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Fresh from dropping ‘Goes Black’ last month, NYC quartet Big Ups return with ‘Wool’, the next cut to whet appetites ahead of debut album, Eighteen Hours of Static, due for European release on 13th January 2014 through Tough Love Records. Dead Labour handle the US release.

'Wool' seethes with a slow burning intensity, building towards a bilious climax. The track is peppered with a youthful exuberance and reckless abandon while still holding true to a melodic song writing core, coming across how Fugazi would sound if MacKaye loosened up and kicked back with a beer from time to time.

The band, made up of Brendan Finn, Joe Galarraga, Amar Lal, and Carlos Salguero Jr., met whilst learning about specifications of Cat 5 cables in New York City. Shortly after, they formed a band. Since that glamorous meeting in 2010, Big Ups have refined their blend of punk, post-punk, metal, and indie rock into a salty mash that gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. At their brightest, they have been likened to The Descendents, but at their sludgiest, they call to mind bands like Pissed Jeans and The Jesus Lizard.

Big Ups - Wool

Bellows is the recording project of songwriter Oliver Kalb, started during the winter of 2010, after a blizzard hit the Hudson Valley and left the area deeply covered in snow. Bellows was a return to small thoughts, an attempt to exorcise feelings of loss and detachment into a living space, allowing the songs to breathe their own air and evolve naturally. The sound of Bellows is sensory and delicate, subtle and quiet but erupting with frantic wobbling drums, large orchestral sections and bursts of noise that defy the limitations of pop and folk. Though the origins of Bellows are bleak, the music is meant to be an encouraging listening experience, an embrace of something dark in the hopes of bringing new light into life.

Bellows second album, Blue Breath, will be available on vinyl via Dead Labour in August.

Bellows, "White Sheet"

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