?" and the first single "Words" point toward a new frontier for the group, effortlessly sharpening their razor-sharp hooks to such a fine point, you almost don't realise their complexity. Elsewhere, songs like "Flesh or Blood" and opener "Down The Hill" revel in a push/pull dynamic. Finally, songs like "From My Bruise To An Island" and the sparse "When It Burns" bridge a confessional narrative atop an amorphous ambient float. They feel important, and hint at an exciting future for a band letting go of its past and entrusting fate with its future. https://enattendantana.bandcamp.com/
MARCEL WAVE write eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient
riverbeds and concrete obscenity. Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets
Kirklees Borough Council. Featuring members of Cold Pumas and Sauna
Youth.
https://marcel-wave.bandcamp.com/releases |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
MASSICOT
SLAGHEAP
SHAKE CHAIN
Monday 24 February
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7.50 | https://link.dice.fm/6T5vkTccc2
MASSICOT are a Geneva trio that sound as if they can hardly
contain their own energy. The no-frills bone-dry guitar sounds
oscillates between hypnotically repetitive passages and noisy outbursts.
Simone Aubert plays her rhythm guitar with a manic relentless energy.
Drummer Colline Grosjean works her way from funk to krautrock to
tropical beats and back again. Then over all that, in addition to her
vocals, Mara Krastina plays her charming bright red mini-bass with a
velocity that is guaranteed to ensure bodies start moving. Their new
album is due out about now on the Harbinger Sound / Spurge Recordings
label.
https://massicot.bandcamp.com/
SLAGHEAP are pure unfiltered energetic post-punk nonsense from four women in their pants. In turns melodic, naïve and raucous. The debut album from this Bristol quartet has been winning over fans everywhere and picking up plenty of airplay and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. The 12" was the first release from Spurge Recordings and is a must if you're attuned to the attitude and tunes of The Raincoats or Au Pairs amongst others. But be assured this isn't a simply retrospective sound.
https://slagheapband.bandcamp.com
SHAKE CHAIN formed through a love of thought provoking performance art and a yearning for disruption so they were never going to be your average run of the mill project and the band have delivered unpredictable live shows across London and Oxford since their recent inception. Having recorded their debut EP ‘Neil Yonge and Bob Doylan Live at Hyde Park’ (on the day of Neil Young & Bob Dylan Live at Hyde Park) last Summer, with sound artist David Carugo and released by Permanent Slump, the group enter 2020 with a fresh heap of material to take into the studio and on the road around the UK in April. Catch them in the field with their not-to-be-missed fusion of post-punk grooves and chaotic lamenting on the current state of things. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
ISLET
DESPICABLE ZEE
Thursday 5 March Space 289, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
ISLET are a Powys trio whose free-spirited invention and
exuberant intensity flows through experimental pop: hypnotic,
exhilarating and defiantly unique. They began in Cardiff in 2009 when
Emma Daman and brothers Mark and John ‘JT’ Thomas resolved to form a
band with one rule: that anything was possible. Soon after, they were
joined by Alex Williams. The band had no lead singer or set roles,
switching instruments from song to song, melding psych rock, ethereal
atmospherics and jagged post punk, with most gigs seeing the walls and
spectators played as instruments. They were soon surrounded by a buzz of
excitement and mystique, cherished locally, then globally. They wrote
about their philosophy in their own zine, started a festival, helped
other bands; they are stalwarts of the Welsh DIY community. Two albums
(‘Illuminated People’, 2012 – shortlisted for the Welsh Music Prize –
and ‘Released By The Movement’, 2013) and a handful of EPs followed,
released on their own label, Shape Records. Now Islet have signed to
Fire Records, with Emma Daman Thomas moving into focus with her
unleashed, mesmerising vocals against a synth-driven sound, unexpected
shifts of rhythm, playful inventive lyrics; an exhilarating, electronic
purr that provokes thought and feeling. They have matured, are more
tender and composed, but still eclectic, mysterious and intriguingly
themselves. Brand new album ‘Eyelet’ will be released on March 6th!
https://islet.bandcamp.com/ DESPICABLE ZEE is the solo project of Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, who has been writing and performing for more than 15 years. She is the director of the Young Women’s Music Project, which continues to inspire her. Zahra specialises in leftfield, electronic lo-fi-pop – wonky yet meditative tunes, punctuated by biting rhythms. With echoes of The Knife, Tirzah, CocoRosie and Madame Gandhi, her recent EP sounds like longing, like searching, like hacking away at old vines to reach what’s behind them. https://despicablezee.bandcamp.com/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
THE SILVER FIELD
CLEMENTINE MARCH
LOOSE JOINTS (DJ Set)
KATAYOUN JALILI (DJ Set)
Friday 6 March
SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm-2.30am | £6 | TICKETS
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. March 2020 sees
multi-instrumentalist Coral and drummer Kiran Bhatt (Red River Dialect)
take to the road across the UK, sharing songs from their forthcoming
second album, to be announced early 2020, as well as selections from The
Silver Field's debut Rooms. Recorded by Coral at home in south London,
Rooms was brought to the world in January 2019 by Tim Burgess' O Genesis
Recordings and received high praise for its dreamlike tapestries of
tape loops, reverb and folk instrumentation, including plays on BBC 6
Music, BBC 3's Late Junction, NTS and Soho Radio, as well as print and
online love from The Quietus, Electronic Sound, God Is In The TV and
many more.
https://thesilverfield.bandcamp.com/
CLÉMENTINE MARCH is a London-based chanteuse, composer and filmmaker, her musical forays portray a very personal approach to the pop song, playing with languages and textures, with a Brazilian savoir-faire and a post-punk edge. |
All the very best with the rest of the week,
thanks for your time and we’ll see you lots over the weekend!
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