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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
CINDY INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK Wednesday 26 April The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z790b084119e CINDY is a band built around the singing and guitar playing of Karina Gill that she self-nurtured after finding an abandoned Squier Strat in her San Francisco apartment basement. Her intrigue soon grew into the band that is Cindy who have found a worldwide following of their slow-moving, dream-pop world that shrouds Gill’s songs thanks to support from model independent labels Mt. St. Mtn and Tough Love Records. Cindy’s fourth LP Why Not Now? will be released this April. The music captured is simple out of necessity and introverted in delivery, but the songs contain vivid worlds and are quietly ambitious. With this latest batch, Gill pulled the process of making Cindy music even more inward. “Some of these songs were first recorded as demos alone in my basement. I think that process set the tone for the record...Maybe it set up a kind of starkness,” she says. While the dream-pop tag is probably still relevant, this isn’t algorithm-fed genre ambience. Gill’s vocal/lyrical presence can be as gently momentous as Leonard Cohen or as intellectually potent as any ’79-’80 Rough Trade post-punk. Cindy’s Why Not Now? is that muffled street symphony inside a passing daydream. https://cindytheband.bandcamp.com/album/1-2 INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK just released their debut album ’Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole’ via Tough Love. 35 minutes of repeat phrased guitars, slow-clipped drums and dulcet vocals where the recurring landscape is the desert. Reel-to reel-loops of Afghan music compete with the found sound overlays of voices recorded at the queue of the pharmacy and drum machines borrowed from Spanish heroes, channelling both far-off climes and snippets from a closer reality. It’s a strange psychic brew, built of imagined mysticism and domestic realities, of fever dreams and days that stretched into weeks of months. https://indexforworkingmusik.bandcamp.com |
 Upset The Rhythm &. CU Next Tuesday presents…
ES - ‘Fantasy’ EP launch! THE REBEL VISCOUNT SECRET GUESTS Saturday 29 April The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Rd, Stepney Green, London E1 0LA 7pm | £7.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/C25cc0e92cda ES return this April with their incredible new EP ‘Fantasy’ (out April 7th on Upset The Rhythm). A four-track contact-high anxiety amid fact and facsimile, the new release attempts to define a sound that still resonates in an increasingly confused public theatre, where cerebral dreams manifest in corrupt fascination. Echoing the legendary Pylon or the later, disco-inspired releases from PIL, tracks like ‘Emergency’ and ‘Unreal’ blend the band’s established disjunctive style of gothic restlessness with brighter, poppy, and danceable tones. These stylistically unwind in transition with the increasingly claustrophobic pieces like ‘Too Late’ and ‘Swallowed Whole’, syncopating a parallel design of the frantic and the fashionable. Es deconstruct our modern wreckage of personhood and self-deceit, granting a sense of solidarity inside alienation. Inside ‘Fantasy’ we visualize our own estrangement, and it is only when this mirror fades that we find the tools to fight back. Joining Es on the night of their EP launch will be The Rebel (Country Teasers/The Devil), Viscount (Hygiene/Primetime/Vienetta) and some Secret Guests announced on the day! After the gig there will be Karaoke and DJ's til Late.
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 Upset The Rhythm presents….
LLOYD / BEAN DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN Tuesday 2 May Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/d6cf179a3c50 LLOYD / BEAN is a new project from Robert Lloyd (of The Nightingales) and Janet Beveridge-Bean from alt-country duo Freakwater. Robert dared to approach Janet with the idea of recording together. Over the course of the long pandemic, songs were bandied about for months, and when recording was finally practical, a band was assembled with dates set up for a recording session in Valencia, Spain. Robert and Janet were joined by Robert's long-time ally, Pete Byrchmore, the musical foil for Robert's solo album on Virgin and a former Nightingale, Mark Bedford, the bassist for Madness and Terry Edwards' Near Jazz Experience, and Pablo Roda, Spanish mystery drummer, couldn't have worked out more perfectly. Tracks were selected without regard for collective presentation, just the goal of walking out of the studio with an album of perfect gems. Forget Lee & Nancy or George & Tammy, Rob and Janet have an immediate chemistry that only sounds long-lived - and too uniquely them to merit any comparison. The title track, Black Cat, Dark Horse is the sole Lloyd / Bean / Byrchmore composition and one of the record's highlights. Jim Elkington, collaborator with Jeff Tweedy and Richard Thompson, contributes Heavy Reckonings and a song written with Janet, The True Lovers' Knot And The Lie, while Robert adds reworkings from past releases - Sweet Georgia Black and Black Country (with Pete) - not to mention the unreleased Eggs And Bacon. Janet brought One Shot and the unheard Freakwater song Arc Of A Smile. We daresay the album is among the finest you'll hear in 2023. The Michael Cumming / Stewart Lee film King Rocker made a case for Robert Lloyd-as-lost- hero; this album furthers that idea and shows a compelling side of Janet's talent and abilities which will be a surprise to her fans and serve as an entry point to exploring her many other compelling projects. For this one and only performance of the forthcoming ‘Black Cat, Dark Horse’ album Lloyd / Bean will be joined by Mark Bedford, Peter Byrchmore and drummer extraordinaire Lindy Morrison of The Go-Betweens. https://lloydbean.bandcamp.com/album/black-cat-dark-horse DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN has after a string of fine albums with those C86 indie-pop pioneers The Wolfhounds, an enticing run on the Too Pure label in the experimentalist band Moonshake, as well as collaborations with PJ Harvey and members of Stereolab, now begun his solo career in earnest, releasing a pair of daring albums with a mélange of what's been called "mutant Eastern, West African, folk, blues and post-punk influences. https://davidlancecallahan.bandcamp.com/ |