Not content with simply offering a live album from their recent not-quite-a-reunion shows, Swans have printed up 1,000 woodblock-sheathed copies of their new double disc We Rose From Your Bed With the Sun In Our Head as part of a Kickstarter-like project for the band’s next studio album, The Seer.
Here’s an abridged breakdown, straight from the mouth of Michael Gira himself:
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Battles have announced plans for a limited four-part remix series called Dross Glop. Set to launch on February 7th with contributions from the Field and Gui Boratto, it’s now available for pre-order at Warp’s Bleep store. Or you can simply sample both songs below…
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Via Kompakt:
MOHN is Burger/Voigt’s new project (Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt)
MOHN first album will be published on KOMPAKT in the spring of 2012
MOHN is extremely decelerated, slow motion techno with and without bass drum, containing lots of plasticiser
MOHN is slow, sublime, sombre music, fusing different ambient styles to one new one
MOHN LIVE primarily is a non-stop concert-lecture for a seated audience (theatre), but it also works standing up(shoegaze, ambientbounce, ambientgrunge,…)
MOHN comes at a scale of 16:9
MOHN is opium for the people
Lets MOHN together
Check out the first of three trailer’s for MOHN’s live show below…
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We realize the economy’s wrecked and all, but if you’re going to buy one post-Isis retirement plan this year, make it Aaron Turner’s first proper House of Low Culture LP since 2003. Always a magnet for prime guest players—Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’ Malley and Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s Jay Randall both contributed to past HOLC releases—Turner welcomes two main collaborators on Poisoned Soil, his wife/Mammifer bandmate Faith Coloccia and percussionist B.R.A.D (Asva, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Burning Witch).
We haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but we did grab one of 100 limited “lead paint” pressings through Taiga here. You can also sample an excerpt of a song via the A.V. Club below…
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Yep, tUnE-yArDs; blatant disregard for The Elements of Style, and all. Check out the Village Voice’s entire critic-fueled countdown here, our year-end coverage, and tUnE-yArDs talking about MC Solaar below…
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Well then; good thing we checked our E-mail just now. Had we not, we may have missed out on “SteviePink Javascript,” a truly bizarre lathe-cut 7” from Ariel Pink and his old buddy R. Stevie Moore. Here’s the deal, via PIAPTK Records, which may still have a few of its 88 copies available:
An amazing 6 minute space droner collaboration from Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore. Only 88 copies were made, and they lathe cut onto 7” MIRRORS. Comes in silkscreened holographic drum covering, in several different colors. Almost every aspect of this record was made from recycled or upcycled materials. The mirrored acrylic was collected over several years from the by-the-pound remnant bin of a Tacoma plastic supplier. It came from the end pieces and overcut scraps of various projects and was otherwise destined for the dump. The holographic covers were hand-cut with a T-square and boxcutter (hence the jaggedness of some) from the end remnants of rolls of psychedelic drum-covering. Even the paper for the insert was picked up at a garage sale.
Have a listen to the pair’s very strange trip below, and check out other ‘unique’ vinyl releases from Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Wooden Wand and more at PIAPTK’s online store…
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Check out our exclusive Korallreven mixtape here and an extended version of their “Sa Sa Samoa” single (featuring Julianna Barwick) below…
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Just when you thought At the Drive-In might be pairing their reunion gigs with a new record, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala have sprung this on us: the Mars Volta’s sixth album. Due out March 27th through Warner Bros., Noctourniquet features the following, according to a press release:
While Noctourniquet was, in typical Mars Volta fashion, written by and produced by Rodriguez-Lopez, the 13-track album explores musical territories previously uncharted in the duo’s 20 or so years of creating music together. The spectrum of musical and emotional textures conceived and created by Rodriguez-Lopez on Noctourniquet ranges from the opening bombast of “The Whip Hand” to the menacing crawl of “The Malkin Jewel” punctuated throughout by hypnotic melodies and borderline electro-ambient washes, most notably in the epic “In Absentia.” The bold diversity of the new material combined with Rodriguez-Lopez’s assured producer’s hand guiding The Mars Volta’s most confident and refined performances to date make Noctourniquet an early contender for this year’s most challenging and rewarding listen.
As with previous Mars Volta efforts, Bixler-Zavala’s lyrics trace a narrative journey with a defined protagonist, this time inspired by disparate elements including ’80s UK alt-rockers The Godfathers, Superman comic nemesis Solomon Grundy and the Greek myth of Hyacinthus.
In other words, good luck making any sense of it all, especially the song titles. Check out the album’s complete tracklisting and likely cover after the jump…
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Breton have released a free EP featuring four new tracks and a live show staple (the stuttering breaks and dovetailing strings of “The Well”) that originally appeared on the group’s Sharing Notes record. Originally founded as a film collective, Breton quickly took on a second life as a sample-driven, art-damaged pop group caught somewhere between British bass music (Untold’s always on-point Hemlock imprint released their Counter Balance EP a couple years back), dusty mixtapes and Tom Vek. (The fact that Breton remixed Vek and they’ve toured together makes perfect sense.)
While Breton’s debut album (the FatCat-endorsed Other People’s Problems) won’t drop until April 3rd, we’ve got their Blanket Rule EP below—it crashed their servers this morning—right alongside some early 2012 tour dates, more streaming music and a killer video…
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In denial about the need to head back to work tomorrow? Well, if you’re in New York, we can’t think of a better way to make poor decisions than to attend Pat Mahoney’s weekly WHOCARESWINS party at Nur Khan’s Electric Room in the basement of the Dream Hotel on 16th St. and 9th Ave. On this particular evening, the former LCD Soundsystem drummer will be joined by his longtime Special Disco Version partner, James Murphy. For more info on WHOCARESWINS, head here, or check out the pair’s two-part Beats In Space mix below…
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