In Your Room, the debut album from Australia’s Cameras, garners the sounds of The National and the orchestral flair of Arcade Fire, honing into a thrilling alt-rock edge. The album sees its long awaited UK release on Manimal Vinyl on 6th August 2012. Cameras formed after Eleanor Dunlop (vox/keys) and Fraser Harvey (vox/lead guitar) discovered … Read more
“… a smart progression from Ashworth’s Casiotone recordings, presenting that project’s bittersweet introspection with more nuanced production.” Pitchfork Advance Base is the new project by Chicago, Illinois singer songwriter, and producer, Owen Ashworth (formerly Casiotone for the Painfully Alone).A Shut-In’s Prayer is Ashworth’s first full-length release in over three years, and his first under the … Read more
“Honest, life-affirming and infectious, and it’s that rare concentration of directness and simplicity that makes Fang Island so uniquely and wonderfully inclusive.” Pitchfork “Fang Island are simply killer fun, a proper gang who sing collectively and pummel their guitars without recourse to errant soloing.” MOJO **** Brooklyn’s beloved guitar-anthem optimists Fang Island premier a track … Read more
Little Gang is centred around the unsettled energy of Stockholm based musician, Jacob Snavely. After numerous relocations in his native USA, a move from San Francisco to London was in order. Not long after setting up camp in London, fellow Bay Area cronies Two Gallants came to the call, and after a year and a … Read more
Pop Tune is the 18th studio album from Osaka, Japan’s Shonen Knife, released on 2nd July 2012 via Damnably. The new record features ten original songs produced by Naoko and manager Atsushi, recorded by Ippei Suda (Afrirampo/Balzac) and mastered by Koichi Hara (Afrirampo/ OOIOO/Boredoms). The UK and European release features special ‘orange’ coloured artwork by … Read more
“Imagine a Yo La Tengo too tight to get cute or far out, dispensing a Velvet Underground derivative, fluent enough to warm the erectile tissue of anyone with a thing for guitar drones.” Rolling Stone 4/5 “I consider Wussy the best band in America I mean I like or love — no, make that love … Read more
Mascis has teamed up with a pair of old friends for the release of Heavy Blanket on Outer Battery Records on 4th June Mascis rounds up a couple of partners-in-crime from his adolescence with an eye and ear – towards shredding harder, wailing louder, and generally melting faces even more brutally than ever before. Stoner … Read more
The Brian Jonestown Massacre will be releasing a new record on the 7th May, entitled, Aufheben. Aufheben (a German word for ‘abolish’ or ‘preserve’) brings the traditional Brian Jonestown Massacre sound mixed with eastern influences, up to date with the benefit of all the additional weirdness that has been discovered in the past 40 years. … Read more
The soundtrack features original music by Cliff Martinez (The Lincoln Lawyer, Traffic) with Eurosynth-styled songs by Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx (“Nightcall”), The Chromatics (“Tick of the Clock”), Desire (“Under Your Spell”), College featuring Electric Youth (“A Real Hero”), and Riziero Ortolani featuring Katyna Ranieri (“Oh My Love”). Rolling Stone Magazine named Drive the No. 1 movie … Read more
Geoff Barrow is a founding member of Portishead and producer/label owner of Invada Records UK. Ben Salisbury is a soundtrack composer with over 200 film and TV credits to his name, including David Attenborough’s ‘Life of Mammals’, ‘Life in the Undergrowth’ and ‘Life in Cold Blood’. Barrow and Salisbury met over 10 years ago when … Read more