Fear of Men album and tour news

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Brighton Music Blog favourites Fear of Men announced the follow up to 2014’s Loom LP this week. The band’s new record is called Fall Forever and is out on 3rd June on Kanine Records. The first taste of the band’s new material is the lead single, Island, which you can hear below, more shimmering and less jangly than Fear of Men of before, but still just as beguiling:

To celebrate the launch the band are off on tour, firstly supporting Eagulls on a handful of dates over the next week before they head off to the states to play half a dozen dates at SXSW in Austin, Texas, and a headline gig in New York. After a fortnight’s rest business turns to touring the UK, stopping off at the Prince Albert on 10th April:

April 4th – The Hare and Hounds, Birmingham, UK
April 5th – The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, UK
April 6th – Aatma, Manchester, UK
April 7th – Start the Bus, Bristol, UK
April 8th – The Victoria, London, UK
April 10th – The Prince Albert, Brighton, UK
April 11th – The Boileroom, Guildford, UK
April 23rd – The Wedgwood Rooms, Dials Festival, Portsmouth, UK
June 8th – Rough Trade East, London, UK
June 11th – Long Division Festival, Wakefield, UK

 

Lutine ‘Died of Love’

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An album of remixes from folk duo Lutine  seems surprising. And it is.

In 2014 Lutine released an excellent album of traditional folk-styled songs called ‘White Flowers’, featuring some beautiful harmonies and subtle instrumentation recorded in the church at Stanmer village. Now they’ve taken the bones of those tracks and invited a range of different artists to try their hand at remixing them for a collection titled ‘Died of Love’. The results are quite extraordinary and haunting.

The opening track below remixed by Laura Cannell is in some ways the most traditional, although the Sarah Angliss and Stephen Hiscock mix of the sublime ‘Sallow Tree’ also falls within their earie early-70s British horror movie soundtrack vein. After that it gets even weirder, with a ghostly mix of ‘Death and the Lady’ by Michael Tanner, an hypnotic choral approach by Kemper Norton and a brilliant brutal noise-fest by Bela Emerson, before the music descends into some dance-based mixes until ending on Pete Wiggs brilliant reinvention of the gorgeous ‘So It Goes’.

This is a highly original and fascinating reinvention of the folk idiom and a memorable release from the Brighton duo of Heather Minor and Emma Morton which is well worth searching out.

‘Died of Love’ is available to download from March 4th from Front & Follow

 

 

 

Little Way Festival, 27th Feb 2016

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The Little Way festival is an innovation of a team led by Philippe Nash and Harvey Herman, aiming to create a new simple music festival with a homely local community vibe. And over the course of an 11 hour day … Continue reading →

Two EPs – Tim Boat and Nik Barrell

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Two new EPs have come our way and they are both well worth your time and money.

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First up is ‘Get Yours’ by Tim Boat, an excellent four track EP which mixes strong indie-songwriting with a prog sensibility that feels more Radiohead than Genesis. Made with friends Steve Ward and Simone Odaranile, but confusingly listed as being by the Tim Boat Two, this is a solo work with some high production values.

‘Get Yours’  is a solid finger-picked tune with breathy vocals reminiscent of John Martyn. The beat then picks up with the songs ‘Killing Floor’ (featured below) and ‘Meteor’, and finally our favourite track ‘Runaway Dog’. The songs are full of revenge, escape, mystery and you won’t regret exploring their depths.

 

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Next up is the bluesy, soulful EP ‘Blues Come Home To You’ by Nik Barrell.

This is a charming collection of five beautiful songs recorded amongst friends, with gorgeous harmonies and some exquisite playing. The songs range from opening jazz ballad ‘Thank You’, through the beautiful love song ‘Her and I’, the Louisiana-soul of the title track and upbeat fiddle-driven down-home philosophy of ‘A Heart of Money is a Heart of Stone’, with its echoing sweet sing-along chorus. Finally here’s the delicate and mournful closer ‘Things we do not know’ with a lovely accompanying vocal and piano from Sharon Lewis.

Check out ‘Things we do not know’ below, from whence you can find a link to the EP’s bandcamp page,

Fragile Creatures, Fierce Friend and Prince Vaseline at the Dome

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Brighton Dome’s Spectrum nights put on a monthly collection of new music and are always good value and pretty interesting. Last night we had five bands for five pounds at the Dome Studio Theatre. Kicking off proceedings were the excellent indie … Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

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Here’s this week’s dose of new music for you all, slightly bigger than normal because I didn’t get around to posting last week. Our first track is the new one from Sea Bed called Moving Ghosts, which gets a release on Four Thieves records on vinyl on 11th March (which you can pre-order here):

Miamigo have shared some more 80s-tastic synthpop. This is Pot Luck:

Thyla have followed up last year’s Us and Them with Car Crash, an ambitious, angular slice of guitar pop:

Great Pagans premiered their new single over on Steregum last week. The band are releasing  Call of the Wild on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray on 11th March.

Tuska are the third band we’re writing about who are releasing their new single on 11th March. Their new track is called We Could Be Alone, and is a must-listen for fans of Tame Impala. If you like what you hear you can catch the band at Sticky Mike’s on 4th March:

Landslide is the debut single from Loa Loa, a raucous three minute garage cacophony committed to tape at Brighton Electric

Changing tack completely, this is White Peaks, with their new dreamy electronic pop song Easy:

Nicolas and the Saints are releasing their album Years in the Making at the end of the month (or at the start of the month if you pledged to their indiegogo campaign). The album was literally years in the making, with recording taking place over seven years. Here’s the album’s penultimate track Been Hurt Before:

Warsaw Radio are returning to their Irish roots for the launch of their new single Down by the Sea. Their mini tour starts this time next week and takes in Dundalk, Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway:

 

 

 

Electric Greyhound make woozy electronica, and have just posted up their latest track Flounder:

Finishing up this post we have three videos – Just posted today was GAPS video for their track A World Away, from their album In Around The Moments:

Next we have the fuzzy shoegaze of Tuval‘s In My Head:

And finally we have a hip hop track sung in Albanian. This is Ledio, Te Lutem! by Via Tirana:

 

 

Gallery : Prince Vaseline, Red Deer People and grasshopper at Green Door Store

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We haven’t posted up a gallery of a local gig since October last year, and the last time we featured a gig at the Green Door Store was back in 2014. It’s been a while. So here are some shots from last night’s gig. Prince Vaseline headlined supported by Red Deer People and grasshopper, and turnout was surprisingly good for a grey Sunday in January. Click on the pics to view large:

New Brighton Music

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Since we’re well and truly in the new year, then surely it’s time for some new music. It’s been a little while since we last had a roundup of Brighton’s best new tunes, but that’s mostly because everything goes quiet over Christmas. Everything’s back up and running now, so without any further ado let’s catch up.

Morning Smoke‘s latest single Soft Decay actually came back on 15th December on local label Cannibal Hymns, but by then we were far too busy feeling festive. You can catch Morning Smoke live at Sticky Mike’s on 5th February.

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