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The new single on Bad Life from D/R/U/G/S, featuring Rebecca Rivers

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You Are Everywhere (ft. Rebecca Rivers)

'Erosion' is taken from CYMBALS' new album, The Age of Fracture, out on 27th Jan (EU)/4th Feb (N.A.)

Pre-order The Age of Fracture on iTunes - http://smarturl.it/ageoffractureitunes
Pre-order the limited edition double vinyl gatefold LP - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv070-cymbals-the-age-of-fracture-limited-edition-double-colour-vinyl-lp-pre-order

Buy 'Erosion' on iTunes - http://smarturl.it/erosionitunes

CYMBALS will launch their album with a headline show in London in February.
2nd Feb 2014 - Electrowerkz, London - www.wegottickets.com/event/246573

<b>Press release</b>
The long-awaited new album from CYMBALS is named after a book by Princeton academic, Daniel T. Rodgers, which addresses the fragmentation of ideas towards the end of the last century and how collective meanings have become uncertain.  Singer and guitarist Jack Cleverly writes: "It hit me that I often feel paralysed by the feeling that everything is 'too complicated', and that many people I know feel that paralysis. I realised that this way of thinking can be traced through these songs." 

Produced by Dreamtrak (Swim Deep, Chad Valley, Hot Chip) in his Hackney studio and written collectively over the last 12-months, the group have taken their time to carefully piece the album together, song-by-song, in sequence. The album was completed following a final mix from Daniel Rejmer (Foals, Everything Everything) and the result is testament to the band’s attention to detail: a cleaner, brighter sound than their brattier early recordings, edging towards the European sophistication of the end-of-the-century French house Jack grew up around. Singles 'Like An Animal', 'The End' and 'The Natural World' are characterized by an upbeat disco cool and all push the 7-minute mark, whereas ‘Winter 98’, ‘This City’, and ‘Call Me’ are brooding, stark synth-led numbers reminiscent of early-New Order, with some lyrics sung in Jack’s native French.

The literary inspiration runs further through the album. The track ‘The 5%’, more obviously making reference to the themes of the album's namesake, declares “Time can be erased, you’re stupid if you try and stay in place,” over a pulsing bassline and swirling electronics.  ‘Like an Animal’ is inspired by the intellectual and moral confusion of the main character in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. The album has even garnered literary responses of its own by British poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine.

“I told Joe about the book and the way the album was kind of a reaction to it, and he threw my rationalisation of it back at me through a short story inspired by the album.” says Cleverly. “It helped reveal the emotional territory of the songs. He showed me how I had been dividing things up artificially - desires and priorities, getting older and not being able to stop writing music…”
 
Through the writing of this album, CYMBALS have inevitably matured. “We've never been in it just for a laugh," says Cleverly; “but things got confused when we said we wanted to keep it fun – we just didn't want to end up bitter, having chased a hollow dream.  But this album is less about us; it's more outward looking, more aware of the world at large."  

Despite the weighty literary influences, the band are keen to separate themselves from the over-earnestness that can sometimes accompany such associations.  “I hate the whole 'serious earnest-singer-songwriter-thing,’” says Jack. “With this album I really wanted to get away from that and make music that makes people want to dance and feel joy. Neil's kick drum is the most important thing we have to say as a band. Is this all "fun"?  Yes, of course, but at the same time, not just that."

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CYMBALS - Erosion

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Milk & Honey

Brawlers new SOLID GOLD hit: Instagram Famous
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Great Ytene

Great Ytene - Hunter

New single 'Time Traveller' released April 28th 2014 on RA RA ROK records

"The best live show I've seen in years" Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music

"XFM Record of the Week" John Kennedy, XFM

CuT release the new single 'Time Traveller' on RA RA-ROK Records on April 28th 2014. Matching laid-back vocals reminiscent of Wavves with effortlessly cool slacker riffs, 'Time Traveller' is a vintage cut of beach punk that glitters like the Golden State with the carefree nostalgic fun to match.

Recorded with Sterling Roswell (Spaceman 3) at Goldtop Studios and remixed by Joe Foster (Creation Records), 'Time Traveller’ will be released on limited edition 12” vinyl and for digital download on April 28th 2014.

Upcoming live dates: 
May 4th @ The Hawley Arms, London
May 10th @ The Great Escape Festival, Brighton
May 15th @ The George Tavern, London
June 5th supporting Whales In Cubicles @ The Barfly, Camden, London
June 21st @ Camden Crawl
July 10th @ Dr Marten's party, Northampton
July 17th @ The Garage, London (Artrocker summer new blood)
August 9th @ Boardmasters Festival, Cornwall

Time Traveller

BAD WOLF Bull Jazzed Up

BLIZZARD Leave Me Now

ED DOWIE Meadow Song

Homologous A, taken from the Homologous EP for Void Coms (Berlin).
Released: October 2013.
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"**Features etched artwork by FIS on the B-side** Astutely enigmatic D&B outsider and new Tri Angle signee Olly Peryman aka FIS makes a highly anticipated return via new label, Void Coms. In key with the label's muse, Yves Klein and his theory of the "le Vide", or the Void, FIS dives into starkly esoteric headspace on the label's first release, 'Homologous'. This is D&B perceived as a body and head music more in tune with the rhythms, timbre and geometry of natural phenomena than mechanistic club currents. As with his outstanding releases for Exit and local NZ label, Samurai Horo, the three tracks here are defined by their grid-refusing time signatures and idiosyncratic sense of syncopation, landing somewhere between the most obtuse, Autechrian oversteps and Burial's hyperreal environmental simulations, but also reflective of Nate Young's malleable 'Regression' sessions and the sheer otherness of Actress. As you may be able to tell, it's a mercurial sound that really defies or eludes any concrete description, and if you know what that means you shouldn't think twice about getting acquainted. Strong recommendation."

Homologous A

Download on iTunes: http://po.st/rinse043

Listen to the EP in full at https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/sets/mumdance-take-time-ep

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Mumdance - Dont Get Lemon feat. Spyro

27-25 Blues

Much anticipated follow up to Adrian's Choice Music Prize winning album of 2009 'Seasons of the Sparks', 'I See Three Birds Flying' further develops Crowley's extraordinary flair for melody and lyricism. 

'Fortune Teller Song' by Adrian Crowley

Haiku Salut are Gemma, Louise and Sophie from the Derbyshire Dales. "Glockelbar" appears on their debut album, "Tricolore", which came out in March 2013. 

More about Haiku Salut here - http://haikusalut.com/

You can pick up a copy here:
www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/hdiflabel.html

Haiku Salut bring their lamp show - in which they are accompanied by twenty or so vintage lamps which flash, fade and flicker in time to the music - to London on Saturday Oct 11th. More info from http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/hdiflive.html


Haiku Salut, "Glockelbar"

Available as a free download here if you wish!

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Belong

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Daydreamer

B-SIDE TO "THE KNIFE"
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Written and performed by Arrows of Love
Produced by Nima Teranchi
Co-produced by Patrick Constable & Rory Attwell
Mastered by Bob Weston


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SO VERY PREDICTABLE (B-side)

Out 19th June

PRESS RELEASE
Cristina EP
released 19th June 2013 on major digital platforms

Desperate Journalist are a band from London. Veering from gothic anti-ballads to driving disco punk, their sound is one of melody and melodrama.

Lead track Cristina is a perfect three minute noise-pop record, literate lyrics about the frustration of settling for comfortable adult routines carried by an impassioned, soaring vocal, brightly anthemic twelve string guitar lines and a forceful, elegant rhythm section.
Mistakes follows, exhibiting the band’s eloquent tunefulness again and leading with a punchy, disco-inflected bassline and beat; the lyrics all self-conscious regret
expressed with sarcastic wit. The set takes a turn into more abrasive territory with Kitten, a ferocious post-punk mantra, its ‘Never apologise, never explain’ refrain building to a shrieking climax. Wait is a cinematic, gothic closer based around a lugubrious bassline and whispering drums with flashes of sharp guitars shifting between dreamlike cascades of choruses.

The band’s first gig, in the appropriately contrary setting of a grunge club night, was rapturously received and since then the band have gained a passionate following from a series of intense and popular gigs throughout the capital, as well as releasing a self-directed video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLFRVPhgtqU) for the eponymous track from their forthcoming ‘Cristina’ EP, released digitally on 19th June.

Desperate Journalist are: Jo Bevan (voice), Rob Hardy (guitar), Simon Drowner (bass) & Caz Hellbent (drums)

Desperate Journalist - Mistakes

Debut AA-side single due for release 22nd July.

Pre-order here: www.7digital.com/artist/femme/rel…d-double-trouble

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