"I Must Remember" is the 8th full-length release from the veteran electro group CTRL.
The new release will be 11 tracks in length with a departure from the sound of previous
records. No sequencers were used to track the music, a first for the band.
What remains is the core content of the band without all the flickering window
treatments. 17 years after their first release, the band continues to evolve.
The only thing constant is change....and CTRL.
Vertical Slump are Simon Marsham (guitars, vocals), Andrew Milk (drums, vocals), Ed Shellard (bass, vocals) and Peter Simpson (synthesizers), a quartet of time-served hands at the DIY foundry who are/were also involved in (amongst others) the bands Shopping, Gloss Rejection, Omi Palone and Circuit Breaker.
This collection of songs was recorded in February of this year at Sound Savers studios with Mark Jasper, and follows on neatly from where a cassette E.P of early demos left us, released earlier in 2015 through Mïlk Records.
In collaboration with Mark, they have produced a fully formed and insistent record, oozing with confidence and vigour. It is four tracks of galloping, compelling post-punk wherein vocals are gulped with ardent intensity; guitars jag and agitate across the mix, veering from the sweetly melodious to the darkly dissonant, while basslines rumble and lope hand-in-glove with sparse and sympathetic percussion. Keys change, amps squawk, and tense locked-in cadences give way to silvery, sweet-spot choruses.
Mastered with an added slice of punk grit by the evergreen Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory, these recordings can be seen as both a pulsating introduction to a band, and a persuading proposition of what’s to come in the future.
'Ruined Value' will be released on Friday 2nd October digitally and on 7” through all good stockists. The band will be playing the following UK dates around the time of the release:
August 31st - Power Lunches, London, w /Sievehead + Frau + Bad Manifest
September 22nd - Birthdays, London, w / Lust For Youth + Static Palm
September 25th - Eagle Inn, Salford, w / Terrible Truths
September 28th - The Audacious Art Experiment, Sheffield, w / Fehm + John The Baptist’s Head On A Plate
September 29th - JT Soar, Nottingham, w / Debris Slide
September 30th - Cardiff TBC
October 1st 2015 – 7” Launch at DIY Space For London, w / No Form, Woolf + Cianuro
Ahead of their London shows later this year, Eden Circle have shared their debut single ‘Follow The Road’.
Recorded with producer Simon Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Bombay Bicycle Club), the lyrics were written as a protest against "people's disconnection from the world around them, living their lives on social media." Paired with soaring harmonies and delicate layers, it makes for an uplifting and impressive first cut from the young Kent outfit.
The four-piece formed earlier this year, with their origins going back to their schooldays when singer Joel Whitewood and guitarist Josh Best-Shaw found they shared the same classroom dreams of a musical future. To add to their beginnings as a core songwriting duo with shared roots, Josh and Joel make up the classic pairing of a strong-minded signature guitarist and a naturally gifted singer who can soar and dive around the guitars lines.
To complete the requirements they both grew up with a deep immersion in a musical form a few degrees away from the rock band norm. Joel played cornet as a child, Josh played clarinet, piano and sax. Both of them became choristers at Canterbury Cathedral, gaining a vocal expertise which would feed into the band's harmonies. Even before they squared their circle with the addition of 18-year-old drummer and occasional producer Nathaniel Graham, plus bassist Zak Tozer, and barely out of their teens began playing shows around their native Kent, they had a lot of favourable signs in the background. They’ve progressed quickly, recording demos and gigging as much as finishing off A-levels would allow. The DNA of their personal histories was clearly giving the music a special emotional power. At the beginning of what will undoubtedly be a long and fascinating road, with many breathtaking views, Eden Circle are making a seriously auspicious start
Swirling, dreamy pop hooks accentuated with the haunting sounds of a Farfisa organ cloak the sombre and sardonic musings of former Fuck Knights guitarist and Nightinghales front man Ben Bachman in his new project, High Tiny Hairs.
This EP lays bare and showcases Bachman’s stylistic influences, the likes of Alex Chilton, Brian Eno and Syd Barrett, with a short set of self-produced releases.
The songs, bouncing between sixties Baroque pop and the new psychedelic movement of the early eighties, are mesmerisingly elegant and poetically dark, yet quirky, and romantic. The Minneapolis based singer/songwriter evokes a hazy, late night tête-à-tête with his ghosts.
"Ben Bachman is High Tiny Hairs, and I’m kind of taken with this song, off the recent self-titled EP. It’s short, it’s simple, and it has one of those meat and potatoes, could have happened any time in the past 40 years guitar riffs, that just sounds really good when you turn it up, so, let’s do that..."
Don't Need No Melody
Released on limited edition cassette and digital download.
Sir Gregory Records SGR1967-D
'Dark Around the Eyes' is the latest release from Orange Vision, a band firmly in the ascendant having already enjoyed support from Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1 and Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music as well as earning coveted support slots for Superfood and Honeyblood on the NME New Breed Tour.
The four-piece from Oxford, influenced by post punk, glam and shoegaze, produce reverb drenched, melodic pop anthems with a new wave edge.
Formed two years ago when Ed and Matthew bonded over a love of clothes, music and a generally delinquent approach to their depressing surroundings and sapped music scene, they were later joined by Daniel and Jake. The band became a primary focus and what started as a driving growling rock and roll sneer has blossomed into a post punk psychedelic new wave dream.
Edmund Quigley - Lead Vocals/Guitar
Jacob Mott - Backing Vocals/Drums
Matthew Holford - Lead Guitar
Daniel Jones - Bass Guitar
“We were bowled over by their soundcloud track “How You Feel”, which combines new wave guitars with a nifty spoken-word interlude featuring a lost Marc Bolan interview”
Matt Wilkinson, NME
“They have the look and feel of a great 90’s bands like Pulp and Kula Shaker, but with galloping doses of The Horrors and The Cure”
Nightshift Magazine
