If you listen to BBC 6 Music you would of already heard that Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation are releasing Sunday Afternoon, a track taken from their debut album Horse Dance as a single.
The digital single is being released on 4 March and features an unreleased track called Lucid Sapphire as the bside.
You can preorder it from here: iTunes
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The press release reads:
JOSEFIN ÖHRN+ THE LIBERATION
SUNNY AFTERNOON
(LAUNCH091)
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation is a Swedish band, fronted by Josefin Öhrn alongside Fredrik Joelson who heads up a collection of musicians called The Liberation.
In the last twelve months, the band have experienced a dramatic rise to prominence with their debut album Horse Dance and single Take me Beyond that received heavy rotation on BBC 6 Music daytime airwaves. Now Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation return with the track Sunny Afternoon the
second single taken from the album.
Sunny Afternoon takes a tribal ‘Can meets Adam and the Ants’ like beat, fuzz bass, heavy synths and piano to create a gothy, psych pop groove that calls to mind late 70s ‘Siouxsie and the Banshees’ mixed with 90s space rockers ‘Laika’.
The B side is an unreleased track called Lucid Sapphire. The track is centred around an urgent and repetitive fuzz punk riff that is underpinned with a motorik beat and screaming synths. Josefin’s whispered vocal and harmonies adds an ethereal quality that creates a tension with the music.
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation have several prominent European Festivals confirmed in 2016 plus a full European tour is to be announced soon. The band have also just finished recording new material that will be released in the summer.
So 2016 looks to be another good year for Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation.
Listen to Sunny Afternoon here:
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Frank Film, Frank MOURIS, 1973 by shortanimatedworld
Hills – Live at Daemonens Port
(Hills live double LP... what more you need to know)
Hills
Landing - Across the sky (Gnoomes remix)
(The mighty Gnoomes remix a track by US space dronesters 'Landing')
Gnoomes
David Bowie - Blackstar
(Some great track on this album to leave us with...true genius)
David Bowie
Guilhem Desq – Omen
(This is stunning...now that is a nice FUZZ sound)
Guilhem Desq
Kebnekajse - Resa Mot Okant Mal
(Bass player from Goat turned us on to this 70s Swedish psych rock album)
Kebnekajse
Julia Holter – Have you in my wilderness
(Late to the game with this great album...musically it reminds us of Robert Wyatt and bits of Broadcast plus a whole load more)
Julia Holter
This Heat - Reissues
(Nice to have these lovely packaged reissues (saves the wear on the originals)...essential records that every home must not be without)
This Heat
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Cognition / Observation
(The great Robert Lowe returns with another great slice of modular synth and african drum patterns)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Flowers Must Die – HÖGA NORD
(We are huge fans of FMD as you know, and this picture disc from last year is still on heavy rotation in mission control...and they have just put up a ltd few more copies up on their site, BUY ONE QUICK!)
Flowers Must Die
Count Ossie – Man from Higher Heights
(Simon Price from the Heads turned us on to this back in the mid nineties...minimal tribal dub with fuzz guitar...still a Rocket fave!)
Count Ossie
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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation first show of the year takes them to Vega in Copenhagen.
So don't miss this great show tonight!!!
More info can be found here: Live Europe
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It is only two weeks away until Teeth of the Sea take the stage for the first time in 2016 with an incredible support in the likes of Ramleh.
According to Baba Yagas Hut 3/4 of the tickets are gone so another sellout is on its way.
If you don't have a ticket yet then you can get one here: Baba Yaga Hut
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Danish site Ekstra Bladet asked Josefin Öhrn what are the five records that changed your life, her answers were (roughly translated):
Josefin Öhrn : Five records that changed my life
The concert current Swedish singer of a handful of albums that made a crucial difference
Stockholm Josefine Öhrn + The Liberation played in the aftermath of the Grammy-nominated debut EP 'Diamond Wave' at last year's Roskilde Festival. Since it is acclaimed debut album 'Horse Dance' come, and now guests the back country with their psychedelic stoner-pop that sounds a bit like Hope Sandoval in front of The War On Drugs. On this occasion we have asked Josefin find five personal landmark plates out from the rack.
Catherine Ribeiro + 2BIS: 'Catherine Ribeiro + 2BIS' (1969)
I was crazy about this album, because I had never heard anything like it before. Catherine Ribeiro is a French / Portuguese artist. The music is hypnotic and very powerful. Catherine Ribeiro wrote with Patrice Moullet, who built his own instrument, called a 'kosmofon', which is a combination of a synthesizer and percussion, making music is very atmospheric.
Her vote is totally incredible. She tells so many stories just by the sound of his voice. And so the way the songs are created on the events is very interesting, it is very avant-garde. I first heard a song in a playlist and wanted to hear more, but could not...
Read the rest of the interview here: Ekstra Bladet
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Fuzz Club have announced a new Monthly event at London Fields Brewery called Under the Arches.
The event is label market by day and great live bands by night and the first night features Rocket fave Gum takes Tooth!
So, we will have a stall selling our releases (+ exclusives at some events) and expect the odd Rocket band or two performing live.
What Fuzz Club say:
Under The Arches brings together a selection of like-minded independent record labels from the UK, US and Europe alongside the best local and touring bands that will take to the stage from 4pm for a full day of music, vinyl and good times.
We'll also have streetfood vendors on site and craft beer tastings from London Fields Brewery, because hey, it's Hackney afterall.
More info here: Under the Arches
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After the success of Hey Colossus's last trip to Shipley the lovely people of Golden Cabinet have invited them back.
They are playing with Diagonal Records Not Waving and Drmcnt, Rhys from Hey Colossus Acid solo project.
More info from here: Golden Cabinet
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Hey Colossus perform Hop the Railings
(live at The Firefly, Worcester - 12th November 15)
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It reads:
It’s safe to say that it’s been an exciting year for Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation.
Despite still being in their relatively early infancy, the Stockholm-based group have already been nominated for a Swedish Grammy award – which came as a result of their excellent debut EP Diamond Wave – and performed at the coveted Roskilde Festival, featuring on the Rising stage alongside other hotly-tipped Scandinavian artists such as Broen, Yung and De Underjordiske.
Add to that repeated plays on BBC 6 Music, positive coverage from The Guardian, Noisey and Q, and the honour of being one of Lauren Laverne’s “headphone moments”, and you can see why they are currently one of Sweden’s most talked about rock bands.
With a name that references the Bardo Thodol, their debut full-length was always going to be a psychedelic and deeply conscious offering, and it is one through which band leader Josefin Öhrn has attempted to pursue her interest in “mind-altering psychedelic music”, which she believes is a “powerful way to unveil those deeper oceans of being that are our true home”....
Read the rest of this great review here: Artefact
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