Under his Ensemble Economique guise, Brian Pyle has constantlymanaged to get us madly excited, as readers of this publication will be aware of. But while the man kept himself busy as of late, steadily unleashing new EE jams and musings, he somehow also found some spare time to record a new full-length with his main project Starving Weirdos, the long-standing avant-psych venture Pyle has been pursuing together with Merrick Mckinlay.
The result, named Land Lines, is a truly brilliant effort, consisting of seven tracks that abundantly spread across almost 60 minutes, creating an open space of conception that enables the two musicians to indulge in some of the most intriguing sonic experimentations and improvisations we've heard in a while. Featuring a host of different collaborators, the musicians allow themselves to get lost in expansive and indeed massive soundscapes that convey a delightfully cinematic feel, not unlike Pyle's latest solo efforts, something that is best illustrated by the stunning seven-minute monster of a track, "Periods", only today blessed with an aptly entrancing and mysterious video by PiK.
Land Lines is out now via Amish Records. Highly recommended.
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Under his Ensemble Economique guise, Brian Pyle has constantlymanaged to get us madly excited, as readers of this publication will be aware of. But while the man kept himself busy as of late, steadily unleashing new EE jams and musings, he somehow also found some spare time to record a new full-length with his main project Starving Weirdos, the long-standing avant-psych venture Pyle has been pursuing together with Merrick Mckinlay.
The result, named Land Lines, is a truly brilliant effort, consisting of seven tracks that abundantly spread across almost 60 minutes, creating an open space of conception that enables the two musicians to indulge in some of the most intriguing sonic experimentations and improvisations we've heard in a while. Featuring a host of different collaborators, the musicians allow themselves to get lost in expansive and indeed massive soundscapes that convey a delightfully cinematic feel, not unlike Pyle's latest solo efforts, something that is best illustrated by the stunning seven-minute monster of a track, "Periods", only today blessed with an aptly entrancing and mysterious video by PiK.
Land Lines is out now via Amish Records. Highly recommended.
Starving Weirdos - Periods
This one dropped into my inbox last week and hit me completely unexpected, not least as the last thing I heard from our favorite Vermont enterprise (no offense) NNA Tapes was the listed creepiness of Nate Young's Stay Asleep. On top of that, the above album cover does not give you slightest hint of what will happen to your consciousness once you've hit the play button: New Hampshire native Ryan Power makes simple yet soulful, achingly honest and unashamedly beautiful avant pop that blissfully lies somewhere left of the field where you didn't even start looking in the first place. Which makes him all the more special.
I Don't Want to Die is out April 3 via NNA Tapes. Listen to the breathtaking title track below (which is, according to TMT, not even the album's best track, something we unfortunately can neither confirm nor deny at this point).
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This one dropped into my inbox last week and hit me completely unexpected, not least as the last thing I heard from our favorite Vermont enterprise (no offense) NNA Tapes was the listed creepiness of Nate Young's Stay Asleep. On top of that, the above album cover does not give you slightest hint of what will happen to your consciousness once you've hit the play button: New Hampshire native Ryan Power makes simple yet soulful, achingly honest and unashamedly beautiful avant pop that blissfully lies somewhere left of the field where you didn't even start looking in the first place. Which makes him all the more special.
I Don't Want to Die is out April 3 via NNA Tapes. Listen to the breathtaking title track below (which is, according to TMT, not even the album's best track, something we unfortunately can neither confirm nor deny at this point).
Ryan Power - I Don't Want to Die
The enchanting dream-pop by Catalonia-based female duo Granit was (literally) the last music-related sensation of 2011, making incredibly quick rounds with the lush, Beach House or Boy Friend-infused melodies of "Aresta". The girls' debut four-track 10 inch that we had mentioned back then can now be streamed and pre-ordered via bandcamp. Moreover, we're happy to premiere the excellent new video for closing track "Marea Viva", a swirling and colorful, in short pretty psychedelic collage made by London via Palma de Mallorca visual artist Lluís Panadès Julià aka Panaframe.
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The enchanting dream-pop by Catalonia-based female duo Granit was (literally) the last music-related sensation of 2011, making incredibly quick rounds with the lush, Beach House or Boy Friend-infused melodies of "Aresta". The girls' debut four-track 10 inch that we had mentioned back then can now be streamed and pre-ordered via bandcamp. Moreover, we're happy to premiere the excellent new video for closing track "Marea Viva", a swirling and colorful, in short pretty psychedelic collage made by London via Palma de Mallorca visual artist Lluís Panadès Julià aka Panaframe.
Previously:
Granit - Aresta
After a very amazing week (and weekend) at Berlin's CTM Festival, it feels strangely relieving to take a break from experimental/electronic/drone soundwaves with this fine tune from Paris outfit Baden Baden. "You'll See" is the first single extracted from their upcoming debut album in May, watch the video for that one below.
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After a very amazing week (and weekend) at Berlin's CTM Festival, it feels strangely relieving to take a break from experimental/electronic/drone soundwaves with this fine tune from Paris outfit Baden Baden. "You'll See" is the first single extracted from their upcoming debut album in May, watch the video for that one below.
Baden Baden - You'll See
Expensive Looks, Jef Barbara, Nicolas Jaar, Wolf In A Spacesuit, Vortex Rikers and Bound have been on our radar this past week. Have a good Video Sunday.
Expensive Looks - Vanishers (Directed by Giacomo Francia)
Jef Barbara - Larmes de Crocodile (Directed by Louis Léonard & Bernardino Femminielli)
Nicolas Jaar - Materials (Directed by Pondr)
Wolf In A Spacesuit - Amber Hand (by Julian Dalrymple & Algebra Huxley)
Vortex Rikers - Serenade
Bound - Mirage
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Expensive Looks, Jef Barbara, Nicolas Jaar, Wolf In A Spacesuit, Vortex Rikers and Bound have been on our radar this past week. Have a good Video Sunday.
Expensive Looks - Vanishers (Directed by Giacomo Francia)
Jef Barbara - Larmes de Crocodile (Directed by Louis Léonard & Bernardino Femminielli)
Nicolas Jaar - Materials (Directed by Pondr)
Wolf In A Spacesuit - Amber Hand (by Julian Dalrymple & Algebra Huxley)
Vortex Rikers - Serenade
Bound - Mirage
The one thing I will always hate festivals for is the fact that they force you to make impossible decisions, such as choosing between a performance by Holy Other and a simultaneous one by Stellar OM Source. Out of curiosity I had opted for the Tri Angle showcase at Berghain early on, and the Manchester enigma certainly managed to live up to my expectations (something I can't say about all artists that night, unfortunately), so there should be no need to regret. However, if Stellar OM Source's actual gig (here's a blurry photo of that) ultimately turned out to be only half as amazing as this "CTM live prep" clip, than in retrospect it kinda hurts to not have been at Kantine at the same time. Hope she'll come back to Berlin soon.
In related news, turns out the folks in London last night were not as lucky as we had been on Thursday.
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The one thing I will always hate festivals for is the fact that they force you to make impossible decisions, such as choosing between a performance by Holy Other and a simultaneous one by Stellar OM Source. Out of curiosity I had opted for the Tri Angle showcase at Berghain early on, and the Manchester enigma certainly managed to live up to my expectations (something I can't say about all artists that night, unfortunately), so there should be no need to regret. However, if Stellar OM Source's actual gig (here's a blurry photo of that) ultimately turned out to be only half as amazing as this "CTM live prep" clip, than in retrospect it kinda hurts to not have been at Kantine at the same time. Hope she'll come back to Berlin soon.
In related news, turns out the folks in London last night were not as lucky as we had been on Thursday.
So, we don't know if you've already read these beautiful news, but Memoryhouse drummer Daniel Grey has been keeping himself quite busy these days. And whatever you may mean about Memoryhouse's change of wind, Daniel's solo project MPSO (Mount Pleasant Symphony Orchestra)will most definitely please your ears. All though it only spins for 32 tiny minutes, his upcoming debut album Wisdom Teeth is a richly crafted, and utterly beautiful piece of work, not surprisingly with roots to the bedroom recordings of Memoryhouse or Evan Ebeele's ambient side-project. Compared to the similarities however, MPSO also takes a very unexpected turn towards the near end ("Those Were Different Times"), approaching a noisier, darker ground, which also perhaps makes it one of the most interesting track on the record.
The digital release of Wisdom Teeth is due to February 14th, and if you're lucky, you might be one of the first 100 people to download the whole thing for free, so stay tuned. Stream it below.
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So, we don't know if you've already read these beautiful news, but Memoryhouse drummer Daniel Grey has been keeping himself quite busy these days. And whatever you may mean about Memoryhouse's change of wind, Daniel's solo project MPSO (Mount Pleasant Symphony Orchestra)will most definitely please your ears. All though it only spins for 32 tiny minutes, his upcoming debut album Wisdom Teeth is a richly crafted, and utterly beautiful piece of work, not surprisingly with roots to the bedroom recordings of Memoryhouse or Evan Ebeele's ambient side-project. Compared to the similarities however, MPSO also takes a very unexpected turn towards the near end ("Those Were Different Times"), approaching a noisier, darker ground, which also perhaps makes it one of the most interesting track on the record.
The digital release of Wisdom Teeth is due to February 14th, and if you're lucky, you might be one of the first 100 people to download the whole thing for free, so stay tuned. Stream it below.
Here's another terrific new track by our favorite discovery of the week, Bristol-based Hamish Trevis aka Kinlaw. "Bra§e" is more dubstep-informed than "Sun Hazif", a nicely constructed little dancefloor tune that is again built around some intriguingly layered vocal samples. Seriously someone to keep a very close eye on.
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Here's another terrific new track by our favorite discovery of the week, Bristol-based Hamish Trevis aka Kinlaw. "Bra§e" is more dubstep-informed than "Sun Hazif", a nicely constructed little dancefloor tune that is again built around some intriguingly layered vocal samples. Seriously someone to keep a very close eye on.
Kinlaw - Bra§e
This one dropped into my inbox last week and hit me completely unexpected, not least as the last thing I heard from our favorite Vermont enterprise (no offense) NNA Tapes was the listed creepiness of Nate Young's Stay Asleep. On top of that, the above album cover does not give you slightest hint of what will happen to your consciousness once you've hit the play button: New Hampshire native Ryan Power makes simple yet soulful, achingly honest and unashamedly beautiful avant pop that blissfully lies somewhere left of the field where you didn't even start looking in the first place. Which makes him all the more special.
I Don't Want to Die is out April 3 via NNA Tapes. Listen to the breathtaking title track below (which is, according to TMT, not even the album's best track, something we unfortunately can neither confirm nor deny at this point).
Ryan Power - I Don't Want to Die
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