July/August

Full post:  http://nialler9.com/the-best-new-tracks-of-the-week-2

Tracks of the week // Aug 15

ceryan

my brightest diamond

August

gelteskere

The Weekly What 8•17•14

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Pre-order on iTunes

Red Eyes

Taken from the forthcoming LP, Celestite, available on July 8th via Artemisia Records. 
Pre-order at http://artemisiarecords.bandcamp.com

Tour Dates:
7/11 Olympia, WA - Capital Theatre Backstage - http://bit.ly/WITTROly
7/12 Bellingham, WA - Shakedown - http://bit.ly/WITTRBL
7/13 Vancouver, BC - The Venue - http://bit.ly/WITTRVBC
7/14 Seattle, WA - Crocodile - http://bit.ly/WITTRSEA
7/15 Portland, OR - Star Theatre -http://bit.ly/1iSnQZb
7/17 San Fransisco, CA - Slim's - http://bit.ly/WITTRSF
7/18 Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Atrium - http://bit.ly/WITTRSC
7/19 San Diego, CA - Che Café - http://bit.ly/WITTRChe
7/20 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex - http://bit.ly/WITTRLA

Wolves In The Throne Room Celestite Mirror

What happens if you bring together two of Norway’s most special voices, both in terms of songwriting, performance and presence in music. 
How will it work to merge two creative worlds into one beast. 

Jenny Hval & Susanna's collaboration 'Meshes of Voice' from 2009 will be released as an album on the label SusannaSonata in August 2014. 
Recorded live at Henie Onstad Arts Centre together with Jo Berger Myhre and Anita Kaasbøll. Jenny Hval & Susanna has composed the music and lyrics. 

Album released: 
in Norway and Germany 15th of August 2014
in UK 18th of August 2014
in USA 19th of August 2014

Order at Itunes: http://bit.ly/1le1Zcw
Order the album directly with the label here: http://bit.ly/1l52JAq
Order at Boomkat: http://bit.ly/1lJGIat
Order at Rough Trade: http://bit.ly/1lJGOyP
Order at Platekompaniet: http://bit.ly/VOOtpv
Order at CDON.com: http://bit.ly/1tPWztq


www.susannasonata.com
www.jennyhval.com
www.susannamagical.com

Buy on Itunes

Jenny Hval & Susanna  "I Have Walked This Body" Album out on LP, CD and digital services!

Written+Performed by Ken Park
Engineer+Mix by Diogo Correia
Vocal Engineer Alt Altman
Final Mix+Master: Dan Lee

Art Work by Caitlyn Doherty, Layout by Christian Arab

Taiga

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - 'ATOMOS'
Double-Vinyl/CD/Digital out on Erased Tapes/Kranky on October 6, 2014

PRE-ORDER the album now!

Worldwide (excl. North America):
via Erased Tapes: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP061
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/atomositms

In North America:
via Kranky: www.kranky.net
or via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/atomos/id894692856

TOUR DATES: 
https://www.facebook.com/awvfts/app_123966167614127

After releasing a first glimpse in the form of the ‘Atomos VII’ EP earlier this year, A Winged Victory For The Sullen finally reveal their second full-length album entitled ‘Atomos’, which besides familiar piano, string and drone sounds also sees the duo introduce flurries of electronics, harp and modular synthesisers.  

Wayne McGregor, founder of Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, chose to play the album repeatedly during practices with his core group of dancers. After noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted Adam and Dustin to see if they could write the score for his new oeuvre. The duo were given complete artistic freedom and they treated the score with the same care and attention as their debut album. They recorded more than sixty minutes of music over a four-month period during the summer of 2013 across studios in Brussels, Berlin and Reykjavik, with the help of their long time collaborative sound engineer Francesco Donadello. During the recording process they realised, that this would become their official second studio album. McGregor provided them with the inspiration to expand their sound palette into more electronic territory, whilst keeping their signature chamber sound, resulting in a very unique record.  

“As a wise man once said, one who procrastinates their own choosing will inevitably have their choice served to them by circumstance. We had virtually no time for second guessing ourselves. That being said, we tried to balance the discordance between being creative, and fulfilling our duties for a commissioned soundtrack with a very strict deadline, and all the while staying true to our collective melancholy.‘’ – Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie  

“We never imagined 2013 would be such an explosively creative year. The first record took us two years from start to finish, but in the micro span of time over last summer we were able to change the formula for the way we write, record, and let go. It was incredibly liberating.” – Dustin O’Halloran

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  awvfts.com · erasedtapes.com · kranky.net

Atomos VI

From the album 'Being'
Out August 5th, 2014

Good Thing Bad Thing (Being)

from 'Silence Is A Rhythm Too' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den207

released along with 
'Splintered Instruments' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den206

both records are available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/matthewcollings]



MATTHEW COLLINGS is a Scotland-based composer. Not only being a solo recording and live artist, he collaborates regularly with artists from all kinds of fields including musicians (e.g. Dag Rosenqvist from JASPER TX and Denovali label mate TALVIHORROS), dancers and filmmakers. He’s responsible for several installations using custom-made software, which have been exhibited at Burning Man Festival in San Francisco or Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts. His work for films includes a specially commissioned live score for Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic, ‘The Man with the Movie Camera’ and an invitation to work on ‘The Invisibles’, a commission from Amnesty International. Before settling down in Edinburgh, he lived in Iceland for six years, where he wrote a number of albums issued under the name of his lo-fi/ambient project “Sketches for Albinos” and where he met fellow collaborator Ben Frost. His music can be roughly described as 'an elemental whorl of electro-acoustic (de)composition' (Boomkat.com), ranging from tiny delicate moments of intimacy to all consuming noise. Strongly influenced by avant-garde guitar music, it calls the minimal music of Steve Reich or Gavin Bryars to mind in like manner. Having received remarkable praise for his debut “Splintered Instruments”, Denovali Records is re-releasing the debut album accompanied by the release of his new and second full length album entitled “Silence Is A Rhythm Too”.

While looking back to an extensive period of creating music with his ambient project “Sketches for Albinos” Collings felt the urgent necessity of starting with a completely different approach to music, as the ambient aesthetic didn’t match any longer with new ideas burgeoning in his head. He wanted to create a more direct sound to involve a much grander and more dangerous range of emotions. The composition process of “Splintered Instruments” came out of personally reckoning with two contrary forces, something vicious and unrelenting challenging with a soft and kind energy – getting to their core and the dynamic interrelation to one another Filtered through melody and vaguely resembling songs, driven by nested rhythm patterns, one can imagine that the first sound Collings picked up on as a leading impulse “was like Sonic Youth’s ‘The Diamond Sea’ meeting ‘Music for 18 Musicians’. I wanted to take songs and kind of dissolve them and then bring them back again, with everything just being on the edge of these various types of structures.”

He worked closely with Ben Frost on the creation of “Splintered Instruments”, who took influence in the physicality and size of sound and helped to achieve him to reach into the deepest parts of human nature, pulling it out in a hybrid-pop-experimental-noise form. According to Collings, the record is “a revolt against machines” understanding the sense of precision as something pretty unnatural. He avoids working with computers only using them for convenience, not as a principle. 90% of the record is organic sourced from or played on acoustic instruments or objects, being drawn to sound of every kind which is more human, more imperfect in its subtle variations. Splintered Instruments '…is not about noise or the decibel levels – it’s about the sheer uncompromised approach to raw sound design' (Headphone Commute).

The title of the record 'Silence Is A Rhythm Too' goes back to a line from a 1980ies punk/new wave song by The Slits called 'In The Beginning There Was Rhythm', though Collings has mostly been pre-occupied creatively by an idea of painter Mark Rothko upon creating the album. Following Rothko’s statement, that the only things worth making art about were romance, tragedy and death, Collings condensed and transferred this thought to the antithesis of life and death represented by noise and silence.
“Silence Is A Rhythm Too” isn’t conceived as the absence of sound like a Cageian silence that is simply a span of time that is empty, but rather how silence and sound can be processed in a composition. Collings interest is musically based on huge densities of sound just as he’s fascinated by opposing forces to wrestle with each other. Silence seems to be harder and harder to achieve in this technologically saturated age and Matthew Collings admits that it reveals the habits of his own hearing, from being obsessed with its opposite: noise. “Silence Is A Rhythm Too” is about trying to find grace, space and expanse as much as tension and menace, and reconciling the two.

Stepping away from song-like structures, which filled his previous record, “Splintered Instruments”, Collings creates more spacious sounds and evokes the impression of time stretched through the three dimensions. Still being intrigued by the idea of materials on the edge of collapse, he catches them up in their dying breath: The record is full of these processes, including prepared amplifiers and electronics pushed to the extreme to coax new sounds, close-micing and high volume. Despite the fact that most of his work is mediated by technology, he’s far more excited by the sound of acoustic. Featuring brass ensembles and a string quartet the instruments and sounds are full of cracks, breath, embedding rough materials informed by luscious intentions. “Silence Is A Rhythm Too” keeps an eye on the small textural details as it is about harmony and physicality in the moment where silence and noise meet.

Silence Is a Rhythm Too

Matthew Collings - Stills

Full Version on YouTube: http://youtu.be/e78_3GnH_1I
& on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/latch-single/id912436208

Facebook: www.facebook.com/danielaandrade
Twitter: www.twitter.com/danielasings

Disclosure x Sam Smith - Latch (Cover) by Daniela Andrade

anjou 'sighting'

Pre-order their upcoming album Fumes:
Label: http://akrec.co/1zOvA4N
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/AKR128iTunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/AKR128Amazon
Indies: http://smarturl.it/AKR128indie

Fumes will be release October 27 (EU) and October 28 (US) by Asthmatic Kitty Records. 

Lily & Madeleine, "The Wolf Is Free"

FEMNRG005

Pre-order:

Kindness - kindness.es
iTunes: http://bit.ly/otherness-itunes
Amazon: http://bit.ly/otherness-CD
Rough Trade: http://bit.ly/otherness-roughtrade

Headline Show - 16 Jan http://bit.ly/kindness-brixton

Written by Adam Bainbridge, Kelela Mizanekristos
Published by The Funk Stops Here / Cherry Coffee Music/Sony/ATV

Lead vocals: Ade Omotayo, Kelela Mizanekristos
Backing vocals: Adam Bainbridge, Rebecca Freckleton, Valentina Pappalardo
Drum programming, keys: Adam Bainbridge
Drums: Kenneith 'Bam' Alexander
Percussion: Pauli 'The PSM' Stanley-Mackenzie, Adam Bainbridge
Sax: Finn Peters
Bass: Blue May

All vocals & instruments recorded at XXVII, London except drums, recorded Ontario, CA

Produced by Adam Bainbridge 

Mixed by Blue May at XXVII, London

Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Howie Weinberg Mastering
Assistant mastering by Gentry Studer at Howie Weinberg Mastering

℗ & © Female Energy Records 2014. 

Buy 'Otherness' here

World Restart feat. Kelela & Ade

Out 12th October via à Deux // Columbia Records.
From our Debut Album 'Lucid Dreaming' - Out February 2nd 2015.

facebook.com/SayLouLoumusic
twitter.com/SayLouLou
youtube.com/user/SayLouLouMusic
instagram.com/saylouloumusic

Follow LINDSTRØM:
facebook.com/hplindstrom
www.hplindstrom.com/
soundcloud.com/feedelity

SAY LOU LOU X LINDSTRØM - Games For Girls [Extended Mix]

Lyrics Kwamie Liv. Music/Production LHeering & Kwamie Liv.
Artwork BABY DUKA

Lost In The Girl

Sinead's new track Still Miss You is out now! Taken from Sinead's forthcoming mixtape 'Chapter One'
Pre-Order on iTunes here: https://rinse.lnk.to/chapterone
Watch the video for Still Miss You here: http://smarturl.it/stillmissyouyt

N.O.W

Paradise

Hypem <3

Taken from Intro Bonito, out 25th August on Double Denim Records.

Sick Beat

This song is from the next EP ive been working on called "So Bad"... Its an XL release, which im VERY proud of. Buy that song on Itunes. http://po.st/kaykayitunes.

Lyrics:
Can't deny or lie
Boy you blew my mind
But I'm tired of my heart being broken 
And my love being taken for granted
I gave you all I had 
So crazy
How you wasted my time
How you reached that borderline

(chorus)
Leave Me Alone, go away, Leave Me Alone (x4)

(Leave Me Alone, go away, Leave Me Alone) 
There was a time I used to say "boy I want you"
(Leave Me Alone, go away, Leave Me Alone)
And there was a time I used to say "boy I need you"
Sorry baby no time for this

(Chorus)

LEAVE ME ALONE

LEAVE ME ALONE (feat. Shay Lia)

BUY THAT SONG

From the upcoming album 'This Is All Yours' and available as an instant download with all iTunes pre-orders: smarturl.it/TIAYitunes

Also available to pre-order on Double Vinyl: smarturl.it/TIAYvinyl
and on CD: http://smarturl.it/TIAYcd

Forthcoming live dates: showsnear.by/alt-J

Every Other Freckle

Local record store: http://smarturl.it/akr103indies
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/AKR103Amazon
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/akr103itunes
Asthmatic Kitty Records: http://smarturl.it/buy-akr103
Paper Bag Preorder: http://shop.paperbagrecords.com/products/this-is-my-hand

From the LP "This Is My Hand." 
Available September 16, 2014.

Available on CD /Vinyl /Digital including limited edition translucent red 12" from Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Available in Canada from Paper Bag Records in frosted vinyl

Tour Dates: 
9/19/14 Detroit, Michigan
9/20/14 Toronto, Ontario
9/22/14 Cambridge, Massachusetts
9/23/14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
9/25/14 New York , New York
9/27/14 Washington DC
9/28/14 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
9/30/14 Charlotte, North Carolina
10/1/14 Atlanta, Georgia
10/4/14 Austin, Texas
10/10/14 Austin, Texas
10/12/14 Dallas, Texas
10/17/14 Stockholm, Sweden
10/18/14 Gothenburg, Sweden
10/19/14 Copenhagen, Denmark
10/21/14 Hamburg, Germany
10/22/14 Berlin, Germany
10/24/14 Brussels, Belgium
10/25/14 Amsterdam, Netherlands
10/26/14 Paris, Ile-de-France
10/28/14 London, UK
10/29/14 Leeds, UK
10/30/14 Glasgow, UK
10/31/14 Dublin, Ireland
11/8/14 St Paul, Minnesota
11/12/14 Grand Rapids, Michigan
11/13/14 Chicago, Illinois
11/14/14 Madison, Wisconsin
11/15/14 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
11/16/14 Iowa City, Iowa
11/17/14 Minneapolis, Minnesota
11/19/14 St. Louis, Missouri
11/20/14 Indianapolis, Indiana
12/2/14 Denver, Colorado
12/3/14 Salt Lake City, Utah
12/5/14 Portland, Oregon
12/6/14 Seattle, Washington
12/7/14 Vancouver, British Columbia
12/10/14 San Francisco, California
12/12/14 Los Angeles, California
12/13/14 San Diego, California

My Brightest Diamond, "Lover/Killer"

This is 'Walk' taken from Kwabs' debut album 'Love + War' - Out Now

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/loveandwar.itunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/loveandwar.amzn
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/loveandwar.spotify 

Buy tickets to Kwabs' UK tour this October here: http://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/kwabs

Get more information on Kwabs:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/KwabsOfficial
Twitter: www.twitter.com/kwabs
Soundcloud: @kwabs
Instagram: http://instagram.com/kwabs
Website: http://kwabsmusic.com

Walk

Download the album

Tennis - I'm Callin'

'Stay Forever' is the new tour single from Panama, available as a FREE download. 'Stay Forever' arrives on the back of their debut Northern Hemisphere Tour. 

@wearepanamatheband
www.facebook.com/wearepanamatheband
www.facebook.com/futureclassic

Panama - Stay Forever

Rökkurró self-release their new album in late 2014, on CD, Vinyl and Digitally. The album release was preceded by the debut single The Backbone (released on 11 August 2014).

Blue Skies is the second single to released on 15 September 2014.

'The Backbone' USA Premiere - Under The Radar:
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_roekkurro_the_backbone_video/

'The Backbone' UK Premiere - Q Magazine:
http://www.qthemusic.com/4575/watch-rokkurros-new-video-for-the-backbone/ 

'Killing Time' - The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2013/oct/29/rkkurr-killing-time-new-music-from-iceland

"Blue Skies is one of the first tracks we wrote for the new album. It came quite easily to us at the start but it was somehow way more of a pop song than any of the songs we'd written before. But in the studio the band had a disagreement about some elements in the song and we couldn't really agree on anything. This song kind of turned into a ticking bomb, whenever somebody mentioned... But after some months we noticed how much we missed it. So we decided to rearrange it and make some drastic changes to be able to make it fit with the other tracks on the album," explains Rökkurró vocalist Hildur Kristín Stefánsdóttir.

"The lyrics talk about fulfilling your dreams and the fact that these dreams can die, if you don't nurture them. I was having a bad day and had this feeling of when things are slipping out of your hands. I noticed that the dress I was wearing had a  blue skies pattern on it and it straight away inspired me to write this line: "Blue skies, all your dreams are dying, blue skies, come and bring them back to life." It was an instant reminder of how you sometimes just need to snap out of it and remember that blue skies are always there," continues Stefánsdóttir.

"We have performed the track a couple of times live and it was amazing to feel the energy in the venue completely changing. Many people came afterwards and talked to us about this song. I feel people can relate very much to it."


Some praise for Rökkurró:  

“Warm, wonderfully textured” -  Lauren Down on The Guardian (UK)

"Warm and inviting like a thermal spring" - NME (UK)  

"If Rökkurró can keep up this kind of achievement, they’ll soon find themselves standing proudly next to their nation’s greats." - The Line Of Best Fit (UK)  

"Their music does go some way to representing that image in sound, complete with the cold landscape of Iceland outside because the Reykjavik residents create that equally grand and delicate sound that, for some reason, only Nordic bands seem capable of pulling off."  - CMU Daily (UK)

“Rökkurró have a cello-playing frontwoman with a lovely voice and songs to match.” - Clash Magazine (UK)

"Beautiful orchestral sounds" - KEXP Radio (US)

Blue Skies

Exclusive reggae version of recent Bombay Bicycle Club single 'Lights Out, Words Gone'. Released as part of the 'Leave It' EP on the 1st January 2012. 

The original version of 'Lights Out, Words Gone' is taken from the album 'A Different Kind of Fix' available now via Island Records. 

'Lights Out, Words Gone' (Rub A Dub version) is produced by Jack Steadman

Leave It

Lights Out, Words Gone (Rub A Dub)

Voyeur's remix of Bombay Bicycle Club's 'How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep' http://bit.ly/wMMNG1

The Album ' A Different Kind Of Fix' is out now: http://bit.ly/qGehYF

http://www.bombaybicycleclubmusic.com/
http://www.facebook.com/bombaybicycleclub
https://twitter.com/bombaybicycle

How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep

How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep (Voyeur Mix)

Bombay Bicycle Club- Beg (Tom Moulton Mix)

Available to buy now: http://bit.ly/BBCBeg

Tom Moulton is an American record producer credited with being the Father of the Disco mix.  He also helped popularise the breakdown section as well as the 12 inch single vinyl format.

The Album ' A Different Kind Of Fix' is out now: http://bit.ly/qGehYF
http://www.bombaybicycleclubmusic.com/
http://www.facebook.com/bombaybicycleclub
https://twitter.com/bombaybicycle


Beg (Tom Moulton Mix)

Asthmatic Kitty Records is an independent record label that was co-founded by Lowell Brams and his stepson, singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, in 1999. Since its founding, AKR has released albums by a variety of artists, including Lily & Madeleine, My Brightest Diamond and Helado Negro, and is currently home to Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine, Denison Witmer and The Welcome Wagon. 

Asthmatic Kitty was named after Sara, an orange and white tabby who wandered out of the woods pregnant and starving near Holland, Michigan in 1994. For fourteen years she brought joy as a beloved friend to Lowell, enjoying a happy life despite her initial hardships. Her asthma improved after moving west to New Mexico and Wyoming, where she lived out her days as an asthmatic kitty in name only.

My Brightest Diamond, "Lover/Killer"

asthmatickitty