On September 5th Fuzz Club will be releasing the third LP Everything Is A Lie from Southampton's Dead Rabbits. The LP follows on from their previous Fuzz Club LPs Time Is Your Only Enemy and The Ticket That Exploded and yet again reaffirms the band as one of the most exciting and refreshing outfits in the wave of current shoegaze bands. It’s the mesmerising concoction of shoegaze, neo-psych and post-punk, delivered with a lethargic but hopeful restraint that is pinning the band at the top of the UKs fruitful ‘psych-gaze’ scene and Everything Is a Lie is certain to keep them sitting there comfortable for a while.
‘Everything Is a Lie’ could be plucked straight out of 1989, deeply indebted to Spacemen 3, Loop and My Bloody Valentine, it feels languorous and apathetic at times but frontman Thomas’s fragile yet hopeful croons drive it with an insatiable vigour from start to finish. Washed-out fuzz-encrusted guitars are underpinned by whirling bass-lines that Peter Hook would be proud of, if not envious. Hazy synths crash over you whilst thundering percussion locks the album into a deep psychedelic groove, hitting you square in the face like an immersive wall of noise.
Dead Rabbits formed in 2011 and since then have been busy playing countless gigs and tours throughout the UK and Europe - appearing at Eindhoven Psych Lab, Common People, Cosmosis Festival and sharing the stage with the likes of The Warlocks, Band of Skulls, Yuck, Night Beats, Crystal Stilts and The Telescopes.
AMBASSADOR21 "We Are Legion" EP is out on Industrial Strength Records at June 17th and available in all best digital stores, incl. Juno Download, Hard Tunes, iTunes, Beatport and many more.
The EP includes original tracks and remixes by NEGATIVE A, MATT GREEN and DETEST.
Invasion presents first video teaser of upcoming album.
A new AMBASSADOR21 album "Human Rage" will be released this Fall. In support of the new album, the digital single "Revelation" will be released in the end of July.
It will include two new songs - "Revelation" and "Fear Level Red". All donors of our fundraising campaign will get it for free.
Recorded by Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Grinderman) in Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire and then Toe Rag in East London, and mixed by Sclavunos and Mikey Young.
The Wytches second album All Your Happy Life draws on a lifetime’s worth of new experiences shoehorned into two whirlwind years since their acclaimed debut album Annabel Dream Reader. There’s no difficult second album syndrome here. This black-hearted set is a combination of heavy comedown psychedelia and bilious and brilliant baroque ‘n’ roll. It’s portentous and scathing. Scabrous and bold. Utterly nihilistic.
Influences and inspiration is drawn from unexpected places – reading Tolstoy’s stories of dysfunctional relationships on the tour bus, digging the warm Hammond-and-acoustic tones of Elliot Smith, loads of underground metal bands – but mainly it is informed by observing small town English life with new eyes, having traversed the planet on that first wave of success that followed their 2014 debut. It’s not so much the sound of the calm after the storm, but the howling vortex that follows in its wake.
All Your Happy Life marks a creative leap for The Wytches. Some might say it is the sound of a band finding their place in the world but really it is about world being allowed to enter the sphere of The Wytches - on their terms.
Additionally, The Wytches will play a string of headline shows and festival this Summer, including a special headline show at Hebden Bridge’s The Trades Club and appearances at Bestival and Psych Fest. The full list of shows is as follows:
29th July Kendall Calling, Lake District
5th August The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
6th August Skeleton Coast Festival, Liverpool
3rd September 1-2-3-4 Festival, London
9th September The Ritz, Manchester
11th September Bestival, Isle Of Wight
24th September Psych Fest, Liverpool
The Wytches are: Kristian Bell (vocals, guitar, organ), Daniel Rumsey (bass) and Gianni Honey (drums)
White Lies have announced details of a new album, tour and single for their first new material since 2013’s ‘Big TV’ album.
Out on October 7, ‘Friends’ is self-produced by the trio of Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave and Jack Brown and was recorded at Bryan Ferry’s London studio.
The album is preceded by new single ‘Take It Out On Me’, which can be streamed below and impacts on August 12. Bassist Charles Cave said of the song: ““Right up until we recorded the song it was called ‘89-1-3’. It was inspired by a lunatic on Instagram who kept commenting on a friend’s photos in pseudo-Biblical verse. From his profile, I discovered he lived in a remote cabin with a rough-looking dog. He posted weird videos in which he quoted random numbers. As a challenge, I turned them in to a song. The only problem was that it went so well everyone said it should be the first single, so I relented and gave the chorus real lyrics.”
Listen below to the single.
Source: NME
Familiar is Obel’s first new material since her UK breakthrough album Aventine (2013), which yielded the BBC 6Music playlisted singles Dorian, Words Are Dead, and title track Aventine, and saw the Berlin-based Dane headline gigs at Somerset House, Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Barbican in 2014.
Familiar was recorded, produced and mixed by Obel at Aventine-Neukölln and BrandNewMusic-Studios in Berlin. Featuring violin by John Corban and cellos by Kristina Koropecki and Charlotte Danhier, Obel provides keys, rhythms and the song’s mesmerising vocals. By altering the tone of her voice in the chorus, Obel is in effect duetting with herself. A stunningly original return, Familiar sounds anything but familiar.
Established as a major star across Europe, Agnes Obel has sold almost a million copies of her first two albums, Philharmonics (2010) and Aventine (2013), and has had over 250 million track streams worldwide. She will embark on an extensive European tour this coming Autumn.
European Tour 2016
Oct 29: New Fall Festival, Johanneskirche, Dusseldorf Germany
Oct 30: New Fall Festival, Liderhalle Mozart-Saal, Stuttgart Germany
Nov 01: Den Atelier, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nov 02: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Nov 03: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 06: Falconer, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nov 08: Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway
Nov 09: Kagelbanan, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 11: Stary Manez, Gdansk, Poland
Nov 12: Stodola, Warsaw, Poland
Nov 14: Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany
Nov 15: Theaterfabrik, Munich, Germany
Nov 17: Volkhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Nov 18: Salle Metropole, Lausanne, Switzerland
Nov 20: Amphi, Lyon, France
Nov 21: Cite De Congres, Nantes, France
Nov 22: Casino De Paris, Paris, France
Nov 24: Colisee, Lille, France
Nov 26: Anson Rooms, Bristol, UK
Nov 27: Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK
Nov 29: Town Hall, Birmingham, UK
Nov 30: Albert Hall, Manchester, UK
Dec 01: Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland
