Shit and Shine's Bad Vibes released today – watch new video for track 'Backstage Passes'

Today see's the release of $hit & $hine's new album for Rocket called 'Bad Vibes'. The album is available on white/cyan splatter vinyl (ltd to 500 copies). And to celebrate, the band have revealed a new video for the track Backstage Passes – and like the previous two videos from the album, this was expertly made by the very talented Oliver Lewis.

Buy now from your local record store and  stream here: Spotify


"Exploration of excitement." Album of the week  Loud & Quiet 
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"Off-kilter, experimental dance excursions." 9/10 Soundblab 
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"Labyrinthine mind-maps to oblivion." Echoes & Dust


Bad Vibes...
Fresh from yet another demolition derby between high trash and the lowest avant-garde, ‘Bad Vibes’ is the sound of the Shit & Shine jalopy rocketing way beyond the speed limit on the lineage of the lysergic. Sunstruck abstract disco and pulverising 303-driven piledrivers lock horns with industrial-tinged murk. And frankly, you’d better either get on board or get well out of the way.

$hit & $hine have two more shows on their European tour to go:

09 Nov / Tabtap / Schaffhausen
10 Nov / Paper Dress Vintage / London

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Drowned in Sound interviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

They say:

Heavy music has always been an outlier. Even when it has crashed into the mainstream by the sheer force of a riff so irresistible that even the most delicate of tastes succumb, it remains doggedly ‘other’. The successes of bands like Black Sabbath, in spite of gothic attire and flirtations with satanic imagery, while utterly valid, often feel like the establishment’s fleeting dalliance with the darkly exotic.

Broadly speaking, metal is often dished up in either an overtly theatrical or deeply serious way. Of course Sunn O))) brilliantly combine both and make the most intense brain scrambling and oddly meditative music in the process. But it’s certainly not for the faint of heart and, for some, either earnestness or camp posturing can act as a barrier.

Then Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs came along and tore up the rule book.

“There’s one thing I like about our band, this sounds strange, but I’m gonna go there: aesthetically, we don’t really look like a band that makes the kind of music that we make, if you get me?”...

Read the full interview here: DIS

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs reveal new '2019 Spring Tour' dates

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have announced more UK dates to their 2019 shows!

The full list of all their up-and-coming shows now reads:

NOVEMBER
08 / DE / Koln / Museum
09 / NL / Leeuwarden / Asteriks
09 / NL / Utrecht / Le Guess Who Festival
10 / NL / Eindhoven / Effenaar
22 / UK / Sheffield / Picture House *SOLD OUT*
23 / UK / Brighton / Hope and Ruin *SOLD OUT*
24 / UK / Leeds / Temple of Boom *SOLD OUT
29 / UK / York / Fulford Arms 
30 / UK / Liverpool / Shipping Forecast

DECEMBER
01 / UK / Glasgow / Nice ‘n  Sleazy 
10 / UK / Bristol / The Fiddlers *SOLD OUT*

MARCH
27 / UK / Leeds / Brudenell
28 / UK / Bristol / The Exchange
29 / UK / Birmingham / Hare & Hounds *SOLD OUT*
30 / UK / Cardiff / Clwb Ifor Bach

APRIL
03 / UK / Manchester / Rebellion
04 / UK / London / Scala
05 / UK / Brighton / The Haunt
06 / UK / Bedford / Esquires
08 / UK / Norwich / Waterfront
09 / UK / Cambridge/ Portland Arms
10 / UK/ Oxford / The Bullingdon Arms 
11 / UK / Nottingham / Rock City
12 / UK / Leicester / The Cookie
14 / UK / Chester / The Live Rooms
16 / UK / Glasgow / King Tut's
17 / UK / Edinburgh / Mash House
19 / UK / Gateshead / Sage

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs interview in latest Loud and Quiet

Pick-up the latest issue of Loud and Quiet to read an interview with the mighty Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs about their latest album King of Cowards. Also in the issue is the review of Shit & Shine's new album Bad Vibes which is out on Friday.

More info here: L&Q

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Loud and Quiet makes Shit and Shines 'Bad Vibes' their 'Album of the Week'

They say:

In the late 1990s, a condition known as “Czech Neck” was invented by producers of Channel 4’s satirical masterpiece Brass Eye. Caused by the fictitious drug “Cake”, it turned rats into space hoppers, made recipients throw up their own pelvis bones and led Conservative MP David Amess to use the phrase “big yellow death bullet” in parliament.

Sensationalism has rarely left acid house and its experimental noise off-shoots, and its frontrunners have rarely been allowed a platform to hit back. While it possesses little political agenda, Shit & Shine’s fourth album on Rocket Recordings strikes with an edge of satire and absurdism that clicks with the custard gannets of Brass Eye as much as stands it out as a demolition job within its own genre worth listening to.

Musically, the 303-led acid nostalgia of ‘Bad Vibes’ soundtracks the exercise video for the apocalypse. A reductive interview sample on ‘Bottle Brush’ opens by asking “You don’t want to talk about what happened?” “No, not at all”. It leaves that there. The binary BPMs on ‘Northwest Pool’ call for imminent take-off. The brilliant ‘Yeah I’m On Acid!’ samples a heavy metal parking lot into techno mayhem, like Gazelle Twin’s ‘Better in My Day’ minus the red latex Pied Piper. ‘Backstage Passes!’ drowns a scratching hip-hop riff into muddy water over a whiney sample of basic VIP hype, before an even whinier sample rebuts with “Madonna can go to hell, as far as I’m concerned she’s a dick.”...

Read the full review here: L&Q

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KURO play Dronica Festival

KURO are joining a mighty bill of artists at this years Dronica festival at The Old Church in
Stoke Newington on Nov 30 / Dec 1.

Tickets and full line-up can be found here: Dronica

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Soundblab gives Shit & Shine 'Bad Vibes' 9 out of 10

Soundblab gives Shit & Shine 'Bad Vibes' album 9 out of 10:

This is what they say:

Barmy noise rockers, Shit and Shine have always straddled the boundary between the rational and the preposterous in their off-kilter, experimental dance excursions. Sometimes the music is simply a head-fuck, and sometimes they get the funk going like no other existing band. The titleBad Vibes may foretell your listening experience, but it's more likely just another signpost leading you inexorably into Shit and Shine’s trademark universe of musical perversions.

There should be one of those pharmaceutical leaflets in the record sleeve warning buyers of potential side effects. By the time ‘Yeah, I’m on Acid’ reaches its trippy zenith, your mind and the music have become co-naturalized, so resistance is futile. As if the exhortations of ‘yeah I’m on acid, yeah !” and ‘cocaine, yeah, alright !’ aren’t enough subliminal influence, the groove is insistent, and as with all Craig Clouse’s Texan hallucinations, the object is not only to digress into industrial wastelands of alien noise but grab you on a leash and drag you through the musical refuse. Mind and body trawling through decomposition, both literal and musical......

Read the full review: Soundblab

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Gum Takes Tooth track 'The Arrow' in The Quietus October Tracks of the Month

We are delighted to have the new Gum Takes Tooth track 'The Arrow' featured in The Quietus 'October Tracks of the Month'.

'More searing interstellar brilliance from the ferocious London duo'

Check out the full list here: The Quietus

You can pre-order the album from our store: Gum Takes Tooth

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Flowers Must Die 100 Club Gig with The Heads

As previously announced Flowers Must Die are playing a gig at the 100 Club with Bristolians The Heads on the 1st of December.

Unfortunately Lisa their singer / Violin player won't be joining the band for this gig so they have invited the amazing Agathe Max from Kuro/Mesange and Tom Fug from the equally amazing Gum Takes Tooth on percussion.

It should all lead to an amazing psych night in central London so buy your tickets now:

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Listen to exclusive Shit & Shine mix for Bleep

Ahead of next Friday's (9th Nov) release of Shit & Shine's album Bad Vibes, the lovely people at Bleep have asked the artist to create them an exclusive mix...and it is well worth a listen!

Info, tracklist and preorder of the ltd LP can be found here: Bleep

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