NEWS

After selling out their Hoxton Bar & Grill show in less than 24 hours, Austra can now announce a date at London’s KOKO for 25^th November. The Canadian six-piece will also be performing at Latitude Festival on Sunday 21^st July. Full UK dates are as follows:

17/06/13 London - Hoxton Bar & Grill – SOLD OUT

21/07/13 Latitude Festival

25/11/13 London – Koko

Olympia, the second album from Austra, will be released on June 17^th in the UK, (June 18th in the US). Olympia is an album of transformation. Though it has only been two years since their 2010 debut Feel It Break, it presents a quantum evolution in the Toronto-based band’s sound, structure and style.

After three years of non-stop international touring with the likes of the XX, Grimes and the Gossip, when it came time to record Olympia, Austra had evolved into a complex collaborative effort between its six members. “Previously, I would flesh out songs before I brought them to the band, but this time I left them bare and let the others fill them in” explains Katie Stelmanis, the principal songwriter/vocalist.

Olympia is also the first confessional record for Stelmanis as evidenced by the heartfelt lyrics of piano driven lead single "Home" (stream now). "Home" expresses the anxieties of waiting up all night for a lover to return. “I was mad and upset and the song just wrote itself,” says the singer. The album touches on a range of sentiments that stem from a relationship ending, a relationship beginning, and friends' struggles with addiction and motivation. Despite the sometimes dark lyrics written in collaboration with band member Sari Lightman, Olympia is bubbly and buoyant— fundamentally a dance record, which Stelmanis says was the band's aim all along. “We are really into dense harmonies and big beautiful melodies, but I also love techno and dance music. I wanted to bring those elements together.” 

Though Olympia is filled with electronic and synthetic sounds that reference everything from Trax Record classic cuts to Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s, it’s free of programming and loops. Everything was played live by the band in the studio and all of the percussion including a wild set up of marimbas and congas was performed by drummer Maya Postepski.

Austra is Katie Stelmanis (lead vocals), Maya Postepski (drums), Dorian Wolf (bass), Ryan Wonsiak (keys), Sari & Romy Lightman (backing vocals).

Between The Walls is the third album by About Group, the quartet of John Coxon, Charles Hayward, Alexis Taylor and Pat Thomas, and will be released through Domino on July 1^st.

Between The Walls captures the sound of a band 'playing' together, in both senses of the word - experimenting and trying things, being playful, as much as being a group performing as a unit together. Between The Walls is the sound of people pushing towards and pulling against one another simultaneously. It is the sound of buzzing amplifiers, sudden musical non-sequiturs, loud blasts of straight synth lines cutting through melody and structure. And it is also the sound of beautiful and odd electronic textures and brilliantly defined and deliberate drums, underpinning fragile but deliberate performances of sad songs and country ballads. ‘The balance between songwriting and free playing, and a lack of clarity about which mode we will be in for any given amount of time, is the key to About Group’ - Alexis Taylor.

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

BETWEEN THE WALLS TRACKLISTING:

01 - After Video                               

02 - Walk On By                                

03 - All Is Not Lost                            

04 - Words                                         

05 - Graph Paper        

06 - Make The World Laugh

07 - Love Because

08 - Nightlife/Sinking

09 – Untitled

10 - I Never Lock That Door

11 – Yes

12 - If You Can't Love Me

ABOUT GROUP:

Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now)

John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized)

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

Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip)

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

For more info head over to Ribbon Music.

For more info head over to Double Six

Having waited patiently since 1997’s Illumination, fans are now able to hear the first taste of music from The Pastels’ new album Slow Summits. ‘Check My Heart’, the first single to be taken from the album, is available to stream HERE and can now be purchased online.

‘Check My Heart’ will also be released on 7” on April 29^th and it will include the b-side ‘Illuminum Song’. Both songs will be available digitally as a bundle from May 27^th.

Initially premiered on Pitchfork yesterday, ‘Check My Heart’ is a fabulous introduction to Slow Summits, and follows on from a well-regarded film soundtrack (The Last Great Wilderness, Geographic, 2003), some theatre pieces (for 12 Stars) and a collaboration with Japan's Tenniscoats (Two Sunsets, Geographic, 2009).

Slow Summits gathers on all these works but moves off in newer and older ways too with its flowing montage of autumn instrumentals, pop songs, slow motion build ups and suddenly optimistic melody lines.  

‘Check My Heart’ is all optimism, boldly announced by Katrina Mitchell’s intrepid vocal overlaps and Stephen’s more melancholic counter.  The sound is 3D, vivid - The Pastels’ love of garage punk, soul crossover and first-wave independent clatter converging all too briefly, winding down the window and racing off into the summertime.

The Pastels are back.

Slow Summits will be released on May 27^th through Domino. Pre-order the album on CD (WIGCD185) and LP (WIGLP185) HERE

The Pastels will be playing the following shows:

June 1^st Glasgow, CCA - Tickets

July 27^th: Indietracks Festival, Derbyshire Tickets

August 16^th: Green Man Festival, Black Mountains, Wales – Tickets

August 24^th: Doune the Rabbit Hole, Doune, Scotland – Tickets

The Child Of Lov is to release Fly (DS067D1) as the next single from his forthcoming eponymous debut album. The single and album will both be available from 6^th May 2013.

Fly is perhaps the crown jewel on the heavily gem encrusted The Child of Lov debut. Fly is modern soul music of epic proportions - a roaring, triumphant track that signals that this is just the beginning for one of the world's most exciting emerging talents. As with the previous two singles (Heal and Give Me), the production pays respects to America's south, with the result sounding something like the RZA producing for Muscle Shoals. Listen to Fly HERE.

The Child Of Lov will be playing his first ever live dates at this year’s Glastonbury and Bestival.

The Child Of Lov recently picked up the Radar Award at this year’s NME Awards, watch him collecting his prize HERE.

Dirty Projectors are set to release "The Socialites" Remixes 12", an unreleased set of remixes of the standout track from last year’s critically acclaimed Swing Lo Magellan album. The white label 12" vinyl features remixes from Joe Goddard, AlunaGeorge and FaltyDL, and will be available digitally and physically on 13th May 2013. Listen to an exclusive stream of Joe Goddard's remix HERE and pre-order the 12" (RUG524T), HERE. 

The tracklisting is as follows:

A) Joe Goddard Remix
B1) AlunaGeorge Remix
B2) Falty DL Remix

Domino are thrilled to announce that Matthew E White, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Villagers, Steve Mason and recent NME award winner The Child of Lov will all play this year’s Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset. Alongside this stellar line-up, it has also been revealed that Arctic Monkeys are set to headline the Pyramid Stage on Friday 28th June 2013.

She & Him – Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward – are to release ‘Never Wanted Your Love’ as a single on May 13^th, 2013. The first track to be taken from their forthcoming album Volume 3, it was initially shared from the duo’s Twitter account earlier this month to offer fans an idea of what to expect. You can listen to ‘Never Wanted Your Love’ HERE.

She & Him have always offered songs of a timeless nature, inspired by classic artists and songwriters and in this sense ‘Never Wanted Your Love’ and the rest of Volume 3 is no different. This time however, there’s an added confidence and vitality to these tracks and ‘Never Wanted Your Love’ showcases this perfectly.

With an introduction that builds on a swirling string arrangement put together by M.Ward and an effortlessly bubbly and catchy chorus penned by Deschanel, they continue to express stories of bittersweet love affairs and tales of the heart but with an additional depth. The way the track has evolved has thrilled Zooey:

“Matt is an incredible arranger of strings,” asserts Deschanel. “‘Never Wanted Your Love’ – the strings on that are amazing. That song started out with a drum fill but Matt took that idea and had the strings do a version of the fill. It was such a cool idea.”

Enthusiastic and keen to make the most of their varied tastes in music, She & Him are touring the US through June and July and will be playing the legendary Hollywood Bowl on June 23^rd alongside the incredible Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell. They will also be joined by Camera Obscura on selected dates which can be found on their website.

Volume 3 will be available on CD (DS075CD), LP (DS075LP) and digitally (DS075D). Pre-order it HERE.

Domino is happy to once again be involved with Record Store Day which will take place on April 20^th 2013. A range of special edition releases listed below will be sold exclusively through independent outlets around the country and you can read more about each release further down the page.

Domino will be releasing the following:

Austra & Gina X – ‘Mayan Drums’ 12”

Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever LP

Orange Juice – Rip It Up LP

Orange Juice – Texas Fever LP

Orange Juice – The Orange Juice LP

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus & Friends LP

King Creosote – That Might Well Be It, Darling CD

Austra & Gina X – ‘Mayan Drums’ 12” (RUG522T)

Following the announcement of their new album Olympia and recent tour with The xx, Toronto’s Austra have also unveiled a very special collaboration with cult German electro singer Gina X for a limited edition Record Store Day release titled ‘Mayan Drums’. The 12inch, limited to just 500 copies, also features remixes by London dance producer Hervé, Montreal’s Doldrums and Gina X collaborator Zeus B.

Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever LP (REWIGLP49)

Orange Juice – Rip It Up LP (REWIGLP50)

Orange Juice – Texas Fever LP (REWIGLP51)

Orange Juice – The Orange Juice LP (REWIGLP52)

Due to overwhelming demand and to mark the blessed occasion that is Record Store Day, we are pressing up limited special vinyl editions of the original Orange Juice albums.

These vinyl editions represent the only existing physical versions of the album available at this juncture. Each have been re-mastered for vinyl, include the original lyrics sheets and printed inner sleeves (save Texas Fever which had none) and will come with the by now de rigueur free digital download card.

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus & Friends LP (WIGLP311)

After performing and recording Ege Banyasi in its entirety with a band of German musicians at 2012’s Cologne’s WEEK-END festival, Stephen Malkmus’ take on the classic album will be released via Domino for Record Store Day. 500 copies of the LP will be released on red vinyl and Matador will be releasing it on green vinyl in the US. The hand-printed silkscreened sleeve was designed by David Shrigley, who also designed the poster for the event, inspired by the original artwork for Ege Bamyasi.

King Creosote – That Might Well Be It, Darling CD (WIGCD310)

King Creosote has revealed the punch-line to the three EPs he released last year with a CD album, That Might Well Be It, Darling. It compiles all the songs from 2012’s vinyl series, and marks the CD debut of such tours de force as cosmic 80s  hoedown ‘Doubles Underneath’ and devastating prog-pop psalm ‘Ankle Shackles’ (all 11-plus, wine-glass droning minutes of it). The CD will be available through Domino Mart and participating independent stores for Record Store Day.

Our friends Weird World Record Co. are happy to announce the forthcoming release of the informatively titled Singles, Demos and Rarities (2007-2010) by Outer Limits Recordings. For more info, click HERE

With his already critically lauded debut Big Inner evidently becoming one of the indie crossover successes of early 2013, Matthew E. White has revealed ‘Steady Pace’ as his next intrinsically southern, soulful single for release on Domino on 6 May 2013.

Having sold out his date at London's grand Queen Elizabeth Hall and announced a show at Shepherd's Bush Empire, Matthew E. White and his glorious Spacebomb band will also play a slew of festival dates for the coming summer, including Primavera, Glastonbury, Bestival and End of The Road.

Matthew E. White Live Dates:

Sun 21 April Bristol Thekla (tickets)
Wed 24 April Glasgow Arches (tickets)
Thurs 25 April Manchester Sound Control (tickets)
Fri 26 April London Queen Elizabeth Hall SOLD OUT

Thurs 23 May Barcelona Primavera SOLD OUT

26-30 June Glastonbury SOLD OUT

Fri 30 Aug Dorset End Of The Road (tickets)

Wed 4 Sept London Shepherd's Bush Empire (tickets)

Thurs 5 Sept Isle of Wight Bestival (tickets)

Website: http://matthewewhite.tumblr.com

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/amattwhitejoint

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/amatthewewhitejoint

The Marquis De Tren and Bonny Billy release their ‘Solemns’ EP on Monday the 15^th of April 2013.  The predecessor, the ‘Get On Jolly’ EP will also be made available on vinyl (RUG109T) for the first time in Europe. 

Track Listing 

Solemn 28/Solemn 10/Solemn 119

12” - RUG514T/digital – RUG514D

Pre-order the ‘Solemns’ EP HERE.

It's been a long road through time and other things from ‘Get On Jolly’ to ‘Solemns’, but suffice to say, thirteen and some increasingly endless years later, the Bonnie 'Prince' and the Marquis de Tren have not only sat down for another royal audience with each other, but have also several reports from their sessions to share with all of us.

That their paths managed to converge after all this long was both incredible and yet inevitable - after all, the 'Prince' had over the years received compliments about "Get On Jolly" in the oddest places. And they were the oddest compliments, at that...it led him to wonder. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Marquis sat in front of his easel, rending the world as he saw fit. With every year that passed, his admiration of ‘Jolly’ EP had only grown. Would it surprise anyone to know that the missive that restarted it all bore the MdT seal? Or that the correspondence, once followed upon, was nonetheless burned in Bonny's hearth by night's end?

Dream on, suckers.  

History was reversed with ‘Solemns’ though - instead of collabing ideas at a distance, which was how ‘Get On Jolly’ was rolled (and which is, of course, much easier today than it was back in the good ol' pre-millennial times of ‘Get On Jolly’), they met in the same room. Face to face, nose to solar plexus, the 'Prince' and the Marquis unfurled the scroll together, with Tren Bro Jim White rumbling and banging things and playing drums, and Bonny gang crew Van Campbell, Emmett Kelly and Angel Olsen adding invaluable dimensions to the moments. It happened during the summer of 2012 on the one day it could, during a break between Bonny and Marqie D tour obligations, at last in the same hemisphere again - and thanks to local libations, all on the same level. The musical tapestry was strange and unchanged and yet thoroughly evolved from the olden times. But what words to float over the sensuously lapping wave phantasms of Tren's? In the days of ‘Get On Jolly’, the 'Prince' reached for something to inspire a bit of verse - Rabinadranath Tagore's classic tome of pomes, Gitanjali. Of course! Every household had a copy on their bathroom shelf back in the queer ol' 90s. And the adapted words Bonny used suited the Marquis' gentle sighs a treat! For ‘Solemns,’ something equally curious, intense and deep was needed, a thing that seemed to come from the earth itself; words to sooth for peace but also cause oceans of gore to spill forth. In the end, there was no other document that could be used but to cull from Biblical Psalms. This cuts down on publishing woes too - public domain, you see? The mechanicals are just between them and their god. 

In the end, the intensity could only last for three songs - any much more might have caused blood to rise and the sun to boil, and both the Marquis and the Bonnie 'Prince' like their sun slowly rising, not falling upon them. So they did their songs of music and etched the b-side and here it is. Let the philosopher’s stone up and take the measure of their words and music. The rest is up to them, and us, and you.

Currently on the road with both Django Django and fellow Minneapolis group Poliça, Night Moves are getting ready for the release of their debut album in the UK on Monday. Ahead of that however, you can now stream the album’s title track - ‘Colored Emotions’

A warm and easy album closer, ‘Colored Emotions’ could easily soundtrack the twilight period in summer where hazy sunshine merges with the cool evening air. Against the album’s psychedelic bursts and atmospheric soundscapes it rounds off their debut in a modest and elegant manner.

Colored Emotions will be available digitally (WIG296D), on CD (WIGCD296) and on vinyl (WIGLP296) from March 25^th. Pre-order HERE.

For more info, go HERE

Olympia is an album of transformation. Though it has only been two years since Austra's 2010 debut Feel It Break, it presents a quantum evolution in the Toronto-based band’s sound, structure and style.

After three years of non-stop international touring with the likes of the XX, Grimes and the Gossip, when it came time to record Olympia, Austra had evolved into a complex collaborative effort between its six members. “Previously, I would flesh out songs before I brought them to the band, but this time I left them bare and let the others fill them in” explains Katie Stelmanis, the principal songwriter/vocalist.

Olympia is also the first confessional record for Stelmanis as evidenced by the heartfelt lyrics of piano driven lead single "Home" (stream now). "Home" expresses the anxieties of waiting up all night for a lover to return. “I was mad and upset and the song just wrote itself,” says the singer. The album touches on a range of sentiments that stem from a relationship ending, a relationship beginning, and friends' struggles with addiction and motivation. Despite the sometimes dark lyrics written in collaboration with band member Sari Lightman, Olympia is bubbly and buoyant— fundamentally a dance record, which Stelmanis says was the band's aim all along. “We are really into dense harmonies and big beautiful melodies, but I also love techno and dance music. I wanted to bring those elements together.” 

Though Olympia is filled with electronic and synthetic sounds that reference everything from Trax Record classic cuts to Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s, it’s free of programming and loops. Everything was played live by the band in the studio and all of the percussion including a wild set up of marimbas and congas was performed by drummer Maya Postepski. “Maya played a huge role in the production of the album,” says Stelmanis, who has been playing with the drummer for eight years since their previous band, Galaxy. “There is a major percussive element running through every song,” Stelmanis laughs, “this is the album where we discovered rhythm.”

The album was produced by Austra with additional production by Mike Haliechuk, vocal production by Damian Taylor (Bjork, the Killers), engineered by Bill Skibbe and Leon Taheny and mixed by Tom Elmhirst (Adele, Erasure, Hot Chip).

Austra is Katie Stelmanis (lead vocals), Maya Postepski (drums), Dorian Wolf (bass), Ryan Wonsiak (keys), Sari & Romy Lightman (backing vocals).

Olympia will be available on CD (WIGCD314), 2xLP (WIGLP314), and digitally (WIG314D) June 17 (UK) / June 18 (US) on Domino.

Tour dates

03-13 Austin, TX - Vice Land (Vice SXSW)
03-14 Austin, TX - Hype Hotel (Hype Machine SXSW)
03-15 Austin, TX - The Mohawk (Windish SXSW)
03-16 Austin, TX - Elysium (Moog SXSW)
03-16 Austin, TX - Old Emo's (Brooklynvegan SXSW)
06-02 Dublin, IE - Forbidden Fruit
06-06 Zurich, SE - Plaza
06-07 Luzerne, SE - Sudpol
06-08 Yverdon-les Bains, SE - L'Amalgame
06-10 Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet
06-12 Paris, FR – Le Nouveau Casino
06-14 Berlin, DE - Lido
06-17 London, UK - Hoxton Bar & Grill
06-20 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg (Buy tickets)
06-23 Los Angeles, LA – Troubadour (Buy tickets)
06-26 San Francisco, CA - The Independent (Buy tickets)

Olympia tracklisting

1. What We Done?
2. Forgive Me
3. Painful Like
4. Sleep
5. Home [BUY TRACK]
6. Fire
7. I Don't Care (I'm a Man)
8. We Become
9. Reconcile
10. Annie (Oh muse, you)
11. You Changed My Life
12. Hurt Me Now

Austra online

http://www.austramusic.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Austra/124441027607242
https://twitter.com/austratalks
http://www.dominorecordco.com/austraolympia (Rest of the world label)
http://www.paperbagrecords.com (Canadian label)

Jon Hopkins is to release Immunity, his fourth solo album, on June 3^rd (UK)/4^th (US).

A powerful, multi-faceted beast, packed with the most aggressively dancefloor-focussed music Hopkins has ever made, Immunity is about achieving euphoric states through music. Inspired by the arc of an epic night out, the album peaks with Collider, a huge, apocalyptic, techno monster and dissolves with the quiet, heartbreakingly beautiful closer, Immunity, a track featuring vocals from King Creosote which could sit comfortably alongside the gems of their Mercury-nominated collaboration, Diamond Mine.

Immunity is a confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place. It feels like the hypnotic accompaniment to a journey of creativity, a trip inside Hopkins’ mind, using analog synthesis alongside manipulations of physical, real-world sounds to make dance music that feels as natural and unforced as possible.

Immunity is the most human electronic album you’ll hear this year. 

Click HERE to watch a psychedelic album trailer made by Craig Ward.  Food dyes crystallise under a microscope, creating an anisotropic, kaleidoscopic world of colour. 

Jon Hopkins will be performing a headline album launch show at London’s Village Underground on 12^th June. You can purchase tickets HERE. 

Jon Hopkins is also an expert producer, Ivor Novello-nominated composer of film scores, long-term collaborator of Brian Eno and Coldplay, and remixer of artists as diverse as David Lynch, Four Tet, Wild Beasts, Nosaj Thing, and Purity Ring. Immunity is Jon’s first album on Domino, following the release of Insides on Domino imprint Double Six in 2009.

Immunity will be available on CD (WIGCD298), LP (WIGLP298) and Digital (WIG298D). Pre-order it HERE. The tracklisting is as follows: 

1. We Disappear 
2. Open Eye Signal 
3. Breathe This Air 
4. Collider 
5. Abandon Window 
6. Form By Firelight 
7. Sun Harmonics 
8. Immunity 

Having announced their UK tour but a month ago Matthew E. White and his mighty Spacebomb band have already sold out their date at London's grand Queen Elizabeth Hall. Fret not though, as they will be back again on 4 September to be more specific, for a show at Shepherd's Bush Empire no less.

Matthew E. White Live Dates

Sun 21 April Bristol Thekla (tickets)

Wed 24 April Glasgow Arches (tickets)
Thurs 25 April Manchester Sound Control (tickets)
Fri 26 April London Queen Elizabeth Hall SOLD OUT

Wed 4 Sept London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (tickets on sale Friday 8th March at 09:00)

Animal Collective have unveiled three new live videos preceding their North American tour, which starts later this week. The videos, a collaboration with The Creators Project, feature live performances from the band's December 2012 Terminal 5 shows complete with psychedelic visual effects and overlays by Abby Portner. Watch “Applesauce,” “Moonjock” and “Amanita” HERE.

The videos provide an in-depth look at Animal Collective’s live performance as the band prepares to head back out on the road this spring with labelmate Dan Deacon. Animal Collective will be returning to the UK for a performance at Field Day on the 25^th of May 2013. For access to tickets and all the latest Animal Collective news, head to http://bit.ly/animaltix.

The band and The Creators Project have also relaunched Animal Collective Radio, which last autumn counted down to the release of Centipede Hz. The weekly radio shows featured different band members and guests playing mixes, while exploring the creative influences of Centipede Hz. The final live installment premiered the entire album with custom visuals for each track created by Abby. These videos are now available again in full for the first time since the launch at radio.myanimalhome.net.

Abby, who dubs herself the “visual person” for Animal Collective, designed the Animal Collective Radio site and visuals with band's stage production and live performances in mind. Both the site and stage production feature a giant mouth and Centipede Hz album visuals. You can experience the fully realized prismatic audiovisual experience come full circle for yourself with the release of the three live videos and the relaunch of the Centipede Hz Radio albums visuals.

Earlier in 2012, Animal Collective released their 10th and latest album Centipede Hz. The band’s first record since 2007’s Strawberry Jam to feature all four original band members, Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin, Centipede Hz was hailed by critics as a return to the band’s experimental roots. The album can be ordered via the Animal Collective webstore here

1. Hanging Song

2. There's A World Between Us

3. A Bad Wind

4. By Morning I

5. The Lemon Tree #3      

6. Anthony & Owen

7. White 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

A massive congratulations to both Arctic Monkeys and The Child Of Lov for their wins at the NME Awards last night. Arctic Monkeys' 'R U Mine' was awarded Best Video (you can check it out HERE). Whilst The Child Of Lov won the NME Radar award, head over to the Double Six site for more on The Child Of Lov's award. 

James Yorkston releases his Spanish Ants EP on Monday the 22^nd of April 2013. The EP features Spanish Ants, from James’ much praised I Was A Cat From A Book album + remixes of the song by fellow Fence Collective luminaries Seamus Fogarty and The Pictish Trail, who will be joining James for a round of dates in March and April.

I Was A Cat From A Book is an album full of energy and great musicianship, and contains James' strongest and most bewildering set of songs yet.

 ‘A record that will draw you in and keep you close’ – Mojo

‘A remarkable record – Yorkston’s best yet’ – The Skinny

‘As always with this gem of a musician, all human life is here’ - Q

The tracklisting for the Spanish Ants EP is:

Spanish Ants

Spanish Ants (Yorkston Regrets Trail mix) – remixed by Pictish Trail

Spanish Ants (Fly in the Oink mix) – remixed by OnTheFly

Kath With Rhodes (Disco Rhodeo mix) – remixed by Seamus Fogarty

Full dates are as follows:

James Yorkston with The Pictish Trail & Seamus Fogarty

March – Scotland

Sat 16th The Tolbooth, Stirling

Tues 19th Eden Court, Inverness

Weds 20th Universal Hall, Findhorn

Thurs 21st The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

Fri 22nd Birnam Arts, Dunkeld

April – England

 Sat 13th The Grand, Clitheroe

Sun 14th The Sound House, Leicester

Mon 15th The Junction, Cambridge

Tues 16th The Blind Tiger, Brighton

Weds 17th South Street Arts Centre, Reading 

Thurs 18th The Exeter Phoenix

Fri 19th The Fleece, Bristol

Sat 20th Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

Thurs 25th Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry

Fri 26th The Kazimier, Liverpool

Sat 27th Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Take a look HERE

For more info, head over HERE

To coincide with Ducktails’ current UK tour, Domino can share the video for The Flower Lane standout "Letter of Intent".  The video was filmed in New York’s Central Park by The Harrys. Watch it below:

In conjunction with the new video, Ducktails is releasing a remix EP for "Letter of Intent" which features the original track alongside remixes from DJ Sprinkles, Mark McGuire and Heatsick. Listen to ‘Letter Of Intent (Mark McGuire’s Road Chief Remix) HERE. Purchase ‘Letter Of Intent Remix EP’, digitally, HERE. 

Ducktails played Brighton’s Green Door last night and have a much anticipated, sold out show at the London Lexington tonight. The band will then embark on an extensive North American tour throughout the spring.

Ducktails - Letter of Intent Remix EP (Domino - RUG512D)

1. Letter of Intent

2. DJ Sprinkles' Post Script

3. Mark McGuire Road Chief Remix

4. Heatsick Remix