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The new double A-sided Cheatahs single is available to purchase now on iTunes: 

http://smarturl.it/apk6br 

Or you can pre-order the seven inch here:

http://shop.wichita-recordings.com/Search.aspx?by=8&keyword=cheatahs


Cheatahs

Cheatahs - Cut The Grass (Single Edit)

For full information about Sunset Graves, please visit:

http://www.abadgeoffriendship.com/artists/sunset-graves

Sunset Graves aka Andy Fosberry will release his debut album Variant on 23rd September 2013 via 3rd and Debut Records. The album is a highly accomplished journey of sound that spans genres and creates vast textured soundscapes that showcase Andy’s songwriting talent having written and played all instruments on the album himself.

After releasing five EPs in 2012, Andy became frustrated with his music; he decided to go back to the drawing board and strip everything back. “To find my voice, I had to stop singing...” Andy explains. The result is debut album Variant - each track on the album feels completely unique and showcases Andy’s array of influences. Tracks like ‘Sixty Minutes Sixty Seconds’ and ‘Abyssal Ghosts’ could have easily featured on Oceansize’s debut album Effloresce yet equally on a Russian Circles record. However, then there’s ‘Under the Widefield’ - a track that channels Boards of Canada through acoustic guitars and ‘Safe And Empty’, which is like an instrumental Massive Attack track. Variant feels like a brocade of Andy’s influences coming together as one, it’s a highly ambitious piece but one that feels like a personal journey as well.

It isn't obvious on first listen, but the record is very sample heavy, adding textures to the forefront and deeper structures of nearly all the tracks. Andy wanted to blur the lines between what people perceive as sample based music and music performed by a full band. 

Andy’s influences span even further than what is actually heard on the album, his inspirations whilst writing Variant flit from alternative metal like Deftones to the indie electronica of Chromatics, the Blade Runner soundtrack, Slayer, Curtis Mayfield and DJ Shadow. A lot of 70s vinyl and films also influenced the recording of Variant and it’s clear to hear the latter having a hold on the sound with each of the eight tracks feeling almost filmic at times.

Andy recorded the whole album himself in his own purpose built studio, which he lovingly calls The Graveyard. However, despite the gloomy connotations, this is a place where all of his ideas and feelings are sonically birthed and forged into what you hear on Variant. 
Sunset Graves is an exciting project from a real songwriters’ songwriter and marks the beginning of something very intriguing indeed.

Sunset Graves - Safe And Empty

Hearts Are Breaking is the debut single from High Hazels.

The track will be available on 7'' vinyl & digital download via Heist Or Hit Records October 7th.

Produced & mixed by Matt Peel at Cottage Road Studios.

Hearts Are Breaking 7'' Single

'We Prefer In The Dark' is from the debut EP by Bat and Ball which was released on 14th October 2013. 
See the video HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqfb3z-8AUE

www.batandballband.com
www.facebook.com/batandballband
All Enquiries - Manager: Josh Breslaw - joshbreslaw@gmail.com

iTunes

We Prefer It In The Dark

Sewn To The Sail & Unknown

Recorded in Cragg Vale and Leeds, West Yorkshire, 2012 - 2013. 
Clare Carter: vocals, synth and songs 
Joseph Osborne: guitar, bass, percussion 
Conor Lawrence plays drums on 'Black Fire'. 

Recording, production, mixing and mastering by Joseph Osborne www.grubsound.co.uk

The Horn The Hunt - 'Black Fire'

THE WORRIERS | 'LITTLE LUCY'

Officially released Friday, September 6

Produced & Mixed by Jake Miller (Jesse Davidson, The Cairos, Gung Ho)
Mastered by Brian Lucey (The Black Keys, The Shins, Jeff The Brotherhood)

www.facebook.com/theworriersband
www.twitter.com/the_worriers
www.triplejunearthed.com/theworriers

Little Lucy


STRANGE NAMES
STRANGE NAMES EP
23RD SEPTEMBER 2013
MINOR TIMES RECORDS

The duelling vocals of Strange Names evoke warm, sunny nostalgia, juxtaposed by an eerie and haunting dissonance throughout their eponymous EP. An ingenuousness and purpose permeates the 5 tracks, set for release on September 17th via Minor Times Records.

New York born Liam Benzvi and Francis Jiminez of Minneapolis met while attending the University of Minnesota in 2010, diving headlong into a collaboration that has seen them playing shows together since mid-2012. From being named as the Twin Cities Best New Band of 2012, they have since released an EP Stateside and a single 7" with White Iris Records (Best Coast, Fool's Gold, FIDLAR.) A successful run at SXSW and shows with the likes of Yeasayer, Mac DeMarco and The Walkmen followed, before returning to the studio earlier this to pen their highly anticipated debut album.

Behind the electro-pop grooves and catchy melodies, the duo effortlessly combine a youthful angularity with a contrasting retro delivery, their call and response style reminiscent of Talking Heads and The Clash in places. Sporting layers of post-punk and new wave influence over shiny pop hooks and a velvet exterior, there is an underlying viciousness and noir that make Strange Names a band you have slept on for too long.



Strange Names - Strange Revelation

Dundee five-piece, Scary People, are pleased to announce the release of their forthcoming debut EP, Smoke, out via RedRoom Recordings on September 23rd 2013.

Born from the partnership between two tour technicians, Scary People had only one week to form a band and rehearse a set before their first gig at a sold out show with fellow Dundee locals, The View. Rising to the task, Dan Forouhar (guitar/vocals) and Scott Anderson (drums) called upon close friends, Steven Anderson (guitar/vocals), Jamie Brown (bass) and Troy Lynch (guitar), to join them to prepare for a show that would immediately gain them an impressive crowd response and, since then, a dedicated following.

The resultant debut EP Scary People have created is one that gives the impression of a band who have been honing and crafting their sound for years. Smoke is an accomplished debut epitomised by opening track 'Smokescreen' as it sets the tone for the EP - grabbing the listener by the throat and overwhelming them with thumping, driven drum beats, soaring guitar passages and heady distorted vocals. Second track, ‘Dreams of Gold’, further confirms Scary People’s ability to produce technically superb alternative rock, energetically laden with time changes and bound by glorious hooks reminiscent of the likes of Death From Above 1979.

The band’s debut EP, Smoke, will be released alongside two special hometown performances, with the EP’s successor already in the early stages of production.

Having recorded and produced, Smoke, independently, Scary People maintain a strict DIY ethic towards all of their creative outlets; including promoting their own shows, directing their own videos and printing their merchandise by hand. The band have since sold out a hometown headline show, supported The Cribs and filled the headline slot at the Inspire stage at this years Doune The Rabbit Hole festival.

Smoke is out on 23rd September 2013 via RedRoom Recordings.

http://www.abadgeoffriendship.com/artists/scary-people

Scary People - Dreams Of Gold

Only With Presence

"Born Too Late" is the first single from Dent May's new album "Warm Blanket". 

Buy WARM BLANKET

Dent May - Born Too Late

Finally here is a taster of the soon-to-be-released Rue Royale album "Remedies Ahead". This song is called "Set Out To Discover". It'll be the first single released later this summer..
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**Produced by: Paul Pilot (www.paulpilot.com) & Rue Royale 
**Illustration by: David Litchfield (www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com)

Set Out to Discover (edit)

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