Brigid Mae Power tomorrow in London, new music from Nicfit and Kaputt announced!

 

Hello everyone! Huge thanks to all of you for coming to see Shannon Lay, Astrid Sonne and The Microphones last week, was wild to see so many of you. Some of our favourite shows to date too, we were blown away, far away! Only just got back to London.   Upset The Rhythm now have just two concerts left for 2021, tomorrow's stunning evening of songcraft with Brigid Mae Power & her full band at The Lexington, supported by Marta Del Grandi no less! Whoooo, what a treat! We'll have tickets on the door from 7.30pm for this one, live music starting 8.20pm.   Then on December 7th we're lucky enough to have Hen Ogledd (Richard Dawson, Sally Pilkington, Rhodri Davies & Dawn Bothwell) triangulating around Corsica Studios. Jenny Moore's Mysic Business are going to perform at this concert too, so quite the festive knees-up is planned! Mince pies for all!   Read on for full details on both of those crucial forays.

UTR label news next!   Glasgow post-punks Kaputt return today with an early taste of their new album in the form of surprise digital single ‘Gone West’! A restless riot of sax breaks, fidgeting drums and guitar riffage that continually swims against the tide. Cal from Kaputt shared that “Gone West is about the migration of affluence, when industry clashed with the living standards of the wealthy. The smoke blows East, so the money moves West.” Such choice lyrical concerns and their pointed address are set off against ‘Gone West’s needling impulse to dance its way into your brain. ‘Gone West’ is just the tip of the iceberg though, Kaputt’s new album looks set to sink us all! ‘Gone West’ is released digitally today through Upset The Rhythm on all the usual digi-platz. It is taken from Kaputt’s as yet untitled second album, due out in the first half of 2022. Kaputt will be playing the following shows in the coming months, including a spree of dates with Squid in January: NOV 2021 25th - Manchester @ The White Hotel 26th - Sheffield @ Delicious Clam 27th - London @ Sebright Arms 28th - Bristol @ The Lanes 29th - Leeds @ Wharf Chambers 30th - York @ Fulford Arms DEC 2021 1st - Newcastle @ Cumberland Arms 10th - Glasgow @ Stereo JAN 2022 13th - Glasgow @ St Luke’s 26th - Belfast @ Empire w/ SQUID 27th - Galway @ Roisin Dubh w/ SQUID 28th - Cork @ Cyprus Avenue  w/ SQUID 30th - Dublin @ Button Factory w/ SQUID 31st - Dublin @ Button Factory w/ SQUID

We also proudly announced in the last few days Nicfit's gleeful nervous itch of a debut album 'Fuse'! Our 144th Upset The Rhythm release (what?!) and our first confirmed title for 2022, coming out in mid-Jan!   Nicfit are from Nagoya, Japan and flip between head-down tumbles of hardcore bounce and freaked feedback clamber. ‘Fuse’ is a flexing wonder of a debut, packed with browbeaten stomp, taut breakouts, guitars that sound more akin to warning sirens and an astute railing vocal delivery.   These ten original blasts of song, and one cover of the Urinals (‘Ack, ack, ack’) are as pummelsome as they are keen to race against the clock. Total life-affirming trample, with pointed metallic moments and glammy undercurrents that forever soar out of the sprawl.   'Fuse' is released on UTR on Jan 14th. Available to pre-order now.

Best news! Very happy to say Bertie Marshall's strikingly original album 'Exhibit' is now available on 180g black vinyl! Available through all the best shops and our very own webstore! Really is a thing of beauty in sound and vision.

Upset The Rhythm presents… BRIGID MAE POWER MARTA DEL GRANDI Tuesday 23 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB £10 | 7.30pm | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4   * Nb. This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets still valid   BRIGID MAE POWER paints expansive songs that are effortless, hypnotic and folk-oriented like Judee Sill, Bill Callahan and Sharon Van Etten. The third album from the celebrated singer/songwriter, ‘Head Above The Water’ is a coming of age opus featuring a ground-breaking amalgamation of traditional folk and country - an engaging blend of strings, bouzouki, piano and Power’s distinctive vocal make this an achingly beautiful body of work. Recorded in analogue studio The Green Door in Glasgow with Alasdair Roberts co-producing alongside Brigid and Peter Broderick. It’s a continuing tale of everyday survival; more diverse, different, a bigger canvas, with broader brushstrokes. Country and traditional folk rub shoulders, making for a juxtaposition of threads, with added instrumentation from five musicians lured into the studio to provide larger dynamics. After two lauded albums for Tompkins Square, Brigid Mae Power releases her new album on 5th June via Fire Records. www.brigidmaepower.com   MARTA DEL GRANDI is an award-winning jazz vocalist navigating new territory, crossing borders of genre and style from West Coast ‘60s to ambient exotica, from plaintive Lynchian etherealism to dramatic Morricone scores. Newly signed to Fire Records, the eclectic Italian-born singer songwriter releases her new album ‘Until We Fossilize’ on November 5th 2021. Filled with thoughts and emotions, stories, rumours and beliefs, ‘Until We Fossilize’ is an unraveling of time and distance; a self-produced gem filled with lush strings, electronic ambience and eclectic vocals. https://www.firerecords.com/artists/marta-del-grandi/

Upset The Rhythm presents… HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb HEN OGLEDD are a band comprising Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington, Hen Ogledd’s meaning comes from the Welsh name for The Old North. Following on from the quartet’s previous album Mogic, with its digital overtones and themes of artificial intelligence, Hen Ogledd's second album Free Humans takes a deliberately organic and natural approach. Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary... it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory, sewers, the nature of time, human stench, and the thrills of wild swimming, it’s remarkable that, given the intense collision of influences and wide-ranging ideas at play, Free Humans somehow coheres into a marvellous whole. Hen Ogledd manages to hold both the tragedy of the wrongs happening in the world and also a sense of hope and liberation in their hands at the same time. https://www.henogledd.com/ JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS is a London-based six-piece choral-punk ensemble known for their tuned percussion, huge vocals and chanted soulful mantras, a mix of the 90's R&B and post-punk Jenny grew up listening to in the Canadian prairies. A testament to the raw power and untamed joy of communal singing, the band features members of Bas Jan, Trash Kit, F*Choir and Bamboo as well as solo singer-songwriter Rubie. They draw inspiration from artists such as Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan La Barbara and Robert Ashley, as well as feminist poets like Sharon Olds and Lorrie Moore, and David Byrne’s musical use of language, breaking down words into rhythmic tools. ‘He Earns Enough’ EP out on Lost Map Records now! https://jennymoore.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-moores-mystic-business

See you tomorrow at The Lexington! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BRIGID MAE POWER (full band) MARTA DEL GRANDI Tuesday 23 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4 (This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb   SHOPPING - CANCELLED (refunds now available) Monday 14 February 2022 The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/43JnT6NN71   CLEMENTINE VALENTINE (PURPLE PILGRIMS) KINLAW Monday 7 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/cDMTPCt5Dkb   FUZZ (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich) Friday 18 March 2022 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 6pm - 9.45pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from July 22nd 2020 & March 31st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   FUTURE ISLANDS DAN DEACON Friday 25 March 2022 Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY 6.30pm | £30.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g3KQl6bmpgb (Promoted in collaboration with our friends Parallel Lines) GROUPER Thursday 14 April 2022 Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/uBMlbma5ykb  (Promoted in collaboration with our friends at Barbican)   KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio) FRED ABONG Thursday 21 April 2022 The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LbdJu2HTUjb   JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Saturday 7 May 2022 OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm-10pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fUuBdCfJD3 (This show is rescheduled from May 12th and Sep 8th 2020 & May 7th and September 1st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)