Black Needle Noise, the brand new project by legendary John Fryer who was involved in This Mortal Coil and many other 4-AD bands, has a brand new song to offer (and for free).
Behind The 4th Door is a collaboration between John Frye rand Elena Alice Fossi of Kirlian Camera.
Click below to hear this pop gem.
Nearly one year since the release of Edge of the World, the internationally acclaimed independent album by Nashville-based industrial synthpop duo The Sweetest Condition, the band has released its new music video for the song “Watch You Fall”.
Filmed throughout Tennessee over several months, the music video features footage of vocalist and lyricist Leslie Irene Benson and synth-player/guitarist Jason Reed Milner. “Watch You Fall” is where it all began for The Sweetest Condition—a bittersweet, anti-love song ignited from the ashes of their former music project, Irene & Reed. “Watch You Fall” helped launch The Sweetest Condition as a full-fledged music project in 2012, eventually making its way onto their debut LP in 2015.
“‘Watch You Fall’ blends pulsating synths and guitars, building intensity in a ritualistic, drunken dance celebrating karmic revenge,”
Benson says. “Our music represents the chasm between love and lust. It’s the innocence of your first crush—that churning, all-consuming infatuation—and the violent obsession and toxic codependency born from bad decisions. Some joy, some pain.”
“Watch You Fall” was the first track written and recorded by The Sweetest Condition, an opportunity that allowed the artists to return to their darker music roots. It remains a quintessential track from the debut album, and it continues to receive regular airplay on podcasts and radio programs around the world.
As the band winds down its yearlong promotion for Edge of the World, the artists are preparing for their second full-length album release, We Defy Oblivion, later in 2016. The new album will be self-released on Bandcamp (https://thesweetestcondition.bandcamp.com) and other digital music retailers.
Lisa Hannigan has shared the beautiful video for ‘Fall’, the first single from her forthcoming third album ‘At Swim’ (released on August 19th via Play It Again Sam recordings). Produced by Aaron Dessner, ‘At Swim’ follows the double-platinum, Mercury-nominated debut ‘Sea Sew’, and 2011’s ‘Passenger’ (which charted at number 1 in Ireland, and earned Lisa another Choice Music Prize nomination). An intimate, 16-date European tour in support of ‘At Swim’ is on sale now.
Introducing the video, ‘Fall’ director Harvey Pearson writes: “we wanted to explore the idea of overcoming something, whether that was physical or mental. We decided that a forest was the perfect location to denote this idea of a ‘crowded mind’. Throughout the video we see Lisa’s abstract movements, which is something which we worked hard on with choreographer Supple Nam, to try and further the concept of fighting against your own mind - the idea of her being possessed by something. The whole video is a progression, something moving in, attacking, and then Lisa slowly overcoming it and it retreating. We tried to show that through every aspect of the video - the dance, the cinematography and of course, the edit - it's all about that progression."
‘Fall’ is the second offering from Lisa’s third – and arguably most bewitching – album, ‘At Swim’. After playing in support of ‘Passenger’ for nearly two years, she struggled at first to write new material: a new relationship meant that she was dividing her time between Dublin and London, and so adrift and lost, she threw herself into distraction instead. There was an acting debut as a mermaid in the Oscar-nominated animation ‘Song of the Sea’, soundtrack work on ‘Fargo’ and the Oscar-winning score for ‘Gravity’, all the while founding and co-hosting the acclaimed ‘Soundings’ podcast (which saw Lisa turn interviewer, and speak to guests such as Harry Shearer, Sharon Horgan and David Arnold).
The breakthrough came when Hannigan got an email out of the blue from Aaron Dessner, guitarist with The National and producer for the likes of Sharon Van Etten and Local Natives. Taking up Dessner’s suggestion to work together and rediscovering the collaborative spirit she'd missed in Dublin enabled Lisa to see her time in London in a different light. So while ‘At Swim’ is in part about homesickness and isolation, it's also – profoundly and very movingly – about love.
Having first exchanged ideas over email and iPhones, ‘At Swim’ surfaced when Lisa and Aaron finally met up in Denmark: recording then took place in a church in Hudson, New York, during a furiously-creative seven-day stint. Despite openly being written lost-at-sea, you sense that at this point in her career, Lisa Hannigan is now a strong enough swimmer to go as far out as she wants; to darker depths than before, where the treasure lies, and bring it back to us.
European Tour – On Sale July 1st, 9AM
October 13 | Cardiff | The Tramshed
October 14 | Brighton | The Old Market
October 16 | Oxford | 02 Academy
October 17 | Bristol | Thekla
October 19 | Glasgow | Oran Mor
October 20 | Salford | St Philip’s Church
October 21 | Liverpool | Arts Club
October 22 | Leeds | Brudenell Social Club
October 24 | London | Islington Assembly Hall
October 25 | Birmingham | Glee Club
October 26 | Leicester | 02 Academy
October 28 | Leuven | Hot Depot
October 29 | Zurich | Plaza
October 30 | Milan | Fabrique Milano
November 1 | Berlin | Admiralspalast
November 2 | Cologne | Studio 672
November 3 | Paris | Le Flow
November 4 | Netherlands | Den Haag
Some months after its 'Disorders in progress' EP (2015), French industrial rock outfit Strugg is back with a new full-length album called 'Flood' expected for a physical & digital release this fall.
In the meantime, the band unveiled last month the first excerpt of this upcoming effort with the single "Pull me out" available right now for FREE DOWNLOAD on Bandcamp.
There are only two guys (vocals/machines & guitar/moog) hidden under the moniker of Strugg.
Synths Versus Me is a prolific duo formed by Vanessa Asbert and Nico Cabañas. They have already a bunch of releases edited by Oráculo Records. Minimal Synth, EBM and Cold Wave from Lloret de Mar (Spain).
This 12” EP includes two brand new tracks and two exclusive remixes. The original version of “1987” is an atomic bomb of pure vintage EBM in the vein of Signal Aout 42 and Front 242. The remix done by Dirk Da Davo from The Neon Judgement keeps the feeling of the track but adding some drums, guitar samplers and sequences trademarked by this Belgian legend. On the b-side there is the original mix of “Aimless Device”, an electro-pop tune with catchy melodies, analogic bass lines and female voices. The remix prepared for this track by the new american sensation Boy Harsher is a surefire dancefloor full of hypnotic beats and dark atmospheres.
All tracks remastered by Eric Van Wonterghem at Prodam Studios (Berlin).
Tracklist: A1.1987 (Original mix) A2.1987 (Dirk Da Davo //The Neon Judgement// mix) B1.Aimless Device (Original mix) B2.Aimless Device (Boy Harsher Flesh mix)
