No talk, just Rawk

2014 part 3

freshvibesmonday #29

Popapotamus

New Music Friday / Weekend Roundup for 23.05.2014

Training - Rock

Best tracks: 04-06

Culotte

Reignwolf - Are You Satisfied?

Snakedog

The "Definition Sickness" album is available now at: http://tinyurl.com/DefinitionSickness 

Stand outs in the indie-rap haven of Minnesota, No Bird Sing combines the talents of emcee Joe Horton, drummer/producer Graham O'Brien, and guitarist/producer Robert Mulrennan. With Definition Sickness, the trio has maintained the integrity of their live-band roots while exploring a more produced sound that ranges from stark minimalism to lush expansiveness. 

The first single, “DON’T THINK”, is a brooding track where Horton shares vocal duties with SFR label head SAGE FRANCIS. Other guests on the album include FIX cohorts Crescent Moon (Kill the Vultures) and Kristoff Krane, as well as Sadistik, Chastity Brown, James Diers (Halloween, Alaska), Aby Wolf, Adam Svec and Molly Dean.

NBS released their eponymous debut to critical acclaim in 2009. Their 2011 follow-up, "Theft of the Commons", along with the US tour dates that followed, served to expand their loyal, burgeoning fanbase across the Midwest and beyond. 

Their SFR debut,  Definition Sickness, offers a meditative commentary on modern life, owing much to leftist political theorists like Howard Zinn as well as Eastern-leaning philosophers like Alan Watts and Lao Tzu. Musically the dark, transcendent instrumentation of the record creates a rich and varied soundscape that will immediately entice fans of multiple genres. Repeat listeners will be rewarded by both the layered lyrical themes and the ear candy that’s provided by the nuanced sonic compositions. 

"If you took away the vocals, you'd never know it was hip hop," admits drummer/producer Graham O'Brien. "We're just investigating the relationship between hip hop and other genres—taking the spoken, rhythmic word and putting it in other places."  

"That's what creativity is," vocalist Horton says. "It's coming to this point where you don't know exactly what you're doing and having to figure out what to do. The second you're not doing that, you're just rehashing old shit."
http://StrangeFamousRecords.com

the FULL ALBUM is HERE

"Don't Think" - NO BIRD SING feat. SAGE FRANCIS

Royal Blood's new single 'Come On Over' is out now! Download at http://smarturl.it/RBComeOnOver?IQid=soundcloud

Available in the US on the 'Out Of The Black' EP. Get your copy here: http://smarturl.it/iRoyalBlood?IQid=soundcloud

Royal Blood - Out Of The Black - Released 11th November 2013

Available now to purchase digitally from iTunes - http://smarturl.it/out-of-the-black

Produced by Royal Blood & Tom Dalgety.
Recorded & Mixed by Tom Dalgety

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Royal Blood

Out of the Black

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SEA LION - Sage Francis, Will Oldham, Saul Williams

From The Pack A.D.'s album Do Not Engage available now (avail in EU / GSA March 17)
iTunes -  http://smarturl.it/donotengage

The Pack A.D. - Animal

Flatbush ZOMBiES - Club Soda feat. Action Bronson

Taken from 'PEAKS' E.P. Recorded at Studio 56, Sheffield, December 2013. Mixed by Ben Alexander Walter.

Purchase: https://peaks7.bandcamp.com

All rights belong to their respective owner, Peaks.

Artwork by Sanchia Rodrigues - www.flickr.com/photos/icewouldsuffice/

Eros

TLC (Feat. Action Bronson, Flatbush Zombies, Yams & Bari)(Produced by. V.Don)

Taken from the album, Process by YVETTE, released on 5th May 2014 in Europe on Tough Love. Many thanks to GODMODE.

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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 - Radiation

Taken from Cloud Nothings' brand new album "Here and Nowhere Else", coming April 1 on Carpark/Mom+Pop (US), and March 31 on Wichita (UK/EU).

Pre-order now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/nowhereelse
Pre-order now on deluxe LP, standard LP, and CD: http://cloudnothings.com

04/01 on Carpark/Mom+Pop (US) 
03/31 on Wichita Recordings (UK/EU)
03/26 on Hostess (JP)
03/28 on Stop Start (Aus/NZ)
04/01 on Hi-Note (Taiwan/China/Hong Kong)

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Psychic Trauma

Released on June 10, 2014.

Digital: https://itunes.apple.com/album/nausea/id845312726 
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/nausea

Craft Spells // "Breaking The Angle Against The Tide"

"Country Kills" is the first single from Popstrangers' new album "Fortuna".

Buy Here

Popstrangers - Country Kills

Taylor McFerrin - The Antidote (feat. Nai Palm of Hiatus Kaiyote)  

From the forthcoming album "Early Riser" on Brainfeeder. 

Release date: 06/03/14

Taylor McFerrin - The Antidote (feat. Nai Palm)

The Roots new single off their upcoming album "And Then You Shoot Your Cousin" Coming Soon on Def Jam Recordings.

The Roots - "When The People Cheer"

Listen to The Roots' "Tomorrow" featuring Raheem Devaughn off the upcoming album "...and then you shoot your cousin." Available Everywhere May 19th!

The Roots - "Tomorrow" featuring Raheem Devaughn

"Future Husbands Past Lives" off of the new album 'In Cold Blood' out on 5/19 via SONGS/Crush Music in the US + CA, and Inertia on 5/23 in AU + NZ. Pre-order on iTunes for $7.99 and get an instant download of "They Don't Know" & "Prague" smarturl.it/incoldblood

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Future Husbands Past Lives

I took a rocket to the moon once, on a night a long time ago
The night I shuttled to the moon was quite a fright and very cold
Look out the window see the Earth disappear 
The shuttle lands and it was clear - I'm on a rock, oh god. 

I suited up and took my first step on the white dirt we see from home.
Seven steps I look behind me to see my shuttle, it had flown. 
I try to run in its direction, make my footprints fly. 
I didn't make the connection. My shuttles home, I'm gonna cry

And the tears in my helmet made it hard to see. 
My head started spinning and my knees were weak
But then my ears didn't fool me,
From not to far, there was a beat,
And then some singing, yeah. 

"You are not alone"
Said the rumble, under my feet.
"I've been so alone, if you walk to me, we can meet."

It was a voice that I'd never heard, but a presence to which I was familiar.
I glide in the direction that the sound drew me. It was a long way, a journey.
The white rocks that were below me started to fight with my feet. 
The moon surface below me started to crack apart into a smile.

It was then that I realized,
I was standing on a face that I'd seen many times.
And then my eyes weren't playing games,
From right below me, there was a smile,
And then some singing, yeah. 

"You are not alone"
Said the rumble, under my feet.
"I've been so alone, if you walk to me, we can meet."
"You are not alone"
Said the rumble, under my feet.
"I've been so alone, it was a matter of time
(matter of time)
For you to save me
(save me)
It was a matter of time
(it was a matter of time)
For you to save me, dooo doo doo dooooo

Do do do

I had become the savior of the man on the moon.
I'd stay to solve his loneliness and not go home soon.
And all we had was this old tune,
In not too long, we'd kill the gloom.


Moon

"Distress" is the third single from Popstrangers' new album "Fortuna".

Buy the album here

Popstranges -  Distress

Raw Exit appears on POLIÇA's forthcoming 'Shulamith (Deluxe Edition)' digitally and on the 'Raw Exit 10"' physically.

Pre-order now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/shulamithdeluxe

Shulamith

Raw Exit

Sharon Van Etten, 'Are We There' out May 27th (May 26th in the UK) on Jagjaguwar. 

Pre-order the album now:
iTunes: <a href="http://smarturl.it/sharonvanetten3?IQid=vevo">"http://smarturl.it/sharonvanetten3</a>
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SCD/Jag bundle: <a href="http://smarturl.it/sharonvanetten?IQid=vevo">"http://smarturl.it/sharonvanetten</a>
Indies: <a href="http://smarturl.it/sharonvanetten4?IQid=vevo">"http://smarturl.it/sharonvanetten4</a>


Sharon Van Etten
Artist Page http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=vanettensharon
Website http://sharonvanetten.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SharonVanEttenMusic
Twitter https://twitter.com/sharonvanetten
Instagram http://instagram.com/sharonvanhalen

Sharon Van Etten - "Taking Chances" from 'Are We There' out May 27th (May 26th in the UK) on Jagjaguwar.

TOUR DATES:
[all tickets: <a href="http://bit.ly/sve_tour">jagjaguwar.com/tour</a>]

Sun. May 25 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique Grand Salon (Nuits Botanique)
Wed. May 28 - Paris, FR @ Café de la Danse
Fri. May 30 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Sun. June 1 - Koln, DE @ Studio 672
Mon. June 2 - Berlin, DE @ Privatclub
Tue. June 3 - Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet	
Thu. June 5 - London, UK @ KOKO
Wed. June 11 - Boston, MA @ Sinclair
Thu. June 12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall at Williamsburg (Northside Festival)
Fri. June 13 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Sat. June 14 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Tue. June 17 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Wed. June 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
Thu. June 19 - Millvale, PA @ Mr. Small's
Fri. June 20 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
Sat. June 21 - Nashville, TN @ Exit In
Tue. June 24 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Wed. June 25 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Sat. June 28 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
Sun. June 29 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Mon. June 30 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Wed. July 2 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
Thu. July 3 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
Sat. July 5 - George, WA @ Sasquatch Festival
Sun. July 6 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
Tue. July 8 - Calgary, AB @ Republik
Wed. July 9 - Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Room
Mon. July 14 - Fargo, ND @ Aquarium
Wed. July 16 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Thu. July 17 - Madison, WI @ University of Wisconsin
Fri. July 18 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Sat. July 19-Sun. July 20 - Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
Thu. Aug. 7 – Sun. Aug. 9 – Goteborg, SE @ Way Out West
Sat. Aug. 9 – Olso, NO @ Øyafestivalen
Tue. Aug. 12 – Bezirk-Landstrasse, AU @ Arena Wien Open Air
Fri. Aug. 15 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop
Sat. Aug. 16 – Crickhowell, UK @ Glanusk Park – Green Man Festival

Are We There

Your Love is Killing Me

Pre-order on Amazon

Sharon Van Etten - "Your Love Is Killing Me"

"Use Your Delusion" is the second single from Greys' debut album " If Anything".

Buy this album

Greys - Use Your Delusion

Röyksopp and @Robyn - Do It Again (@Moullinex Remix) 

Remix bundle available on iTunes: smarturl.it/diarmxbun?IQid=soundcloud

Bundle features remixes from: @moby, @denizkoyu, @issacchristopher, @inflagranti, @patrickpache, @wearezoostation and @taitotikaro & @flaviozarza

'Do It Again' is taken from the 'Do It Again' mini album, which will be released on 26th May 2014. This mini album is a precursor to bigger things from Röyksopp. The inevitable end of the campaign will bring their new album...

Pre-order the album and download 'Do It Again' now, on iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/ryxpdiamp3

The album will also be available on CD & Vinyl:
CD http://smarturl.it/rxypdiacd?IQid=soundcloud
Vinyl http://smarturl.it/rxypdiavinyl?IQid=soundcloud

Listen to 'Monument' from the same album here: http://youtu.be/Nek-IvGpe0w


New Track

Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (Moullinex Remix)

Jack White's "Lazaretto" is available here:  https://thirdmanstore.com/jack-white-lazaretto-12-vinyl

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Lazaretto

Smokestack Lighting

Jack White - "Just One Drink" Clip

'Always Boys' is taken from the new Big Deal 'Sakura' EP - released on 14/15 July on Mute. 

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Big Deal - Always Boys

Recorded and produced by MJ at Suburban Home Studio, March 2014.

Kult Country Live:
1st July - London - Sebright Arms
4th July - Manchester - The Eagle

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Buy 7"

Kult Country - Trembling Moon (Single Version)

@option4

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Donell Jones - U Know What's Up (option4 Remix)

Buy
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/AUTOBAHN.EP2&#13;
12" - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv073-autobahn-autobahn-2-ep-pre-order&#13;
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Leeds-based five-piece AUTOBAHN follow last year’s sold out debut EP, 1., with a second 3-track 12”, out 7th July. 2. channels the same aggressive post-punk of their debut, but feels sharper, more focused in its intent. And it’s hardly surprising – the first EP was a document of the band’s first three songs. Time has afforded the chance to hone the creative process with an almost military precision: cut the excess; find the point; hammer it home.&#13;
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If that approach recalls the crack-the-whip intensity of early Greg Ginn-led Black Flag rehearsals (legend states that Ginn would have the band practice 8 hours a day, 6 days a week), then it’s fitting of the conditions in which the music was conceived. AUTOBAHN’s practice room also plays host to Leeds’ DIY hardcore/punk venue, and elements of that lifestyle have filtered into these new songs, in spirit if not aesthetic. Indeed, AUTOBAHN should not be mistaken for a hardcore band and its associated dogma. There’s too great a range of influences at play – current listening includes Chron Gen, Tubeway Army and Rowland S. Howard. This breadth of influence has informed the band from conception, but it’s never been as manifest as on 2. You can hear it on the krautrock-inspired EP closer, ‘Ulcer’, with its metronomic intensity and subtle-but-persistent synth line, and in the myriad of guitar lines that close ‘Pale Skin’. A nod must also be made here to producer Matt Peel, who the band credits for pushing their songwriting in new directions.&#13;
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A more tangible influence stems from AUTOBAHN’s frequent touring, particularly the gigs shared with label mates Girls Names and fellow Loiners, Eagulls. In fact, ‘Unhinged’ was written on the guitar of Eagulls’ member, Mark Goldworthy. You can take that shared resource as illustrative of a general psychic bond between the bands that speaks of an imagined community. Despite the generally dark thematic concerns of the music, there’s an implicit sense of hope, as AUTOBAHN’s singer, Craig, attests:&#13;
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“Ulcer is an appropriate gateway to the album we’re writing - the chorus is quite twisted ('Full breath as life just decays, cut deep, no worth, not this way') - but every time I hear that outro, it always fills me with real optimism and lifts me. The song is about death anxiety, which I don't have anymore at all.“&#13;
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Thu 22nd May @ The 100 Club, London w/White Lung&#13;
Fri 23rd May @ The Duchess, York w/Chameleons Vox&#13;
Sun 25th May @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds w/Chameleons Vox&#13;
Mon 26th May @ Fruit, Hull w/Chameleons Vox&#13;
Fri 20th Jun @ The Camden Crawl 2014 (Proud), London&#13;
Sat 21st Jun @ The Camden Crawl 2014 (Lock Tavern), London&#13;
Thu 10th Jul @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds - EP launch show&#13;
Fri 11th Jul @ The Victoria, London - EP launch show&#13;
Sat 12th Jul @ The Hope, Brighton&#13;
Sat 26th Jul @ Tramlines (The Harley), Sheffield&#13;
Sat 9th Aug @ Beacons Festival, Skipton&#13;
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Further info from Leah Wilson at In House Press&#13;
Leah@inhousepress.com / 01211313131145&#13;
http://www.autobahnmusik.co.uk

iTunes

AUTOBAHN - Ulcer

New double album Wicked Nature out September 2nd.
For an instant 3 track sampler pre-order the album now at www.pledgemusic.com/thevines
Pre-Order on iTunes now at http://smarturl.it/3aquz4


Metal Zone

ROOMRUNNER - SUPER VAGUE EP 
FDR-033

MAY 15, 2012

VINYL/DIGITAL

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Roomrunner - Super Vague

METZ / Sub Pop http://www.subpop.com/artists/metz

METZ

Get Off

Taken from the brand new album "Freak Waves" out now on LP/DL via CF Records, also available digitally from http://seapinks.bandcamp.com, itunes, amazon etc. 

http://cassflick.bigcartel.com/product/sea-pinks-freak-waves-lp-dl-pre-order-now
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Sea Pinks - False Spring

FIDLAR - Cheap Beer

ACTION BRONSON - STRICTLY 4 THE JEEPS PROD. HARRY FRAUD

Action Bronson's "Saaab Stories" hits iTunes on June 11th!
Pre-order it now! http://bit.ly/saaabstories

Action Bronson - Strictly 4 My Jeeps - Dirty Edit prod. Harry Fraud

Joey Bada$$ - B.A.R'd (Ft. Action Bronson) (Prod. Chuck Strangers)

Download Action Bronson's "SAAAB Stories" EP on iTunes now! http://bit.ly/saaabstories

SAAAB Stories Produced by Harry Fraud

The Rockers (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

Established in 1999, Carpark Records is an independent record label based in Washington DC.  