A selection box of classic, recent and upcoming music from Upset The Rhythm!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM

Duration Of Time

Mixtape Feb Mar 2019

Hash Redactor kick things off in a rowdy indie rocking style, with some great bass lines (reminds me of JJ Burnel), perfectly segueing into the more pop-oriented Noble Jacks. We stay in the pop vein (with hints of R&B) with Emily Burns before things get pretty dark with Dylan Cartlidge (a bit like Captain Beefheart goes funk!) then it's more pop from Eden Samara, which opens like OMD's "Enola Gay". Things then move out onto the dance floor with Khidja (EDM), nAbi (middle eastern funk... don't be too surprised if this one disappears from the list), A Man Called Adam (disco) and Felixson Ngasia (70's Nigerian funk). As usual it all closes out with some ambient sounds from Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano. Track of the week is nAbi's "Sam Sam", although there are a few growers in there, which made it a close call.

Mar 01 - Mar 07 2019

New Music March 2019

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Blustery: A Soundtrack for Days

lookout parrot

Me Lost Me returns today with the second miraculous single from their forthcoming album ‘This Material Moment’ (out June 27th through Upset The Rhythm). 

‘A Painting of the Wind’ is an astonishing song that we’ve loved in Jayne’s set for a while, it grapples with how artists try to express the inexpressible and how art is used as a means of escape and fantasy. The track is streaming everywhere now and is accompanied by this exquisite landscape portal of a video filmed at Raby Castle by Amelia Read: 

https://youtu.be/9wXGX8D0eoA

‘This Material Moment’ can be pre-ordered on Bandcamp and our very own webshop too.
We all love to be carried away!
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Music by Jayne Dent with double bass by John Pope and clarinet by Faye MacCalman Engineered, produced and mixed by Sam Grant at Blank Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne Mastered by Mikey Young

Me Lost Me - 'A Painting of the Wind'

It’s almost obligatory to release a folk song on May Day, but here we are on May 2nd still bringing in the May! Enjoy Quinie’s evocative new single ‘Sallow Buckthorn’ out now. It’s a mesmeric sea of swirling sound and Scots poetry.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Zoge5FKvJz0

“Ye micht o thought the sallow buckthorn, Ne’er a hairst could hain”
("You might have thought the buckthorn would be so pale, that no harvest could hold it.”)


‘Sallow Buckthorn’ is featured on Quinie’s forthcoming album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ out on Upset The Rhythm on May 23rd. 

Available to pre-order on LP with a risograph lyric print + magical book: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

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Quinie - 'Sallow Buckthorn'

'Ancient Summer' by Me Lost Me, taken from the forthcoming album 'This Material Moment', out June 27th on Upset The Rhythm.

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Ancient Summer

Cor Blimey! On August 15th Upset The Rhythm will release a split 7” EP by Linda Smith and The Smashing Times. Both based in Baltimore and both best buds, this record celebrates that friendship sharing two new tracks by each act; united by DIY spirit, a bedroom-pop sensibility and now a puddle of black vinyl. Today you can witness their tea-based, umbrella-powered advertisement, listen to Linda’s track ‘So Long Ago’ (streaming through the digital ether) and even choose to pre-order the coveted disc yourself from our Bandcamp or UTR webshop: https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/
 
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Songwriter Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalogue. Smith’s pioneering work with four-track production in the '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During this most active period, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases. This trailblazing time was recently revisited on Captured Tracks’ compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996’. Shortly after Smith’s retrospective, she teamed up with like-mind and collaborator Nancy Andrews to release an album of beguiling pop entitled ‘A Passing Cloud’ (2023). The duo performed songs from that record at Upset The Rhythm’s 20th anniversary party at Café OTO that same year. 2024 saw further reissues of Smith’s music including Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996).
 
The Smashing Times are a premier East Coast Pop Experimental Group. They have also gleefully performed in London for Upset The Rhythm twice in quick succession. Known for their dogtooth style, waggish mod attitude and tumbledown sound, The Smashing Times have holes in their socks and sit idly between The Kinks and Tori Kudo. Their previous albums on K Records, Perennial and Meritorio are a cherished commodity steeped in Paisley psych and slapdash panache. 
 
This split 7” EP comprises 4 new tracks. Two from Linda Smith in keyboard-warble anthem mode and two low-fidelity daytrips by The Smashing Times. It will be released on 500 black vinyl 7”s by Upset The Rhythm on August 15th 2025.

Linda Smith - 'So Long Ago'

'Where I Come From' is the first single taken from Canadian noise-rock demolition crew EarthBall's new album 'Outside Over There'. 'Where I Come From' is a dizzy sprawl of languid drums, spun-out fx, crushed staggering guitars and freaked saxophone extrapolations. This landscape of unruly sound is then stalked through by Izzy's spontaneous vocal projections, the effect is uncanny to say the least.


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EarthBall - 'Where I Come From'

https://autobahnmusik.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-around-you-is-fractured-somehow

Tour Dates:
Sun 11th Feb @ Kinky Star, Ghent, BE
Mon 12th Feb @ Molotow, Hamburg, DE
Tue 13th Feb @ Glocksee, Hannover, DE
Wed 14th Feb @ 1000Fryd, Aalborg, DK
Thu 15th Feb @ Monarch, Berlin, DE
Fri 16th Feb @ Swamp, Freiburg, DE
Sat 17th Feb @ Port Franc, Sion, CH
Sun 18th Feb @ Sedel, Lucerne, CH
Mon 19th Feb @ Le Farmer, Lyon, FR
Tue 20th Feb @ Supersonic, Paris, FR
Wed 21st Feb @ Patronaat, Haarlem, NL
Thu 22nd Feb @ Kultura, Liege, BE
Fri 23rd Feb @ Druckluft, Oberhausen, DE

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The World Around You Is Fractured Somehow

Darkwing - "Alley Cat Blues"

Robots was written and produced by Eden Samara, Ryan Pierre and Jim Junior.
Engineered by Matt Stevens
Mixed by Giordan Posterino

Days

Robots

Shoot

I Break Stallions

Private audio stream of "She's In a State", H.Grimace's upcoming new single. To be released on Living Waters Records January 25, 2018.

Pre-order Limited-Run 7": http://bit.ly/2W8lyNa
H.Grimace on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2UakyX7
H.Grimace on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2RWz3QU

"She's In a State" b/w "In The Body" 7"

"She's In a State"

H.Grimace - "She's In a State"

From the forthcoming Too Free debut LP on Sister Polygon Records
Too Free is Awad Bilal, Carson Cox and Don Godwin

Attention is powerful. Too much attention can go to one’s head, corrupting a sense of common ground and innate empathy of the human experience. On the flip side, the effects of too little unlock desperate feelings inside of us, rendering our morality obsolete. Too Free’s debut single “ATM” is about that beautiful, healthy middle ground where it's okay to desire being seen and noticed. “ATM” is an homage to the group’s shared love of ballroom music and the everlasting courtship between the dancer and the music. Visibility affects the human experience across all forms. “ATM” was consciously written for marginalized people who don't always have the platform of being seen. Says frontperson and lyricist Awad Bilal, “When we see people who look like us, engaged in situations we could see ourselves in, and have our experiences reflected back at us - we feel seen - and that is everything.” 

ATM LYRICS:

(Improvement)
(Improvement)

Baby, catch me in color
Luxury notice
All you could ask for
Endure -- so much more
Lead me to somewhere you love

Engulf me!
Engulf me!

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I want to be seen by you
I want to be noticed
Oh, to be seen by you...

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Too Free - ATM

SPR-032, Olivia Neutron John, out worldwide May 10th 2019 on Sister Polygon Records

http://sisterpolygonrecords.com 
http://on-j.com/

LYRICS:
Is this love?
Is this what you want?
I could walk it all night,
it’s all away from you.
If love is all,
then all is gone.
Is this love?
I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.
I could walk it all night,
it’s all away from you.
But it feels good at night.
Doesn’t make it right.

ONJ - MARCH

Stay Awake

Lights Out

Radar

Shadows & Light feat. Chelsea Wolfe and Chino Moreno

First single of the year featuring @Jinadu

Listen and buy at your store: http://mdr.bnd.lc/pijama2

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LYRICS:


Separation from decay
When the spectre of fear is far away
All i ever want to be 
Will be channeled through the dreams inside of me

Something’s gonna break inside 
I can beat the fear if I want this 

Gonna tear the walls right down
Ive got my head high in the clouds
Hoping that a change will come
When the rhythms of the past will be undone

And i wanted you to know got my feeling in control

Something’s gonna break inside 
I can beat the fear if I want this
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High Pijama - Break Inside (feat. Jinadu)

Monsters Under The Bed EP

Monsters Under The Bed

The third track from the album "Warzaw".
Listen to the whole album here:
https://jurkohaltuu.bandcamp.com/album/warzaw

Waiting For The Train To Kraków

From "Tin Foil" available at www.almostreadyrecords.com

 LP / CD / CS / DG

Tin Foil - "Cant Stay Here"

Merzbow - Untitled 1982 (excerpt)

The Oilies is sometimes a band and sometimes just Carly Putnam’s home fried pop music. Carly has done time in the Art Museums, The Mantles, Horrid Red and The Reds, Pinks & Purples but really shines when she pulls out her own poetic pop gems. Combine the subtle creepiness of Rose McDowall with the wistfulness of the Marine Girls and you have a record tailor made for the Fruits & Flowers universe of unpopular pop. Her debut EP was recorded mostly by Carly in her RV parked somewhere in the existential desert and then filtered through Edmund Xavier’s SF lab.

Psychic Dog

The Oilies - Psychic Dog

Written by Pawns
Recorded and engineered by Ben Greenberg in 2018
Mastered by Josh Bonati
Artwork by Gage Allison
Pre-order of Monuments of Faith EP available via Inflammable Material (UK) and Near Dark/Last Hour Records (USA) 2019

Monuments of Faith

Sin Is Crouching At Your Door (Radio Edit) 
Produced by Wovoka Gentle
Mixed by Sam Petts- Davies
Artwork by Olivia Norris
Released by Nude

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Start Clanging Cymbals

Sin Is Crouchhing At Your Door (Radio Edit)

Sin Is Crouching At Your Door (Radio Edit)

“Headboggle splinters his typically all-encompassing style of synth composition into tiny one minute morsels & the results play out like fellow Bay Area legends The Residents on their Commercial Album: short and sweet, presenting each idea as a discrete miniature world and moving on. Derek presents a comprehensive taxonomy of the tones and strategies within his arsenal of synths and electronics, finding room for everything from glistening classical-informed harmonies to the bludgeoning rhythmic squelches that have become his signature. Across 44 tracks, Derek dilates time and sketches out some oblique narrative known only to him that seems to contain infinite details”.                      
- Max  Allison, Hausu Mountain 

“ HOLY SHIT Headboggle has gone “commercial” with (44) one-minute jingles of brain-damaged intent. I can’t get over this joker’s Modern Ballroom Dancing © sound - puts me super smiley in the headspace of Mort Garson or The Residents. My favorite release of his so far.”     
                                                                                               - Bran (...) Pos 




Derek Gedalecia, a.k.a. Headboggle, has been performing electronic keyboard-based soundscapes for several years in the Bay Area in over a hundred local performances at venues ranging from GTK to YBCA. Incorporating lowbrow with highbrow art, music, and comedy, Headoggle’s intent is to fuse together a new ecstatic improvisational performance style with a carefully crafted musical underbed. In his formative years, Gedalecia studied classical and ragtime piano from noted ragtime composer/revivalist Dr. Brian Dykstra.

For Fans Of: The Residents, Emeralds, Suzanne Ciani, Wendy Carlos.

“Blue Guitar” video: https://youtu.be/QZriE5kTsDY


More info about this release : http://www.ratskin.org/releases/rsr078.html

More about Headboggle: 
http://headboggle.tumblr.com/
http://www.ratskin.org/artists/headboggle.html

polyphonic demo

Headboggle "Country Club Road" (2019)

You Maintain The Stain

'Debt Begins at 30' (Release date: May 31, 2019)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/2Ub6kFR
Apple: https://u.subpop.com/2C65pj9
Sub Pop Mega Mart https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/the_gotobeds/debt_begins_at_30

The Gotobeds: 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_gotobeds
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegotobeds/
On Tour: https://www.subpop.com/artists/the_gotobeds
BandCamp: https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com/

Sub Pop Records: www.subpop.com
Twitter: twitter.com/subpop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
SoundCloud: @subpop
MegaMart: megamart.subpop.com/
Podcast: subpop.fm/

The Gotobeds - Calquer the Hound

Too Cool.

Listen / Buy: https://AWAL.lnk.to/TooCool

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Too Cool

'Good Sense' is taken from Hash Redactor's debut album entitled 'Drecksound', out April 26th through Upset The Rhythm and Goner Records.

A quick glance at the résumés of Hash Redactor’s members might seed certain expectations.  The band is fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with NOTS rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, and rounded off by George Williford on second guitar.  But their debut full-length dives into territory that feels distinctly untethered from their lineage and era.  Drecksound is a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert of the late twenty-teens.  
 
Perhaps both because and in spite of the alienation that typifies the glut of rock music at the end of this god-damned decade, these twelve songs deliver a pointed social criticism, more cathartic than suffocating, while championing a nihilism that greets the abyss by laughing mockingly in its face. The chorus to the incendiary Step 2: Success is sneered, not sung, “It’s a long con job and you just got it wrong / banned from the world.” Or take Open Invite’s opening missive, “I won’t settle for anything less than a four-star refugee camp.” McIntyre’s lyrics present a puckish fascination with humankind’s rake-stepping self destruction.  He’s a merry prankster, but more in the mold of a jackbooted Monty Python character than a Ken Kesey acid casualty. Case in point: A-side epic In The Tank, where a vindictive custodian boils alive the wealthy patrons at the sensory-deprivation tank facility where he works.
 
McIntyre and Williford’s guitar interplay on Drecksound draws from some weird rundown of usual and unusual suspects in the tight corner of avant-punk guitar work, recalling some free-association that includes: Marquee Moon, John Fahey gone electric, the playing on Ornette Coleman’s mid-70s Body Meta and Dancing In Your Head, prime-era Flesheaters, and (why not) the first two Meat Puppets albums. Without anything resembling traditional leads, guitars snake in, out and around Lones’s bass lines, which alternate between slinky earworm hooks and steel cable raw power.  All of this is locked in by Watson’s characteristically visceral swing.  It doesn’t feel controversial to claim that the duo of Watson and Lones constitutes one of the best rhythm sections to be heard anywhere in contemporary punk music.
 
Having played out heavy in 2018 with a refined live show, a four-song demo, and several Gonerfest appearances under their belt, HR cut the record at home on a borrowed 8-track cassette machine. The deranged raw tracks were mixed into final form by Matt Qualls at Young Avenue Sound, and mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering. Hash Redactor will be touring the States in summer and with plans for Europe later in 2019. Drecksound is out April 26 on Upset the Rhythm in UK/EU and the rest of the world on Goner.

Available to pre-order here: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Drecksound

Hash Redactor - 'Good Sense'

Fantasy

Liily - I Can Fool Anybody In This Town

Straight from the back of the Goner shop, here's a stack of amazing raw gospel singles, most from Memphis and surrounding area.

Save My Soul

The Devil Don't Like It

Recorded at The Nave, Leeds
Produced by Alex Greaves
Written & Performed by bdrmm

heaven

LIES-132
Cardinal & Nun-I Met the Devil
from the upcoming 4 track ep
to be released March 15th 2019

Buy Direct

Cardinal & Nun- I Met The Devil (LIES-132)

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Publicity
North America: shannon@girlieaction.com
Sweden: liza@border.se
GAS: jan.apel@brokensilence.de

SILVER

Pheeyownah - Gold

Carla dal Forno's "So Much Better" taken from a forthcoming 7" release out April 16th on Kallista Records.
Written and produced by Carla dal Forno

Direct pre-order: https://carladalforno.bandcamp.com/
Retail pre-order: http://smarturl.it/CarlaSoMuchBetter

So Much Better

UPSET THE RHYTHM is a live music promoter and record label based in London, which is collectively run with enthusiasm, commitment, a sense for adventure and a desire to have fun in the process. 