Hooded Fang - Night

from the full-length <i>Hideout from the Feeders</i>, out November 12 from <a href="http://aloemusic.org/">Aloe Music</a>. 

ILLLS - Coma

Second mp3 single from Protomartyr's Under Color of Official Right, out now on Hardly Art records.

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Under Color of Official Right

Come & See

Protomartyr - "Come & See"

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Northern Ireland’s Girls Names return this autumn with their third full-length album, Arms Around a Vision, due for an October 2nd release via long-term home, Tough Love Records.

PRESS RELEASE:
“We look to Europe for inspiration. For romance. For the idea of a better life,” says the band’s frontman, Cathal Cully, when discussing the album. “For me, living in Belfast just makes you focus on your own art.”

True, Girls Names formed in Belfast, but they’ve long considered themselves a European band. The distinction is important – their vision of Europe is one of weird, labyrinthian histories, blackest-ever-black coffee, and long drives to dismal places. Romantic notions for those of a certain disposition, but behind the thousand-yard stares they’ve always been a soft-hearted lot. As the title of Arms Around a Vision would suggest, they’re all set to let love in.  

The band initially came together as a relatively lean two-piece back in the summer of 2010, but over the course of a handful of EPs and three very different albums, they’ve grown in number and ambition. Their last album, The New Life, was an unexpected underground hit in early 2013, taking the band around the world and garnering much critical praise, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes. Emboldened by the reception to that record, in March they returned with an 11-minute single that was played in full on Radio 1 and, typically, does not feature on their new album. Girls Names like to do things a little differently. 

On Arms Around a Vision, they’re more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive. The bass, drums and guitars are still there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers. Conceptually, Arms Around a Vision acts as a love letter to European elegance – Italian futurism, Russian constructivism, Germany’s Zero Group and both Neubaten and Bowie’s Berlin. 

Love and pain, romance and fucking. It’s all in there somewhere. Grand claims, perhaps, but in an ever bleak world, why not skygaze? The album opens with ‘Reticence’, a song in two parts that’s half metallic knockout, half midnight swagger. It sounds unlike anything they’ve ever done before, and is a perfect primer for an album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze, Birthday Party dissonance and M.E.S’ three R’s: repetition, repetition, repetition.  

As confident as it sounds, hardship has equally played a role in shaping Arms Around a Vision. “I'm not starving or anything, but I've practically been living hand to mouth since I was 22,” confirms Cully. “Most guitar music now is just a playground for the rich middle classes and it's really boring and elitist. We're elitist in our own way, in that we're on our own and you can't fuck with us when we’ve nothing to lose”. The near-6 minute ‘A Hunger Artist’ tackles that subject full on, addressing that age old adage of suffering for one’s art.

While the songs aren’t narrative-driven as such – the band still generally favour abstraction and ambiguity – there is a consistent underlying message: “We've got nothing. We’ve never had anything. And we don't expect to. The only person I ever wanted to impress was myself. I've never got anywhere close to succeeding in doing that until this album. I'm proud of it. I think I can start saying I'm a musician now.”

Tracklisting:

1. Reticence
2. An Artificial Spring
3. Desire Oscillations
4. (Obsession)
5. Chrome Rose
6. A Hunger Artist
7. Málaga
8. Dysmorphia
9. (Convalescence)
10. Exploit Me
11. Take Out the Hand
12. I Was You 


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Girls Names - Reticence

Vices by Atlantic Thrills

"a powerhouse vocal performance by frontman Matthew Smyth" - BrooklynVegan

New single from The Castillians' upcoming You & Me LP, out February 26 via PNKSLM Recordings.

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The Castillians - "Come What May"

first single from new double album Second Of Spring by Melbourne psych rock quintet Beaches. Second Of Spring will be released on 8 Sep 2017 on double LP, CD and digital.
Order Void now from:
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Void will be available on iTunes/Spotify/Apple Music etc from Friday July 14 via http://radi.al/BeachesVoid

Second Of Spring

Beaches - Void

Third Article is released on one-sided 12" vinyl and download on 24th November on Blank Ad.

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Form Of Luxury

Brick Horizon

Visit the Dead Gaze facebook page to download the track: https://www.facebook.com/deadgaze/app_220150904689418

Taken from the self-titled album which brings together highlights from the extensive Dead Gaze back catalogue, now mostly out of print, with new unheard material. 'Dead Gaze' is released on FatCat imprint Palmist on 25th March 2013 in the UK and 21st May in the U.S.

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Protomartyr - "Come & See"

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