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January 2017 Withguitars.com SoundCould list

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January 2017 Sounds

From the New Dog album 'Classic Ballroom Dances', available for pre-order at https://newdog.bandcamp.com/album/classic-ballroom-dances

Out on Kill Rock Stars on June 2nd, 2015

Anar Badalov is New Dog, but Classic Ballroom Dances is no trick; this intimate and enthralling album is the next installment in the career of this promising young songwriter. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan in the 80s, Anar’s family immigrated to Baltimore, MD during the breakup of the Soviet Union. Anar grew up in Baltimore and was in two notable bands, Metal Hearts and Travels, between 2004 and 2014.

With the dissolution of Travels, Anar began working on his own for the first time. Classic Ballroom Dances, like the first New Dog album Lost Weekend, was recorded alone in his apartment. Anar describes the process: “Not having someone to lean on, musically, is both terrifying and doubly rewarding. You work at your own pace, and set your own rules.”

The title was inspired by the poem of the same name by Yugoslavian poet Charles Simic. Simic has said that list poems like Classic Ballroom Dances are “the poetic equivalent of quilt-making.” Long before Anar read this poem or heard of the poet, this was the way he approached songwriting. “I’d like to think that at least a handful of songs on this album capture something like what Simic is talking about,” he says. Simic is one of Anar’s biggest influences. Others include Lee Hazlewood, Frank O'Hara, Mark Linkous, John Berryman, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Townes Van Zandt and guitarist Mick Turner.

New Dog - The Airport Lobby

All tracks written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Reem Nabhani & Liam Dargaville from HEAVY with the exception of...

Additional Vocals written and performed by Elvin Alfaro on Kush Mansion, Nap Rap, Double Stout & Seven Blunts.

Kush Mansion Ft. LVJ

Taken from Well Far Away Friends WFAF001
Available via free download or on limited edition cassette:
https://wellfarawayfriends.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MemoryDrawers

For more info on the bands involved visit:
http://wellfarawayfriends.tumblr.com/

Memory Drawers - Lovingly, Leaving Me

Order LP/CD: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/307
Order iTunes: http://smarturl.it/wordlessitunes

"Wordless Wonder" is the long awaited full length from Real Numbers.  It follows up a pair of 12" EPs on Three Dimensional Records, a single on Florida's Dying, and recent appearances on cassettes from Forged Artifacts and No Problem.  Tenderly crafted by Matt Castore at his St. Paul, MN studio A Harder Commune from late 2015 to early 2016, it is presented here on Slumberland Records for your enjoyment.

Wordless Wonder

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Real Numbers - New Boy

DOMINO is the lead single from Animal House's debut EP, "SORRY", out 18th November.

Engineered by Josh @ Brighton Electric
Mixed by Steve Schram

Sorry

Domino

PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS:

Album: FEED THE RATS
Cat no: Launch103
Release date: 20 January

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”, as a sage wiser and more debauched than most of us once remarked. Such is the headspace of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, whose animalistic headspace is set out by their very moniker, yet who have wasted little time in creating an almighty psychic charge that has blown minds and summoned bedlam in sweat-drenched venues across the UK’s underground and beyond.

“It’s a pretty perfect balance of obnoxiousness, ridiculousness, intensity and theatrics, and somewhere within that spectrum is where our music sits too.” reckons Matthew Baty, whose vein-popping onstage performances and cathartic bellow form a primary ingredient of the Newcastle five-piece’s devastating live shows. “We truly love the emotionally dark bands that we are in (Ommadon, Blown Out, Khunnt). Pigs however provided an opportunity to do something different, something that is fun with a different kind of intensity.”

Playing their first gig supporting Goat at what was only the latter’s second ever show, the band have gigged relentlessly with kindred spirits including The Cosmic Dead and Luminous Bodies, not to mention gracing festivals like Supernormal and Portugal’s Reverence with their feral attack. Yet the time has come for this band to transcend the realm of word-of-mouth phenomenon and be judged on their feverish and demented collision of psych-drone dementia and riff-driven salvation alone. 

The inarguable proof is Feed The Rats, the overwhelming first album the band have created for Rocket Recordings - equal parts righteous repetition, bludgeoning brute force and Sabbathian squalor, its alchemical charge has the power to transform bleary-eyed abandon into small-hours revelation. This three-track, forty-minute monument of chaotic catharsis captures the everything-on-eleven spirit of the band’s live manifestation whilst adding a level of finesse and texture often less easily accessible in a dangerous haze of flying hair, discarded clothes and spilt premium lager. Channeling the grimy trip hazards of Monster Magnet’s ‘Spine Of God’ through a prism of kraut-derived repetition and Part Chimp style bloodymindedness, the resulting hallucinatory vortex appears constantly on the realm of breaking point. 

Yet for Baty, the porcine realm is less about a nihilistic quest for fiery oblivion than one might imagine. “You know, I think we’ve experienced it, many times. It’s those gigs where we can almost sense that everyone in the room is engaged. The energy created is so thick you can almost bite down on it and it feels like there’s no longer any barrier between band and audience. Those are the special shows, where there’s a solidarity and a very visceral bond. That, and being able to smell our amps melting”.

Amps and brains alike, as these psychic omnivores bring seven times the joy, seven times the pain, seven times the dementia and deliverance. 

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Feed the Rats

Sweet Relief

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Sweet Relief

GNOOMES
TSCHAK!

http://hyperurl.co/GnoomesTschak

From adversity can come triumph, and from catharsis inspiration. Such has been the case for Gnoomes, the threesome hailing from Perm, Russia, whose second release for Rocket Recordings, ‘Tschak!’ arrives in the wake of considerable turbulence and tumult within their city and lives, all of which has only been fuel for a creative epiphany that has seen them create a deeply evocative work rich with vibrant experimentation and saturated in a widescreen sense of wonder. 

It may only have been eighteen months since ‘Ngan!’, the band’s first release for Rocket, whose self-styled ‘stargaze’ approach marked a glorious collision between melodic sweetness, skysurfing guitar experimentation and motorik magnificence, yet the band have already moved on to a sonic landscape still more adventurous and ethereal on ‘Tschak!’, not to mention an emotionally resonant approach that’s bewitching to witness. Taking in torrents of guitar noise and electronic extrapolations both blissfully kosmische and aggressively abrasive, it exists outside of all or any convenient genres, a vivid and singular work by three dreamers-at-heart forced to manifest their vision into a psychic defence to the circumstances surrounding them. 

Working in splendid isolation thanks to a studio space provided by their work for a local radio station, the band had time and space for the alchemical process of creating ‘Tschak!’ entirely on their own terms. Central to the this were a collection of Russian synths that they gathered, whose eccentric arpeggios and analogue textures form crucial ingredients on songs like ‘Severokamsk’ and the title track, arriving at a sound that forms a star-crossed and timeless marriage between the experimentation of krautrock and the lineage of Warp Records.

Forging forth into unknown realms both physical and metaphysical, the band recently completed a UK tour - including an appearance at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia. Yet with the dreamlike radiance of the potent and otherworldly ‘Tschak!’ on their side, this adventure is already well on its way.

Gnoomes - Cascais

Released on 04/11/2016.
All words by Kyle Charles James Burgess.
All music by WE CAME FROM WOLVES.
Produced, engineered & mixed by Bruce Rintoul at 45-a side studios.
Mastered by Ed Woods of Ed Woods Mastering.

Places Unfamiliar

Wecamefromwolves - Places Unfamiliar

Taken from our debut album, Nothing Gives, released on 2nd December everywhere!
Pre-order now - 
Digital: itunes.apple.com/album/nothing-gives/id1143757032
LP & CD: slowcoaches.bandcamp.com

Drag

Debut single by Echo Ladies. Out 16th of November 2016.

Echo Ladies - Close To Be Close To Me

// New single by Brasstronaut // Out Nov. 4 on Hybridity Music and Tin Angel Records

www.brasstronaut.com

Hawk

"Echolocation" is taken from Fred Thomas' new album, Changer, out 1/27.

Order here: http://plyvnyl.co/FT-Changer

Fred Thomas - Echolocation

From debut album, out February 3rd on Fysisk Format.
For promo email james@prescriptionpr.co.uk
Pre-order album here: http://www.shop.fysiskformat.no/artist/16838--beachheads

Beachheads - Your Highness

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

(Trouble In Mind Records) RAYS "Drop Dead"

Tall Friend's debut EP "Tawl Friend" is begin re-released by Exploding In Sound Records on January 20th, 2017 ahead of the band's upcoming full length debut (due out this Spring)

Tall Friend - Cockroach

"I Figured You Out" is the first single from Elliott Smith's 'Either/Or: Expanded Edition,' out March 10th, 2017 on 2LP, 2CD, and MP3 on Kill Rock Stars. Pre-order 'Either/Or: Expanded Edition' today at http://bit.ly/elliotteitheror

This song was recorded as a demo for Mary Lou Lord, who later recorded a version (produced, performed, recorded, and mixed by Elliott Smith) for
her Martian Saints EP (KRS-264). Neil Gust plays doubled drums. Recorded by Elliott Smith at Heatmiser House in 1995. Mixed by Larry Crane, May 2010, at Jackpot! Recording Studio.

I’ve seen you watching her every time she crosses the floor,
So won’t you just go and talk to the one you really adore.
I’m getting pretty used to being the one that you always ignore When somebody wants you—I’ve seen it before.
You’re every kind of caller—there ain’t nothing that you won’t claim— You’re ambition and promise, you’re addiction to fame.
And everyone has a dollar sign after their name—
And when somebody wants you, you treat ‘em just the same.
So go on and pick up—
You don’t care what poison you choose
And what person you lose—it should have been me, yeah— Shouldn’t it be?
Crushing quiet blows in through your window
To someone who wants you that you’ll never know.
But I’ll pick up around you and clear everything out, Leave you where I found you—I figured you out.
Leave you where I found you—I figured you out.


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'Either/Or is' widely regarded as Elliott’s best album, and remains his best-selling.  To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of this masterpiece, Kill Rock Stars proudly presents 'Either/Or: Expanded Edition.'  This album features the original tracks carefully remastered from original tapes under the supervision of Larry Crane, owner of Jackpot! Studios and archivist of the Estate of Elliott Smith.  The additional content features five live multi-track recordings from the Yo Yo A Go Go Festival in Olympia WA in 1997, as well as three previously unreleased studio recordings and one b-side gem.  The double LP is packaged in a gatefold jacket that includes an insert of the original liner notes, a postcard of the original master tapes, and several never-before seen photos.  This gorgeous collection is an essential listen for longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Either/Or: Expanded Edition

Elliott Smith - I Figured You Out

The Courtneys -  Tour

Gold Connections - "New Religion"
Off the self-titled debut EP out March 31st on Fat Possum

Pre-order: http://smarturl.it/GC.EP

Gold Connections - New Religion

Bridge By A Tunnel

From their fourth album "Chew", released on February 17th, 2017 by Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

The Paperhead "Over And Over" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Recorded in December 2015 for an album that has yet to be released. Features Bryan Styles on drums, Paul Ambrose on double bass and David Giles on piano.

Remnants Demo

 It's a special face. With conviction. / Got to make it great. On a mission. The beginning / New finds. New finds and old dreams. / And everything's starting now. /Adios L.A.. Ornamental. I'm not staying / Each is ours to take. On a mission /The beginning /New finds. New finds and old dreams. / And everything's starting now. /What makes it so great? Destination. I'm not staying. / Couldn't make you wait. With permission. The beginning. / ooh you're playing / It's a special face. With conviction.  / Got to make it great. On a mission. The beginning

Marnie Stern -  Year of the Glad

Chicago, IL label founded in 2009 with releases by NIGHTSHIFT, Writhing Squares, FACS, Melenas, En Attendant Ana, Mountain Movers, Headroom & more - Cop It. Don't Swap it.

(Trouble In Mind Records) RAYS "Drop Dead"

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