New Releases

https://twinguns.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-picture-show-2015 wrote:Garage Noir from Brooklyn. A reverberating sonic tornado that sucks up and spits out elements of '60s punk, biker instrumentals, surf-rock and psychedelia with a sinister, no-nonsense delivery. Twin Guns drench their audiences with powerful swells of cinematic sound.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/09/stream-the-noise-figures-sophomore-album-aphelion/ wrote:Greek indie rock duo The Noise Figures comes from holy origins. After a sacred Ikarian Feast day in 2012, childhood friends Stamos Bampari and George Nikas made the decision to begin collaborating on music. Just one year later, they released their self-titled debut and began touring the world with their mystical, fuzzed out garage rock.

Being on the road with the likes of Japandroids and Black Rebel Motorcycle club became a refuge for the band, as Greece hit a crippling economic crisis in 2014. With their home country wrapped in turmoil, The Noise Figures sought hope and inspiration through playing across Europe. Now, they’ve taken those experiences and laid them down on reel-to-reel tape for their sophomore album, Aphelion, out September 28th via Inner Ear Records. In anticipation, the album is streaming in full below.

“Most of the basic ideas behind the tracks of our second album were written while touring in Europe,” vocalist and drummer Nikas tells Consequence Of Sound. “Soundchecks or day offs. We decided that we should call it Aphelion, the Earth’s longest distance to the sun. As we were traveling, we were leaving back the Greek clear blue sky. When we came back in Athens, we entered the Artracks Studio and recorded Aphelion in less than a week. We used some nice ’70s’ equipment and a tape recorder. Our producer Alex helped us evolve our sound and our playing and create a more solid album than our debut. It’s newborn. The newest member in the Noise Figures family.”

The results of their extensive touring makes Aphelion feel like the ultimate desert road trip soundtrack. Bampari’s guitar riffs evoke images of dust storms and bewitching mirages. Paired with Nikas’ menacing vocals, the tracks bounce between black magic and divine intervention. The two-piece makes plenty of noise, filling in every space on the LP’s 10 tracks with aching distortion and slowcore rhythms.

https://saintmarierecords.bandcamp.com/album/static-daydream wrote:Static Daydream is the new project of Paul Baker (founding member of Skywave and Ceremony), and their first full-length release is comprised of 11 noisy pop songs swathed in reverb and distortion.

In 2012, Paul, and his girlfriend and musical partner, Jamie Casey, began recording what would become their debut EP, "The Only One," released on Moon Sounds Records in 2014 to much adoration.

Their self-titled album on Saint Marie Records with Moon Sounds Records, released in 2015, is full of melancholic, romantic, distortion-fueled songs, dripping with reverb and classic songwriting. Inspired by 60's girl groups, 80's and 90's British noise-pop, and assisted by Jake Reid of Screen Vinyl Image and Ice Station Mastering, Static Daydream's debut is full of dreamy, hook-laden songs reminiscent of Skywave, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Slowdive.

http://www.occultation.co.uk/Occultation_Space/Releases/LOGOS7DF042/bwstw_main.html wrote:For three decades the reclusive Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus (RAIJ) have confounded musical classification and studiously declined every invitation to explain their unique form of musical and artistic experimentation.

Initially the Liverpool outfit built their reputation on their extraordinary immersive multi-media performances combining multiple layers of visual imagery, elements of ritual, enigmatic samples, field recordings and mesmeric live music.

Their cult status was further reinforced with the release of the now much sought-after two studio albums The Gift of Tears (1987) and Mirror (1990) and two EP collections, Liturgie Pour La Fin Du Temps (1992) and Paradis (1995). After an 18-year hiatus the appearance of a new RAIJ album, and the apparent relaxation of their strict vow of silence, are generating predictable excitement and expectancy. Beauty Will Save the World does not disappoint. RAIJ’s intoxicating mix of ethereal beauty, dazzling soundscapes and oblique mystery reach new levels of intensity and subtlety. The album title - a quote from Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky – is one of the many literary, cinematic and spiritual references underpinning RAIJ’s unexpected comeback. Founder members Paul Boyce, Jon Egan and Les Hampson, joined by a fresh wave of collaborators, have crafted an album of unique beauty and originality. Prolonged silence seems to have deepened rather than dimmed their creative impulse.

As ever it is the breadth of musical genres, cultural references, borrowings and retrieved sounds that define the RAIJ aesthetic, but there is also a more consistently meditative and melodic strain that underpins the album’s integrity and purpose. In a rare insight into the RAIJ’s creative method, Jon Egan explains:

“Although our work takes elements and inspiration from many disparate sources we have never viewed it as deconstruction. We are looking for the thread that connects every manifestation of beauty, however fragile, transitory and seemingly accidental. ”

In addition to the album release on Occultation, RAIJ’s second coming also includes a live performance at this year’s Greenbelt Festival and the re-release on vinyl of The Gift of Tears by California-based label Feral Sounds.

“There is renewed interest and appreciation of our music and that’s great”, said Leslie Hampson. “We have never tried to cultivate obscurity or anonymity, we simply wanted to avoid having to explain and justify a creative process that isn’t necessarily premeditated. Isn’t it enough to listen to and experience it?”

http://ingowanring.com/igr/about/ wrote:THE SERPENT AND THE DOVE relates an alchemical journey
through a luminous garden round the Living Tree; there is a serpent… and there is a dove.
A candle’s flame flickers in the night, lighting the face of a wandering sage settled by a stream. He sings a story he’d heard whispered through the reeds; about a cosmic dancer: her rainbow eyes, her bowl of tea, and a field of dreams out of which the universe grew, and all that we can see… There are willows; there are masks of leaves; there are thousands of bees.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/oct/23/the-chills-comeback-album-silver-bullets-listen wrote:On 30 October, an album that seemed unlikely to see the light of day will be released. Even better, it’s brilliant. Silver Bullets is the fifth studio album from New Zealand’s indie legends the Chills, a mere 19 years after their last. The intervening time has been a hard one for the group’s leader, Martin Phillipps. As he told the Guardian last year, there has been drug addiction, hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, but he has emerged on the other side with what might be his strongest collection of songs yet.

If you know the Chills, you’ll be desperate to hear this (and you won’t be disappointed). If you don’t know the Chills, please do give this album a listen – anyone who loves guitars, melodies and a man trying to convey his feelings with the utmost sincerity should love it.

https://delesosimi.bandcamp.com/album/you-no-fit-touch-am wrote:Born in Hackney, East London, but soon to return to his parents’ native Nigeria at the age of four, Dele Sosimi was schooled and raised in Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s shadow at the height of early 70s afrobeat. Having been chosen by Fela to join his band at somewhat of a tender age, he was still a young man when sharing Fela’s Glastonbury stage in 1984, and became both Musical Director for both Fela’s Egypt 80 and Femi Kuti’s Positive Force.

After Fela’s passing in 1997, Dele went on to concentrate on his own solo career and, with diligent patience, carved out his own afrobeat crown. In London, where he now resides, his Afrobeat Vibration all-nighters are charged with his passion, labours and his unrelenting spirit.

Following on from his first two studio albums, Turbulent Times and Identity, this third long-player is sure to cement Dele Sosimi’s position as a major player within afrobeat and beyond

http://www.factorybenelux.com/stranger_than_you_fbn119.html wrote:Stranger Than You is the fourth studio album by acclaimed Belgian new wave group The Names.

Recorded in 2014, Stranger Than You marks a conscious return to the sounds and styles explored on their debut album Swimming in 1982. "There's a strong element of reconnection," explains singer/songwriter (and bassist) Michel Sordinia. "Yet at the same time it's also about developing your own legitimate strangeness, just as the great Surrealist poet Rene Char invited his readers to do. A new mystery singing in your bones."

Michel and guitarist Marc Deprez are joined by new members Laurent Loddewyckx (drums) and Christophe Boulenger (keyboards and piano). Stand-out tracks include the dynamic title track, Kids On Fire and quickfire Boy With A Gun, as well as more contemplative, elegiac numbers such as Lights and My Angel of Death.

The cover art is an original painting by long term Names associate Benoît Hennebert, celebrated for his work as design director for Les Disques du Crépuscule, with portrait photography by Peter Staessens.

https://threeblindmice.bandcamp.com/album/the-chosen-one wrote:
They played with Jim Jones Revue, Lydia Lunch & Gallon Drunk, Tex Perkins, Hugo Race, Kid Congo Powers, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club.
"Early Morning Scum confirms The Three Blind Mice as Milan's premier Rain Dogs & Bad Seeds!!”
Terry Edwards (Gallon Drunk/Tindersticks)
"If this record were a film the director would have to be David Lynch. A noire classic that disturbs even as it seduces"
Phil Shoenfelt