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Artist: Graham Reynolds Label: Fire Soundtracks / Lakeshore

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Limited Heavyweight Turquoise Vinyl with Poster and Download. Over the course of their lush, fiercely original sophomore album Althaea, London based duo Trailer Trash Tracys condense a number of disparate styles into music that thrillingly broaches the void between figuration and abstraction. While undeniably beautiful and quite often infectious in parts, this is certainly not pop music by any traditional definition; rather, it appeals to the more intuitive of mind and wild at heart. More than simply becoming a philosophical exercise however, the result is their most ambitious and idiosyncratic body of work to date, one which operates at the very limits of what pop music can be. Their debut, Ester, released in 2012, manifested the band’s approach to making music as a fine balance between chaos and order, laying out a dense and dreamlike ecosystem of Sufi poetry, Solfeggio scales and, floating above it all, Susanne Aztoria’s otherworldly yet emotionally charged vocals. Early singles such as Strangling Good Guys and You Wish You Were Red proved to be outliers - rather than simply making lo-fi dream pop, the band were instead aiming for something far more subconscious and esoteric, extracting the essence of a perfect pop song and recasting it in a different light entirely. “It cemented what we are about musically: diverse, cinematic and with a pop curiosity”, the band muse now. “Making it was a very important process for us – Althaea sounding more mature like it does probably wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for Ester’s mistakes and beauty. Initially conceived as a soundtrack for a film by esteemed cult Filipino director Raya Martin, Althaea, sees the band continue their investigations into the farther flung reaches of pop music, with stunning results. If Ester was adventurous and exploratory in nature, Althaea is its grown up and sophisticated older sister: having embarked on their singular artistic course, with the new album Trailer Trash Tracys consolidate their strikingly unique language and tonal style. Spanning 10 deeply esoteric tracks, Althaea sees the band drift futher afield from traditional song structures to create a new aural lexicon of their own, one as influenced by Filipino carnival music and Latin rhythms as it was by Japanese tropical music from the 80s. The songs demonstrate a characteristic fusion of melody and dissonance, but this time round, they are more amorphous in the way they occupy space, neatly colliding the elegance of modernism with sharply futuristic structures. Much like the ambiguous, seemingly random song titles – Singdrome, Money for Moondogs nothing in Althaea's world is quite what it seems. Songs like Smoked Silver chase each other in an opulent haze of seesawing synths and stuttering beats, stubbornly refusing to resolve themselves, while others, like Betty’s Cavatina, seem to heve been built on structures so intricate and fragile they seem in perpetual danger of collapsing in on themselves at any given moment. Even at their most outwardly pop – the pristine Eden Machine for instance, or the swooning Kalesa, there is a baroque splendour, and heightened sensuality, stemming from Jimmy Lee’s resolutely off-kilter instrumentation and the fact that quite often Aztoria seems to be singing in an alien language entirely of her own creation. The interplay of light and dark, the foreign and the familiar, brings forth an album with manifold pleasures, one which rewards repeated listening and further exploration. And even though with Althaea Trailer Trash Tracys seek to disorient and upend traditional strictures of pop, they have, in their own way, delivered a modern classic anyway. “When people hear the record we want them to be transported to a place that’s romantic, exotic, unfamiliar but real and welcoming”, they muse. “Someone also mentioned that our album could have been the soundtrack for a film like Wong Kar Wai’s Days of Being Wild or Ishamel Bernal. If people feel like this when listening to our music then that’s more than we have ever anticipated”. Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Coloured

The Sherlocks are a young band of two sets of brothers, following in the great tradition of guitar groups from Sheffield. The Sherlocks have drawn obvious comparisons from their influences (The Jam, The Clash, Arctic Monkeys), but this is a band with unquenchable ambition intending to create their unique sound, and they are already captivating new audiences. They were the first unsigned band since Arctic Monkeys to sell out their local venue Sheffield Leadmill. Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Splatter

solid white vinyl. Reverbed out rock and roll - Adam Franklin wearing Robert Smith's socks on a date with PJ Harvey. Lovely and loud, Honeyrude is a melding of time and influences. Guitarist and founding member Ian Lund first met Billy Kunath (bass guitar) asleep in a van in his driveway in Chicago back in 1994. Kunath was playing in a punk band that Lund was recording at the time. The two became friends and were in and out of contact over the years yet both landed in Austin and became bandmates in 2013. A year and 3 singers later, Jess Ledbetter (singer, guitarist) joined the band upon moving from Brooklyn, NY back to Texas. The project came recommended to her by an ex-boyfriend and bandmate. Honeyrude came to their present line-up in March of 2016 when Paul Goetz agreed to sit in on drums for a tribute show celebrating The Cure. They met each other by learning Deep Green Sea and quickly asked Goetz to join. The four began recording demos and in the fall of 2016 they self-recorded The Color Blue to be released on vinyl August 2017 via Shifting Sounds. For fans of: The Cure, PJ Harvey, Teenage Fanclub, Swervedriver, Sonic Youth, MBV [END] Having dribbled a debut single last fall exuding big promise, Austin's Honeyrude bags the EP they promised, acing an LP instead with the potency of a Porsche 968 Convertible purring down the parkway. As he was on "Roger McLain" (included), Ian Lund is a guitar mastermind, gusting Black Swan Lane, Scenic, "Language of Flowers" Pale Saints, Harry Dingman, and Johnny Marr-ish gales into hard shards that flash and fizz, careen, wail, crash, and sputter-pretty dazzling. And with blonde bastion Jess Ledbetter adding lulling, stout vocals that sound much like Long Blondes' Kate Jackson, the Pale Saints comparison (perhaps tracks that Meriel Barham sang) gets exciting. American bands rarely use effects this powerfully and reverberating, loudly-beautiful; compatibly, there's post-punk thwack in the attack: bassist Billy Kunath and drummer Paul Goetz turn quickly from spongy to bold and harsh. And with tunes as tantalizing as "The Color Blue," Falling Backwards," and the Raveonettes-dirty "Sorry I'm Late," the real color is green for "go." - Jack Rabid / The Big Takeover (NYC) - Spring Issue #80 - 2017 Vinyl, LP, Album, White

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Artist: Michael James Mette Label: Indie

Открытие прошлого года по версиям MTV и BBC британский музыкант Rat Boy выпускает свой долгожданный дебютный альбом "SCUM", релиз которого намечен на 11 августа. Выпуск альбом станет первым знаковым событием в карьере музыканта после победы в категории Best New Artist на NME Awards. Он также недавно поучаствовал совместно с Tyler, The Creator в создании музыки к фильму хип-хоп исполнителя Aminé "Becoming Aminé". В своем альбоме RAT BOY - он же Джордан Карди - исследует жизненные ситуации его и его друзей, разочарованых своим существованием в пригородном Эссексе. В то время как альбом объединен одной концепцией, музыкально RAT BOY мечется между хип-хопом, панком, инди, госпелами, big beat и босса-новой, являясь своеобразными Beastie Boys для поколения Brexit. К записи приложили руку такие маститые музыканты как Грэм Коксон и Деймон Албарн из Blur. Коксон внес свой вклад в композицию "Laidback", а Албарн сыграл на клавишных в треках "Turn Round M8" и "Get Over It". Албарн также помог с атмосферой в паре треков, что бы Джордан убедился, что движется в правильном направлении.

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Artist: Blaze of Feather Label: Hell Up Records

Открытие прошлого года по версиям MTV и BBC британский музыкант Rat Boy выпускает свой долгожданный дебютный альбом "SCUM", релиз которого намечен на 11 августа. Выпуск альбом станет первым знаковым событием в карьере музыканта после победы в категории Best New Artist на NME Awards. Он также недавно поучаствовал совместно с Tyler, The Creator в создании музыки к фильму хип-хоп исполнителя Aminé "Becoming Aminé". В своем альбоме RAT BOY - он же Джордан Карди - исследует жизненные ситуации его и его друзей, разочарованых своим существованием в пригородном Эссексе. В то время как альбом объединен одной концепцией, музыкально RAT BOY мечется между хип-хопом, панком, инди, госпелами, big beat и босса-новой, являясь своеобразными Beastie Boys для поколения Brexit. К записи приложили руку такие маститые музыканты как Грэм Коксон и Деймон Албарн из Blur. Коксон внес свой вклад в композицию "Laidback", а Албарн сыграл на клавишных в треках "Turn Round M8" и "Get Over It". Албарн также помог с атмосферой в паре треков, что бы Джордан убедился, что движется в правильном направлении.