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Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, commonly known as Mount Kimbie, will release another record before the year is out. It'll be an EP called Blind Night Errand and will come out on November 29, through Hot Flush. It contains a whole four tracks, which are list»
Makers of swirly-hazy ambient pop that are Small Black have a new album on the way, entitled New Chain. It comes out through the ever-reliable Jagjaguwar on October 25. It's very, very, very good, by the way. They've just announced a handful of dates for later this year - in November and December, to be precise. »
The second part in the series. WATCH.»
Watch a full set from Blood Red Shoes from their performance for DiS at the Great Escape, and an interview with them and then come along to the after-party we're throwing on Thursday... »
Last month we gave you a download of Spectrals upcoming new single, called 'Peppermint'. It's taken from his debut EP, which will be released through Moshi Moshi on October 10, so a week today. You can read more about it here and also listen to it below. »
Download the new No Age single. »
Drowned in Sound favourites and makes of superb nocturnal electronica worriedaboutsatan played a special celebratory birthday show for us on Friday in London. Some of you may have even been there. They released one of the finest records of last year in Arrivals a record that would have been on the office stereo an awful lot if we had an office and a stereo.»
Onetime singer of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Euros Childs has been busy. More specifically he's been busy working with Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and the pair - known collectively as Johnny - have announced an EP for later in the year, as well as some tour dates (quite a lot, actually) for early next year, playing 16 places in total.»
Get your ears round the Gold Panda remix of Errors' 'A Rumour In Africa'.»
Liars may have already released one of the albums of the year in Sisterworld, but they are not content to stop it at that. They've just announced that there's a remix EP on the way and it's a release which features Thom Yorke of all people. He of Radiohea»
This week's Drowned in Sound content-themed Spotify playlist, featuring Glasser, Deerhunter, Violens, Chrome Hoof and Gold Panda amongst many others.»
Hauschka, aka Volker Bertelmann, releases his new record through FatCat on October 25. It's called Foreign Landscapes and will most probably be brilliant. We're great fans of his, anyway. And because we are great fans we're running a three-part documentar»
Tin-suited warriors of music of much power who go by the name of Chrome Hoof have announced a few UK dates - something that could be loosely called a tour, I guess. It kicks off on October 21 in London and then there's a few more.»
PVT are all set to release a new EP - this one entitled Light Up Bright Fires. It comes out on October 18 and is the second single to be released from their current album Church With No Magic, following on from 'Window', earlier in the year. That was a DiS single of the week, no less.»
Eastern-tinged hefty-beat meister Gold Panda has released an astonishingly cracking debut in Lucky Shiner. You can give it a spin by clicking here. Anyway, you'll be pleased to know that he's just announced a handful of headline tour dates to support that very album. It's 100% worth going to see. That's more than an educated guess. »
DiS favourites and wonderful guitar-pop trio Sky Larkin have a double whammy of good news for you. »
So, this is fairly simple. We're giving away a pair of festival wristbands to this year's In The City Festival in Manchester, a festival at which we're also hosting a stage with some of the finest bands (see: HEALTH) in the world (in our humble opinion) playing for you. »
Yes. They have made another Tron film. "They" being Disney. I don't know how you feel about that but however you feel there's some undoubtedly good news which has just arrived, as the Daft Punk soundtrack to Tron: Legacy has now been given a firm release date.»
New Shrag video. »
If you've clicked on this link, the chances are your wondering who Le Volume Courbe are. Well, I'll tell you. The centrepiece of the group is a woman who goes by the name of Charlotte Marionneau, with help on the way by Kevin Shields, no less, Melanie Draisey, Theodore Hall, Chris Mackin, Wildcat, Lascelle Gordon and Barney Slater.»
More video goodness for you today, this time from Swedish sister-act First Aid Kit. It's for their next single - 'Ghost Town', which is taken from their debut full-length record The Big Black & The Blue, and is available to buy from various sources.»
Oh looky. Eels have a new video for single 'Baby Loves Me', taken from their current record Tomorrow Morning. The single comes out on November 22 and the video uses that technique which makes shots of scenery seem all a bit "toy town". I'm not sure what it's called.»
Two tracks. Excellent.»
Exciting instrumental collective Talons release their debut record through Big Scary Monsters on November 15. It contains 8 brand new tracks and a great deal of variety, we're told. Let's hope so. It was recorded by former iForwardRussia! vocalist Tom Woodhead somewhere in Wales earlier this year. Mysterious.»
London's legendary 100 Club is facing closure over an increase in rents, reports state. _The Evening Standard reported yesterday that the Oxford Street venue could be closed as soon as Christmas if it doesn't find a suitable buyer. This was then confirmed on the club's official website today with a full by owner Jeff Horton statement posted.»
Now there's a video for single 'Bombay', which you can watch below. It has been directed by Nicolas Mendez and is most definitely not safe for work, as they say.»
Superdrummer extraordinaire Zach Hill will release his second solo record in the UK in December, through Sargeant House. The exact release date is December 13 and features a wide array of guest stars including Gil-Scott Heron, Devendra Banhart, No Age and Greg Saunier, amongst others.»
Spectrals, aka Louis Jones, releases his debut EP on October 11 through the ever-reliable Moshi Moshi. It's called Spectrals Extended Play and is a collection of previously unreleased songs as well as some new ones. We've got a track from that EP to stream for you, 'Peppermint', which itself comes out a single on September 27, next monday.»
A few weeks ago Zola Jesus unveiled the excellent video for 'Sea Talk', which we wrote about here. There is now a making-of video for 'Sea Talk' which, as you'd expect, goes into some depth about how the video was made and so on, and so forth. You can watch this here.»
Another wonderful edition of this week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Bowie, Blake, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Dios, Max Richter, Andrew Bird...and, of course, a fair few more.»
