Monthly Archives: April 2014

AK/DK – Synths + Drums + Noise + Space

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On the 19th May AK/DK release their debut album Synths + Drums + Noise + Space. It’s already getting a fantastic reception in the press – both NME and The Line of Best Fit have given it 8/10 reviews. Anyone who’s been to one of their incredible live shows will know what to expect – semi-improvised pulsating analogue synth lines, BIG drums and a cheeky sense of humour, like Stereolab if they’d grown up smoking cigarettes round the back of the bike sheds instead of focussing on their French and Politics lessons. It’s not all big bleeps though – tracks like closer Seq and Ye Shall Find and Morning Dragpipe show a hitherto unseen ambient side to the group.

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The album launch is taking place next Friday (18th) at the Green Door Store, with support from Hypnotized, and the band will be joining fellow Brightonians Fujiya & Miyagi on their tour in June where they play The Haunt on the 6th. A limited edition clear vinyl edition of the album will be available at the live dates. Until then, you can whet your appetite by listening to Maxwell’s Waves:

New Music – Tigercub, Beautiful Boy, Bunty, Spit Shake Sisters

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Here’s this week’s batch of new tunes that we’ve heard: First is Tigercub, who are showing their grungier side with their new single Blue Blood, which is out on May 5th on Raygun Records. There’s a launch party for the single at Bermuda Triangle on 24th April. Also coming out soon on Raygun Records is Beautiful Boy‘s debut single. It’s a double A side with a track called Home on one side, and the rousing guitar pop of Love Me More that we have here on the flip. It’s coming out on May 19th on limited 7″ and the band’s next gig in Brighton is on 18th April at the Clarendon Centre with Fickle Friends. Next up is Bunty‘s new single, Enemy. Last year’s multimedia Multimos project is being turned into an album, and Enemy is the first single to be released from it. We’ll give you more details on the album as we get them. Spit Shake Sisters latest offering Jesus Was a Homewrecker was actually posted up a couple of weeks ago, but for some reason we dropped the ball and have only just spotted it. How we missed this four minute garage wig out is beyond us, but better late than never.

Curxes – Precurxor

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Last week Curxes made a few announcements about some new and old material. On the new material front they have a new single due to land next month, with videos and remixes promised. They’ve also indicated that they have a whole album’s worth of material written and that they’ve also started work on more new songs.

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Slightly more concrete was the news about their older material. On April 10th the band are releasing a 7 track mini-album featuring their early singles plus some unreleased demos from 2010-2011. Precurxor will be offered as a digital download or a limited edition cd via their bandcamp and preorders will be able to download two of the tracks from the mini-album immediately.

March Top Ten

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Here’s the pick of our favourite tracks we’ve been listening to this month, just in case you missed them first time around

1 – Bentcousin with LL & the D’s / You Make Me Feel So Young

OK, so maybe we’re a bit biased here because Bentcousin gave us our first exclusive track that we’ve posted on the blog, but nevertheless it’s still a great catchy tune

2 – Dog in the Snow / Factory

Dog in the Snow’s latest single is a more electronic affair than their earlier work, and their best yet in our opinion.

3 – The New Union / Now

The NME have just caught onto the New Union’s new single Now. We first posted about it back in February.

4 – IYES / Breathe

IYES ascendancy continues apace with their new single Breathe which ropes in production dues from MNEK.

5 – Phantom Runners / Chase the Feeling

Another Brighton band who’ve roped in a name producer are Phantom Runners, whose new single has the guiding hand of the Fun Lovin Criminals’ Huey Morgan.

6 – Them The Sky / Fall (Finjin remix)

The original of Fall was a more guitar based post rock affair, but in it’s remixed form is much more blissed out.

7 – A Lily / A House is not a Motel

Over the course of March, A Lily put out an EP of four cover versions called Augury. Their version of Love’s A House is not a Motel is our pick.

8 – Eagles for Hands / Appalachia (feat Sivu)

Eagles for Hands latest soundcloud upload is a collaboration with Sivu, which shows a completely different side to both artists work.

9 – Black Rooster Black Shag / Borderline

The new video from Black Rooster Black Shag is another teaser for the band’s debut album which gets released on 1st May, which we’ll be telling you more about very soon.

10 – Hypnotized / Hylia

Hylia is the track with the strongest Eastern flavour from Hypnotized’s new Telesto EP, marrying sitars with rolling beats.