The Pacers draw their influences from the sixties Psych/Garage scene, mixing it up with their own unique ideas to create unforgettable and energetic live performances in the same vein as The Stooges and The Stones, with a healthy dose of freakout psychedelia.
The band formed in the late summer of 2013 when Alexander Friedl and guitarist Harry Stam met under what they describe as "mysterious circumstances". With a shared interest in all things 60's and a desire to escape the monotony of everyday life, they duo picked up their guitars and began writing songs.
A former bandmate of Harry, bass player Jay Creswell, was next to join The Pacers, closely followed by drummer Jamie Yuan. With the line up complete, the band set about making a name for themselves on the underground music scene, playing a string of venues primarily in north and east London which have earned them a loyal and ever increasing fanbase. 'Losing Touch' is their debut single.
The Band:
Alex Friedl - Vocals, Guitar
Harry Stam - Lead Guitar
Jay Creswell - Bass
Jamie Yuan - Drums
After teasing the release of their highly anticipated sophomore album for Captured Tracks earlier this year, DIIV is back today to share "Dopamine," the 4th song from Is The Is Are. The track is available to stream above via Souncloud.
Its release comes as the band kicks off their fall touring, which will see them play a run of shows with RIDE starting this week before heading out on their headlining North American tour with support from No Joy and Sunflower Bean.
Check out "Dopamine" streaming above and see below for track art and all upcoming DIIV tour dates.
Filmed by Mia Kirby and Sierra Swan, the teaser video features “never”, “boom boom” and “he fresh”.
Co-produced by jennylee and Norm Block, the 10 songs on right on! were all written by jennylee, and recorded earlier this spring at Happy Ending Studios in Silverlake, CA.
Joining Jenny on the album are: Norm Block (Plexi, Mark Lanegan), Dan Elkan (Them Hills, Broken Bells) and Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa. Additional players include Tony Bevilacqua, Kris Byerly, Katie Burden, Kirk Hellie, Jonathan Hishcke and Cedric LeMoyne.
While right on! retains some of Jenny’s signature Warpaint groove, she incorporates New Wave and Goth elements into her solo work. Her breathy voice and her meticulous bass playing create a new aura that is hazy and dreamy, and essentially all jennylee.
jennylee and her band will be giving fans an early preview of the album in New York at Baby’s All Right on November 4th.
Tracklisting:
1. blind
2. boom boom
3. never
4. long lonely winter
5. bully
6. riot
7. he fresh
8. offerings
9. white devil
Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm announce Double-CD release ‘Collaborative Works’ – comprising all three vinyl EPs ‘Loon’, ‘Stare’ and ‘Life Story Love And Glory’ as well as 7 new songs from their ‘Trance Frendz’ studio film
‘Stare’ (2012) was the very first collaborative recording made by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm – a true family effort featuring long-time collaborator and cellist Anne Müller, which took place in 2011 between Reykjavík and Berlin. Originally released as a strictly limited 10-inch vinyl record exclusive on Record Store Day 2012, this long sold-out must-have was re-issued on July 17, 2015 – this time in 12-inch format. Óli and Nils recorded and mixed their first collaborative record between Reykjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.
‘Loon’ (2015) is a synthesiser-led 5-track EP that was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues with the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For ‘Loon’ they wired the Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the patch bay/mixing desk and performed live takes. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape. 'Life Story Love And Glory' (2015) is a 2-track live improve affair on two pianos, also recorded at Nils’s place in October 2012, the day before the two went on the road for the Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary Tour. It was released on August 21, 2015 as a surprise 7” available through record stores only, two weeks ahead of its digital release, and entered the Official UK Vinyl Single Charts at #3, still remaining in the Top 10 after 3 weeks.
‘Trance Frendz’ (2015) is the audio recording of their intimate 45-minute studio film. Originally planned as a short video session of previously released tracks, instead the two ended up recording seven brand new improvisations – showcasing the nature of their musical friendship. It was revealed on September 1, 2015 as part of their joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com
"The music on this CD is a collection of our studio collaborations from recent years. We would meet in Reykjavik or Berlin with the intention to share some days off work, hiking, swimming or eating pizza. That is great for a couple days, but after a while we would always end up back in the studio, fiddling with synths or pianos. This collection of recordings cannot be an album. It will remain a collage of our studio experiments of the past. It simply is convenient to have them all together here, so you don’t need to look out for some limited 10” somewhere or deal with a nerdy record dealer in Japan to track down this one 7 ̋ which will turn out to sound pretty rough anyways... consider them as moments in space and time where we shared the same room for some days to come down and enjoy making music. After deciding to release the studio collaborations, we planned to do a video session of us performing an improvised duet to promote the release.
On the 28th of July 2015 we met up at Durton Studio in Berlin and invited Alexander Schneider and his camera to document it. But instead of ending the session after the first take we continued improvising throughout the night, ending up with several new pieces written and recorded in 8 hours with no overdubs and no edits.
Teeth Out is the debut album from The Silence Set, released on November 6th via the Scottish, independent label mini50.
Some collaborations start out with a fully formed idea of the end result. The creative process becomes something of a straight line, a mapped out road towards a clearly visible and tangible goal. The Silence Set didn’t begin this way.
It began with total freedom, a tabula rasa in the truest sense. It began from a mutual respect and from an idea of working without limitations or boundaries.
The Silence Set consists of Gothenburg based musicians and composers Dag Rosenqvist and Johan G Winther. The former perhaps best known as the now defunct Jasper TX and for his From the Mouth of the Sun project with Aaron Martin, the latter for his work in angular math rock outfit Scraps of Tape and from his previous solo effort as Tsukimono.
Over the course of three years, the sounds of acoustic guitar, pump organ, piano, banjo and voice were caught on tape, rearranged, processed and, coupled with other sounds and recordings, left waiting for months on end. All the while life changed, relationships ended, new life began and older lives ended. More sounds were recorded, arranged, and left to wait.
Finally tracks started to emerge. Tracks with lyrics and titles, some sort of structure; something resembling actual songs. Slowly an album began to take shape. Kristofer Ström joined in to perform trumpet on one track. Heather Woods Broderick (wonderful musician in her own right and recently part of Sharon Van Etten’s band) played flute, wrote lyrics and sang. Nils Frahm contributed both his mixing skills as well as synthesizer.
Eventually an album was complete, only to be left waiting for months on end. And life changed even more.
