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Hello everyone!
The sun is shining on Season 2’s debut album today! This jaw-dropping bop of an album, Power of Now, is now released by Upset The Rhythm.
Season 2 formed in late 2024, bringing together seasoned Melbourne musicians with previous and current projects including Parsnip, The Stroppies and Phil and the Tiles.
The five piece, comprising Carolyn Hawkins, Claudia Serfaty, Charlotte
Zarb, Freya McLeod and Matt Powell, quickly set to work writing winsome,
DIY, shimmer-pop hits that careen through your mind in a gratifying
dizzy rush.
The result is… Power of Now - a cerebral explosion of melody, hooks, drones and rhythm. In the vein of The Feelies, The Vaselines and The Clean, Season 2 have whipped up a sonic whirlwind. It's a total thrill of snappy slap, catchy gang vocals and crystalline guitar refrains. Power of Now is available from all the best shops and our own webstore. |
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Read on for more info on our upcoming London shows for May and June with the magnificent Artificial Go and Hen Ogledd. You'll also find two newly announced concerts with Wendy Eisenberg in November in our programme that concludes this message.
100% heartfelt thank yous to everyone for coming out in droves over
this last ten days to see so many concerts, every one a highlight,
we've had an absolute blast! |
Upset The Rhythm presents… ARTIFICIAL GO
NO PEELINGWednesday 13 May New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/P1af2a986141ARTIFICIAL GO
hail from Cincinnati, USA, and bring the beat to life with their New /
No / Whatever Wave weirdness! Last year they released ‘Musical Chairs’,
building on 2024’s 'Hopscotch Fever', an album of ten existential
post-punk chamber pop tracks. Recorded at Lambda Research and the
haunted attic of the band’s house, the core trio of Angie Willcutt,
Micah Wu, and Cole Gilfilen have traded the sparse jangle of their debut
for a broader, fuller sound. ‘Musical Chairs’ deftly meshes the angular
excitability of 'Hopscotch Fever' with a spectral warmth and
expensiveness able to encompass acoustic guitars, Wu’s almost
metaphysical funk bass lines, tape loops and blips and bleeps, a guest
spot by Eric Dietrich (of The Drin and Sorry Eric) on saxophone, and
Gilfilen’s hip moving boom-bap drumming add to the excitement. In
Willcutt’s hands, the struggles, and at times terrors, of our current
age are playfully subverted with agile world play and dynamic
vocalization that moves from sweet and dreamy to cartoonishly
exaggerated as she charts an emotional course through such topics as the
difficulties of playing the role of “woman” in a misogynist world
(“Playing Puppet”) or the injustice of anthropocentric hierarchy
(“Tightrope Walker”). Musical Chairs is serious music not meant to be
taken too seriously, a playful act of resistance, a meditation on the
good and bad of this world, and ultimately a remarkable statement on the
continuing growth of Artificial Go. https://artificialgo.bandcamp.com/NO PEELING
formed in 2025 as a studio project by five friends in the fertile
Nottingham DIY underground. September 2025’s self-titled EP was the
perfect introduction to the No Peeling universe. Bandcamp Daily picked
it as an Essential Release, calling it “a clanging collection of
get-in-get-out egg punk that doesn’t ask for more than 10 minutes of
your time and overdelivers on every front”. It managed to cram a
lifetime of idea-nuggets into seven songs that rarely exceeded the
minute mark. A blast of enthusiasm and hyperactivity, the EP was the
audio equivalent of a barrage firework: exhilarating and energising.
Whilst the first EP was completed before the band had played live; the
forthcoming EP2 hits a little differently. EP2 has the garage
punk clatter and sparkly efficiency of their debut but is somehow faster
and weirder. The guitar and synth seem to be engaged in a constant
(playful) fight, tumbling further and further away from the song
structure being held together (and propelled) by one of the tightest
rhythm sections around. The scrawl and skronk might occasionally recall
No Wave but those grooves are locked down. This all provides the perfect
foundation for the wry, dry observations of Sophie Diver. From pasta
post and fluff-clad delinquents to clingfilm catastrophes and poor
working conditions, all modern life’s bases are covered and emerge
miraculously from a magic-eye explosion of clangs, thwacks and bloops. https://nopeeling.bandcamp.com/album/no-peeling |
Upset The Rhythm & Weird World presents... DISCOMBODURATION:
HEN OGLEDD joined by special guests! Saturday 6 June Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD 2pm-10pm (8 hour set) | Free to all! | Just turn up on the day! HEN OGLEDD
are a Scottish-Welsh-Geordie-Lancashire-Australian supergroup. They
will be performing a special 8-hour sound-ritual in the most haunted and
wondrous locale of The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London this early
summer. Splintering their latest album DISCOMBOBULATED through prisms of
drone, improvisation, dance, caterwauling, kinetic-sculpture,
befuddlement, squelching, dreamiest of dream-pop, ha-ha-harp, horrible
stuff, coo-ing and large blasts - this extended un-concert is bound to
be an immersive overwhelming experience and a pivotal moment in the
history of people having a nice time. DISCOMBODURATION explores
themes of collapse, persistence, and collective imagination. With
costume and a life(ish) size, pop up book set’ artist Rachael MacArthur
will bring forth a lucid psychogenic fantasy episodic landscape with
each stage of the performance. Hen Ogledd are exploring what it means to
perform through crisis, to dance, speak, and imagine within the ruins,
and to build, even temporarily, a space for a shared vision. Please join
us for DISCOMBODURATION on 6th June, in entirety from 2pm til 10pm, or
drop in as you please/at your own peril. https://www.henogledd.com/ |
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