4 Feb 2019
Circuit Sweet say some words about Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation's new single 'Desire'
They say:
London-based psychedelic stalwarts Josefin Öhrn + the Liberation will release their third album in April via premiere label Rocket Recordings. Continuing to dive into the deeper waters of experimentation, ‘Sacred Dreams’ is both a musically hefty amalgamation of reverb drenched space-rock and retro centric electronics, as well as an emotionally cathartic release for the band, marking a new direction and fresh approach.
See the full piece here: Circuit Sweet
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Bonnacons of Doom announce Todmorden show
Bonnacons of Doom have announced a show at The Golden Lion in Todmorden on 7 March.
Info/Tickets here: Golden Lion
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Fighting Boredom reviews Gum Takes Tooth's Arrow
They say:
Fighting Boredom watched Gum Takes Tooth perform at last years Supersonic Festival, they were great. The London based duo describe themselves as ‘a unique unclassifiable fury that flirts with both speaker-ripping psych-rock pyrotechnics and synapse-shredding acid house’. Read what we thought about their new album below.
The air’s vibrating, it’s the volume you need to have to experience this album to it’s full potential. The glass in the windows is shaking and there is dust floating down from the lampshades. It’s giving me a feeling of dislocation and tripping out. The record does not fit into any categories, it’s apart, out on the edge and making you try and catch your breath. It’s not fast, not overpowering, it just takes over and makes your brain concentrate on the music and sound coming from the speakers.
There are electronics. trippy and weird vocals, oddly synced moments and spiraling psychedelia. There is a feeling of being lost in a huge dense wood. Lost alone and unable to concentrate on what you should. There’s moments when you feel like you’re falling from above the clouds and then massive electronic wasps buzzing in your brain. It’s a mad dash across the edges of noise and will totally absorb you while you are inside.
So lie back, switch it on and tune in to Gum Takes Tooth, Fighting Boredom will see you on the other side.
See the full review here: Fighting Boredom
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Aural Aggravation reviews Teeth of the Sea's WRAITH
They say:
Evolution – that’s perhaps the only word when considering Teeth Of The Sea. Their career is defined by it.
Their BandCamp biography gives some sense of context: ‘Since their formation in 2006, London-based Teeth Of The Sea have metamorphosized into the most adventurous psychedelic rock outfit in the UK. Taking on board influences like Morricone, Eno, Delia Derbyshire, Goblin, and the Butthole Surfers, they’ve arrived at an incendiary sound that marries the aural enlightenment of an avant-garde sensibility with the reckless abandon of trashy rock & roll.’
It was with Your Mercury that I joined the trip, sold instantly by ‘The Ambassador’ with its overloading noise intro, spiralling into a slow-paced desert rock weird out.
Each release has been different again, and so there’s nothing of that ilk to be found on Wraith, an album that’s slanted more toward the electronic end of the spectrum, although the guitars, while far from prominent, are very much integral to the texture and depth. But this being Teeth of the Sea, it’s a bit of everything all at once, and this is apparent from the very first track: ‘I’d Rather, Jack’ brings a sonorous bass and droning synth together over a thumping industrial disco beat with crashing snare that stutters and glitches all over, before jazz trumpet and a space-rock guitar fire off on different trajectories. It’s rare for such a maelstrom of ideas and forms to whip together into anything other than a horrible mess, but Teeth of the Sea manage to blend the ingredients into something far greater than the sum of the parts, the atmosphere shifting from oppressive to uplifting...
Read the rest here: Aural Aggravation
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GNOD announce Brighton Show
GNOD are playing Brighton on 25 May at Patterns (10 Marine Parade, BN2 1TL).
The bands up-and-coming shows, now read:
GNOD R&D
14 Feb / Phipps Hall / Huddersfield Info
16 Feb / Unclouded Festival, EKKO / Utrecht Info
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GNOD
21 Feb / The Peer Hat / Manchester
22 Feb / Trades Club / Hebden Bridge
24–26 May / Raw Power Festival / London
25 May / Patterns / Brighton
06 July / Astral Festival / Bristol
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Info/tickets here: Dictionary Pudding
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Anthroprophh's OMEGAVILLE in Downtuned's Albums of 2018
Anthroprophh's amazing OMEGAVILLE is Number 3 in Downtuned's Albums of 2018
See the full list here: Downtuned
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The Tinnitist reviews Gum Takes Tooth's Arrow
They say:
We are as close to cataclysm as we’ve ever been. Figuratively speaking, at least. Thanks to a myriad of reasons that you already know about — or at least should — the so-called Doomsday Clock was recently moved ahead to 11:58 p.m. for the first time in decades. That’s right, we’re at two minutes to midnight. Congratulations, Iron Maiden fans. You’ve got the theme song to the Apocalypse yet again. But for my money, Gum Takes Tooth’s third album Arrow makes a much better soundtrack to a depressing dystopian world. Armed with just a set of drums, a slew of electronic triggers and effects, the occasional vocal line and the best band name of the past decade, this London duo construct unnerving, claustrophobic soundscapes that channel all the paranoia and anxiety of 21st-century urban living. Grim throbbing washes of sound swoosh and swoop overhead like black helicopters on patrol; sirens howl plaintively on the periphery; voices clamour indecipherably in the distance; nothing ever settles into a stable pattern long enough to be even vaguely predictable or comfortable. The overall effect is not unlike walking down a pitch-black, deserted street late at night. You’re hyper-aware of your surroundings, unable to relax, constantly on alert for potential assaults from all sides. And you can only hope you make it to safety before the clock strikes midnight.
See the full review here: Tinnitest
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1 Feb 2019
Gum Takes Tooth 'Arrow' in The Quietus 'Album of the Month'
'If we inhabited the best of all worlds, Arrow would be a stone-cold game changer for Gum Takes Tooth, such is its sheer muscular, psychedelic jouissance. It is a towering obelisk of impervious magnificence and timeless surety rising high above a roiling, acid sea of anxiety whipped up by the cultural collapse caused by western decline, eschatological panic and general 2019 quotidian fuckery. It is an album whose mere existence will make the seasoned listener stop in their tracks, look skyward and nod thankfully at a salmon pink and rosebud red sunset of fractal shapes. So many studio-focused groups have tried to do the drums and synths go psychedelic kraut metal disco thing in the past but damn near all of them have got lost, at one stage or other, down relatively sterile production and authenticity rabbit holes instead of just opening the fuck up on all channels and heading off into the unknown.'
Read the full full list here: The Quietus
The band will also be hitting the road in the coming months and take it from us after their amazing psychedelic album launch, the band has never sounded so good.
JAN
24 / Soundhouse / Leicester / UK
25 / The Electrowerks / London / UK (Album Launch Party)
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FEB
01 / Ramsgate Music Hall / Ramsgate / UK
02 / Hatch / Sheffield / UK
14 / Drop Dead Twice / Dublin / IR
15 / The Roundy / Cork / IR
16 / Star & Garter / Manchester / UK
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MARCH
06 / L’Aeronef / Lille / FR
07 / Badaboum / Paris / FR
08 / Le Temps Machine / Tours / FR
09 / Transfer Festival @ Transbordeur / Lyon / FR
Arrow is out now on Double LP/CD/DL: Bandcamp / Stream
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Teeth of the Sea 'I'd Rather, Jack' in The Quietus 'Single of the Month'
We are thrilled to have Teeth of the Sea new single 'I'd Rather, Jack' featured in The Quietus January 'Single of the Month' list:
'An impertinent zesty banger'
Read the full full list here: The Quietus
The track appears in full on the bands new album 'WRAITH' available on LP/CD/DL from the 22nd of February.
Pre-order/Listen: Bandcamp / Stream
The Band will be out on tour from the following dates so catch them near you:
FEB
23 / FRA / Rouen / Le 3 Pièces
24 / BEL / Liege / Le Garage
25 / FRA / Paris / Supersonic
26 / FRA / Nantes / La Schene Michelet
27 / FRA / Lille / La Malterie
28 / BEL / Gent / Charlatan
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MARCH
01 / UK / Leicester / The SoundHouse
02 / UK / London / Moth Club
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APRIL
12 / UK / Todmorden / Golden Lion
13 / UK / Manchester / Soup Kitchen
26 / UK / Ramsgate / Ramsgate Music Hall
27 / UK / Bristol / RoughTrade
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MAY
26 / UK / Cardiff / Cardiff Psych & Noise Fest
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Listen to Gnoomes remix of Ben Shemie from Suuns track
Ben Shemie from the band Suuns is releasing his debut solo album called A Skeleton on the always great Hands in the Dark Records. And Rocket's Russian four-piece Gnoomes have created a special remix of the lead single, also called 'A Skeleton'.
You can hear this remix exclusively via Echoes and Dust
And buy the album here: Hand in the Dark
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