20160300 March

From the forthcoming album entitled:

A Band Is Something To Figure Out -- Out April 12, 2016

"So far my favorite record of the year - Captain's Dead

Get a download of this song right now by pre-ordering at:
https://hallelujahthehills.bandcamp.com/album/a-band-is-something-to-figure-out

What Do The People Want

From the album EARS released April 1st 2016 on Western Vinyl

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Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
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TOUR DATES
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

Juliana Hatfield covers "Needle In The Hay" for "Say Yes! A Tribute To Elliott Smith" out now on CD, LP, Cassette, and Digitally. Order today from Amazon, iTunes and everywhere fine records are sold.

Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith

Needle In The Hay (Elliott Smith Cover) by Juliana Hatfield

Bus:Expressions

Original version on the album Morning/Evening released on Text Records in 2015.

Evening Side (Oneohtrix Point Never edit)

Banquet

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Say Yes', out 10th June UK/17 June US. Pre-order direct from FatCat https://www.fat-cat.co.uk/release/say-yes

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Big Deal - Say Yes

Sub-Marine

Opening track on Return to Content Mountain, released as a ltd edition cassette on 18.3.16: http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/567680?preview=true

OR for US, order from Negative Fun: https://negativefunrecords.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-content-mountain

"Madeline Steinberg’s voice may be saccharine, but her exasperation is hardly veiled as she opens the record over Zoe Camp’s steadying bassline: “This one time you asked me if we could go for a ride / this one time I told you you’re not on my mind.” It sounds like a clear rejection letter, but ambivalence seeps into her voice, and soon she’s telling the other party to “take me away” over Miguel Gallego’s soft supporting vocals."
Impose on Go Away

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Drug Pizza are a four piece from NYC who formed whilst all working at the same radio station. Having snuck in out of hours to record their first EP (released in 2013), they've finally returned with a follow up - Return to Content Mountain - which marks a (slightly) more refined side to the slacker jams of their debut.

The band are previewing the EP with 'No Reaction' - a chugging Weezer-indebted pop song where singer Madeline Steinberg goes from not caring about someone breaking their arm to vowing to carve their name into her body. Jury's out on whether it's the same person.

The band describe the EP's themes as obsession, self-defeat, power, and anxiety and across the 5 tracks they definitely put in a good attempt at tackling each one whilst throwing in a whole range of influences (as you would expect from a band that met whilst working at a radio station). As well as the band's listed influences (Sleater-Kinney, Television, Pixies, Nancy Sinatra) there are pepperings of Pavement throughout and as Sinister on their last release showed, they've been doing that whole Diet Cig thing long before they started plotting world domination.

The EP is set for release on 18 March 2016 and will be jointly released by Art is Hard (UK) and Negative Fun (US).

Drug Pizza - Go Away

Live at the Black Cat, 12/28/15.  Lorelei - Matt Dingee, Stephen Gardner, Davis White and Justin Moyer.

Lorelei - Crimelab Live December 2015 DC

Taken from 'Lines + Colours' EP by Moiré, out March 25, 2016.

Follow Moiré: https://soundcloud.com/moirelines

Order vinyl + digital at The Ghostly Store: www.theghostlystore.com/products/lines-colours-ep

Lines + Colours

Moiré - Lines + Colours

From her split release with Claire Cottrill. Stream free and buy the limited cassette at www.thirdfloortapes.com 

Keel Her - Settle Down

Blunt Breath

Taken from the album 'It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry' released as LP, CD and Download

Christian Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke 'I Just Want You To Stay (excerpt)' (EMEGO 221)

PREORDER: http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/categories/gorgeous-bully-something-anorak

We're delighted to be teaming up with long-time AIH pal Gorgeous Bully as well as relative newcomers Something Anorak, for a four track split 7" due for release 27th May.

The two bands met whilst both living and playing in Cornwall in early 2011 and bonded over a shared love of boisterous lo-fi music. In the five years since, Something Anorak, consisting of cousins James and Chris Barrett, moved to Bristol; released an album on Howling Owl and split time writing music between working as a plumber and a postman. Meanwhile, Gorgeous Bully's Thomas Crang moved to Manchester and with no such restrictions on his time, has spent 5 years of unemployment ascending the stairs of bedroom-pop stardom whilst sharing a steady stream of songs that are "ugly and bummed and uncomfortable in all the right ways.

The split features two tracks from each band and is set to be released as a cherry red 7" record on May 27th.

ALSO 
We will be releasing a special Record Store Day version of this release - limited to 25 handcut & handnumbered 7" records. You'll find 5 in Rise Records in Bristol, 5 in Piccadilly in Manchester and 10 at our release show in Bristol at The Crofter's Rights that night.

Buy ltd edition 7"

Gorgeous Bully - Beaucoup

Andy Bell from Ride's version of 'Sea Of Trees', taken from Spectres' new album 'Dead'.

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20160300 March

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