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New Noise

The latest releases from the wide world of punk. Cover: Mayday Parade

New Punk Tracks

All New Rock

Green Man 2021

Noisy

radiogibo aug21

1% MILK

John L / Despair

John L

Hockeysmith returns with a new summer jam “Sorrelful”.The third track to be released from a series of sessions with Ed Banger producer Borussia, recorded in Paris during lockdown. 

This track wouldn’t have existed if Annie hadn’t asked Borussia “what beats have you got?” - Borussia claims - “The idea for the instrumental was to get a simple yet very digital summer song, some kind of Hajime Sorayama at the beach if you will”.

Sorrelful

Life Jacket

Dopamine

Dopamine (feat. Nuha Ruby Ra)

Futureproof

Fear of Dying

A Song for Those Who Speed in Built-up Areas

I'm Dead (feat. Jaden Hossler) [From the Podcast “Prom In Hell”]

Animal

MYSTERY

It Won't Always Be Like This

What It Means To Fall Apart

Kids Of Summer

SURVIVORS GUILT: THE MIXTAPE//

smoke break//

Are We There Yet

Stream

again&again

Chaise Longue

Games (The Punk AF Matt Squire Mix)

Mordechai Remixes

Time (You and I) (Put a Smile on DJ's Face Mix)

Arise Sun

Peaceful Life

ABSUЯD

Cave Song - EP

Cave Song

Our Love

Can't Do Without You

Sound City - Real to Reel

Heaven and All

Coolverine

Hell to the Liars

Hell to the Liars (Kölsch Remix)

Devotion

Holding On

SICK & TIRED HD

Out Now on Ruf Kutz on 12" & Digital. 

https://smarturl.it/SeeThruHands

Hot City EP

Hot City

High Risk Behaviour

Drunk n Disorderly

Old Nudes

A Hero's Death

Ultra Mono

As The Love Continues

Ceiling Granny

Ritchie Sacramento

Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever

Gonkulator

Mandrake Handshake - Gonkulator

Written by Nation of Language
Produced and Mixed by Nick Millhiser
Mastered by Heba Kadry

A Different Kind Of Life

Just Not Today - The Arosa

No Room

No Room (Johannes Klingebiel Remix)

Taken from the Boiling Point/Promise Land 12", out 5th Feb 2021. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BadwanCoxon

A collaboration between Faris Badwan (The Horrors / Cat’s Eyes) & renowned guitarist John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack / Spiritualized / Treader), Boiling Point/Promise Land is the first release of an ongoing collaborative series between Faris and other artists, details of which will be subsequently announced.

Badwan & Coxon met some years ago when Faris was looking for producers to work with on his solo material and their working relationship evolved beyond the existing songs into something more improvisational and instinctive. As Faris explains:

The new songs we ended up working on were largely spontaneous and cut together from early takes with minimal overdubbing. The lyrics were improvised and the focus was placed more on creating atmosphere and keeping things fairly raw and expressive. I guess I found it rewarding particularly with the guitar playing because it was so intuitive and completely free from any expectations of how a song should be constructed. There are hooks and repetitive sections but fewer traditional structures.

We tried to avoid doing any planning beforehand and focussed more on responding to what was happening in the moment. I guess the sessions were kind of a constant dialogue where we would each respond to the other's improvisation.

With Promise Land I began by improvising lyrics over a drone track John and I created. Some time later I came across “To Our Land” by Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian poet, and was struck by the similarities - there are a few lines that match really closely. Despite being half-palestinian myself this was a total accident and I know for sure I hadn’t seen Darwish’s piece before.

With Boiling Point the lyrics are almost the ghost of a narrative rather than an explicit story. I’m interested in the subconscious and how the hidden parts of your brain express themselves when given the opportunity. Looking back it was almost more about creating the right conditions for the subconscious to come out.

Boiling Point / Promise Land is out on Tough Love Records on Friday 5th February 2021 on DL and as a limited edition (500) 12” which includes a very limited run of 100 copies with hand painted sleeves by Faris which are available via Bandcamp. In keeping with the approach of the music, each design was improvised and instinctive. Faris added about the artwork:

What was interesting about it was the way the style of the designs naturally evolved as a result of having so many blank squares to fill - there's a really clear development from start to finish - beginning with angular lines filling the sleeve and ending with smoother, more minimal abstract shapes responding to the existing sleeve design. It ended up almost like a process-based art project where you work repetitively within really strict confines and let the results emerge organically.

Promise Land/Boiling Point (MP3)

Badwan/Coxon - Boiling Point

grim value

i wanna bite your face

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A Song for Those Who Speed in Built-up Areas

JOHN (TIMESTWO)