NEWS

Following last year’s release of Free Reign – the seventh studio album by Liverpool’s stalwarts of the surreal Clinic, the band have now announced the imminent landing of Free Reign II on March 4th – a set of alternate mixes of the original album by revered producer Daniel Lopatin.

Initially involved in the mixing of several songs on the original Free Reign, the band felt that Lopatin’s vision for the record deserved to be fully realised and available. Zoning in on the creeping dub influence that’s always been bubbling in Clinic’s work, Lopatin’s mixes mutate the already mind-clouding originals into something heavier, narcotic and more hypnotic than before. As he himself puts it, “I wanted to give it a burnt, 60s/70s stereo dub feel and was under the influence of a lot of Amon Düül II and Les Rallizes Dénudés when I was mixing.”

A fascinating new perspective on the original album for those wise enough to have sought it out already and a great work in its own right for Free Reign newcomers, this collaboration with one of contemporary, experimental electronic music’s greatest innovators is testament to the enduring influence of Clinic – one of the most trailblazing British bands of their era.

Free Reign II will be available on heavyweight vinyl (WIGLP303) and digitally (WIG303D). Pre-order the album HERE. The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Sun & Moon II
2. You II
3. King Kong II
4. For The Season II
5. Miss You II
6. Cosmic Radiation II
7. Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC 10pm (rpt) II
8. See Saw II
9. Misty II
10. Done & Dusted II

The band can also share these two psychotropic films, directed by Brendan Canty of Feel Good Lost for the tracks Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC 10pm (rpt)(watch it HERE) and Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC 10pm (rpt) II (watch it HERE).

Clinic will be performing a headline UK tour this February and March, with a show at Corsica Studios in London on March 7th. The band have also recently announced a special post show performance on the Club Stage at the Barbican in London as part of The Residents’ 40th anniversary tour. Full dates are as follows:

28-Feb-13 Newcastle - The Cluny
1-Mar-13 Glasgow - Stereo
2-Mar-13 Manchester - Deaf Institute
7-Mar-13 London - Corsica Studios
18-May-13 London – Barbican Club Stage

Dan Deacon is back to tour North America and Europe again in support of his most recent album America, out now on Domino.

Shot over a three month tour this past autumn, the time-lapse based 'Guilford Avenue Bridge' video captures not only the American landscapes that inspired Deacon's songwriting for America but also gives a glimpse into his show’s renowned spectacle of hundreds, even thousands, of jubilant people dancing about in coordinated movement. With the addition of his groundbreaking smartphone app which the band recently used on their network television debut performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Deacon has taken the concert experience to a whole new level.

'Guilford Avenue Bridge' video directed by Alan Resnick:

The 'Guilford Avenue Bridge' digital single comes backed with a live full band version recorded at influential non-commercial US radio station, The Current, in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. Listen to the entire session here and buy the single here.

Deacon will be joined on his February headlining European dates with his streamlined ensemble of two drummers -- Jeremy Hyman of Boredoms, Ponytail; Kevin O'Meara of Videohippos -- with America producer Chester Endersby Gwazda on electronics. His ensemble of two drummers will also join him on their support dates with fellow label-mates Animal Collective on their March North American tour.

Dan Deacon UK and Irish live dates with ticket links are as follows:

• Friday 8th February Bristol - The Fleece
• Saturday 9th February Dublin, Ireland - Whelans
• Sunday 10th February Belfast - The Black Box
• Monday 11th February Glasgow - Stereo
• Tuesday 12th February Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
• Thursday 14th February London - Village Underground

Bill Ryder-Jones is a talented man. His new album A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart, marries his masterful capacities as arranger and composer with his first firm steps as a singer songwriter. The album will be released by Domino on Monday 8th April 2013. It’s an album of capital-S songs that will more than sate the appetite of those that appreciate his knack for heart swelling melody and painterly detail. You can listen to He Took You In His Arms, HERE.

Bill left The Coral after their fifth studio album Roots & Echoes, on which his arrangements hinted at a deeper and spectacular compositional talent. Last year Ryder-Jones explored this side of his creative talent in full with the orchestral album If… for Domino sister label Double Six - which was a grand ‘imaginary soundtrack’ to Italo Calvino’s post modernist novel If On A Winters Night A Traveller.

A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart was recorded in Ryder-Jones’ old bedroom in the upstairs of his mother’s house in Liverpool. Two friends from local band By The Sea made up the backing band for the recordings, which were then produced and mixed together with James Ford.

A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart will be available on LP (WIGLP308), CD (WIG308CD) and via digital download (WIG308D). Click here to pre-order: HERE. The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Hanging Song

2. There's A World Between Us

3. A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart

4. By Morning I

5. The Lemon Tree #3      

6. Anthony & Owen

7. Wild Swans

8. Christina That’s The Saddest Thing

9. You’re Getting Like Your Sister

10. He Took You In His Arms

11. A Bad Wind Pt. 2

We are very proud to announce release of ‘Big Love’, the first single to be taken from the forthcoming debut album Big Inner by Matthew E. White (which is released by Domino on Monday the 21st of January).

Moving, redemptive and powerfully soulful, Big Inner is a timeless record told in seven songs that mingle memory with the rawness of any given human moment. The references — from the lyrics that echo the common conditions of love, death, seeking, and finding, to open tributes to artists like Washington Phillips, Allen Toussaint, Jorge Ben, Jimmy Cliff, and Randy Newman — are their own scavenger hunt through music history and through White’s place in it.

A gifted jazz arranger and exceptional guitarist, White's vision for Big Inner was realised with the help of bassist Cameron Ralston and drummer Pinson Chanselle, who make up the core of his Spacebomb House Band and then embellished with horns, strings, and a choir - all culled from and roused by the venerable landscape of Richmond, Virginia and recorded in the attic of White's house in the city.

Rousing, spiritual and genuinely psychedelic, ‘Big Love’ (RUG 513) is the album’s biggest, most strident and ecstatic moment. You can buy the single HERE. The album is available HERE and via iTunes HERE.

To celebrate the release of 'Big Inner', White and the Spacebomb House Band will be performing in the United Kingdom for the first time in January 2013, playing the following intimate dates:

Tuesday 22nd January – The Hope, Brighton (Tickets)
Wednesday 23rd January – The Lexington, London (Tickets)

We are excited to announce that Night Moves are set to release their debut album Colored Emotions in the UK and Europe
on March 18th on Domino. After building up a fervent local following in their home of Minneapolis, Colored Emotions was released in the US in October 2012 and now, the band’s bringing it to Europe.

Forthcoming single "Country Queen” is also released on March 18th and while starting out gently, soon soars into its anthemic, stomping conclusion. Watch the video for “Country Queen” HERE.

Effortlessly blending bluesy, wholesome Americana with bursts of psychedelia against atmospheric soundscapes, it’s unsurprising that the band worked with producer/mixer Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Beachwood Sparks, Devendra Banhart) to tighten and brighten the album. However, it’s the album’s apparent maturity that separates it from many debut releases.

The core members of Night Moves, guitarist/lead vocalist John Pelant, bassist Micky Alfano and multi-instrumentalist Mark Ritsema, grew up together in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and spent their younger years rotating in and out of one another's musical orbits. After a couple of promising false starts, the trio re-coalesced in 2009 in earnest as Night Moves and began recording. Since then, the band has been joined by drummer Jared Isabella completing their live set-up.

The US 7” release of album opener “Headlights" was described by Pitchfork as a "... knockout single... a psychedelic country gem awash in vocalist John Pelant's golden yowl.”

Tracklisting:

1. Headlights
2. Country Queen
3. In The Rounds
4. Only A Child
5. Family Tongues
6. Old Friends
7. Put Out Your Shoulder
8. Horses
9. Classical Hearts
10. Colored Emotions

Colored Emotions will be available digitally (WIG296D), on CD (WIGCD296) and on vinyl (WIGLP296) from March 18th. Pre-order HERE.

To coincide with the release of We The Common, the new album from San Francisco-based musician and activist Thao Nguyen, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down have announced that the album’s title track will be released as a single on the same day, February 4th, and you can stream it below.

Listen to “We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)” HERE.

Inspired by Thao’s first visit to Valley State Prison with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, “We The Common” maintains the left-of-centre folk roots of previous single “Holy Roller” with the addition of a catchy and spirited chorus. During this first visit, she met Valerie Bolden; a prisoner that struck a chord with her:
“We sat down and immediately started talking and joking, almost like old friends. We kept it mostly light, but then she’d matter-of-factly talk about missing her daughters, about believing in God but not understanding what she was supposed to be doing in prison, about not wanting to die behind bars. But she’s sentenced to life without parole. After I left, I found I couldn’t stop thinking about her and the things she told me and the way she told them, and a lot of that ended up in ‘We the Common.’”

Thao also appears in an online series of lighthearted shorts about the creation of We The Common. Titled Behind The Making Of The Making Of How It Was Made, the series will run alongside the We The Common’s release. The first episode - called “The Hand of God” and directed by Lauren Tabak - is streaming now at www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com
Thao notes that she “wanted to offer a behind the scenes look at the making and release of this record, but I wanted it to be entertaining. The best way to do that was to make merciless fun of myself. This series also marks my return to acting, which I left in high school after I had that one line in that play.”

We The Common will be available on CD (RBN020CD), LP (RBN020LP) and digitally (RBN020D). As well as this, the deluxe edition of the record (RBN020LPX) can be pre-ordered which includes a limited edition 7” with covers of Melanie’s “Brand New Key” and The Troggs’ “With A Girl Like You”. The 7” is also available as a download with pre-orders of the CD. Pre-order HERE.

We are extremely excited to be able to announce a new Pastels record for 2013. Slow Summits is the record we waited so long for, wondered about, pencilled in then pencilled out, and now finally, triumphantly can pencil back in... but not with a pencil, with a flourish, with a fountain pen.  Because it's that kind of record.

Recorded in Glasgow and mixed in Chicago, Slow Summits is already bringing some much needed optimism to 2013, why not let it do the same for you? Here's a trailer they cut for it with their friend, Blair Young from The Forest Of Black. Check it out.

Some genuinely excellent news for you all: the incomparable Steve Mason has announced details of a brand new album entitled Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time which will be released by our friends at Double Six on Monday March 11^th 2013.

Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time is an album saturated with politics. With a title referring to the Buddhist term for an easily distracted brain, the album features 20 songs: 9 recorded in London with producer Dan Carey and 11 short linking pieces self-produced in Mason's Fife studio. Monkey Minds In the Devil's Time is an album that has been shaped by the current global political climate and the lack of dissenting voices in music as well as popular culture in general. The righteous, undaunted anger at the heart of the album has helped to create Mason’s best record to date.

All songs on the album were written by Mason, while Dan Carey appears on bass throughout the record and acclaimed London MC Mystro provides vocals on "More Money, More Fire".

As a way of whetting your appetite, Steve has made a video for "Fight Them Back". A protest song for a post-London riots era, the track hangs on a madly catchy, fantastically confrontational chorus and is matched with the equally striking video, which you can watch here:

Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time will be available on CD, vinyl and via digital download. You can PRE ORDER IT NOW, HERE. The tracklisting for the album is as follows:

1. The Old Problem
2. Lie Awake
3. Flyover ‘98
4. A Lot Of Love
5. The Last Of Heroes
6. Lonely
7. Safe Population
8. Friends For Ever More
9. Seen It All Before
10. From Hate We Hope
11. Oh My Lord
12. Goodbye Youth
13. Never Be Alone
14. Behind The Curtains
15. More Money, More Fire
16. Fire!
17. Operation Mason
18. Fight Them Back
19. Towers of Power
20. Come To Me

On Monday, the wonderful Eugene McGuinness released “Sugarplum”, the latest single to be taken from his awesome recent LP The Invitiation to the Voyage. To coincide with its release, we are streaming the B-side “Cinema Paradiso” below.

A song with its own uplifting and intriguing charm, “Cinema Paradiso” is a tribute to the romance of film and adolescent antics. Much like the art-form it celebrates, it suspends disbelief, offering two and a half minutes of nostalgic escapism.

Matching music hall-style piano with childhood memories, it could easily be seen as the foil to “Sugarplum”’s more mature, slick character. Despite being worlds apart in that sense, McGuinness once again toys with imagination, this time conjuring up images of popcorn-scented seats, back row experiences and flickering projectors to an animated tune that could easily slip into a world of smoke-filled speakeasies.

Listen to it now:

And as an additional festive treat, listen to Eugene covering Ian Brown’s “Dolphins were Monkeys":

Villagers have announced a second night at the appropriately chosen venue Village Underground in London on 21^st February 2012. Tickets will be available from 9am on 11^th December. The band have also added a second show at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland on 22nd March.

Villagers have also shared a live performance clip of "Nothing Arrived", the second single to be released from their upcoming LP {Awayland} (14^th January 2013). The video was filmed at Attica Audio in Donegal, where the new album was also recorded by Conor J. O’Brien and Villagers' guitarist, Tommy McLaughlin. This performance, along with four more beautifully filmed live studio clips feature on an exclusive DVD which will accompany the special limited edition version of the album.

Watch the live studio performance of "Nothing Arrived" now:

{Awayland} is the follow-up to the band’s Mercury Award-nominated and Ivor Novello-winning debut, Becoming a Jackal. The album is released on 14th January 2013 and can be pre-ordered HERE, while "Nothing Arrived" is available digitally (RUG489D) now HERE.

Full UK and Irish dates are below, with newly added dates in bold. Tickets for all shows are available HERE.

• Friday 8th February SHEFFIELD Leadmill
• Saturday 9th February NEWCASTLE Warehouse
• Sunday 10th February GLASGOW Stereo
• Tuesday 12th February LEEDS Wardrobe
• Wednesday 13th February MANCHESTER Gorilla
• Thursday 14th February BIRMINGHAM HMV Library
• Saturday 16th February BRISTOL Trinity
• Sunday 17th February BRIGHTON Old Market
• Monday 18th February PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
• Wednesday 20th February LONDON Village Underground
• Thursday 21st February LONDON Village Underground 
• Thursday 14th March GALWAY, IRE Seapoint
• Friday 15th March LIMERICK, IRE Dolans
• Saturday 16th March BELFAST, NI Empire Music Hall
• Mon 18th March KILLARNEY, IRE Inec Acoustic Club
• Tues 19th March CORK, IRE The Savoy
• Thursday 21st March DUBLIN, IRE Olympia Theatre
• Friday 22nd March DUBLIN, IRE Olympia Theatre

As Christmas approaches we all look back on the things that helped through the previous year, so here at Domino we've compiled our lists of the things we happened to like the most, be it songs, food, gigs, basically whatever made us happy. Enjoy.

Dan Papps - Maximum Dryness
The Makers – ‘Don’t Challenge Me’
High on Fire – ‘Serums of Liao’
Beak> - ‘Mono’
Tame Impala – ‘Why Won’t They Talk To Me?’
Flying Lotus – ‘Getting There’
Actress – ‘Jardin’
The Equatics – ‘Merry Go Round’
Dirty Projectors – ‘Maybe That Was It’
Joey Bada$$ - Waves
Love Apple – ‘Guess I Always Knew’

Ryan McCann
Carter Tutti Void - Carter Tutti Void
Love Apple EP (Numero compilation)
Loving On The Flip Side (Now Again compilation)
Ariel Pink - Mature Themes
Matthew E White - Big Inner
Burial - Kindred EP
Roberto Cacciapaglia - Sei Note In Logica (Reissue)
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Actress - RIP
Ruff Sqwad - White Label Classics

Stephen Newell
London 2012
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, mAAd City
Jessica Pratt (self titled)
Polica – Give You The Ghost
Ryder Cup Medinah
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Actress - RIP
The Muppets (film)
Jumping on the Tour de France bandwagon
Julia Holter - Ekstasis

Lynden
Some songs I quite like from 2012 in no particular order
1. Get Free - Major Lazer (swoon)
2. Two Different Ways (Richard H. Kirk) remix - Factory Floor (fond moments at Simple Things festie)
3. Le Goudron [Bobby Birdman Remix] - YACHT (French and funky!)
4. Grimes - Oblivion (despite it reminding me of the Brookside theme tune it makes me go a bit mad in the head and want to swish about like an idiot - am I supposed to backlash on Grimes now? Ah well... who cares)
5. Pure Bathing Culture - Ivory Coast (it's as if I'm an angry dog and Mick Dundee is waving his forefinger and pinky at me - pacified)
6. Killing Time - Veronica Falls (unadulterated indie indulgence)
7. Young Magic - Sparkly ('wooh')
8. Lower Dens - Brains (strummy strummy jump jump)
9. Solange - Losing You (written and produced by Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) - please everyone check out Coastal Grooves from last year and listen to it 3 times a day before meals.)
10. French Films - Convict (I only heard this at a live show last week - was good fun or was that the free Cuba Libres, eh...)

Jack Shankly
1. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
2. Daughn Gibson - All Hell
3. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home
4. Matthew E White - Big Inner
5. John Talabot - Fin
6. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
7. DIIV - Oshin
8. Woods - Bend Beyond
9. Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
10. Jessica Pratt - Jessica Pratt

Pat Riley
1. Turing Machine "What's the Meaning of What" (album)
2. OM "Advaitic Songs" (album)
3. Pupukea, Hawaii (place)
4. Worst Gig Ever (podcast)
5. Hot Chip "In Our Heads" (album)
6. Victoria Haven: Proposed Land Use Action (exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum)
7. Lower Dens "Nootropics" (album)
8. Exchange Alley (restaurant)
9. Flop reunion show August 18th, 2012 at Whiting's house (performance)
10. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth "Fire Burns Dim in the Shadow of the Mountain" (single)
Runners up: Dan Deacon "America" (album), Dina Martina "Ample Wattage" (performance), Oleana (restaurant), Soundtrack to The Man WIth The Iron Fists (Instrumentals) by the RZA (album), Lonnie Holley "Just Before Music"

Kris Grillespie
10. Fennesz - Aun (Touch)
9. Royal Headache - s/t (What's Yr Rupture)
8. The Babies - Our House On The Hill (Woodsist)
7. Tycho - Dive (Ghostly International)
6. The Two Bears - Be Strong (Southern Fried)
5. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
4. Todd Terje - It's The Arps EP (Smalltown Supersound)
3. Matthew E. White - Big Inner (Hometapes)
2. Sam Flax - Age Waves (Burger Records)
1. Four Tet - Pink (Text)

honorable mention songs of the year:
Tomas Barfod - "November Skies" (Sepalcure Remix)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Only In My Dreams"
Swearin' - "Here To Hear"
Tanlines - "All Of Me"
Kindness - "Gee Up" (Cosmic Kids Edit)

Sam Flynn
1. Sleep - Dopesmoker (Reissue on Southern Lord)
2. Tame Impala – Lonerism
3. Bill Fay – Life Is People
4. Lower Dens - Nootropics
5. The Cure @ Reading Festival
6. Discovering Optimo - Sleepwalk
7. Working with the lovely people of Domino
8. Shy Kids – Field Trips
9. Breton – Other People’s Problems
10. Sainburys festive sandwich range (‘Boxing Day Sandwich’ in particular)

Marcel Legane
- Chairlift - Something
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
- Rustie's closing set at The Warehouse Project
- Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
- This Town Needs Guns - Cat Fantastic
- Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
- Frank Ocean - Pyramids
- The Hundred Reasons & Hell Is For Heroes reunion show @ The Forum
- Everything Everything - Kemosabe
- The fried chicken starter @ Bone Daddies Ramen

Laura Calnan
- The Olympic Games
- Tame Impala – Lonerism
- Francois & the Atlas Mountains gig at St. Mary’s Church in Ashford
- Winning Trivial Pursuit for the first time ever.
- Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
- Hot Chip – In Our Heads
- Radio Head, up and down the dial of British radio {book}
- Bombay Bicycle Club at Bournemouth Academy
- Melody’s Echo Chamber {album}
- Working at Domino Records, it’s been emotional, and genuinely life changing, thank you from the depths of my tiny little heart.

Louis Lloyd
1) Coldplay @ Emirates with Bart (and so many other memories...)
2) Geordie Shore: Chaos In Cancun
3) Watch The Throne tour
4) Calvin Harris - 18 Months
5) Field Day and the afterparty and the after-afterparty
6) iTunes Festival (Usher, Lana, JLS and Muse)
7) Not missing a Haim London show
8) The Valleys
9) Rammstein @ The O2
10) Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven

Jeff Pachman
Anais Mitchell – ‘Young Man in America’
Dayna Kurtz - ‘Secret Canon Vol. 1’
Lost Bayou Ramblers – “Mammoth Waltz
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifier II
Ty Segall – Twins
Mount Carmel – Real Women
Beth Orton – Sugaring Season
The Babies – Our House on the Hill
Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
Dirty Projectors – Swing Low Magellan
Chromatics – Kill for Love

Mark Austin
Album Shields, Grizzly Bear
Album Old Idea, Leonard Cohen
Thing that Happened Discovering America, New Orleans, New York and Nashville
Album Tramp, Sharon Van Etten
Album Locked Down, Dr. John
Thing That Happened Froome and Wiggo taking The Stage and the Yellow Jersey on La Planche des Belle Filles (and taking it all the way to Paris)
Album Big Inner, Matthew E. White (very excited about this in 2013)
Track Ramada Inn, Neil Young + Crazy Horse
Show Springsteen at SXSW
Festival End of The Road (Bella Union’s 15th Anniversary)

Paula Williams
The Skints - Part & Parcel – Album of the year!!
Anti Vigilante - Tempest
Jeramiah Ferrari - The Dubby Rock EP
Jaya The Cat - The New International Sound of Hedonism
Roughneck Riot - This is Our Day
The Skints - sold out gig at The Scala, London
Jaya The Cat, Anti Vigilante, Random Hand, Tyrannosaurus Alan, Claypigeon & Faintest Idea at The Underworld, London
Skindred at Brixton Academy
Incubus at Brixton Academy
The Walking Dead - Season 3 (TV Series)

Duncan Spiers
Karin Park – Restless
Nas – Loco-motive (feat. Large Professor)
Michael Penn – On Your Way
Drake – Crew Love (feat. The Weeknd)
Marina And The Diamonds – Fear And Loathing
Lana Del Rey – Off To The Races
Smash Cast – Never Give All The Heart
Labrinth – Treatment
Kitty Pryde – Okay Cupid
Karin Park – Bending Albert’s Law

Alex Rose
1. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (Dull Tools)
2. The Babies - Our House On The Hill (Woodsist)
3. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II (In The Red)
4. Dan Deacon - America (Domino)
5. Various Artists: Long Time Gone (Little Axe/Mississippi)
6. Ty Segall - Twins (Drag City)
7. Various Artists: The Nablus Project (http://nablusproject.bandcamp.com/)
8. OBN IIIs - OBN IIIs (Tic Tac Totally)
9. Tronics: Love Backed By Force (What's Yr Rupture?)
10. Django Django (Ribbon)

Francesca
Hot Chip live at Heaven
Death Grips ‘The Money Store’
Breaking Bad
Manic Street Preachers ‘Generation Terrorists’ 20th anniversary reissue
John Maus live at the Scala
Perfecting the breakfast burrito
Hunx & his Punx live at The Smell
Acquiring a painting by Gidget Gein
The Magic Castle Hotel in Hollywood
The Daily Show during the US election

Matt Sweeney
2012 ELECTRONIC - BAKERS DOZEN
1 Tigerskin – This Place Is Empty Without You
2 Todd Terje – Inspector Norse
3 Luke Abbott – Modern Driveway
4 Machinedrum – DDD
5 letherette – Warstones
6 Four Tet – Pyramid
7 Nathan Fake – Paean
8 Lone – Lying in the Reeds
9 Essay – Morning Mountain (feat. Rhian Sheehan)
10 Errors – Pleasure Palaces
11 Blondes – Lover (Dungeon Acid Remix)
12 Hot Chip – How Do You Do? - Todd Terje remix
13 Daphni – Ahora

Henry Thomas
Bat For Lashes, The Haunted Man
Daphni, Jialong
Death Grips, The Money Store
Deftones, Koi No Yokan
Fushitsusha (live at St. John-at-Hackney)
Grizzly Bear, Shields
Hanne Hukkelberg, Featherbrain
Lorn, Ask The Dust
Melody's Echo Chamber, Melody's Echo Chamber
Sharon Van Etten, Tramp

Steph Seager
Sharon Van Etten. Sharon at the Scala. Sharon at Shepherds Bush Empire. Just Sharon for being Sharon generally. I LOVE YOU SHARON.
The Gaslight Anthem 'Handwritten' and KOKO gig.
Refused at The Forum.
Nas at the 100 Club. Life is Good.
Kendrick Lamar -  Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
Bear In Heaven, I Love You It’s Cool.
At The Drive In at Brixton Academy.
Dan Deacon at The Scala.
Paris, Reading Festival, New York.
I'm probably not grasping the concept of a top ten but honorary mentions for favourite songs of the year include.... Foals 'Inhaler', Bruno mars 'Locked Out Of Heaven', The Blackout 'Start The Party', Villagers 'The Waves', Carly Rae Jepsen 'Call Me Maybe', Taylor Swift ‘the title is too long but you know the one I mean…’ Deftones ‘Tempest’, Joey Bada$$ ‘Hardknock’, Frightened Rabbit ‘The Woodpile’.

We are happy to announce that "Letter of Intent" is to be released as the first single from the forthcoming Ducktails album, The Flower Lane. It's going to be ushered into the world on the same date as the LP: 28^th January, a day well worth marking in your brand new 2013 diaries. A highlight from the much-anticipated album, the track features vocals from Jessa Farkas of Future Shuttle and Ian Drennan of Big Troubles.

And you can listen to it in all its multi-layered loveliness right now here:

Ducktails will be touring the UK and Europe throughout February with a show at The Green Door Store in Brighton on the 24^th and at the Lexington in London on the 25^th. There will also be an album release show at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City, USA on January 23^rd which will feature all of The Flower Lane's guest musicians performing the album in full.

The Flower Lane's large cast of guests include Daniel Lopatin (of Oneohtrix Point Never), Joel Ford (of Ford & Lopatin), Madeline Follin (of Cults), Sam Mehran (of Outer Limitz) and Jessa Farkas (of Future Shuttle), along with members of Mondanile's other band, Real Estate, and members of Big Troubles, who also serve as Mondanile's live band for performances. 

The Flower Lane is now available for pre-order on CD, LP + deluxe edition (which is a letter-pressed-jacket version of the album).

All pre-orders immediately receive free downloads of The Flower Lane and Letter of Intent. Pre-order the record HERE.

UK Tour Dates 

• Sun 24^th February: Brighton – Green Door Store
• Monday 25^th February: London – Lexington

Domino is pleased to announce a surprise release from Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip/About Group) - a four track self-recorded and self-produced EP with a heavy groove based element, entitled Nayim From The Halfway Line. The EP is available now on 12" heavyweight vinyl and will be available digitally on 17^th December.

The track listing is as follows:

1. Rhodes Dream
2. You Want Me
3. Hot Squash
4. Jesus' Birthday

Click HERE to pre-order the 12".

And here's a video introduction to the EP:

On January 21^st, Domino will release Big Inner, the debut album by Virgina-based artist Matthew E. White.

Moving, redemptive and powerfully soulful, Big Inner is a timeless record told in seven songs that mingle memory with the rawness of any given human moment. The references — from the lyrics that echo the common conditions of love, death, seeking, and finding, to open tributes to artists like Washington Phillips, Allen Toussaint, Jorge Ben, Jimmy Cliff, and Randy Newman — are their own scavenger hunt through music history and through White’s place in it.

Pitchfork have today premiered the video for Big Inner track "Will You Love Me." The panoramic promo, directed by Daniel Portrait, juxtaposes the scenic hills of Durham, North Carolina with the emotionally poignant song. Watch it now:

A gifted jazz arranger and exceptional guitarist, White's vision for Big Inner was realised with the help of bassist Cameron Ralston and drummer Pinson Chanselle,who make up the core of his Spacebomb House Band and then embellished with horns, strings, and a choir - all culled from and roused by the venerable landscape of Richmond, Virginia and recorded in the attic of White's house in the city.

To celebrate the release of 'Big Inner', White and the Spacebomb House Band will be performing in the United Kingdom for the first time in January 2013, playing the following intimate dates:

•    Tuesday 22^nd January – The Hope, Brighton
•    Wednesday 23^rd January – The Lexington, London

Big Inner will be released on Domino on 21 January. If you're hungry for more Matthew E. White, then you can listen to (and download!) album highlight "Big Love" now:

"Goddess Eyes" is the first single from Julia Holter to be released by Domino on the 10th of December 2012 and will be available on 12" heavyweight vinyl and digitally. The single will feature "Goddess Eyes I" and "Goddess Eyes II", both taken from Ekstasis, the essential second album by Julia Holter which Domino is re-issuing the previous week, December 3rd. Included on the 12" and digital release is a new rendition of "Goddess Eyes" plus a new studio recording of "Betsy On the Roof", both performed with musicians Christopher Votek and Corey Fogel. The tracks were recorded by Votek at his Echo Manor studio in Los Angeles last month.

Pre-order the 12" HERE.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. GODDESS EYES 1
2. GODDESS EYES 2
3. GODDESS EYES (ECHO MANOR VERSION)
4. BETSY ON THE ROOF (ECHO MANOR VERSION)

The accompanying video was directed by Yelena Zhelezov, watch it now:

'The video for Julia Holter's "Goddess Eyes II" is inspired by the Latin phrase "deus ex machina". In literature, deus ex machina is a plot device for seemingly unresolvable dramaturgical situations. The unexpected and dramatic measure was employed by many Greek tragedians. It is in tribute to Euripides and the literary spirit of the song that the video was directed.' - Yelena Zhelezov, November 2012

Since being released to phenomenal acclaim in North America earlier this year, the re-issue of Ekstasis represents the first wide release of what is easily one of the most important, original and talked about albums to emerge from the American underground this decade.
The most fully-realised glimpse of Holter's steadily-developing, beautifully singular vision so far, Ekstasis follows on from the playful searching nature of 2007's home-recorded Eating The Stars EP and 2011's underground masterpiece Tragedy.

Ekstasis will be available on CD, vinyl and digitally. You can pre-order Ekstasis HERE.

Big London-based performance news for fans of the unparalleled Wild Beasts. The band will be playing an intimate show at the Lexington in Islington on Friday 7th December. As a warm-up for their headline ATP performance at Camber Sands the following night, the band will be playing their most recent, much acclaimed album, Smother, in its entirety.

As tickets for this one-off event are extremely limited, Wild Beasts are offering all their fans an equal chance to purchase them by applying here. Randomly selected winners will be given the opportunity to purchase tickets after the process closes on Monday 3rd of December at 9am.

Here's the video for "Bed of Nails" from that record to get you in the mood, and good luck!

We are excited to announce that Dan Deacon is returning to the UK and Ireland for unmissable live dates throughout February 2013, with a show at London's Village Underground on 13th February. Anyone who has seen his live show can attest to their unique interactivity, musicality and sheer celebratory nature. But if you haven't seen him before, be guided by the words of those who have:

'Whatever else he is - one-off musical alchemist, jocund beard-wearer - Baltimore's Dan Deacon is a genius of performance art. His shows are quite unlike anything else you've ever been to.' – The Independent 4* live review

'Tonight, the colourful side of humankind shines through.' – NME live review

Those full UK and Irish dates are as follows:

• Friday 8th February: Bristol - The Fleece
• Saturday 9th February: Dublin, Ireland - Whelans 
• Sunday 10th February: Belfast - The Black Box
• Monday 11th February: Glasgow - Stereo
• Tuesday 12th February: Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
• Wednesday 13th February: London - Village Underground

Dan Deacon's album, America, is out now. And here's the video for True Thrush - well worth seeing again:

This truly is what football is all about.

We are very excited to share with you Hot Chip's new video for the band's latest single, "Don't Deny Your Heart", which is released today. The band have continued their creative relationship with comedy titan Peter Serafinowicz, who previously directed videos for singles "I Feel Better" and "Night and Day".

"Don't Deny Your Heart" is taken from Hot Chip's much acclaimed In Our Heads album (currently featuring in many end of year polls) and is available today to purchase digitally HERE and on 12" HERE. The 12" features a remix of the track from Justus Köhncke b/w a JD Twitch Optimo remix of "Flutes". You can watch the quite genuinely incredible video here, now:

An Expanded Edition of In Our Heads featuring demos, rare studio tracks as well as exclusive, previously unreleased remixes from Optimo, Daphni, Charlie Fracture and Major Lazer is also available now. To purchase it, click HERE.

Hot Chip have announced a return to the U.S. after an acclaimed tour including a headline show at the Hollywood Bowl to headline the prestigious Roseland Ballroom in New York on 9th April. Tickets go on sale on Friday 30th November at 10am EST.

In the meantime the In Our Heads tour continues around the Caribbean in December aboard the SS Coachella before heading to Australia for the Falls and Field Day festivals in the new year. For all dates please visit the band's website.

We are extremely pleased to announce that the mighty Clinic will be performing four live dates in the UK next Spring, including a London show at Corsica Studios on 7th March 2013. This is the first tour since the release of their seventh album, Free Reign, available now on CD, LP, digitally and as a glowing UFO frisbee. Full dates with ticket links are as follows:

• 28^th February - Newcastle, The Cluny 
• 1^st March - Glasgow, Stereo 
• 2^nd March - Manchester, Deaf Institute 
• 7^th March - London, Corsica Studios 

Produced by the band themselves in their hometown of Liverpool and mixed with the assistance of Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Free Reign is an extremely apt title for a particularly bold and assured new transmission from planet Clinic. Lead single "Miss You" is available on 7” now, backed with the track "Lucky 7". (You can purchase it HERE). The accompanying video was directed by The 3 Sisters (Andy Knowles, Josh McCartney & James Hicks).

"Miss You" has also been remixed by Daniele Baldelli & DJ Rocca (listen HERE) and by Peaking Lights, which you can listen to right now, below:

After receiving the warmest of welcomes at his excellent homecoming show at the 100 Club last week, Eugene McGuinness has unveiled the video for his new single ‘Sugarplum’, which is released on December 10^th.

Maintaining his trademark left-of-centre lyricism, ‘Sugarplum’ is both honest and overtly romantic. Shot on a rooftop with the City of London as it's harsh but glittering backdrop, the video is simplistic and stylish, reflecting the track’s sharper characteristics.

Watch the video for ‘Sugarplum’ below.

In anticipation of their forthcoming holiday single Christmas Eve Can Kill You, old friends and collaborators Dawn McCarthy and Will Oldham present you with a gift: a video shot by Lara Miranda during the track's Nashville recording sessions produced by David Ferguson at Butcher Shop Studio, as well as footage depicting the spirit of the project from McCreary County, KY.

This is definitely not what one expects to see in a holiday music video - there's no snow, no presents, no sacrificial goose or other consumable indulgences just the elements at the core of why people celebrate holidays to begin with - friendship, collaboration, warmth, rejuvenation and joy.

Christmas Eve Can Kill You also offers a foreshadowing glimpse at Oldham and McCarthy’s forthcoming full-length record of songs they learned from Everly Brothers records; a project inspired by the songstress’ young daughters' love of the rhythm and blues duo. Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy- Christmas Eve Can Kill You b/w Lovey Kravezit 7” comes out on the 19th of November 2012 on Domino.  Pre-order the single here.

Following their exhilarating sold out performance at London's Roundhouse, which featured a stunning must-see stage production, Animal Collective are streaming a new track, a live favourite entitled "Crimson".

Crimson is the B-side to forthcoming single, "Applesauce", the second single from their kinetic recent album Centipede Hz. The single will be available on 10 inch vinyl and digitally on November 12^th. Pre-order the 10 inch today on the Domino webstore HERE.

You can listen to "Crimson" now, here:

The band are playing Vicar Street in Dublin tonight, the ABC1 in Glasgow tomorrow night and The Warehouse Project in Manchester this Thursday 8th November. For full dates and more info check out the band's site.

We were awfully saddened at the weekend to learn that Doogie Paul had passed away. Doogie played the stand up bass with James Yorkston for many years, a fine musician and a great character. James has written some moving words for his pal Doogie, which we share with you below - Laurence Bell

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A sad weekend. My good friend Doogie Paul died of cancer early on Saturday morning. Doogie had played double bass with me since 2001 and we'd toured all over together, playing hundreds of shows and recording five albums and numerous other things. He'd been first diagnosed a couple of years ago, but had appeared to have responded well to the treatment, to such an extent that he was well enough to play the Moving Up Country 10th Anniversary shows earlier this year. However, he relapsed at some point and this was discovered just a few weeks ago. He went down hill very quickly towards the end of last week.

His playing was spot on, instinctive and passionate. Onstage I could always rely on him to follow me down which ever path I took the songs, going off the rails spectacularly if needs be, or sitting back and playing beautifully softly, singing along with that crazy almost falsetto voice of his. I remember his harmonies in 'Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk' crossed the line between the major and the minor and sounded downright odd, but they also worked somehow, suggesting all sorts of different emotions. And he could speak abstract too - or pretended to, which helped me a great deal. So, if I said - I want a song to sound like an angry bear who's just dropped his chainsaw onto his foot, Doog would give it a go, without raising an eyebrow - at least not whilst I was in the room. And as a musician, you need people like that, people who'll trust you and go with your daft whims. It's a hugely valuable trait.

I have so many memories of Doogie from all over the world. Daft fairground ride adventures him and Reuben Taylor got up to in Sweden, or ridiculous arguments about Napoleon enroute to Cardiff (!) Or just drinking and laughing with him for weeks on end in Berties. Until he got barred of course, for his, ahem, creative stocktaking.

I was lucky enough to be in touch with Doogie a lot throughout these last two years. He always had a very straightforward view of things, which could be a very handy asset - cutting through the nonsense to whatever was really important. He was very forgiving towards people who'd hurt him a great deal, just keen to repair the friendships he valued. In these final two weeks, I managed to get through to Edinburgh and see him a few times and he was almost the same old Doogie, except a heck of a lot thinner - thinner even than where his initial chemo treatment had put him. However when I saw him for the final time on Friday afternoon, his health and appearance had deteriorated a great deal. It was incredibly upsetting and took me a good few goes before I could open my mouth to say any more than "Hi Doog". He responded though, briefly, so he knew I was there, which meant a lot to me. Later on, Faisal and Reuben arrived and there we were, the four of us together for the last time.

This is going to take a long while to sink in. When I was asked to help with his wake, my first thought was, "Well, I'll ask Doogie to help" before I realised that, obviously I couldn't do that anymore. I won't pretend he was perfect, as no-one is, but he was a real individual, taking his own path and I'll miss him a great great deal.

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You can pay your own condolences at the public facebook group remembering Doogie here.

Wonderful news for Clinic fans! To celebrate the upcoming release of their excellent seventh album Free Reign (out on 12^th November), the band are playing a very special gig on Saturday 10^th November in their home town of Liverpool. It is at the Static Factory, with doors opening at 8pm, with tickets available on the door only and a strictly-limited capacity of 200. The performance itself begins at 9pm, alongside an art installation co-created by the band. Full details can be read below on this flyer:

If you're unable to make it, you too can experience Free Reign early with a stream of the record just at the bottom of this news story. And don't forget that it's available for pre-order in not just the usual CD, digital and LP formats, but also as an exclusive UFO-like glow-in-the-dark Clinic frisbee that comes with a digital download. PRE-ORDER ALL FORMATS HERE. And now, listen to Free Reign itself:

On December 3^rd, Domino will reissue Ekstasis, the second album by Julia Holter. The release, the artist's first for the label, will also mark the first time the collection of songs has been widely available in the UK since being released to phenomenal critical acclaim in North America earlier this year.

The most fully-realised glimpse of Holter's steadily-developing, beautifully singular vision so far, Ekstasis follows on from the playful searching nature of 2007's home-recorded Eating The Stars EP and 2011's underground masterpiece Tragedy.

Ekstasis is an album that reflects both the conventions of Holter's extensive classical training and natural pop flair - as carefully considered from a compositional perspective as it is immediately affecting. Belonging on the same experimental pop spectrum as artists such as Arthur Russell and Laurie Anderson but nevertheless standing alone in its thrilling vision, it is a record that seeks to transcribe all of the beautiful, sweet mysteries of life.

Ekstasis will be available on CD, vinyl and digitally. You can listen to the stunning track "Goddess Eyes II", which will be released on December 10^th here:

PRE-ORDER EKSTASIS HERE. Track-listing is as follows:

1. Marienbad
2. Our Sorrows
3. In The Same Room
4. Boy In The Moon
5. Fur Felix
6. Goddess Eyes II
7. Moni Mon Ami
8. Four Gardens
9. Goddess Eyes I
10. This Is Ekstasis

The follow up to Ekstasis will be released by Domino in 2013.

Eugene McGuinness will release new single 'Sugarplum' on December 10^th following a string of UK dates which will include a show at London's much-loved 100 Club on November 14^th. Taken from the album The Invitation to the Voyage which is out now, 'Sugarplum' is an ode to the spontaneity of youth and those moments of happiness and freedom that come far too infrequently. Maintaining McGuinness' trademark left-of-centre lyricism, 'Sugarplum' is both honest and overtly romantic. Darker and sharper with an electro-pop centre, the track bursts into a shimmering chorus securing its place as one of the album's highlights. Listen here:

Eugene also performed 'Sugarplum' on the first episode of Gordon Smart's music show This Feeling, which can currently be watched here.

Eugene McGuinness will also be playing four dates around the UK next week following an incredible reception in France which included performances on popular music shows Taratata (watch HERE) and Album De La Semaine.

Full Eugene McGuinness tour dates are as follows:

• 11th November – Academy 2, Liverpool
• 12th November – The Leadmill, Sheffield
• 13th November – Exchange, Bristol
• 14th November – 100 Club, London

There is good news today for fans of beautiful Canadian pop being performed in front of them, as the wonderful Austra have been invited to perform as special guests to Gossip on their forthcoming European tour next month. There are dates in France, Germany and Denmark, while Austra will also stop over in London for a one off party at The Victorian Vaults in Shoreditch on Saturday 24th November. Details are as follows:

Saturday November 24th 2012
Sulk in association with All Tomorrow's Parties Present Austra and friends

Victorian Vaults
Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3JF
Doors 8pm

Tickets are available from We Got Tickets and TicketWeb.

Live dates with Gossip are as follows:

• 4th Nov: Bordeaux, France - Patinoire 
• 6th Nov: Paris, France - Zenith 
• 7th Nov: Paris, France - Zenith 
• 8th Nov: Lille, France - Zenith 
• 10th Nov: Rennes, France - le Liberté 
• 12th Nov: Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
• 13th Nov: Dusseldorf, Germany - Mitsubishi Electric Halle
• 15th Nov: København, Denmark - Vega
• 16th Nov: Hamburg, Germany - Sporthalle
• 18th Nov: Berlin, Germany - Velodrom
• 19th Nov: München, Germany - Zenith 
• 20th Nov: Leipzig, Germany - Arena Leipzig

Listen to the band’s jaw dropping cover of the Roy Orbison classic "Crying", taken from the Deluxe Version of their debut album, Feel It Break:

Villagers are previewing 'Passing a Message', a track from their forthcoming album, {Awayland}, with an accompanying lyric-based video directed by Billy Pilgrim. You can watch it now, just down the page, and it's available for purchase from iTunes now HERE.

{Awayland} is the much anticipated follow-up to Villagers' Mercury Award-nominated and Ivor Novello-winning debut, Becoming a Jackal. Released on 14th January 2013, {Awayland} can be pre-ordered HERE.

Villagers are currently on a UK and European tour with Grizzly Bear, and played a one-off headline show at the Borderline in London last week which earned them a 5* live review in the Independent – "as tonight progresses, it is clear that {Awayland} will be a very special album indeed".

And here's that video for 'Passing a Message':

The band play two headline shows in Ireland next month (including a sold-out show in Dublin) and will be back to the UK for a headline tour next February. Full dates with ticket links are as follows:

• Sun 11th Nov BELFAST, N. IRE Black Box
• Tue 13th Nov DUBLIN, IRE Whelans (sold out)
• Fri 8th Feb SHEFFIELD Leadmill
• Sat 9th Feb NEWCASTLE Warehouse
• Sun 10th Feb GLASGOW Stereo
• Tue 12th Feb LEEDS Wardrobe
• Wed 13th Feb MANCHESTER Gorilla
• Thu 14th Feb BIRMINGHAM HMV Library
• Sat 16th Feb BRISTOL Trinity
• Sun 17th Feb BRIGHTON Old Market
• Mon 18th Feb PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
• Wed 20th Feb LONDON Village Underground
• Thu 21st Mar DUBLIN, IRE Olympia Theatre

On February 4^th 2013, Ribbon Music is set to release We the Common, the third full-length album from critically acclaimed artist Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. You can listen to 'Holy Roller' - the first track to be taken from the album below. 'Holy Roller' will be released on December 10th.

Frontwoman Thao Nguyen notes that the track "was the first song I wrote for this new record…it marked a shift in how I operate. I was steadily, in an overdue way, becoming grateful for everything and everyone I had. I tried to capture a sense of revival and a determination to be better."

Listen to 'Holy Roller' here: 

Recorded at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studios and Dallas' Elmwood Studio, We the Common was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky) and features a duet with Joanna Newsom on the track 'Kindness Be Conceived.'

Thao observes, "'We the Common' is an album about wanting to be a human who tries and is grateful for the opportunity. It is about wanting to be better and closer to people. I have had over a year respite from touring and recording—in this year I started really trying to be a part of the community I live in and the family I was born into."

The album is the follow-up to Thao's 2009 release Know Better Learn Faster, which Pitchfork praised for its "warm exuberance that keeps the music spry" while US magazine SPIN noted that Thao's "lazily smoky voice has its bitterly harsh moments, but her coolly analytical self-awareness stings the most."

Based in San Francisco after growing up in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at age 12. She has worked with a long list of acclaimed artists including Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Veirs and producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens) and has recorded a pair of critically acclaimed records for Kill Rock Stars: 2008's We Brave Bee Stings and All and the aforementioned Know Better Learn Faster with her backing band The Get Down Stay Down.

Since her last album Thao has worked with the artist advocacy non-profit Air Traffic Control and has volunteered extensively with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.

WE THE COMMON TRACKLIST

1. We the Common (for Valerie Bolden)
2. City
3. We Don't Call
4. The Feeling Kind
5. The Holy Roller
6. Kindness be Conceived
7. The Day Long
8. Every Body
9. Move
10. Clouds for Brains
11. Human Heart
12. Age of Ice

In the lead-up to the release of Motion Sickness on December 3rd, Domino will put out a three-part 12" vinyl series with each record featuring two highlights from the remix compilation. These releases will be staggered throughout November and December, the first of which is to be released on November 19th.

Bringing together some of the most respected names in dance music with the key players in the Domino roster; the compilation celebrates the sprawling spectrum of dance and electronic music. Many of the original pressings are now very rare or long since deleted, and the first instalment will see Mike Simonetti's remix of Blood Orange's 'Champagne Coast' made available to buy physically for the first time.

Other tracks featuring in the vinyl series include the Grammy Award-nominated Carl Craig remix of Junior Boys' 'Like a Child', the fluid funk of DFA's remix of Clinic's 'Tomorrow' and Joy Orbison's beautifully twisted and intricate take on 'Love Cry' by Four Tet.

Check out two interactive videos introducing you to the tracks on the Motion Sickness compilation here:

The vinyl series will be released as follows:

November 19th
1. Junior Boys – Like A Child (Carl Craig remix)
2. Blood Orange – Champagne Coast (Mike Simonetti remix)

December 3rd
1. Four Tet – Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix)
2. Austra – Beat & The Pulse (Still Going remix)

December 10th
1. Clinic – Tomorrow (DFA Remix)
2. Stephen Malkmus – Kindling For The Master (Major Swellings remix)

Motion Sickness will be available on CD and digitally. It is availble to pre-order here.

To celebrate the release of their new album {Awayland} (which you can pre-order HERE), released on Monday the 14th of January, Villagers will be returning to the UK for headlining shows in February 2013. Tickets for the February shows will be available for pre-sale via the band's website from Wednesday 24th October and for general sale from Friday 26th October.

Also, "The Waves" (the first single from {Awayland}) is released today. You can buy it on 7" or digitally HERE and watch its Alden Volney directed at the bottom of this news story.

Dates are as follows:

• Fri 8^_th Feb SHEFFIELD Leadmill
• Sat 9^th Feb NEWCASTLE Warehouse
• Sun 10^th Feb GLASGOW Stereo
• Tue 12^th Feb LEEDS Wardrobe
• Wed 13^th Feb MANCHESTER Gorilla
• Thu 14^th Feb BIRMINGHAM HMV Library
• Sat 16^th Feb BRISTOL Trinity
• Sun 17^th Feb BRIGHTON Old Market
• Mon 18^th Feb PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
• Wed 20^th Feb LONDON Village Underground

The band, currently accompanying Grizzly Bear on dates in the UK and Europe, also play the following shows in London this week:

• Mon 22^nd Oct LONDON Brixton Academy (supporting Grizzly Bear)
• Tue 23^rd Oct LONDON Borderline (headline show)

An Alexis Taylor round-up for you all! While most people presented with a few days off between Hot Chip's UK and European tours might lie in bed with the curtains closed trying to build up the energy to order a pizza, he clearly places himself in the "devil makes work for idle hands" camp.

First up, he continues his semi-residency at the wonderful Servant Jazz Quarters in Dalston (10a Bradbury Street, London E8) on Tuesday October 23rd. He will be playing new solo material. Headlining on the night will be Charles Hayward’s group Monkey Puzzle Trio and there is a rare DJ set from Nick Forgacs.

Secondly, Alexis’ cover of Berlin based producer/songwriter Dan Bodan’s track 'Under A Cancer Sky' is available now on a 7" on DFA. Have a listen here:

Finally, Alexis will be talking all things Prince at the Rough Trade shop on Monday October 22nd (at 7pm) with author Matt Thorne. Thorne’s forthcoming book – Prince – is exhaustive and brilliant and out through Faber later this month. Alexis describes the book as "the definitive work on the man; I am listening again to every piece of his music with renewed enthusiasm. Prince’s music has always deserved a book like this – his own Revolution in the Head." More details on the event can be found here.

And nothing definitive yet, but if you watch this space we'll have news soon of some brand new Alexis Taylor solo material hopefully ready to release for christmas.

Wonderful news, everyone. The mighty King Creosote is releasing a new EP entitled It Turned Out For The Best on the 3rd of December. It's the final of a series of three EPs, preceded by I Learned From The Gaels and To Deal With Things. You can pre-order it here, and sample the delights of one of the new tracks "On the Night of the Bonfire", while reading KC's own typically eloquent words below:

And then there were three.

It is, of course, the magic number. And not just because of the Third Swan or Three Craws or Three Degrees or De La Soul. Not just because Kilrenny Church struck three for three o’clock; or because that song alone will tear apart your heart’s three walls.

Three is our number of primary colours, three is the primary odd prime number and there is no more beautiful music than that which is derived from the primes. The ear contains three arch canals; we see the world in three dimensions; earth is the third planet in our solar system and the Roman numeral III means GIANT STAR in the Yerkes spectral scheme – with which we are all no doubt closely acquainted – and hopefully you get my point. There are three musical notes in a triad, King Creosote is a three-chord wonder, and this is the third in a three-part series of revolutionary vinyl-only EPs.

So come in and get cosy. Here’s a red wine and coke. The fire’s on. We’re on a home run now.

On the Night of the Bonfire.

The (un)holy triumvirate of mermaids, cherries and astrophysics notwithstanding, King Creosote has three favourite things. They are geography, puzzles and marking time. Often, his songs embrace them all – take the backward-acronymic clues of ‘No Way She Exists’ from 2008’s They Flock Like Vulcans: a song which appraised the ladies and lay of our land, as guided by time and a cardinal compass. Did its True North point to the ‘Near Star, Pole Star’ that’s referenced on I Learned from the Gaels? (And this ballad too, of course, is a riddle, unravelled round HMS Ginafore’s ‘Ounces’) Rest assured KC will never squeal.

He marked time in decades on ‘Doubles Underneath’ and in knots on ‘Ankle Shackles’ and on this EP he does so via ceremonies – Leap Year’s Days and Bonfire Nights – with veiled intimations to birth, death and marriage on the side.

We don’t hear much rapping in the King Creosote canon, but there’s an ace stream-of-consciousness diatribe on this pyrotechnic choral-rock ode to bonfires, bad jokes and insolence. It’s huddled amidst some of the hottest math-rock shapes this side of the Firth of Forth. MC KC rules OK.

I Am Cellist

Even a nimble-fingered squeezebox lothario has his foibles. Our consummate accordionist concedes a rare bum note with a hushed expletive on this kaleidoscopic lament to inadequacy and erogenous zones. In one of his sauciest acts of wordplay yet, KC becomes so consumed by his lack of competence viz a thigh-bound organ that the words ‘jealous’ and ‘cellist’ become as one. If Kenny Anderson ever starts wielding a cello, we’ll know what he really means.

February 29

Somebody once said that Prince used falsetto as a ‘sexual mask’. Anderson, as we have just discovered, exploits orchestral instruments for his carnal analogies and reserves falsetto, on occasion, for the things that he does not want you to hear. So listen. Listen closer.

Closer.

‘That might well be it, darling…’

Going Gone

The King Clone Creosote Bush continues to mesmerise all those who encounter it. Now almost twelve million years old, its worldwide admirers are drawn to its unkempt, mysterious charms and ring-fenced, bushy superstructure. In May 2012, a dude called Harold DeLisle PhD observed that ‘Large amounts of Creosote can result in liver damage.’

The fervent attendees of Homegame, Away Game, Hott Loggz, Haar Fest, Bunfight at the OK Karail and any number of other heavenly Fence Collective brouhahas will no doubt be nodding, red-eyed and limp-kidneyed at said doctor’s assertion. And perhaps there is no more quintessential Fence drinking song than Gummi Bako’s ‘Going Gone’, which has been covered and embellished by all the Fife beefcakes (PT, KC, MC Quake and more) and which traces The Fence Collective’s roots, through campfire broadcasts, Sticky Wickets and Picket Fences, back to FNC001, to 1998 (and earlier), to King Creosote’s debut, Queen of Brush County.

Gummi Bako reclaims centre-stage for this gorgeous re-vamped variation, as Anderson cheers his way back through these EPs, Fence’s history and his own past, and then propels everything forward again – pouring his heart out, crying his eyes out, shouting us down as the industry crumbles. We’re now in an age when a song costs less than a pint of milk, and an album costs less than a pint of lager: no wonder KC’s tears were preoccupied with such fluids when he composed these masterworks.

But this is the sound of a man having a ball. These three vinyl EPs constitute the liveliest, most upbeat record KC has made in years, and the latest in a brilliant line of endeavours designed to make us (re)connect with value of music; to treasure the physical format. Witness also his wonderful live-only Nth Bit of Strange album, whose title is echoed in ‘Ankle Shackles’, and if that song is in any way about being haunted by things we cannot touch, then it also says: we all need something to hold on to. Consider also Fence’s vinyl-only Chart Ruse series and KC’s super-rare Squeezebox sets. Sweet drumroll for those embittered big ideas.

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There was a programme on telly the other night. It was about the Lighthouse Stevensons. There were three generations of them, fusing nature with science, juggling art with commerce, creating beacons on the Scottish coast and enlightening the East Neuk of Fife.

You can see the Isle of May lighthouse from King Creosote’s garden. Past the pot of Earl Grey, the plates on the walls, the outhouse full of gramophones; past the vegetable patch, and the washing line, and the dry-stane dyke, and there it is. Turning in to the shore, and out for the best, and in again, and out again. It reflects on the sea and the sky and the stars. Helps us fathom our bearings; navigate the rocks. It lights up the dark times and safeguards our hearts. We would be lost without it.

It Turned Out For The Best EP will be released by Domino on 3rd December 2012 and will be available on 12” vinyl and digitally. The tracklisting is as follows:

A)
On The Night of the Bonfire
I Am Cellist

B)
February 29th
Going Gone

Ducktails, the increasingly less "solo" endeavour of Real Estate's Matt Mondanile, is set to release The Flower Lane, which is the project's fourth album and his first for Domino. Recorded and mixed over the summer of 2012 with Al Carlson (Peaking Lights, Oneohtrix Point Never), as Mondanile's hectic schedule as a concurrent member of Real Estate began to wind down after a year in support of their Domino debut album, Days, the ten track album will hit the streets on January 28th to be preceded by the single release of effervescent pop gem, ‘Letter of Intent’.

You can hear the title track, 'The Flower Lane' right now:

Taking a tangential turn away from solo home-recording of past releases toward the more collaborative environment of the studio, Ducktails' Matt Mondanile roped in close friends and colleagues to make something more adventurous yet easy-going. The ten songs on The Flower Lane move across a range of expressive pop songs that are bright and expansive, but venture even further with forays into saxophone leads, synth lines and piano accompaniment that would have been at home on the early records of sophisticated guitar pop icons such as Aztec Camera and Prefab Sprout.

With brooding seducers ‘Under Cover’, ‘The Flower Lane’ and ‘Sedan Magic’ along with a stunning cover of founding Clean/Chills member Peter Gutteridge's ‘Planet Phrom’, the ambient pop of The Flower Lane is, from start to finish, as spirited as the time these folks had recording it. Support came in many forms, from the backing of the New Jersey band Big Troubles to contributions from Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Joel Ford (Ford + Lopatin), Madeline Follin (Cults) and Sam Mehran (Outer Limitz), to name a few, The Flower Lane defies the cliché of "embracing the big studio" by successfully making the songs feel immediate on an emotional level after they've passed through the dozen other wizardly minds of the studio collaboration while still conveying the fun they had working together.

One of the standouts on The Flower Lane is the duet between Future Shuttle's Jessa Farkas and Big Trouble's Ian Drennan on ‘Letter of Intent’. As with Felt's ‘Primitive Painters’, where the contrasting voices of Lawrence Hayward and Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser exchange pained verses or with Tom Petty's seductively plodding collaboration with former Eurythmic Dave Stewart on his synth-driven hit ‘Don't Come Around Here No More’, ‘Letter Of Intent’ is proof of the expanding range of Ducktails' song craft.

Welcome to The Flower Lane:

1. Ivy Covered House
2. The Flower Lane 
3. Under Cover
4. Timothy Shy 
5. Planet Phrom 
6. Assistant Director 
7. Sedan Magic 
8. International Date Line 
9. Letter Of Intent 
10. Academy Avenue

What better way to spread holiday cheer and celebrate the season than with the comingling voices of friends? This year, old friends and collaborators Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (previously heard together on BPB's beautifully wistful 2006 record The Letting Go) present you with a Christmas gift; this new holiday single comprised of two songs from the Everly Brothers' catalog, "Christmas Eve Can Kill You" and "Lovey Kravezit". It will be released on 7" on the 19th of November.

From the Seeger Sisters to Elvis, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard; there is a remarkably strong musical tradition of fa-la-la-la-la-ing from country and folk musicians. The two songs on the single also offer a foreshadowing glimpse at Bonny and McCarthy’s forthcoming full length record of Everly Brothers songs; a project that was inspired by the songstress’ young daughters love of the rhythm and blues duo. In true Everly style, both the single and the LP celebrate and showcase harmony as a medium which is eminently worthy of attention (and even adulation).

Bonnie’s career, which spans over a decade and a half of inspired creative practice; this single marks his first holiday release. Given the depth and dynamism of Bonny and Dawn’s natural harmonic ability, the single is sure to awaken the inner holiday spirit (and beasts) like no other record this season.

"Christmas Eve Can Kill You" and "Lovey Kravezit" were recorded in Nashville and is a collective effort by:

Dawn McCarthy, Bonny Billy, Emmett Kelly, Dave Roe, Kenny Malone, Joey Miskalin, Ian McAllister, John Barron (JB), Nils Frykdahl, Noah Taggart, Dr. Chris Vivio & Peter Townsend. Recorded by David Ferguson and Mastered by Paul Oldham.

Pre-order the 7" now by clicking here.

Join the legendary John Cale for an evening dedicated to a discussion of his long and unparalleled career. Since first finding notoriety as the Velvet Underground’s sonic architect to producing and performing with Iggy Pop, The Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, Brian Eno & The Happy Mondays, he has also maintained one of the most prolific and celebrated solo careers in rock music, continuing with his upcoming record Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood, released just last week. Cale’s personal history is for many the physical embodiment of rock music’s own 20th century odyssey.

Joining the conversation (taking place on October 29th) will be pioneering producer Matthew Herbert, acclaimed author Richard King, and host Emma Warren (The Guardian, Red Bull Music Academy). John will also be taking questions from the audience during the 90-minute session, so here’s your chance to hear it like it was direct from the source.

For all those who can't attend, the session will be filmed and available for streaming after the event on the Red Bull music academy's site. A livestream of the event is also set to take place, details of which will be revealed closer to the event date.

Watch John Cale live on BBC 2’s Later With Jools on Tuesday 9th of Oct at 22:00 & Friday 12th at 23:00

And for instant video satisfaction, here's the promo for John Cale's latest single "Face to the Sky":

With way more than a mere array of classic remixes under its belt, Domino is proud to release Motion Sickness – a collection of some of the finest the label has to offer – on December 3rd. A full track list can be found below.

Taking the name from the opening track of Hot Chip’s current album In Our Heads, Motion Sickness brings together the most respected names in dance music with some of the key players in the Domino family.

Whether it’s Joy Orbison’s coldly detached slicing of Four Tet, Justice’s violent and abrasive detonation of Franz Ferdinand or Jon Hopkins’ heart-breaking reworking of a spoken-word James Yorkston composition, this record makes a mockery of the concept of “highlights”, being as consistently excellent as it is stylistically diverse. Motion Sickness will work throughout the night and into the morning and will be available digitally and on CD.

Listen to the Grammy-nominated Carl Craig remix of Junior Boys’ "Like a Child" now.

Also featuring suitably kinetic artwork from Liquid Liquid’s Dennis Young, Motion Sickness is guaranteed to get your walls shaking. PRE ORDER HERE.

The track listing is as follows:

Disc 1

1. Austra – Beat & The Pulse (Still Going remix)
2. Tricky – Time To Dance (Maya Jane Coles remix)
3. Junior Boys – Like A Child (Carl Craig remix)
4. Juana Molina – Un Dia (Reboot remix)
5. About Group – You’re No Good (Theo Parrish remix)
6. Four Tet – Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix)
7. Liquid Liquid – Optimo (Matthew Dear remix)
8. Hot Chip – Night & Day (Daphni remix)
9. Stephen Malkmus – Kindling For The Master (Major Swellings remix)

Disc 2

1. Sons & Daughters – Orion (Emperor Machine remix)
2. Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen (Ruined by Justice)
3. The Kills – Cheap & Cheerful (SebastiAn remix)
4. Bonde Do Rolê – Marina Gasolina (Fake Blood remix)
5. Test Icicles – What’s Your Damage? (Alan Brax Fred Falke remix)
6. Clinic – Tomorrow (DFA Remix)
7. Blood Orange – Champagne Coast (Mike Simonetti remix)
8. Animal Collective – Summertimes Clothes (Dam Funk remix)
9. James Yorkston & Athletes – Woozy With Cider (Jon Hopkins remix)
10. Twin Sister – Kimmie In A Rice Field (Balam Acab remix)
11. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (ii) (Oneohtrix Point Never remix)

Hopefully you were lucky enough to see Dan Deacon at one of his three recent UK dates. If so, you will no doubt have fond memories of synchronised dance-offs, movement competitions and above all, the incredible sounds that Dan and his band conjured up out of the ether. If not, then sorry for bringing it up, but there is some good news - he's releasing another single from his all-conquering album America. The song "Crash Jam" is going to be available digitally from the 19th of November, though you can listen now right here:

Also, Dan was on Lauren Laverne's 6Music show recently to play a session. It's well worth checking out, and you can do so (approximately 2 hours and 8 minutes in) here.

All of us at Domino are super-excited to announce details of Villagers’ new album {Awayland}, which will be released on 14th January 2013. {Awayland} is the follow up to the Mercury-nominated and Ivor Novello Award winning debut, Becoming a Jackal. Engineered, produced and mixed at Attica Audio in Donegal by Conor J. O’Brien and Villagers’ guitarist Tommy McLaughlin, the album will be released on CD, LP and digitally.

There will also be a special limited 10” x 10” fabric cover hardback book with silver foil print, containing the album on CD with an exclusive DVD featuring five intimate live performances by Villagers recorded in Ireland ; these will be signed and only available through Dom Mart. To pre-order the album in any format, click here.

There is a trailer for the album, which you can watch right now:

Here's the tracklisting

1. My Lighthouse
2. Earthly Pleasure
3. The Waves
4. Judgement Call
5. Nothing Arrived
6. The Bell
7. {Awayland}
8. Passing a Message
9. Grateful Song
10. In a Newfound Land You Are Free
11. Rhythm Composer

Villagers will be playing new songs from {Awayland} throughout October and November as follows:-

OCTOBER

• Wed 17 - UK, Gateshead, The Sage Gateshead *
• Thu 18 - UK, Manchester, Academy *
• Sat 20 - UK, Glasgow, Barrowlands *
• Sun 21 - UK, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre *
• Mon 22 - UK, London, Brixton Academy *
• Tue 23 - UK, London, Borderline
• Fri 26 - Norway, Oslo, Rockefeller *
• Sat 27 - Sweden, Stockholm, Berns *
• Sun 28 - Denmark, Copenhagen, Falconer *
• Tue 30 - Germany, Hamburg, Uebel and Gefaehrlich *
• Wed 31 - Germany, Berlin, Astra *

  NOVEMBER

• Fri 2 - Germany, Koln, Essigfabrik *
• Sun 4 - Belgium, Brussels, Ancienne Belgique *
• Tues 6 - Netherlands, Amsterdam, Bitterzoet
• Wed 7 - France, Paris, Point FMR
• Sun 11 - N Ireland, Belfast, Black Box
• Tue 13 - Ireland, Dublin, Whelans

We are excited to announce that "Applesauce" is to be the second single from Animal Collective's kinetic new album Centipede Hz. The single, backed with non-album live favourite "Crimson", will be available on 10" vinyl and digitally on November 12th. Pre-order the 10" today on the Domino webstore HERE.

And here's a stream of the track itself:

The band kicked off their US tour in Seattle last week with a stunning must-see stage production and will be returning to the UK and Ireland for shows in November. For ticket information visit the band's site.

Animal Collective recently performed some US radio sessions including KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic where they performed a live version of Crimson, while on KEXP they performed special acoustic versions of Centipede Hz tracks 'Wide Eyed' and 'Pulleys', listen in full here. 

Lastly, Animal Collective themselves rolled out psychedelic live videos of "Father Time" and "Today's Supernatural" from their 2011 show at Celebrate Brooklyn! Prospect Park on their website.

Forthcoming UK and Irish dates are as follows:

• Sunday 4th November – London, Roundhouse
• Tuesday 6th November – Dublin, Vicar Street
• Wednesday 7th November – Glasgow, ABC1
• Thursday 8th November – Manchester, The Warehouse Project

Remember remember... On the 5th of November, Dirty Projectors will be following up their critically acclaimed new album Swing Lo Magellan with the "About To Die" EP, released on 12" vinyl and digital formats. The EP features Swing Lo Magellan standout single "About To Die" along with three brand new songs. Pre-order the EP HERE from the Domino web store, the first 50 people to order will receive a copy of the 12" signed by the band.

There is also an amazing cinematic video for the song. It features imagery from the band's epic film HI CUSTODIAN, which premiered last week at New York's prestigious Sunshine Cinema and on Pitchfork.tv x YouTube.

Here's that "About To Die" video:

In addition to continued touring this autumn in North America, UK and Europe, Dirty Projectors are set to perform a special show at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York on January 11th.

About To Die EP Tracklist

1. About To Die
2. While You're Here
3. Here Til It Says I'm Not
4. Simple Request

UK tour dates:

14th Oct: Manchester, UK – Manchester Gorilla
15th Oct: Glasgow, Scotland – The Arches
17th Oct: London, UK – The Roundhouse

Following Hot Chip’s recent triumphant headline sets at Bestival and at the Hollywood Bowl in LA, the band announce the release of an expanded edition of In Our Heads, available digitally and on double CD on November 19th. The expanded edition will feature the original, critically acclaimed, album augmented by a bonus disc of demos, rare studio tracks Jelly Babies and Doctor, as well as new and exclusive previously unreleased remixes from Optimo, Daphni and Major Lazer. The full tracklisting can be found below, and you can PRE ORDER THE EXPANDED EDITION HERE.

Listen to two Major Lazer remixes of "Look At Where We Are" now:

In other exciting Hot Chip news, the band will be throwing a one-off vinyl party at the Oxfam shop in Dalston, London on Thursday 27th September as part of the Oxjam Festival. The night will feature DJ sets from Hot Chip, The 2 Bears, Four Tet, Simian Mobile Disco and more guests to be announced. The band will be donating records from their collection as well as helping the shop out with some exclusive merchandising by creating "recommended by Hot Chip" racks of vinyl for fans to pick and choose from.

Now, here's that tracklisting for the expanded edition:

Disc 1

1. Motion Sickness
2. How Do You Do?
3. Don't Deny Your Heart
4. Look At Where We Are
5. These Chains
6. Night And Day
7. Flutes
8. Now There Is Nothing
9. Ends Of The Earth
10. Let Me Be Him
11. Always Been Your Love

Disc 2

1. Jelly Babies
2. Doctor 
3. Look At Where We Are (Major Lazer Digi Drums mix) 
4. Night and Day (Daphni mix) 
5. Flutes (Optimo remix) 
6. Night and Day (demo) 
7. Now There Is Nothing (demo) 
8. Babies (demo) 
9. How Do You Do (demo) 
10. Flutes (demo) 
11. Night and Day (Moretime remix) 
12. Let Me Be Him (Joe’s dub)

And you can catch the band live at one of these dates:

• SUN 7 OCT - FOLKSTONE, QUARTERHOUSE – Songkick show – SOLD OUT
• MON 8 OCT - NORWICH, UEA with Disclosure
• TUE 9 OCT - LEEDS, O2 ACADEMY with Disclosure
• THU 11 OCT - BIRMINGHAM, O2 ACADEMY with Disclosure
• FRI 12 OCT - GLASGOW, O2 ABC with Disclosure – SOLD OUT
• SAT 13 OCT - MANCHESTER, ACADEMY with Disclosure
• MON 15 OCT - BRISTOL, O2 ACADEMY with Django Django
• TUE 16 OCT - SOUTHAMPTON, GUILDHALL with Django Django
• THU 18 OCT - LONDON, O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY - SECOND DATE ADDED with Rustie
• FRI 19 OCT - LONDON, O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY with Django Django – SOLD OUT

Your chances to see Villagers play live have greatly increased! In addition to UK and European tour dates with Grizzly Bear, Villagers have announced details of some intimate headline shows, with a London date at the Borderline on 23rd October. Tickets are onsale for all dates now. Full dates with ticket links are below, with newly added headline shows in bold.

But just before we get to those dates, you've no doubt already heard the new Villagers single. A beautiful sweeping song which kickstarts into life with an electronic pulse and builds to a dramatic string laden climax, "The Waves" is available to purchase now through iTunes but we can announce that it will also be released on special limited edition 7” on 22nd October 2012. The 7” single, limited to an edition of 500 worldwide, comes on heavy weight vinyl in a deluxe fold out cruciform sleeve. The B-side is "Memoir", a song originally written by Conor O'Brien for Charlotte Gainsbourg, now recorded for the first time by Villagers. To pre-order the 7” click HERE.

And here are those tour dates:

OCTOBER

• Wed 17 - UK, Gateshead, The Sage Gateshead *
• Thu 18 - UK, Manchester, Academy *
• Sat 20 - UK, Glasgow, Barrowlands *
• Sun 21 - UK, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre *
• Mon 22 - UK, London, Brixton Academy *
• Tue 23 - UK, London, Borderline
• Fri 26 - Norway, Oslo, Rockefeller *
• Sat 27 - Sweden, Stockholm, Berns *
• Sun 28 - Denmark, Copenhagen, Falconer *
• Tue 30 - Germany, Hamburg, Uebel and Gefaehrlich *
• Wed 31 - Germany, Berlin, Astra *

NOVEMBER

• Fri 2 - Germany, Koln, Essigfabrik *
• Sun 4 - Belgium, Brussels, Ancienne Belgique *
• Tues 6 - Netherlands, Amsterdam, Bitterzoet 
• Wed 7 - France, Paris, Point FMR
• Sun 11 - N Ireland, Belfast, Black Box
• Tue 13 - Ireland, Dublin, Whelans

James Yorkston is releasing the next single from his recent album I Was a Cat from a Book. Released on the 29th of October, it is called "Just as Scared" and features the beautiful vocals of Jill Sullivan. His widely-acclaimed album is available now from Dom Mart in a very special limited edition boxset. Each box contains 2 x 10" gatefold with download, CD of the album, DVD of live show Union Chapel 2011 & a remix album by David 'A' Jaycock. Plus printed backgammon pieces to be played on the LP gatefold, 3x badges. Take a look at it here, and order it here!

James Yorkston is also embarking upon a tour in support of the record - check out the dates here:

Finally, watch a video of album track "Sometimes the Act of Giving Love" performed live at the Union Chapel, taken from the box set live DVD right now:

The Pastels are really excited to be part of Chickfactor's 20th anniversary celebrations and will be playing at Bush Hall on Saturday, November 17 with Aislers Set, Amor De Dias and Would Be Goods. Tickets are available here!

Chickfactor is a long running, much-loved US fanzine with a strong mix of good photography and smart words. Its way has been to follow certain groups in an in-depth way over a period of time. Editor Gail O'Hara was usually on hand to photograph The Pastels each time they visited New York in the 1990s, also providing excellent hospitality. She had an even closer relationship with The Magnetic Fields/Stephin Merritt and has contributed photographs to many of their releases and co-directed their Strange Powers film. Earlier this year she released her first collection of photography, Belle Epoque, which immediately sold out.

2012, Chickfactor's 20th anniversary, marks its return as a print fanzine. A series of 'important cities of the world' shows has been taking place, and The Pastels (new album finished) are playing at the London one.

Watch a video of "Vivid Youth" from Two Sunsets, their 2009 collaboration with Tenniscoats now:

HI CUSTODIAN, a Dirty Projectors short film featuring music from the band's critically acclaimed new album Swing Lo Magellan, premiered last night at New York City's prestigious Landmark Sunshine Cinema. The film, directed by Dave Longstreth himself and produced in collaboration with Pitchfork, is now available to view exclusively on Pitchfork.TV x YouTube. Watch it now:

Songwriter-director Longstreth described the film as "made out of a dream," adding, "it was so fun getting into these alternate personas, inhabiting them, and I think we came up with some amazing images."

HI CUSTODIAN stars band members David Longstreth, Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, Nat Baldwin, and Mike Johnson. It was filmed over the course of five days in late April in several locations in Southern California. Inspired by music films like Kanye West's Runaway and Prince's Purple Rain, it follows band members as they inhabit a variety of characters in a surreal narrative about spiritual death and rebirth. Amber plays a lost and lonely searcher. David plays a yōkai, a shapeshifting undead spirit from Japanese folklore. Nat plays a truck driver as well as a newborn child. Amber and Haley also feature as girls from the British Midlands, as well as sister Fates in an unindividuated dyad.

The film features several recordings and alternate versions of songs from Swing Lo Magellan including "Offspring Are Blank", "About to Die", "Gun Has No Trigger", "See What She Seeing", "The Socialites" and "Just From Chevron" in addition to other new and unreleased music from the album sessions.

Patrick Watson has just announced a surprise acoustic performance this Monday 3rd September on the rooftop of Village Underground, where he is to perform two shows this coming November 4th and 5th.

Tickets are free but strictly limited to 60 capacity, maximum 2 tickets per person, with a 7pm start. They will be available from Monday at noon – HERE. Tickets are first come first served. Village Underground is on Hollywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ.

Rejoice! Villagers are back with a brand new song, "The Waves". Premiered on BBC Radio 1 last night as Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record in the World", the track is available to purchase now through iTunes HERE and will be released on special limited edition 7” on 22nd October 2012. It is a beautiful sweeping song which kick starts into life with an electronic pulse and builds to a dramatic string laden climax. "The Wave"s is the first piece of music to be released from the follow-up to Villagers’ Mercury-nominated and Ivor Novello Award winning debut, Becoming a Jackal, details of which are to be announced soon.

‘I was looking up at the sky on a particularly clear night and it struck me that I had never written a song about those little moments when you feel a fundamental and awesome sense of wonder and a simultaneously humbling recognition of absolute insignificance.’ – Conor O’Brien

The video accompanying The Waves was directed by Alden Volney and mirrors the song perfectly; watch it here:

Villagers will be touring the UK and Europe throughout October and November as invited guests to Grizzly Bear. Dates are as follows:

OCTOBER
Wed 17 UK, Gateshead, The Sage Gateshead
Thu 18 UK, Manchester, Academy
Sat 20 UK, Glasgow, Barrowlands
Sun 21 UK, Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
Mon 22 UK, London, Brixton Academy
Fri 26 Norway, Oslo, Rockefeller
Sat 27 Sweden, Stockholm, Berns
Sun 28 Denmark, Copenhagen, Falconer
Tue 30 Germany, Hamburg, Uebel and Gefaehrlich
Wed 31 Germany, Berlin, Astra

November
Fri 2 Germany, Koln, Essigfabrik
Sun 4 Belgium, Brussels, Ancienne Belgique

Domino are reissuing Royal Trux’s masterpiece Accelerator, originally released in 1998. It was the third album in the Trux Trilogy of dedications to decades: Thank You was the 60s, Sweet Sixteen the 70s and Accelerator the 80s. It will be reissued on October 8th on CD and vinyl; pre-order it HERE.

As Alexis Taylor from our very own Hot Chip affirms, it is “a record that every home needs to have, and every body needs to quake to; every turntable needs to revolve a copy, and every laptop speaker needs to blare out its sonic joys.”

A record that always sounded ahead of its time as much as an historically accurate walk down memory lane, Accelerator is a truly remarkable sounding record. Producer Neil Hegarty explains how its unique sound was created: "We played a record we liked through a spectrum analyzer and "captured" the EQ shape and then applied that to the finished track. For example ‘I'm Ready’ ran through the Archie's ‘Sugar, Sugar’ filter and so on."

But all of this production would be nothing without nine songs, each with pure exhilaration at its core; huge riffs, pounding drum tracks, choruses that everyone is compelled to sing along with, and even odes to Steven Seagal; brains and brawn all in one package.

Watch the video for ‘Liar’ from the album now:

The tracklisting for Accelerator is as follows:

1. I’m Ready
2. Yellow Kid
3. The Banana Question
4. Another Year
5. Juicy Juicy Juice
6. Liar
7. New Bones
8. Follow The Winner
9. Stevie

Attention fans of blissed-out Gallic pop! 

Following the release of the critically acclaimed E Volo Love, Domino is to reissue Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains’ previous album, Plaine Inondable, on the 5th of November. Fránçois’ third full length album was originally released on Fence Records in 2009 and will now be available on CD, LP and via digital download, featuring new artwork.

To record Plaine Inondable, François returned to the comforts of his hometown of Saintes in France, and recruited members of local friends Unkle Jelly Fish and Bost Gehio (an all-female polyphonic vocal group from the Basques country) to be his ‘Atlas Mountains’.

For non Francophones, Plaine Inondable translates as ‘Flood Plains’ and is a reference to the town’s winter landscape – where the Charente River often bursts its bank, completely covering the surrounding fields.

Plaine Inondable marks a departure from the style of François’ previous releases which often featured casio-beats and lo-fi electronics. Here, piano chords swell, electric guitars gently shimmer, and François’ soft croon floats throughout – his bilingual songs melding the bitter-sweet yearning of Leonard Cohen with the melodic playfulness of Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy. The album also takes inspiration from recent compilations of African music recorded in the 1970’s (Ethiopiques, Mali 70) released by various European labels. The atmospheric rhythms and percussive elements, as well as some guitar parts and scales, absorb this influence, as François explains: ‘Be Water’ is built on an Ethiopian scale called Tezeta, the guitar on ‘Remind’ is inspired by the style of Ali Farka Toure and Group Doueh’.

Watch a video for Be Water from the record below and you can PRE ORDER PLAINE INONDABLE HERE.

The tracklisting for Plaine Inondable is as follows:

1. Friends 
2. Be Water 
3. Wonder 
4. Moitiee 
5. Remind 
6. Do You Do
7. Otages
8. Nights = Days
9. Years Of Rain
10. Pic-nic

Good news everyone! The wonderful Clinic are set to release their seventh album Free Reign on 12th November. Produced by the band themselves in their hometown of Liverpool and mixed with the assistance of Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Free Reign is an extremely apt title for a particularly bold and assured new transmission from planet Clinic.

In the fifteen years since the release of the irrepressible band's debut EP, Ade Blackburn and co. have essentially delivered an exquisite masterclass in fearless singularity. The junkshop-trawling analogue fetishism of the warm, smoky instrumentation that gives their songs such a vividly placeable sense of mood and atmosphere; the surrealist bent of Blackburn's lyrics - so steeped in their own personal mythology - and the band's over-riding commitment to never straying into the realm of the obvious or complacent are all long-standing elements of Clinic's work that are furthered, perfected even, on Free Reign.

Free Reign neither turns its back on the direction of its predecessor, Bubblegum, nor seeks to revisit it verbatim, instead incorporating the simple, childlike melodies and spacious nature of the former whilst being at the same time as powerful, visceral and rhythmically charged as anything the band have ever recorded.

Free Reign will not only be available on the usual formats - CD, LP and digital download - but also on limited edition UFO format, in the form of an exclusive, glow-in-the-dark, cosmic flying disc which comes with the album download code (ie, a pretty nifty Frisbee). PRE ORDER THE ALBUM HERE!

The tracklisting for Free Reign is as follows:

1. Misty 
2. See Saw 
3. Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC2 10pm (rpt) 
4. Cosmic Radiation 
5. Miss You
6. For the Season
7. King Kong
8. You
9. Sun and the Moon

Stay tuned for details of the first single and live dates - they're on the way soon!

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Animal Collective premiered their new album, Centipede Hz, live this morning on Animal Collective Radio with song by song visuals by Abby Portner. Stream the full album now on radio.myanimalhome.net.

Animal Collective Radio, a partnership with The Creators Project, has broadcast live over the last four weeks featuring transmissions hosted by band members Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist. The transmissions also featured a variety of guest DJs sets including Atlas Sound, Haunted Graffiti, Black Dice, Pantha Du Prince as well as brand new solo music by Panda Bear and Avey Tare. Listen back to all the shows via the band's archive on MixCloud: mixcloud.com/animalcollectiveradio.

Animal Collective's new album Centipede Hz is out September 3rd on CD, 2xLP & Deluxe 2xLP. The limited edition Deluxe 2xLP features a silver foil tip-on gatefold sleeve and a bonus DVD containing high-resolution album audio and live video excerpts from the band's 2011 show at Celebrate Brooklyn! Prospect Park. Pre-order all formats now on Animal Collective's webstore: myanimalhome.net/store.

Live Dates

• Suny 4th November – London, Roundhouse
• Tue 6th November – Dublin, Vicar St
• Wed 7th November – Glasgow, ABC 1
• Thu 8th November – Manchester, The Warehouse Project

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Hot on the heels of the news that Animal Collective will be streaming their brand new album Centipede Hz in full on Animal Collective Radio at 2am Sunday night/Monday morning UK time is the release of the video for the first single, "Today's Supernatural".

Directed by longtime Animal Collective collaborator Danny Perez (ODDSAC, Summertime Clothes, Who Could Win A Rabbit), the video was filmed on location at the salt flats of El Mirage, CA and stars band member Avey Tare alongside a giant piñata head.

Why not watch it now?

And don't forget to tune in to Animal Collective radio on Sunday night, which will feature Geologist's radio show followed immediately by the album premiere. Geologist describes his mix as follows:

"My show is actually a version of a mix I made for Ben Allen (Centipede Hz Producer) before we went into the studio. He asked us for a list of songs that we might reference in terms of sound and vibe so he could understand how we wanted the album to sound. We put together a list of songs that either encompassed the overall sound and vibe, or just had specific things we liked, such as drums sounds, or vocal effects. Rather than just send him each song, I thought it'd be fun to make transitions in between each track and sequence it out into 4 separate continuous hypothetical LP sides, which is what we were thinking for the sequencing of our album. For the final show of AC Radio we thought it'd be cool to play this inspirational mix and the album back to back."

Animal Collective Radio, a partnership with The Creators Project, has broadcast live over the last three weeks featuring shows hosted by Panda Bear, Avey Tare and Deakin. The transmissions also featured a variety of guest DJs sets including Atlas Sound, Haunted Graffiti, Black Dice, Pantha Du Prince as well as brand new solo music by Panda Bear and Avey Tare. Listen back to all the transmissions via the band's archive on MixCloud: mixcloud.com/animalcollectiveradio

Visit The Creators Project website for exclusive band interviews and detailed Animal Collective Radio information and don't forget to PRE ORDER CENTIPEDE HZ NOW!

We're thrilled to announce that our good friends over at Weird World have signed the very wonderful Melody's Echo Chamber. Full info, including a track stream can be found over at their site.

Tonight, Channel 4 (and Channel 4 HD) will be showing Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains' recent Barclaycard Mercury Prize session. Tune in at 1am to watch the band play a number of tracks from their excellent record E Volo Love. Channel 4 have put together a teaser for the show which you can watch below to whet your appetite:

And remember that Frànçois et al recently released a video for their single "Edge of Town", which you can watch here:

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Animal Collective will premiere their new album Centipede Hz (out Sept 3rd) LIVE on Animal Collective Radio this Sunday night/Monday morning, August 20th at 2am UK Time. News of the premiere was announced early this morning on Avey Tare's show, which featured guest DJ mixes by Atlas Sound, The Blackouts and Ghost Capital. Avey Tare also debuted two new solo songs featuring vocals by Angel Deradoorian. Listen back to the show now as an on-demand stream via MixCloud now.

Animal Collective Radio is a partnership between the band, Domino and The Creators Project. Visit The Creators Project website for detailed Animal Collective Radio tracklists, info and exclusive interviews with the guest DJs.

For archives of previous Animal Collective Radio transmissions featuring Panda Bear and Deakin as well as guest DJ sets by Haunted Graffiti, Black Dice, Pantha Du Prince and more visit the band's MixCloud page.

Animal Collective is also inviting fans to make their own radio mixes to share. To encourage participation the band will give away 5 vinyl test pressings of Centipede Hz at random to those who have submitted mixes. For more details on Animal Collective YouMix head here.

Animal Collective's new album Centipede Hz is out September 3rd on Domino. Pre-order now on the band's webstore.

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Tune in live this Sunday night/Monday morning at 2am UK time for another transmission of Animal Collective Radio (radio.myanimalhome.net). Avey Tare hosts this week's show, which also features guest DJ mixes by Atlas Sound, The Blackouts and Ghost Capital. The show will air as a live loop for 24 hours after which an archive will be made available via MixCloud.

To date Animal Collective Radio has broadcast transmissions hosted by band members Panda Bear and Deakin. The shows have also featured guest DJ mixes by Haunted Graffiti, Black Dice, Sublime Frequencies, Pantha Du Prince, Turquoise Wisdom and DOODcast. Archives of these shows are available on radio.myanimalhome.net and on Animal Collective's MixCloud page. The last transmission of Animal Collective Radio, hosted by Geologist, will air next Monday, August 20th at 2am UK time.

Animal Collective is also inviting fans to make their own radio shows to share on MixCloud. To help people get started the band has provided Centipede Hz sound samples and instructions on how to make them on your own. To encourage participation the band will give away 5 vinyl test pressings of Centipede Hz at random to those who have submitted mixes by August 31st. For more details on Animal Collective YouMix visit http://mixcloud.com/projects/animalcollectiveyoumix.

Animal Collective Radio is a partnership between the band, Domino and The Creators Project. Visit The Creators Project website for detailed Animal Collective Radio tracklists, info and exclusive interviews with the guest DJs. http://thecreatorsproject.com/creators/animal-collective

Animal Collective's new album Centipede Hz is out September 3rd on Domino. Pre-order now on the band's webstore:
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We're super thrilled that this week sees the release of the fantastic new album 'The Invitation To The Voyage' by Eugene McGuinness.  You can check out a review of the album here from The Guardian, and then also you can order your copy here.

Eugene is also playing a special set of London shows this month to celebrate the album release.  Full dates and ticket links in 'The Invitational' flyer image. Next up is Proud Galleries tomorrow night. 

And finally, the lovely folks from Moshcam recently filmed Eugene at his sold out Lexington show in London.  The full show will be up online to stream on Friday at www.moshcam.com, but for now, you can watch a video of Eugene performing a special stripped back version of album track 'Sugarplum'. 

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Tune in live to Animal Collective Radio this Sunday night at 2AM UK time at radio.myanimalhome.net. Deakin hosts this week's show along with guest DJ sets by Pantha du Prince, Turquoise Wisdom and Doodcast. An on-demand MixCloud archive of last week's show hosted by Panda Bear is now available on the site as well. Live broadcasts will take place every Sunday night through August 17th.

Animal Collective Radio is a partnership between the band, Domino and The Creators Project.

Animal Collective's new album Centipede Hz is out September 3rd. PRE ORDER NOW.

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"Today's Supernatural" is the first single from Animal Collective's highly anticipated new album Centipede Hz. The single will be available digitally tomorrow, while the album is released on September 3rd. Animal Collective premiered ‘Today’s Supernatural’ live last night on the just launched Animal Collective Radio (radio.myanimalhome.net), a weekly online radio transmission in partnership with Domino and The Creators Project. Every Monday morning at 2am GMT through until August 19th, Animal Collective will broadcast a new radio show live. Today's Supernatural was featured in last night's show, though you can listen to it in isolation if you wish here:

Each week a member of the band - Panda Bear, Deakin, Avey Tare and Geologist - will take turns hosting their own show. The shows will feature unique mixes created by the band as well as a variety of guest DJ sets. This week's show, hosted by Panda Bear, featured his own mix and guest DJ sets by Black Dice, Sublime Frequencies and Haunted Graffiti. The shows will loop for 24 hours after the live broadcast and then be made available as an on-demand stream via MixCloud. The Creators Projectors website will host tracklist details and more information. The website’s look will evolve over the course of the broadcasts, so check back.

Animal Collective would also like to encourage fans to create their own radio show mixes. To help people get started the band has provided a sample pack download of Centipede Hz sounds and radio IDs as well as detailed instructions on how to create your own sounds. More details on user generated mixes is available on the website.

Last night, near the climax of the spectacular Olympic Opening Ceremony in London, Arctic Monkeys took to the stage for a storming live rendition of I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor as well as a spot-on cover of The Beatles Come Together, accompanied by suitably jaw-dropping pyrotechnics and floating cyclists:

Also, check out our Arctic Monkeys - One Hour Of Singles playlist - 60 minutes of back-to-back classics, courtesy of the Domino Spotify App:

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Animal Collective Radio - transmitting to you Sunday nights/Monday mornings live at 9pm EST/2am GMT on Centipede Hz through until August 19th/20th.

Tune in to radio.myanimalhome.net at 2am GMT on Monday the 30^th of July to hear the first show, hosted by Panda Bear. It features his own mix plus guest DJ sets by Black Dice, Haunted Graffiti and Sublime Frequencies.

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Hello all! We are pleased to announce that "How Do You Do" will be the new single from Hot Chip's recent, critically acclaimed album, In Our Heads. Released on 10th September on 12" & digital download, "How Do You Do" is an effortlessly and infectiously joyful electro-pop stomp, an elemental instruction to dance.

The 12" will be well worth getting your hands on, featuring as it does some choice remixes from the likes of Todd Terje, Ossie, Micky Moonlight and James Zabiela. There is also an accompanying video, filmed both in London and LA by Rollo Jackson. Watch it here:

They've also been selected to soundtrack the London 2012 Olympics, with the band creating the introductory music for the table tennis competition. As well as this, they have just confirmed their appearance alongside Pulp on board S.S. Coachella, which sets sail in December 2012 and will offer two separate itineraries - a 3-day trip to the Bahamas and a 4-day trip to Jamaica. For more info, see http://ss.coachella.com.

Speaking of live dates, Hot Chip return from a triumphant U.S. tour where they played the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago as well as a sold out show at NYC's Prospect Park, to headline Camp Bestival in Dorset this Friday. For a taste of what they'll be like, you can watch Hot Chip’s recent performance with Roots drummer ?uestlove on US TV here:

And now a full set of UK live dates:

• FRI 27 JUL DORSET, CAMP BESTIVAL
• SUN 2 SEP STRADBALLY, ELECTRIC PICNIC 
• THU 6 SEP ISLE OF WIGHT, BESTIVAL
• SUN 7 OCT FOLKESTONE, QUARTERHOUSE (SOLD OUT)
• MON 8 OCT NORWICH, UEA with Disclosure
• TUE 9 OCT LEEDS, O2 ACADEMY with Disclosure 
• THU 11 OCT BIRMINGHAM, O2 ACADEMY with Disclosure
• FRI 12 OCT GLASGOW, O2 ABC with Disclosure
• SAT 13 OCT MANCHESTER, ACADEMY with Disclosure 
• MON 15 OCT BRISTOL, O2 ACADEMY with Django Django
• TUE 16 OCT SOUTHAMPTON, GUILDHALL with Django Django
• THU 18 OCT (SECOND DATE ADDED) LONDON, O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY with special guests TBA
• FRI 19 OCT LONDON, O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY with Django Django (SOLD OUT)

As beautiful as the pure notes of its titular bird, and also as totally badass (thrushes eat snails by picking them up and smashing them against rocks!), "True Thrush" is the second track to be made available from Dan Deacon's forthcoming album America. It's an indisputably anthemic, upbeat summer jam and is the album's real, honest-to-god single. 21st Century hit music. Both album and single will be out on the 27th of August. Listen to it now!

While "Lots" is a good introduction to the album's aesthetic territory, "True Thrush" is Deacon outdoing himself to craft truly transcendent pop. This is the song we've been waiting for him to make. PRE-ORDER AMERICA NOW.

Dan Deacon will be coming to the UK and Europe in September:

• 19 September - Prague, CZ - Meet Factory 
• 20 September - Berlin, DE - Festsall Kreuzberg 
• 21 September - Hamburg, DE - Reepers 
• 22 September - Eindehoven, NL - Area 51 
• 23 September - Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet 
• 24 September - Brussels, BE - Botanique 
• 25 September - Paris, FR - Le Trebando 
• 26 September - London, UK - Scala 
• 28 September - Manchester, UK - Islington Mill 
• 29 September - Brighton, UK - The Haunt

Domino Recording Co is seeking a part-time, freelance developer resource with a skillset including fluency in: HTML/JS/CSS/PHP/MySQL as a minimum. Knowledge should extend to the cutting-edge - HTML5, CSS3, Jquery and other related JS libraries, with a drive to keep current and engaged with progress and trends in the field. The qualified individual will be working on a freelance project basis with a particularly heavy workload across an initial three month engagement.
 
Our preferred developer will be expected to work on individual projects under the guidance of our lead developer, as well as participating in ongoing development projects.
 
Representative project types will include:
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To get involved please send your CV and examples of your portfolio to digitaloperations@dominorecordco.com.

Come in! Get your oilskins off. Put your feet up. Help yourself to Earl Grey and a macaroni pie.

Where were we?

Ten years, a hundred, a thousand, from now, people will ask what we learned from the Gaels. And our gorgeous, hyper-cerebral progeny will rejoinder thus: we learned that the 1980s was the greatest decade – just look at Dexy’s, Simple Minds, Talk Talk. We learned that forty-something albums in, King Creosote – KC, Kenny Anderson – was still turning over new ground; still writing surprising, beautiful songs.
We learned that in the year of our monarch 2012, the man rarely known as Anstruther’s Don Juan came forth with a series of pleasing twelve-inches, of which this one that is out on August 27th and can be PRE ORDERED HERE is the second instalment. We learned that KC has a spirit shrub and sometime arch-gorse nemesis in the ancient, enigmatic King Clone Creosote Bush.

The King Clone Creosote Bush has many uses. It has medicinal properties, healing powers. It can aid sexually transmitted diseases; alleviate snakebites; combat pollution.

But it cannot mend hearts. And it cannot break them.

KC can do both of these things.

And he will.

Listen:

Ankle Shackles

You walk round the corner, or down to the harbour, or onto the hillside, and there they are. And afterwards, your head, your heart, your stomach, lower, are not the same.

But vows have been tethered, knots redoubled, documents filed and fences built. Lives and walls have been reinforced, and nothing good can come of knocking. So you smile, stand close, steal conversations. Thrill at the brush of an elbow. That is all. You can never hold their face. You cannot call their name your own. There will always be unspoken looks, unspeakable thoughts, an ache upon proximity and then upon the lack of it.

Sometimes you wonder, dealing with things, in the darkness and closeness and comfort of solitude, how it is that you have never touched. How it is you coexist as strangers, when you are anything but that.

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The Right Form

We have to move on.

Do you recall our linguistic seminar a propos KC and ‘moistness’ in I Learned from the Gaels? Well, take its memorandum viz dairy-based bawling and ramp it up to hardcore liquor. Imagine it spouting from KC’s eyeballs. Lager, that is. Laced with cherries, I have no doubt. This is the sexiest-ever astral-rock ballad about bureaucracy and paperwork, what with it being the only one.

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What Exactly Have You Done?

The tea-towel has been overlooked as a literary medium for too long. But it was such an instructive cross-stitched dish-cloth, in the Scottish Fisheries Museum, that inspired the fateful talk of spilt sugar, jinxes, and chasing shoals on this party-skiffle naval shindig.
If one were of a superstitious nature, one might be inclined to suggest that the following nautical customs would better suit a carolling rock ‘n’ roll seadog like Anderson: the one about having naked women on board; the one about dousing the ship and all who sail in her with ruby wine; the one that deems swallows to be a good omen.

In unrelated news, King Creosote has recently netted a fishing boat.

And now a moment, if you will, to muse upon KC’s backing rabble. We eyeballed some of them in turn when we spoke of the magnificent Gaels – celestial songbird HMS Ginafore, ivory heartbreaker Richard Young, tweed-core harmonist Vic Galloway and psycho-billy belter Gummi Bako. (This latter Fife playboy, lest we forget, helmed Fence Records with KC when it was but a shop in St Andrews, as bankrolled by the Woollen Mill, and kept in business by a student now known and loved as The Pictish Trail...)

So let us avert our lusty attentions to the rest of KC’s swashbuckling pop crew. Check out marvellous axe-virtuoso Scruff; formidable bass-lothario Uncle Beesley; mythical Forth Valley sticksman OnTheFly; rampant Casio coxcomb Deek Purple; and percussive maharishi Captain Geeko the Dead Aviator – a man whose dexterous way with a djembe is rivalled only by his charm. We must also salute producer Paul Savage, ere of the Delgados, overlord of Chem19, and a genius who is to Scottish Pop what Chic’s Nile Rodgers was to the 1980s.

So come on board, raise the mast, turn it up and let’s set sail. Is this the final crossing of our revolutionary voyage? It might be, darling.

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The man himself can be caught (if not pinned down) at these live events:

• 23rd Aug - Edinburgh - Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• 25th Aug - Scotland - Doune The Rabbit Hole
• 16th Sept - Port Meirion - Festival No. 6
• 27th Oct - Dumfermiline - Dumfermiline Folk Weekend @ Townhall

For those who can't make it along to the Beauregard Festival today in France, you can still enjoy The Kills headlining perfomance from the comfort of your own home. Head over to www.thekills.tv tonight at 23.40 Central European Time (22.40pm UK Time) and you'll be able to watch their whole set streamed live.

What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love? Well, yes because Domino stalwarts Pram are going to be beguiling the lazy time with some delight by soundtracking Guildford Shakespeare Company's upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Taking place in the open air in an enchanted forest (possibly) at Guildford school of law, the show features music from Pram's back catalogue, unreleased songs and even more music by Micronormous (a new project by Matt from the band). The show has a fantastic cast and a strong creative team, and Pram's music perfectly complements the drugged and disorientated world of Shakespeare's lovers. A Midsummer Nights Dream is outdoors at The Guildford College of Law and runs from July 12th to July 22nd. Find more information here!

Finally, Pram are playing live at the Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival on Saturday the 25th of August. Good times! 

Do you like great pop songs? How about beautiful, narratively engaging and emotionally devastating videos? How about MOTORCYCLE STUNTS?! Well yes, obviously you do. Then you're in luck, because the video for "Little Girl", the wonderful soaring ballad and new single from Spiritualized is out, and it's pretty amazing. Featuring familial trauma, recreational drug use and the aforementioned MOTORCYCLE STUNTS, it's directed by Vincent Haycock and is well worth 4.5 minutes of anyone's time. Check it out:

The single itself is out on August 6th, and is released digitally and on 7". It's included on the album Sweet Heart Sweet Light, which was released earlier this year and is available digitally, on CD and 2xLP right here.

You can also catch Mr. Spaceman et al live:

• 12-14 August - Wilderness Festival, Cornbury Park
• 6-9 September - Bestival, Isle of Wight
• 14 September - Festival No. 6, Port Meirion 
• 1 November - The Sage, Gateshead
• 2 November - Junction, Cambridge
• 3 November - Metropolitan University, Leeds
• 4 November - Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
• 5 November - Roundhouse, London, Roundhouse
• 6 November - Corn Exchange, Brighton

What's that rumbling sound? Trees shaking in the ground, windows rattling in skyscrapers and carefully-placed glasses of milk vibrating off tables. Someone's getting seriously subterraenean, and that someone is Patrick Watson. He's going to be playing a two night event at London's Village Underground at the beginning of November.

But more news of that further down this article. First, you need to know that Domino is to release "the woozy and luminous" (The Sun) "Step Out For A While" as Patrick's next single on 20^th August. This is the second single to be taken from his recent much acclaimed album, Adventures In Your Own Backyard. Listen to "Step Out For A While" right now, for heaven's sake:

And now back to the Live News! Patrick Watson has also annouced a performance at End Of the Road Festival and those two nights at London’s Village Underground on 4^th and 5^th November. The Village Underground shows, entitled "Patrick Watson's Adventures Underground", follow the recent amazing sold out performance at London's St. Stephen’s Church. Full UK and European tour dates are as follows:

• Aug 10th Saint-Malo FR @ La Route du Rock
• Aug 11th Haldern DE @ Haldern Pop Festival
• Aug 12th  Groningen NL @ Oosterpoort
• Aug 13th Nijmegen NL @ De Vereeniging
• Aug 15th Praia do Tabuao PT @ Paredes de Coura Festival
• Aug 18th Hasselt BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
• Aug 31st Stadbally IE @ Electric Picnic
• Sep 2nd Dorset UK @ End of the Road Festival
• Oct 24th Utrecht NL @ Tivoli
• Oct 25th Tourcoing FR @ Le Grand Mix  
• Oct 26th Brussels BE @ AB
• Oct 27th Hamburg DE @ Kunst
• Oct 29th Lyon FR @ L'Epicerie Moderne
• Oct 30th Paris FR @ Le Trianon
• Nov 3rd Vendôme FR @ Festival Les Rockomotives
• Nov 4th London UK @ Village Underground – 'Patrick Watson's  Adventures Underground'
• Nov 5th London UK @ Village Underground – 'Patrick Watson's  Adventures Underground'