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Netil
Sweet Teeth

‘Sweet Teeth’ is the shimmering new single from London four-piece Netil. If you like your post-punk dark, introspective and perhaps a little mystic too, you should give this band your ear.

Having spent the best part of two years holed up in the studio at Hackney’s Netil house, ‘Sweet Teeth’ is just a taste of what this bunch have got up their sleeves for the coming months. Catch them live at The Marquis of Lansdown on September 27th, and grab a copy of ‘Sweet Teeth’ from September 29th, pressed on a limited run of hand painted 7″s. Keep an eye on their facebook page for more info.

Ty Segall
‘Manipulator’
Drag City

The crowned king of contemporary garage rock and all things fuzz has shared a new, rather wacky music video titled ‘Manipulator’, taken from his new album of the same name.

This isn’t just any old music video, mind you. This is an interactive world in which bedroom curtains become hot dogs, jumbo jets shape shift into seabass and babies heads fall from the sky without warning. A fitting visual aid to Ty’s new music as, aurally, ‘Manipulator’ is a whirlwind of colour.

Ty’s stylistic choices of layering sludged chords with riffs that sing with sustain, a dueling falsetto and organic organ warble all keep ‘Manipulator’ afloat in a scene often awash with overly retrospective music. Undeniably influenced by an unfathomable collage of psychedelic tones from the past, present and probably future too, Segall remains ahead of the pack sounding fresh and ready to play his next hand.

Read our interview with Ty’s long-time studio partner Tim Presley here.

Greys
‘The Noise Of Carpet’ (Stereolab cover)
Carpark Records

As if DFA 1979’s return wasn’t enough to excite you, the fact that Toronto’s Greys are joining them on the road is pant-wettingly good news. In celebration, the headache hungry four piece have shared a new track online.

Greys infect Stereolab’s 1996 track ‘The Noise Of Carpet’ with their lock-tight rhythms and other worldly guitar effects, turbo charging this cover version into super sonic levels of volume. Running in the same vein as their June debut, If Anything, Greys are waving the flag high for ear shredding, Discord-era noise. Play this one loud and catch them on tour at the dates below.

UK October Tour Dates
20th London – Electric Ballroom
21st Manchester – Gorilla
22nd Glasgow – The Garage
24th Sheffield – Plug
25th Bristol – Simple Things Festival
27th Brighton – The Hope
28th Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
29th London – 100 Club

Shiny Darkly
‘Soft Skin’
Crunchy Frog Records

While Shiny Darkly take clear influence from the 1980s in both their production approach and musicianship, be assured that this copenhagen trio do their musical forefathers great justice. Let their new single ‘Soft Skin’ set the standards.

Despite it’s delicate title, ‘Soft Skin’ greets you with a sinister collection of dark, deep and dungeonesque sounds. A scythe-like synthesiser glistens, piercing through a relentless wall of bass before sharp, ice-pick guitar tones decend upon your ears. An introspective and brooding wall of sound is built, yet there’s a beam of sunlight flickering through as the chorus hits, with a triuphant vocal hook soaring high above Shiny Darkly’s gloomy asthetic.

This trio use a melting pot of post punk influence to drive their music to fresh territories. A Mark Burgess-esque howl and primitive rhythms akin to those of The Jesus and Mary Chain make for a retrospective sound, yet when placed next to their Copenhagen contemporaries, such as Lower and Iceage, what Shiny Darkly are doing here is completely refreshing.

Look out for Shiny Darkly’s debut album Little Earth, due for release in early 2015.

Action Bronson
‘Easy Rider’
Vice Records

It’s so rare to see a hip hop video in 2014 that isn’t crammed full of bikini clad women, shaking what their mothers gave them to a crew of leching young men in bucket hats, exhaling blunt smoke from their noses and waving $100 bills around like they just don’t care. In fact, it’s rare to see any music video with such fine attention to detail and all round good taste as Action Bronson‘s new cinematic masterpiece, ‘Easy Rider’. Inspired by the movie of the same name, director Tom Gould has crammed as much jaw-dropping action into five minutes as you’d suspect to endure throughout an entire Tarantino flick.

From the opening scene depicting a crazed Bronson, hurling machine gun fire into a warzone whilst screaming, “don’t let me die!”, to the closing shot of his Christ The Redeemer stance atop a desert mountain to a sunset back drop, this video has got more guitar solo’s, bar-brawls, Harley Davidson’s and acid trips than you could shake a stick at. Could this be the best hip hop video of the year?

‘Easy Rider’ is taken from Action Bronson’s forthcoming album, Mr Wonderful, due later this year via Vice Records.

White Sands
‘The Wait’
Art Is Hard

What do Novella, Mazes and Male Bonding all have in common? White Sands, a newly founded trio uniting three of Londons most respected underground bands.

Naturally, they craft fuzz-thick guitar-gaze, atop which float sweet, boy-girl harmonies. Let ‘The Wait’ be a prime example of their magnificent six-string din.

United through playing house party shows with their other respective bands, White Sands have wasted no time in preparing a 7″ – out on Art Is Hard from October 6th – before even playing their first gig. Catch their debut perforamance at The Shacklewell Arms on August 24th, and hit play below to get your fuzzy fix.

GOAT
‘Words’
Rocket Recordings

Devout fans of GOAT through and through, last months news of a new album met our eyes and ears with utter delight.

‘Hide From The Sun‘, the first offering from Commune, blew our minds. Therefore, you must waste no time in feasting your ears on second single ‘Words’ immediately.

Naturally, ‘Words’ is a psychedellic affair. GOATs persistent drum pounding evokes guitar tones akin to that of a spaceship taking off, however, this track clocks out at just two and a half minutes. Surely a fade-out that is set to fade right back in to something deadly on the album, head to Dalston’s Alibi on Friday August 15th to experience the first public airing of Goat’s new album.

Girl Band
‘De Bom Bom’
Any Other City Records

It’s safe to say that Dublin’s Girl Band blew everyones mind at the start of the year with the utterly mammoth sounds of ‘Lawman’ and ‘Cha Cha Cha’. Their early 2014 shows sent us double giddy with new, genuinely exciting music from a band that, at times, could craft truly indescribable sounds.

Following on from these early live successes and mind melting first singles, Girl Band embarked upon a rigorous touring regime, having spent the best part of this year cruising round the UK spreading their deliciously destructive noise as far and wide as possible. Now, they come to you with latest single ‘De Bom Bom’.

This is everything you’d suspect and more. Clearly these four Irishmen have developed a different way of musical thinking, for their primitive yet simultaneously advanced and futuristic sounds recall of very few before them. Such pioneers as Albini and Yow might spring to mind, but these are merely two comparisons, without doubt there are many journalistic minds that would cram all kinds of obscure reference points next to Girl Bands relentless, unforgiving music, but for now, there’s little to say other than, “you must listen to this band“.

Dave Palmer

Pre-order ‘De Bom Bom’ / ‘I Love You’ here.

Fucked Up
‘The Way We Did’ / ‘Blink’

Fucked Up are clearly on a roll at the moment; before the ringing has faded from full length Glass Boys, they’ve decided to punish our eardrums again with the new 7” ‘Blink’ / ‘The Way We Did’. Unsurprisingly, considering these are outtakes from Glass Boys, the two songs continue in the same vein of mid tempo gravelly hardcore cut with anthemic hard rock.

‘The Way We Did’ is centred around a poppy chorus and guitar solo, neither of which would sound out of place in an Andrew W.K. song. ‘Blink’ is harder and grittier, a more traditional Fucked Up song if a band so dedicated to experimentation can be said to have a tradition, but still, dare I say it, mellower than it would have sounded if recorded a few years back. Like their recent full length, the songs here showcase a new era for Fucked Up, but still with the impressively intricate format that have gained them such a loyal following. Spin it this weekend!

Jono Coote