New records from Terry, Vexx & Xiu Xiu, plus upcoming shows!

Hello everyone! I hope twenty seventeen has been treating you well so far, the snow has just stirred us from hibernation so prepare for an information overload. No news is good news, except in this case! Today our first release of the year makes it’s way into the wide world. 8 Girls by Terry was originally released last year by our friends at Aarght Records in Australia and was snapped up like cakes on fire. Featuring some of the band’s most rabble-rousing numbers we felt it deserved a proper European pressing and lo and behold that’s what we’ve gone and sorted. Hitting the shops as of this morning, 8 Girls appears now on transparent vinyl with a card sleeve featuring new synthetic-lake-based artwork, oh yes! We also have copies currently lighting up our webshop here.

Talking of records, our long-awaited Vexx mini-album Wild Hunt, will be arriving with us in the next few days too (it is currently on a plane over the Atlantic). Our kind comrades at Monorail Records in Glasgow must harbour some uncanny powers of logic as they’ve named it their album of the month and are offering if for sale alongside a limited edition screenprint of the ghoul-fest cover art by the band’s whip-crack of a vocalist Maryjane Dunphe. Check that out!

Yesterday saw us unveil another new track from our forthcoming Xiu Xiu album too. Entitled 'Jenny GoGo', the hauntingly catchy ode is accompanied by an eye-zipping animated video made in collaboration with Emp. Bikutoru. Look out! The album proper, titled Forget, will be released on February 24th, very exciting news! Plus we still have a handful of copies left of our blue/white swirled mailorder-only edition of LP, so if that is of interest it’s off to the webshop with you, post-haste.

Right, getting back to the show promotions side of things, Upset The Rhythm have just confirmed a London date for Spinning Coin & Sacred Paws’ February tour: Glasgow representing! You can find that show outlined in our listings section below, along with upcoming events for HEXA (Jamie Stewart & Lawrence English’s sonic response to David Lynch’s photography), Graham Dunning, Cian Nugent, Mega Bog, Milky Wimpshake, Witching Waves and of course our impending concerts for Carla dal Forno and Deerhoof which are both elaborated on next. Here you go…

Upset The Rhythm presents… CARLA DAL FORNO GROSS NET UTR DJs Saturday 4 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS CARLA DAL FORNO is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, currently based in Berlin. She is a member of the groups F ingers and Tarcar, and formerly cult Melbourne outfit Mole House. Autumn 2016 saw the release of her debut solo album, 'You Know What It's Like', on Blackest Ever Black. 'You Know What It's Like' is an album for inbetween days, and occupies inbetween states: plain-speaking pop, disorientated by dub. Psychedelic folk delivered with (post-)punk economy. Drifting in space while still tethered to the ground. Astral tones blurred with earth sounds: wood, bone, breath, skin, dirt. Ending and beginning, dying and becoming. Longing for adventure and an unquiet life. Struggling to get out of bed. https://www.facebook.com/carladalfornoyes/ GROSS NET is a solo project by Philip Quinn (Girls Names) from Northern Ireland, he serves up industrial, noisy post-punk and his 3 track debut EP on Art For Blind announces his arrival in menacing style. In just 11 minutes distorted guitars, ambient synths and reverbed vocals lay the foundations for lyrical themes of living through the recession and elitism in the arts channeling influences such as Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, and Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. https://grossnetband.bandcamp.com/releases

Upset The Rhythm presents… DEERHOOF LE TON MITÉ Monday 6 February Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ 7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS DEERHOOF are an alchemy of '77 punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, spandex, shadows, and attitude. Poetry into noise, volume knobs into pleasure, friendship into rock band.Twenty years deep into their career it's safe to describe them as legends of the American underground, releasing 14 albums and treating the world to their never-the-same-twice thrill-ride of a live show. Recent album 'The Magic' is out now on Upset The Rhythm, it is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery; boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. A mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you've ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat. Are Deerhoof the greatest live band in the world? If you shake the Magic 8-ball, “all signs point to yes”! http://deerhoof.net/ LE TON MITÉ is a band led by McCloud Zicmuse, translated into English the project’s name equates “the moth tone”. After many years of activity in the American independent music scene from Olympia, Washington, Mr. Zicmuse lived a clandestine life in France and abroad before finding roots in Belgium. A frequent collaborator with groups such as Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Mt Eerie & Tenniscoats, he is also known for his home made instruments and as a guest bassoonist for Chris Cohen, Deerhoof & Konono No. 1. This last year McCloud Zicmuse has been traveling, touring, writing, playing, transforming his solo project into a group & recording a collection of songs to be released next month called “Passé Composé Futur Conditionnel”. Le Ton Mité write songs that are a microcosm of adventure, packed with curious sounds and mini compositions, yet resolutely pop! https://letonmite.bandcamp.com/

Here’s to an eventful year! Thanks for reading and… Thanks for all your support! Upset The Rhythm x http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk     http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/   http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

CARLA DAL FORNO

GROSS NET

UTR DJs

Saturday 4 February

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

Monday 6 February

Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ

7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS

CIAN NUGENT

MEGA BOG
SPECIAL GUEST

Saturday 11 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

HEXA: FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS

(Jamie Stewart & Lawrence English sonic response to David Lynch’s photography)

GRAHAM DUNNING (Aggregate performance)

Wednesday 15 February

The Forge, 3-7 Delancey St, Camden, London, NW1 7NL

7pm | £14 | TICKETS

SPINNING COIN
SACRED PAWS
Friday 17 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

MILKY WIMPSHAKE

‘20th Anniversary Show!’

WITCHING WAVES

Saturday 4 March

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS