Had a quick chat with the most excellent Celine about Upset The Rhythm as part of her radio trip around Britain, plenty of quintessential music included too, here's the London-bound episode of 'Beat Route': https://www.totallyradio.com/shows/beat-route-uk/episodes/beat-route-uk-20-sep-2020#_
Thanks to Gorilla Vs Bear for helping us announce The Green Child's new single 'Fashion Light'! Available to stream everywhere now, taken from the avant-pop duo's incredible, forthcoming ‘Shimmering Basset’ album, out in October.
Some words from Raven (of The Green Child) about the song and video too:
“Fashion Light is about how, in the company of someone new, a map of attraction forms from flashes, a taste, gestures, insight, collaged into a personality and a connection. And when the process is forced to sit and wait, the gestures become memories and then anchors holding everything intact until it is accessible again and really knowable. The video is made up of two sets of images, the external static images in a period of waiting and watching, while movement is impossible. And then the internal moving images, the animated sequences of the things happening on cellular levels, when the action can just be imaginary. The link is the body of water and the messages it transports back and forth.”
Shimmering Basset is available to pre-order here now!
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Naked Roommate: “You may think we’re the babies, but you’re a baby too”!
Naked Roommate's debut LP 'Do The Duvet' is out... now!
Naked Roommate’s knockout of a debut album is released today! ‘Do The Duvet’, reminds us of Vivien Goldman meets Liquid Liquid, with some frazzled electronics worthy of Vanity Records thrown in for good measure. The quartet from Oakland, California are time capsule brilliant, with the album sounding like it was unearthed from a biscuit tin planted in the ground circa 1981, boasting just the right amount of water-damage warble. ‘Do the Duvet’ sparks with originality though, whipping up twitchy, congealed grooves for Amber Sermeńo’s vocal to ride high atop, making for an alluring yet switchblade-dangerous performance in terms of wit and gaze.
Available in all the best shops and our webstore here too: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
Listen up! Sleeper & Snake have a new song titled 'Reach Out’, it just premiered on Post-Trash!
New album 'Fresco Shed' out soon!
Sleeper & Snake - 'Reach Out'
Reach out for rent and riddle more
Riddle with rats
Keep your cards racked
Reach out for rent and riddle more
March on muster
March on martyr
Match with muck
Match schtick with fits of matchstick wit
Reach out for rent and riddle more
Reach out
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Spectral pop o’clock! The Green Child return with an epic new album in October called ‘Shimmering Basset’. The Green Child is the once long-distance, now based in the same house recording project of Raven Mahon (furniture maker and former member of Grass Widow) and Mikey Young (recording engineer and band member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring).
Here’s the video for first single ‘Low Desk : High Shelf’ a classy slice of avant pop with Mikey’s synths criss-crossing through the straight-up beat, allowing Raven’s collected vocal to stitch its haunted path: “see the face and feel your body sway, in voluntary walk, intoxicating view, take it home, a photograph, a file final form, a token for the shelf or wait…”
‘Shimmering Basset’ is available to pre-order now in a special eco-minded edition of the LP:
https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com
We’re ecstatic to share with you today the news that Normil Hawaiians will be releasing their first new music since 1985 with Upset The Rhythm next month. Choosing the form of a 7” in which to appear, September 11th will witness the release of ‘In The Stone / Where Is Living?’.
Having reformed around our reissue project for their impressive trio of albums of loose, improvised, pastoral post-punk, Normil Hawaiians began to write new music together. The quaint weirdness of folk song, the humanity of communal practice and the group’s ecological mindedness have all found a place in Normil Hawaiians’ current sound world. The band encamped to Tayinloan, a small village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland to set up their own studio in an isolated, windswept house overlooking the sea and started the tape rolling.
‘In The Stone’ is a motorik thrill of distorted guitars, locked rhythms and morphic resonance. Guy Smith is joined by Zinta Egle on vocals, skilfully sharing lyrics informed by Alan Garner and Nigel Kneale’s ideas around recurring events being linked to place and historical artefact; a kind of residual haunting known as ‘Stone Tape’ theory. In keeping with the context of the song, sounds from several previous live recordings of the track were woven into its present being. Flipside ‘Where is Living?’ is a decidedly more delicate affair of questioning lyrics and eerie traces, droning strings and impressions smudged.
This resultant 7” is a tantalising glimpse of Normil Hawaiians now, an echo from the past, an echo from the future. Available to pre-order now: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com
FUTURE ISLANDS
Friday 9 October
Live-streamed Baltimore album launch party!
8pm | $15 | Tickets: https://noonchorus.com/fi-upset-the-rhythm/
In the twelve years since we shared Future Islands’ magnificent debut album with the world, the Baltimore lords of synth pop have grown into one of the most successful acts out there, icons of indie no less. Back at the start of 2020 we were working on our largest concert to date for Future Islands in London, but then the pandemic came along with other ideas, so this October 9th we’re supporting Future Islands launch their new album ’As Long As You Are’ (4AD) with a special livestream one-off performance from their hometown. This will be the band’s only show of 2020 and your only chance to see the band on stage this year playing tracks from the new record alongside that back catalogue of classic epics.
What a day! Serious congrats to Vintage Crop on their new album ‘Serve To Serve Again’! Out today on Upset The Rhythm & Anti Fade. Totemic bruisers of songs, fervent, rangy at times yet always assured in their intent to make sense of futility, criticise the chain of command and question privilege. A total long-legged leap for Vintage Crop into the delirious now, jump in!
Available from our webshop here!
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