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Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend.

Listening Post: Batch 113

fotn 20 June

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 113 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Sam Bonham - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves113

Fresh Faves Batch 113

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Post Rock

You're The One For Me

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

WEB - www.tychomusic.com 
TWITTER - www.twitter.com/iso50 
FB - www.facebook.com/tychomusic 
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/user/iso50 
INSTAGRAM - @iso50

Awake

FALLS - Something About Buffaloes

'HUMAN DRAMA' is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming album 'ALL LOVE'S LEGAL'.

'HUMAN DRAMA' OUT NOW: bit.ly/IHCtPn

Pre-order 'ALL LOVE'S LEGAL', released 10th February, 2014: bit.ly/HdeuXR

LYRICS:
Been burning up inside day to today
Trying to find the words to explain my sexuality
It's liquid, it's living, a moving love defined by itself
There's no rules, no convention
This love can go where ever it wants

Gimme a human drama
And understand that gender's just a game
Gimme a human drama
All sexuality is not the same
Gimme a human drama 
The personal is so political 
Gimme a human drama
Again, again

Gimme a human drama
We break a box to find a hundred more
Gimme a human drama
There's lots to learn but so much more to unlearn
Gimme a human drama 
The personal is so political 
Gimme a human drama
It kinda feels like genders just a lie
Genders just a lie


PLANNINGTOROCK 'HUMAN DRAMA'

Released January 2014

@altarflowers

Recorded and mixed by http://johntatlockaudio.com/ 

Echoes (demo)

I climbed a mountain
So I could fall free
I was the west wind
Blowing across me

I was a ripple
In the river around me 
And I will be with you
As soon as I’ve found me

If you ever want to know where I am
When I'm not around

I am a lighthouse
I am a freight train
I am a field mouse
Caught in the night rain
I am a preacher man
Preaching for survival
Came from the Promised Land
Holding high a Bible

If you ever want to know where I am
Take a look around


Cuccu - Ripple

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

Design and layout by Scott Hansen

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

WEB - http://www.tychomusic.com 
TWITTER - http://www.twitter.com/iso50 
FB - http://www.facebook.com/tychomusic 
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/iso50 
INSTAGRAM - @iso50 


Well my fingertips up close look like
the world from far away
and I'll make it so they always try
to reach and rest against a kind of light
Well I've never seen a summer storm 
before, but I think it would make me change
Oh, my eyes

So call me out,
My space is overgrown
And all our place
Can feel so long ago

Well sometimes I wish our throats didn't feel 
So much like barricades
And I'll make it so they always try 
To remember they were made in a kind of light
And the things that rush through fingertips
they would never want to be the same
If I had a time

So reach up out and move
From my waking close
And all our life can feel
Sometimes so overgrown

Well sometimes I wish our throats 
didn't feel so much like barricades
And our fingertips up close look
like the world from far away

My Space Is Overgrown

With chalk, on the walls, we listed the names
That dented our hours like knees in wet clay,
And the sound of the rain came down through the grey,
Softly that day.

As time bears us back to places we've lived,
Our lives come as waves that break on a cliff,
And the sound of the rain came down through the mist,
Soft as a kiss.

And come, Wanderers, we'll go, home where the rains fall,
Come, Wanderers, we'll go, home.
Home to the hurt we know,
And home for the love we owe,
Come Wanderers we'll go, we'll go.

When you memory's loosened a while,
On the dreams you had as a child,
When the sound of the rain came down on the tiles,
We heard it for miles.

Stopped at the end of the street,
It was like meeting myself in a dream,
All of my memories were folding in,
And all the windows were listening.

Stopped at the streetlight again,
It was like meeting myself in a dream,
All of my memories were falling in,
And the windows were listening.


Musicians: Zygmunt Day (vocals, guitars, keys, glockenspiel, misc), Joe Hyam (drums, autoharp, percussion), Oliver Bissill (bass), Giancarlo Grasso (guitar),  Sophie Jamieson (vocals), Will Day (vocals), Tom Mellish (vocals), Conrad Steel (cello), Joe Murgatroyd (saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet), Angie Rance (trumpet)

Personnel: Tim Kramer (engineer, producer, Inert Productions), Macks Faulkron (engineer, REX Studios), Sam Killin (engineer), Mike Hillier (mastering)

Artwork: Elliot Kennedy (photography), Chris Nott (design), Ross Aitken (CPB Brutal font)

All songs written by Zygmunt Day, except Dirty Old Town, written by Ewan MacColl. Arranged by Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure. Produced by Zygmunt Day & Tim Kramer.


Echo Pressure - Wanderers

Arenaza/Sanger


Man once claimed that we could live with nature

As if he was created by a God,

Something we forgot,

But now we just remembered, is that

We have been so lonely on our own…




Science wants to be joined with religion

They started every war that we know

We make some changes here

Then it’s all endangered, because

It’s love that tends to dance those fools around




The Sun is rising now 

People who don’t believe are going down 

The Sun is rising now 

People who don’t believe are going down




They serve them plastic food with costly lies,

Their toxic skies rain rainbows on the ground,

And as you count to three...

They triple their intentions, to deceive, 

And enslave you with control



The Sun is rising now 

People who don’t believe are going down 

The Sun is rising now 

People who don’t believe are going down

EDWARD PATRIS - Rising Now

New album from six-piece instrumental band Rumour Cubes, released 18th August. 

For press inquiries please contact rachel.silver@silverpr.co.uk

www.rumourcubes.com
rumourcubes.bandcamp.com

A Homecoming

There Is A Crack In Everything

Research And Destroy

Taken from our upcoming album, Appearances of Collections, which will be released on 18th August. Get a free download of the album if you buy tickets for ArcTanGent using this link: tiny.cc/rumourcubes-ATG

For press inquiries please contact rachel.silver@silverpr.co.uk

www.rumourcubes.com
rumourcubes.bandcamp.com

Hiyat

This Will Destroy You
"Another Language" CD/2xLP/DIG
Order: CD/2xLP/DIG - http://suicidesqueeze.scdstore.net/
Order: Cassette - http://holodeckrecords.com/store 
Order: AUS/NZ customers - http://hobbledehoyrecords.com/store/this-will-destroy-you-another-language
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
www.thiswilldestroyyou.net 
http://store.suicidesqueeze.net
Artist Instagram: @thiswilldestroyyoumusic
Label Instagram: @suicidesqueeze

ORDER

Dustism by This Will Destroy You

Powerful Pop Driven, Indie Rock, With Retro Psychedelic Feel with Up-Tempo 90’s Dance Beat

Beautiful Creatures

Electronic song with the speech of Chaplin taken from The Great Dictator, music made by Dutch producer Fodiator. 

You The People (Fodiator feat. Chaplin)

Cities and Satellites, the latest offering from Mercury 13. Music for music's sake.

Cities And Satellites

This is song is about having dinner with my grandad at christmas

MCBAISE-Grandada Is Drinking

Seven Year Glitch is the second single to be taken from Rumour Cubes' forthcoming album, Appearances of Collections, which will be released on 18th August. 

Seven Year Glitch

We will release a new record "TORSO EP" on Sep, 2014.
I hope you like it.
Check it out!!

Buy on bandcamp

Torso

OUT NOW ON BEATPORT: https://pro.beatport.com/release/open-eye-signal-george-fitzgerald-remix/1469084

Stream in full on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata&v=MsktX6pS0K4&app=desktop



Open Eye Signal (George FitzGerald Remix)

Open Eye Signal

Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal (George FitzGerald remix) - Annie Mac radio rip - 13/02/15

Rarely has the word "timeless" been more appropriate for a record. It took seven years for King Creosote and Jon Hopkins to make their first collaborative album, the Mercury Prize-nominated <a href="http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/12-01-11/tbc/">Diamond Mine</a>, and it handsomely captures delicate snapshots of unhurried, everyday life in rural Fife - literally, with the sound of coffee shop chatter, running streams and chirping seagulls. Here's an exclusive free MAP download of their reworking of album track Bats In The Attic, taken from their Honest Words EP.
Artist link: http://www.kcjh.co.uk/
Blog link: http://thepopcop.co.uk/

(Scotland) King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bats In The Attic

Rumour Cubes - The Gove Curve

From the album  'The Narrow State'.

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The Gove Curve [single]

Rumour Cubes - Rain On Titan

From the album  'The Narrow State'.

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Rain On Titan

The Gove Curve

Poem written by Steve Willey; words below. 

Mile End Road
23 June 2011

Tried, 

Tried, and if you were truly recipient I would silence my surprise at 

your arithmetic, for I have tried to imagine what and where your 

numbers actually turn: perhaps the twist in green weeded tiles – 

seedlings, grouting, black lines – no grandness, only disuse. Three 

iron cisterns watch, and above the ferrous corner, the aquifers, lie 

under a high jarred skyline, and there all about you the

bricks your labour knuckles. Here, the meters of water ghost 

above three childish brunette heads, to fill up mouths: there, there is 

no plain disuse. Tried, a sun-silhouetted bird is the boy’s arms 

spread, in disease condemned to rest itself in the furred lamb's 

tongue. Occupied in weaver’s field for an afternoon with her, and here 

I hold your awkward abstract form, and from this distance it looks 

‘about’, twenty-five meters, and the solar flare is probable, and you 

are reduced to numbers, and I am reduced to this – pool of glee. It 

happened. You are right to ignore me. I happened, to see the plastic 

cup crease, your commitment, to feeding us, with hot coffee, and that 

memory might as well have been love, and if it isn't, I tried to make
 
it so, and write and write, to pretend, there is no choice.

S.W.

Letters To Palestine

PVT's Single 'Window' from their new album Church With No Magic, puts singer Richard Pike’s vocals at the forefront for the first time and is typical of the dense collisions of PVT’s sound world. It’s a heady combination of vocal experimentation, swirling keyboard arpeggios and pounding drums, all topped by the band’s adeptness for emotive harmony and clear melodic punch, distilled into three minutes. 

Two very talented artists have remixed the track & these remixes have been made available for free download. They are: 

DORIAN CONCEPT
Suspending the frenetic urgency of PVT's original concept, Austrian beat professor Dorian Concept holds 'Window' in a kaleidoscopic: seemingly pulling apart the song from the tape it was recorded on and filling the gaps with the flittering modal-jazz warmth he lent to Flying Lotus on Cosmogramma, their Brainfeeder collaboration and previous remixes for Jamie Lidell & Three 6 Mafia.

DANIMALS
Danimals is the first Australian act to sign to Stones Throw Records. The US indie label famous for it's underground hip hop signings is home to Madlib, Mayer Hawthorne, Dam-Funk and others. 

Danimals got a major profile boost when their song is used for a national TV advertising campaign. The song was written and recorded with help from a bunch of new friends including producer Mark Ronson, Santigold and Sean Lennon in New York. 

CHURCH WITH NO MAGIC
"There's pop elements on Church With No Magic, but its integration into the band's electronically damaged sound is what makes them succeed. They've run out of letters to remove from their name, but PVT are just getting started when it comes to good ideas." Pitchfork

"Brilliantly ambitious... bravely genre-defying...Church with No Magic has alchemy in spades" **** Timeout

"PVT don't cower at the feet of their influences so much as stand shoulder to shoulder with them. They may be Pivot no more, but they're turning heads - and for all the right reasons." 8/10 NME

“PVT: Band to Watch.” STEREOGUM 

"Church With No Magic' oozes tone and seepes ethereal textures like a leaking roof. A hit from dystopia's jukebox." LOUD + QUIET 9/10 

LIVE
The band play an intimate, invite only, free show at London’s Old Blue Last on Sept 6th. To win tickets, join the band’s mailing list here: http://pvtpvt.net

PVT’s full UK tour follows:

SEPTEMBER
28 UK, Manchester Deaf Institute
29 UK, Glasgow Stereo
30 UK, Leeds Brudenell

OCTOBER 
02 UK, Bristol Start The Bus
03 UK, Brighton Audio
04 UK, Nottingham Bodega
06 UK, London Cargo

Church With No Magic is Out Now on Warp Records
Order The Full Album (+ 3 Track Bonus Disc) here: http://bit.ly/bseUI4
View 'Window' Video Here - http://pvtpvt.net/video
Stream Full Album Here - http://pvtpvt.net

Church With No Magic

Window

PVT - Window (taken from Church WIth No Magic - out now on Warp Records)

'Homosapien' is taken from PVT's fourth studio album titled Homosapien, out now worldwide: http://smarturl.it/pvt

Touring Europe in May: http://pvtpvt.net/live

http://pvtpvt.net

http://www.feltesounds.com/


Homosapien

1 Little Grey Cells

First track from the Signal to Ground EP.

It Starts With a Beginning

We'll be releasing our new album before the end of the year! To celebrate, we're offering this fantastic Triptych remix for free download - hope you enjoy it! 

Rumour Cubes - Triptych (in violet mix)

Appearances of Collections is out now!
http://rumourcubes.bandcamp.com

“Rumour Cubes’ sound is a luminous re-imagining of very many constituent parts” (Louder than War). The London-based six-piece are a gathering swell of strings, electronics and layers of guitars, underpinned by a bass-infused rhythm. Formed in 2009, the band have since cut their own path, crafting music that is by turns melodic and abstract, raucous and reflective, joyful and melancholy.

The band’s two albums Appearances of Collections (2014) and The Narrow State (2012) draw on a wide range of instrumentation, influences and ideas, both packed with Rumour Cubes’ signature changes in pace, texture and form. Appearances of Collections has been described as “a far-reaching and fearless work, a dizzying instrumental adventure” (The Skinny), “music overflowing with a delicate, but nonetheless significant, passion” (Drowned in Sound) and “a labyrinth of vivacity, an album of beauty and transcendence that is meticulously crafted but holds no sense of rigidity, leaving plenty of room for wonder.” (Echoes and Dust).

Rumour Cubes’ performances are underpinned by their love of new technology. The band's live shows often feature mi.mu gloves (guitarist Adam Stark is part of the development team), which allow the wearer to manipulate sound using hand gestures, alongside a host of other technological elements, including joysticks, samplers, synths and a huge array of effects pedals, many of which are custom-built. Adam has also written custom software to synchronise videos to the band’s live performances, turning their shows into a multimedia experience.

Since their inception, the band have collaborated with poets, film-makers and a wide spectrum of other musicians. Collaborations with poet Steve Willey can be found on debut album track The Gove Curve and the 1871 / Letters To Palestine release; and Appearances of Collections includes contributions from 10 guest musicians. In 2013 Rumour Cubes played at Glastonbury, Village Green and Truck festivals alongside Sam Duckworth (Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly). The set at Glastonbury was Sunday's headline act on the Leftfield Stage, and was a live mixtape with artists including Billy Bragg, Kate Nash, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Jehst, Riz MC and Grace Petrie.

Rumour Cubes are Joe Bartlett (bass), Jay Malhotra (guitar), Hannah Morgan (violin), Terry Murphy (viola), Omar Rahwangi (drums) and Adam Stark (guitar, electronics).