analog heart 2013

born in a Clapton aquarium and catapulted into the sun; found coughing sea on the safety of a beach.

http://www.facebook.com/jrsea

played/recorded/produced by J.R.C.
additional recording/production by Tom Morris
mixed by Tarek Musa

Out Of Body Auto-Reply

Pre-order on 12" - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv067-girls-names-the-next-life-12-limited-edition-white-vinyl

Buy on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/projektions-factory-floor/id673670761

Belfast four-piece Girls Names released their critically acclaimed second album, The New Life, in February and it marked a new direction for the band altogether. That directional shift is emphasized even further by Gabe Gurnsey from Factory Floor, who has remixed album track 'Projektions', adding FF's characteristic dance floor focus to Girls Names' motorik groove.

The track is taken from forthcoming EP, The Next Life,  a collection of remixes that will be released later this year on Tough Love (Europe) and Slumberland (US). Alongside Factory Floor will be interpretations of tracks taken from the album by David Holmes, Locust, The Soft Walls and Optimo.

Buy The New Life - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-new-life/id582840781

Girls Names will also be playing a host of European festival dates, as below. More tour dates to be added soon.

August
4th - Castlepalooza, Tullamore -
16th - Soundrive Festival, Gdansk
17th - Green Man Festival, Glanusk, Wales
September
13th - Debaser, Stockholm
14th - Phonofestival, Bergen
27th - The MAC, Belfast
28th - Pacrock Festival, Brussels

Girls Names - Projektion (Factory Floor Gabe Gurnsey Remix)

#1s - Sharon

September Girls - Ships

Taken from the cassette/digital release of the MYSTYRYS and Soft Arrows on 7 Oct 2013 via Psychic Healing Network

MYSTYRYS - Posts and Communications

Iron And Fire

Taken from the forthcoming double A Side single Exploded View/Magpies Eyes out November 5th via CF. 7" is limited to 100 records and includes downloads of both songs plus 2 brand new tracks, also exclusive screen printed artwork by Lucy Jones. Pre-order here: http://cfrecords.bigcartel.com/product/sea-pinks-exploded-view-magpies-eyes-7-dl

Sea Pinks - An Exploded View

“Heartbeats” is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming Fortuna POP! album by September Girls. A tale of unrequited love and betrayal, “Heatbeats” is awash with fuzzy guitars, ethereal female vocals and entrancing melodies – underpinned by a hurt that catches the back of your throat.

September Girls - Heartbeats

From "Swoon" the debut album from Dott. Out on Graveface Records, December 3rd 2013. 
www.graveface.com
www.facebook.com/dottmusic

Cherry Blossom

From the album Appear to Float.
Available on Limited Edition Blue Vinyl

Recorded at Granny It's Ok Recording Studio.

Dig Your Own Disco

Tin Charm - The Tin Charm

Order on limited white vinyl 12" from Tough Love - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv067-girls-names-the-next-life-12-limited-edition-white-vinyl

Order on limited transparent vinyl 12" from Rough Trade - www.roughtrade.com/albums/76774

Belfast four-piece Girls Names released their critically acclaimed second album, The New Life, in February and it marked a new direction for the band altogether. That directional shift is emphasized even further by a new EP , entitled The Next Life. Released on 4th November through Tough Love/Slumberland, it will be available in two different formats: a 3 track 12", and as a 7 track download (28th October).

The 12" features a Brain Eno cover version, as above, and two remixes by David Holmes and Factory Floor, is now available to pre-order on exclusive white vinyl through the Tough Love store. A transparent version will be available to buy exclusively via Rough Trade, and a black version at all other stores. The digital EP contains original track 'Visions', and three other remixes: Optimo, Mark Van Hoen, and The Soft Walls.

12" tracklising
A1. Third Uncle (w/ locked groove)
B1. The New Life (David Holmes Remix)
B2. Projektion (Gabe Gurnsey Factory Floor Remix)

Digital EP tracklisting
1. Visions
2. Third Uncle
3. The New Life (David Holmes Remix)
4. The New Life (JD Twitch Optimo Remix)
5. Projektion (Gabe Gurnsey Factory Floor Remix)
6. Drawing Lines (Mark Van Hoen Remix)
7. Occultation (The Soft Walls Remix)

Buy The New Life - itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-new-life/id582840781

29th - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds - www.ssdconcerts.co.uk
30th - Start The Bus, Bristol - www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
31st - Roundhouse, London w/ The Cult - www.kililive.com
November
1st - Roundhouse, London w/ The Cult - www.kililive.com
2nd - The Green Door Store, Brighton - www.wegottickets.com
9th - Whelans, Dublin

Girls Names - The New Life (David Holmes Remix)

'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

Sunridden

Buy Hypnotic Regression on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/hypnotic-regression-single/id583187872

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released on 18th February, their second album The New Life is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, The New Life is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

The band’s performance at Primavera festival 2012 provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise The New Life. The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains:

“The New Life is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. Dead to Me literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, The New Life is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. The New Life is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream here - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, The New Life, stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

The New Life will be released on February 18th on Tough Love (UK) and Slumberland (US).

Girls Names - Hypnotic Regression

Smalltown Boy - Patrick Kelleher

Don't You Want Me - Ickis Mirolo & Margie Lewis

Stanley - Snow Rain EP - FRNDS001

The First Friends.Collective release comes from Stanley. Grab your free copy here:

http://friendscollective.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist: 
1 - Snow Rain
2 - By Myself
3 - Leaves

Stanley - Snow Rain (FRNDS001)

Dirt

From the album 'Everyone Does Everything Wrong'

analog heart 2013

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