After the dissolution of Psychomanteum, Apocryphos was slowly formed by now sole member Robert C. Kozletsky and continues further down the pathways charted by Psychomanteum. The Prisoner's Cinema is a duality in concept, exploring two separate paths that intersect each other through out. The first path revolves around sensory deprivation, isolation and the frightening, yet spiritual aspects of these experiences.
The second path is that of a personal nature, bearing a literal interpretation of the title "Prisoner's Cinema" where you play the prisoner locked away in the confines of your own conscious mind standing alone against your own darkness. This is the troubled soundtrack to a soul starving for catharsis, a release from the chains that hold us down in this uncompromising world. The Prisoner's Cinema is graced with the signature haunting imagery of Simon Heath (Atrium Carceri) and also features a special guest collaboration by Frederic Arbour (Havan / Visions…) on one track. Psychomanteum may be dead, but out of its ashes, Apocryphos has risen to expand one's soul. Listen and release...
Edition of 500 copies in 4 Panel Digipack. 8 Tracks. Running Time 1:02
9 long years after the release of the seminal album "Horizons", we are finally greeted to a new opus by Norway's most unique craftsmen of cold, desolate and deep nordic ambient. Not only is this completely new material, crafted from recordings made from 2003 up until 2014, but we are offered about 1h20 min on a double CD! Constantly tapping into the singular northern landscapes of his native Norway for inspiration, Hærleif Langås transposes his views and feelings of the great white north into intricately deep and poignant soundscapes. Northaunt's sound can best be described as landscapes transformed into aural emanations, enabling the listener to in turn be able to journey through those barren and foreign lands through the minds eye. Quoted from the linear notes is the idea behind this new album: "Once the world was alone, the landscapes had no names and there was no one to see them. An endless number of ice age dawns came and went unseen. The idea of this world, the world as it was before man, inspired me throughout the composition of these tracks. Roughly separated in two parts, one representing the light, the unburdened world before man, the other a much darker side of the same place." Be prepared to embark on a journey to the world before the world, a journey you might not want to come back from..
2CD Edition of 700 copies in 8 Panel Digipack. 8 Tracks. Running Time 1:19.
2LP Edition of 300 copies in Gatefold Sleeve. Features 1 White and 1 Black vinyl. 8 Tracks.
Running Time 1:19.
Following their triumphant return last November with second album "The Other I", sister duo 2:54 have premiered a visceral, gritty black and white promo video to accompany 'Crest', one of their rawest, punkiest, cuts to date. "We wanted to create a video that captured the energy of the song as well as our live show, and once again Charlie Robins, Chris Hugall and Daniel Castro have done an outstanding job of doing exactly that," says frontwoman Colette Thurlow. Watch it below...
The video comes just ahead of their highly-anticipated imminent UK headline dates, the band having just announced that they'll be joined for their London, Dingwalls show by special guests the Grumbling Fur, the acclaimed leftfield overlords who's debut album featured in a number of End of Year polls. After that the band will then be making their long-awaited return to the US for an extensive tour that takes them coast-to-coast alongside the much-loved Scots, Honeyblood
From the expansive, tempo-shifting opener ‘Orion’ and the pining roots of ‘The Monaco’ to the shape-shifting tour de force of ‘Raptor’, The Other I significantly widens the net beyond the achievements of 2:54’s self-titled debut. The Other I is all the stronger for Hannah and Colette’s hands-on approach to production while Colette’s lead vocals show a striking versatility. The Other I is out now on Bella Union.
"A finely crafted album that blurs the lines between shoegaze, indie pop and goth-rock, and is as assured as it is atmospheric… Like Bat For Lashes duelling with The Cure." Uncut – 8/10
"Wonderfully sparse and brooding… The Thurlow sisters add poetry to their shadowy pop on expansive second album." NME – 7/10
INVENTIONS are the collaborative sum of longtime friends Matthew Cooper of Eluvium, and Mark T. Smith of Explosions In The Sky. Their 2013 eponymous debut album introduced an ambition to create music that was both challenging and comforting. Lead track "Springworlds" can be heard below...
heir new album, Maze of Woods, opens with a vocal sample declaring, "I wanted to do something that I don't know how to do." Using this as a mission statement, Inventions have crafted a complex and exuberant album from an array of instruments, samples, found sounds, beats, chants, and raw bursts of noise, with a much greater emphasis on strong vocal accompaniment in every song.
Two albums released in the span of 10 months speaks to the drive that these two have felt since they started playing together. Much like on the first record, they again mixed the album in a house on the Oregon coastline, with final mixing and production all done by Smith and Cooper.
Inventions have stated that much of the inspiration for Maze of Woods comes from the closing paragraph of Denis Johnson's novella Train Dreams. In that paragraph, Johnson describes the non-verbal howl of a feral wolf boy, a pre-language that is yearning and instinctual; a statement of wordless distress and love. Maze of Woods is the product of two masters of their craft getting lost in the wilderness, "doing something that they don't know how to do," and emerging with something wholly unexpected and beguilingly beautiful.
Maze of Woods will be released 16th March on Bella Union.
Scholes, Giggs, Neville, Neville, Butt and Beckham…The Class Of ’92 transformed a football team, won trophies, international caps and ushered in a new era for football…
Now meet Hunter, Fallis, Keegan, Kurtz and Amoako. They followed in their predecessors’ illustrious footsteps and were on the verge of matching their achievements in one record-breaking season.
And then it all fell apart.
United We Fall charts the rise and fall of this quintet in a hilarious spoof soccer documentary, and answers the question asked of another Manchester United legend, George Best: “Where did it all go wrong?” It comes to DVD on 9 February 2015 courtesy of Metrodome.
Improvised and filmed by Gary Sinyor, the film, which was released in cinemas in October, tells the tale of footballers gone bad. Racism, homophobia, philandering footballers – all get a proverbial roasting in this comedy that’s less Class Of 92 and more IQ of 92.
Olly Hunter (Jack Donnelly – Atlantis) is the bankable brand of the team; Danny Keegan (Ryan Pope) the millionaire socialist; Stevo Fallis (James Rastall) the dirty player and practical joker; Kwasi ‘Modo’ Amoako (Matthew Avery) is a Ghanaian who likes the high-life and lives a rapper’s lifestyle and ‘Kurtzie’ (Jonathan Broke) is the German keeper with an obsessive personality. They are the heart and soul of the United team who are only a few hours away from a historical treble.
How did it all go pear-shaped? The unraveling of their season is told in interviews with the players and, climactically, in a toe crunching reunion with the players - and their WAGs.
