The return of... The Green Child!

 

Spectral pop o’clock! The Green Child return with an epic new album in October called ‘Shimmering Basset’. The Green Child is the once long-distance, now based in the same house recording project of Raven Mahon (furniture maker and former member of Grass Widow) and Mikey Young (recording engineer and band member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring).

Here’s the video for first single ‘Low Desk : High Shelf’ a classy slice of avant pop with Mikey’s synths criss-crossing through the straight-up beat, allowing Raven’s collected vocal to stitch its haunted path: “see the face and feel your body sway, in voluntary walk, intoxicating view, take it home, a photograph, a file final form, a token for the shelf or wait…”
 

 

‘Shimmering Basset’ is available to pre-order now in a special eco-minded edition of the LP:
https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com

The New Normil (Hawaiians)

We’re ecstatic to share with you today the news that Normil Hawaiians will be releasing their first new music since 1985 with Upset The Rhythm next month. Choosing the form of a 7” in which to appear, September 11th will witness the release of ‘In The Stone / Where Is Living?’.

Having reformed around our reissue project for their impressive trio of albums of loose, improvised, pastoral post-punk, Normil Hawaiians began to write new music together. The quaint weirdness of folk song, the humanity of communal practice and the group’s ecological mindedness have all found a place in Normil Hawaiians’ current sound world. The band encamped to Tayinloan, a small village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland to set up their own studio in an isolated, windswept house overlooking the sea and started the tape rolling.

‘In The Stone’ is a motorik thrill of distorted guitars, locked rhythms and morphic resonance. Guy Smith is joined by Zinta Egle on vocals, skilfully sharing lyrics informed by Alan Garner and Nigel Kneale’s ideas around recurring events being linked to place and historical artefact;  a kind of residual haunting known as ‘Stone Tape’ theory. In keeping with the context of the song, sounds from several previous live recordings of the track were woven into its present being. Flipside ‘Where is Living?’ is a decidedly more delicate affair of questioning lyrics and eerie traces, droning strings and impressions smudged.

This resultant 7” is a tantalising glimpse of Normil Hawaiians now, an echo from the past, an echo from the future. Available to pre-order now: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com

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Future Islands - Oct 9th live stream event!

FUTURE ISLANDS

Friday 9 October

Live-streamed Baltimore album launch party!

8pm | $15 | Tickets: https://noonchorus.com/fi-upset-the-rhythm/

In the twelve years since we shared Future Islands’ magnificent debut album with the world, the Baltimore lords of synth pop have grown into one of the most successful acts out there, icons of indie no less. Back at the start of 2020 we were working on our largest concert to date for Future Islands in London, but then the pandemic came along with other ideas, so this October 9th we’re supporting Future Islands launch their new album ’As Long As You Are’ (4AD) with a special livestream one-off performance from their hometown. This will be the band’s only show of 2020 and your only chance to see the band on stage this year playing tracks from the new record alongside that back catalogue of classic epics.

https://future-islands.com/

 

 

Vintage Crop - 'Serve To Serve Again' OUT TODAY!

What a day! Serious congrats to Vintage Crop on their new album ‘Serve To Serve Again’! Out today on Upset The Rhythm & Anti Fade. Totemic bruisers of songs, fervent, rangy at times yet always assured in their intent to make sense of futility, criticise the chain of command and question privilege. A total long-legged leap for Vintage Crop into the delirious now, jump in!

 

 

Available from our webshop here!

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