2015 - Summer

Kids (MGMT) - Maxence Cyrin

NZ/AUS - Our debut album 'Evergreen' is out on iTunes now: http://umusic.ly/BroodsEvergreen.

US - Pre-order 'Evergreen' on iTunes now: http://smarturl.it/egreen. Out 7th October.

Our 'BROODS' EP is available now on iTunes: po.st/BROODSso

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Broods

Bridges

Available Now

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You Should Be Glad You've Got A Man

"Ransom", from the album Lanterns, now available at Joyful Noise Recordings. bit.ly/14jPwRe

Written, Performed & Recorded by Son Lux

Vocals - Ieva Berberian
Violins - Rob Moose, Elena Urioste

Ryan Lott Music (ASCAP) administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP) © 2013 Joyful Noise Recordings + Son Lux / sonluxmusic.com

"Several years ago, I wrote the score for a ballet for National Dance Company of Wales, choreographed by Stephen Petronio. The song "Ransom" emerged from a section of that score. ("Lanterns Lit" also began as part of that ballet.) Originally, "Ransom" included a full choir, and a gratuitous 4-minute closing section. Fortunately, the wiser voices in me prevailed. The synth line that opens the song and appears throughout was the last major change to develop, saving the song's pop potential from the grip of esoteric, apocalyptic melodrama. Now it's one of my favorites, and we love to play it live." - Ryan Lott

Lyrics:
WHAT WISH WILL RANSOM ME
UNBURY VIOLENTLY
ALL INNOCENTS, ALL INNOCENTS?
LANTERNS ILLUMINE ME
BURNING THE MEMORY
RISE INNOCENT, RISE INNOCENT

WHAT RAGE WILL USHER ME
SWALLOW THE ENEMY
BUY INNOCENCE, BUY INNOCENCE
LANTERNS ILLUMINE ME
INCENSE FROM MEMORY
RISE INNOCENT, RISE INNOCENT

OR IS THE LONG WAR WON?
THE ARMY IN ME GONE
OVERRUN?

TO HEAL THIS VIOLENT SON
A BREATH FROM ONE LAST LUNG
OVERCOMES

PULL OUT THE SONG FROM EVERY OPEN MOUTH AT ONCE
THE LANTERN TONGUES!

AND I WILL HEAR THE SONG IN EVERY HEART AT ONCE
THE ROARING DRUMS

THE HARLOT AND THE PRIEST, THE PROPHET AND THE THIEF
UP FROM THEIR KNEES

IN ALL THEIR OPEN MOUTHS I SEE THE LANTERN TONGUES
LIGHT UP AT ONCE

WHAT WISH WILL RANSOM ME
UNBURY VIOLENTLY
ALL INNOCENTS, ALL INNOCENTS?
LANTERNS ILLUMINE ME
BURNING THE MEMORY
RISE INNOCENT, RISE INNOCENT

WHAT RAGE WILL USHER ME
SWALLOW THE ENEMY
BUY INNOCENCE, BUY INNOCENCE?
LANTERNS ILLUMINE ME
INCENSE FROM MEMORY
RISE INNOCENT, RISE INNOCENT


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Ransom

Indigo

PRE-ORDER 
7" - http://smarturl.it/CYMBALS7.ToughLove
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/CYMBALS7.iTunes

Following the January release of their celebrated second album, The Age of Fracture, CYMBALS close the year out with a limited edition 7" entitled What Eternity, featuring two new songs - 'Talk To Me' and 'Innocence'. Both songs were produced by Dreamtrak and mixed by Dan Rejmer. Marking the end of what has been an incredibly eventful twelve months, the 7" will be released on 1st December through Tough Love. Note to the collectors - 100 copies will be pressed on blue vinyl.

The songs on What Eternity come to the wider world at almost the same time they did to the band – both tracks were recorded in September of this year, very soon after CYMBALS returned from their first US tour. Emboldened by the reception they received from audiences in cities thousands of miles from home, a concerted effort was made to harness the energy and enthusiasm of those US shows and to create something that reflected the band right now. The circumstances around The Age of Fracture dictated it be recorded over a long period of time, whereas there is a immediacy to these new songs at odds with the long stretches of time that often bridge the gap between a song being recorded and its release – they are very much of the moment, both direct and vital. As such, they might well be CYMBALS’ best songs to date. As singer Jack, says:

"These songs are close to what I am feeling during this current moment, in other words this season, or the stretch of time from spring to autumn this year. They are a little more personal and introspective, which is some kind of difference for us.  We don't want to explain them too much, given that so many words accompanied the album we wrote last year and released earlier this year - these songs have no notes with them, no explanations, no justifications.  The only thing we should say is that the title is borrowed from a book by Marguerite Yourcenar, who herself borrowed it from a poem. We've messed with the punctuation and in so doing changed the meaning to suit what we wanted to say."

CYMBALS will be playing CMJ in New York next week, along with two shows in France. More live dates will be confirmed in the coming months.

16th Oct - MaMa Festival @ The Cigale, Paris
21st Oct - Cake Shop (17:45) / Glasslands (22:45), New York
22nd Oct - Cake Shop (21:20), New York
23rd Oct - Cameo Gallery (23:30), New York
24th Oct - Arlene's Grocery (16:30) / The Delancey (TBC), New York
25th Oct - Pianos (21:30), New York
20th Nov -Le Père Noël est-il un Rocker, Lille




CYMBALS - Talk To Me

From the album ORIGINAL SCORE & SONGS INSPIRED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY

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Let Me Follow

"Happy Carrot Health Food Store" appears on Sonny & The Sunsets' album, Talent Night at the Ashram, released 2/17/15. 

Order CD, LP, cassette, MP3:
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Sonny & The Sunsets - Happy Carrot Health Food Store

Taken from the new album, Black Anything 

Part 2 - Europe 

(Pre-Order the limited Pt. 2 vinyl at http://www.axismundirecords.com/shop/)

Buy now as digital download 
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Slow Motion

Bones

You Don't Know Me

Dedicated to any creative who ever dreamed.
Not sure how to describe it. 🎸

Redbridge

Without The Writers You've Got Nothing

Introducing Sydney’s dreamiest new talent Moody Beach (Melissah Marie), who today debuts her new single and video titled “Vanilla” out via Personal Best Records. Taken from her forthcoming debut EP and premiered via triple j & Pilerats, “Vanilla” is drenched in shoe-gaze guitar and washed out vocals. Moody Beach enlisted Capital Waste to bring "Vanilla" to life visually, and the video nails 90s nostalgia taking you right back to Saturday morning Rage sessions, circa 1997.

Starting out as a bedroom project, Marie knew she wanted to record her songs and make them “tasty” but was unsure how she could execute them in a live setting. Intrigued and enticed by performing, she started playing bass guitar in a band called The Rememberz, which consisted of live shows, a short stint in America and plenty of hotel room recordings. Whilst doing this she was also working as a flight attendant and spent time travelling to different cities from which she drew influence from. With plentyof downtime, a craving for songwriting and a consistent change of surroundings, she found herself in a constant outpour of songwriting and so, Moody Beach was born.

After moving from Adelaide to Sydney, and wanting to find more spaces to play live & develop her sound, Marie began curating Cult Club; a quarterly party held at Hair by Tommy J, a local barber shop near her house in Redfern. Cult Club prides itself on showcasing emerging artists from Sydney's underground who play to a crowd no bigger than 100, and is one of the spaces where Marie solidified her Moody Beach project.

She began work with producer / musician Carl Fox (Mosquito Coast, Porsches) who produced the EP and helped define her sound. With influences ranging from Roy Orbison and The Cure to Deftones and Blondie, Moody Beach is unexpected and original, layering dream-pop melodies, dark undertones and hazy psychedelic guitar lines. Vocally, she creates a unique synthesis of sound using Warpaint-esque tones and enigmatic lyrics.

“Vanilla” is the first offering from Moody Beach - with her EP already recorded and shows lined up for March - 2017 is looking bright.

Moody Beach

Vanilla

Moody Beach - Vanilla

PRESS QUOTES:

"brilliantly scuzzy and original"  **** The Fly
“a brooding menace rarely heard since Jane’s Addiction” Guardian
"bigger more epic songs ... draws the listener into a psychedelic realm..."  8/10 Rocksound
"Sweet follow up from buzz creating Georgians ..."  **** Guitarist
"Dark shoegazing sonics ... a drama that fans of MBV, Dinosaur Jr and especially Smashing Pumpkins will be sure to recognise"   Mojo 

BIOGRAPHY:

DEAD CONFEDERATE, a five-piece from Athens, Georgia, are all set to unleash their new album Sugar on the UK on August 23rd.  

Winter storms are punishingly cold and uncomfortable, but are an important source of water for spring growth. Likewise for Dead Confederate, the series of New Jersey blizzards that besieged the recording of sophomore album Sugar (a reference to the record snowfall) also heralded growth from the darker, somber realm of their critically acclaimed first album Wrecking Ball. With an evolving approach and focused, streamlined sound, Sugar explores new styles beyond the aching, bleak psychadelia of the debut. “We were expressing long, drawn-out anguish on Wrecking Ball, but it would have felt repetitive to do it again. They just weren’t the songs we were writing,” vocalist-songwriter Hardy Morris said. “It was a very natural progression to do something a little different.”

That progression was shaped by tours with legends Dinosaur Jr. and Meat Puppets, which increased Dead Confederate’s appreciation for the pioneering musicians of the 80s and 90s that laid the foundation for the band’s sound. The group also got ideas for their own work: New songs that developed were lighter and tighter (while Wrecking Ball had seven songs longer than five minutes, Sugar has none), without abandoning the driving guitarwork and unbridled emotion that has set them apart. “I’m definitely influenced by the bands I’ve toured with. They can really combine epic jam moments and classic-rock elements. It inspired me to try more upbeat songwriting,” said bassist-songwriter Brantley Senn. “You can still do that and play the songs hard.” 

And Dead Confederate certainly plays hard. With guidance by star producer John Agnello (who, aside from Dinosaur Jr., has also helmed records by Sonic Youth and The Hold Steady) Sugar pounds with a weighty, dark alt-grunge fervor that recalls Smashing Pumpkins’ heyday; at other times, the record buzzes with a frantic distortion and howling anger reminiscent of The Walkmen. Psychedelic and prog-rock elements add depth to a broad and diverse direction for the band — perhaps most evident on ‘Run From The Gun,’ which blends harmony and Mellotron into a drifting, airy commentary on war. “That developed from my thinking about our treatment, or mistreatment, of Native Americans. I’m kind of a history buff, and a lot of history makes you angry,” Morris said. “It occurred to me that the easy answer would be to go back to all times in history and tell people to run from the gun.”

For those who have been following the band since it rose to prominence four years ago in the fertile Athens, Ga., music scene, there’s still plenty of the simmering, sludgy grunge revivalism that was their early trademark. The title track finds the band once again careening between tense, hushed dramatics and thrashing, explosive release. About relationships and missing home, both ‘Sugar’ and the brooding ‘Father Figure’ will satisfy those who couldn’t get enough of snarling gloom of ‘Goner’ or ‘Start Me Laughing’ off Wrecking Ball.
Senn took on a new songwriting approach for Sugar, bringing fully written and complete home-recorded demos to pre-studio practice sessions, rather than developing them through live performance. Getting those under their belts and working through Morris’ ideas, the band spent two days putting together 20 songs, then spent a week laying half of them down. "It was challenging, but learning that much new material in that short amount of time definitely left everyone with a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie," said keyboardist John Watkins. Much of the credit goes to Agnello, who oversaw an efficient recording process (for example, bringing in a drum tech for setup and tuning, which drummer Jason Scarboro said gave him “freedom to focus on getting the sounds I wanted”) and kept the band on task throughout — which, with five musicians putting brand-new material together in such a short time, could have proven difficult. “He deals with different people’s personalities really well,” said guitarist Walker Howle.

Not having previously toured on the songs kept them malleable and fresh, encouraging the band to explore and absorb new ideas. That tactic also furthered development of the two distinct songwriting styles in the band. Morris and Senn each penned half the album; each choosing from the others’ contributions, the collection perfectly complements itself, with Morris’ material remaining dark and baleful and Senn giving the group its two most upbeat songs yet: ‘In The Dark’ and the first single ‘Giving It All Away,’ a collaboration with J Mascis that soars with energy and a little bit of a slide guitar. “I had almost written that song for Dinosaur Jr. It’s about appreciation and understanding for fellow musicians, the struggles that are the ties that bind musicians together,” Senn said. 

For the band, Sugar feels like their first true album, with Wrecking Ball feeling more like a collection of their early songs. That cohesion on Sugar is prevalent even when songs continue the foreboding feel of Wrecking Ball, such as Morris’ wailing political lament of ‘By Design,’ and somber, ominous finale ‘Shocked To Realize.’ “We wanted the album to be fun and creative, instead of just recording the songs,” Morris said. “It’s not like we decided we couldn’t have anything grungy or heavy; that’s just not all that we’re interested in. You can listen to the record a bunch of different ways. What we were doing felt right.”

The new material will certainly add an extra dimension to the already renowned live show; those well-acquainted with the band and newcomers alike have raved of the band’s thunderously powerful and viscerally hypnotic stage performances. That’s not going to change with Sugar, though the band expects to draw from its wider catalogue to create differing moods and atmospheres as they go. “These songs will change up the pace of the live show,” said Senn. “I like the feel of it. This record starts upbeat and gets darker and sadder. There’s a control to the emotional flow.”

Wrecking Ball introduced Dead Confederate as artists who had long before learned how to play together. Sugar showcases Dead Confederate as artists who have now learned how to grow together — a lesson that many bands learn too late. But Dead Confederate never thought of Wrecking Ball as a recipe for success as much as a license to explore their creativity and talents, both individually and as a group. Rising from a darkly affecting debut, Sugar is the realization of the many sides of Dead Confederate that the band is now finding ways to express. “We have more room to breathe,” Morris said. “You just have to be honest and natural about the whole thing. This is special to us, and that’s where we get our gratification.”

For more information, please contact KARTEL on 0207 241 0237
Charles Kirby-Welch – charles@kartelcreative.co.uk


02 Run From The Gun

Debut LP out now on JAXART Records.

Order at iTUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/album/glacial/id585309218
Order CD: jaxart.bigcartel.com/product/western-lows-glacial

From Glacial by Western Lows

guitar vox / jack burnside
bass / andy lemaster
drums / jeremy wheatley

Recorded at Chase Park Transduction by Andy LeMaster.

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