Amazing. A little bit of Rain Parade influence in there in the instrumentation.

Taken from Great Ytene's forthcoming LP 'Locus', released February 17th 2017 via Faux Discx.
PRE-ORDER: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/great-ytene-locus
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Great Ytene are a band built upon deconstruction and reassembly. In order to create something that felt truly complete, they had to tear down everything that had come before. From their formative years as 'Colours', to their reemergence as Great Ytene (taking their name from an old term for the New Forest, which is where they all grew up), they replaced sounds, members and even their name before they felt truly comfortable in their collective skin.

So, it's quite fitting that In 2015 Great Ytene lost a full album's worth of material to a technological worm hole. It was just another clean slate. It was the best thing that could have happened. The band spent six months writing new songs, perfecting their shape, pulling them apart and piecing them back together until Locus was in exactly the right place.

Locus, Great Ytene's first full length LP since their self- titled debut (via Bella Union) in 2014, sees the band moving forward to explore darker themes. The name ‘Locus’ refers to the attempt to pin-point exact moments in time when an event took place. This idea is explored lyrically throughout the album, even as the music loops and pushes back.

If you are looking for like-minded contemporary peers then look no further than the grey and black post-punk of the likes of Disappears and Preoccupations. At times waves of noise are underpinned by tight, rigid rhythms, at others they’re allowed to spill over the edges to create disquiet landscapes.

The album was recorded and mixed in East London at Holy Mountain with producer and long-time collaborator Iggy B, mixed by MJ (Hookworms) at Suburban Home Studios in Leeds & mastered by Joe Caithness of Subsequent Mastering. It's released via Faux Discx on February 17, 2017.

GREAT YTENE – Fixed Victim

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and don’t the waves from high above
seem calm enough
don’t the clouds from down here just look
soft to touch

of course they seem but they cannot shelter
my all breaking mind
for you come to me with all your wonder
and i corrode with spite
in time

how to make a martyr of a silent tongue
easy to become such to impress upon

am i not lead by my foolish notion
to idle always by
for if you belong of my selfish hopes
do i corrode with spite
in time

again the colour in
the sight we left to bring us more 
became so dour
and as we march from when
the more we march from when
the soil is spreading out

with spite in time

Taken from Lab Coast's forthcoming self-titled album on Faux Discx. Out 12 May 2017. Available on vinyl, CD and digital download. PRE-ORDER here: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/lab-coast

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Since 2008, Lab Coast has been delivering hazy bursts of hook-laden guitar pop via a string of critically acclaimed, award-winning albums, EPs, and singles. From their basement studio in Calgary, Alberta, the song writing team of singer David Laing & multi-instrumentalist Chris Dadge (Chad VanGaalen, Bug Incision, Samantha Savage Smith) carve out detailed analogue productions; these recordings draw from the wealth of instruments that friends leave at the Lab Coast practice space, and the ever-evolving recording techniques that they've been honing since day one. Their home-brewed recordings sit in the tradition of DIY-recorders such as Strapping Fieldhands, early Guided By Voices, and R. Stevie Moore, while the songs themselves recall the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Tom Petty, and The La's. Onstage, these richly textured pieces are ably brought to life by Sammie Smith (aka Samantha Savage Smith), Henry Hsieh (Cold Water, Crack Cloud), and Darrell Hartsook (Prenup, Sissys).

'Lab Coast' is a collection of songs cherry-picked from the band’s extensive back catalogue by Faux Discx overseer Dan Reeves (Cold Pumas, Soft Walls) and the band themselves, compiled in to one succinct album and remastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control). It acts as an introduction to a highly prolific band and a showcase for their highly refined ability to consistently knock clever, catchy pop songs out of the park.

UK/EU TOUR DATES:
11/05/17 • WREXHAM, UK • Focus Wales Festival	
12/05/17 • WREXHAM, UK • Focus Wales Festival
13/05/17 • SHEFFIELD, UK • The Audacious Art Experiment w/ The Hipshakes	
14/05/17 • LEEDS, UK • Brudenell Social Club
15/05/17 • MANCHESTER, UK • Fuel
16/05/17 • YORK, UK • The Basement
17/05/17 • BRISTOL, UK • Grain Barge
18/05/17 • EXETER, UK • The Phoenix
19/05/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • Family Store w/ Garden Centre
20/05/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • Escape From The Great Escape, The Westhill Hall
22/05/17 • LONDON, UK • The Shacklewell Arms w/ The Molochs
24/05/17 • KORTRIJK, BE • De Kreun w/ Preoccupations
25/05/17 • GRONINGEN, NL • Vera w/ Preoccupations		
26/05/17 • BERLIN, DE • Venue TBC	
27/05/17 • PRAGUE, CZ • Futurum w/ Preoccupations
29/05/17 • LIEGE, BE • La Zone w/ Priests
01/06/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • The Hope & Ruin w/ The Sticks

LAB COAST – For Now

Brand new single from Self Architect the debut album of H.Grimace.

Out 07/04/17. Pre order now - www.oppositenumber.com

H.Grimace - Lipsyncer

Cassette Loops - 2016

'Person To Person' is taken from Virginia Wing / Xam Duo's new album ‘Tomorrow’s Gift’ out December 1st 2017

Among slowly unravelling coils of oscillations and intermittent fragments of semi-formed loops, instruments both electronic and acoustic resonate gently against each other over an ever-evolving soundbed of textures. A meeting of minds and those exciting first sparks of inspiration soundtracked by celestial, otherworldly tones and free-flowing spoken word.

This was how Virginia Wing and XAM Duo spent two cold days at the start of January 2017. A weekend escape in the frozen industrial district of Bradford became an archive of improvisations that were later sculpted into an all-encompassing full length.

Within minutes of the four playing together for the very first time their ideas quickly grew into one single-minded theory; that of free-thinking, acting on instinct and each having the patience to allow even the smallest of initial ideas to grow organically into fully-formed pieces of music.
Condensed from 48 hours down to 48 intense minutes the group’s recordings create an all-encompassing new universe of sound with references from the mutated world percussion of Holger Czukay, the transportive saxophone of Pharoah Sanders, and the devotional music of Alice Coltrane.

Over the course of the album’s wide-eyed exploration, the group’s first ever steps of creative collaboration unfold in unexpected ways, whether it be on the inhibition-free wonderment of lengthy opener ‘Birch Polygon’, or the hopeful, throbbing ambience of ‘Good Roads Fair Weather’, with its minimalist piano and vapour trails of saxophone.

This overflow of collective creativity was captured live via half a dozen haphazardly placed microphones before being mixed dutifully and beautifully by close and trusted companion of the band, Misha Hering, who’s one-take, effect-laden sonic portraits were very much in keeping with the free-improvisation of the original session. With a few choice overdubs placed in and amongst to add further texture, the result is nothing short of stunning; meditative and warmly fluorescent, like a half-recalled melody teetering on the edge of a pre-cognitive memory. A spiritual record, perfect for a late-night diversion set to heal the souls of those willing to take it into their hearts.

Pre-order link:
https://virginiawingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-gift

Virginia Wing / Xam Duo - Person To Person

from the band's forthcoming debut album "Negative Houses", out March 30th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

FACS "Houses Breathing" (Trouble In Mind Records)

‘The Terminal’ heralds the debut album by BEAK> keyboardist William Young’s Moon Gangs project, which is planned for release in the new year. The single is a clarion call to his love of 80s sci-fi soundtracks and 8-bit video games, imagined through analogue synthesisers and tape based home recording.

Moon Gangs - The Terminal

Taken from the upcoming Psychic Markers album "Hardly Strangers", due 23rd February 2018. Pre-order now...

BU store: https://bellaunion.greedbag.com/buy/hardly-strangers-2/
Bandcamp: https://psychicmarkers.bandcamp.com/

Psychic Markers - Hardly Strangers

Available to pre-order from SATURDAY 24th FEBRUARY at 19:00 (UK time) at www.data-discs.com

Music from the arcade classic, newly remastered and available on vinyl for the first time outside of Japan. Composed in 1987 by SEGA’s legendary in-house programmer, Hiroshi “Hiro” Kawaguchi (OutRun, Space Harrier), this vinyl release of After Burner II features the complete arcade score, along with an unused “Melody Version” of the title track. In addition, we are proud to include a second disc of bonus material, including three arranged versions by SEGA’s in-house live band (S.S.T. Band) from 1988, along with a keyboard and brass infused medley performed by Hiro’s current band, SEGA Sound Unit [H.].

After Burner II is presented as a double 180g LP, cut at 45RPM and housed in a heavyweight single-pocket sleeve. Also included is a 250gsm foldout poster of the original artwork, featuring the iconic F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, which has been newly licensed for this release.* 

This release is available in the following editions:

- 2 x 180g Purple and Blue Swirl (Limited Edition)
- 2 x 180g Opaque Purple
- 2 x 180g Classic Black

* F-14 Tomcat™ is a trademark of Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and is used under license by Data Discs Ltd.

After Burner II

After Burner II - After Burner (Melody Version, Remastered)

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Band: greatytene@gmail.com
Booking: rob@liveitout.co.uk

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