Second full-length album from DM Stith

Produced by Ben Hillier in London

Pigeonheart

Human Torch

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Friday April 10th Brighton Haunt
Sat April 11th Gateshead Old Town Hall
Sun April 12th Travel day
Mon April 13th Glasgow King Tuts
Tues April 14th Manchester Deaf Institute (travel after the show)
Weds April 15th Day off london
Thursday April 16th london Olso 
Friday April 17th Bristol Exchange 
Saturday April 18th Birmingham Rainbow
Nadine Shah announces new Single Fool and Album Fast Food

Having earned an early reputation for that uniquely rich, soulful voice; Nadine Shah released her debut album Love Your Dum and Mad to critical acclaim in 2013. A stint on the road with Depeche Mode followed whilst opening for Bat for Lashes and playing live at Vivienne Westwood's Red Label London Fashion Week show provided notable highlights on an extensive tour. Created with trusted collaborator and producer Ben Hillier, the excellent follow-up Fast Food is out on 6 April via Apollo / R&S Records.

Born from a fervent two-month writing session, Fast Food exists on a knife-edge – every bit as dramatic as we’ve come to expect from Nadine but with a sharpened eye for all things hook laden; retaining a brooding grandeur in its musical movements. 

Building on the bruised honesty and charm of its predecessor, Fast Food rings with the confidence of an artist completing their most coherent musical chapter to date. “The last album took so long to make that by the time it came out it didn’t feel like it was a very clear representation of where I was musically, but this time it’s different,” Nadine explains. Fast Food is a more concentrated effort: it is the sound of Nadine Shah as she is now, stepping out from behind the piano and growing with immeasurable confidence.

Nadine admits that Fast Food is a reflection upon short lived, intense, complicated relationships. "I suppose it's a coming of age album of sorts lyrically. Rejecting the romanticised idea of 'perfect' love and maturing in respects to relationships and accepting partners pasts".

With love comes heartbreak: “But it isn’t begging for your sympathy, it doesn’t wallow in self-pity” adds Nadine. “It’s unapologetic and, I hope, empowering.”

Speaking of the scarcity of keys on the new album Nadine says: “I felt quite restricted just sat behind the piano all the time on stage, so touring really catered for the way this record sounds. Everything started on guitar whereas last time Ben re-wrote piano parts for the guitar.” All the more addictive for their rarity, the piano provides light relief to Nadine’s all-important, enigmatic vocals. Yearning and tender yet billowing and aggressive; they weave a tale full of anxiety, vulnerability and nightmares. 

Setting the pace with this beguiling and exhilarating listen, Fast Food cements Nadine Shah as one of the UK’s most exciting and enthralling talents. Whether it’s the brutal honesty of the love stories, the brooding, crystalline guitars or even the rich, soulful vibrancy of her voice, Fast Food is an immediate, lavish and wholly vital album for 2015. 

‘Fool’ is the album at its most bitter, but like everything Nadine touches there is a wry humour and sweetness beneath the poised menace of its guitars and spitting lyrics. “When I mention damn Nick Cave and Kerouac, I’m pointing out someone’s predictable nature, but Kerouac is my favourite author and Nick Cave is my favourite musician” she explains, tongue firmly in cheek. 

Fast Food

Fool

Songs like this seemed to pour from Jason, without end, snaking behind him like a gunpowder trail. I didn't know him well enough to know what else was behind his song, moving at the same speed. 

This song, from Jason Molina's "Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go," was the song that caught up with me. I must've bought the record right after college cuz it was already an old friend by the time I bumped into the man on the street in Bloomington Indiana. I'd just started working on music and thanked him for this song that night in front of the Buskirk Chumley Theatre on my way to a friends' house. He didn't shrink from the compliment. Instead he thanked me back and then asked what brought me to Bloomington, what I thought of it, if I was a musician myself, if I'd like to play him a song, etc. I was pretty stunned by the social grace of this guy. 

Happy birthday, Jason. Wish I could meet you again now that I'm a little older. I wish more people felt the way I do about your music and I wish you could've found your health before things caught up. 

To everybody else, Happy New Year! 2016 will be a good year. 

- DM

Buy the original here: http://secretlycanadian.com/onesheet.php?cat=SC149

Get Out Get Out Get Out (Jason Molina Cover)

Here's a version of the song "Cone of Silence" which will be on an album someday in a different form. Recorded at the Doghouse, January 2016. Written, recorded and performed by DM Stith.  

Stay warm kiddies. 



SNOW CONE

From the upcoming record Private Energy out October 7th


Lyrics:
My skin glows in the dark shines in the light 
Its the color that holds me tight 
My brown me is the shade thats just for me 
I’m never not missing anything but me. 

Cuz i love you 
and i can’t miss anything but you 
your stuck on me 
and all this time I’m inside you 

Our time together we grow 
we stretch and show 
its tough as it goes and it won’t rub off of you 

There’s friends of similar shades 
of different ways 
who feel the same way don’t ever forget them 

its your brown skin 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe 
it will keep you safe

Private Energy

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It's My Brown Skin

New mini-album 'Night Melody' out August 5th
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More info: www.rivalconsoles.net

London-based electronic songwriter Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles to release his most personal work to date in the form of a mini-album titled ‘Night Melody’ through Erased Tapes on 5th August 2016.

During the release of his acclaimed full-length album ‘Howl’ and heavy touring in late 2015, Ryan came out of a long relationship and found himself making music throughout the winter months. The result of his efforts is a 34-minute, 6-track mini album ‘Night Melody’, born out of and shaped by long hours working into the night. It’s nocturnal in sound; mysterious in the way that the early hours so often are.

“I found myself, in a silent home, with the days getting dark very early. I’ve never before in my life been affected by the lack of light so much. I just remember it always being night time. I would either make music into the night, go out drinking with friends, or go to parties and dance into the early hours, every day, week after week, month after month, until eventually the days became brighter again.”

The opening statement ‘Pattern of the North’ starts off with a collage of spliced synth melodies, inspired by anxiety that accompanies going home for Christmas. It’s followed by ‘Johannesburg’, an early sketch gradually filled out during his tour in South Africa. 

“After playing it around some of the cities, I got a lot of inspiration to bring it to life and push it into something that really moves me. I think this is one of my most colourful pieces of music, with its driving rhythm and almost a homage to Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ towards the end, with a build of very simple, hypnotic parts. I especially love that for over five minutes the piece is tied to just one note. This makes the ending very dramatic, because all of a sudden there is this harmonic change.”

‘Lone’ started life around the time Ryan was working on his ‘Sonne’ EP in 2014. It’s the result of constant adjustments to find the perfect balance of fragility and assurance. As everything on the album, it’s a carefully considered, emotionally mature piece. “I think, as I get older, I need music to represent something and not just sound interesting, though of course the two are connected.”

The closing statement ‘What Sorrow’ is a fitting end to the album, building from gentle melancholia to a joyous crescendo. It’s a sensibility that’s central to the record; joy and sorrow both find their counterpoints.

“This record is very personal to me and I hope it offers something for other people, as it helped me to make it and to listen to it. Almost every synth line was recorded intuitively, without perfection but with a lot of intention and expression. I’m not interested in making something sad or making something happy. I want music to be bittersweet, to be more complex, like life – containing moments of vibrant colour and hope, as much as darkness and sadness.”

This summer will see Ryan follow on from his recent North American Tour with the appearance at many festivals including Lovebox, Secret Garden Party, La Route Du Rock, Sea Change and Tale of Us-curated Afterlife party at Space, Ibiza. ‘Night Melody’ will be available on 12” vinyl and digitally, August 5th.

TRACK LISTING:  	

A1. Pattern Of The North
A2. Johannesburg
A3. Slow Song

B1. Lone
B2. Night Melody
B3. What Sorrow

Night Melody

Johannesburg

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Rival Consoles - Johannesburg

From the forthcoming album Private Energy out October 7th

Lyrics:
And I feel invincible 
without your wisdom 
but i feel invisible 
without your wit 
and there's no easy way 
for me to make
this transmission 
so i'll sit up high and wait for you 
to blink 

I'm fond of you
 but i don’t believe you 
and you'll lie to me 
and i'll lie to you 

and come caress me 
because you'll be gone 
and come undress me 
don’t take to long
 it's not your kindness 
that I want
 so try and stop me from getting what i want 

and it dosn’t mean
we gotta stop talking 
now ill fall asleep 
right here with you 

And I feel invincible 
without your wisdom 
but I feel invisible 
without your wit 
and there's no easy way 
for me to make
this transmission 
so i'll sit up high and wait for you 
to blink 

and blink once
 if you know me
 and blink twice
 if you heard me 
and blink again 
if you love me 

and come caress me 
because you'll be gone 
and come undress me 
don’t take to long
 it's not your kindness 
that I want 
so try and stop me 
from getting what i want 

ill try to stop you
 from getting what you want 
we'll be the only fools 
who last way to long 
we'll be stuck here the very last ones 
ooh oooh oooh oooh ooh 

Credits:
All Music: Roberto Carlos Lange

Additional Instrumentation:
Piano: Trey Pollard
Guitar: Owen Stewart-Robertson
Saxophones: Angela Morris, Nathaniel Morgan
Arrangements: Jason Ajemian
Percussion: Matt Crum
Mastered By: Keith Reynaud

Hecho en Casa 

Transmission Listen

Watch Rival Consoles go Against The Clock: http://www.factmag.com/2016/09/08/rival-consoles-against-the-clock/

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