3-track EP

Written and performed by The Auras. "I Believe in Everything" Written and performed by Tess Parks & The Auras. Produced and Engineered by Jose Contreras. Special Thanks to Napoleon Hill and Optical Sounds.

Islands In the Sea

Cuban Cigars is the first single from WALL's self titled 7" EP out on Wharf Cat Records on 1/15!  Pre-order your record here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/wall-st-7-ep

Pre-order on Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wall-ep/id1056743936

Personnel
Vanessa Gomez
Vince McClelland
Elizabeth Skadden 
Samantha York

RIYL
Alternative TV, Au Pairs, B52s, Devo, Finally Punk, Pill, Pylon, Robert Quine, Suburban Lawns

Words
With each sonic movement on the introductory self-titled EP from New York’s WALL there's a commitment to defend a punctuated duality between curiosity and triumph. After all, what’s a band worth but its message? A certain self-awareness of the very question is at the heart of the WALL apparatus and listening along as they discover themselves throughout this EP is invigorating and scary. Tone and rhythm whirl together, like an emergency exit door choreographed to swing flawlessly in time to its damned and chaotic Pavlovian alarm bell. From the first rigid and cautious seconds of their EP, WALL unleashes an uncanny self-awareness that methodically slips pages ripped from demented No Wave legacies through a shredder of their own design. Their spirit is exceptional and candid; generous heaps of raw energy and inspired moments of tension demand repeat rotations on your turntable. With this debutante artifact, WALL have invited the world to witness the birth of a toxic-new tempestuous bloodwave of post-punk, exactly the transfusion the scene needs to stay alive.


WALL - Cuban Cigars

'She's A Cult' is taken from Ulrika Spacek's debut album, The Album Paranoia, released 5th February 2016. 

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iTunes -  http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.iTunes 

Press Release:
Formed in Berlin in one night, longstanding friends Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams conceptualised ‘Ulrika Spacek’ and came up with The Album Paranoia as their debut album title. Moving back to their shared house ‘KEN’ last summer, an ex art gallery in Homerton, they began work on the project which was to become 10 track experimental alt-rock masterpiece The Album Paranoia. Today Ulrika Spacek premiere their first gripping single, ‘She’s a Cult’, on the Quietus.  

Ulrika Spacek’s soundscape is a cross pollination of hypnotic fuzz, with Tom Verlaine (Television) and Stephen Malkmus (Pavement) guitar idiosyncrasies and intertwining feelings of both angst and melancholia. Drawing influences from Krautrock to Sonic Youth and the above, the two Rhys’ brought in three expert musicians to complete the live formula, which unified The Album Paranoia and ‘Oysterland’, a series of club nights curated by the band, showcasing their first live performances with art installations.

Live shows
05.12.15 - Unit 6, Hackney Wick, London.
17.12.15 - Oysterland at The Victoria, London.

iTunes

Ulrika Spacek - She's A Cult

DIG #2

'Beta Male' is taken from Ulrika Spacek's debut album, The Album Paranoia, released 5th February 2016.

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Rough Trade - http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.RT
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Ulrika Spacek - Beta Male

Taken from 'Fall Seattle', Fall Seattle's debut album, released via Faux Discx (previous releases include Hookworms, Monotony, Sauna Youth, Cold Pumas and many more) on 5th February and is available on limited edition tape cassette (just 100 worldwide) and digital download.

PRE ORDER HERE:
http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/fall-seattle-st

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Fall Seattle is a four-piece rock band formed in 2012 in Reston, Virginia, USA.

After spending over two years recording at friends' houses and family basements, the band is finally releasing their self-titled debut album. Expressing a love for krautrock bands such as Can, Faust, and Kraftwerk, as well as pop, post-hardcore, post-punk and noise acts, ‘Fall Seattle’ is a kaleidoscope of influences and tries on an array of genres for size.

From the one-two snap of snare-in-to-wash of shoegaze-y melody that kicks off ‘Wanda Johnson’, to the dark jangle of the Cure-esque ‘Nothing You Can Hold On To’, via the Deerhunter meets Roy Orbison, aching balladry of ‘Boyhood’, Fall Seattle drink in some high watermarks of contemporary guitar music.

There’s a youthful longing underpinning much of this debut album, with the instrumentation sometimes smashing up against, but more often complementing, Orsy Campos’ delicate, melodic vocal lines. The guitar playing recalls the twists and turns of modern jangle-heroes Real Estate, albeit processed via some kind of space-rock filter, not content with the suburban backyards of America, looking upwards and outwards in to the void for sonic resolution.

FALL SEATTLE – Wanda Johnson

Released on March 18th, 2016

Digital: smarturl.it/noworrynomind
Physical: http://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/no-worry-no-mind

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