Rocket Probes – January 2020 playlist

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Reducer
(Banging first track to be revealed from the bands forthcoming third album...)
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Och – NU:64
(Second single of killer Swedish psych from their forthcoming album)
Och

Petbrick – Gringolicker ($hit and $hine Remix)
(Petbrick through the $&$ filter...what more do you want!)
Petbrick

Various – Strain Crack & Break: Vol1 France 
(Such an amazing compilation...essential listening)
Strain Crack & Break

Wasted Shirt – Double the dream
(Ty Segall and Brian Chippendale make some noise together)
Wasted Shirt

Various – NCM001: HYPHA
(Great new comp compiled by Bristol's mighty Noods radio)
Noods

GNOD / ZOHASTRE – Split 7"
(GNOD and 2/3 of H/U.M unite for a split 7 on Zam Zam)
GNOD / ZOHASTRE

Razen – Ayîk Adhîsta, Adhîsta Ayîk
(Great drones and repetitions)
Razen

Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Hidden Race
(Space metal)
Blood Incantation

Sunburned Hand of the Man – Headless
(New album by the mighty SHOTM...on Cardinal Fuzz)
Sunburned Hand of the Man

Larry Coryell – Sex
(Fuzzed banger from '69)
Larry Coryell

Fire! – You liked me five minutes ago
(Great album of krauty jazz noise)
Fire! 

Hülya Süer – Şeker Oğlan (Kozmonotosman Rework)
(Turkish disco)
Hülya Süer

Colin Stetson – Contact (Color Out of Space)
(New Stetson soundtrck)
Colin Stetson

Bushpilot – Over The Earth I Come
(Post punk 'Can' love on God Unknown)
Bushpilot 

Ninos Du Brazil – O Vento Chama Seu Nome
(Nice tribal techno recommendation from Iggor)
Ninos Du Brazil

Boz Metzdorf – Sails Across The Sea (from Sad About The Times)
(Great psyched west coast pop)
Boz Metzdorf

PJ Harvey and Harry Escott – An Acre of Land
(Winter has set in & this is just perfect folk for the times)
PJ Harvey and Harry Escott 

Elvinid Aarset – Black noise / White Silence
(Turn on. Freak out)
Elvinid Aarset

ARZACHEL – Leg
(Steve Hillage psych prog from 69, heavy on the organs)
ARZACHEL

Mahasonā – -යන්ත්‍ර.මන්ත්‍ර.ගුරුකම්!
(Sri Lankan sludge)
Mahasonā

Concrete Rubber Band - Risen Savior
(Christian Psych Rock from 71)
Concrete Rubber Band

Enslaved – Slaget I Skogen Bortenfor
(Black)
Enslaved

Waclaw Zimpel - Sine Tapes
(Jazz repetitions)
Waclaw Zimpel

Bruxa Maria – The Void (Radio Edit)
(Banging new Bruxa)
Bruxa Maria

Firefriend – Avalanche
(Missed this Cardinal Fuzz album on release...contains some good sounds)
Firefriend

Imitation Electric Piano - EP
(Stereloab with a swing)
Imitation Electric Piano

Puce Mary – The Size of our Desires
(Rhythmic noise)
Puce Mary

Weather Report - Vertical Invader / Seventh Arrow / T.H. / Doctor Honoris Causa (Live)
(Very 'Miles' vibing 72 Weather Report & free & groovy)
Weather Report 

Choronzon – Guest mix for Technoir
(Heavy)
Choronzon

Sandra Bell – The Country Girls
(Distorted outsider sounds from '92)
Sandra Bell 

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (album)
(Coming at this from a love for the groove, the rhythm section really knew how to play, historically its mostly been about the guitars but the others are fucking cooking too and thats what makes it all the more better now).
Black Sabbath 


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PETBRICKS new single Gringolicker released today

Today sees the release of new PETBRICK single Gringolicker that features Warmduschers Mutado Pintado on vocals.

Listen here: Streaming sites  /  Bandcamp

‘Gringolicker’ – the latest single to be taken from ‘I’ features the crazed vocal talents of Mutado Pintado, a very unique individual who can normally be seen fronting the highly acclaimed South London band Warmduscher. Mutado’s twisted stream-of-consciousness lunacy valiantly attempt to inhabit the increasingly unhinged persona of Donald Trump. The uncontrolled rant explodes over a collision of the duos beats and repetitive noise into something that could be called ‘Kraut-Gabba’.

The single's b-side is a heavy industrial remix by the mighty $hit and $hine – who dissolves the original song into a maelstrom of uncontrolled chaos but held together by an incredibly heavy and addictive groove. Listen to this beat of a track above.

PETBRICK's genre defying debut album 'I' can be bought from here on Ltd LP and CD: Bandcamp

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to play Kendal Calling

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are heading to the Lake District on 30 Jul-2 Aug for Kendal Calling Festival – they are playing the Earache stage.

Info and Tickets can be found here: Kendal Calling

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Teeth of the Sea head to Scotland next week

Teeth of the Sea are heading to Scotland next week for two special shows:

07 Feb / Aberdeen / The Tunnels  Tickets
08 Feb / Glasgow / Broadcast  Tickets

The band are also playing these dates in 2020:

29 Feb / London / The Dome (Chaos Theory Festival)
06 Mar / Birmingham / St. Paul's Church (The Seventh Wave Festival)
07 Mar / Manchester / Soup Kitchen (w/Gum Takes Tooth)
20-22 Aug / Somerset / Arc Tangent Festival


+ more Teeth of the Sea live shows soon to be announced.
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The Utopia Strong announce tour supporting Steve Hillage

The Utopia Strong have just announced a special tour supporting the legendary Steve Hillage. The dates are:

June:
23 / Norwich / Waterfront
24 / Exeter / Phoenix
25 / Harpenden / Public Halls

October:
01 / Southampton  / The 1865
02  / Cambridge / The Junction
03 / Newcastle / Boilershop
04 / Glasgow / Old Fruitmarket
06 / Hull / The Welly
07 / Bath / Komedia
08 / Wolverhampton / KK's Steelmill
09 / Nottingham / Rock City
10 / London / The Kentish Town Forum
11 / Manchester / Ritz

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Teeth of the Sea and PETBRICK tom play Arctangent 2020

Great to see more Rocket bands are heading to Arctangent festival.

This year, Teeth of the Sea and PETBRICK have been announced, more info and tickets here: Arc Tangent

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WAV Magazine reviews Petbrick live in Lisbon

They say:

Judging that Petbrickit is just and only an “Iggor Cavalera show” is a big mistake. The presence of the duo live makes their records in the studio look like kid games with cassettes, and frankly, on stage they decimate. The battery feels like a ton of free-falling bricks, and Wayne Adams' electronics fill the room so much that it resonates with the echo of the noise. Layers and layers and layers of waterfalls, textures, industrial buildings of noise pollution and dysfunction. “Radiation Facial” appears, with its shock waves carrying the familiar voice of Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) gargling dissonance in distress. "Horse" unloading the raw and the mechanic on Adams' hydraulics and Iggor's repetition. Brief visits to Ithey resonate like successive hammering in a bone that he wants to yield, but it is the recurring visits to the EP in his own name that deconstruct this whole plan of existence, as if his own life depended on it. The torn high-voltage cables incorporate a film such as Tetsuo, The Iron Man or Akira and come to life through muted and virtually disfigured mutants. Prolonged exposure to the overwhelming and unforgettable "Crack Baby", "Heaven's Gate" and "Trucker Fucker" can result in irreversible and catastrophic damage....

See the review and loads of great photos here: WAV Magazine

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Gnew GNOD / ZOHASTRE split 7" available via Zam Zam Records

The great Zam Zam Records have just released a very special split 7" between GNOD and ZOHASTRE who are 2/3 of the band H.U.M

You can listen to both tracks and buy a copy of the ltd 7" here: Bandcamp

There are still a handful of copies of H.U.M's album 'Trinity Way on clear vinyl available if you missed it: H.U.M

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Listen to $hit and $hine remix of PETBRICK's Gringolicker Feat Warmduschers Mutado Pintado

Head over to The Quietus now to exclusively stream a killer $hit and $hine remix of the PETBRICK track Gringolicker that features Warmduschers Mutado Pintado on vocals.

Listen here: The Quietus

The remix is the b-side of the Gringolicker single that is being released this Friday (31 Jan) on all streaming sites: Presave stream

‘Gringolicker’ – the latest single to be taken from ‘I’ features the crazed vocal talents of Mutado Pintado, a very unique individual who can normally be seen fronting the highly acclaimed South London band Warmduscher. Mutado’s twisted stream-of-consciousness lunacy valiantly attempt to inhabit the increasingly unhinged persona of Donald Trump. The uncontrolled rant explodes over a collision of the duos beats and repetitive noise into something that could be called ‘Kraut-Gabba’.


The single's b-side is a heavy industrial remix by the mighty $hit and $hine – who dissolves the original song into a maelstrom of uncontrolled chaos but held together by an incredibly heavy and addictive groove.

PETBRICK's genre defying debut album 'I' can be bought from here on Ltd LP and CD: Bandcamp

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DJINN announce show with The Cosmic Dead

GOAT/Hills offshoot DJINN have announced another rare live outing – this time they are heading to Kuudes Linja in Helsinki to play a show with The Cosmic Dead on 6 May.

More info here:  Facebook   Tickets

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Och – 'Nu:64' single released today

Today sees the release of Och's new single 'Nu:64' which is taken form their forthcoming album 'II' – released on ltd fluro yellow/black LP on 28 February. Preorder your copy now from all good record stores or digitally presave from here: Stream/Download

"Soundtracking a mysterious ceremony on a medieval planet." Shindig

"Take an existential trip through the dimensions." Fragmented Flaneur

“Sink into the band’s primal ooze.” Raven Sings The Blues

“This will always have a special place in my cosmic heart.” Cvlt Nation

The eight exploratory journeys, that makes-up Och's album  'II' lets the listener plot out a psychic course that traverses the likes of the meditative trance-states of vintage Popol Vuh, the chemically-altered mania of Guru Guru. Synth-driven propulsion akin to French iconoclasts Heldon and Lard Free, and naturally the bucolic raptures of the band’s erstwhile national forebears such as Träd Gräs Och Stenar and Älgarnas Trädgård, not to mention more recent exponents of the same lineage such as Hills and Dungen. Yet the entire vision the band conveys on this delirious travelogue is both timeless and paradoxically fresh.

The band are currently planning some rare live shows for later in the year, watch this space.

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Raven Sings the Blues say some words about Och's new single “NU:64”

They say:

Out of the ashes of Flowers Must Die springs OCH. Some (though not confirmed who or how many) members of the band have sprung forth under the new moniker and are working through the detritus of the German Progressive collapse. Locked to a groove that’s as insistent as a heartbeat, the band washes the rinds of their sound in synth tones that hearken to Harald Grosskopf playing homage to Cluster and Popul Vuh. While there’s a Kosmiche nature to “NU:64” its just smoke above the propulsive motor. The band’s album is hard to parse into pieces – winding up more of a soundbath that’s best experienced in the whole, but this nugget is a damn good entry point. Check out the video by Fredric Ilmarson above and begin to sink into the band’s primal ooze. The record lands 2/28 on Rocket Recordings.

See the piece here: Raven Sings the Blues

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Gnoomes announce February tour

Your favourite Russian band Gnoomes have a announced a series of dates in Europe and Russia for February:

07 Feb / Ljubljana - MENT Festival (SI)
13 Feb / Rennes -  Penny Lane (FR)
14 Feb / Paris - Supersonic (FR)
15 Feb / Angers - Jokerspub (FR)
19 Feb / Moscow - Powerhouse (RU)
29 Feb / Ufa - G-Room (RU)

The bands highly acclaimed third album MU! is available on Ltd LP and CD here: Bandcamp

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Swedish band 'Och' reveal second track of head-spinning sounds exclusively via Cvlt Nation

We are happy to share with you the second track by new Swedish Rocket signings 'Och'. The track which is called 'Nu:64' and is released on all streaming platforms this Friday (24 Jan).

'Nu:64' is taken form their forthcoming album called 'II' which is being released on ltd LP on 28 February. The band have created this lo-fi 'tripped-out' video to accompany the track:

Watch the video for 'Nu:64', exclusively via the great Cvlt Nation here: Cvlt Nation 


"Soundtracking a mysterious ceremony on a medieval planet." Shindig
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"Take an existential trip through the dimensions." Fragmented Flaneur

The eight exploratory journeys, that makes-up Och's album  'II' lets the listener plot out a psychic course that traverses the likes of the meditative trance-states of vintage Popol Vuh, the chemically-altered mania of Guru Guru. Synth-driven propulsion akin to French iconoclasts Heldon and Lard Free, and naturally the bucolic raptures of the band’s erstwhile national forebears such as Träd Gräs Och Stenar and Älgarnas Trädgård, not to mention more recent exponents of the same lineage such as Hills and Dungen. Yet the entire vision the band conveys on this delirious travelogue is both timeless and paradoxically fresh.

'II' is ltd to 350 copies on Fluro Yellow / Black splatter vinyl. We have sold out of our 50 preorder copies but the rest are available to preorder from all good record shops or find one on the bands merch table. Live dates to be announced soon.

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Listen to BBC Introducing interview with Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at Eurosonic

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs were in Holland last week at Eurosonic Festival and BBC Introducing were there and asked the band some questions. Listen back here: BBC Sound

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3voor12vpro reviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs live at Eurosonic

They say:

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Has the hottest licks licks licks

The English port city of Newcastle is known for two things: the metal band Venom and Newcastle Brown Ale. Add those two together and you get Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (also called Pigs x7). Also from Newcastle. The mix of Marshalls and Orange amplifiers that are warming up considerably before the performance in the white hall light of Mutua Fides, are already promising. 

The five (two with long hair, three with fresh short) play a mix of stoner, sludge, metal and straight-up noise. A lot of use, many changes in tempo but played with soul and a certain funk. James Brown on four revs. Wolfmother with real balls. Today we did not see the amplifiers open that far yet. The goblet is also allowed at full power. Singer Matthew Baty has a reasonable throat, but it must have its appearance. In 45 minutes an intense workout comes along reminiscent of Henry Rollins. Including the shiny black sport pants. Occasionally he turns the knobs of an extra noise bin. Applause is meaningless. Everything has to be broken and with oldie 'Sweet Relief' that is no problem. In the end, everything lingers in motion, pounding, rattling and echoing. Until we can do nothing but shout "WHO ARE THE KINGS OF THE FATEST LICKS?" The answer then automatically echoes back from the stage: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. (RL)...

See the piece here: 3voor12vpro

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Teeth of the Sea announce Aberdeen show

Teeth of the Sea have announced their first show in Aberdeen on 7 February

Info/tickets: The Tunnels

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Cvlt Nation interviews Iggor from PETBRICK

They say:

If you like genre-defying music, make some noise for Petbrick. Because they will sure do the same for you, and very well. The duo, composed of Iggor Cavalera and Wayne Adams, released their first full length called I last year.

We’re talking about extreme music that can shake unconventional dance floors at same time as it makes you head bang. It’s industrial, by a simple classification. But is not only this. 

The music Petbrick generates goes beyond labels, creating mesmerizing and disturbing moods by bringing together elements of noise, repetition, nervous beats, kraut experimentalism, hardcore urgency and metalic heaviness. While Iggor (former Sepultura/Cavalera Conspiracy/Mixhell/Soulwax) is in charge of punching the drum kit, Wayne (Big Lad/Death Pedals/Johnny Broke) takes care of the electronic devices that sustain the rhythmic mayhem.


And they have special guests on the debut album to make the chaos loud and clear: Dylan Walker (Full of Hell), Dwid Hellion (Integrity), Mutado Pintado (Warmduscher and Paranoid London) and Laima Leyton (Iggor’s wife)...

Read the rest here:  Cvlt Nation

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The Fragmented Flaneur gives a track-by-track reviews Och – II

They say:

So begins this album… with something that feels very familiar to me… the sound of a Berlin U-Bahn train leaving the station… it’s a sound that signifies the beginning of a sonic journey… but one that never really seems to come to an end.

The commencement of opening track ‘Jag är här, Jag är här’ ‘(I am here, I am here’) is also appropriate because this very much feels like an album of moments… like a flowing stream… never a raging torrent… but very liquid in its approach… never alighting on any particular mood… never going too far… but always moving.

‘Jag är här, Jag är här’ has taken its German beginnings and runs with what is a great motorik track which fairly powers along. However, repeated listens help you to realise that there is more going on here than just a journey… particularly when we get to the noise of the crowd at the end… and this got me thinking how this album feels to me like one of those rapid transit trips through a city where each stop brings new sights and sounds onto the train as people get on and off…


This is borne out by the second track on the album ‘Baum Bar’ which uses tabla and sitar sounds to give the music a very different feel from its predecessor… yet the use of the guitar at the end somehow brings us back to the here and now… another trip on what is becoming a series of them...

Read the rest here: The Fragmented Flaneur 

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Centrum in Get into This's '19 albums that slipped under the radar in 2019'

They say:

Regular readers will be well aware of our affinity for Rocket Recordings.

A label which boasts the likes of Goat, Teeth of the Sea, Gnoomes, Julie’s Haircut, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, Pigs x7 and a whole lot more – and we still managed to miss one of their best releases of any year; Centrum’s otherworldly psych stew För Meditation.

Hailing from Sweden, För Meditation does exactly what it says on the tin – it’s a meditative aural hug which is so luxuriating you could bathe in it.

Melding percussive shuffles, tabla, sitar, cyclical flute and undulating drones, here’s an album to literally lie down with, close your eyes and be taken into the land of Never Ever.  Yet, there’s always a searing fuzz-toned guitar around the corner to awaken you from the dream.

Bookended by two colossal tracks, Stjärnor is akin to Jason Pierce jamming with Ash Ra Tempel in the Uluru desert while the other ‘short’ track, the eight minute Sjön is the kind of stoned exotica fans of Kikagaku Moyo will revel in.

However, it’s on the album’s opening and closing tracks where the band truly excel; Som En Spegel is a 12 minute tribal groove which explodes into life midway through with fugged out chanting vocals and dissonant bells, wind chimes and thudding drums deep in the mix.

Opener Vid Floden is even better with a warped Arabian drone contrasting with buzzsaw guitars and lightly scattered sleigh bells.

To dissect the album’s components though is to miss the point – För Meditation is a complete whole which needs to be digested as one.

Those with little patience will find little to enjoy, however, if you immerse yourself into their mysterious void of sound – the riches are truly magnificent. – Peter Guy

Read the rest here: GIT

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Paste magazine puts Gnoomes in their '10 Experimental Bands Who Are Redefining Guitar Music' list

They say:

Gnoomes (pictured above) infuse spacey shoegaze with cold techno and brisk krautrock, and the Russian band’s latest full-length, MU!, offers a much more meaningful and unique psychedelic experience than most. Per a press release, MU! was made after the band “locked themselves in an old soviet radio station with analogue synths,” and it completed their album trilogy, which began with 2015’s Ngan!. Marked by therapeutic vocals, marching drums, blooming synths and fuzzy guitars, Gnoomes make reality much more blissful.

Read the full piece here: Paste Magazine

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Gareth Turner (Anthroprophh / Kuro) aka "Fuck Authority" heads out on Tour with Red Kross

Long term Rocket friend, band member Gareth Turner (Anthroprophh / Kuro) aka Fuck Authority is heading out on tour this April. He will be supporting the original Los Angeles Punk Rockers Redd Kross in Europeland throughout the month into May.

To get into the spirit of of what be expected, check out this repetitive heavy kraut monster track here: Soundcloud 

Fuck Authority has been working with none other than Julian Cope on his project DOPE (featuring Fuck Authority) & have previously released 2 now sold out limited albums on Bristol label Environmental Studies

You can follow Fuck Authority on Twitter & Facebook here:

https://twitter.com/fukauthority69
https://www.facebook.com/fukauthority69

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Rough Trade exclusive and instrore shows

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have a special version of their new 'Viscerals' album available at Rough Trade - the 'Blood Clot vinyl' version also comes with a free ltd edition and exclusive CD called 'Offcuts' which will contain six session takes of tracks from across Pigs' three albums.

Preorder this unique version here: Rough Trade

Not only that the band are celebrating the albums release with three instores in Rough Trade:

Rough Trade Bristol on 5 April  Info

Rough Trade East on 6 April Info

Rough Trade Nottingham on 7 April  Info

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Listen to Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs in session

Yesterday Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs went to BBC 6 Music and shook the foundations with another session for Marc Riley. It was the first airing of two new tracks, 'Reducer' and 'World Crust', plus classics, 'Sweet Relief' and 'GNT'. 

You can here it back here plus the extra track they did for Gideon Coe:

Marc Riley

Gideon Coe

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Orange interviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs reveal first track for forthcoming album 'Viscerals'

Now this is the perfect way to kick start 2020 – a ferocious new single by the mighty Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.

The track is called 'Reducer' and it is the first track to be revealed from the bands forthcoming third album 'Viscerals' – released on 3 April. Watch the eye popping video made by the band and Rockets own John O'Carroll above:

Preorder Ltd LP and CD here: Preorder Viscerals

The incredible upward trajectory of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs has done nothing to make the Newcastle-based quintet complacent however, as they’ve used the cumulative force behind them as fuel for their most ambitious and hard-hitting record yet. ‘Viscerals’, their third proper is an enormous leap forward in confidence, adventure and sheer intensity even from their 2018 breakthrough ‘King Of Cowards’. Incisive in its riff-driven attack, infectiously catchy in its songcraft and more intrepid than ever in its experimental approach, ‘Viscerals’ is the sound of a leaner, more vicious Pigs, and one with their controls set way beyond the pulverising one-riff workouts of their early days.

'Viscerals' is available to preorder now on CD and on 'Exposed Entrails vinyl' 
– a very special 'Rocket' vinyl version as shown above. Order from the band here: Preorder Viscerals

The eye-popping sleeve art is by the very talented Max Loeffler.

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See Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs live in 2020

16 Jan / NL / Eurosonic Festival / Groningen
27 Jan / UK / Independent Music Week / Sunderland
13 Mar / US / New York / St Vitus
15 Mar / US / LA / The Moroccan Lounge
16–22 Mar / US / Austin / SxSW Festival
03 Apr / UK / Newcastle upon Tyne / Star and Shadow Cinema
04 Apr / UK / Newcastle upon Tyne / Star and Shadow Cinema
16 Apr / UK / Manchester - Gorilla
17 Apr / UK / Birmingham - The Mill
18 Apr / UK / Bristol - Thekla *SOLD OUT*
24 Apr / UK / Leeds - Stylus
25 Apr / UK / Glasgow - St Luke’s
29 Apr / UK / Nottingham - Rescue Rooms
30 Apr / UK / London - Electric Ballroom
01 May / UK / Brighton - Concorde 2
03 May / DE / Berlin / Desertfest
05 May / BE / Brussels /  AB Club
06 May / FR / Paris /  La Boule Noir
07 May / FR / Lille/  Aeronef 
08 May / NL / Amsterdam / Paradiso
9-11 Jul / SK / Trenčín / Phonda Festival

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Laura sadly leaves Julie's Haircut

We are extremely sad to hear that the very talented Laura Agnusdei is leaving Julie's Haircut to concentrate on her amazing solo material, Laura said this:

Last night in Bologna was my last concert with Julie's Haircut. This doesn't mean we won't play and collaborate anymore together, but just that it won't be intense and stable like it was in the past. It's impossible to explain in a FB post how fun It was being part of this band and how they will be forever my zii and the only 5 guys who can bully me and still have my love back. I am very proud and grateful to have been a part of the 25 years-history of this unique band. Let's celebrate these 4.5 years of concerts with my favorite pic ever of us on the ferry to Sicily in 2017

And the band added:

+sad but proud mode on+
The last few years since Laura joined the band have been among the best ever for us. We’ve made three albums, tons of shows, we jammed, laughed, traveled, had a great time, and of course happily shared the weight of the less enjoyable sides of it. Now it’s time to say goodbye and part our ways. We’re already looking forward to playing (and eating, drinking, being awesome) with her again soon, but the show in Bologna last night has been her last as a stable part of our line up. It’s been a crazy, fun rollercoaster ride and we’ve loved it. She’s our little sister, we wish her all the best with her music and we know she’ll make us proud. Till next time.

Massive good luck to Laura and we can't wait to hear the music she creates!

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