Perfect.  Could have used the effect few times and didn’t.  The absence made it better.  Well done.  👍

After a four year wait, Stockholm three-piece <b>Museum of Bellas Artes</b> cut the ribbon on their eagerly anticipated debut LP, 'Pieces', out 11th November on Best Fit Recordings.

Full-bodied, baroque and seductively melodramatic, 'Pieces' trails the darker climes of luxe-pop, melting disco beats into church organ, sustained synth pads into chiming bells and pistols-at-dawn guitars into post-punk bass lines. 

Alice Luther's red velvet voice flails like a Grand Dame treading the Boards - the operatic electronica of opener 'Fantasia' paying its dues to Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain. 'Twine' scurries along in a balearic whirlwind and the haunting presence of 'Maze of Shells' lingers like a Victorian ghost. 

'Bear Cubs' and 'Swan Boats' flex their rhythmic muscles with guitar and never has a 'Relapse' sounded more enticing. It's all brought to a suitably theatrical conclusion with album clincher 'Glass'.

Childhood friends Joanna Herskovits, Leonard Öhman and Alice Luther assembled the band back in 2009 and released the neon-flecked debut EP 'Days Ahead' a year later. 

As they up the sonic histrionics and dim the lights, forget everything you thought you knew about Swedish pop and start over.

Museum of Bellas Artes’ debut album ‘Pieces’ will be released on 11th November, 2013 via Best Fit Recordings in digital and limited edition vinyl formats.

 
'Pieces' Tracklist:
1. Fantasia
2. Abyss
3. Twine
4. Maze of Shell
5. Swan Boats
6. Come What May
7. Bear Cubs (12" version)
8. Relapse
9. Glass


Pre-Order 'Pieces'
http://bestfitrecordings.com/shop/museum-of-bellas-artes-pieces/

Museum Of Bellas Artes - Twine

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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

I'm receiving all the things you're giving 
And I'm taking even more than that yeah
Haunt your life for the rest of my time here It's okay, I don't really plan to stay here 

I don't plan to stay here
I need my own lane yeah 
I do shit my way yeah
It's the only way
(Haunt your life for the rest of my time here) 

Haunt your life for the rest of my time here Haunt your life for the rest of my time here Haunt your life for the rest of my time here. It's okay, I don't really plan to stay here

moments in time

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Tatarka – KAWAII (bazaruzero.wav Night Drive Remix)

YOUNG BLUSH

WARPAINT "Ashes To Ashes" (taken from WE WERE SO TURNED ON: A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE; October 2010/ MANIMAL)


Paul Beahan/MANIMAL 2010

WARPAINT - "Ashes To Ashes"

Woe Is Meee (Slowdive Remix)

My version ready to mix of this great new song from Wooden Shjips. Buy the original.

Wooden Shjips

staring at the sun (clem short cut) - Wooden Shjips

Second single taken from forthcoming album, "Other Worlds" out on Secretly Canadian on October 2, 2012. 
Produced by Henning Furst.

Taken By Trees - "Large"

"Sister Brother" appears on Spirit of the Golden Juice reissue, Out now.

LP: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/tcp5049-fj-mcmahon-spirit-of-the-golden-juice
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spirit-of-the-golden-juice/id343527140
The first LP release produced by The Circadian Press. We could not be more proud to present F.J. McMahon’s only album, Spirit of The Golden Juice. This is the first faithful and fully licensed reproduction of the album originally released in 1969 on the Accent label. Pressed in a tiny quantity and scattered around the California coastline, Spirit of The Golden Juice has become a top item among collectors and Folk/Psych lovers alike. Its a spell-binding blend of heartfelt Singer-Songwriter emotion and spiraling acoustic guitar accompaniment, standing up proudly alongside heroes like Hoyt Axton, Kris Kristofferson, and Fred Neil, but with a raw and adventurous spirit all its own.

As his sole musical release, F.J. McMahon created one of the most emotionally compelling and cohesive albums ever.

F.J. McMahon - Sister Brother

Je suis la montagne

Doctor of Arts, Mercury Prize nominated musician. 
Poet, DJ, Activist. Tea addict.

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