KAPUTT on tour!

Glasgow powerhouse Kaputt begin their Euro tour today in Sheffield! Go see them play near you soon! ‘Carnage Hall’, their debut, is out on Sept 27th too!

31/08 - Sheffield - Delicious Clam

01/09 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers

02/09 - Brighton - The Pipeline

03/09 - Lille - DIY Cafe

04/09 - Brussels - Super Fourchette

05/09 - Paris - La Pointe Lafayette

06/09 - Trier - Schmit-Z Café

10/09 - London - The Islington

11/09 - Oxford - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre 

12/09 - Bristol - The Lanes

13/09 - Nottingham - JT Soar

14/09 - Glasgow - The Old Hairdressers

Mary Lattimore in London tomorrow, Deerhoof on Monday and Kaputt coming soon!

Hello there! We have some great concerts coming up on the horizon so thought we’d share them with you!   Tomorrow Upset The Rhythm pitches up at The Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton for a pristine evening of ambient weirding, looped naturalism and spacey heaven-scapes courtesy of Los Angeles harpist Mary Lattimore. Manchester’s Nummo Twin will support with her tree-based take on meditative deep listening. We’ll have some limited tickets available on the door tomorrow from 7.30pm, plus look for the volume to swell around 8.20pm as we start the performances too.

Then our following show, taking place at EartH in Dalston on Monday, will see a real convention of some of our favourite UTR acts all playing on the same bill. Expect some pop bafflement and bluster from Dog Chocolate, serene cycles of wild melody from Trash Kit and a live set from avant-indie masterminds Deerhoof that will set a new bar for ultimate exhilaration!   Best show of the summer anyone? Not one to miss!

Read on for more detail on both of these solid events alongside our full listing for September 10th’s wrecking ball of a shindig at The Islington with Glasgow’s wonk-punks Kaputt, celebrating their forthcoming debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ on Upset The Rhythm. The Cool Greenhouse and Sniffany & The Nits are playing this one too, oh yes, so grab that hefty fluorescent marker for your diary now, this will take some beating, exclamation marks at the ready!   Excellent times await, enjoy…

Upset The Rhythm presents…   MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses her Lyon and Healy concert grand harp to conjure up beautifully abstracted forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions. Across a breadth of recordings, collaborations and art commissions her music explores a realm of wordless narratives and indefinite travelogues, where – with the help of effects and occasional vocals - extended harp improvisations morph into spectral songforms. In live performance she reveals the impressionist magic of her chosen instrument, blurring classical technique and ambient electronics to beguiling effect. In 2018 Mary released Hundreds of Days, her second LP on Ghostly International, as well as a collaborative album with Meg Baird entitled Ghost Forests (Three Lobed). She has moved a long way since her classical studies at Eastman School of Music, via days in Philadelphia with the likes of Espers and Fursaxa and sound-making time with Steve Gunn, Sharon van Etten and Kurt Vile. She has also collaborated with guitarist/synth player Jeff Zeigler on their 2014 album Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey) as well as composing a live score for Philippe Garrels' 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur which they subsequently toured together. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ NUMMO TWIN plays ethereal, dream-like folk songs and noise soundscapes with an instrument she carved herself from an old christmas tree, an array of delay and reverb pedals, and feedback. She sings a lament to a forgotten place. https://nummotwin.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF is four people. Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. But what is Deerhoof really? Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as "the best band in the world.” From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they've become one of indie music's most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop. http://deerhoof.net/ TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Gill Partington (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan, Sacred Paws, Shopping and Bamboo, united by a shared decade of spry musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads with Trash Kit. Their songs once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. This new focus began with their last album ‘Confidence’ (2014) and has now grown into something exhilarating and rapturous. New songs like ‘Disco’ have had their very fabric stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision. Since forming in 2009, Trash Kit have released two albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles, this July however they made their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge Horizon album. An album that forever listens for the next moment and will meet you once more at the vanishing point. https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/ DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. The band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ (out now) was released through Upset The Rhythm, in just under 25 minutes the band manage to cram in bucket-loads of ideas, mess, confusion and fun. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   KAPUTT are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Numbering six, Kaputt feature Simone Wilson and Cal Donnelly on guitars and vocals, Chrissy Barnacle also sings and plays saxophone. Tobias Carmichael is responsible for bass, whilst Rikki Will and Emma Smith cover drums and percussion respectively. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Kaputt’s debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ will be released this September on Upset The Rhythm, this show appears as part of their tour in support of this stunner of an LP. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ THE COOL GREENHOUSE make hypnotic home-brew post-punk. Their two 7”s and tape (also released on 10” through Lumpy) are a treat of elusive DIY moves and sarcastic wit. Very reminiscent of the early 80s post-punk cassette scene and messthetics compilation groups. www.thecoolgreenhouse.bandcamp.com SNIFFANY & THE NITS are an itchy, twitchy new pogo punk outfit feat members of Artefact and The Snivellers.

Thanks for all your support, see you tomorrow at The Courtyard! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance) BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

 

Lunch Lady's debut album released today! Plus news of upcoming London shows for Mary Lattimore, Deerhoof and Kaputt!

What a morning! Today we found a feather on the floor and released ‘Angel’ by Lunch Lady, a striking debut album drawing on post-punk, kitsch and country balladry narratives to devastating effect! Available on LP, CD and digitally today through Upset The Rhythm, ‘Angel’ can be found in all the best stores as of now and from our very own webshop hither.   Lunch Lady are a sparky group from Los Angeles redolent of the desert heat and pining hearts. Numbering four, Lunch Lady consist of Rachel Birke (vocals), Juan Velasquez (guitar), Victor Herrera (bass) and Robert Wolfe (drums). The band began in 2017 when Velasquez asked Birke if she’d like to start a new music project with him, their respective other groups Abe Vigoda and Heller Keller having co-existed in LA’s DIY orbit.

Lunch Lady’s music began to grow into sun-warped vignettes, often miniaturist character-studies in outlook. Birke’s vocal is unhurried and assured, pressing her characters’ motives and words into the sprightly guitar trails and jogged rhythms that characterise the sound of the band.   ‘Angel’ is the group’s debut album, a record of resounding yearning, of cold fire and hot, sticky blood. It’s an album of troubled tales, buried hearts and wandering homeward. ‘Window’ whirls by with all the flourish of a card trick. Drums tumble whilst the guitar line twists through the taut stretch and sprint of the bass turns. Birke’s low-slung yet smouldering vocal confesses that “my hands are as clean as a remembered thing, my hands are as clean as I want them to be.”

Lunch Lady turn on all the lights in this haunted house of an album. Each room populated by a vividly drawn cast of whispered hopes and threatening dreams. ‘Angel’ is an album that murmurs like a river down the staircase, exploding with unexpected melodrama, brandishing its desire like a weapon. Let it take you by the hand and guide you out into the night. Out into the glimmer, before the stars go out and the warmth of the sun returns to cool passions.   Lunch Lady launch their debut album ‘Angel’ tonight in Los Angeles at the Hi-Hat! Check out the spot-on poster for this show of shows!

In terms of London concerts you can find below info on next week’s Mary Lattimore concert at the Courtyard Theatre with Nummo Twin in support.   We also outline our massive Deerhoof show on Sept 2nd at EartH with Trash Kit and Dog Chocolate playing too, and Kaputt's album launch party at The Islington on Sept 10th too, The Cool Greenhouse and Sniffany & The Nits on the bill also, look out!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses her Lyon and Healy concert grand harp to conjure up beautifully abstracted forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions. Across a breadth of recordings, collaborations and art commissions her music explores a realm of wordless narratives and indefinite travelogues, where – with the help of effects and occasional vocals - extended harp improvisations morph into spectral songforms. In live performance she reveals the impressionist magic of her chosen instrument, blurring classical technique and ambient electronics to beguiling effect. In 2018 Mary released Hundreds of Days, her second LP on Ghostly International, as well as a collaborative album with Meg Baird entitled Ghost Forests (Three Lobed). She has moved a long way since her classical studies at Eastman School of Music, via days in Philadelphia with the likes of Espers and Fursaxa and sound-making time with Steve Gunn, Sharon van Etten and Kurt Vile. She has also collaborated with guitarist/synth player Jeff Zeigler on their 2014 album Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey) as well as composing a live score for Philippe Garrels' 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur which they subsequently toured together. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ NUMMO TWIN plays ethereal, dream-like folk songs and noise soundscapes with an instrument she carved herself from an old christmas tree, an array of delay and reverb pedals, and feedback. She sings a lament to a forgotten place. https://nummotwin.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF is four people. Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. But what is Deerhoof really? Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as "the best band in the world.” From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they've become one of indie music's most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop. http://deerhoof.net/ TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Gill Partington (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan, Sacred Paws, Shopping and Bamboo, united by a shared decade of spry musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads with Trash Kit. Their songs once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. This new focus began with their last album ‘Confidence’ (2014) and has now grown into something exhilarating and rapturous. New songs like ‘Disco’ have had their very fabric stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision. Since forming in 2009, Trash Kit have released two albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles, this July however they made their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge Horizon album. An album that forever listens for the next moment and will meet you once more at the vanishing point. https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/ DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. The band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ (out now) was released through Upset The Rhythm, in just under 25 minutes the band manage to cram in bucket-loads of ideas, mess, confusion and fun. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   KAPUTT are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Numbering six, Kaputt feature Simone Wilson and Cal Donnelly on guitars and vocals, Chrissy Barnacle also sings and plays saxophone. Tobias Carmichael is responsible for bass, whilst Rikki Will and Emma Smith cover drums and percussion respectively. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Kaputt’s debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ will be released this September on Upset The Rhythm, this show appears as part of their tour in support of this stunner of an LP. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ THE COOL GREENHOUSE make hypnotic home-brew post-punk. Their two 7”s and tape (also released on 10” through Lumpy) are a treat of elusive DIY moves and sarcastic wit. Very reminiscent of the early 80s post-punk cassette scene and messthetics compilation groups. www.thecoolgreenhouse.bandcamp.com SNIFFANY & THE NITS are an itchy, twitchy new pogo punk outfit feat members of Artefact and The Snivellers.

Thanks for reading, have the best weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance) BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

J. McFarlane's Reality Guest tomorrow in London, Tim Presley's White Fence next week!

Hello there! Tomorrow Upset The Rhythm will pitch up at The Islington for an evening of oblique songcraft from the other world featuring J. McFarlane's Reality Guest, The Pheromoans and Biscotti. JMRG and Biscotti have both come over from Melbourne to treat us to their art school synth pop, whilst The Pheromoans have straddled the absurd/profound for the best part of 13 years with their wry sonic shambles. All the hallmarks of a highly entertaining evening there, I’m sure you agree! Tickets will be £7 on the door from 7.30pm, with live music starting from around 8.15pm. See YOU there!

We’ve expanded on tomorrow’s concert below, along with full write-ups for next week’s event at Oslo, Hackney with Tim Presley’s White Fence, Robert Sotelo and Martin Frawley, and our evening at The Courtyard Theatre at the end of the month in the company of Mary Lattimore and Nummo Twin too. Plenty to keep you busy there then! You’ll also find a newly added concert for purposeful US finger-picker Shannon Lay in October at SET too, essential times to come! Enjoy!

Upset The Rhythm presents… J. McFARLANE’S REALITY GUEST THE PHEROMOANS BISCOTTI Wednesday 14 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS J. McFARLANE’S REALITY GUEST is the new project of Australian artist Julia McFarlane. As a member of the group Twerps, McFarlane has traversed guitar-centric, melodic pop music for some years while honing a highly unique, personal musical language. ‘Ta Da’ is the first recorded unveiling of McFarlane’s affecting, oblique songwriting panache. Originally released in her native Australia on Hobbies Galore, ‘Ta Da’ will be released worldwide by Night School in June 2019. ’Ta Da’ showcases McFarlane’s songwriting immersed in psychedelic music and synths. It’s a brilliant, deft concoction swimming in Young Marble Giants-type minimalism washed with bare pop and harmony similar to Kevin Ayers making sense of a Melbourne suburb full of faces half-recognised in the blanching sun. McFarlane’s vocal is straight forward, lyrically conversational but still not completely in focus, a surreal kitchen sink drama filtered through a dream where everything is in an unusual place. Reality Guest similarly draws on BBC Radiophonic Workshop-style noise synths, flute solos, palm-muted guitar and a sleepy, psychedelic tone that drifts away into the sunset, simple and direct. https://hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com/album/ta-da THE PHEROMOANS have occupied their own peculiar niche in the UK's DIY music scene for the last 12 years. Initially known for primitive garage-esque repetition on their early releases, two LPs for Upset! The Rhythm saw the group develop a more pastoral sound before being mutated by electronics on 2016's ‘I’m On Nights’. New record ‘County Lines’ (Alter) is their fifth full-length and takes in each aspect of their past sonically, providing a wry tonic for today’s heady exhaustion. More of life's banalities and stale daydreams are given a good airing in Russel Walker's lyrics. Delivered with the usual droll lethargy, he's a septic entertainer par excellence who teases out just enough of the very real horror of the UK's current predicament to keep his aggrievements charming. http://thepheromoans.blogspot.com/ BISCOTTI is a project lead by multi-instrumentalist and producer Carla Ori, who lives in Melbourne. Through a cinematic lens she adds evocative sounds which create other worldly landscapes and guide the listener through different scenes. Elements of synth pop, disco, hip-hop and funk come together to create her colourful avant pop sound. https://www.biscottimondo.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE ROBERT SOTELO MARTIN FRAWLEY Wednesday 21 August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE, informed by the extreme polarities of punk rock and psych, brings forth songs like no others. Two years on from his solo missive, the sense that something has cratered and someone has walked away, somehow alive, is heavy in the air. With his new album ‘I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk’, Tim Presley meets White Fence again, and together, they move on. He started writing songs for this album in a small rural town in the UK called Staveley. Tim was staying with Cate Le Bon there during winter. While she was there going to school learning how to build & design furniture out of wood, he started writing on her piano. Tim came back to San Francisco to record, but first he had a fervent dream that Johnny Thunders asked him to be honest & simple with this album, and also why dolphins were not given arms. He booked studio time with a very talented fellow named Jeremy Harris and they worked together out of a studio in the Dogpatch district of SF (owned and run by Paul from the UK band The Bees. Jeremy was able to learn the songs on piano, keys and finesse the parts, including most drums and also record/engineer the whole album. Also playing on the album, is S.F. Mission district native Dylan Hadley who plays drums on two songs: ‘Until You Walk’ & ‘Forever Chained’ and H. Hawkline adding guitar and vocals on ‘Phone.’ With this new record Tim re-learned how to walk. The poppy stomp. He’d been tethered to a hawk, that he must feed on the dot. While ‘I Have To Feed Larry’s Hawk’ has tinges of both sides in its ’60s guitars and whimsical, pastoral folk, however, what dominates is Tim’s ability to pen strange, warm tracks like ‘Lorelei’ that are totally out of step yet tug on familiar melodic heartstrings. Like Syd Barrett or, more recently, Euros Childs before him, White Fence continues to make the peripheries seem oddly accessible. Things really soar when Presley privileges space and simplicity and with this album he’s created a bare-bones, diary like project that bounces between optimism and melancholy. ‘I Have To Feed Larry’s Hawk’ came out on Drag City this January. https://timpresley.bandcamp.com/ ROBERT SOTELO is a cosmic pop melodist; a heartfelt multi-instrumentalist whose direct songs are curiously affecting. His debut album ‘Cusp’ from 2017 was packed with miniature psych overtures and earnest musings, he then followed this up in 2018 with an album called ‘Botanical’, more keyboard-minded and playful with its near-absurdist palette of sound and reflective mood. This September Upset The Rhythm will release Sotelo’s third album ‘Infinite Sprawling’, his first record since relocating from London to Glasgow and partly inspired by his new city’s inclusive and collaborative musical world. Recorded with Ruari MacLean (of Vital Idles, Golden Grrrls) and Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa) at their home studio Namaste Sound, ‘Infinite Sprawling’ grew out of Sotelo’s sketchbook of skeletal songs, with MacLean and Stevens developing their own drum, guitar and keyboard parts. These songs pulled together like a wakeful stretch on a Sunday morning, flowering with a lightness of touch, sounding both carefree and brisk. https://robertsotelo.bandcamp.com/ MARTIN FRAWLEY, known to many as a principal member of Melbourne’s Twerps, recently struck out on his own to record an album with Stewart Bronaugh (Angel Olsen, Lionlimb), and the results are just as melodic and touching as his former band’s material, if not more so. ‘Undone at 31’ is available now on Merge Records. https://www.mergerecords.com/martin-frawley

Upset The Rhythm presents… MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS MARY LATTIMORE is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses her Lyon and Healy concert grand harp to conjure up beautifully abstracted forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions. Across a breadth of recordings, collaborations and art commissions her music explores a realm of wordless narratives and indefinite travelogues, where – with the help of effects and occasional vocals - extended harp improvisations morph into spectral songforms. In live performance she reveals the impressionist magic of her chosen instrument, blurring classical technique and ambient electronics to beguiling effect. In 2018 Mary released Hundreds of Days, her second LP on Ghostly International, as well as a collaborative album with Meg Baird entitled Ghost Forests (Three Lobed). She has moved a long way since her classical studies at Eastman School of Music, via days in Philadelphia with the likes of Espers and Fursaxa and sound-making time with Steve Gunn, Sharon van Etten and Kurt Vile. She has also collaborated with guitarist/synth player Jeff Zeigler on their 2014 album Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey) as well as composing a live score for Philippe Garrels' 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur which they subsequently toured together. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ NUMMO TWIN plays ethereal, dream-like folk songs and noise soundscapes with an instrument she carved herself from an old christmas tree, an array of delay and reverb pedals, and feedback. She sings a lament to a forgotten place. https://nummotwin.com/

See you tomorrow, thanks as always for your support! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

J. McFARLANE’S REALITY GUEST THE PHEROMOANS BISCOTTI Wednesday 14 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE ROBERT SOTELO MARTIN FRAWLEY Wednesday 21 August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance) BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS SHANNON LAY Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS CARLA DAL FORNO Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT LANKUM Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS THE GOTOBEDS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS