With 2011's Modern Ruin still a fresh memory, Covenant is already back with a brilliant follow-up, entitled "Leaving Babylon", due to be released in September.
Beat-heavy yet introspective, Leaving Babylon is Covenant's sonic exploration into uncharted emotional waters. It's the feeling of memory made sound-the melancholy of Sweden in the wintertime, the strange beat of electric hearts, and the longing for forgotten parties.
It's time to listen. It's time to heed the sound of the sirens. What are they telling us? Who is really playing the tunes we dance to?
We are not Leaving Babylon. Not yet.
DISC 1
01. Leaving Babylon
02. Thy Kingdom Come
03. Last Dance
04. Prime Movers
05. I Walk Slow
06. For Our Time
07. Ignorance & Bliss
08. Auto (Circulation)
09. Not to be Here
The second disc of the Limited Edition consists of a 76 minute piece called "Jag är fullständigt tung" with text and vocals by Swedish poet Helena Österlund.
Click here to listen to the new album of Nine Inch Nails, "Hesitation Marks", due to be released on 3rd September.
It's the first album since "The Slip", which dates from 2008. Trent Reznor had put NIN 'on hiatus' in 2009, in order to work on other projects, a.o. a new band together with his wife, How To Destroy Angels and soundtracks for movies like the one for David Fincher's The Social Network, for which he won an Oscar.
After a festival tour in the summer of 2013, NIN is expected to launch its own world tour in 2014... Stay tuned!
You can pre-order "Hesitation Marks" on nin.com or iTunes.
www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/28/nine-inch-nails-hesitastion-marks-album-stream
Last week, Lycia released their first album in 13 years, Quiet Moments.
Today, we can present you the official video for the track titled 'The Visitor' and directed by Adria Ghiralt.
Enjoy !
LYCIA - THE VISITOR from Adria Ghiralt on Vimeo.
Feeling glum about tomorrow's impending return to reality, following a blissful bank holiday weekend?
Well then Ashestoangels' haunting new tome, 'Elsinore' should prove the perfect soundtrack for those back-to-work blues.
Taken from their acclaimed new album 'With Tape And Needles', which is released via DustDevilSounds, 'Elsinore' boasts a soaring, melancholic chorus hook that you'll be humming for the rest of the week.
“I started Ashestoangels a very long time ago; most people learn their craft in a number of different bands, but I've just stuck with one,” says Ashestoangels’ singer/synth botherer Crilly of his band’s humble origins. “I've written literally hundreds of songs since the band started, some of them are pretty terrible! But I think you can trace a fairly clear evolution from our first song to where we are now. I've always had a sound in my head, its just taken this long to get it out.... Like Johnny Cash we sound like this because we don't know how to play any other way.”
Even after these years of development and slaving over a hot amp, Ashestoangels - completed by drummer Jim, bassist Nico and guitarist Adam - were willing to accept outside creative input on their craft, teaming up with Aiden vocalist and upcoming producer WILLIAM CONTROL for the album’s most essential stage: “William could see what we were going for on this album and really pushed us to try and achieve it,” recalls Crilly. “He really knows his stuff when it comes to electronics and punk rock, the two things that make up a lot of our sound. It would have been a very different album if we had worked with anyone else. He told us that we were a great local band, but it was time to step our game up. With him driving us we rewrote and recorded the whole album in about 14 days.
“When we came into the studio we brought an albums worth of songs that we thought were finished - William thought they were demos,” he continues; “So, we basically quit sleeping and just got on with rewriting it. It was very intense and my ego took a death punch to the face but we came out a much better band.”
Peek-A-Boo proudly presents 85 the newest clip by French coldwave-act Contre Jour.
Contre Jour - 85 from Contre Jour on Vimeo.
