UPSET THE RHYTHM: Sauna Youth tomorrow and Gun Outfit next week!

Morning everyone!

This week we’ve announced new shows for Wolf Eyes and U.S. Girls, both in April and onsale now. Full details and ticket links can be found below. We have two brilliant shows coming up over the next week too. Tomorrow we’re heading to The Forge in Camden for Sauna Youth’s 7” launch, it’ll be something of a homecoming too since the band have just completed their European tour. Joined by Not Sorry and Sarcasm, it’s going to be a blazing night, plus Pub Classics will be spinning records throughout. Then on Wednesday next week we’ll be heading to The Lexington for our Gun Outfit and Amps For Christ concert. It’s been six years since Gun Outfit graced these shores and Amps For Christ has never performed here before, very exciting for all fans of transcendent dust-rock and the rustic electrified! A heavenly double headline show I’m sure you’ll agree, for full write-ups on both events read on…

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SAUNA YOUTH

NOT SORRY

SARCASM

PUB CLASSICS (DJ Set)

Saturday 13 February

The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL

7pm | Tickets - https://uk.patronbase.com/_Forge/Productions/X6/Performances

SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. "Weird" is a meaningless platitude and "art punk" is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Consisting of Richard Phoenix (drums, vocals), Lindsay Corstorphine (guitar), Jen Calleja (vocals, sampler) and Christopher Murphy (bass), Sauna Youth are a punk band that's happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go along with that notion. On paper, Sauna Youth sound considered - live, they can barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe, with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe - then chugging, poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. This show celebrates the release of their excellent new 7” ‘The Bridge / Blurry Images’ out on Upset The Rhythm.

https://saunayouth.bandcamp.com/

NOT SORRY are four slinky-synth, disco-punx from London, featuring members of Joey Fourr and Ravioli Me Away. Check out their recent split tape with Holysix on Good Job/SixSixSixties for plenty of woozy, sometimes disquieting, always irrefutable pop bangers.

https://soundcloud.com/not-sorry-1

SARCASM bring the brittle post-punk, featuring members of Efialtis and Snob. No recordings online yet, demo in the works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqNC8i7ETw4

PUB CLASSICS (DJ Set)

https://www.mixcloud.com/pubclassics/

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GUN OUTFIT

AMPS FOR CHRIST

Wednesday 17 February

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160

GUN OUTFIT have an incandescent sonic signature: a dusky, canyon-cult blues fueled by melodic dual-guitar weaving and seductive male/female incantations. It’s the nocturnal sound of desert-damaged L.A. burnout, a soured American surrealism in rock and roll creole: white line fever, paint fume flashbacks, a stranger wading out alone into the black surf. Gun Outfit let levitating hooks and an emotional heaviness co-exist in their impressionistic songs, like the light-and-dark glow of a perpetual magic hour. As ever, they sound like they just wandered off the set of a country Western being shot inside a shipping container, but most recent album ‘Dream All Over’ (Paradise of Bachelors) is Gun Outfit's most consistent record by some margin. With its echoing grooves, drifting landscapes, and new textures—bits of bluegrass banjo, homemade electric sitars—‘Dream All Over’ has the blue-sky sensibility of a soul-searching road trip. Gun Outfit's music has gotten slower with each of their four albums, an inversion of (or response to) how human life has evolved since their band formed nine years ago. Perhaps this is why Gun Outfit—a band that will validate your pain as much as it will comfort you—still has such a fervent cult following underground. Gun Outfit understands what it is to feel unsettled, to need some calming through the zero hours.

http://www.gunoutfit.us/

AMPS FOR CHRIST is the very hand-made, folk art project of Henry Barnes, also known as a member of legendary noise-crust band Man is the Bastard. With Amps For Christ, he embraces the rustic electrified, the feathery jangle, the modulated organ with lashings of harmonised leads, the sweeter, the messier. On recent LP, ‘Canyons, Cars And Crows’ (Shrimper) there’s a new found deliberateness and refinement at play. The stubborn fuzziness of Barnes’ vision makes for a halo effect: On the instrumental ‘Hills of Padua’, keyboards are treated and warped until they bleat like bagpipes, even as Barnes feeds them through a distortion pedal that might have been built out of a Geiger counter. That tattered, mutated, yet undeniably traditional folk air assumes a more solid shape on ‘Scottish Country Dance’, another vocal-free track that balances chiming delicacy with an earth-scraping underbelly glacial enough to have carved out the Great Glen. A lonesome sitar curls around Barnes’ barebones, Fahey-esque acoustic guitar, while a waveform is whittled into a haunting drone, a looped memory of those since gone. Barnes records at home, and that homespun ethic is more than just a method of expedience; it fills the corners of his music with cobwebs and echoes, a cocooning insularity that reduces even the most cosmic sentiment to something small and warm. Cloaked in mystique, sequestered in hermetic glory, AFC carries around its own atmosphere—one that we all must breathe deeply of.

https://ampsforchrist.bandcamp.com/

Thanks so much for reading! See you tomorrow!

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SAUNA YOUTH

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