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We’re never gonna persevere with something if we think it’s not up to scratch. A lot of ideas just get ditched because they don’t make your pulse race,’ say’s Teeth of the Sea’s Jimmy Martin.
Most commonly pegged as a psych rock outfit since forming in 2006 Jimmy, Sam Barton, Mike Bourne have in fact traversed a multitude of genres in pursuit of raised heart rates, be it through punishing beats or lugubrious brass.
The trio are now set to release their fifth record, Wraith, and as the title suggests their psychedelic influences remain at the core of what they do, even if the collection also marks yet another evolution in the band’s sound.
Working for the first time with a producer, Teeth of the Sea return with perhaps their most coherent and refined collection yet.
Ahead of the album’s release, we sat down with Jimmy to chat about the nebulous events that surrounded the recording of their latest record, the rewards of opening up their process to collaborators, and much more…
There’s been talk of supernatural happenings around your new record, can you tell us more?
I don’t really want to demystify it too much. Obviously, we’re not really sure exactly if it had an influence and what happened, but we were recording it in a strange location. We’ve always gone there, it’s on the Thames, East India Quay, it’s almost like being out of London but in London at the same time. So, you’re slightly disconnected from your everyday life, despite the fact that you’re still ostensibly in London...
Read the rest here: M-Magazine
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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation have put together a special new playlist for Spotify called 'Sacred Dream Tapes'.
The mix is a selection of music the band have been listening to on while writing and recording their new album. Nitzer Ebb meets JJ Cale, Popol Vuh meets The Shangri-las and more.
Listen to it here: Spotify
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GNOD are heading to Porto to work on some recordings with the amazing João Pais Filipe from Paisiel and during their time there they are going to play a live show together on Saturday, March 9 at Maus Hábitos.
Info/tickets here: Lovers and Lollipops
Paisiels stunning debut album is available to preorder now on Ltd coloured vinyl from here: Bandcamp
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Protagonists of the Rome Psych Fest at Monk and PDsychedelia at the Circolo Nadir of Padua at the end of the year, the Mamuthones borrowed from the disturbing ritual masks of their homeland, Sardinia, and carry it around the world, demonstrating to have in all respects the charisma and the talent to impose itself on the international music scene. Their latest album, Fear on the corner, is inspired by fear.
The fear of the present, of the human and political situation, but also of the most intimate and personal fear, such as that of loneliness, of the wrong relationships, of not finding a place in the world. And there is also the fear of fear itself. The Mamuthones review all their deepest concerns with great clarity, to the point that the album sounds almost prophetic. Listening to it a year after its release, we find ourselves with the band that many of the fears that are the guiding thread of this record have become reality, as it only happens in the worst dystopic dreams. A nightmare with open eyes told with great grace by their dark, hypnotic and rhythmic sounds, because even when everything around us and inside us seems to go into pieces, the show must go on.
After reading the interview with Alessio Gastaldello , run to buy the album and listen to the Mamuthones live on Friday 29 March 2019, at 10.15 pm at Camelot 3.0, via Santo Stefano 20, Prato (free admission).
Let's start from the title of the album, Fear on the corner, this theme of fear, which seems to be the leitmotif of a dark and extremely emotional album. Would you like to tell us what you are afraid of and how your fears have influenced the creation of this work?
It has a certain effect to answer this question today. It's been about a year since the album came out ... and the fears around which it was written became reality. The fears were those caused by a society in decline, ugly, incattivita, rancorosa, itself frightened and cheated by those who fear it foment for political return. But also the most intimate fears, for my experience, for my relationships. I was hoping this album would mark a catharsis, instead ...
Read the full piece here: Il Muro
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Wraith sees London-based post-electronic pioneers Teeth Of The Sea taking a step away from the noise inflected menace of their earlier work following the departure of Mat Colegate after 2015’s Highly Deadly Black Tarantula (both Rocket Records). Yet their latest outing feels like the answer to a challenge, of sorts. In its absence, the progressive, playfully experimental composition style (paired with an often unapologetically wry approach to theme) brings to the fore the bands inherently theatrical bent. The result is something akin to the lost soundtrack to a late 90s Indie, cyber-Punk thriller.
Wraith’s introduction – the obliquely titled ‘I’d Rather, Jack’ – is a blunt, unwavering electronic beat, heralding a bold melodic overture (a movement that is later mirrored at the album’s conclusion by its gritty counterpart ‘Gladiators Ready’). This is followed by the subdued tension of ‘Hiraeth’, a darkly intoned piece that sees the ever prominent brass elements vying with Helios Creed’s guitars in an unmistakable tribute to Ennio Morricone. But it’s the third movement, the ponderous, eerie ‘Burn Of The Sheiling’, and the subsequent lapse into the dreamlike madrigal of ‘Fortean Steed’, that seems to mark the true extent of this recent shift of tone...
Read the full review here: Ghost Cult
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PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS DISCUSS THEIR SECOND ALBUM AND DODGY BUCKFAST AHEAD OF BRISTOL EXCHANGE SHOW
It’s definitely the year of the pig. Rocket Recording’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have had many triumphant Bristol shows since their second album ‘King Of Cowards’ dropped last year. This March, the Newcastle psych rockers are back in town so we decided it was high time for a chat.
The response to ‘King Of Cowards’ has been huge, how did it come together?
It was pretty different to the first one, with ‘Feed The Rats’ we took our time to say the least. We had the songs kicking around for over two years and then we finally got around to putting down the record. With the next one we didn’t want to take too long. We had quite a lot of ideas so we wanted to flesh them out. We were on a European tour and some dates fell through. We weren’t sure what to do so we had a look on AirBnB and found an amazing remote barn in the Italian hills which is usually used for wedding parties. We got in touch and asked if we could set up and make some noise and the owners were fine with it because it was so remote. We booked that up and got the bulk of the album done in four days.
It sounds just as colossal as your live show in many ways…
We did strive to capture that yes. That’s all down to our guitarist Sam. He owns Blank Studios in Newcastle and produces all of our stuff. He’d just finished building a new studio and had spent the last eighteen months building it. We were the first project in there so we used that as an experiment in the space. It definitely helps having Sam engineer everything because he’s there every second and has a real grasp of our live sound...
Read the full piece here: The Know
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Nicola from Lay Llamas has picked out some records from his collections for an exclusive podcast for Les Giants.
Listen here: Les Giants
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