Eagulls - Requiem (Killing Joke Cover)

Eagulls - Where Were You? (The Mekons)

<b><i>Taken from the album, Process by YVETTE, released on 5th May 2014 in Europe on Tough Love. Many thanks to GODMODE.</b></i> 

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&&& CALL IT A PROCESS &&&
 
This record doesn’t exactly go down easy. Not that it’s misanthropic. Far from it. The first track says it all: YVETTE are pure pleasure. Loud and live and just bizarre. Some songs sound like the end of days, others like spells and sacrifices. It’s hard to imagine the people making this music as actual human beings with day jobs and girlfriends and health insurance. Frankly it’s hard to think or do much of anything when this record is on. The music has a way of throttling you, pinning you down, really scaring the shit out of you. Good stuff.
 
We are in the midst of an unfortunate Music As Term Paper era, where experimental artists don’t write music so much as theories about music. Some of that stuff is passable in a ‘sounds good drunk at a museum’ kind of way. But it’s a drag to listen to, never that rewarding to think about, and the worst kind of exclusive. Without the theory, you can’t hear their song…
 
YVETTE take the opposite approach. The music is not anti-intellectual, but given their emphasis on the physical, I’d say it’s anti-intellectualizing. You don’t need a theory to get this record. If anything, you need to be deprogrammed. A lot of these songs strike me as doing just that – trying to teach us how to get past our own bullshit. To forget how to listen, to remember how to hear. Move through the signifiers, the context, the endless referentiality. Melt us to the core until all we feel is the thing itself.
 
And so we get a song like “Attrition.” On one hand, it’s the most straightforward thing on the record. On the other, the song doesn’t feel built up so much cut in half – bones and nerves and ventricles all firing in plain sight. Like one of those human anatomy sculptures, you experience all layers, all at once. You could say YVETTE have a way of taking you out of your own skull, but if only for the sake of tidy metaphor, let’s go with the converse: YVETTE never want you to forget you are a body.
 
These are songs, to be sure – just not songs you merely listen to. Your entertainment is a by-product of some hidden spiritual agenda. Here I go again with the voodoo stuff. Maybe it’s because it’s all so elemental – the pummeling toms (“Carbon Copy”), the three-note cherub melody that morphs with every repetition (“Everything In Reverse”), the painful blasts of feedback (“Tempered Glass”) and sub-bass (“Absolutes”) – but these songs really do something to you. They really shake you up.
 
For all this talk of getting back to nature, I owe you an admission: We didn’t exactly shit this one out. The band and I recorded live in a converted auto garage, with cranky wiring and bad isolation and no chance whatsoever this would sound like a studio record. It was a cursed space, and what I witnessed those weekends was nothing short of a seance. (If you listen closely, you can hear the fallen hum.) Most songs went through eleven or twelve rounds of remixing, never to build up but to break down, to get the sound rawer, to rid the music of any and all deliberation. Call it a process, he says!
 
This record took over our lives for many months – the first thing we thought about when we woke up, the last thing we thought about before we went to sleep.  We will not profit off this record, most people will not hear it, and of those who do, many will not like it. We could protect our egos with visions of life after death, but that’s the worst kind of hubris. The night before we turned in final mixes, I just had to know. “Why did we do this?” I asked Noah. “What are we doing?”
 
He couldn’t tell me. Neither could I. But such is the privilege of being a servant – of humbling ourselves before a vision much bigger than either of us realized.
 
-Nick Sylvester

YVETTE:
Noah Kardos-Fein: guitar, vocals, electronics
Dale Eisinger: drums, electronics
PROCESS:
Recorded at Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
Mixed at Sound City, Brooklyn NY
Mastered by Sarah Register at The Lodge, New York NY
Produced by Nick Sylvester

YVETTE - Pure Pleasure

To mark their forthcoming tour with Eagulls, and to bridge a gap between their last EP and debut album, AUTOBAHN have recorded their own version of 'New Age' by Blitz and made it available as a free download. 

"We wanted to record something to bridge the gap between our last release on Tough Love Records and the album we are recording in January. This song grabs you by the balls, makes you forget about life's problems and kicks out against those who don't care. The original is a go to record of all of ours which we enjoyed playing live over our release shows earlier in the year. This free download is to give back to everyone who's supported us over the past year - thanks" - C. Johnson, AUTOBAHN

Catch AUTOBAHN throughout October at the below dates

Tour dates -
Tue 7th Oct @ Portland Arms, Cambridge w/EAGULLS
Wed 8th Oct @ Fruit, Hull w/EAGULLS
Thu 9th Oct @ The Cluny, Newcastle w/EAGULLS
Fri 10th Oct @ Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh w/EAGULLS
Thu 16th Oct @ Papirøen, Copenhagen
Fri 17th Oct @ Youth Ceremonies Festival (SO 36), Berlin
Sat 18th Oct @ Molotow, Hamburg
Sat 25th Oct @ The Cookie, Leicester *ALL DAYER*
Wed 29th Oct @ Bodega Social, Nottingham w/EAGULLS
Thu 30th Oct @ Scala, London w/EAGULLS
Fri 31st Oct @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds w/EAGULLS
Sat 1st Nov @ Sound Control, Manchester w/EAGULLS


AUTOBAHN - New Age (free download)

"There was snow on the ground, sun shining and I thought to myself, 'if I were to crash and die here, at least it would be a really beautiful place to die.'"

AUTOBAHN - 'Beautiful Place to Die'
The Nave ≈ 01/15
00:04:07
8th April 2015
(...)

AUTOBAHN - Dissemble
The Nave ≈ 01/15
00:39:34
21st August 2015
(...)

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AUTOBAHN - Beautiful Place To Die

Taken from the album, Dissemble, out 21st August 2015

'Immaterial Man' is taken from the debut album, Dissemble, out 21st August 2015. 

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Dissemble press release:

“I don't have any repressed emotions that I know of. The world I write about is a jaded version of reality, but where it comes from isn't quite apparent to me yet”

Following the release of two self-titled EPs over the past 12 months, AUTOBAHN announce details of debut album, Dissemble, out on 21st August via Tough Love. Dissemble was recorded with Matt Peel at The Nave, a hometown studio situated in the wholly appropriate setting of a disused church. The band co-produced the record with Peel over six intense weeks at the start of 2015, dedicating all of their time to the studio and taking potentially unhealthy cues from the legacy of notorious obsessive, Martin Hannett. The result is an album that pushes the band through various degrees of light and shade, but ultimately into new, unexpected sonic spaces.  

“You need to remember all of this world I write about is a warped reality of people I've known or experiences I've been in. I think you can just tell when a bands from Leeds, can't you?”
Motivated by the encouragement of a supportive local scene, AUTOBAHN formed in Leeds in early 2013, and immediately began playing live across the north of England. Those early forays across the Pennines were vital in not only helping the band form their own sound, but also hold a symbolic role in understanding their genesis. The North as both idea and identity is integral to what AUTOBAHN are, where post-industrial landscapes intersect with sudden wide open spaces, a place where community is central, but loneliness can be palpable. There’s a dark, oppressive edge to their music, but a hopefulness too. Sisters of Mercy, yes, but also brothers in arms. 

“The first track was intended to be a link to the past records. We leave the past behind after that.”

AUTOBAHN first came to the attention of Tough Love via a local support slot with Tampa romantics, Merchandise, and reached the wider world with the release of two now sold out 12”s. Those first recordings suggested a classic modern punk band with a penchant for death and glamour, and an impatience to be heard. Time and touring has afforded them the ability to shift gear significantly, and the renewed ambition of Dissemble stands as testament to that. The band were immediately a thrilling live force, but on this album they’re wider, more urgent when they want to be, more thoughtful when required. Dissemble is an appropriate title (meaning to conceal one’s true motives), because there’s something canny at work here. The surface suggests despair, but scratch deeper and the lyrics display a lightness of touch that skewers the over-earnest and overly-serious.   

“Dissemble is a twisted romantic view of how AUTOBAHN think: don’t take life too seriously”

Life is a joke, but AUTOBAHN aren’t laughing. How could they?




Vinyl

AUTOBAHN - Immaterial Man

'Society' is taken from the debut album, Dissemble, out 21st August 2015.

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AUTOBAHN have today announced a full UK tour in support of their forthcoming debut album Dissemble (due 21st August on Tough Love). The band will play a special hometown show at Brudenell Social Club, Leeds on 22nd August, just after an appearance in London at Old Blue Last on 21st. 

AUTOBAHN LIVE 
21 Aug - Old Blue Last, London 
22 Aug - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 
02 Sep - Crauford Arms, Milton Keynes 
03 Sep - The Bullingdon, Oxford 
04 Sep - The Cookie, Leicester 
05 Sep - Sunflower, Birmingham 
06 Sep - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 
10 Sep - Gulivers, Manchester 
11 Sep - Fruit, Hull 
12 Sep - Glasgow, Audio 
13 Sep - Head of Steam, Newcastle 


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AUTOBAHN - Society

Taken from second album 'The Moral Crossing', out on 3rd November 2017 on Tough Love Records (Rest of the World) and Felte (The Americas). 

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Formats: Black Vinyl, Red vinyl (Indie stores), Red vinyl w/poster (Bandcamp), Grey vinyl (Leeds record stores only), CD, Digital


Tour Dates:
4-November: O2 - Oxford 
5-November: Brudenell Social Club - Leeds
8-November: Louisiana - Bristol
9-November: The Lexington - London
10-November: The Joker - Brighton  
11-November: Heartbreakers - Southampton
16-November: The Cookie - Leicester
17-November: Record Junkee - Sheffield
18-November: Undegun - Wrexham
22-November: Broadcast - Glasgow
23-November: Sneaky Pete - Edinburgh
24-November: Ku Bar - Stockton-on-Tees
25-November: The White Hotel - Manchester

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The Moral Crossing

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