Spring in your step..

'Erosion' is taken from CYMBALS' new album, The Age of Fracture, out on 27th Jan (EU)/4th Feb (N.A.)

Pre-order The Age of Fracture on iTunes - http://smarturl.it/ageoffractureitunes
Pre-order the limited edition double vinyl gatefold LP - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv070-cymbals-the-age-of-fracture-limited-edition-double-colour-vinyl-lp-pre-order

Buy 'Erosion' on iTunes - http://smarturl.it/erosionitunes

CYMBALS will launch their album with a headline show in London in February.
2nd Feb 2014 - Electrowerkz, London - www.wegottickets.com/event/246573

<b>Press release</b>
The long-awaited new album from CYMBALS is named after a book by Princeton academic, Daniel T. Rodgers, which addresses the fragmentation of ideas towards the end of the last century and how collective meanings have become uncertain.  Singer and guitarist Jack Cleverly writes: "It hit me that I often feel paralysed by the feeling that everything is 'too complicated', and that many people I know feel that paralysis. I realised that this way of thinking can be traced through these songs." 

Produced by Dreamtrak (Swim Deep, Chad Valley, Hot Chip) in his Hackney studio and written collectively over the last 12-months, the group have taken their time to carefully piece the album together, song-by-song, in sequence. The album was completed following a final mix from Daniel Rejmer (Foals, Everything Everything) and the result is testament to the band’s attention to detail: a cleaner, brighter sound than their brattier early recordings, edging towards the European sophistication of the end-of-the-century French house Jack grew up around. Singles 'Like An Animal', 'The End' and 'The Natural World' are characterized by an upbeat disco cool and all push the 7-minute mark, whereas ‘Winter 98’, ‘This City’, and ‘Call Me’ are brooding, stark synth-led numbers reminiscent of early-New Order, with some lyrics sung in Jack’s native French.

The literary inspiration runs further through the album. The track ‘The 5%’, more obviously making reference to the themes of the album's namesake, declares “Time can be erased, you’re stupid if you try and stay in place,” over a pulsing bassline and swirling electronics.  ‘Like an Animal’ is inspired by the intellectual and moral confusion of the main character in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. The album has even garnered literary responses of its own by British poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine.

“I told Joe about the book and the way the album was kind of a reaction to it, and he threw my rationalisation of it back at me through a short story inspired by the album.” says Cleverly. “It helped reveal the emotional territory of the songs. He showed me how I had been dividing things up artificially - desires and priorities, getting older and not being able to stop writing music…”
 
Through the writing of this album, CYMBALS have inevitably matured. “We've never been in it just for a laugh," says Cleverly; “but things got confused when we said we wanted to keep it fun – we just didn't want to end up bitter, having chased a hollow dream.  But this album is less about us; it's more outward looking, more aware of the world at large."  

Despite the weighty literary influences, the band are keen to separate themselves from the over-earnestness that can sometimes accompany such associations.  “I hate the whole 'serious earnest-singer-songwriter-thing,’” says Jack. “With this album I really wanted to get away from that and make music that makes people want to dance and feel joy. Neil's kick drum is the most important thing we have to say as a band. Is this all "fun"?  Yes, of course, but at the same time, not just that."

UK press: leah@inhousepress.com
UK online: matthew@enganche.co.uk
US press/online: gloria@forcefieldpr.com


iTunes

CYMBALS - Erosion

Innocence single from the new album INNOCENCE out Jan 28, 2014 on Thrill Jockey Records

Innocence

The War On Drugs 'Lost In The Dream' out March 2014 on Secretly Canadian.

Pre-order now:
Bundle/Deluxe options from SC Distribution: http://smarturl.it/warondrugs
Amazon/physical stores: http://smarturl.it/warondrugs_amazon
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/warondrugs_itunes
Indies: http://smarturl.it/warondrugs_indies


The War On Drugs
Artist Page http://secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=warondrugs
Official Site http://www.thewarondrugs.net/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheWarOnDrugs
Twitter https://twitter.com/warondrugsjams
Instagram http://instagram.com/warondrugsjams


The War On Drugs "Red Eyes" from 'Lost In The Dream' out March 2014 on Secretly Canadian

Red Eyes

Buy it on iTunes

The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

From 'Underneath the Rainbow' out 3/18/14 via VICE Records. 

Black Lips-Justice After All

"Lonely Richard" appears on Love, out now. 

LP/CD: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr113-amen-dunes-love
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love/id820487768?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amendunes/
Bandcamp: https://amendunes.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amendunes/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amendunes

Tourdates: https://www.facebook.com/amendunes/app/123966167614127/


Amen Dunes - Lonely Richard

TOBACCO Ultima II Massage out May 13, 2014. 

Download "Eruption": http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/tobacco-eruption
Order Ultima II Massage: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/tobacco-ultima-ii-massage

TOBACCO - Eruption (Gonna Get My Hair Cut At The End Of The Summer)

Grizzly Bear - Yet Again

07 Future Primitive

2015 Paper Bag Records
Young Rival - Interior Light
From the album Interior Light
Out October 16th, 2015

iTunes link (single): http://radi.al/YoungRivalInterorLight

Vinyl/CD pre-order link: 
http://shop.paperbagrecords.com/products/interior-light

www.youngrival.com
www.facebook.com/pages/YOUNG-RIVAL
www.paperbagrecords.com


YOUNG RIVAL - Interior Light

better as friends

'Sign' - Taken from the Medicine EP, out 6th May Digitally and 10th June Physically. Pre-Order here: http://www.melodic.co.uk/medicine/

BUY 12"/DIGITAL

Man Of Moon - Sign

'Fading Lines' is the second single & title track from Amber Arcades forthcoming album.

For album pre-orders & track listing: http://www.heavenlyrecordings.com/records/2016/03/hvnlp126-amber-arcades-fading-lines/



Fading Lines

Ancient Rolling Sea is the first single of Slow Club's forthcoming new album, which is out later this year. 

Tickets for the following shows: smarturl.it/SlowClubLive
24/05 – Coventry, UK - Warwick Arts Centre
25/05 - St Albans, UK - The Horn
26/05 - Poole, UK - Mr Kyps
27/05 – Southampton, UK - Hampshire Joiners Arms
28/05 – Bristol, UK - The Lantern, Colston Hall
30/05 – Hereford, UK – HowTheLightGetsIn2016: Philosophy & Music Festival
31/05 – Nottingham, UK - Bodega Social Club
01/06 - Ashford, UK - Revelation St Mary’s
02/06 - Brighton, UK -Komedia (Brighton)
03/06 – Margate, UK - Tom Thumb Theatre
16/07 - Salisbury, UK - Wiltshire Larmer Tree Festival
21/08 - Powys, Wales  - Green Man Festival


Slow Club - Ancient Rolling Sea

From the 8/26/16 Morgan Delt album Phase Zero
http://u.subpop.com/1X8Wmmw

Morgan Delt 
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/morgandeltmusic
Twitter https://twitter.com/morgandelt

Morgan Delt - Some Sunsick Day

"Hopeless" appears on Psychic Twin's debut full-length album, Strange Diary, out 9/9/2016.

Pre-order Strange Diary:
Polyvinyl (LP/CD/DIGITAL): http://plyvnyl.co/strangediary
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/strange-diary
Bandcamp: http://plyvnyl.co/strange-diary-BC
Stream: http://Psychic.Twin.lnk.to/strange-diary

Psychic Twin - Hopeless

"Line of Fire", from upcoming self-titled Junip album, out this Spring on City Slang in Europe and Mute Records in North America.

Buy the track on Amazon: http://glnk.it/1v4
or on iTunes: http://glnk.it/1v5

http://www.junip.net
http://www.mute.com
http://www.cityslang.com

Lyrics:

What would you do
If it all came back to you
Each crest of each wave
Bright as lightning
What would you say
If you had to leave today
Leave everything behind
Even though for once you're shining

Standing on higher ground
But when you hear the sounds
You realise it's just a whim (/the wind)
And you notice it matters
Who and what you let under your skin

If put to the test
Would you step back from the line of fire
Hold everything back
All emotions and desires

Convince yourself to be someone else
And hold back from the world
Your lack of confidence
What you choose to believe in
Dictates your rise or your fall

With no one else around you
No one to understand you
No one to hear your calls
Look through all your dark corners
When you're backed up against the wall
Step back from the line of fire

I'd do the same as you would
Would do the same as you
Step back from the line of fire

Buy on iTunes

Junip - Line Of Fire

Brooklyn based independent record label, established 2007 A.D. 

Amen Dunes - Lonely Richard

Sacred Bones Records

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