Nac Tracks May 2015

A few songs we like from the past month or so to prep you for summer fun.

April/May - 2015

Almost Summer 2015

Pretty Cool 2015


Sol Cat - Tumbleweed: https://youtu.be/sEstU-5HB80

MoonRockPills#91

Seven dope tracks that fuelled my past week ! 

SEVEN INTHE MIX ! Week 22...

New Music

Work

2015

Midweek Music Club Week 44

Weird Little Birthday

Montreal Rock Band Somewhere (Bonus Track)

From the first album.  This was a Quietus track of 2014.  Full album available from the band camp page.

Girl meets Wolf, featuring Nick Gibson on Saxopone

Bad Day For Lupus

B-side of Brainwash EP by Pain Dimension, CRM013/RPUT6 , sortie le 10 mars 2014

Pain Dimension - Everything Spinning

this DEMO was recorded and mixed by DIego Garcia from Cairo Records. both songs were recorded in a random March afternoon in a rehearsal studio in madrid. welcome to DEERS, bitch 8)

✧✧✧✧✧

BUY  LIMITED 7" SINGLE HERE!!!!!!!!!
✦UK/EUROPE/AUSTRALIA:
https://luckynumber.bandcamp.com/album/demo
✦NORTH AMERICA: 
http://smarturl.it/deersvinyl

Available now on iTunes:  http://smarturl.it/deers

✧✧✧✧✧

Demo

Trippy Gum

this DEMO was recorded and mixed by Diego García (The Parrots). both songs were recorded in a random March afternoon in a rehearsal studio in madrid. welcome to DEERS, bitch 8) 
✧✧✧✧✧

BUY  LIMITED 7" SINGLE HERE!!!!!!!!!
✦UK/EUROPE/AUSTRALIA:
https://luckynumber.bandcamp.com/album/demo
✦NORTH AMERICA: 
http://smarturl.it/deersvinyl

Available now on iTunes:  http://smarturl.it/deers

✧✧✧✧✧

Bamboo

Falling Apart

“Post-kraut neo-kraut delight” – The Guardian
“Seductive hypnotic throb” – Spin
“A formidable new force” – The Line of Best Fit

With the release of “Doppelganger” Spanish trio Jupiter Lion, are still in search of all things celestial, danceable and psychedelic. The single is a lead-in to the band’s follow up to 2013’s highly cinematic and proggy debut ‘Silver Mouth’, due out on BCore later this year.

“Doppelganger” is another long form voyage for the band, the gazing brilliance of vintage synths and high energy jazz fills is like a cruise in the galaxy of kraut-rock. It drones with the chirpy minimalism of Japan’s Nisennenmondai, yet experiments with quivering keys and fuzz that even recalls My Bloody Valentine. The songs climaxing solo of 8-bit walls of sound and perceptual distortion suggests the forthcoming sophomore will be traveling fearlessly into spacey unexplored territory. 

The bands analog approach to electronic music sets them apart in their native Valencia, a place where DJ nightlife reigns supreme and alternative pop is in short supply. Long stints in the studio as well as a death in their family has put the bands live performances on hold, but not without increasing requests for their live shows. This May marks their third appearance at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, with tours as support for both Spectrum and Dead Skeletons already wrapped.

Alone as purveyors of a futurist style that avidly shirks the use of laptops for performance, Jupiter Lion are remarkably forward thinking for the human presence they embody with electronics. Living in the dystopian future of their own country’s paralyzed economy, the members see their cosmic journeys through song become their escape from a sci-fi world become real. 

www.bcoredisc.com
http://bcoredisc.bandcamp.com


JupiterLion_Doppelgänger

Taken from the Cissa EP, out on 12" and digital July 14th. 

Upcoming live dates:

JUNE 2014
20th Underworld, CC14, London, UK (10:00pm) w/ Pins + Paws + Girls Names
21st Best Kept Secret Festival 2014, Tilburg, NL w/ The Wytches + Archie Bronson Outfit
22nd Ekko, Utrecht, NL w/ Girl Band

JULY 2014
18th Welcome To The Village Festival 2014, Leeuwarden, NL
19th Dour Festival 2014, Dour, BE w/ Mogwai + Maximo Park + More
20th Les Vielles Charrues 2014, FR w/ Miles Kane + Von Pariahs + More

AUGUST 2014
9th Beacons Festival 2014, Vice Stage, Heslaker Farm, Skipton, UK
22nd Rock En Seine 2014, Pression Stage, Outside Paris, FR
29th - 31st End of The Road Festival 2014, Larmer Tree Gardens, UK

SEPTEMBER 2014
21st Incubate Festival 2014, Tilburg, NL w/ Woods + Electric Eye

Giddy - TRAAMS

VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kly5_YX3Kkw



Line Up on the Solstice

Hype Machine: http://tinyurl.com/pnxvxjv

Watch the official video here: http://tinyurl.com/oaraehr

Music and Lyrics by PILLARS. Recorded by PILLARS. Mixed and mastered by PILLARS. Copyright 2014. (c)

Attacker

First Single as part of the upcoming Album.

Pre order Album /// Out June 2015
https://finaltune.bandcamp.com/album/sinah-pre-order

Written and produced by Sinah Blohberger
Mixed by Sinah Blohberger.

With Charlie Cawood on Pipa/Sitar.



LOVELESS

Black Oil

From the debut album 'Sir Vices' - order the vinyl here http://bit.ly/1td3H72 

Charles Howl 'I Love You 47'

Barreracudas
Can do easy
 copyright 2014-2015
All rights reserved.

05 Shampoo (Mastered)

Pinkshinyultrablast | ‘Umi’ | Club AC30

•	“Excessively impressive, unexpectedly fast-paced shoegaze from these Russian peeps.” Drowned In Sound

•	“It's one of those records that make you want to listen all day long. It's all there: guitar waves, distant voices, melodies and electrostatic. It's impossible not to play this on repeat." Sinewave

•	“In our minds, they’re the most interesting shoegaze band in the world right now.” The Dumbing Of America

‘Umi’ – first single to be taken from ‘Everything Else Matters’ due out in January.

Pinkshinyultrablast, are a five-piece band from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. The first single ‘Umi’ is due for release on November 10th. The song is indicative of an album full of melodic gems. Umi is rich with complexity, while underpinned with a beauty that both beguiles and entrances. The song evokes the spirit of bands like Slowdive and The Cocteau Twins, but at the same time remaining undeniably modern.

Hailing from a city more synonymous with the State Conservatory rather than a gang of shoegaze addicts, they’ve been compared to Lush. But this is no mere throwback tribute - due to their sharp, icy electronics and ability to subvert the genre, bringing something new to the table. They possess not only the spirit of late 80s/early 90s British bands like Ride, but also machine-made sounds of the same era from Sabres Of Paradise or Global Communication, not to mention wider vibrations like Cluster, Popul Vuh, Terry Riley and Philip Glass.

Disdain for a stagnant scene can often be a driving force of creativity; the band say of St Petersburg that, “we realised the local indie scene was totally boring and wanted to play something radically different”. That vision has been realised – this is a sound brimming with playful melody and finely-crafted songwriting. Imagine the scope of a Caribou record, fronted by Elizabeth Fraser soundtracking a grizzly Raskolnikov crime.

The band take their name from an Astrobrite album, an act who were, according to the band, instrumental in how they “researched spaces between ambient, heavy guitar and pop music” .The spaces are what stand out, the production creates a dream-like affair, while space to breathe and reflect on the beauty of the music is accommodated. There exists a sparseness to their sound, that, in turn gives spaciousness, even expansiveness.

Welcome to your new favourite Russian band.

Pinkshinyultrablast are Igor - bass, Lyubov - vocals, Sergey - drums, Rustam - synths and electronics and Roman – guitars.

For all UK print inquiries contact Jenna at 9PR and for all online inquiries contract Dan McCormick: jenna@9pr.co.uk / dan@9pr.co.uk . 0207 375 2725. www.9pr.co.uk

Pinkshinyultrablast - Umi

Pre-order our debut album ‘Caught In Still Life’ here - po.st/CaughtInStillLife

We’re going on tour next February 2017, dates below and tickets here - http://www.seetickets.com/artist/vaults/858695

03/02 - The Haunt, Brighton
05/02 - King Tuts, Glasgow
06/02 - Deaf Institute, Manchester
07/02 - Fleece, Bristol
09/02 - Islington Assembly Hall, London

Proud to reveal the title track from the new EP, Vultures. Yikes, this was the first song we three recorded together so we are really chuffed to have it out finally.

Download Vultures...
On iTunes: http://po.st/VVulti
On Googleplay: http://po.st/VVultg

Listen on Spotify:
http://po.st/VVuls

The EP features Vultures, Poison & Mend This Love, plus a remix of the title track by Maya Jane Coles.

Download the EP on iTunes here: http://po.st/VulturesEP
Or Google Play here: http://po.st/VulturesGp

www.entervaults.com
www.facebook.com/vaults
www.twitter.com/vaults
www.instagram.com/vaults
www.youtube.com/user/entervaults

Vultures – EP

Vultures

Stream/Buy

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpZCRfrVI48
Buy on iTunes: http://po.st/SIiSo

White Light

Indecision (2014 Version)

Paul Gascoigne

YouTube*~*~* http://smarturl.it/TeiShiYouTube

Verde EP *~* www.tei-shi.com

iTunes*~* http://smarturl.it/TeiShiApple

Co-produced by Gianluca Buccellati, Tei Shi & Dave Glass Animals

Facebook - http://smarturl.it/TeiShiFB
Twitter - http://smarturl.it/TeiShiTW
Instagram - http://smarturl.it/TeiShiIG

teishimusic@gmail.com

Verde

See Me

iTunes*~*

Out March 9/10 on Slumberland Records (N & S America) and Fortuna Pop! (ROW).

iTunes pre-order: http://smarturl.it/expectdelays
LP/CD pre-order: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/283

Evans the Death return with their second album "Expect Delays" in March via Fortuna POP! (Europe) and Slumberland Records (USA). Recorded again with producer Rory Atwell, the album bristles with an underlying tension and veers from rip-roaring noise to quiet contemplation, underpinned by Katherine Whitaker’s extraordinary voice.

Still barely out of their teens, there’s a tremendous sense across "Expect Delays" of a band coming into their own, honing a plethora of influences to make a sound that is uniquely them. Each song on the album has a different feel to it: some of them are melodic and pretty; some of them heavy and dissonant; and some of them are, to quote guitarist Dan Moss, “a bit strange”. While retaining the post-punk and 90s alt-rock inspired elements that peppered their debut, the music is more expressive, heavier and more experimental, and the lyrics more nuanced, the sense of despair leavened by sharp wordplay and humour.

The unsettling undercurrent of melancholy and hopelessness that pervades the record has its roots in the last three years, spent eking out an existence on the poverty line in Cameron’s Britain, leaving them with a succession of minimum-wage jobs and unemployment benefits interviews. As guitarist Dan Moss relates, the album is about “being in London and feeling hopeless and a bit lost. Not having any money, relationships falling apart, things just not connecting or going anywhere and getting absolutely wasted all the time.”

Named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood,' the band’s 2012 self-titled inaugural album saw critical acclaim from the likes of Q, Uncut and Artrocker, as well as radio play on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music and XFM. After a change in line-up following the release of their debut, the band regrouped around the core of brothers Dan and Olly Moss and singer Katherine Whitaker for the recording of "Expect Delays." Drummer James Burkitt was recruited from Leeds’ band The ABC Club to complete a taut new four-piece.

More ambitious and focused than their previous record, whilst sacrificing none of their spontaneity and vitality, "Expect Delays" is a supremely inventive and intelligently crafted album from a band who have suffered for their art, and used that experience to inform and nourish their work. Expect no more delays, Evans the Death have arrived.

“Evans the Death manage to make humdrum everyday existence seem quite magical” Q ****

“A wonderful marriage of converse elements elegantly crafted into its own neat mess.” Artrocker *****

“Terrific” Uncut

Evans The Death - Don't Laugh At My Angry Face

Taken from Diagrams' new album "Chromatics" out now! Available to buy here: http://bit.ly/1ocqKNp

Diagrams - Gentle Morning Song

Taken from the forthcoming album Mysteries by Tigercats (due out on Fortuna POP! on 2 February 2015), a pop gem in the shape of bishops, knights, kings and queens - a Bobby Fischer-referencing love song and anthem for chess fans everywhere.

Tigercats - Junior Champion

Taken from the forthcoming BLONDE EP, limited to 100 7"s only inc. downloads of all 4 tracks. Released 16th February 2015. Click the Buy tab to pre-order now! 

http://cf-records.com
http://facebook.com/Autumns.Band

AUTUMNS - Je Veux Être

"Slow Down Low" appears on the album Shadow of The Sun, Out Now. 

LP/CD: http://bit.ly/1uJA3Sl
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/ShadowOfTheSun

Website: www.moonduo.org
Twitter: twitter.com/moonduo
Facebook: facebook.com/moonduoofficial
Instagram: http://instagram.com/moonduoband
Tour dates: http://bit.ly/1yvf0dU

Pre-Order

Moon Duo - Slow Down Low

The third single off of Shark Week's debut LP "Beach Fuzz" available 5/19/2015

Pre-order "Beach Fuzz" on vinyl from the PaperCup Store bit.ly/1E0IvD5
Pre-order "Beach Fuzz" on iTunes apple.co/1BoSjFP

Order from PaperCup

Shark Week - Waste Of Time

Taken from the forthcoming Robert Pollard album 'Faulty Superheroes'. Released on 25th/26th May 2015 on CD / LP / DD. from Rockathon Records in North America, and Fire Records everywhere else.

Robert Pollard - UP AND UP AND UP

Wasted Away

Slumberland Records & AED Recordings are happy to announce the release of "Rest And Be Thankful," the new album from Linden, out the June 2015 on LP, CD and download.

LP/CD: http://smarturl.it/rabtlp
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/rabtdl

Following 2012's wonderful "Bleached Highlights," an album that generated many rave reviews, Joe McAlinden is back with "Rest And Be Thankful," another elegantly soulful and emotional record. Having travelled to West Heath Yard in 2012 to work with Edwyn Collins and Sebastian Lewsley on "Bleached Highlights," Joe decided this time he needed a rural approach and it quickly became apparent that it would be easier to make a new record at home in Argyll with the Linden live band; Stuart Kidd, Eric Lindsay and Marco Rea. Joe built a makeshift studio in an old fisherman's croft on the shores of Loch Fyne, threw some logs on the fire and set about recording Rest and be Thankful which he then sent to Edwyn and Seb via courier pigeon to mix at WHY in London. The boys reckon you can hear Argyll in the music, you can feel where Joe lives... a sonic snapshot of rural life!

"Rest And Be Thankful" simply thrums with love and loss, whether it's the starkly pretty I See, which talks of someone who "leaves a shadow on the ground, even though you're not around," or the gently euphoric Broken Glass, with its Memphis Horns-esque bursts of brass. "Rest And Be Thankful" is a simply glorious album.

But let Joe talk you through it...
"The album was recorded on the west coast of Scotland and apparently you can hear this in the songs - the songs certainly sound as though they were recorded there. They feel pretty authentic to me."

"As for the album's theme, there are no common themes really. I've always written about how I feel. It's all I know. Although I do like to mask the weirdness of my fucked-up head with simple lyrics. Not every song can be a dirge!"

"I really don't listen to music when I'm working on music. I find it very distracting! Otherwise, I've been listening to all the usual suspects - Love, 'Nuggets' comps, Gene Clark, Dean Blunt, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and I'm very big on listening to current stuff too. Not stuck in the past, me!"

"Making another record with Edwyn Collins was such a thrill. Throughout my career, I've only wanted to make albums that sound like real records - sounds dumb right? But I've always wanted to listen to me the way I listen to the rest of my record collection. I don't want my albums to sound like me, I want them to sound classic. I think with these last two records I've finally managed to achieve this. I can finally listen to something I've done and feel like I'm listening to just another record!"

"Should I explain the inspiration behind the album title? Yeah, I think so. It was inspired by a mountain pass I drive over every time I travel to and from civilisation. REST & BE THANKFUL are the words inscribed on a stone near the junction of the A83 and the B828, placed there by soldiers who built the original military road in 1753. The original stone fell into ruin and was replaced by a commemorative stone at the same site. The section is so named as the climb out of Glen Croe is so long and steep at the end that it was traditional for travellers to rest at the top, and be thankful for having reached the highest point. I know how they feel."

 - Paul Connolly January 2015

Buy LP/CD

Linden - Rest And Be Thankful

Treehouse

The first single off of Little Racer's new EP "Foreign Tongues" available 6/16/2015

Pre-order "Foreign Tongues on iTunes http://apple.co/1GUDHAI

iTunes

Little Racer - Montevideo

"When I Was Your Age" is the first single to be taken from "Hide and Seek", the debut album from Mammoth Penguins, the new band fronted by Emma Kupa (formerly of Standard Fare). The song is gloriously messy and loud, about feeling inadequate about one’s achievements. As Emma explains, "It started off with a birthday card from my granddad saying that he was married with kids at 28 and then I started thinking about what my parents, grandparents and family members had achieved by the time they were my age".

"Hide and Seek" is the debut album from Mammoth Penguins, the new band fronted by Emma Kupa, formerly of BBC 6 Music favourites Standard Fare. Due out on 6 July via Fortuna POP!, the album is an exhilarating collection of indie anthems, with Emma's candid songwriting and heartfelt vocals at the fore. Chugging away like the greatest Weezer record you’ve never heard, the songs are bold, loud and outrageously catchy, with lyrics that hit just the right chord, exploring the burgeoning responsibilities of being in your late 20s/early 30s.

Mammoth Penguins - When I Was Your Age

Side A: "Have Mercy" a new song written by Brit Daniel (Spoon) with Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen (Sweet Spirit)

Side B: "Paper Tiger" a reinterpretation of the Spoon classic written by Britt Daniel and arranged by Sweet Spirit

Sweet Spirit & Britt Daniel - Have Mercy

"...some rather splendid stuff from Great Hare" 
Simon Raymonde, Amazing Radio/Bella Union/Cocteau Twins

"Ridiculously catchy song"
Words for Music

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5E5GrSMwdYse6Voc5ovdTw
Itunes: itunes.apple.com/se/album/only-th…s-ep/id990904015
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/10188886?utm_source=deezer&utm_content=album-10188886&utm_term=558397531_1431009459&utm_medium=web

Bandcamp

Call Me Stupid

Debut Small Feet album out August 2015 
www.smallfeetmakesmusic.com
www.barsuk.com
www.cfkrecords.com

One At The Helm

Violin by Martha Rose
Mixed by Christian Best
Mastered by Ruairi O Flaherty

Free

Taken from Brain Disease EP - out 8th June on limited edition red vinyl and digital download.

Pre-order:
https://www.musicglue.com/theo-verney-1/shop/ 

On tour:
May 
14th - Brighton - The Great Escape @ Bleach (unofficial show) 
16th - Brighton - The Great Escape @ Pav Tav (unofficial show) 
25th - Leeds - Gold Sounds festival @ The Brudenell Social Club
June
9th - London - Birthdays (Support from Kagoule and Puppy) 
10th - Brighton - Prince Albert (Support from Kagoule and Gang)






Brain Disease

New Single from Johnny Sands via Baltic Records, release date 08/06/2015