After getting great reviews for their debut EP and debut album Norma are back with their second album "The Invisible Mother". Norma's music is a mixture of ambient, kraut, noise, electronica, indie often with a strict, repetitive bass/drum pattern and a magnificent, wide and almost hypnotic sound.
This is rich, panoramic music with a warmth that you don’t hear often from other bands trying to do something in this genre. German kraut is one obvious thing, but also the spacerock of Spiritualized and Spacemen3 comes to mind. Newer references may be Silverbullit, 120 days, Serena Maneesh and Sigur Ros.
The new album leans a little bit more towards the electronic/dance scene but it is still as organic and flowing as ever. The first single (with a great dance video made by Hedvig Jenning) is a suberb little song with a large sound called Joan.
Out on Novoton
Echo Beatty are a new Belgiuan band whose album will be released at the end of January.
Peek A Boo present you their new (excellent) video.
A compelling artifact of post-punk’s minimal synth trajectory in the early 80’s, Music For Sick Queers conveys both icy tension and challenging experimentation.
Resurrected here for the first time on vinyl by Superior Viaduct with previously unreleased archival bonus material.
Preview here
• First time reissue of only LP, originally released in 1985
• Liner notes by notoriously mysterious band member Sandy Stark
• For fans of Pere Ubu, The Residents, Suicide, Psychic TV
• "A masterpiece of minimal synth combined with experimental and noisy synth punkish elements!" (Mutant Sounds)
Trevor Powers, whose stage name is Youth Lagoon, began writing his debut album The Year of Hibernation in 2010. Based around the idea of psychological dysphoria, Powers tried to document the trails of his mind through songs of minimalism and hypnotic ambience. Powers later described his writing process as "my mind communicating with me, not the other way around...it can take me to scary places but I've realized those bizarre thoughts I have don't define me." After signing with Mississippi-based label Fat Possum Records in 2011, he toured much of the following year before going back into solitude to write.
Wondrous Bughouse, Powers' sophomore album, was spawned from what he describes as "becoming more fascinated with the human psyche and where the spiritual meets the physical world." During the time he wrote, Powers became intrigued with the metaphysical universe and blending those ideas with pop music. "Youth Lagoon is something so personal to me because writing music is how I sort my thoughts, as well as where I transfer my fears," explains Powers.
"My mental state is usually pretty sporadic... a lot of this record was influenced by a fear of mortality but embracing it at the same time. Realizing that human life is only great because it is temporary. Experimenting with ideas about dimensions. I'm not a gifted speaker, so explaining things is difficult for me. But music always makes sense."
TRACKLISTING
1. THROUGH MIND AND BACK
2. MUTE
3. ATTIC DOCTOR
4. THE BATH
5. PELICAN MAN
6. DROPLA
7. SLEEP PARALYSIS
8. THIRD DYSTOPIA
9. RASPBERRY CANE
10. DAISYPHOBIA
Stand all night, the new single by Jill Is Lucky will be released in february on PIAS.
Peek A Boo is proud to present you the video.
