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Kids Of Tomorrow

Our new album 'Hivemind' will be released on the 30th June 2014.

This track is free to download now when you pre order the CD or Vinyl from  www.planknation.bandcamp.com

Follow us on twitter @PLANKUK and facebook www.facebook.com/plankuk for more information.

Upcoming Gigs

27 June - Klondyke Club (album launch), Levenshulme, Manchester

04 Oct - Boiler Shop, Newcastle
10 Nov - Kraak (with Trans Am), Manchester

Festivals
01 August - Cloudspotting Festival
07-10 August - Beacons Festival
14-17 August - Greenman Festival
05-07 September - Festival Number 6
26-27 September - Liverpool Psych Fest


Grasshoppers from Mars

Our new album 'Hivemind' will be released on the 30th June 2014.

This track is free to download now when you pre order the CD or Vinyl from www.planknation.bandcamp.com

Follow us on twitter @PLANKUK and facebook www.facebook.com/plankuk for more information.

Upcoming Gigs

27 June - Klondyke Club (album launch), Levenshulme, Manchester

04 Oct - Boiler Shop, Newcastle
10 Nov - Kraak (with Trans Am), Manchester

Festivals
01 August - Cloudspotting Festival
07-10 August - Beacons Festival
14-17 August - Greenman Festival
05-07 September - Festival Number 6
26-27 September - Liverpool Psych Fest



Khepri

Douga release the free download of 'Blue Is Nothing', taken from their forthcoming album The Silent Well, via Do Make Merge Records. 

The album evokes a sense of much-needed stillness and introspection amidst a world set at full speed and volume. 'Blue Is Nothing' highlights why Douga have already been picked up by BBC Radio 6 with the likes of Gideon Coe and Tom Ravenscroft giving previous download 'Kids of Tomorrow' a spin.

Named after a childhood nickname given by his parents to founder, frontman, and former Plank! drummer Johnny Winbolt-Lewis, Douga have grown from wide-eyed, exploratory experimentalists to a BBC 6 featured artist , and now they’ve created a record gripped with a gentle but firm sense of cohesion and clarity. With a studio line-up of Winbolt-Lewis (vocals/guitar/drums,) John Waddington (keyboards/bass) and guest violinist/guitarist DBH - plus additional guitar and engineering work from Raul Careno – the group have built The Silent Well on the foundations of Winbolt-Lewis’ love of kosmische music, through rhythmic repetition and psychedelic drones. 

Some of the childhood wonder of Johnny’s initial fascination with music is contained in this release; in the past he’s likened the joy derived from creative expression to losing himself in his imagination as a child, while he recalls “playing with pots and pans and hitting my parents’ piano with a recorder and chipping the ivory keys” as a youngster. So it is on The Silent Well that his wide-eyed sense of the simple enjoyment of creating noise pervades, with sweetly-delivered pop hooks and melodies carefully included so as to pull songs away from their more deep-seated, eyebrow-furrowed backdrops.

Apart from the vocals, recorded at 80 Hertz studio with George Atkins, the bulk of the record was recorded at BlueSCI – a service and space set up in Trafford, Manchester, for people who suffer from psychological and emotional distress. Winbolt-Lewis volunteers there and as such many of the sensitivities of those he comes into contact with have indirectly rubbed off on the record’s own reflective, deeply thoughtful resonance. 

Citing artists like Broadcast, Yo La Tengo and Grizzly Bear as influences due to their use of more leftfield textures set against orthodox melodies, there is something about Douga’s music that perfects a sound that can only be identified as their own, albeit inspired by disparate influences picked up along their journey. 

So consume Douga’s music and make some time for it amongst frenetic reality – it’s the very least it deserves.

The Silent Well is released on 19th May 2014 via Do Make Merge Records.

http://www.abadgeoffriendship.com/artists/douga