Closure

Disintegration

'Caught In A Shape' features on Robert Sotelo's digital-only album 'Indoors' released by Upset The Rhythm on September 16th.

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Robert Sotelo - 'Caught In A Shape'

"Moving Now Now Now" is the third single taken from the album CLEAREYE SHINING showcases the band's epoch of expressionist impulse. Released with a fantastic and stylish video.

see video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADkIfp1h50

Monochrome silhouettes are met with chess stylistically doused in Hollywood Regency. Bitumen’s Kate Binning embodies slick femme fatale with a choreographed performance emphasising Binning’s affinity for stage and camera.

Produced by Jenny Branagan and Andrea Blake and edited by Bitumen’s very own Bryce Maher. “Moving Now Now Now”, connects the dots between Anger’s scandalous expose ‘Hollywood Babylon’, Bob Fosse, Klaus Naomi, and the golden age of glamour noir in the MTV Music Video. 

Cleareye Shining is out now via: Heavy Machinery and It Records

GENRE: POST-PUNK, SYNTH-PUNK, SYNTH-POP, DARKWAVE, GOTHIC, ELECTRONIC ROCK, INDUSTRIAL, ALTERNATIVE

RIYL: SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, BOY HARSHER, KILLING JOKE, CURVE, MEDICINE, DEPECHE MODE, DRAB MAJESTY, MOLCHAT DOMA, SEXTILE, MALARIA!, RIKI, PATRIARCHY

Bitumen -  Moving Now Now Now

'RU' is the first single taken off Shake Chain's debut album 'Snake Chain', out Nov 18th through Upset The Rhythm.

Shake Chain have been busy demolishing audiences and expectations for the best part of the last three years. Vocalist Kate Mahony sets that standard by anything from crawling through the audience’s legs in a bright yellow raincoat to crying and washing her hands in a nearby toilet, as the rest of the band start the set. A feeling of anxiety and unease conjures relevant questioning, ‘what an earth is going on?’, ‘am I hallucinating?’ and ‘is this part of the show?’, all hallmarks of Shake Chain’s unruly and lyric-bespattered rock show.
 
The four-piece from London are completed by Robert Eyres (Synth/Guitar), Chris Hopkins (Bass/Synth/Samples) and Joe Fergey (Drums). Born from the ashes of their former bands, the group met with a desire to create something that would feel new for each of them and audibly take its own course. The result is a nervous propulsion of bass lines, twitchy guitars that jolt and jerk and tack sharp drums, overridden by screeching vocal slurs and sampled television. Kate’s singing is a unique embrace of flights of atonal fancy, head-first repetition and ecstatic frenzy. Opinion-dividing arguably, but singular in making Shake Chain dauntingly brilliant.
 
Shake Chain’s debut album ‘Snake Chain’ was recorded in the New Forest’s Chuckalumba Studios early in 2022, a tranquil setting only slightly skewed by the intense extratropical cyclone of storm Eunice and the ghosts of the dopethrone. Kate likens the album to “crying in a Catholic sex dungeon with Eastenders on”, perhaps only half tongue in cheek given the soapy dramatics of opening track ‘Stace’. ‘RU’ is a stompy triumph of ad lib monotony, heavy and wonky, its vocal slowly unwinding into residual sense. Shake Chain’s songs are populated with cowboys, cherry-pickers, content-addicts, private investments, a careless driver called Mike, architects and by much lamentation at the state of our confusing existence. This last point underlined in luminous marker pen with slow-building vortex ‘Highly Conceptual’ and whispered closer ‘Duck’.
 
‘Copy Me’ races along with radiant headbangs of dynamic abandon, one part tumble, two parts pummel, “hold your breath til something changes” commands Kate whilst everything of course is in hammering flux. ‘Second Home’ is similarly coruscating yet buoyant, whilst ‘Arthur’ feels like it could tear inside in two amid sobbing wails and the twining of its disparate parts. Throughout all the unhinged freakouts, found sounds and blasting rhythms though is Kate’s questioning, resilient presence, anchoring everything. On bruising creeper ‘Birthday’ she asks most tellingly “Do we speak language or does language speak us? Is there a mouth in the middle of the desert? Do you ask how cups are designed? Would you say yes when you really mean I don’t know”? Shake Chain are cathartic and absurd, humorous and deadly serious yet always inspired. It’s this tightrope walk which makes their album such a thrilling, vital listen.  ‘Snake Chain’ will be released on November 18th by Upset The Rhythm, a 180g red/clear splatter vinyl version is available to pre-order now.

Snake Chain

Shake Chain - 'RU'

‘Internet’ is the second single taken from Shake Chain’s debut album ‘Snake Chain’ (out Nov 18th on Upset The Rhythm). With this track the London-based avant-punk four-piece race along with radiant headbangs of dynamic abandon, one part tumble, two parts pummel. ‘Internet’ is a jaunty stomp of a song about the differing contexts of online content. Punctuated throughout by wobbly keys and unhinged freakouts, found sounds and blasting rhythms this track boasts Kate’s questioning, resilient presence, anchoring everything.

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Shake Chain - 'Internet'

'Gold Duck' is taken from Terry's eagerly awaited fourth album 'Call Me Terry', out April 14th on Upset The Rhythm and Anti Fade!

Terry - 'Gold Duck'

It's Just a Flesh Wound, Darling

Club Deuce

This is an un-mastered version of "Happy Together"

credits

Erin Birgy (voice, guitar, vibraphone, drums, drum machine, synthesizer, glass), Zach Burba (guitar, drums, drum machine, bass, chimes, saxophone, voice), Will Murdoch (clarinet, bass, guitar, sampler, synthesizer, bowls. voice), Meg Duffy (guitar), Jacob Zimmerman (saxophone), Aaron Otheim (synthesizer, piano), Andrea Shiavelli (Rhodes), Julien Gasc (piano, drum machine), Clementine March (bass), Ezra Tenenbaum (guitar, write credits "She's History"), Matt Bachmann (bass), Jackson Macintosh (guitar), James Krivchenia (guitar) 

"Happy Together" was recorded between October 2014 & October 2015 in Seattle, WA / Anacortes, WA / Brooklyn, NY 

Produced by Mega Bog 
Engineered by Erin Birgy, Zach Burba, Nicholas Wilbur 
Mixed by James Krivchenia

192014

Available now on Mr Bongo http://smarturl.it/tyranny20

Taken from the album 'Mantra Moderne' https://www.mrbongo.com/products/kit-sebastian-mantra-moderne-vinyl-lp-cd-cassette

LYRICS

To the sky, to the earth
Witnessing bondage’s birth
Kennedy, God, Caesar
Give your body to the moon and the stars
Although the stars above you,
Shine bright in pain you do too
Words from the mouth you don’t own
To see yourself not alone
 
Now the Gods and pop stars,
Enslave man ruled by tsars,
Charles the Great, urinate
I’m in love with the Soviet state
I feel so lonely, oh no, I feel so lonely
Although the stars above you,
Shine bright in pain, you do too
With marks of exclamations,
Theory turns obligation

Tyranny 20

Kit Sebastian – Tyranny 20

The Fink is out December 4th.  Purchase on LP / Digital: https://leeparadise2.bandcamp.com/

Lee Paradise - Message To The Past

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. 

Shake Chain - 'Internet'

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