EPR Weekly Roundup 2016 #2 W/C 11th Jan 2016

****3/5/16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (EP RELEASE PARTY)****
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Ski Lodge - Crush Your Heart

The first track to be taken from Yeti Lane's third album, 'L'Aurore', which is released via Sonic Cathedral and Clapping Music on March 4. 2016. Full details at http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/yeti-lane-new-album/

Pre-order links:

Vinyl - http://smarturl.it/laurorevinyl
CD - http://smarturl.it/laurorecd
iTunes - smarturl.it/lauroreitunes
Bandcamp - smarturl.it/laurorebandcamp

Further info: http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/yeti-lane-new-album/

L'Aurore

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Yeti Lane 'Good Word's Gone'

From the album Commontime, out 5th Feb

Preorder on CD, Double LP or Digital here:
Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/commmontimeitunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/commontimeamazon
Field Music Shop: http://smarturl.it/fieldmusicshop

On tour in the UK and US in 2016 - full dates here:
http://www.field-music.co.uk/live.html

www.field-music.co.uk
www.facebook.com/fieldmusic 

Field Music - Disappointed

Pre order now on...
iTunes - http://bit.ly/atomic-itunes
Amazon CD - http://bit.ly/atomic-amz
Amazon vinyl - http://bit.ly/atomic-lp
Rock Action shop - http://shop.rockactionrecords.co.uk/

Mogwai today announce the release of their new album Atomic on 1 April via Rock Action in CD, double gatefold LP and digital formats. Temporary Residence will release the album in North America.

The album is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousin’s acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer. Live shows will be announced shortly.

Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times - protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima - but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. Mogwai’s soundtrack encapsulates the nightmare of the nuclear age, but its dreamlike qualities too. It is the latest in the band’s series of impressive soundtracks and scores, following acclaimed albums Les Revenants (The Returned) and Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.

Cousins says of Atomic, the film: “I’m a child of the nuclear age, and in my teens I had nightmares about the bomb. But physics was my favourite subject in school, and I nearly studied it at university. Learning about the atomic world excited me. It was like abstract Star Wars.”

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite says: “The Atomic soundtrack is one of the most intense and fulfilling projects we've taken on as a band. Ever since we went to Hiroshima to play and visited the peace park this has been a subject very close to us. The end results, both the film score and the record are pieces I'm extremely proud of.”

Mogwai - Atomic tracklisting
1. Ether
2. SCRAM
3. Bitterness Centrifuge
4. U-235
5. Pripyat
6. Weak Force
7. Little Boy
8. Are You A Dancer?
9. Tzar
10. Fat Man


Mogwai // U-235

Buy "Hearts In Motion": http://smarturl.it/yuckheartsinmotion

Pre-order new album Stranger Things on vinyl, Hearts In Motion picture disc 7", and more at http://smarturl.it/strangerthings

Pre-Order digital at http://smarturl.it/strangerthingsitunes and get "Hearts In Motion" and "Hold Me Closer" instantly.

YUCK ON TOUR:
Feb 26: Moth Club, London
Feb 27: Moth Club, London

Mar 11: Savannah Stopover, Savannah GA
Mar 12: Aisle 5, Atlanta GA
Mar 13: Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge LA
Mar 14-18: SXSW, Austin TX
Mar 19: Spillover Festival, Dallas TX
Mar 21: Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix AZ
Mar 22: Bunkhouse Saloon, Las Vegas NV
Mar 23: Soda Bar, San Diego CA
Mar 24: The Echo, Los Angeles CA
Mar 25: Cellar Door, Visalia CA
Mar 26: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA
Mar 28: Mississippi Studios, Portland OR
Mar 29: Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver BC
Mar 30: The Crocodile, Seattle WA
Mar 31: Neurolux, Boise ID
Apr 01: Metro Bar, Salt Lake City UT
Apr 02: Larimer Lounge, Denver CO
Apr 04: 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis MN
Apr 05: High Noon Saloon, Madison WI
Apr 06: The Empty Bottle, Chicago IL
Apr 07: The Loving Touch, Ferndale MI
Apr 09: Silver Dollar Room, Toronto
Apr 10: The Haunt, Ithaca NY
Apr 11: The Sinclair, Cambridge MA
Apr 12: Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
Apr 14: The Space, New Haven CT
Apr 15: Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington DC
Apr 16: Phuzz Phest, Winston-Salem NC

May 12: Arts Centre, Norwich
May 13: Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh
May 14: Broadcast, Glasgow
May 15: Deaf Institute, Manchester
May 16: The Boileroom, Guildford
May 17: Oobleck, Birmingham
May 18: Sticky Mikes Frog Bar, Brighton
May 19: Exchange, Bristol
May 20: Bodega, Nottingham
May 21: Gold Sounds, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
May 22: Esquires, Bedford

Hearts In Motion

Gringo and Faux Discx are set to release an expanded version of HOOKWORMS debut EP on CD and digitally on March 4th 2016

Pre-order: http://gringorecords.limitedrun.com/products/566096-hookworms-hookworms-ep-bonus-tracks-cd

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A reissue of a 7 track expanded version of Hookworms 2011 self-titled debut EP off the back of two critically acclaimed albums - 2013's Pearl Mystic on Gringo and 2014's The Hum released worldwide on Domino arm Weird World – is both a marker from where Leeds five-piece have subsequently hurtled forwards from, but also a document and proof of the undeniable character that they've never allowed to waver even as all around them has changed.

The EP contains the first tracks the group ever recorded in vocalist and producer MJ's original Suburban Home Studio, with the group just a handful of local shows into their existence – one such show, supporting Sun Araw lead to its original release.  "It was a very exciting time for us," bassist MB recalls. "MJ having his first studio meant we'd gone from practicing in a tiny basement and receiving noise complaints to having a place where we could do what we wanted. We played with Sun Araw just as we were finishing the EP and Cameron Stallones enjoyed our set and asked to hear any recordings - then subsequently released it on cassette."

Hookworms have long since evolved into a mighty beast, live able to fill cavernous warehouses with a vitriolic form of kosmiche, as when headlining Liverpool Psych Fest, or when supporting fuzzy legends Slowdive during their 2014 comeback. Hookworms as a listen though already has in place several of the traits that have helped elevate them – the strutting bass and four note repetition of Teen Dreams is pure Modern Lovers, mining the group's 60's garage and proto-punk influences and mixing them with a caustic modernity. It's the only track that still makes an occasional appearance live; another highlight is the rolling bass thunder of I Have Some Business Out West crackles with the energy of an approaching storm: "Our gear wasn't as good back then so we did quite a bit of re-amping and post-production," MB comments. "The EP was basically a playground for experimentation with a bunch of new guitar pedals we'd recently acquired."

In addition, the reissue comes with additional early and rare recordings - the drone heavy initial version of Form and Function, which would appear on a split 7" alongside Nottingham-based peers Kogumaza, plus the swaggering rumbles of The Correspondent – which appeared on 2012 Sonic Cathedral compilation Psych For Sore Eyes. The former is a premonition of phase two of the band, foreshadowing the heavier, dense sound around Pearl Mystic; the latter still sounds like a wonderful outlier – which says something for a band whose boundaries have forever stretched towards the horizon.

MJ would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the support, help and donations he has received after his studio in Leeds was flooded over Christmas. The band had been working on new material at Suburban Home Studios prior to the flood. 

Tracklisting:

Medicine Cabinet
Teen Dreams
I Have Some Business Out West
Resolution
Form and Function (originally released on a split 7" with Kogumaza on Gringo)
Deu (originally released on cassette Spur: Volume One compilation, Magnetic Tapes)
The Correspondent (originally released on Psych For Sore Eyes 7")

HOOKWORMS – Teen Dreams

Heroes

Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai's version of 'This Purgatory', taken from the new Spectres album 'Dead', which is released via Sonic Cathedral on March 25, 2016. 

Pre-order links:
Double vinyl - http://smarturl.it/deadvinyl
CD - http://smarturl.it/deadcd
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/deaditunes
Bandcamp - http://smarturl.it/deadbandcamp

Further info: http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/spectres-are-dead

Dead

Spectres 'This Purgatory' (Stuart Braithwaite – Mogwai)

This re-tooled version of Ballerina in the Rain, complete with backing vocals from dj. flugvél og geimskip emerged from recent recording sessions in Reykjavík with the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Nick Zinner, and will be released as a 3-track single on 11th March.

The single will also feature a Ballerina in the Rain remix from super-fan Damon Albarn and a President Bongo (ex Gus Gus) remix of Northern Gannett (the original versions of both tracks can be found on Fufanu’s Few More Days to Go debut album, out now).

Order 'Few More Days to Go' here: https://OLI.lnk.to/fewmoredays

Fufanu Online:
http://www.fufanu.net/
http://www.facebook.com/fufanumusic
http://www.twitter.com/fufanumusic

Ballerina In The Rain (Revisited w/ Nick Zinner)

Released on February 5th, 2016.

Digital: smarturl.it/istheisare
Physical: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/is-the-is-are

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EPR Weekly Roundup 2016 #2 W/C 11th Jan 2016

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