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Hi there!
We are simply thrilled to announce that Upset The Rhythm will be releasing Gun Outfit's new album Process and Reality (out May 8th); a double-album of majestic folk-dipped underground rock music that strives to remain humble and true to life.
Weighing in at an incredible 81 minutes, it’s alive with ideas and
truly expansive, refined and loooooose - with songs moving between
fragility and hefty atmospheric passages.
Lead single ‘Unfelt Loss’ was released today, it crackles with a
fractious kind of energy, awash with layered vocals and crucially
strummed guitars.
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Gun Outfit is a long running
lifestyle band out of Los Angeles, California. For two decades the group
has been making unclassifiable underground rock music that strives to
remain humble and true to life. This has been documented on several
releases through fine imprints like Post Present Medium, Paradise of Bachelors and Joyful Noise.
Beginning as a crude duo, they have solidified into a crack five piece;
a post punk band playing experimental folk rock with a local flavour.
The sound has grown mellower, more expansive and more intimate in
response to the schizophrenic environment in which we live.
Process and Reality is their
most ambitious record yet. Self-recorded over the course of a month on a
ranch in Pine Flat, California while a forest fire burned ten miles
away, the album is an apocalyptic improvisation on a passing world. A
series of sonic landscapes and a set of discrete and inviting songs, Process and Reality
is maelstrom of vibe grounded by lyrical engagement and limited means.
Dulcimer, autoharp, keyboard, melodica, sitar and a variety of other
instruments in novel arrangements widen the sound, a collaborative
approach to songwriting broadens the emotional scope and intuitive
mixing and a commitment to analogue gear gives the production a subtle
mystical resonance.
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Principle songwriters Dylan Sharp and Carrie Keith grew up in rural Washington state, forming Gun Outfit in Olympia in 2006. Daniel Swire
has been drumming in the band since 2010; on this record he plays a
variety of other instruments as well. Multi-instrumentalist Henry Barnes (of Amps For Christ) joined in 2015, but this record emphasizes his virtuosity on his homemade instruments and electronics. Kayla Cohen has been playing bass in the band since 2019. Other collaborators - Chris Cohen, Warren Lee, Danny Sasaki and others - have all left their mark on this majestic double LP.
Process and Reality is available to pre-order now on 2 x LPs (first pressing ltd. to 500 copies) and as a CD from all the best shops and our own Bandcamp too. |
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Show hat on now! Thanks for coming to see Xiu Xiu last week, we have two more events on the immediate horizon for you.
Tomorrow night we're excited to have San Francisco fog-pop purveyors Cindy back in London. Joined by dreamy, lo-fi Liverpool duo The Gabys, it will be a sublime time in the sumptuous environs of Chats Palace. Live music from 8.15pm, tickets available on the door.
Then next Monday we are lucky enough to host our old friends Yellow Swans again! Taking place at The Lexington, this show will also feature a lively performance from Unmarry Me, alongside a Raime DJ set. Read on for all the particulars...
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Upset The Rhythm presents… CINDY
THE GABYSFriday 13 February Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yd196e6fb1a4CINDY
is a key part of the San Francisco/Bay Area dream pop, fog pop, lofi
scene. Led by NYC-originating songwriter Karina Gill, the steady stream
of releases has earned sincere support from the international press
community who have vividly championed the writing and sound. The songs
are hazy but with intent – this is nostalgic pop-craft with lyrical
backbone that has opened doors for Cindy to tour and appear at festivals
in the UK, Europe and USA, most recently with DIY recording icon, Linda
Smith. The current Cindy touring band includes members Will
Smith of Now, Staizsh Rodrigues of Children Maybe Later, and Oli Lipton
of Now and Violent Change. Cindy will tour the EU & UK in 2026,
while making progress back home in San Francisco on the eagerly awaited
fifth album. Cindy have previous releases available through Tough Love
and Paisley Shirt Records. https://cindytheband.bandcamp.com/THE GABYS
are a duo made up of Matt Wilkinson and Natasha Bikkul. They write
mysterious, eerie bedroom pop from their home in Liverpool. This is
Velvet Underground-inspired electric folk music that can roll with 90s
New Zealand greats like Dadamah and The Garbage & The Flowers but
also has parallels with current San Francisco lo-fi pop moodists like
April Magazine and Mister Baby. They have released music with All Gone,
Fruits and Flowers, and most recently, A Colourful Storm. https://fruitsandflowers.bandcamp.com/album/the-gabys |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
YELLOW SWANS
UNMARRY ME
RAIME (DJ SET)
Monday 16 February The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/r1ab97cac2bdYELLOW SWANS have
carved an influential path through America’s experimental music
underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and
hardcore. From their 2001 founding to the duo’s final shows (and
subsequent hiatus) in 2008, Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson
released well over 50 recordings documenting studio experiments, live
improvisations, and numerous collaborations. Together they relentlessly
toured North America, Europe, and Oceania, performing at numerous
international music festivals including Sonar (ES), Open Circuit (BE),
and Sonic Protest (FR), and were invited to join Art Council England’s
Free Noise Tour in 2007. Yellow Swans performed for Upset The Rhythm
multiple times during these busy years. Now, after a 15 year break, they
have returned to recording and performing. Their music continues to be
restless, ragged, and forever in flux, untethered and unresolved. Check
out the duo’s two new casette albums on Bandcamp now, ‘Out of Practice I
& II’, the second is particularly striking and alien, enjoy! https://yellowswans.bandcamp.com/UNMARRY ME
is a triangular shaped group, comprising of Lise Frances, Jon Slade and
Chris Rowley. London to Brighton and back again. Unmarry Me are a group
that have been together for about 6 months in a world at war and in
trouble. Unmarry Me are therefore a group trying to carve out some joy
and light as form of resistance, no small feat, and maybe grandiose but
worth the stating. Unmarry Me Is comprised of personnel who have all had
time or continue to have time in other groups who did not take easy
routes or money and didn't make many friends, so it goes. These groups
respectively or chronologically were and are Huggy Bear, Comet Gain, I’m
Being Good, Help She Can’t Swim, Snoozers and Adulkt Life. Bands that
time will record as being on the right sides of history and her story.
Unmarry Me are of a completely different stripe or ilk but comprise the
antagonist and peculiar DNA that honour this. Unmarry Me play and record
and create and make do in a DIY syncretism that's useful to themselves,
distinct and not worth talking about. Unmarry Me! are about bending,
queering, breaking and resetting rules, smudging boundaries and in the
main having a lot of excellent fun!!
RAIME (DJ SET)
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Upset The Rhythm presents...
KEIJI HAINO Tuesday 17 March ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/V8e7432de701KEIJI HAINO
was born in Chiba, Japan on May 3, 1952. Inspired by Antonin Artaud, he
aimed for the theater, but an encounter with The Doors stimulated him
into music, where he has examined and absorbed a wide range of
expressions from the early blues, especially Blind Lemon Jefferson, or
European medieval music to popular songs across the world. In 1970, he
joined a group Lost Aaraaf named after Edgar Allan Poe’s poem as a
vocalist. Meanwhile, he started to work on home recordings and learned
the guitar and percussion autodidactically. In 1978, Haino formed a rock
band Fushitsusha, and since 1988, after a recuperation period from 1983
to 1987, he has been internationally active in various forms including
solo, groups such as Fushitsusha, Nijiumu, Aihiyo, Vajra, Sanhedrin,
Seijaku, Nazoranai or The Hardy Rocks and DJ as “experimental mixture,”
as well as in collaboration with artists from different backgrounds,
drawing the performance of the guitar, percussion, hurdy gurdy, string
instruments, wind instruments, local instruments from across the world
and DJ gears to the extreme through idiosyncratic techniques. Haino has
released more than 200 recordings and performed live at least 2,000
times. In March 2026 Japan, Haino will present two exclusive
performances in Europe on polygonola, a metal-flat polygonal instrument,
based on the 2nd dimensional vibration theory, built by Naoki Skura.
One fo these performances will take place at the ICA on March 17th. https://keijihaino.bandcamp.com“Keiji
Haino towers over the Japanese underground: his colossally heavy guitar
excursions inspired a whole generation of psychedelic rockers, but his
omnivorous musical appetites have also seen him collaborate with jazz
musicians, branch out into DJing, and play an entire gamelan orchestra
single-handedly. There's no knowing what to expect from a Haino gig” - Time Out Tokyo“Keiji
Haino lives among the class of improvisers who roam so far from what we
usually call form -meaning, basically, rules - that they make you
question whether what they’re doing is music.”
- New York Times |
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