Wow, it’s finally here. The Plan B video has been talked about so much since the brand reformed but it looks like it’s ready to roll. Enjoy the first trailer that was released just now.
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Death Metal Death Box
UK Death Metal band Unfathomable Ruination have been causing a fuss in the news recently with an art project they’re getting into, quite literally. The project, ‘Boxed Sized Die’, currated by Portuguese artist João Onofre, see’s the band loading themselves and their drums, amps, guitars and PA system into an air-tight box to play vein-bursting Death Metal until their oxygen supply runs out.
The London based band will be climbing inside the box, located outside the Gherkin, at 6pm every Wednesday to Friday until August 1st. Is this genius or plain sick? Whatever your stance, the suits of the city are in for a shock.
The box is completely soundproofed, air-tight and opaque meaning spectators (can we really use the term ‘fans’ here?) can neither see nor hear the band play, just witness the box vibrate in time with the blast beats and pig squeals.
Fortunately, the box does open from the inside too.
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White Lung share new video
Following their triumphant third album, Deep Fantasy, White Lung have shared a new music video to accompany their upcoming single ‘In Your Home’.
In frontwoman Mish Way’s own words, “‘In Your Home’ is funny, demented and uncomfortable, it’s perfect.” We couldn’t agree more. Hit play below for a cameo cast of White Lungs dear friends. Mish adds, “This video is filled with people way more talented than the four of us.”
‘In Your Home’ is due for release from August 25th via Domino.
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Yardsale Fantasy Island promo
Remember the first Yardsale promo back in October last year? The second part has dropped online today shot in LA with footage of Darius Trabalza, Jason Landau, David Bowens, Jhian Namei and Curtis Pearl. Get feasting and look out for a filthy fron boardslide amongst the rest of it.
Here’s a skateboard flick to bookmark for when you get home tonight unless you have just finished school, college or uni and are just blazing and skating everyday like a champ. The full Albion DVD is online as from today in all of its glory. If you don’t have a copy on DVD, then here’s the best reason why you should own a hard copy.
Get stuck into Ryan Gray, Kevin Parrott and Morph’s production featuring top shredding from Jak Pietryga, Scott ‘Horsey’ Walker and Ben Raemers and Denis Lynn, Nick Remon, Karim Bakhtaoui, Tom Penny, Charlie Birch, Kris Vile and Daryl Dominguez and note that our review was bang on.
Go Skateboarding Day in Manchester was owned by NOTE and Lakai this year. This looked liked like one of the most fun days out ever! Good work.
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RVCA Sideways Tour in Belgium
Belgium was the location chosen by the RVCA crew who hit up some beers and spots with Julian Davidson, Jeremy Leabres, Charles Collet, Taveira Remy, Ocavio Barrera and Yann-Xavier Horowitz in tow. Enjoy Lucas Fiederling’s edit and more photos from Sam Ashley here.
We have been waiting for this all week and Zach Lyons, Jimmy Lannon, Kevin Lowry, Ryan Lay, and Brian Delatorre do not disappoint in their quest to cruise around Puerto Rico in style for Coalatree. Enjoy Allen Danze’s latest edit.
Ph: Silas Baxter Neal is Moving Right Along.
It prevails. Habitat Skateboards is not over, it’s very much alive and has found new home at the Tum Yeto Collective, so hold those features on the best years of the brand, hold back on the memories of your favourite graphics and team riders, Habitat’s heart is beating again as of today. Amazing news. Check out the rad new promo video below and well done to all involved who have worked their socks off to make this a reality.
Let’s hope that Alien Workshop has a similar revival. Look out for a Neil Blender and J Mascis interview about that on here next week.
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Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice
Creature Songs
Dirty Hit Records
Having cut their teeth on a number of releases during 2013 – singles ‘Bros’ and ‘Fluffy’ during the early part of the year, followed by the Blush EP in the second half – Wolf Alice are beginning to flash their sharp canines on Creature Songs. If their early material shows a band going through a stage of adolescence, then this is a huge step into adulthood, showing maturity and commitment far beyond anything we’ve already seen from the London quartet.
First track ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’ is a decoy opener for the EP – a few seconds of humble strumming suddenly jumps feet-first into guitar-upon-guitar scuzz. Relying on the quiet/loud dynamic practised by former grunge champions, it’s an unrelenting, three-chord grind. Follower ‘Storms’ is a similar beast, but with more bite – bottled-up verses ramp into wide-open choruses when the tension boils over. The hypnotic refrains of both cuts are vicious rallying-cries, with singer Ellie Roswell’s demure vocals gaining just enough grit to encourage an audience to yell alongside her (at least if their recent Glastonbury show is anything to go by).
Although the second half reins things in somewhat, it retains a quiet intensity that stops it from falling into the shadow of part one. In ‘Heavenly Creatures’, the almost-whispered “time to die / time to kill … all for love / all for you” hides a dark, ritualistic edge, with the sickly “was it never enough that we should simply want to be together?” excusing the acts of evil that may (or may not be) hinted at within the lyrics. ‘We’re Not the Same’ seems almost reactionary at this point – a sarcasm-laced riposte to the rejection faced in ‘Heavenly Creatures’, drenched with reverb and brought to a punishing climax.
There is a great divide that runs through the centre of Creature Songs. The full-moon tilt of side one is feral and harrowing, while the second half remains delicate and serene; a dawn-breaker of a comedown. That’s no bad thing – neither half seems detached from the other, they’re just two ends of the same scale. With Wolf Alice’s highly anticipated debut LP tipped for a 2015 release, it will be interesting to see just how far the scale slides.
Chris Bunt