Indie & alternative 2017 # 03

R&B (Theo Verney Version)

'The Great Regression' is the debut album from DITZ released on 4th March 2022 via Alcopop records. Buy/stream here: https://ditzband.bandcamp.com
Dinked Edition (limited to 500 copies): https://dinkededition.co.uk/ditz-the-great-regression

Stream DITZ's debut album 'The Great Regression' here: https://bfan.link/the-great-regression

Artwork by Jay Bartlett
Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ben Hampson at Agricultural Audio
Mastered by Katie Tavini at Weird Jungle
Released on Alcopop! Records

DITZ UK + EU SHOWS 
Tickets: linktr.ee/ditzband

2022 LIVE DATES
15/03 - Independent, Sunderland, UK
18/03 - Nice N' Sleazy, Glasgow, UK
19/03 - Legends, Edinburgh, UK
20/03 - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
21/03 - Hare & Hounds 2, Birmingham, UK
22/03 - Louisiana, Bristol, UK
23/03 - Cavern, Exeter, UK
24/03 - Shacklewell Arms, London, UK
25/03 - The Hope & Ruin, Brighton, UK
01/04 - The Chameleon, Nottingham, UK
02/04 - Fair Play Festival, Manchester, UK
04/04 - Mc Daid's, Le Havre, France
05/04 - La Cartonnerie, Reims, France (co-headline w/ BRNS)
06/04 - L'Hydrophone, Lorient, France (co-headline w/ DUMA)
07/04 - Antipode, Rennes, France (co-headline w/ Structures)
08/04 - Le Poco Loco, Clermont-Ferrand, France (co-headline w/ Penelope Isles)
09/04 - Point Ephemere, Paris, France
14/04 - The Hope & Ruin, Brighton (supporting Protomartyr) - sold out
30/04 - Sound City Festival, Liverpool, UK
13/05 - Les Nuits Botanique, Brussels, Belgium (supporting Pigsx7)
28/05 - Sea Change Festival, Totnes, UK
08/07 - 2000 Trees Festival, Cheltenham, UK
16/07 - Ulltra Festival, Hull, UK
22/07 - Truck Festival, Oxford, UK
29/07 - Resident (instore), Brighton, UK (performance + signing) 

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Ded Würst

it doesn't make sense, thanks for all the pain..

girls only love you when you treat them like shit

Street Punk

Mud in Your Eyes

Marabout

Mon autre

From their "s/t" debut album, out March 31st, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

RAYS  "Theatre Of Lunacy" (Trouble In Mind Records)

It's a Myth

Act Out

From 'Occult Architecture Vol. 2' out now on Sacred Bones Records.

Order and download instantly:
iTunes: hyperurl.co/OAVol2
Bandcamp: bit.ly/2mBMBi3
Vinyl & CD: http://bit.ly/2qGNir6

BAND INFO:
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www.instagram.com/moonduoband/
open.spotify.com/artist/4ipKeGoyPCcpEblETS4qLu

LABEL INFO:
www.sacredbonesrecords.com/
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Moon Duo - Sevens

Following the February release of their critically acclaimed debut long-player, ‘Nothing Feels Natural’, Priests will be releasing ‘Early Recordings’ through Tough Love as part of this year's Record Store Day. It will be pressed on to opaque white vinyl and limited to 1000 copies.

Priests’ ‘Early Recordings’ combines the band’s first two cassette-only tape releases, originally recorded in 2011 and 2013. The small run cassette releases were originally intended to be for purchase only at the band’s live shows. “We didn’t want everybody to hear it,” said drummer Daniele Daniele. “We were still learning our instruments, so these tapes were not intended to impress the world, just document where we were for our own sake.” Daniele met vocalist Katie Alice Greer the same week she arrived in Washington, DC to complete a fellowship at Georgetown University, and the two decided to start a band. Guitarist GL Jaguar joined soon after, and bassist Taylor Mulitz completed the lineup the following year.

Tape 1 was recorded by Jaguar in his parent’s basement in Maryland. The band had existed for one week, and the trio had written four songs. “I was very eager to have evidence of the band exist for myself, because I didn’t know how long it would last, and I wanted to make music more than anything,” said Greer. “Diet Coke”, the band’s first song, is a hundred second blast of pummeling energy and what would become Jaguar’s signature riffage. A winking nod to advertising that sneaks into culture, the tune is followed by the more contemplative “Talking”, a song on which both Greer and Jaguar play guitar. Greer’s lyrics speak to US public school systems “rewarding complicity” and children being “being socialized by reality TV”. “The World”, perhaps foreshadowing the band’s krautrock-inspired penchant for repetition, is a jubilant intermission before “Cobra”, a playfully minimal stop-start closer inspired by cult favorite rock group She (also known as “The Hairem”).

On Tape Two the band was eager to showcase their fuller sound as a newly expanded quartet. The tape’s seven songs were recorded by Kevin Erickson and Hugh McElroy, who had already recorded the band’s first single “Radiation/Personal Planes” a year earlier and would go on to produced half of Priests’ Bodies and Control and Money and Power EP and all of Nothing Feels Natural. “Leave Me Alone” nods to the Priests’s affinity for inverting the cool funk of a song like Bush Tetras’ “Too Many Creeps” (“I see you when I’m out on the street/ I think you look like a creep”) while exploring more melodic territory on tracks like “Twelve”, hinting to material that would later surface on Nothing Feels Natural. Lyrically, Priests continued to explore themes that center women’s lives (“Lillian Hellman”), critique social perception of female celebrity (“Lana”), interrogate assumptions of US history (“Incantations”), and invert the male gaze on the Daniele Daniele-penned closer “Watch You”. Priests was already interested in expanding their musical palette, as evidenced by metallic clangs and a purring drum machine on “Watch You” and creeping mellotron weaving in and out of a few different tracks throughout.

‘Early Recordings’ lays the groundwork for Priests longer releases in the following three years and provides context for the band’s evolving sound.

Early Recordings (master MP3s)

Priests - Leave Me Alone

FREAK GENES Playtime LP
(SNATCH!084)
Release Date 31.05.2017

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