The Utopia Strong announces Hastings show

The Utopia Strong are going to be playing a live set as part of this special DJ soundclash between Steve/Kavus Vs Graham Massey (808 State) and Leila (Reflex).

Gonna be a great night of cosmic sounds....

Info/Tickets here: Facebook

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Music Pills reviews DJINN

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Djinn is the name of spirit creatures whose origin can be put back in the early Islamic mythology and has been anglicized in genies. They could be considered good, neutral or bad, and it’s said that God created them out of a mixture of fire. Djinn is also the name chosen for an alternative project born from the mind of members of Swedish bands Goat and Hills. We’re going to dig into their first and homonymous full-length.

It’s a step forward for the label Rocket Recordings into a “jazzier” soundscape, where folk elements blend with free form solos to form a mysterious soundscape salted by a touch of irony and fun. The cover shows black and white characters whose traits are distorted and bent, their textures slightly show a fine symbolism regarding eyes shedding tears. We can group the figures this way: two single characters, each by its own, and all the others forming a masked unit, their mouth a painful grimace. Then there’s the single man on the left, the only one that wears a hat, a sort of crown, and the only one laughing at the scene. The main one is at the center of the mess: its skin is pure black, his limbs unnaturally stretched trying to grab something covered. This better reflects the image of the djinn, the mythologic creature.


The cover clarifies the sonic content: a distorted beast with bad intentions aiming to twist your mind with sounds beyond the earth, and the laughing man maybe is the conscious listener, the one who doesn’t fear the new and the mysterious. Together with him, let’s dive in....

Read the rest here: Music Pills

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Gum Takes Tooth and Teeth of the Sea in The Quietus's 'Albums of the year so far'

They say:

17. Gum Takes Tooth - Arrow
This isn’t an easy listen, or at times even an enjoyable one – Arrow grabs you by the back of the neck and proceeds to electrocute you from inside out, hissing “do you see?” in your ear every 30 seconds. From the artificial heartbeat and shattered, sinuous vocals of opener ‘Chrome Cold Hearts’ to the outer-space metallic maelstrom of ‘House Built On Fire’, Gum Takes Tooth make sure that this is not escapism, but a shackling to the Hellmouth that we have all helped to create. 
Brendan Telford


28. Teeth Of The Sea - Wraith
Teeth of the Sea have excelled themselves on this highly rewarding record. Their collaborators - Chlöe Herington and Katharine Gifford as well as Magaletti, and the production skills of Erol Alkan - has given them a new polish, a sophistication, even. While there was never any doubting their psychedelic influences and their way with a groove, Wraith offers something more. Full of variety and unpredictability, like the best science fiction it maps out a dreamworld of our times, a tonic against the deathly thoughts of the small hours.
Tom Bolton

See the full rundown here: The Quietus

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Colourhorizon say some words about Teeth of the Sea's WRAITH

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Aggressively forging the future: Teeth Of The Sea present WRAITH

The Scribes made many Foretelling in the days before the Ending Time. Employed by the Slavic dukes they would toil to make predictions for their masters. While the dukes dined on suckling pig in their marbled halls, the Scribes huddled in the candle light of their under-rooms. When the Foretelling arrived, the eyes of the Scribes would roll upwards in their heads and their quills would scratch ramblings and snatches of the things to come.

One such Scribe, Obseqious, saw Teeth Of The Sea in a dark Foretelling. Obseqious fell into a deep trance for many days, to the point in which the duke raged at the thought of his valuable Scribe possibly dying. When Obseqious awoke his papers where full of scattered notes on Teeth Of The Sea. He later compiled them into a vague narrative, translated by a Czech historian:

… there will come a time in which the beloved Post Rock will falter and fall… 

Read the rest here: Colourhorizon

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Rocket Probes – June 2019 playlist

The Utopia Strong – Brainsurgeons 3
(Killer 10min+ track by this new Rocket three-piece – the vinyl is a thing of beauty too!)

Papivore – Death and Sprong
(Agathe from KURO and Tom from Tomaga...really great new sounds on Hands in the Dark)
Papivore 

Errant Monks – The Táltos
(Sad to hear Errant Monks are no more, but at least they left us this...)
Errant Monks

Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra
(Unfolding, repetitive loveliness)
Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur

Attempted Moustache – You're The One
(Another Cherrystones endorsed banger!)
Attempted Moustache

Prairie WWWW – Pán
(Kosmiche grooved pop from Taiwan...'another' Heather from Black Impulse tip)
Prairie WWWW

White Manna – Ape on a Sunday
(Nice psyched out jams on Cardinal Fuzz)
White Manna

Cosmo Vitelli – Kuldip
(Cosmic groove)
Cosmo Vitelli

Stereolab – Jenny Ondioline Part 2 (Breakdown Mix)
(Great unreleased version on the recent reissue..thanks John Hirst)
Stereolab

Carter Tutti Void – t3.5
(Banger!)
Carter Tutti Void
https://youtu.be/5NW0v9rInjU

Einsturzende Neubauten – Armenia
(Looping noise)
Einsturzende Neubauten

Rien virgule – Des Punks sur nos Caillebotis
(Postpunk Can sounds from France)
Rien virgule

Hama – Houmeissa
(Great synth rave from Niger that Joe from Hey Colossus played during his 6 Music interview)
Hama

Gazelle Twin – Belly of the beast
(Repetitions...a modern Munic & Elsewhere)
Gazelle Twin

Frozen Sun – Electric Soul
(Fuzz rock)
Frozen Sun

Queens of the Stone Age – Born to Hula (Old Version)
(Nice groove out at the end)
Queens of the Stone Age

Pious Faults – Old Thread
(Thanks to Adam Reid for telling us about this Australian noise band)
Pious Faults

Listen to our updated monthly Rocket Probes playlist on Spotify:



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Bandcamp daily interviews Gnoomes for article on Russian Shoegaze

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Gnoomes’ reputation has been rapidly growing thanks to 2017’s Tschak! and this year’s MU!, both powerful albums full of psych/electronic fusions. The band freely cite shoegaze as their initial inspiration, and early releases, like 2014’s It’s moonbow-time, boy, are awash in gently-lapping waves of guitar and distant, mournful vocals. “We were big fans of that particular genre for a long time, since we were kids,” says keyboardist Masha Piankova. “We weren’t able to go see bands play live, so we got all our info from the Internet. When we started as a new band, we called ourselves shoegaze—not even shoegaze: Stargaze!”

Read the rest here: Bandcamp Daily

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Gum Takes Tooth and Teeth of the Sea in Get Into This's 'Top 25 albums of the Year So Far'

Get Into This has published their list of 'Top 25 albums of the Year So Far' and we are proud to say we have the following two albums in the list:

Gum Takes Tooth – Arrow
Teeth of the Sea – Wraith

You can see what they say about both albums here: GIT

And both bands are playing a very special festival in Liverpool by the Get Into This team called 'Deeper Cuts' that takes place on 13 July also includes Housewives on the bill. Tickets can be bought from here: Deeper Cuts

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Teeth of the Sea's trip to the moon

Last night Teeth of the Sea played a two hour set soundtracking the documentary Apollo Moon Shot at the Science Museum and what an 'out of this world' experience it was!

Top  marks to the boys on taking such a gargantuan project and pulling off such a stellar performance. And congratulations to all involved at the Science Museum and the Smithsonian Channel for hosting such a special event!

Photo by Neil Thompson for the Smithsonian Channel 

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Gnoomes Tschak Remixed! cassette – small repress on sale now

Due to demand from fans we have done a short run of 25 of the long out of print Gnoomes cassette 'Tschak Remixed'.

The tape features remixes by Rocket bands:

Lay Llamas
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation
Julie's Haircut

Plus remixes by

Ulrich Schnauss
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete
Landing
Al Lover
Kalli Ma
Myka
Camedor

Buy the cassette here: Bandcamp

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Circuit Sweet say some words about The Utopia Strong

They say:

THE UTOPIA STRONG: A NEW SYNTH PROJECT OF STEVE DAVIS, KAVUS TORABI AND MICHAEL J. YORK SELF TITLED DEBUT OUT ON ROCKET RECORDINGS 13 SEPTEMBER

“The overall sound was pretty accidental” reckons Kavus Torabi. “I certainly didn’t expect the music to sound so ecstatic and positive, Without wanting to puncture the mystery, there really felt like an element of magic at play in making this album. For the most part it was incredibly effortless”

“The band evolved from having had so much fun together and also sharing similar musical tastes” continues Steve Davis, “Mike (York) was living in Glastonbury where Kavus and I DJ’d in 2017. We all hung out together during the festival and the Utopia Strong was born. The name came later and I suppose reflects the fact that – once we’d jammed together and listened back to the improvising – the music felt pretty euphoric and otherworldly. It was very psychedelic but also strangely wonky”

It was never any secret that Davis – even at the peak of his household name status in the 1980s – was as happy putting a needle on a vinyl record as anything else involving a cue. Renowned as an aficionado of soul, jazz-funk and progressive rock from the seventies onwards, he famously once single-handedly promoted three nights at the Bloomsbury Theatre for French esoteric leviathans Magma, so frustrated was he by their absence from British shores...

Read the rest here: Circuit Sweet

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