NEWS

We are happy to confirm that we will be releasing the next album by one of our favourite singers, Beth Gibbons.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to Beth.

www.bethgibbons.net

For more info, head over to Weird World.

From the back pages of the acclaimed What The Brothers Sang album to the steamy shores of Malta comes the video for ‘Omaha’, directed by media artist, curator and filmmaker Ben Russell, in his first outing ever as a video director. Shoulder to shoulder, with only an ocean between them, Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy sing of and through the veil of time as the clock runs forward and back, and man returns to the water at the resigned finish.

Watch the video for ‘Omaha’ below.

The creepy streets and discotheques of Italy along with the peaked hoods and robes make you think that some little dwarf is gonna jump out and stick Bonny, Donald Sutherland-style, but he lives to love another day, thank Job!

Ben Russell acquits himself nicely and employs some of his vaunted experimental techniques that have made his an international art house name. Drinking game - take one every time you see the Senator from Gladiator in the video. OR - take a drink every time you see Dawn and Bonnie play this song live this summer.

What the Brothers Sang is available on CD (WIGCD300), vinyl (WIGLP300) and digitally (WIG300D). 

The new single, ‘Somebody Help Me’ will be released on July 1^st digitally.

Legendary indie rock pioneers Sebadoh have announced the release of their first new LP in 14 years.

Sebadoh, the longtime project of Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, and Bob D'Amico, will re-emerge with the full-length album ‘Defend Yourself’ on Domino on September 16^th 2013. ‘Defend Yourself’ will be the first self-recorded Sebadoh album since 1994’s ‘Bakesale’.

Effective immediately, the band has released a precursor to this LP, known as the Secret EP.

Secret EP is just that: an EP released in secret. The band quietly posted these 5 tracks on their Bandcamp page some months ago, disseminating the new material to the initiated without performing any of the standard rituals of promotion or distribution -until now.

Domino is giving the Secret EP a proper release, available immediately on digital, with a 10" vinyl in stores from next week.

The tracklisting for the Secret EP is as follows:

1. Keep The Boy Alive

2. My Drugs

3. Arbitrary High

4. I Don't Mind

5. All Kinds

You can buy the Secret EP HERE.

"Dark And Stormy" is the first new Hot Chip recording since their acclaimed album, In Our Heads, which featured in The Guardian, MOJO, The Sun, Mixmag and DJ Mag’s Top 20 albums of last year.  The track was recorded at Club Ralph in London and features Charles Hayward from This Heat / About Group on drums. Listen to the track below

"Dark And Stormy" will be available on 10” (RUG537T) and as a Digital bundle (RUG537D) on 22nd July 2013.

Pre-order the 10” HERE.  

The single will also feature a new collaborative version of In Our Heads album track "Look At Where We Are", featuring Tori and Reiko Kudo from the legendary Japanese folk-psych collective, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, who have sung the track in Japanese.

Artwork for the single comes once again from artist and long-term Hot Chip collaborator Nick Relph. 

Hot Chip play their only UK show this year before Kraftwerk at Latitude Festival on July 20th. The band has been on the road since the release of In Our Heads last year playing headline shows at Lovebox, Camp Bestival, Brixton Academy, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Prospect Park and Roseland Ballroom in New York and most recently Primavera Sound in Barcelona as well as a show-stealing performance on the main stage at Coachella Festival in California (‘the highlight of the day’ - The Guardian).

We're happy to share the new single 'Painful Like' from Austra's soon-to-be released album Olympia out June 17 (June 18 in the US).

Influenced by early Chicago house music when dance music was performed with a live band, "Painful Like" too was performed live in the studio free of any programming or loops. While the lyrics may deal with the disillusionment of growing up gay in a small town and finding solace in the arms of a lover, it's bubbly and buoyant and reflects that Olympia is fundamentally a dance record.

Principal songwriter/vocalist Katie Stelmanis says that was the band's aim all along. “We are really into dense harmonies and big beautiful melodies, but I also love techno and dance music. I wanted to bring those elements together.” Founding Detroit techno producer Kevin Saunderson recently remixed lead single “Home “ and it will appear on a forthcoming “Home” remixes 12" backed with a remix from Ital.

Olympia is available to pre-order now via the Domino Mart on CD, limited edition double colored vinyl, standard double vinyl. All pre-orders through Domino will receive an instant mp3 download of the Home single and the six track Austra + Gina X ‘Mayan Drums’ 12” collaboration released earlier this year for Record Store Day.

Austra have sold out release week shows in New York, London, Paris, and Berlin have announced new headlining shows in those cities.

TOUR DATES

06-02 Dublin, IE - Forbidden Fruit
06-06 Zurich, CH - Plaza
06-07 Luzerne, CH - Sudpol
06-08 Yverdon-les Bains, SE - L'Amalgame
06-10 Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet
06-11 Gent, BE - DOKBox
06-12 Paris, FR - Nouveau Casino (SOLD OUT)
06-14 Berlin, DE - Lido (SOLD OUT)
06-17 London, UK - Hoxton Bar Grill (SOLD OUT)
06-20 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg ^ (SOLD OUT)
06-23 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
06-26 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
07-18 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Valkhof Festival
07-19 Ferropolis, DE - Melt Festival
07-21 Suffolk, UK - Latitude Festival
07-25 Madrid, ES - Nasti Club
07-26 Barcelos, PT - Milhoes De Festa Festival
07-30 Milan, Italy - Magnolia
07-31 Padova, Italy - Radar Festival
08-01 Feldkirch, AT - PoolBar Festival
08-02 Salzburg, AT - Stuck! Festival
08-03 Katowice, PL - OFF Festival
08-04 Katowice, PL - OFF Festival (DJ)
08-07 Luxembourg - EXIT 07
08-09 Gothenburg, SE - Way Out West Festival
08-10 Helsinki, FI - Flow Festival
08-14 St Malo, FR - La Route Du Rock Festival
08-17 Biddinghuizen, NL - Lowlands Festival
08-30 Detroit, MI - Crofoot Ballroom *
08-31 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall *
09-01 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
09-04 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
09-05 Portland, OR - MusicFest NW
09-10 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom *
09-12 Dallas, TX - Trees *
09-13 Austin, TX - Mohawk *
09-14 Houston, TX - Fitzgeralds *
09-15 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks *
09-17 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
09-18 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *
09-19 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
09-20 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *
09-22 New York, NY - Webster Hall *
09-24 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *
11-25 London, UK - Koko

^ w/ Mozart's Sister
* w/ DIANA

We're happy to announce the forthcoming release of Loud City Song, the new studio recording by Los Angeles based artist Julia Holter, set for release on August 19th, 2013. The album is Holter’s third full length release in as many years – following 2011’s groundbreaking debut Tragedy and last year’s follow-up, the critically lauded Ekstasis.

Her first studio album proper, Loud City Song is both a continuation and a furthering of the fiercely singular and focused vision displayed by its predecessors, taking as it does Holter’s rare gift for merging high concept, compositional prowess and experimentation with pop sensibility and applying it to a set of even more daringly beautiful arrangements and emotionally resonant songs.

The songs that make up Loud City Song have origins that pre-date 2011’s debut Tragedy – coaxed out and finessed as demos in Holter’s bedroom studio and then finally coalesced into one thrillingly cohesive experience in the latter stages of 2012 by Holter and co-producer Cole Marsden Greif-Neill and an ensemble of Los Angeles musicians. The result is an album of enormous ambition – Holter taking inspiration from Collette’s 1944 novella Gigi and using it as a prism through which to explore her relationship with her hometown of Los Angeles and modern life universally, taking cues from the work of Joni Mitchell and the poetry of Frank O’Hara but forging those touch-points into something resolutely unique.

Watch The Video For Loud City Song’s Opening Track ‘World’ below:

Julia Holter has also announced a summer tour consisting of North American shows including a stop at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and European shows. Full list of dates below. 

Loud City Song tracklisting:

1. World
2. Maxim's I
3. Horns Surrounding Me  
4. In The Green Wild  
5. Hello Stranger
6. Maxim's II
7. He's Running Through My Eyes
8. This Is a True Heart  
9. City Appearing  

Tour Dates
07-11 Washington, DC - Sixth & I Synagogue @
07-12 New York City, NY - Le Poisson Rouge @
07-13 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live @
07-14 Boston, MA - The Church Of Boston @
07-16 Montreal, QB -  La Sala Rosa @
07-17 Toronto, ONT - The Drake @
07-18 Detroit, MI - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit @
07-20 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Festival
07-23 Lisbon, PT - ZDB
07-24 Madrid, ES - Theatro Lara
07-25 Cartagena, ES - La Mar De Musicas
07-26 Barcelona, ES - Caixaforum
07-27 Lyon, FR - Les Nuits De Fourvieres *
07-29 Ravenna, IT - Hani-Bi
07-30 Modena, IT - Sant Augustino
07-31 Geneva, CH - Ecoutes Au Vert @ Barje Des Sciences
08-03 Katowice, PL - OFF Festival
08-04 Zilnia, SK - Stanica
08-05 Vienna, AT - WUK
08-07 Basel, CH - Im Fluss Festival
08-08 Haldern-Rees, DE - Haldern Pop
08-09 Hamburg, DE - Kampnagel Summerfest
08-10 Goteborg, SE - Way Out West
08-11 Helsinki, FI - Flow Festival
08-13 Ghent, BE - DOK
08-14 Saint Malo, FR - La Route Du Rock Festival
08-16 Brecon, UK - Green Man Festival
08-17 Skipton, UK - Beacons Festival
08-20 London, UK - Cecil Sharp House 

@ w/ Jessica Pratt
* w/ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

All Is Not Lost will be released as the first single from About Group’s forthcoming third album on June 24^th 2013. The album, Between The Walls, will be available on July 1^st.

All Is Not Lost is a classic heartbreak ballad; hinting at a more modern r'n'b mode of writing, the strange but wonderful airlessness of such productions is replaced here with the electricity and liveliness of a straight to tape recording session, capturing the band in performance.

The accompanying video was directed by Swedish artist, Henrik Håkansson:

‘This film is a collage of projects that have recently been exhibited as single works, where bits and pieces are psyched together to create a visionary and open reading to words and music. The visions of my work use reflections of or by fragments in our surrounding environment, mirroring a personal statement on the state of our natural world today. In the end it is a shared vision of gain and loss.’ Watch it HERE.

About Group: All Is Not Lost on Nowness.com

About Group can also announce an album launch show at the Dalston Victoria in London, on July 4^th. Purchase tickets HERE.

Between The Walls captures the sound of a band 'playing' together, in both senses of the word - experimenting and trying things, being playful, as much as being a group performing as a unit together. Between The Walls is the sound of people pushing towards and pulling against one another simultaneously. It is the sound of buzzing amplifiers, sudden musical non-sequiturs, loud blasts of straight synth lines cutting through melody and structure. And it is also the sound of beautiful and odd electronic textures and brilliantly defined and deliberate drums, underpinning fragile but deliberate performances of sad songs and country ballads.

Between The Walls will be available on CD (WIGCD292), LP (WIGLP292), DL (WIG292D) and on special edition 2 x CD, featuring a bonus disc with DJ loops, available through Dom mart and indie stores only. Pre-order the album HERE. Download album track, Walk On By, HERE.

NB. The Trees Used Were Condemned And Were Scheduled To Be Destroyed Regardless Of The Filming.

ABOUT GROUP:

Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now)

John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized)

Pat Thomas (has played with Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley)

Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip)

Between The Walls is About Group’s last album with Charles Hayward who now moves on to other projects. 

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, the fourth studio album by Franz Ferdinand, will be released by Domino on 26^th August 2013.

Watch the trailer HERE 

Pre-order all formats HERE.

This exuberant, unencumbered record is the first from the Glasgow band since 2009’s Tonight. They seem to have rediscovered the imagination, vitality and fun found on their classic, era-encapsulating debut Franz Ferdinand.

Recorded over the last year at Kapranos’s Scottish studio, McCarthy’s Sausage Studios in London, Club Ralph and a couple of trips to Stockholm and Oslo, the LP cements their status as a unique and adventurous British band: emboldened by a decade’s undreamt-of worldwide success, but still daring and defiant. It’s an ecstatic rejection of the drab conventions often accompanying that level of attention and expectation.

When asked for a quote, Kapranos came back with: “The Intellect Vs The Soul, played out by some dumb band.”* God knows what that means, but the lyrics do seem more poetic this time. There were a few interesting collaborations, but more of that later…

The ten songs that make up Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action take what propelled Franz Ferdinand from the incestuous Glasgow Art School world to, well, the entire world - painterly lyrical detail, heavyweight hooks, precise aesthetic vision and that uncanny ability to marry arch artistic sensibility with pop punch – and push it even further. The breadth of influence, musicality and invention on show here is enormous. If this is unmistakably a Franz Ferdinand record, it is as much by virtue of its sonic daring and perfectly patch-worked eclecticism as the timeless songwriting flair that has long been their calling card.

Franz Ferdinand are still Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy, Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson. There’s still no one like them.

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action will be available on CD (WIGCD255), deluxe limited edition double CD (WIGCD255X), LP (WIGLP255), via digital download (WIG255D) and a Deluxe DomMart only double LP (WIGLP255X) - packaged in a hand numbered die-cut gatefold sleeve. The exclusive bonus disc in both the double CD and double LP, entitled Right Notes, Right Words, Wrong Order, is a document of a thrilling live session captured at the legendary Konk Studios in London. 

In addition, Domino will be releasing Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action - The Passport Edition. Limited to 500 worldwide, The Passport Edition features a deluxe edition of each physical format of the album, all 7”s and 12” singles and access to the highest quality audio files possible as well as exclusive tracks and content. 

The tracklisting for the album is as follows:

1. Right Action
2. Evil Eye
3. Love Illumination
4. Stand On The Horizon
5. Fresh Strawberries
6. Bullet
7. Treason! Animals.
8. The Universe Expanded
9. Brief Encounters
10. Goodbye Lovers & Friends

It's been a long journey, but a good one.  People, we're nearly there now and on May 27, The Pastels fantastic new album, Slow Summits will finally be available from Domino Mart and all good outlets.  We are extremely excited to announce a last minute addition for all first wave purchasers.  

During the making of Slow Summits, The Pastels listened to a lot of music; they always do, but what? We think we have the answer because Stephen and Katrina have compiled a small edition mix cd called Insane Energy Drop which is the perfect companion to the making of the record. At this stage, we're not prepared to reveal anything that is on it, but it's a beautiful Pastelesque mix of friends, fellow travellers and odd corners of their record collection. We're quietly confident that no non-Pastel will be able to identify every single track, but the thing is, you never know…

For the person that gets them all, or gets closest we are offering a signed high quality print of the cover art, something special from The Pastels own archive, and one record of your choice from the Domino catalogue.  To get into the competition we recommend that you pre-order your copy of Slow Summits immediately from Domino Mart, or your local record shop then send us what you think the tracklisting of the Insane Energy Drop mix is. Entries should be sent to: competition@dominorecordco.com by the 24^th June.

Good luck! 

Disclaimer: CDs will only be available in selected UK indie shops & with worldwide Dom Mart orders. Don’t worry if you don’t get your hands on a CD there will be a way for everyone to enter, just watch this space…