Two years on from the critically acclaimed Until The Colours Run, Lanterns On The Lake return with their third full-length record Beings, released 13th November on Bella Union. It marks another leap in the band’s development as they expand their range, pushing the envelope of their signature atmospheric rock and scaling new heights of absorbing song-craft. The band have unveiled a track from the LP entitled ‘Faultlines’ which is streaming HERE and announced a 6-date UK tour, the dates of which are below.

Work on Beings began in February 2014, hard on the heels of successful tours of Europe and North America. It proved to be a productive period. “The ideas came effortlessly and in abundance,” vocalist Hazel Wilde says of the writing process. “At first we had no expectations, no prescribed ideas of how we wanted the songs to turn out. We were just writing and playing together because that’s what we’d always done.”

This was made possible by their setup, working in splendid isolation; writing, rehearsing and recording in their Newcastle rehearsal room meant the results were undiluted by outside influence. Imaginatively produced and mixed by guitarist Paul Gregory, it’s also his experience that helped yield such compelling results. This allows Beings to move seamlessly from airy, chiming beauty to dense, forbidding soundscapes - sometimes in the same song - while still feeling like the product of a cohesive unit, retaining the band’s spark. “We wanted it to be more raw,” Wilde says of the record. “At its darkest points, we wanted it to feel like you’d dived into the deepest part our dreams and were taking a look around. At its lightest we wanted it to feel like you were coming up for air.”

Opening song ‘Of Dust and Matter’ strikes just such a balance. The band’s most sinister moment yet, it prowls out of a burble of radio static and feedback, propelled by ominous piano chords as its menacing pulse builds to a tumbling climax of almost discordant, warped guitar parts and the fractured drumming of Ol Ketteringham. “In my greatness I vowed to destroy all I am,” Wilde sings. “It brings out the best in me.”

It’s an interesting early lyric, and it soon becomes apparent that this is a braver, more headstrong Lanterns on the Lake, a band now less about floating on water than racing across land, eager and with points to prove. Often their melancholy necessarily turns to action. “Fractured lives like faultlines, unto the breach my friends if you will” is Wilde’s call to arms on ‘Faultlines’, a critique of austerity, as the band turn in a cavalry charge with her voice as the clarion call.

Wilde's lyrics also shudder with evocative and often surprisingly dark imagery in songs that attempt to understand the world around her, built from charged moments of universal insight. “There is a sense of the need to connect to something; the need to find meaning,” she says of the material. “There’s such frustrating injustice in the world, yet this feels like a time of disconnection where we’re encouraged to celebrate the shallow side of culture. This record carries that sense of yearning for something greater.”

This gives Beings immediacy, depth and resonance as it touches on community, love, culture, politics and self-examination, and our own place and limitations within each. “I want to walk with the brave, give me a good day, I want to feel human” Wilde sings on the graceful ‘I’ll Stall Them’, exploring the importance of connection, kinship and reconciliation.

Beings is the engrossing product of a band operating in total harmony to the point where their music creates its own idiosyncratic world whilst also distilling outside concerns into it. The horizons open to Lanterns on the Lake are now as broad as the sweep of these beautiful songs.

Beings is released 13th November on Bella Union

Earlier this year Elisa Waut (Elsie Helewaut, Hans Helewaut and Chery Derycke) released after 17 years, a surprising new album "Portraits and Landscapes"

Singles like "Blossom", "Portrait" and "Slow" (see also www.elisawaut.com clips via YouTube) indicate that Elisa Waut are completely reborn.

Anyone who is going to see them in concert will hear the new work of"Portraits and Landscapes" and an anthology of the repertoire of early Elisa Waut. "Growing Pain", "Four Times More," "After Today", "Sailors Do not Cry," "Do It No More" Vanilla "and many other songs are undoubtedly on the playlist.

Concert dates:

28 Oct 2015 CC Staff Versluys Bredene

http://www.stafversluys-centrum.be/nl/nieuws/elisa-waut-komt-naar-bredene

31 Oct 2015 Bruges City Theatre

http://www.ccbrugge.be/evenement_detail.jsp?evenement=1923

15 Nov 2015 Depot Leuven

http://www.hetdepot.be/concerten/elisa-waut

Pseudo Code "Remains To Be Heard Volume 1 & 2" 2xCD | EE Tapes EE31 | 300 copies | 2015-10-01
Reissue of two exquisite 80s cassettes on "Insane" comprising live and studio outtakes by Pseudo Code.
I remember those releases well at the time of release back in 1984 & 1986, surprised to discover how
many quality tracks had yet remained unpublished after their demise in 1982.
Very proud now to see this remastered major work from the past getting a second life as a double CD set 
with three (longer) bonustracks!

Pseudo Code were Alain Neffe ("Insane", BeNe GeSSeRiT, Human Flesh, Subject etc), Guy Marc Hinant 
("Sub Rosa") and Xavier S (national radio).

2 versions:
standard edition (250 copies): 2xCD in ecopack (retail/wholesale welcome)
special edition (50 copies): 2xCD in ecopack + 7" clear lathe cut (with 2 rare compilation tracks) 
(no wholesale, only available from the label)
Tags: leftfield, experimental, vocal, wave, improvisation,....

Bloc Party today premiere their eagerly anticipated new song The Love Within, available to stream now via Infectious Music / BMG. The Love Within is a first taste from Bloc Party’s forthcoming, as-yet-untitled fifth album, due for release in early 2016. 

Earlier today Bloc Party performed at Maida Vale studios to open BBC 6 Music Live, a week long series of live music broadcast from the legendary west London studios. The band’s set included new songs The Good News and Exes, alongside highlights from their considerable back catalogue including Octopus, Banquet and This Modern Love. Watch the full performance here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034fd7m

In August Bloc Party played two sold out shows in the US at The Glass House, Pomona, and The Roxy, Los Angeles, before an acclaimed appearance at FYF Fest, where they headlined The Lawn stage. They are confirmed to headline Falls Festival in Australia this winter, and play a run of intimate European shows in November-December; see www.bloc.party for details:

 27 November - Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL - SOLD OUT

28 November - Live Music Hall, Koln, DE

29 November - Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin, DE - SOLD OUT

01 December - Alhambra, Paris, FR - SOLD OUT

02 December - Cirque Royal, Brussels, BL - SOLD OUT

03 December - Albert Hall, Manchester, UK - SOLD OUT

04 December - St John at Hackney, London, UK - SOLD OUT

Bloc Party are Kele Okereke (vocals, guitar), Russell Lissack (guitar), Justin Harris (bass) and Louise Bartle (drums). 

Original soundtrack to the major motion picture Cub scored by Steve Moore (Zombi). Cub is a brutal horror film from Belgium that tells the tale of a young cub-scout bullied by his troop-mates. When the kids take a scout camping trip to the woods, things get bloody quickly when a deranged poacher sets his sites on the young kids. Steve Moore's haunting synth based score is the perfect soundscape for this acclaimed horror film. Whether you're familiar with the movie Cub or not, Steve Moore's score sits perfectly with your Zombi discography.

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