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Under the Radar #74 (06.12.2015)

Fire Records head to Indie Label Market 28th November - Old Spitalfields Market..The festivities will bring you the latest in our releases along with all of 2015's albums and box sets. Come grab limited edition 'When The Poor Can Reach The Moon' badges from The Chills includes download of the new single (out 11th Dec) and the last remaining Pere Ubu 'Elitism For The People 1975-1978' box sets. Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!

Xmas Indie Label Market

November 25th, 2015 - Playlist

The Chills

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Instinct, the debut album - Out 14th May
Newsletter: http://bit.ly/JnDUMQ

Pre-order below: 
iTunes - http://tinyurl.com/6rqmqof 
PLAY.com - http://tinyurl.com/7easfog 
HMV.com - http://tinyurl.com/7wk6upq 
AMAZON.co.uk - http://tinyurl.com/88wxdh4

The Fox

Cheers to our one million Followers on Soundcloud! Here is an exclusive track by The Chills bought to you by our friends at Sambrook's Brewery. Leave a comment on this track for your chance to win 2 free tickets to Sambrook's Brewery's "Beer By The River" festival in London on the 30th August: www.beerbytheriver.com

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The Chills - Find Your Own Way Home

Originally recorded at the BBC for John Peel on 12 November 1985, this version of "Rolling Moon" is taken from Fire Records'  reissue of The Chills Peel Sessions.

THE CHILLS “The BBC Sessions" - Rolling Moon

Escape from Evil
Release date: March 31st (North America), March 30th (World)
Escape From Evil iTunes pre-order: http://po.st/EFEiTunes
Escape From Evil Ribbon Music CD/Ltd LP pre-order: http://po.st/EFERBN

Escape From Evil

To Die in L.A.

OOO AAA (Tunji Ige Remix)

In conjunction with compiler and highlife researcher Dr. Markus Coester, Soundway Records present a very special release. Double CD & triple 180g gatefold vinyl (with a bonus 7 inch).

This 45 includes the two first ever recordings by a certain Fela Ransome Kuti with his band The Highlife Rakers. Recorded by Melodisc in London in 1960 both tracks have been unearthed after more than fifty years in hiding.

In many ways this compilation is a prequel of sorts to Soundway's groundbreaking Nigeria & Ghana Special compilations, telling the early story of modern highlife's foundation & formulation. It traces the music from West Africa to London, adding elements of jazz, mambo and calypso along the way and paving the way for the afro sounds of the 1970s.

Accompanied by a 44 page CD booklet and 12 page vinyl booklet, the notes by Dr. Coester include rare photographs, labels and advert reproductions alongside some stunning and very rare recordings. 

Pre-order: 

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Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Highlife Rakers - Fela’s Special

New Sense is the first track taken from 'From Safer Place' -the debut long-player from York-based punk trio Fawn Spots, to be released in March 2015 on Critical Heights. Pulsating with a visceral tension, the album calls to mind the cathartic energy of Rites of Spring and Husker Du with the disparate post punk angularity of Joy Division and Mission of Burma; urgent and raw but keeping to a clear sense of melody.

Fawn Spots - New Sense

Rose Windows

Glory, Glory

Rose Windows - Glory, Glory

Bloom

'Palace Of Love' is the second single from Blank Realm's new album 'Illegals In Heaven' due out on Fire Records.

Blank Realm - Palace Of Love

The third single from Brisbane band Love Signs. Recorded and mixed by Zoe Davis, mastered by Dominic McGlinn. Artwork by Joe Agius. 

Love Signs is Izzy Mellor, Emma Caskey, Monica Sottile and Bridie McQueenie. 

Not Used To Losing

'Warm Waveform' is taken from the new Chills album 'Silver Bullets' out 30th Oct on Fire Records

The Chills - Warm Waveform

'Last Day On Earth' is taken from Rats On Rafts new album 'Tape Hiss' internationally released 16th Oct on Fire Records

Rats On Rafts - Last Day On Earth

Introducing a new split 45 via Empty Cellar Records featuring harmony-heavy San Francisco legacies The She's and The Dry Spells. Tight vocal harmonies, ambitious musical arrangements, and diverse influences meet on both sides of this record in a pairing that won't disappoint. A song for the party and one for the comedown.

The She's light things up with their ever expanding range: the group that got its start while in middle school have brought their steadily amassed stylistic and dynamic breadth to the track, “Cherry Red,” produced by Patrick Brown at Different Fur. It bursts open with with a driving surf beat cut with the laser-guided vocal counterpoint The She's are known for. Aggressive Go-Go's, The Breeders at the beach, Shonen Knife in the Golden State. Call it what you want; It's irresistible. After winding through a dizzying set of changes, the She's pull the rug out from under, dropping you (along with the beat) into a half-time dream that would make the Shangri-La's smile, but also calls to mind english guitar bands of the 90's, a reference reinforced by singer Hannah Valente musing about painting her lips the classic color that gives this track its name. Then it's back to the beat!

You're gonna feel pumped after Side A, putting you in the perfect place to enter the restorative trance of the Dry Spells' "Heliotrope" (members of Sonny & The Sunsets, Jonas Reinhardt, Citay), produced by Tim Cohen (The Fresh and Onlys / Magic Trick) and mixed by Mikey Young (Total Control / Eddy Current Suppression Ring). The track opens with delicate guitar lines reminiscent of Jefferson Airplane's best slow-psych (think “Today”) spilling from a wash of cymbals. Aquarian? Yes. Wishy-washy? No way dude: A Fleetwood-McVie rhythm tightens this track, clean, warm and hypnotic under vocal harmonies that rise and rise and rise some more. Enter the guitar solo - nuanced, spacious and moody - it slides across a Fairport violin, risen from the mix to dabble in the sun-worshiping harmonies. This song is not, however, without its grittier influences. The bass line is biting as it is melodic.  Sinewy and driving like a fretless Television, it coalesces with guitar and vocals into one final pitch-perfect exaltation before everything collapses into the fragile sustain of a tremolo'd guitar.

Take all this, and combine it with the fact that this split comes in a limited run of 500 copies of colored vinyl (250 cyan / 250 red) with artwork by The Fresh and Only's / Sonny and the Sunsets' Shayde Sartin rendered in anaglyphic 3D, and you can be sure that you won't find a more spangled Yin meets Yang 45 this fall.

The She's - "Cherry Red"

The latest single from The Chills 'Silver Bullets' is the title track from their album out on Fire Records on 30th October.

The Chills - Silver Bullets

Wreckless Eric releases his new album, 'amERICa', his first solo album in nearly a decade. 

He heads to Europe for a tour this winter.

Wreckless Eric 
05 Nov: Rough Trade Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
06 Nov: The Poppy & Pint, Nottingham, UK 
12 Nov: Bierstindl, Innsbruck, Austria
13 Nov: Chelsea, Vienna, Austria
15 Nov: Monarch, Berlin, Germany 
16 Nov: Nikkifaktur, Dresden, Germany
17 Nov: Hasenschaukel, Hamburg, Germany 
18 Nov: The Tube, Düsseldorf, Germany 
19 Nov: Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands 
20 Nov: Blau, Mannheim, Germany 
21 Nov: Swamp, Freiburg, Germany 
28 Nov: The Met, Bury, Lancashire, UK 
29 Nov: The Dulcimer, Chorlton, UK 
30 Nov: The Junction, Cambridge, UK 
01 Dec: Arts Centre, Colchester, UK 
02 Dec: The Komedia, Brighton, UK
03 Dec: The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK 
04 Dec: Café Reflections, Southampton, UK 
05 Dec: Ritz Bingo Hall, Penzance, UK 
06 Dec: Marr’s Bar, Worcester, UK 
07 Dec: Zephyr Lounge, Leamington Spa, Leamington, UK 
08 Dec: The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK 
10 Dec: CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
11 Dec: Citrus Club, Edinburgh, Scotland 
16 Dec: Kardomah 94, Hull, UK
17 Dec: The Musician, Leicester 


Wreckless Eric - Days Of My Life

The Dead Heir - Tusk

Pre-order the EP: http://hyperurl.co/FrankieEP
Out November 13th, 2015

*Tour Dates*
Mon-Nov-09         New Haven, CT @ The Space
Tue-Nov-10          Providence, RI @ Aurora Providence
Wed-Nov-11         Boston, MA @ Cambridge Elks Lodge
Thu-Nov-12         Burlington, VT @ Arts Riot 
Fri-Nov-13            Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB
Sat-Nov-14           Toronto, ON @ The Smiling Buddha
Sun-Nov-15          Detroit, MI @ Majestic Cafe
Mon-Nov-16         Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
Tue-Nov-17          Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Wed-Nov-18         Gambier, OH @ Kenyon College - Horn Gallery
Thu-Nov-19          Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
Fri-Nov-20            Allentown, PA @ Muhlenberg College
Sat-Nov-21           Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Sun-Nov-22          New York, NY @ Webster Hall - Marlin Room
Wed-Dec-02         New York, NY @ Webster Hall - Ground Control Touring 15th Anniversary

11.09-22 w/ All Dogs
12.02 w/ Conor Oberst, Superchunk, Kurt Vile, Beach Fossils, Porches and more

Fit Me In

Frankie Cosmos "Young" Official Single

A single available on 11th December 2015.

Taken from their first new album in nearly 20 years, 'Silver Bullets'  available now on CD / LP / DD.

The Chills - When The Poor Can Reach The Moon

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RplDJ08s8Y

'Wall Watcher' is the first track to be taken from Sunflower Bean's debut album, Human Ceremony, released through Fat Possum Records on February 5th, 2016. 

Pre-order Human Ceremony:
CD/LP/t-shirt bundles -  http://smarturl.it/HumanCeremony.vinyl 
iTunes (w/ IG Wall Watcher) - http://smarturl.it/HumanCeremony.iTunes

Tour dates:
2/25/16 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
3/15-3/20/16 - Austin, TX @ SXSW 2016

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/SunflowerBean 
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/sunflower_bean 

Sunflower Bean - Wall Watcher

'Welcome To The New Dark Ages' is taken from Rocket From The Tombs new album 'Black Record' out 13th Nov on Fire Records.

Rocket From The Tombs - Welcome To The New Dark Ages

Sycamore Trees

薄暮に染まっていくソーダ 果てしない夏を急いでいる
彼らはまだ知らない 退屈は窮屈を知ることだって

瞬間に消えていくそうだ 儚い夏の花びらは
私はまだ知らないふりをして小さな居場所を抱いて

真夏に逃げ出したかった わたしはどこにもいけなかった
髪を切ることしかなかった

最後に投げ出したかった どこにでも行ける気がしていた
髪を切ることしかなかった

朝露に濡れた日差しが どうしても先を急いでいる
茹だるように立ちどまった瞬間、見えるのは向日葵だっけ？

抱えて積み上げたせいで 限りある夏が焦がしている
私はそう特別な存在じゃないとわかった季節に 

錆びた線路をなぞって引き返すことも選べた

真夏に逃げ出したかった わたしはどこにもいけなかった
髪を切ることしかなかった

最後に投げ出したかった どこにでも行ける気がしていた
髪を切ることしかなかった 

選んだんだ

続く線路をこえた先 そこでいるのは向日葵を抱いた私

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Short hair

Over And Over

Another Lover Leaves My Universe

“Tell Me Why” by PRICKLE will be released 11th of December 2015.

www.facebook.com/Prickle-137681506588088
Instagram - @pricklemusic 

PRICKLE - Tell Me Why

The Worse It Gets

The Drummer EP is available to pre-order on iTunes now.
http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110929092953 

Like Niki and the Dove on Facebook for your free download of 'The Fox'.
http://www.facebook.com/nikiandthedove

The Drummer EP

Mother Protect

"Daringly different and dazzlingly diverse" Rough Trade

TROPICAL FUCK STORM / DERADOORIAN / THE LEMONHEADS / EARTH / LUCKY BREAK / HAYLIE DAVIS / WHITNEY K / BLACK LIPS / MONDE UFO / PICTISH TRAIL / GRAHAM REYNOLDS / VANISHING TWIN / JANE WEAVER / DECISIVE PINK / MARINA ALLEN / RVG / BAS JAN / MARTA DEL GRANDI / ISLET / ELLA RAPHAEL / FATEN KANAAN / LUCY GOOCH / HATER / RATS ON RAFTS / JOSEPHINE FOSTER / DEATH AND VANILLA / ROYAL TRUX / KRISTIN HERSH / THROWING MUSES / THE CHILLS / HALF JAPANESE / SEBADOH / THE DREAM SYNDICATE / AMBER ARCADES

The Chills - When The Poor Can Reach The Moon

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