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Hello once more!
Sorry for the radio silence, but no news has been good news, Upset The Rhythm
has been busy lining up releases & shows for later this year and
now we’re returning to your inbox to inform you about things afoot.
This coming Saturday Upset The Rhythm will be pitching up at the summer edition of the Independent Label Market in Coal Drop’s Yard. We’ll be helping ILM celebrate their 10 th birthday of operation by setting up our stall of DIY provisions featuring recent releases from Kaputt, Buffet Lunch and The Green Child.
We’ll have as much back catalogue with us as we can carry across the
concourse, including some rarities, hidden gems and ‘warehouse find’
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We’ll also be previewing forthcoming
releases from our busy schedule for the rest of 2021 (crank that speaker
to the max) and selling for the first time newly designed UTR badges and t-shirts. The badges come in two colourways ‘foggy eye’ and ‘foggy moon’, whilst our ‘tools of the trade’ t-shirt will be available in S, M, L and XL.
The label market runs from 11am-6.30pm this Saturday in King’s Cross and features many, many great other labels too (Gringo, 4AD, Bella Union, Heavenly, Matador, Hyperdub, Drag City, Cherry Red, Rough Trade, Erased Tapes, Fire
etc), plus some of London’s most vigorous breweries will be keeping all
and sundry well looked after in the drinks department. Looking forward
to seeing all your faces!
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Our live programme kicks off again in September, so we’re also taking this opportunity to share with you listings for our Jake Xerxes Fussell show at OSLO, Trash Kit at the 100 Club and Gad Whip at PinUps. You’ll also find new dates for Fuzz, Future Islands, Nightshift, Bertie Marshall and Old Time Relijun detailed below. Slowly but surely!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Wednesday 1 September
OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL
(This show is rescheduled from May 12th and Sep 8th 2020 & May 7th 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer
and guitarist from Durham, North Carolina. Jake's 2015 self-titled
debut record, produced by and featuring William Tyler, transmutes ten
arcane folk and blues tunes into vibey cosmic laments and crooked
riverine rambles. Collaborating with Tyler and engineer Mark Nevers in
Nashville was a conscious decision to depart cloistered trad scenes and
sonics for broader, more oblique horizons. In 2017 Fussell followed his
debut with a moving new album of Natural Questions in the form of
transmogrified folk/blues koans. This time these radiant ancient tunes
tone several shades darker while amplifying their absurdist humour,
illuminating our national, and psychic, predicaments. What in the
Natural World features art by iconic painter Roger Brown and
contributions from three notable Nathans: Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn),
Nathan Salsburg (Alan Lomax Archive), and Nathan Golub (Mountain Goats).
On his most recent album for Paradise Of Bachelors 'Out of Sight', his
most finely wrought album yet, Fussell ushers up an utterly transporting
selection of traditional narrative folksongs addressing the troubles
and delights of love, work, and wine (i.e. the things that matter),
collected from a myriad of obscure sources and deftly metamorphosed, Out
of Sight contains, among other moving curiosities, a fishmonger’s cry
that sounds like an astral lament; a cotton mill tune that humorously
explores the unknown terrain of death and memory; and a shanty/gospel
song equally concerned with terrestrial boozing and heavenly
transcendence. Always compelling and deftly impressive, Jake’s live
shows have become must attend events, so it’s with great honour that we
welcome him back this September to London.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
TRASH KIT
ES
NO HOME
Thursday 2nd September
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
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. Recent tracks
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, 2019 however saw them make their
most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge ‘Horizon’ album.
For this album, carefully crafted through years of playing out live, the
band have chased down the distance between what they wanted the record
to sound like and its realisation. They've augmented these songs with
choral arrangements, piano, saxophone, harp, viola and cello. Pulling
ideas from everywhere between the earth and sky, to push themselves
further, to go beyond. Aggs' guitar playing for this album was informed
by her love of guitar music from Zimbabwe, her cyclical motifs billow
with lean Mbira rhythms. Horwood has similarly approached her drumkit
with an untamable freedom, allowing it to breathe as a vivid lead
instrument. Trash Kit's music is woven with silence and punctuation, and
this is where the resonant, driving bass of Partington fits in. The
bass has become now central to shaping the melody of this new collection
of songs. Trash Kit's approach to life as with music is one of
openness, inclusion and potential and Horizon is an album with that in
dutiful abundance. It is an album that forever listens for the next
moment and will meet you once more at the vanishing point.
ES is Maria Cecilia Tedemalm (vocals), Katy Cotterell
(bass), Tamsin M. Leach (drums) and Flora Watters (keyboards). Their
2016 debut EP, Object Relations, released on influential London punk
label La Vida Es Un Mus, was described as "mutant synth-punk for our
dystopian present" (Jess Skolnik, Bandcamp, Pitchfork). The band has
since become a vital presence in London's underground DIY music scene,
as well as having toured the UK with the Thurston Moore Group in 2017.
‘Less of Everything’. The title of Es' first full length LP could be
interpreted as a manifesto pledge, an outright demand or a purely
literal sonic descriptor of the London quartet's glacial form of punk
rock music. This tension between intent and interpretation has been a
fundamental element of the group's output from their formation. The
dynamic between Cotterell's bass and Watters' keyboard is at the heart
of Es’ sound: intertwining sub-zero melodies, gothic anarcho-punk
influences and some kind of entirely unlocatable aquatic component. When
combined with Leach's precise drumming, the outcome is original and
immediately recognisable. This provides the perfect backdrop for
Tedemalm's relentless, pointed vocal style. While comparable 'cold'
sounding groups might affect an impersonal, safer mode of lyrical or
vocal detachment, Tedemalm's strategy is to "push the lyrics as far as I
can thematically until they become absurd … overly dramatic ... while
still being sincere in the feeling they're trying to invoke. ‘Less of
Everything’ was released last year by Upset The Rhythm.
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 recordings are full of
unease and disorientation, modal melodies interwoven with rolling
rhythmic noise. Valentine’s powerful voice and experimental song
structures dilate and expand time, pushing against the boundaries of
genre and resisting enclosure. Surviving under capitalism is a drag—it’s
the oldest story in rock’n’roll—but No Home captures the weight of its
dehumanization in a uniquely visceral way.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
GAD WHIP
FATHERFIGURES
SEAN SMITH (DJ)
Friday 15 October
PinUps, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
GAD WHIP formed in 2014 and blend avant-garde sensibilities
with a contemporary take on the place where DIY culture meets post-punk.
Hints of deconstructed garage rock and interstellar voyaging through
sweat drenched waking dreams. Immediate, powerful, confounding and kept
in place by wry, sometimes observational, semi-spoken vocals. This is
music primed perfect for any 21st century meltdown in a suburban sprawl.
Their music has been released by a range of labels, from NYC’s
Ever/Never Records, Germany’s X-Mist Records, Canada’s Arachnidiscs
Recordings and UK/Poland based Fourth Dimension Records.
FATHERFIGURES released their debut album “Any Time Now…And
High Time Too” in spring 2021. What do they sound like? Post-punk;
exhaust fumes seeping from a neighbour's garage after nightfall; the
gnawing of unresolved disputes with real and imagined foes; the inner
voices arguing amongst themselves until one walks off in disgust. That
sort of thing. https://fatherfiguresuk.bandcamp.com/
SEAN SMITH (DJ set)
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Thanks as ever for all your support and for listening/reading,
have the best week and we’ll hopefully catch up with you on Saturday.
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