Look for Audio Track 5 September 1 and check out the artwork and tracklist below.
Tracklist:
1. ‘Audio Track 5’
2. ‘Audio Track 5 (-6 Version)’
3. ‘Audio Track 5 (Narrowest Sustain Version)’
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CLARK RELEASES ORIGINAL SCORE FOR NEW BBC CRIME DRAMA ‘RELLIK’
Clark has provided the original score for highly anticipated prime-time crime thriller ‘Rellik’, which started on 11 September and airs throughout the autumn on BBC1.
Following on from this years ‘Death Peak’, the ‘Rellik EP’, available now, sees Clark shift his musical language from the dancefloor euphoria of said album and associated live show, to more melancholic moments, as manifested throughout the series.
The Rellik compositions are the latest in a growing body of score work. In 2015 he soundtracked the Sky Atlantic series “The Last Panthers”, and more recently wrote an original composition for Wayne McGregor’s ‘+/- Human’, with the Royal Ballet.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith shares new single, To Feel Your Best
“The most anticipated experimental album of 2017” – Rolling Stone
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has shared the new song, “To Feel Your Best,” a reflective track that shows the synthesist and composer establishing a transcendent drift that she imbues with pop sensibilities and a nostalgic yearning. Her new album The Kid traces the human life cycle through four distinct phases, and “To Feel Your Best” represents the final stage, a bittersweet goodbye, but also a renewal and a reflection on not only of what is lost but also gained; a rebirth.The Kid has been named one of the most anticipated albums of the fall by Pitchfork and New York Magazine, and praised for Smith’s unique blend of experimental electronics, kinetic energy, and melodic prowess. The album is out October 6th on Western Vinyl, and follows her breakthrough album EARS as well as the collaborative album Sunergy with Suzanne Ciani.
“The modular maestro charts a path from birth to death.” – FACT
“A lovely piece of deeply weird pop music.” – StereogumLIVE
11/20/17 – Berlin, Germany @ Funkhaus
11/21/17 – London, United Kingdom @ Scala
11/22/17 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ MelkwegBEN FROST RELEASES NEW TRACK, IONIA
BEN FROST has shared a new track ahead of the release of his fifth studio album, The Centre Cannot Hold, out on Mute on 29 September 2017.
Listen to ‘Ionia’ here: http://po.st/BFIoniaYT. The track follows the release of ‘Threshold Of Faith’, and will be available on streaming services from 13 September. Ionia and a remix from JLIN will be available on 12” on 22 September, and the remix will be available digitally on 15 September 2017.
The Centre Cannot Hold was recorded over ten days by Steve Albini in Chicago. The music exists not in space, but in a space; it is a document of an event, of a room, and of the composer within it. It is music that is not fully controlled and appears to be anxiously, often violently competing against its creator.
In collaborating with Albini, Frost chooses a new immediacy and raw directness. As an artist whose command of sound design lies at the heart of his practice, by placing himself primarily in the role of live performer and handing the studio recording process over to Albini, Frost continues pursuit of Theseus’ paradox; the question of whether a ship restored by replacing every single part remains the same ship.
Watch the video for Threshold Of Faith, the opening cut from the new album, a new collaboration shot in the winter of 2016 in Reykjavík, Iceland with conceptual documentary photographer Richard Mosse and Cinematographer Trevor Tweeten: http://po.st/BFThresholdVideo
“… colossal” NPR / “…compelling” Echoes & Dust / “…gargantuan” Pitchfork
“…engrossing… from first hammer blow to last squeak” – The 405
“…shows off a more compositionally direct Frost, focusing on heaviosity and purer sound by getting in Steve Albini to capture live sessions direct to tape” – The WireNathan Fake releases Providence Reworks Part II
Nathan Fake is back with the second instalment in his “Providence: Reworks” series, on this occasion celebrating the talents of Olga Wojciechowska – a Polish composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work drifts between modern classical, experimental and electronic music – and Konx-Om-Pax who recently released his new album “Caramel” on the excellent Planet Mu label.
“I first became aware of Olga’s music from hearing one of her tracks on a The Wire magazine covermount CD,” explains Nathan. “It really stopped me in my tracks and hit me quite emotionally so I bought her album.” The two became friends around the time that Nathan was finishing his album “Providence” and he shared it with Olga. “I can honestly admit that it awoke me from the creative block which I had been experiencing at that time,” she says. ”‘HoursDaysMonthsSeasons’ was imprinted on my memory from the first tones.”
Additionally, Konx-Om-Pax contributes a powerful ambient rework of ‘DEGREELESSNESS’ that highlights both the beauty and sense of foreboding inherent to its revolving arpeggio. Rounding off the EP are two stellar reworks of ‘feelings 1’ and ‘REMAIN’ by Nathan himself that evolved from the liquid state in which these tracks exist in his live sets – both tougher and resolutely dancefloor-facing, but still delightfully warped in Nathan’s inimitable style.
Tennyson announce new EP + release new song
Brother-and-sister duo Tennyson (Luke & Tess) have announced their new Uh Oh! EP out September 28th via OWSLA. The 6-track EP marks their debut full project on the label, led by first single ‘Cry Bird’ featuring vocals from Luke.
Tess & Luke began making music when they were kids, covering bands like Weezer. By age twelve Luke discovered his formidable talent as a keyboardist. During their high school years, they moonlighted playing Beatles covers while Luke refined his skill as a beat-maker. Today Luke uses everyday sounds like the nagging ‘ding’ of a car seat belt alarm to craft intricate electronic pop that is both catchy and daringly experimental, while Tess’s masterful drumming manages to hold the songs in from floating away on their own cosmic vibes. The effect is nothing less than magical, amplified tenfold during their live performances.
They’ll be heading on their own headline tour across North America starting September 7th. Full tour dates below:
TENNYSON TOUR DATES:
Sept 7th – Mohawk – Austin, TX
Sept 18th – The Fox Cabaret – Vancouver, Canada
Sept 19th – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
Sept 20th – Neumos – Seattle, WA
Sept 22nd – Harlow’s – Sacramento, CA
Sept 27th – SOhO Restaurant and Music Club – Santa Barbara, CA
Sept 28th – The Irenic – San Diego, CA
Sept 29th – The Roxy Theatre – West Hollywood, CA
Sept 30th – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
Oct 3rd – Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 4th – Fox Theatre – Boulder, CO
Oct 5th – Globe Hall – Denver, CO
Oct 6th – Lake San Antonio South Shore – Bradley, CAOct 31st – Pitchfork Avant Garde, Paris, France
Nov 1st – Rotonde – Brussels, Belgium
Nov 2nd – The Boilerroom – Surrey, United Kingdom
Nov 4th – The Lantern, Colston Hall – Bristol, United Kingdom
Nov 5th – Deaf Institute – Manchester, United Kingdom
Nov 6th – Patterns – Brighton, United Kingdom
Nov 7th – Scala – London, United Kingdom
Nov 8th – Melkweg Upstairs – Amsterdam, Netherlands65daysofstatic announce new installation
Sheffield’s 65daysofstatic show no signs of slowing down. They have spent fifteen years establishing themselves globally as a relentless touring band. They have made seven studio albums, soundtracked contemporary dance, scored films and created site-specific A/V installations. In 2016 they released the critically acclaimed soundtrack to the video game ‘No Man’s Sky’: an ‘infinitely long’, dynamic, generative score that responded to the player’s actions. Then they toured a live version of it around the world.Decomposition Theory or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Demand the Future is a major new work from 65daysofstatic that will premiere at Algomech Festival in Sheffield. There will be three performances 9th – 10th November 2017, each one different.Decomposition Theory sees 65daysofstatic exploring new ways of harnessing algorithmic music techniques in the context of a live band performance. It focuses on custom-made procedural audio processes, generative music programs, and live-coded noise. By composing processes rather than finished songs, 65 can ‘decompose’ them again onstage. Processes can be combined, rewritten, manipulated or ignored. Each performance will be a unique curation of algorithms, coded by 65daysofstatic to generate live music for them.Decomposition Theory is a live collaboration between the humans and their code-based counterparts. It is 65daysofstatic becoming cyborg, demanding a future where we control the algorithms, not the other way round.Tera Melos release new album
The more Tera Melos’ career progresses, the harder it is to classify them. Trash Generator, the followup to 2013’s X’ed Out, could be their most versatile album yet. The start-stop rhythms and off-kilter timing are as complex as the most niche math rock bands, there’s enough weight to rival metal bands and there’s an authentic punk spirit. It’s a mix of sounds that can sound ridiculous on paper but is such a thrill to listen to. This album basically jumps in with the weirdness and the momentum both at a high, and it stays like that through to the final track, only rarely slowing or quieting down. The album’s lead single, “Don’t Say I Know,” was really the perfect song to preface Trash Generator. All of the band’s sides are represented in one way or another on that song, and if hearing it got you excited, you’re gonna really dig the rest of this LP.
Trash Generator is now available everywhere on LP, CD and download!
The band will be touring with Speedy Ortiz in autumn to support the new album on the following dates;
Oct 13 Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
Oct 14 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
Oct 16 Portland, OR @ Holocene
Oct 17 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
Oct 19 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Oct 20 Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
Oct 21 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
Oct 22 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
Oct 24 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
Oct 25 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
Oct 26 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Oct 27 Lakewood, OH @ Mahall’s
Oct 28 Toronto, ON @ The Hard Luck
Oct 29 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
Oct 31 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Nov 01 Hamden, CT @ The Ballroom Outer Space
Nov 02 Brooklyn, NY @ TBA
Nov 03 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry @ Fillmore
Nov 04 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
Nov 05 Carborro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Nov 07 Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
Nov 08 Talahassee, FL @ Club Downunder (FSU)
Nov 09 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade Purgatory
Nov 10 New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
Nov 11 Houston, TX @ Secret Group
Nov 13 Dallas, TX @ Three Links
Nov 15 Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge
Nov 16 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
Nov 17 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
Nov 18 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the HillTera Melos premiere new song from forthcoming album Trash Generator
Tera Melos premiere a new track from their forthcoming third album, Trash Generator, today via Brooklyn Vegan.
Trash Generator, the trio’s third full length, is an astonishing blast of confidence and rejuvenation. It sounds as if the 4-year downtime since their last album has recharged the band with an entirely new sense of purpose. Their dalliances with mellower psychedelic phrases on their previous two albums, X’ed Out (2013) and Patagonian Rats (2010) are significantly trimmed and utilised. As such, it sounds like Tera Melos has fully metabolised their pop tendencies and found a way they can coexist with the band’s iconoclast origins. Tera Melos — guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart, bassist Nathan Latona and drummer John Clardy — have learned to stop worrying and just be Tera Melos.
ASIWYFA premiere new single + announce new album
Today, Northern Irish rock band And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA) have announced their return with their new forthcoming album, ‘The Endless Shimmering. This will be the eclectic quartet’s fifth full length album following on from their widely acclaimed album ‘Heirs’. Alongside the announcement of their new album, band have also premiered a new video for the first single from the album entitled ‘A Slow Unfolding Of Wings’ with DIY Magazine.
Speaking about the single, DIY Magazine said, “Combining a few slower, more contemplative yet complex melodies alongside passages of pure, blistering riffs and thunderous percussion, it shows off the raw energy that they aimed to instil into the whole of ‘The Endless Shimmering’.”
In support of their forthcoming album, ASIWYFA have also announced a 42-date EU/UK tour to start this autumn covering the UK and much of Europe. They will be joined by Gallops for all of their UK dates. ASIWYFA have a relentless thirst for touring and over the past 7-years they have tallied up almost 500 shows worldwide – including less common tour stops such as China, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
The Endless Shimmering will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on October 20th, 2017 via Sargent House.
And So I Watch You From Afar will play the following dates in autumn:
18/10/2017 Haarlem Patronaat NL
19/10/2017 Utrecht EKKO NL
20/10/2017 Nijmegen Doornroosje (Purple room) NL
21/10/2017 Osnabrück Kl. Freiheit DE
22/10/2017 Karlsruhe Stadtmitte DE
23/10/2017 Eindhoven DDWMusic festival NL
24/10/2017 Rouen Le 106 Club FR
25/10/2017 Nantes Le Ferrailleur FR
26/10/2017 Bordeaux Le Void FR
27/10/2017 Barcelona AM Fest ES
28/10/2017 Madrid Sala Caracol ES
29/10/2017 Porto Hard Club PT
30/10/2017 Lisbon Musicbox PT
02/11/2017 Milan Magnolia IT
03/11/2017 Fribourg Nouveau Monde CH
04/11/2017 Winterthur Gaswerk CH
05/11/2017 Pratteln MiniZ7 CH
06/11/2017 München Ampere DE
07/11/2017 Prague NoD Teatro CZ
08/11/2017 Leipzig Conne Island DE
09/11/2017 Berlin Lido DE
10/11/2017 Hannover Bei Chez Heinz DE
12/11/2017 Cologne Gebäude 9 DE
13/11/2017 Wiesbaden Schlachthof DE
14/11/2017 Essen Zeche Carl DE
15/11/2017 Hamburg Knust DE
16/11/2017 Groningen Vera NL
17/11/2017 Maastricht Muziekgieterij NL
18/11/2017 Louvain-La-Neuve Festival la Ferme BE
19/11/2017 Kortrijk De Kreun BE
21/11/2017 Paris Maroquinerie FR
22/11/2017 Luxembourg Rockhal LU
23/11/2017 London Koko UK
24/11/2017 Manchester Academy 2 UK
25/11/2017 Glasgow Oran Mor UK
26/11/2017 Bristol Thekla UK
28/12/2017 Dublin Academy IE
29/12/2017 Castlebar Co Mayo Garbo’s IE
30/12/2017 Cork Cypress Avenue IE
31/12/2017 Galway Roisin Dubh IEKaitlyn Aurelia Smith releases new single
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith releases To Follow And Lead, the second single from her hotly-anticipated new album, The Kid, set for release October 6th on Western Vinyl.
Ben Frost announces new album
The Centre Cannot Hold, Ben’s fifth studio album is out on September 29th on Mute Records.
Watch the arresting visuals for ‘Threshold Of Faith,’ the opening cut from the new album below.
Actress announces EP with London Contemporary Orchestra
The release follows Actress’ excellent new album AZD and is sourced from a collaborative performance held last year at the Barbican Centre London and Strelka Institute Moscow through Boiler Room. Alongside the 12″ release, Boiler Room TV will unveil a video of the performance.
Ben Frost announces Threshold of Faith EP with Steve Albini
In the summer of 2016 Ben Frost landed in Chicago to work with Steve Albini. Over two weeks – vast systems; unstable, overloaded, and on the verge of collapse – were fed into an array of amplifiers inside a cavernous studio. Shapes were formed, speakers were torn. Behind the glass Albini committed live performances to tape; slashing at them intermittently with a razorblade. More than 2 hours of music was recorded. The threshold of faith EP is the first release of music from those sessions.
ZEBRA KATZ SHARES “BLK & WHT” VIDEO W/ NOWNESS
Multimedia performance artist turned rapper and producer, Zebra Katz, shares his new video for recent single “Blk & Wht” today with NOWNESS. Directed by Ada Bligaard Søby (The Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Devendra Barnhart), the video illustrates the struggle of immigrants in search of sanctuary. Cast with refugees currently living in Denmark, the video was filmed in the forest surrounding Copenhagen. Over the course of two nights, these refugees bravely re-lived their experiences, detailing personal accounts in the hands of human traffickers while journeying from Africa, The Middle East, and throughout Europe.
In the spirit of the video’s powerful message, director Ada Bligaard Søby and Zebra Katz (aka Ojay Morgan) encourage viewers to donate to Pass The Crayon, a non-profit organization that fosters self-expression through art workshops for refugee children.
Revered by Rolling Stone for his kinetic live performances, Zebra Katz is in the midst of a solo world tour and will join the Gorillaz #Humanz Tour as lead support beginning July 28th through the end of 2017. The tour will hit cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Miami, and many more. See below for a full date listing.
“This film features the anxiety of immigrants fuelled by fear in search of sanctuary. Based on individual dark reports of confusion, rape, being in the hands of human traffickers, intense hunger and basically living your worst nightmare, I wrote the story for the video.” – Ada Bligaard Søby, Video Director
“Bass-and-kick club hit” – Rolling Stone
“An intoxicating beat that hits the ear like a drug”– FADER
“A standalone piece of art…lyrically abstract” – Pitchfork
“Sublimely sinister…one of the year’s most striking songs” – The New York Times
Tera Melos announce new album, Trash Generator
Tera Melos announce their forthcoming third album today and share the first track via NPR. Hear and share “Don’t Say I Know” HERE. (Direct YouTube HERE.)
Trash Generator, the trio’s third full length, is an astonishing blast of confidence and rejuvenation. It sounds as if the 4-year downtime since their last album has recharged the band with an entirely new sense of purpose. The performances are brilliant and sharp, the songs concise yet intricately detailed, and the album production deftly captures the band’s strength as a live unit. Their dalliances with mellower psychedelic phrases on their previous two albums, X’ed Out (2013) and Patagonian Rats (2010) are significantly trimmed and instead utilized as colorations within a swirling maelstrom of righteous aggro punk-jazz abandon. As such, it sounds like Tera Melos has fully metabolized their pop tendencies and found a way they can coexist with the band’s iconoclast origins. Tera Melos — guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart, bassist Nathan Latona and drummer John Clardy — have learned to stop worrying and just be Tera Melos.
Perhaps to understand Trash Generator, we must look at the situations leading up to it…
“We toured consistently for 19 months after X’ed Out was released in 2013,” Latona explains. “We did two full US headliners, four full US support tours, a Japanese tour, a month in Europe, and a run of shows in the UK and Ireland. When we finished, we were pretty exhausted and frustrated.” It had seemed that after all of that work, not much had changed for the band. Tera Melos took a short holiday break, which eventually turned into two years as each of them pursued other interests. “I found myself at ease with the idea of not worrying about ticket sales, strategic tours, units moved, likes, clicks, views, and the short-fused moodiness of living in a van with two other people,” Latona says. In that downtime, Reinhart remained active in multiple endeavors: contributing guitar to Death Grips‘ The Powers That B and Bottomless Pit albums + the I.L.Y.’s (Zach Hill and Andy Morin‘s other band), Big Walnuts Yonder (with Mike Watt, Nels Cline and Greg Saunier), Goblin Cock, Portugal.the man and many others. Latona completed a college degree he’d put off for 11 years. Clardy became and integral faculty member at the School of Rock in Dallas/Ft. Worth, inspiring young musicians with his real-world approach to learning music.
For every touring band there’s a subtle pressure — from fans, industry, promoters, family — that the band is supposed to be on a constantly rising trajectory of success. Regardless of the group’s own potentially esoteric goals, if you’re not reaching for the “next level” at every turn, you’re supposedly not doing it right. Tera Melos thought long and hard about it, and said, “fuck it.”
“Wth this record it was 100% let’s not concern ourselves with what we should be doing at this point in the band’s lifespan, and just fully focus on what makes us happy,” Reinhart says. “Making a new record seemed like a fun act of defiance,” Latona adds. “The odds are against bands like us, but despite all the negativity involved in trying to struggle and survive as an artist, we made Trash Generator because we just wanted to get together, have some fun, and make something that we think is cool.”
The trio decamped to San Diego in late 2016 to record at Singing Serpent Studios with Ben Moore (Hot Snakes, Pinback). It was their first time recording in a continuous block of time, rather than the piecemeal stealth late night sessions at friends’ studios of previous efforts. It gave the band a razor-sharp focus atop of their beholden-to-none attitude. “We stayed in a spare place at Rob Crow‘s house which had a barracks kind of feel to it,” Clardy explains. “We’d come home exhausted each day and fall asleep within an hour. It was very spartan when away from the studio.” That mindset clearly informs the direct, in-your-face energy of Trash Generator.
Album opener “System Preferences” starts things off with a simmering energy built upon a short 3-note bass loop and Reinhart’s trademark whispersational Syd Barrett-esque vocals setting the stage for Gang Of Four style chopping guitar lines and rollicking toms. “Dyer Ln” pits a twangy guitar and a slice-n-dice rhythm section against each other with subtle sleight of hand (and foot) between Clardy and Latona. Elsewhere, “Don’t Say I Know” showcases the band’s brilliant synthesis of pop hooks with lightning fast shifts of rhythm, style, tone and mood – often within the same measure. The title track centers around syncopated, angular arpeggiated guitar notes building into an explosive chorus with the catchy, odd chorus refrain, “trash generator/ I’m not a bad guy.” Reinhart has gained considerable notoriety in the musician’s gear world in recent years from his contributions to Juan Alderete’s “Pedals and Effects” blog/YouTube channel and their viral “100 Pedals” video. HIs knowledge of and skill with employing countless guitar pedals to accentuate his playing is tastefully on full display throughout the album. Latona and Clardy, not to be outdone, shine like never before as the band effortlessly slips back into their own unique and jaw-dropping musical vocabulary.
Trash Generator will be available everywhere August 25th, 2017 on LP, CD, click, like and download via Sargent House. Pre-orders for LP/CD via HelloMerch and download via iTunes.
Aphex Twin releases new material via new online shop
First up is Orphans, a four-track EP with two AFX remixes credited to Richard D James’s longtime friend and collaborator Luke Vibert. The record that Warp slipped out during Field Day also gets a digital release with six extra bonus tracks. There are three demo versions of his landmark track “Windowlicker” in the cache, as well as a “dry version” of Philip Glass‘s take on “Icct Hedral.”
In addition, he’s tacked on bonus tracks to …I Care Because You Do, Analord 07, Donkey Rhubarb, Hangable Auto Bulb, Ventolin, Come To Daddy, Girl Boy, Drukqs, Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 and Syro, in addition to his sole album as Polygon Window, Surfing On Sine Waves, and his 1994 EP self-titled EP as GAK. His 2007 record as The Tuss, Rushup Edge, originally released on Rephlex, is also available digitally. James also notes that all Rephlex material will be uploaded “in due course” along with extras.
Head over to AFX’s Warp Records online shop for full details and downloads.
Nathan Fake releases Roland/Boss Analord-inspired studio jam
Nathan Fake unveils new production Bosky, a Roland/Boss Analord-inspired studio jam and signals Providence Reworks: Part I EP featuring Overmono Huerco S. and Olga Wojciechowska, forthcoming 11 August.
Listen/pre-order: nathanfake.lnk.to/reworks
Visuals: Flat-eKaitlyn Aurelia Smith announces new album + headline tour
Synthesist and composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has announced the release of The Kid, a sprawling new album that follow’s last year’s breakthrough album EARS. It will be released October 6th on Western Vinyl. The album is a sonic representation of four distinct stages of the human lifespan, from birth to self-awareness to the forging of one’s individual identity to old age. Working with a wide array of synthesizers, Smith has made an album that is at once personal and universal, sonically engrossing and lush.
Smith has shared “An Intention,” taken from the album’s first act representing a wide-eyed, playful, and exploratory period of life.
In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music. Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world. Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself. The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.
The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana. Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output. There is playfulness here, but it’s elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark. The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness. The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer. This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.
Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill. This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself. This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life. On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly. The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.
Alan Watts, another logical inspiration of Smith’s, once expounded that people record themselves to confirm their own existence, and as such, echoes and resonance are reminders that we are alive. “You’re not there unless you’re recorded,” Watts muses, “if you shout, and it doesn’t come back and echo, it didn’t happen.” The Kid speaks to this idea directly. As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid
(Western Vinyl – October 7th, 2017)- I Am A Thought
- An Intention
- A Kid
- In The World
- I Am Consumed
- In The World, But Not Of The World
- I Am Learning
- To Follow And Lead
- Until I Remember
- Who I Am And Why I Am Where I Am
- I Am Curious, I Care
- I Will Make Room For You
- To Feel Your Best
Kaitlyn will perform across Europe this summer, following up with headline shows in November ::
11/08/2017 Tøyenparken, Oslo Øyafestivalen (Hi-Fi Klubben) NO
12/08/2017 Helsinki Flow Festival FI
16/08/2017 Stockholm Fasching SE
19/08/2017 Saint Malo La Route Du Rock FR
24/08/2017 Warsaw Plac Zabaw PL
26/08/2017 Gdansk Solidarity Of Arts Festival PL
30/08/2017 Obonjan Obonjan Island HR
31/08/2017 Pula Dimensions HR
20/11/2017 Berlin Funkhaus DE
21/11/2017 London Scala UK
22/11/2017 Amsterdam Melkweg NLHidden Orchestra release new album, Dawn Chorus
Dawn Chorus is out now on Tru Thoughts Records.
Each track is set to a different one of Joe Acheson‘s dawn chorus recordings, and connected to his past travels and projects through many field recordings and appearances from diverse guest musicians.Dawn Chorus includes the 2016 track Wingbeats, and the recent single Still, and features Acheson’s trademark beat-driven orchestral textures with contributions from regular members of his imaginary orchestra – Jamie Graham (drums) and Tim Lane (drums and trombone), Poppy Ackroyd (violin), Su-a Lee (cello), Mary Macmaster (harps), Philip Cardwell (trumpet), Tomáš Dvořák (clarinet), Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn (Uillean pipes), and Jiří Javůrek (bass clarinet).
Pre-order vinyl and digital from Etch Shop and Bandcamp
Super-Limited Bundle now sold out – but limited edition ultraclear vinyl still available from Bandcamp and independent record stores.‘Pre-save’ the album to your Spotify library
Still Single & Video
Still was released as a single in May, featuring the full track, an edit, and an alternate ‘no drums’ version.
The track started out as a collaboration with Prague quartet Clarinet Factory.Check out the amazing video by Bristol collective Limbic Cinema (which includes Tom Lumen who is responsible for our live AV shows) –
Dawn Chorus London Album Launch
Soundcrash will be hosting our London album launch at Islington Assembly Hall on June 29th.
The show will feature a lot of the new album, and live visuals from Tom Lumen.Also delighted to announce that Poppy Ackroyd will be opening the night to showcase her new piano mini-album Sketches, her first release since signing to One Little Indian.
Max Cooper remixA symmetrical remix of Max Cooper‘s track Symmetry (feat. Tom Hodge), released on his Emergence Remixed album back in March.
Look out for Max returning the favour amongst an increasingly exciting lineup of producers on the Dawn Chorus Remixed album, which should be out towards the end of the year…
Thanks and Best Wishes
Hidden Orchestra
Hidden Orchestra release video for single, Still
Official video for the “Still” single, which is lifted from Hidden Orchestra’s third album, ‘Dawn Chorus’ (out 16th June).
Ben Frost announces live shows for 2017
Ben Frost has announced a series of festival appearances throughout the summer ahead of a headline autumn tour.
The autumn tour, featuring brand new music, starts on 25 September in Essen, Germany and includes a London date at the Electric Brixton on 5 October.
01/07/17 Brest Astropolis FR
14/07/17 Ferropolis Melt Festival DE
25/09/17 Essen Maschinenhaus / Zeche Carl DE
29/09/17 Brussels Bozar BE
04/10/17 Paris Le Trianon Biennale Nemo Paris FR
05/10/17 London Electric Brixton UK
06/10/17 Berlin Funkhaus DE
08/10/17 Madrid La Riviera ES
18/10/17 Amsterdam Muziekgebouw NL
21/10/17 Prague Lunchmeat Festival CZ
28/10/17 Manchester Transformer 2 UK
03/11/17 Turin Club2Club IT
11/11/17 Utrecht Le Guess Who Festival NLMore dates to be added, follow Ben Frost at the links below for the latest details.
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https://www.instagram.com/ethermachines/Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith covers Sade
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith covers Sade’s classic ballad, ‘By Your Side’, taken from her 2000 album, Lovers Rock. The track is made available here as a free download.
About the cover, Kaitlyn says: Lovers Rock was the album I listened to the most when I was 15 and decided to start writing songs. Sade has always been a favorite vocalist of mine – so emotive and honest and true. To me, her voice glides naturally across genders and genres, which is a quality I also work to embody with my vocals. Sade is pure class in my book.
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released June 6, 2017
Sade Adu, Kaitlyn Aurelia SmithONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER “GOOD TIME” SCORE WINS CANNES SOUNDTRACK AWARD 2017
Oneohtrix Point Never has taken home the prestigious Soundtrack Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his visceral original score for Good Time. Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie and starring Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Jason Leigh, the hypnotic crime thriller follows Pattinson’s Connie in a twisted odyssey through the New York underworld in a desperate attempt to get his brother out of jail (watch trailer).
Oneohtrix Point Never beat the likes of Jonny Greenwood, Jed Kurzel and Ibrahim Maalouf to take home the prize. Previous winners include Cliff Martinez for The Neon Demon (2016), Lim Giong for The Assassin (2015) and Howard Shore for Map to the Stars (2014). http://cannessoundtrack.com/en
/ Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and the Safdie brothers became close collaborators through a shared love of cult genre movies and music, and their level of collaboration here has a rare depth of symbiosis of picture and score. Mundane events become dramatic, montages become mini operas and Iggy Pop features on the poignant closer “The Pure And The Damned”. Good Time hits cinemas from August 11.
Press on the score:“Good Time looks terrific, bringing a scrappy sheen to the Safdies’ native borough. But more essential to its tight clench is the knockout underscoring, an almost nonstop blitz of intoxicating electronica from Brooklyn-based experimental composer Daniel Lopatin, who records as Oneohtrix Point Never. Lopatin also collaborated with Iggy Pop on an original closing-credits song, aptly titled “The Pure and the Damned.” Throughout, the prog-rock synth sounds conjure echoes of the vintage films of William Friedkin, Michael Mann and perhaps a hint of Assault on Precinct 13 John Carpenter, and yet the sonic carpeting never feels derivative.” – Hollywood Reporter“It’s perfectly matched with the score provided by Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin, which nods to Tangerine Dream–style VHS thriller soundtracks of yore while going someplace far more inventive and expressive than most current imitators. Lopatin’s anxious squiggles of melodies and sonic assaults give us as good a sense as any of what it feels like inside Connie’s head.” – Vulture“La bande-son elle aussi tourne le dos aux habitudes. Composée par le musicien électro Oneohtrix Point Never sur un mode qui oscille entre la prophétie de malheur et la rêverie, elle parfait la sensation de cauchemar éveillé qui finit par envahir le film.” – Le MondeGood Time movie reviews:The Hollywood Reporter / David RooneyVariety / Guy LodgeScreen International / Tim GriersonIndieWIRE / Eric KohnThe Wrap / Sam FragosoLe Monde / Thomas SotinelLibération / Didier PéronOriginal Song for the Film “The Pure And The Damned” Performed by Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Iggy Pop, Courtesy of Warp Records, Iggy Pop Appears Courtesy of Thousand Mile Inc.
Oneohtrix Point Never is currently collaborating with David Byrne on Byrne’s forthcoming solo album.
Clark releases dizzying Peak Magnetic video
”I wanted this video to be one singular idea, executed with elegant brutality-like an acid trip that conveys the most forceful yet euphoric momentum. You might feel slightly sick but just focus on the shape of the kicks. Generally in life, this works.
This video totally doesn’t work if you have lots of other windows open and are checking emails/Trump tweets/Farage gifs at the same time. You need to surrender to it full screen to get the full effect. Sounds obvious, but I found myself doing that and kicking myself for not concentrating hard enough. I did have tour bus internet though…. Props to everyone involved for pulling this off!”
– Chris Clark
And So I Watch You From Afar announce extensive European tour
Northern Ireland’s most breath-taking, compelling and heart-stoppingly brilliant export announces a return to European shores, with an extensive tour this coming autumn.
The band’s incredible, passionate live show ventures through joyous bubbling rhythmic anticipation, to specks and glitches of electronica, intertwined with what sounds like a thousand drum-kits chasing each other down the street in time. Add gloriously warm layers of cascading vocals, and distorted, mischievous guitars, and what you get is an overwhelming feeling of triumph, pleasure, euphoria; ASIWYFA live leaves you feeling like everything really is gonna be alright.
Everything points to a massive year for the band, with everything to play for.
18/10/2017 Wed NETHERLANDS Haarlem Patronaat
19/10/2017 Thu NETHERLANDS Utrecht EKKO
20/10/2017 Fri NETHERLANDS Nijmegen Doornroosje
21/10/2017 Sat GERMANY Osnabrück Kl. Freiheit
22/10/2017 Sun GERMANY Karlsruhe Stadtmitte
23/10/2017 Mon NETHERLANDS Eindhoven DDWMusic festival
24/10/2017 Tue FRANCE Rouen Le 106
25/10/2017 Wed FRANCE Nantes Le Ferrailleur
26/10/2017 Thu FRANCE Bordeaux Le Void
27/10/2017 Fri SPAIN Barcelona AM Fest
28/10/2017 Sat SPAIN Madrid Sala Caracol
29/10/2017 Sun PORTUGAL Porto Hard Club
30/10/2017 Mon PORTUGAL Lisbon Musicbox
02/11/2017 Thu ITALY Milan Magnolia
03/11/2017 Fri SWITZERLAND Fribourg Nouveau Monde
04/11/2017 Sat SWITZERLAND Winterthur Gaswerk
05/11/2017 Sun SWITZERLAND Pratteln MiniZ7
06/11/2017 Mon GERMANY München Ampere
07/11/2017 Tue CZECH REPUBLIC Prague NoD Teatro
08/11/2017 Wed GERMANY Leipzig Conne Island
09/11/2017 Thu GERMANY Berlin Bi Nuu
10/11/2017 Fri GERMANY Hannover Bei Chez Heinz
12/11/2017 Sun GERMANY Cologne Gebäude 9
13/11/2017 Mon GERMANY Wiesbaden Schlachthof
14/11/2017 Tue GERMANY Essen Zeche Carl
15/11/2017 Wed GERMANY Hamburg Knust
16/11/2017 Thu NETHERLANDS Groningen Vera
17/11/2017 Fri NETHERLANDS Maastricht Muziekgieterij
18/11/2017 Sat BELGIUM Louvain-La-Neuve Festival la Ferme
19/11/2017 Sun BELGIUM Kortrijk De Kreun
21/11/2017 Tue FRANCE Paris La Maroquinerie
22/11/2017 Wed LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg Rockhal
23/11/2017 Thu UK London Koko
24/11/2017 Fri UK Manchester Academy 2
25/11/2017 Sat UK Glasgow Oran Mor
26/11/2017 Sun UK Bristol Thekla