Dependent is very pleased to have electronic pop duo Iris as a new member in the Dependent family! And not only that: apart from having toured Europe with Seabound in the last weeks, the new album is almost ready! “Radiant” again is proof for Andrew Sega’s brilliant talent as songwriter and Reagan Jones charismatic voice whips up the unique touch to the new songs. Add to this a decent guitar and experimental, melancholic electronic and you get the magical atmospheric Iris sound. Their catchy, albeit not shallow melodies do capture the listener’s attention at once and don’t let go persistently - as it was the case on the previous longplayer “Blacklight” in 2010 already. Hopefully you had the chance to hit a show of the guys and so to get a little preview of what “Radiant” will be like. Release is set for summer.

“If the world is evil, we have to be evil, too”, proclaimed Syco Trauma in the context of their last record “Don’t Be Scared It’s About Life” in 2010 – and quite obviously mankind has been giving almost everything to worsen the situation since, turning Orwell’s dystopian fiction into reality. A good point of time for the return of French noise rebels Chrysalide whose new album “Personal Revolution” will again be extremely sinister, extremely loud and even more innovative than its predecessor! Noteworthy, the band performs the feat of skillfully maintaining their roots while being compatible to the clubs as well: homages to Skinny Puppy’s “Last Rights” period are still audible and prevalent, yet while acherontic IDM and noise elements are interwoven and genre limits ignored consequently. Release date and more information will be announced in the coming weeks – apocalypse soon!

Finally now, British EBM pioneers Click Click are going to release “Those Nervous Surgeons”, their first album with new studio material in 17 years! In addition to that, mastermind Adrian Smith obviously had the time to finish his debut novel „The Eradication Of Hate“, which will come with the limited edition (limited to 300 copies!). It mirrors the dystopian themes of the new record and addresses rampant censorship in an emerging English surveillance state. However, the record title “Those Nervous Surgeons” used to be the name of the brothers’ very first band project before they opted for the monicker Click Click. “We Have Come Full Circle”, explains Derek Smith, and it is true: With respect to its instrumentation, the album sounds absolutely retro and harks back to the uniquely gloomy atmosphere as heard on old Click Click albums. Release date is June 6th in Europe and four days later in the US

Screen legends Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in legendary filmmaker Michael Cimino’s (Heaven’s Gate) directorial debut Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, which finally makes its Blu-ray debut on 23 June 2014 courtesy of Second Sight Films.

Clint Eastwood is Thunderbolt a retired thief, who has the perfect plan to recover his lost loot with the help of his old gang. The idea is to steal the money, hide it in an old schoolhouse, lay low and collect it when the heat is off. But things don’t go to plan and while trying to escape a gunman he has a chance encounter with drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges. The pair become partners and the heat is on to recover the cash before someone else does in this thrilling caper. 

‘One of the best road movies of the 1970s’

Slant Magazine

‘Eastwood's best non-western movie and Cimino's great debut’

Film4

 Noblesse Oblige have just released a new video for their song “Voices In My Head”, directed by Chris Corner (IAMX).

The track appears on their current album Affair of the Heart, which was recorded at IAMX’s Turmwerk Studio in Berlin.