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WL//WH - MAY 2024 \\ Post-Punk/ Coldwave/ Darkwave/ SynthPop/ Minimal Synth

A selection box of classic, recent and upcoming music from Upset The Rhythm!
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/

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Nightlife Stories

The World Revolves

City Is Taken

Tied To Pieces Of Paper

After the viral success of “Take Me Out” and “Don’t You Want Me” (Republic Records) and their soaring sophomore self-released concept LP ‘ERA’, Atomic Tom returns with a gut punch to show you how to rock. Driving an engine of bangin' drums and guitar riffs is a self-deprecating story of starry-eyed naivety, dark comedy and rabbit-hole fantasies to help you crash your head through the screen that you've been staring at all day.

Let Me Show You How It's Done

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Written, composed and produced by Fen Doi
Mastered by Nicky Howard

Lyrics

Somewhere in between your hand and mine
The life we built was washed out to the shores
We're running dry
Tell me what you need, I know you can
I know there should be touch in between our hands
There's nothing there

You're pushing all that you see out of sight
Until the last of your feelings subsides

Show yourself to me, there's something there
Before we know it's distance beyond repair
Open up to me, I'll show you how
The only chance we have is to fill the void, I know we can

You're pushing all that you see out of sight
Until the last of your feelings subsides
I hope that one day you'll figure out this life
I hope that some day you'll be by my side
I hope that one day our worlds will reunite

New Horizon

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Worlds

Recht Auf Rausch - King Of My Castle

Nothing Is Safe

I watch the Moon fall down on me
I feel the pain welling up that never leaves
I saw my image in a mirror today
I hardly recognized the man staring back at me
I heard a sound in a familiar place
I found myself drifing off into fantasy
I thought I wouldn't ever feel this way
I know I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be

And now I watch the night come
I feel the way I feel
And now I know it's all wrong
The way you make me feel
And now I'm feeling undone
From all the pain I feel
And now I know it's all gone
Without you, I know this can't be real


I watch the stars fall down on me
I feel the weight of the grief that never leaves
I saw your image in a picture today
I hardly recognized the girl staring back at me
I heard your voice in a different way
I found myself staring off into empty space
Vivid colors slowly fade to grey
A bird's song fades into a droning haze
A blank stare on my face
I find myself lost inside a reverie
I thought I wouldn't ever feel this way
I know I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be
As I used to be
I'll never be the same as I used to be

And now I watch the night come
I feel the way I feel
And now I know it's all wrong
The way you make me feel
And now I'm feeling undone
From all the pain I feel
And now I know it's all gone
Without you, I know this can't be real
And now I watch the night come
I feel the way I feel
And now I know it's all wrong
The way you make me feel
And now I'm feeling undone
I feel the pain I feel
And now I know it's all gone
Without you, I know this can't be real

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Without You

"Runaway" is the second single from the new album "URGE" by Kalte Nacht Pre-order starts May 3rd (Digital, CD & Vinyl).

U R G E

Kalte Nacht - Runaway [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]

Marcel Wave return with effervescent bop ‘Stop/Continue’ today, a punctual new single owing much to decaying industrial backdrops to childhood. 

‘Stop/Continue’ dwells on derelict mills, spooling rivers and the unfaltering sweep of the second hand. We very much like songs with a heavy dose of rumination at UTR and if they come with a trippy video of waterways, tunnels and some dancing too, then all the better!

‘Stop/Continue’ is out now digitally, it features on Marcel Wave’s debut album ‘Something Looming’ out June 14th on Upset The Rhythm and Feel It Records (USA). Dive in!

https://youtu.be/CQ0lvEnQLGw

Marcel Wave - 'Stop/Continue'

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.

https://www.melostme.com/
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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.


https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/



EarthBall - 'Where I Come From'

Love And Poetry

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