Oct 17

From Native America's forthcoming album 'Grown Up Wrong'

Recorded June '14 at The Living Room in New Orleans


Native America - Like A Dream

Taken from both band's forthcoming split 7" on Upset The Rhythm, released May 11th!

Track listing:

Side A
01. SAUNA YOUTH – ‘Transmitters’

Side B
02. MONOTONY – ‘Luxury Flats’ 
03. MONOTONY – ‘Human Troll’

Sauna Youth and Monotony are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. 'Weird' is a meaningless platitude, and 'art punk' is a classifier that shouldn't be required. 

In the prelude to their album release, Sauna Youth have teamed up with themselves in the form of their sister band Monotony to send forth a colossal split 7” into the world on May 11th. Sauna Youth offer up their headrush lead single called ‘Transmitters’ from their forthcoming album, whilst Monotony proffer two exclusive tracks called ‘Human Troll’ and ‘Luxury Flats. 

Sauna Youth formed sister band Monotony, while writing their forthcoming album ‘Distractions’ in 2014. Later in the year, they did two sessions over two days as both bands for Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music, and both Sauna Youth and Monotony were invited to play DRILL Festival by Wire. As well as playing in Monotony, members of Sauna Youth are also in the bands Tense Men, Primitive Parts, Feature and Cold Pumas.

Consisting of Richard Phoenix, Lindsay Corstorphine, Jen Calleja and Christopher Murphy, Sauna Youth and Monotony are both punk bands that are happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go along with that notion. On paper both sound considered - live they can barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe – then chugging, poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. As Kurt Cobain once asked "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?" Sauna Youth consistently pose the question, “Why can't we be both The Ramones and Steve Reich?” Monotony prefer to keep things simpler and more direct and go straight for the jugular.
Sauna Youth’s side races off at full pelt, its guitars pulsing and chopping in a terse manner before the chorus crashes in like a wave. By singing every word at the same time, Ecke (Calleja) and Boon (Phoenix) create a unified voice of no specific gender, allowing the songs to be sung from multiple perspectives, from a place of shared experience. The song’s lyrics branch out of ideas of Transhumanism; looking for a way to live forever, for something that makes us last, like recordings – “I want my thoughts scratched into plastic/hear my voice on an endless loop/I like persistence” they sing in unison.

Monotony kick off their side of the 7” with ‘Luxury Flats’, a stomping slab of head-first primal punk. “Acquisitions, no ambition. Jumping off the balcony” they intone over the swaggering rhythm. In the song Monotony come face to face with Ballard’s high-rise nightmare set upon rapidly gentrifying London out of all reason. Second track, ‘Human Troll’ is a boldly brash song lodged with sloping riffs and hollered vocals. “Human Troll lives in the river, cement mattress making him shiver!” 
Upset the Rhythm will be releasing Sauna Youth’s long-awaited second LP Distractions on June 8th.

Available to pre-order here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/


B2. Human Troll

Rink

recorded by josh korody
mixed by alex newport
mastered by john greenham

"One More" is the lead single from Weaves' debut LP out June 17th via Kanine (US), Buzz (CAN) & Memphis Industries (RoW)!

Pre-order at smarturl.it/weavesAPPLE

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One More

Remix for the fifth volume of Sacred Bones Record Store Day compilation
series, Todo Muere. 
Remixed and mastered by From the bed
2016

The Holydrug Couple - If I could find you (From the bed remix)

Taken from TERRY's forthcoming album 'Terry HQ' out on Upset The Rhythm on July 1st.

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TERRY - 'Don't Say Sorry'

Encounters

Shine

Taken from Terry's forthcoming album 'Remember Terry', out June 30th on Upset The Rhythm.

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Remember Terry

Terry - 'Take Me To The City'

'Galaxilympics' is the title track of Pikacyu-Makoto's forthcoming album, out August 4th through Upset The Rhythm.

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Galaxilympics

Pikacyu-Makoto - 'Galaxilympics'

#53 is the first single from our sophomore LP "Wide Open" out October 6, 2017 via Buzz Records, Kanine Records, & Memphis Industries. Pre-order Vinyl/CD/Digital at http://smarturl.it/wide-open

Tour Dates:
08/05 Sackville, NB, SappyFest
08/12 Hamilton, ON, Collective Arts Brewing
09/30 Toronto, ON, Venus Fest
10/06 Guelph, ON, eBar
10/07 Edmonton, AB, UPDT Fest
10/10 Ottawa, ON, House of TARG
10/11 Montreal, QC, Le Ritz
10/13 Boston, MA, Middle East Upstairs
10/14 Philadelphia, PA, Boot & Saddle
10/15 Washington, DC, DC9
10/17 Brooklyn, NY, Rough Trade
10/20 Halifax, NS, Halifax Pop Explosion
10/24 Oslo, NO, Revolver
10/25 Copenhagen DK, Huset
10/30 Dusseldorf, DE, The Tube
10/31 Hamburg, DE, Haekken
11/02 Prague, CZ, Cross Club
11/03 Berlin, DE, Auster Club
11/06 Vienna, AT, Chelsea Club
11/08 Basel, CH, Kaserne
11/09 Geneva, CH, La Makhno
11/10 Paris, FR, Espace B
11/11 Brussels, BE, Botanique
11/13 Cambridge, UK, Portland Arms
11/14 Leicester, UK, The Musician
11/15 Glasgow, Scotland, King Tuts
11/16 Leeds, UK, Oporto
11/17 Manchester, UK, Eagle Inn
11/18 Newcastle, UK, Think Tank?
11/19 Birmingham, UK, Hare & Hounds
11/21 London, UK, Oslo
11/22 Brighton, UK, Green Door Store

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Wide Open

Pre-Order LP Now

'Some Like It Hot' is taken from the band's forthcoming debut LP 'First World Record', out October 6th on Upset The Rhythm.

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First World Record

The World - 'Some Like It Hot'

'British Warm' is taken from Normil Hawaiians' debut album 'More Wealth Than Money' (1982). Remastered and reissued this December through Upset The Rhythm.

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Normil Hawaiians had a transformative 1982. With two 7” singles and a 12” EP under their belts they suddenly found themselves disillusioned with the increasingly generic sounds surrounding them, so they forced the hand of change and began reaching out with that very hand. The band’s true constant in Guy Smith soon found himself with a new crew of musicians, Simon Marchant, Noel Blanden and Mark Tyler. Normil Hawaiians’ communal take on post punk quickly sprouted leaves from its mouth, and began carving out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild and redolent new dimensions.

With Illuminated Records interested in the band’s new visionary approach, Normil Hawaiians relocated from their South London dystopia to a rural idyll in the Welsh hills, determined to develop further this raw language for themselves. They booked into Foel Studios near Llanfair Caereinion for an extended period of time, set the tapes rolling and didn’t look back. They were somewhere they knew they could experiment; at a studio that understood the results would be uncertain. Dave Anderson, who managed and engineered at Foel was exactly the right person to work with them. Anderson had come from an experimental background himself, having played in Hawkwind and Amon Duul II. Normil Hawaiians were encouraged to explore their ideas beyond limitations with Anderson happy to leave the tape recording to capture their embryonic improvisations taking shape. Anderson even joined in on bass for several of those sessions as the ensemble strove to find its authentic voice, supplemented further when their cellist friend Klaus dropped by to spend a spell with them. 

At this very moment Normil Hawaiians existed solely for the music, living together in a small cottage in the studio’s shadow, sharing everything together and working long days to nurture and then burnish the music they had discovered between them. This is how the band’s debut album ‘More Wealth Than Money’ was formed, through trial and close listening, through cultivation and patient growth. Of course there were significant amounts of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings, but when the sheep began to march in time to the music Normil Hawaiians knew they were creating something unique.

On December 1st, 35 years since the album first appeared, Upset The Rhythm will be reissuing the newly re-mastered ‘More Wealth Than Money’ album, alongside a further full-length collection of demos and unreleased tracks from the album’s overlooked corners. Both the 2xCD and DLP versions also come with a booklet contextualizing the release, full of anecdotes and photos from all band members. This release follows on from 2015’s ‘Return Of The Ranters’, Normil Hawaiians’ lost final album from 1985, which ultimately saw the light of day in a different age through Upset The Rhythm too.

Oct 17

Michael Inman