SHOWCASE - Rock/Pop/Alternative

Shivers

Just One Question

No Resolve

Music video on Vevo now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySleQVe9bBo

“…a blistering piece of three minute thrash masquerading as a pop song.” – CLASH
“Snotty, catchy rock’n’roll” – Stereogum
“Reporters conjure a thick and guitar-heavy sound” – NME
“A wit and a scruffy-necked swagger that warrants it’s on place on the map” – DIY
"Only Noise, is a gritty and passionate dispatch from music’s frontline." - Q

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at Far Heath Studios by Angus Wallace (The Fall, Ian Brown, Spiritualized, The Prodigy)

Contact: reportersmgmt@gmail.com

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Only Noise

JOLTA - Sunset Surrender

From our upcoming debut album. Release date TBA.

Written by Mayflower Madame/Trond Fagernes
Mixed by Bent Bredeveien
Mastered by Mark Kramer

(Photo by Sister Ann)

Lovesick

From 'Red' EP, released via X Novo April 2015.

Catch Mt. Wolf live at Cecil Sharp House, London on 15th April, tickets here - http://bit.ly/1wU83SZ



Red (Deluxe Version)

Hamburg

Buy on iTunes

New album: Motorcade Amnesiacs - Released May 25th through Kscope

Following on from their critically acclaimed album ‘Crown and Treaty’, which was awarded a coveted five stars by Mojo, and its Mercury Music Prize-nominated predecessor ‘Twice Born Men’, Sweet Billy Pilgrim are back with their brand new album ‘Motorcade Amnesiacs’. The band recently signed to Kscope, home of artists including Steven Wilson, Anathema, Nordic Giants and Engineers.

Not ones to respect musical boundaries, Sweet Billy Pilgrim have thrown every ounce of their belief and passion into the creative process resulting in the genre spanning excellence of  ‘Motorcade Amnesiacs’. Frontman Tim Elsenburg’s unique musical worldview has resulted in yet another masterpiece; an album of adventurously inspired melodies, intertwining riffs and eclectic rhythms, heavenly harmonies and thought-provoking lyrics. 

As he describes it: “I’ve rediscovered my love of the electric guitar, and of riffs. I’m jokingly referring to it as our Queens of the Sprout Age album, just because I like to imagine it as a point in time and space where Mr Homme and Mr McAloon might meet, fall in love and produce a ginger, epically-bearded, SBP-shaped baby.”

The album is a remarkable body of work. Ten years into Sweet Billy Pilgrim’s singular career, their development from electronic / acoustic experimentalism into widescreen accessibility is fully realised on this, their fourth album. The first track to be taken from the album is the groove-laden shuffle of ‘Coloma Blues’, with its buoyant breakdowns and elevating chorus. Further songs such as ‘Slingshot Grin’ lift the listener’s heart, building from bluesy declamations to a euphoric fanfare of horns and strings, while ‘Just Above Midtown’ sees the band fuse their pop sensibilities with swaggering rock groove. 

‘Longstreth’ showcases Elsenburg’s dynamic song writing ability, mixing beautiful harmonies with pounding guitar riffs, the groove-led ‘We Just Did What Happened And Nobody Came’ lodges firmly in the memory long after it ends and ‘Tyrekickers’, revels in co-vocalist Jana Carpenters heart-worn tones. 

The album follows a period of soul-searching for Elsenburg where he nearly called time on the band, disheartened by the fact that overwhelming critical acclaim didn’t pay the rent or put food on the table. However he refused to be defeated and has come back with a visionary album that finds him at war with his own cynicism, against the constantly shifting backdrop of a changing music industry and the wider political world; a timely slice of invective as we move towards electioneering.

“When it came to making the record, all the songs started to form around the struggle against the cynical heart, so when the time came to find a title I wanted to find a symbolic moment in our history; one where it felt a little like innocence was lost and something ugly and hopeless started to creep in, and I thought of the death of JFK - as we followed that motorcade through the streets of Dallas in 1963, in post gunshot-shock, maybe we forgot how to hope for something better, just a little.

It took me somewhere new, lyrically speaking, in that I got to write more obviously in other people’s voices. A couple of the songs on ‘Motorcade Amnesiacs’ are even explicitly political, which is something I’ve always avoided in the past, just because looking at those things in the emotional way songwriters often look at the world seemed somehow inappropriate, when in fact it’s probably the only way to look at them.”

As a life-affirming work of both righteous joy and anger, ‘Motorcade Amnesiacs’ cements Sweet Billy Pilgrim as one of Britain’s greatest cult bands; critically adored yet still music’s best-kept secret. The time is now right for them to reap the rewards of a decade of perseverance. There’s no chance of forgetting them now…

They play at this year’s Desertfest in London on April 25th with more dates to be announced.



Motorcade Amnesiacs

Coloma Blues

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Coloma Blues (from Motorcade Amnesiacs)

Taken from 'Sunset Surrender EP', out via Republic Of Music on 11th May.

Buy now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sunset-surrender-ep/id962003473

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4eSzaJ3dZmX7SF6oTZNVhJ

Live: 
6th June - Field Day Festival 
11th June - Isle Of Wight Festival
3rd July - Blissfields Festival 
25th July - Nozstock Festival 

More to be announced soon.... 

JOLTA - One Apple Tree

"Made A Decision" by Imaginary War
http://imaginarywar.de
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Music & Lyrics by Imaginary War
Produced & Mixed by Imaginary War & Tim Tautorat
Mastered by Henning Birkenhake (BG Audiodesign)

Imaginary War - Made A Decision

S O C O T R A (Radio Edit)

Father Of The Universe

"Anxious In Venice" is the first song off our upcoming album 'Do You Feel OK?' out 9/11 on Innovative Leisure.

Do You Feel Ok?

Anxious In Venice

Produced by Ed Buller
Released 30th Oct 2015
https://www.facebook.com/keepbreathinguk
https://twitter.com/KeepBreathingUK

KEEP BREATHING - Weather Warning

Band: Gentlemans Pistols
Album: Hustler's Row

BUY THE ALBUM HERE

GENTLEMANS PISTOLS - The Searcher

www.TheLudlowThieves.com
From our upcoming Sing Me Back EP
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Over Again

Picture

You & Me

I've Got The Time

Lately I have changed
I’ve been awake so long, so long

Trust me I can fight
These demons inside, inside

Maybe you should find
The time, to take a trip inside my mind
Can you feel it, can you feel it

It’s crazy that you can see
Cos these lights are blinding me, can we go now

So wake me up
Wake me up
When I’m far away from the city lights
Just take me there
Take me there 
Even if it’s for one night

Through the looking glass
See what I can find, what I can find

Walk over shards and pass
Reach the other side, the other side

Maybe you should find
The time, to take a trip inside my mind
Can you feel it, can you feel it

It’s crazy that you can see
Cos these lights are blinding me, can we go now

So wake me up
Wake me up
When I’m far away from the city lights
Just take me there
Take me there 
Even if it’s for one night

I’ve seen a thousand places
I’ve worn a thousand faces
But none of these are true
And when the walls are falling
The light comes shining through

So wake me up
Wake me up
When I’m far away from the city lights
Just take me there
Take me there 
Even if it’s for one night

So wake me up
Wake me up
When I’m far away from the city lights
Just take me there
Take me there 
Even if it’s for one night

So wake me up
Wake me up
When I’m far away from the city lights
Just take me there
Take me there 
Even if it’s for tonight

SHOWCASE - Rock/Pop/Alternative

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