A cover request I did back in 2010 of Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus. Posted here because the original's being reissued: http://www.monamierecords.com/q-lazzarus-goodbye-horses-12-vinyl-reissue-bw-cover-by-hayden-thorpe-wild-beasts-jon-hopkins/

Brad Sucks - Goodbye Horses (Q Lazzarus cover)

Holding Me Up

Happy 4/20. We’ve had a few pass by without a hint of any new Twig to pack pipe with. Not that the pot holiday has been synonymous with my work, but I’ve had an obsession these past few years trying to engineer tunes that might emulate the tactile engagement we feel with music when stoned, without having to spark up (not that it’ll hurt in any case). Today is as good a day as any to let you know those experiments will be released on DFA this year.

My cover of Serge Gainsbourg's ‘Cannabis’ composition is not emblematic of this technique. I’m not quite ready to unveil everything to you just yet. It lends itself better as a national anthem of where I’ve set up shop. Sometimes a feeling creeps up on you that words can’t transcend. My take on ‘Cannabis’ is a moment like this.

I thank mister Gainsbourg for yet another cosmic assist. I also thank the U.S. Girl for her impassioned vocals, Steve Chahley for his master mixing and all the other wonderful collaborators who have helped to serve up my vision.

My forthcoming album is the kind of record that will ripen under the enhancement of your imagination. It is my hope that by imbibing the substance of this ‘Cannabis’ 7" you will find yourself in exactly the condition to appreciate what I’ve rolled up next.

As ever,

ST.

April 20th, 2015.

Toronto, Canada.



Slim Twig - Cannabis

From the SF band's album "West", out Sept. 13, 2011

Wooden Shjips "Black Smoke Rise"

Guerolito

Missing (Air Remix)

Julie's Haircut - Gathering Light

Taken from the album:
INVOCATION AND RITUAL DANCE OF MY DEMON TWIN
LAUNCH104
LP/CD/DL
17 FEBRUARY 2017

Album Itunes:
http://apple.co/2fyZlU3

Rocket Store:
https://rocketrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/invocation-and-ritual-dance-of-my-demon-twin

“Being from Italy and doing what we do - we are outsiders” says Luca
Giovanardi, a founder member of Julie’s Haircut, whose always incendiary
yet increasingly outlandish sound has found itself with few parallels in their
homeland since their inception towards the end of the last century. “We have
always been outsiders.”

Yet in following their own singular pathway, the band have arrived at the
deep-end approach to sonic innovation audible on their debut release for
Rocket Recordings, Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin.
Seven albums into a mission initially inspired by the likes of Sonic Youth,
My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3, the band now find themselves at a
new plateau of small-hours elucidation and revelation that may summon the
spectres of the wayward squall of early Mercury Rev, the shamanic allure of
Dead Skeletons or the wild soundscapes of Amon Duul II to some,
yet essentially sounds like no-one but themselves.

It was in around 2005 that the band decided to pursue a more experimental
mindset, and central to this reinvention has been the evolution of an alchemic
compositional method which sees them triumph via intuitive processes to arrive
beyond notions of classicism, genre and contemporary reference, somewhere
in motion along the pathways of the consciousness-expanding psychedelic
continuum without paying lip-service to its well-worn signifiers.

“In fact we don’t ‘write’ songs anymore, not in the usual sense” he explains
“It’s more similar to what Teo Macero was doing on Miles Davis’s records:
improvising freely and then ‘finding’ the song, refining it until it comes out in its
final form. Can - whose former singer Damo Suzuki is now a very close friend
of ours and we’ve been performing with him many times - used a similar method.
And of course both Can and Davis have been two huge influences on our work
in the last ten years.”

The result is a record built on trance-like repetition that grows to mantric intensity to summon atmospheric plateaus redolent of the psychic and surreal
transgressions of its title - a double-helix tribute to both Frank Zappa and
Kenneth Anger. Coruscating guitar overload and jazz-tinged blowout collide
amidst hypnotic soundscapes like the shamanically inclined ‘The Fire Sermon’
and the eleven-minute motorik magnificence of the curtain-raiser ‘Zukunft’.
Yet atmospheric restraint, glacial texture and immersive groove play as large
a part in this blinding and beatific soundworld as droning darkness or
overheated amp tubes.

As the band elaborates, “Psychedelic music has always been about adventure
and loss of any safety net”. True to form, central to the succor provided whilst
lost within the grooves and headspace of Invocation And Ritual Dance Of
My Demon Twin is that it offers no security at all.

UK press: rachel.silver@silverpr.co.uk
Italian press: sandro@promorama.it
Label: rocketrecordingshq@gmail.com

Invocation and Ritual Dance of My Demon Twin

Julie's Haircut - Gathering Light

Released 3rd September 2007 on Capitol Records

Appears on on the CD single and on a promo only 12″ alongside the Phones remix of ‘The Heinrich Maneuver”

Mammoth (Erol Alkan Rework) - Interpol

First single from Paul Banks second solo album, Banks, out Oct 23rd on 

Paul banks - "The Base"

Do you remember a time before the words “dance” and “rock” were linked by a hyphen and the synthesized sounds of the ’80s were a regular part of the modern musical landscape? The members of The Faint do, because they were there when it started to happen. In fact, you could even say they’re one of the main reasons it happened at all.

One of the crown jewels of the dance-rock movement, Danse Macabre, was reissued November 19, 2012! In addition to being remastered from the original tapes, the deluxe edition features a second CD of bonus material as well as a DVD including archival video footage from the band, live projection videos from that era's tour dates, the agenda suicide music video (MK12), some live footage and more. 

Limited Edition (of 3000) Deluxe 2xLP/2xCD/DVD includes:
- Remastered 180g 2xLPs manufactured at RTI.
- Remastered 2xCDs of entire album and bonus material.
- DVD with archival video footage from the band, live projection videos from that era's tour dates, the "Agenda Suicide" music video (directed by MK12), some live footage, and more!
- New liner notes (written by Marc Hawthorne) and photos from the band's personal archive

Limited Edition (of 5000) Deluxe 2xCD/DVD includes:
- Remastered 2xCDs of entire album and bonus material.
- DVD with archival video footage from the band, live projection videos from that era's tour dates, the "Agenda Suicide" music video (directed by MK12), some live footage, and more!
- New liner notes (written by Marc Hawthorne) and photos from the band's personal archive

2xCD/DVD
CD 1 - Original Album Remastered
1. Agenda Suicide
2. Glass Danse
3. Total Job
4. Let The Poison Spill From Your Throat
5. Your Retro Career Melted
6. Posed To Death
7. The Conductor
8. Violent
9. Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen

CD 2 - Bonus Tracks
1 Take Me to the Hospital (originally appeared on "Saddle Creek 50")
2 Mote (originally appeared on the "Dust/Mote" 12")
3 Dust (originally appeared on the "Dust/Mote" 12")
4 Falling Out of Love at This Volume (originally appeared as a b-side on the German "Agenda Suicide" CD single)
5 The Conductor (Thin White Duke Remix) (originally appeared on "Danse Macabre Remixes" )
6 Glass Danse (Out Hud Remix) (previously unreleased)

DVD 
- Includes archival video footage from the band, live projection videos from that era's tour dates, the "Agenda Suicide" music video (MK12), some live footage and more!


The Faint - Agenda Suicide

This demo take with Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) on drums, Josh Homme (QOTSA) on bass
and Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) on the keyboard is so much better and atmospheric than
the final track on the Sound City Real to Reel soundtrack !

Less is more...

Sound City - Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor - Mantra (Sound City Demo)

"Taste the Diff", from Obits' third full-length, 'Bed & Bugs,' out September 10th, 2013 on Sub Pop Records.

Pre-order here: www.subpop.com/artists/obits

Obits online:
https://www.facebook.com/obitsband
https://twitter.com/obitsband

Sub Pop online:
https://www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
https://twitter.com/subpop


Bed & Bugs

Taste the Diff

Obits - Taste the Diff

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.

Obits - Taste the Diff

Sub Pop

Recent comments

user666460119

claudionline

Rudy jr. &The LovePirates

ToadGeek

Related tracks