Darkwave Band Peter Jennings Disciples Brings Dreams And Nightmares To New EP, 'Bad News'
Darkwave Band Peter Jennings Disciples return with their sophomore EP Bad News.
Bad News explores dreams and nightmares, forgiveness and damnation. Through dark electronic and industrial rock themes - wailing bagpipes and fragile synths on the likes of "Not Enough Bridge" contrasted with pounding beats and heavy guitars on "Wild Girl (Slug Mix)" - the band further develops their self-described "alternadustrial" sound.
Bad News is available NOW in a limited cassette edition and on all major streaming/digital download platforms.
Electro-industrial band KRATE is back and once again teams up with a number of incredible talents on their fourth endeavor, It's The Hope That Kills You.
The general theme of this release is hopelessness. No matter how hard you try, in the end nothing else matters as all matter is destined to die. Your prayers will be lost while you watch the horizon sink. There is no one to blame but us. We reach for the needle and ask ourselves one last time, "Where do we go from here?" Absolutely nowhere.
Songs like the hard-hitting title track featuring Anatoly Grinberg (Dead Voices On Air) & drummer Dan Milligan (The Joy Thieves). Other tracks feature members of Bow Ever Down, Slighter, Liquid Black Goo and Numbered Men.
Five tracks of electro-industrial spanning the full spectrum of what this subgenre encompasses; from nightmarish beat-driven to heavy orchestral/industrial. The Hope That Kills You is available now on all digital platforms including Bandcamp.
Darkwave project, Distance H addresses broken promises with new single, 'Waters Of Woe'
Darkwave project, Distance H has dropped their new single & video featuring Marita Volodina, "Waters Of Woe".
"Waters Of Woe" addresses the necessity to overcome the pain and anguish of broken promises, by others or by oneself, making the promised lands inaccessible. It's the saving distance to escape collapse when the time comes for resignation and abandonment. It's also the distance to be taken with our ghosts, (past or present), which haunt the mind and the memory.
To free yourself from the stigmata of the past, to emancipate the psyche into the present. That is "Waters Of Woe".
Parisian producer/artist, ManuH once again invites a feature singer, Marita Volodina, for the new single.
"Waters Of Woe" is available on all digital platforms including Bandcamp.
Post-Shoegaze WÜK aims straight at the heart with their brand new single 'Hit By Frailty'!
No beaten paths for the Ghent foursome of WÜK, who know how to distinguish themselves from the gray masses by carefully avoiding all genre clichés. With their second release 'Hit By Frailty', three years after their self-titled debut, they bring in the tradition of atmospheric guitar-driven post-rock (think Tortoise, Slint, Slowdive) a musical landscape of meandering songs with a swirling rapids here and there.
HIT BY FRAILTY
The new album has human (mental) vulnerability as the common thread. Skin hunger, giving up our privacy, escapism and susceptibility to all kinds of addictions are inspiration for the new songs. Nevertheless, this results in cheerful sounds and atmospheres, an intimate 'mind-travel' full of surprising twists and a healthy dose of humour.
DO IT YOURSELF ATTITUDE!
Recorded integrally and live in their own rehearsal room 'Parallel World', between May 2020 and March 2021, the songs then went to the mixing desk of Gert Keunen (Briskey), who also took care of the post-production and mastering. A first off for Gert Keunen, who previously only did this for his own music and found this project a great opportunity to fine tune his studio.
The album 'Hit By Frailty' is released independently. Also all artwork comes from WÜK's own ranks.
UNDERGROUND?
Hard to pigeonhole, WÜK thrives in the shadow of instrumental jazz based bands such as Dans Dans, Nordmann or Stuff. Solid live acts that manage to capture the energy of the stage on record.
They also get spicy mustard from the primal post-rock of Tortoise, Slint, King Crimson and even Pink Floyd. In the WÜK world there are also albums by Do Make Say Think, God is an Astronaut, Mogwai and the Belgian big brothers Tomàn and Manngold.
Averse to the commercial mainstream, logarithms and pitchers, WÜK knows how to charm a growing crowd of fans and followers with a solid live set.
Met 'Hit by frailty' treft de Post-Shoegaze band WÜK je recht in het weke hart...
Geen platgetreden paden voor het Gentse viertal van WÜK, dat zich weet te onderscheiden van de grijze massa door zorgvuldig alle genreclichés uit de weg te gaan. Met hun tweede release ‘Hit By Frailty’, drie jaar na hun titelloze debuut, brengen ze in de traditie van sferische guitar-driven postrock (denk aan Tortoise, Slint, Slowdive) een muzikaal landschap van meanderende nummers met hier en daar een kolkende stroomversnelling.
‘HIT BY FRAILTY’
Het nieuwe album heeft de menselijke (mentale) kwetsbaarheid als rode draad. Huidhonger, het opgeven van onze privacy, escapisme en vatbaarheid voor allerhande verslavingen inspireren de nieuwe nummers. Niettemin resulteert dit in opgewekte klanken en sferen, een intieme ‘mind-travel’ vol verrassende wendingen en een gezonde dosis humor.
‘DO IT YOURSELF’-ATTITUDE!
Integraal en live opgenomen in de eigen repetitieruimte ‘Parallel World’, tussen mei 2020 en maart 2021, gingen de nummers daarna richting de mixtafel van Gert Keunen (Briskey) die ook tekende voor de postproductie en mastering. Een primeur voor Gert Keunen, die dat voordien enkel voor zijn eigen muziek deed en met dit project een mooie gelegenheid vond om zijn studio op punt te zetten.
Het album ‘Hit By Frailty’ wordt uitgebracht in eigen beheer. Ook alle band artwork komt uit eigen WÜK rangen.
UNDERGROUND?
Moeilijk in één hokje te stoppen, gedijt WÜK in de schaduw van instrumentale jazz-based bands als Dans Dans, Nordmann of Stuff. Stevige liveacts die de energie van op het podium op plaat weten te vatten.
Pittige mosterd halen ze ook bij de oer-postrock van Tortoise, Slint, King Crimson en zelfs Pink Floyd. In de WÜK-wereld slingeren verder ook nog albums rond van Do Make Say Think, God is an Astronaut, Mogwai en de Belgische grote broers van Tomàn en Manngold.
Wars van de commerciële mainstream, logaritmes en pitchers weet WÜK met een stevige live set een groeiende schare fans en volgers te bekoren.
One of Texas’ premiere industrial acts Curse Mackey (PIgface, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Evil Mothers) has just shared a video for ‘Smoking Tongues’, the lead track from new LP Immoral Emporium.
"Smoking Tongues" is an industrial love song for the ages combining dance club appeal, sublime synth work and Mackey’s perfectly on point poetics magnified by a beautiful mix by album co-producer Chase Dobson (Rufus Du Sol, Tycho, Neon Cities). For the video production, Mackey teamed up with Austin,TX based filmmaker Kyle Cooper of Jackalope Studio(Austin/LA)
“The music video for Curse Mackey’s ‘Smoking Tongues' is a neo-noir, fire and brimstone fueled, surrealist short film that encompasses the past, present and future of Curse Mackey’s music and art.' says director Kyle Cooper. True to form, the video is indeed a strangely psychedelic, dustbowl psychodrama, filmed on location in Tarantula, Texas during the peak of the scorching 100 plus degree Texas summer of 2022.
Part ghost story, part noir nightmare, part love story, part religious allegory, the video sees Mackey at his most compelling, conjuring the hallucinatory experiences of life growing up in South Texas.
While the video smolders, smokes, and erupts to a whip cracking conclusion the song itself is a quintessential study in Mackey’s artistry riding a razor sharp line between synth pop perfectionist and avant-garde, dark wave destructionist.
Curse says, ”I wrote this song as the final piece of the new album. I wanted to speak to the listener directly, more than I may have done in the past. The phantasmagoria of my first album, Instant Exorcism may have shrouded my feelings but “Smoking Tongues” opened a portal. I don’t think I have felt this vulnerable within a song before and the sound is also reaching into new areas of exploration.
Mackey continues "The lyrical dialog is as much about me as it is about the listener and I clearly question our collective future. I know this song is a departure that industrial music purists might find out of frame but if you stick with me, we’ll get to the delicious delirium hidden within Immoral Emporium. I empathise with the feelings of alienation and loneliness. Our experiences, “our scars like constellations” get us through these moments until we can again be seduced by the vast potential that exists in the world even on our darkest days.”
"Smoking Tongues" is the second single from Curse Mackey’s new LP Immoral Emporium which is already receiving tremendous response from the press and the fans.
Curse Mackey will take his energetic "one man and a rack of synths" show on the road in support of darkwave legends CLAN OF XYMOX, this November, a long-awaited continuation of their 2020 tour that was cut mid-way by the pandemic.
Curse Mackey Fall/Autumn Tour 2022
As Special Guest Of Clan Of Xymox
11.2 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
11.3 – Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey
11.4 – Austin, TX @ Exysium
11.5 – Houston, TX @ Numbers
11.7 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launch Pad
11.8 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
11.9 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
11.11 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
11.12 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
11.13 – Portland, OR @ Star Theater
11.16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
11.17 – Costa Mesa, CA @ The Wayfarer
11.18 – San Diego, CA @Music Box
11.19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater
