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www.speedywunderground.com | @SpeedyWunder

Speedy Wunderground release their fourth single, ‘Keep Your Eyes Open 

Boy’ by Scotti Brains on 2nd September

Scotti Brains is label chief and producer Dan Carey, best friend and fellow producer / 

recording artist Oli Bayston & Beth Buxton.

Taking their name from a shared love of San Franciscan psych band Bunny Brains and Dan’s 

cat Scotti (who coincidentally is prone to close his eyes and ‘dance’ upon hearing Bunny 

Brains), Scotti Brains was initially a project born out of early morning recording sessions 

following parties at Dan’s South London studio. Tradition dictated that the insane / furious / 

psych / punk / noise results featured Beth screaming over the tracks - major labels seemed 

unimpressed so a Speedy Wunderground release beckoned.

Having a full day rather than a few snatched hours to record, Scott Brains’ debut single for 

Speedy Wunderground is slightly more accessible than their previous late-night-output. A 

perfect summer-song, in the great Speedy Wunderground tradition ‘Keep Your Eyes Wide 

Open Boy’ again features the Swarmatron but this time a lunch-break was allowed – the boss’ 

prerogative.

Recording Beth’s ‘vocal’ over the phone due to ‘relationship-problems’ (Oli & Beth are 

partners who split up during the recording of the single but now happily back together), 

the track also features an ominous and anonymous ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’ vocal 

snatch taken from a tape Dan had bought along with a vintage 1950’s tape recorder in the 

Oxfam shop on Streatham High Road. The tapes featured recordings of the owner and his 

friends ‘chatting’ and at one point a woman repeating ‘keep your eyes wide open boy’, a 

phrase that was to provide the title for the single.

‘Keep Your Eyes Open Boy’ is a summer warning to all who think it’s all OK (it might not be).

SW004: Scotti Brains - Keep Your Eyes Open Boy (Full Version)

THE NEW ALBUM RELEASED ON KSCOPE

Engineers, who currently comprise Liverpudlian multi-instrumentalist Mark Peters, celebrated German ambient artist/producer Ulrich Schnauss and London based drummer and composer Matthew Linley, have been creating mesmerising music with brilliantly shaded guitar textures and teasing lyrical ambiguities since 2004.

The band’s previous albums have garnered acclaim from all areas of the media - 2005’s debut Engineers ('hypnotic lullabies from beautific Brit newcomers' **** Q), 2009’s Three Fact Fader (‘a blistering statement of intent’ **** The Sunday Times), and 2010’s swift follow-up In Praise Of More ('should be given to most UK bands as an example of in making an album that is a joy to behold' 8/10 Clash); with BBC Music’s Lauren Laverne stating ‘Everything they do is brilliant’.

With German electronic genius, renowned producer/re-mixer and solo artist Ulrich Schnauss (Depeche Mode, Mojave 3, Death Cab For Cutie, Pet Shop Boys), joining Engineers as a full time member on their 2010’s In Praise Of More album his influence is clearly apparent on the tracks such as ‘Innsbruck’ and ‘Smoke & Mirrors’.

Ahead of the album release the track ‘Fight Or Flight’ is set to be released as the first single on 28th July, with a second single scheduled post album release.

This edition of Always Returning is released in a jewel case CD with slipcase.

http://www.kscopemusic.com/engineers

Always Returning

Bless the Painter

1) Bless The Painter

'A Hunger Artist' is the second song to be taken from Girls Names third album, Arms Around a Vision, out 2nd October. 

Pre-order Arms Around a Vision
LP, CD or limited edition cream vinyl - http://smarturl.it/GirlsNames.ToughLove
iTunes - http://radi.al/AAAViTunes

Tickets to 100 Club, London - https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/29623/chk/31da

PRESS RELEASE
Where 'Reticence' was all primordial clang and clatter, recalling the best moments of early '80s no wave and its forerunners - think Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham's respective guitar ensembles - bookending one of the most immediate, accessible songs the band have ever written at its core, 'A Hunger Artist' is an altogether more colossal and meandering beast.

While its chiming guitar introduction might again bear passing resemblance to Branca's deft melodic interplay, its much quicker to cut to the chase. And what a chase it is: leading you over moonlit autobahns and down dark European back alleys. Drawing to mind Neu! and Roxy-era Eno, the Northern Irish quartet lay down a motorik groove that rarely lets up across its almost six-minute runtime, allowing gossamer synths and insistent bass to dance atop with aplomb.

Alongside this, the band are set to return to London for a one-off show this October (the 19th) at the historic 100 Club: a not-to-be-missed opportunity to see Arms Around a Vision brought to stunning life in the live setting. 
 
UK/EU Live Dates
July 16th | Bagnacciuga, Fano, Italy
July 17th | Bolognetti Rocks, Bologna, Italy
July 18th | A Night Like This Festival, nr. Turin, Italy
Oct 19th | 100 Club, London TICKETS

iTunes pre-order

Girls Names - A Hunger Artist

Please Don't Tell EP
Release date: October 9, 2015
Cold Records

Please Don't Tell

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Chocolate Cosmos

Cuban Cigars is the first single from WALL's self titled 7" EP out on Wharf Cat Records on 1/15!  Pre-order your record here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/wall-st-7-ep

Pre-order on Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wall-ep/id1056743936

Personnel
Vanessa Gomez
Vince McClelland
Elizabeth Skadden 
Samantha York

RIYL
Alternative TV, Au Pairs, B52s, Devo, Finally Punk, Pill, Pylon, Robert Quine, Suburban Lawns

Words
With each sonic movement on the introductory self-titled EP from New York’s WALL there's a commitment to defend a punctuated duality between curiosity and triumph. After all, what’s a band worth but its message? A certain self-awareness of the very question is at the heart of the WALL apparatus and listening along as they discover themselves throughout this EP is invigorating and scary. Tone and rhythm whirl together, like an emergency exit door choreographed to swing flawlessly in time to its damned and chaotic Pavlovian alarm bell. From the first rigid and cautious seconds of their EP, WALL unleashes an uncanny self-awareness that methodically slips pages ripped from demented No Wave legacies through a shredder of their own design. Their spirit is exceptional and candid; generous heaps of raw energy and inspired moments of tension demand repeat rotations on your turntable. With this debutante artifact, WALL have invited the world to witness the birth of a toxic-new tempestuous bloodwave of post-punk, exactly the transfusion the scene needs to stay alive.


WALL - Cuban Cigars

'She's A Cult' is taken from Ulrika Spacek's debut album, The Album Paranoia, released 5th February 2016. 

Pre-order 
white vinyl/CD - http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.CD.LP 
Rough Trade -  http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.RT 
iTunes -  http://smarturl.it/UlrikaSpacek.iTunes 

Press Release:
Formed in Berlin in one night, longstanding friends Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams conceptualised ‘Ulrika Spacek’ and came up with The Album Paranoia as their debut album title. Moving back to their shared house ‘KEN’ last summer, an ex art gallery in Homerton, they began work on the project which was to become 10 track experimental alt-rock masterpiece The Album Paranoia. Today Ulrika Spacek premiere their first gripping single, ‘She’s a Cult’, on the Quietus.  

Ulrika Spacek’s soundscape is a cross pollination of hypnotic fuzz, with Tom Verlaine (Television) and Stephen Malkmus (Pavement) guitar idiosyncrasies and intertwining feelings of both angst and melancholia. Drawing influences from Krautrock to Sonic Youth and the above, the two Rhys’ brought in three expert musicians to complete the live formula, which unified The Album Paranoia and ‘Oysterland’, a series of club nights curated by the band, showcasing their first live performances with art installations.

Live shows
05.12.15 - Unit 6, Hackney Wick, London.
17.12.15 - Oysterland at The Victoria, London.

iTunes

Ulrika Spacek - She's A Cult

Premiered on The Wild Honey Pie - New Single
http://www.thewildhoneypie.com/syvias-anxious-animal-is-a-disquieted-shoegaze-gem-premiere/

Impose Magazine: Week in Pop - Selection
http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/chatter/week-in-pop-kool-ad-james-roehl-guides-kristeen-young-shade-confident-hitmakers

Anxious Animal - Single

Anxious Animal

Recorded with Rory Atwell

photo by Orfeo T

free download http://noisetrade.com/service/widgetv2/b9ebd715-7327-4164-9bf1-2a1e6619f0da

Duck Soup

Our new track 'Idol', thanks to Steve Lamacq and NME for premiering.

iTunes > http://po.st/IDOLiTunes
Spotify > http://po.st/IDOLSpotify

http://fronteersband.com
http://facebook.com/fronteershull
http://twitter.com/fronteersband
http://instagram.com/fronteersband
http://youtube.com/c/fronteersband

FRONTEERS - Idol

Production by Romil & Albert Gordon
Mix / Mastered by JOBA
  

Art by Henock Sileshi

Apple Music & Spotify 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/punks-single/id1079708529
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CigTFJXoQOyYqdmW48EsT


Punks

"Signal Drift" appears on Aloha's sixth full-length album, Little Windows Cut Right Through, out May 6, 2016.

Order CD, LP, MP3 - http://plyvnyl.co/little-windows
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/little-windows
Bandcamp - http://plyvnyl.co/little-windows-BC 

Aloha - Signal Drift

"The Magician" by Andy Shauf from the album 'The Party,' available now on Anti (World Excl. Canada) and Arts & Crafts (Canada)

Order CD / Vinyl: http://found.ee/AStheparty_store 
Apple Music: http://found.ee/Astheparty_iTunes
Spotify: http://found.ee/Astheparty_Spotify

Official Site: http://andyshauf.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/andyshauf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andyshaufmusic

Andy Shauf - The Magician

Holy fuck's new LP Congrats is out May 27.

Buy Holy Fuck 'Congrats' on iTunes: hyperurl.co/holyfuckcongrats

https://twitter.com/holyfuck
https://www.facebook.com/holyf
https://soundcloud.com/holyfuck

http://www.innovativeleisure.net
https://twitter.com/ILRecords

Holy Fuck - "Xed Eyes"

GØGGS - Glendale Junkyard

Bad TV (Boxed In Remix)

From the album "Marked For Death", available everywhere September 30th, 2016 via Sargent House. 

iTunes Pre-Order includes "Marked for Death" instantly: http://smarturl.it/ERRM4D
Pre Order on Vinyl /CD : http://emmaruthrundle.hellomerch.com

Emma Ruth Rundle
http://emmaruthrundle.com
http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle
http://facebook.com/emmaruthrundle
http://twitter.com/emmaruthrundle
http://instagram.com/emmaruthrundle
http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com

Marked for Death [MP3]

Emma Ruth Rundle - Protection

2:54 - 'The March'

The Helio Sequence on Sub Pop http://www.subpop.com/artists/the_helio_sequence

Pre-order available now:  

On September 11th, The Helio Sequence's long-awaited fourth album, Negotiations, will finally be available on CD and double LP (pressed at 45 RPM for maximum fidelity, by the way.) If you pre-order the record on either these formats, you'll receive a limited edition Helio Sequence CD called Aces that the band created to be played in tandem with Negotiations as a listening experience-enhancing quadrophonic companion piece. We're also offering people who pre-order the vinyl LP from SubPop.com the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition of the double LP--in this case we’re told it will be clear with dashes of gold. Both the bonus AcesCD and the Loser Edition LP are limited to the first 500 people who pre-order, so act now, as they say. 

We should mention that a limited number of the Loser edition LP and Aces CDs will be available at some indie stores but the only way you can be absolutely sure to get a copy is to be one of the first 500 people to order from SubPop.com.


Pre-order Negotiations with Aces: 
http://www.subpop.com/artists/the_helio_sequence

Bundle Negotiations CD or 2xLP with a brand new Helio Sequence shirt:
http://www.subpop.com/releases/the_helio_sequence/full_lengths/negotiations


Negotiations

Hall of Mirrors

The Helio Sequence - Hall of Mirrors

Out on July 15th... From the forthcoming album A Brief Introduction To Unnatural Lightyears, out via Howling Owl on July 22nd. 
Pre-order limited edition LP on hand crafted white vinyl here http://bit.ly/17r27m2
www.oliver-wilde.com


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