Malachai | 04/02/10
MALACHAI set to unleash ‘Ugly Side Of Love’ on 19 April 2010 on Double Six
The album is preceded by single ‘Snowflake’ on 12 April
“Malachai are into everyone from Public Image Ltd to Tricky; from Morricone to UNKLE; and from Bushkiller to Boards of Canada - which is possibly why everyone from Annie Mac to Gilles Peterson are into Malachai” – The Guardian
On 19 April 2010 Domino imprint Double Six are to release the ‘Ugly Side of Love’ album by “stand-alone Bristol sensation” (Mojo) Malachai.
Initially released on Portishead’s Geoff Barrow’s Invada label (under the band’s old name Malakai) last year, the 13 track album will be preceded by the band’s debut radio single for Double Six ‘Snowflake’, which is set for release a week earlier on 12 April.
You can listen to or download the album track Fading World right now for free, here.
Ugly Side Of Love
Album tracklisting:
1 Warriors
2 Shitkicker
3 Snake Charmer
4 Snowflake
5 Blackbird
6 Moonsurfin’
7 Meechs’ Theme
8 Only For You
9 Lay Down Stay Down
10 Another Sun
11 How Long
12 Fading World
13 Simple Song
"Malachai mix Love-style garage psychedelia and trippy samples with modern production savvy. The result is catchy, off-kilter backdrops for vocals that are a clear tribute to Horace Andy. Think Mellow Gold-era Beck crossed with the Kinks." -- The Observer
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Owen Pallett | 04/02/10
Releases new single – Lewis Takes Off His Shirt – and announces March tour
Owen Pallett releases Lewis Takes Off His Shirt (RUG360) as the first single from his recent album, Heartland, on March 29th.
Lewis Takes Off His Shirt, a beautiful track dense with polyphony, features Owen’s trademark looped violin and vocals augmented by the Czech Symphonic Orchestra. Lewis Takes Off His Shirt will have an accompanying video directed by M. Blash, to follow shortly.
Simon Bookish has delivered a remix of the song Keep The Dog Quiet which you can download for free >>>here:
Following his recent show at the Union Chapel in London, Owen Pallett will return to the UK and Ireland in March, including a night at Koko in London on March 26th. Support on all shows except for Dublin comes from Next Life. Full dates are as follows:
MAR 18 DUBLIN, IRELAND - WHELAN'S
MAR 25 CARDIFF, UK - MILLENIUM MUSIC HALL
MAR 26 LONDON, UK - KOKO
MAR 27 LIVERPOOL, UK - RAINBOW WAREHOUSE
MAR 28 MANCHESTER, UK - THE DEAF INSTITUTE
Heartland, Owen Pallett’s third full length LP and first for Domino, is available now. This is what the press had to say about it:
‘a songwriter of rare complexity and ambition […] Heartland has the feel of a masterpiece’ – Sunday Times Culture– 4*
‘The record is huge and affecting. Trust me' – The Quietus
‘an overflowing well of musical creativity’ – NME
Steve Mason | 03/02/10
Having recently signed to Domino imprint Double Six, Steve Mason has announced the release of his new album, Boys Outside, on Monday May 3rd 2010.
The 10-track album was produced by Richard X and Steve Mason. The album will be preceded by a single, Lost & Found, on April 19th.
The full tracklisting for the album is as follows:
1. Understand My Heart
2. Am I Just A Man
3. The Letter
4. Yesterday
5. Lost & Found
6. I Let Her In
7. Stress Position
8. All Come Down
9. Boys Outside
10. Hound On My Heel
Very much indicative of the fragile, stripped down, haunting sound of the album, All Come Down was released as a download only single in December of last year and was roundly praised for it’s beauty and simplicity drawing numerous comparisons to his early work with the Beta Band on the 3 EPs album.
All Come Down is still currently available as a free download here.
Having previously recorded as both King Biscuit Time and Black Affair, both largely electronic based projects, Steve Mason enlisted the help of producer Richard X and consciously made a decision to go back to basics; the album was written entirely on acoustic guitar with many of the finished tracks stripped back to reveal his undoubted songwriting talent. Live shows are planned for 2010 after the album release.
For further information prior to the release and all the social & media links, mailing lists, free stuff and info is www.stevemasontheartist.com
03/02/10
Eugene + The Lizards release a double A-Side single featuring the tracks Bugjuice and I Want Action. With razor sharp lyrics and melodic, psychedelic pop sounds, the tracks will be available from 1st March via digital download (RUG354D).
Bugjuice is also available now as a free download from www.eugenemcguinness.net, which is
where you can also view accompanying videos directed by long term visual collaborators Will Lovelace & Dylan Southern (Blur: No Distance Left To Run).
Eugene + the Lizards are:
Eugene McGuinness
Dominic McGuinness
Malcolm Lunan
John Barrett
Eugene will be performing a couple of solo shows - February 5th at the Hobby Horse in Dalston, London and on February 16th at the Lock Tavern in Camden, London.
‘How wonderful – and rare – to hear melodies as rich, complex and serpentine as these’– Sunday Times Culture
‘McGuinness has grace and insight to charge the smallest details with light. What a God.’ – The Stool Pigeon
She & Him | 03/02/10
On March 15th 2010, She & Him release In The Sun as the first single from their beautiful forthcoming album, Volume Two, which will be available from April 5th via Double Six. The band’s acclaimed debut album, Volume One, was released in 2008.
She & Him is one of pop’s finest collaborations, with all songs written by Zooey Deschanel (She) and produced by M Ward (Him). Described by Zooey as a ‘feel-good album’, Volume Two is bolstered by rich harmonies and sweet-as-sugar melodies – it simply shimmers from start to finish.
In The Sun is three minutes of vintage pop sunshine with a pitch-perfect, infectious chorus, featuring guest vocals from Tilly & The Wall. In The Sun is backed with a stunning rendition of the Beach Boys’ classic, I Can Hear Music.
In The Sun will be available on 7” (DS025) and via digital download (DS025D). Tracklisting is as follows:
A – In The Sun
B – I Can Hear Music
Arctic Monkeys | 29/01/10
Arctic Monkeys release ‘My Propeller’, the third single from ‘Humbug’ on Monday the 22nd of March 2010.
The single will be available on 7” and 10” featuring 3 brand new Arctic Monkeys’ original songs ‘Joining The Dots’, ‘The Afternoon’s Hat’ and ‘Don’t Forget Whose Legs You’re On’.
Continuing Arctic Monkeys’ relationship with Oxfam, the 10” of ‘My Propeller’ will be available exclusively through Oxfam’s network of UK shops.
Arctic Monkeys have also announced that they will be performing at The Royal Albert Hall on Saturday the 27th of March, as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust’s 10th anniversary series of concerts. Tickets will be on sale to the general public from Friday the 5th of February – go to www.arcticmonkeys.com for more details. The band are currently on tour in Europe.
Tracklistings for the single are as follows:
7" (RUG 359)
A. My Propeller
B. Joining The Dots
10" (RUG 359T)
A1. My Propeller
A2. Joining The Dots
B1. The Afternoon's Hat
B2. Don't Forget Whose Legs You're On
25/01/10
Pavement have announced full tracklisting for their ‘Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement’ album which will be released by Domino on Monday the 8th of March.
Tracklisting is as follows:
1. Gold Soundz
2. Frontwards
3. Mellow Jazz Docent
4. Stereo
5. In The Mouth A Desert
6. Two States
7. Cut Your Hair
8. Shady Lane / J vs. S
9. Here
10. Unfair
11. Grounded
12. Summer Babe (Winter Version)
13. Range Life
14. Date w/ IKEA
15. Debris Slide
16. Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)
17. Spit On A Stranger
18. Heaven Is A Truck
19. Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite At :17
20. Embassy Row
21. Box Elder
22. Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence
23. Fight This Generation
The Triffids | 25/01/10
THE TRIFFIDS
RELEASE EAGERLY AWAITED BEST OF BOX SET
‘COME RIDE WITH ME ... WIDE OPEN ROAD – THE BEST OF THE TRIFFIDS’
& ACCOMPANYING CD EDITION - BOTH OUT 5 APRIL ON DOMINO
BEFORE THEY CELEBRATE THE GENIUS OF THE LATE DAVID MCCOMB IN LONDON ON 9 APRIL WITH A CAST OF GUEST MUSICIANS, FRIENDS & VOCALISTS
On 5 April 2010 Domino are to release their eagerly awaited Best of The Triffids deluxe box set ‘Come Ride With Me ... Wide Open Road – The Best Of The Triffids’, which features approx 8 discs spanning the band’s career (full details to be revealed soon). That same day they also release an accompanying 18 track single disc compilation ‘Wide Open Road - The Best of The Triffids’, the tracklisting for which is below.
In addition, on Friday 9 April, the remaining members of The Triffids will gather together with a cast of characters, friends, guest musicians and vocalists at London’s Barbican for a special concert to showcase and celebrate the songwriting genius of their late leader David McComb, who died in 1999 (details of concert below). The band will also take the show to Hasselt, Belgium on April 16 and 17 at Kunstencentrum Belgie, and Athens, Greece on 23 April, when they appear at Gagarin 205.
These releases continue the Triffids reissue programme which Domino started in 2006 with the release of the band’s classic ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ album, and which has seen ‘Calenture’, ‘In The Pines’, ‘Black Swan’ and ‘Treeless Plain’ all remastered and released as deluxe CDs with additional music and sleeve notes. Along the way there have been singles, a limited edition 7” singles box set, an unreleased album ‘Beautiful Waste And Other Songs’; unexpected live shows in Belgium and Amsterdam, a performance with special guests and friends as part of 2008’s Sydney Festival in Australia and even the honouring of the band with a Blue Plaque in London! The band were inducted into the Australian Hall Of Fame in 2008.
The Triffids with special guest musicians, friends and vocalists LIVE in London:
Friday 9 April 2010
‘A Secret In The Shape of A Song’
Barbican Hall, London
On Friday 9 April 2010 the remaining members of The Triffids, Rob McComb, Alsy MacDonald, Martyn Casey, Jill Birt and Graham Lee will gather together with an array of special guests for a three hour performance: ‘A Secret In The Shape of A Song’.
Originally presented at The Sydney Festival in 2008, classics like ‘Wide Open Road’ and ‘Bury Me Deep In Love’ will be performed alongside B-sides, unreleased works and readings from David’s prose in a theatrical night of words and songs that will roll like perfect waves in a biographical celebration of David McComb’s work.
Lou Barlow | 22/01/10
Following live shows with Dinosaur Jr and the reissue of three of Sebadoh’s classic albums, Lou Barlow has just announced a set of UK and European solo live dates. Lou Barlow will be performing tracks from his stunning recent album, Goodnight Unknown, as well as from his vast back catalogue. The tour, which kicks off in Brussels on January 30th will call at the Deaf Institute in Manchester, Dingwalls in London, Stereo in Glasgow, before heading to Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne.
Full dates are as follows:
Saturday 30th January Belgium, Brussels, AB
Sunday 31st January UK, Manchester Deaf Institute
Monday 1st February UK, Glasgow Stereo
Tuesday 2nd February UK, London Dingwalls
Wednesday 3rd February France, Paris Point Ephemere
Thursday 4th February Netherlands, Amsterdam, Bitterzoet
Saturday 6th February Germany, Cologne, Gebaude 9
Monday 8th February Germany, Berlin, Guenter
Tickets for the UK dates are available from www.gigsandtours.com / http://www.seetickets.com
To Rococo Rot | 22/01/10
Set for release on 29 March 2010, Speculation is the new, perfectly titled, To Rococo Rot album, recorded in part at Faust’s studio at Scheer.
To Rococo Rot, the trio of Stefan Schneider and brothers Robert and Ronald Lippok, arrived just over a decade ago at the point where digital precision and instrumental abstraction were harnessed into new directions in contemporary music, detached and accessible. Their early albums, Veiculo and The Amateur View, spoke in the future imperfect tense, highly complex but concentrated sound happenings.
On Speculation the language, unembellished in character, has changed. This is a record that celebrates uncertainty. Driven by the sound of fingers on instruments, pushing and weaving between the electric pulse, Speculation bathes in a midpoint between propulsion and letting go.
To celebrate the release, the band are giving away a free MP3 of "Working Against Time", sign up below for your free track and to be kept informed on all things To Rococo Rot.
