Good morning!
Thanks to so
many of you who came out this week to see Shannon And The Clams, what a way to
kick start their tour, they’re going to have the best time yet over here. We’re
back in show mode next Tuesday, this time at the Scala with the amazing MIKAL CRONIN, J FERNANDEZ and THEO VERNEY.
You can read all about the night of psych-infused rock-n-roll we have planned
for you below. We also have a handful of tickets left for next week’s CALVIN JOHNSON show too, so if you
fancy coming to that one its worth buying some in advance.
In label news,
today we’re releasing a digital single by BAMBOO
(Nick from Peepholes and Rachel from Trash Kit), whose sublime album ‘Prince
Pansori Priestess’ we’re releasing on December 4th. You can
stream the lead track ‘Be Brothers’ now by clicking on the
single artwork below. The first part of the song begins very
vulnerably, “Can’t look back, can you
see, something over there looks pretty good to me” admits Rachel honestly
over her fragile plucked banjo motif, a sense of hope returning grows,
underscored by drifts of blushing ambience. Halfway through and the percussion
picks up, allowing the rippling synths to walk hand in hand with Roedelius
towards the horizon. Verity Susman (of Electrelane) guests towards the end of
the track on saxophone, helping the song reach its more resolved future. Enjoy!
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TUESDAY /////
MIKAL CRONIN
J FERNANDEZ
THEO VERNEY
Tuesday 17 November
Scala, 275 Pentonville
Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344
MIKAL
CRONIN was raised in Laguna Beach,
California, where as a teenager he developed a passion for both surfing and
rock & roll. While attending Laguna Beach High School, he fell in with a
handful of like-minded music fans, and formed a band that played local parties.
After a spell as bassist in surf-punk Charlie & The Moonhearts, Mikal began
working on his own garage-accented pop tapping into his love of 80's indie
rock. Around the same time, Mikal also befriended kindred spirit Ty Segall,
joined his live band and also collaborated on an album together called 'Reverse
Shark Attack'. Mikal Cronin's self-titled album was released by Trouble in Mind
Records in September 2011. Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help
cope with adjusting to life post-college, an ensuing break-up and geographic
isolation, Mikal’s solo debut is fully realized, cohesive and beautiful, with
themes as personal as they are universal; questioning your future, accepting
your past and living in the moment. Taking influences such as late sixties Del
Shannon and The Everly Brothers and filtering them through his own mutant
California fuzz, Mikal deftly explores his singer/songwriter side that at
moments feels like a punk Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher that balances sweet
melodies and chords with hefty, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. 2013 saw Cronin
release, 'MCII', his first disc for Merge Records, which was all about new
beginnings, looking at new relationships and growing up in the 21st century.
Earlier this year Merge released Mikal’s third album, entitled ‘MCIII’. Marked
by lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for
which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply
sound bigger in everyone’s head.
https://www.mergerecords.com/mikal-cronin
J
FERNANDEZ has a colourful world of imagination
that’s perfectly captured in his debut album ‘Many Levels of Laughter’. With
lyrics reflecting the profound (emotional mushroom trips), the mundane (dentist
visits, board games) and life’s other curiosities (sleep apnea, Craigslist
encounters), he’s made an album steeped in DIY origins, but offering a superior
exploration of sound that’s all set to wrap J Fernandez in a far worldlier
embrace. Born to Filipino immigrant parents, J (Justin) Fernandez relocated to
the Chicago from his native Little Rock, Arkansas to begin work for the U.S.
map company Rand McNally. Spending his spare time navigating his own personal
world of musical endeavours, he created three unique and accomplished early EPs
‘Olympic Village’, ‘No Luck’ and ‘Memorize Now’ that placed him alongside label
peers Best Coast, Mount Eerie, and Dirty Beaches whilst winning him praise and
comparisons to everyone from Syd Barrett, to Robyn Hitchcock and Ennio
Morricone. Fernandez’s songwriting draws on disparate influences from Terry
Riley to the annals of early electronic music, pop and psychedelia, not to
mention Can, Yo La Tengo, Jim O’Rourke, Electric Prunes, James Burke’s
‘Connections’, Carl Sagan, Bas Jan Ader, the winter in Chicago, and Adderall.
Listen closely to ‘Markers’, you can hear manipulated found sounds of the
outside world behind looped Casio keyboards. Elsewhere the mellow jazzy tones
of ‘Filled With Joy’ recall the energy and sonic sound of 90s Argentine band
Babasonicos whilst the layers of broken Moog string synthesizer on ‘Apophis’ is
played backwards and perhaps hints at a sound of the future.
https://jfernandez.bandcamp.com/
THEO
VERNEY is a rock-n-roll prodigy from
Brighton! He’s spent the last two years building excitement and anticipation
across the UK and Europe with his no holds barred, psych-infused shows. Theo
is currently recording his debut album to follow up the much acclaimed ‘Heavy
Sunn’ EP which was released last year on Hate Hate Hate Records (The Wytches,
Fat White Family). He’s been touring with his band regularly since its release,
supporting the likes Drenge, Toy, Archie Bronson Outfit, La Luz and Parquet
Courts as well as his own headline shows. Theo's new EP 'Brain Disease' is out
now, go check it out!
http://theoverney.tumblr.com/
Thank you for reading
this, before we head off into the weekend we wanted to point you in the
direction of this show taking place next week too, which looks fantastic and well
worth your attendance!
Constant Flux presents...
THE FISH
POLICE
JOEY FOURR
DANIEL
WAKEFORD
WITCHING
WAVES
Saturday 21st November 2015
DIY Space For London
96-108 Ormside Street, London, SE15 1TF
£5 / carers free or donation
Flat Access / Accessible Toilets
Have the best weekend,
see you next week!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
MIKAL CRONIN
J FERNANDEZ
THEO VERNEY
Tuesday
17 November
Scala,
275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm
| £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344
CALVIN JOHNSON
INVISIBLE FOXX
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
MOSS
LIME
AS
ONDAS
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
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