UPSET THE RHYTHM: VEXX - 'Wild Hunt' released, plus new and upcoming London shows!

Afternoon all!

Good news tempered by some less-good news this week. Let’s remove the thorn from the side first, unfortunately our upcoming Deerhoof show at Village Underground has been postponed from February 6th to September 4th due to illness within the band. September's show will also take place at Village Underground. All tickets already purchased will remain valid for the new date, whilst any ticket holders who would prefer a refund are welcome to one too. Our thoughts go out to the band and wish them a speedy recovery. Here’s the band's official statement:   "We are terribly sorry to announce that because of serious pneumonia, we are not going to be able to travel to Europe, nor rock once we arrive. Prognosis is good, but for now please accept our apologies for not being able to make this tour that we were so looking forward to."

Right! On to the good news, well great news really! All of our prayers have been answered and we now have VEXX’s new mini-album Wild Hunt in stock. Yes, the manufacturing process did take a full epoch in the USA, however this allowed the world to catch up with a record we need more now than ever! Showcasing the group utterly consumed in the moment, Wild Hunt blazes with giddy abandon, raging mere heartbeats away from oblivion. We can’t recommend this record enough; it’s essentially in our essentials range! Greil Marcus has the last word on VEXX: "People don’t put this much of themselves into a piece of music just to show they can; to find out if they can, that’s the question." Check out our webshop here for more details!

Continuing with the theme of better and better news, we’ve confirmed a lot of new concerts this week that we’re excited about. On March 24^th we’re very pleased to be launching Wolf Eyes’ brand new album entitled Undertow in London, with the radical vibes trio promising a set of nuclear audio affront. At the other end of the spectrum, acoustic-blues folksmen Daniel Bachman and Jake Xerxes Fussell have agreed to perform for us in May. That same month we also have announced a show for Washington D.C.’s Priests, who look set to light the world on fire this year. Then in June we’ve invited Memphis no-wavers Nots back to London, after they left all of us agog with ringing ears last year!

We’ll leave you with show blurbs for three of our upcoming shows this month. We have shows for Cian Nugent, Mega Bog, Jamie Stewart & Lawrence English, Graham Dunning, Spinning Coin and Sacred Paws all on the horizon. Also on the horizon is Carla dal Forno’s UK tour which commences in Brighton tonight. Our London show on Saturday night is already sold out but check out all of the other dates on the poster to see if you can make it along to one of those!

\ \ \ \ \ SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY / / / / /

CIAN NUGENT

MEGA BOG

SPECIAL GUEST
Saturday 11 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382844

CIAN NUGENT is a mercurial guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland. Cian combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s-'70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. New album, 'Night Fiction' is Cian Nugent's third album but his first taking on the role of singer-songwriter. Where his previous two albums: 2013's 'Born With The Caul' and 2011's 'Doubles' saw him exploring extended guitar based instrumentals with his band, The Cosmos, here he has reigned things in and focused his songwriting skills. Guitar fans, do not fear, there is still plenty of soloing and fingerpicking here. With 7 songs both solo and with his band, this album amalgamates everything Cian has done up to this point and reveals a more broad palate of influences, including The Velvet Underground, Richard Thompson, Television, Neil Young, John Lennon, Fred Neil, etc. Cian will perform this show as a trio showcasing lots of songs from his recent album,'Night Fiction', out now on Woodsist.

https://soundcloud.com/cian-nugent

MEGA BOG is the moniker of song-dribbler Erin Birgy, a Pacific Northwest rodeo child with an unmistakable laugh who was allegedly cursed upon conception. Over the past 8 years the band has stretched and wandered in a crescendo towards musical freedom. Now based in New York City, Birgy has adopted a band of wiggly jazz cartoons lifted from bands like Big Theif, iji, Big Eater, Causings, Hand Habits, Heatwarmer and others. Melodies always lush, erotic and free. Chords always dissonant, abstract and evolutionary. On their 2013 album Gone Banana, Bog settled into their homemade cloud of pop and jazz. Spreading the discs around the world over countless tours of dim zones. On their new bug, "Happy Together", Mega Bog leapfrogs further into the storm. Dizzying fusion of lounge, pop and bouncing rocks under poetic tantrums of love gone all the way wrong. Listen closer.

https://megabog.bandcamp.com/

\ \ \ \ \ WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY / / / / /

HEXA: FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS

(Jamie Stewart & Lawrence English sonic response to David Lynch’s photography)

GRAHAM DUNNING (Aggregate performance)

Wednesday 15 February

The Forge, 3-7 Delancey St, Camden, London, NW1 7NL

7pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/383554

HEXA is a project by Australian composer and artist Lawrence English and Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart exploring the physicality of sound and its abilities to infiltrate, abrade and occupy the body. Premiered at the David Lynch: Between Two Worlds retrospective at GOMA museum in Brisbane, Australia in April 2015, HEXA is a sonic response to Lynch’s Factory Photographs, a collection of images Lynch took of disused factories and the ruins of industry in the USA, Poland, Germany and the UK. Using the factory photographs as both a literal and metaphoric source, their performance draws root from the texture of Lynch’s images, the imagined and actual spaces, and the spectral histories contained within them. The effect is like “cascading low frequency pulses and tectonic plates of sound, suspended in cavernous cathedral-like spaces.” When asked recently about his decades’ long interest in photographing factories in various states of disuse, David Lynch remarked “I grew up in the north-west of America where there are no factories at all, just woods and farms. But my mother was from Brooklyn, so when I was little we used to go there and I got a taste for a certain kind of architecture and a feeling for machines and smoke and fear. To me, the ideal factory location has no real nature, except winter-dead black trees and oil-soaked earth. Time disappears when I'm shooting in a factory, it's really beautiful.” HEXA's album is out now on the Room40 label.

http://lawrenceenglish.com/

http://www.xiuxiu.org/

GRAHAM DUNNING is self-taught as an artist and musician having studied neither discipline academically. His live work explores sound as texture, timbre and something tactile, drawing on bedroom production, tinkering and recycling found objects. He also creates visual work, video and installations drawing on these themes. Graham has performed solo and in ensembles across the UK, and Europe, and exhibited installations in the UK, New Zealand and USA. He teaches Experimental Sound Art at the Mary Ward Centre in London and also gives various independent workshops. He has released through Entr’acte, Seagrave, Tombed Visions and more. For this show Graham will be performing a live set based around his recent solo composition ‘Aggregate’, based on a visual score, using the resonances of rooms within now-empty brutalist towerblock, Balfron Tower, alongside record crackle and analogue synth.

https://grahamdunning.com/

\ \ \ \ \ FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY / / / / /

SPINNING COIN
SACRED PAWS

LIFE DRAWINGS
Friday 17 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/387070

SPINNING COIN are a fiercely independent rock group from Glasgow, something you could probably guess by listening to any of their songs. Their roots are all over the place but a simple love of playing together in their rehearsal space, and almost never turning down shows, has seen them coalesce a winning group sound in almost no time at all. Drummer Chris White is part of the Winning Sperm Party collective, who document of a world of shadowy Glasgow music running all the way from the Glasgow Music Collective to Fuzzkill Records today. Where Spinning Coin branch out from things is in their cascading melodicism topped with some amazing shredding. This connects into a slightly different Glasgow music scene more associated with Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, and of course The Pastels, who released their debut 7” through their Geographic Music imprint. Both songs are home-recorded but show off the group’s easy flair for getting things to sound right without trying too hard, both are bittersweet, both are beautiful.

https://soundcloud.com/spinning-coin

SACRED PAWS are a fantastic, intuitive dream punk duo, comprising Eilidh of Golden Grrls and Skeleton Bob on drums, and Rachel from Trash Kit and Shopping on guitar. Raw Soweto high-life riffs and rolling Afrobeat grooves are filtered through post-punk sass and ramshackle K Records charm. It’s an utterly joyous sound, the duo trading giddy melodies and righteous chants over febrile rhythms and chunky, infectious riffage. Rock Action are releasing the band’s debut album ‘Strike A Match’ on January 27th! This record follows their wonderful EP, and was produced by Tony Doogan and Sacred Paws at Castle Doom, Glasgow before being mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios.

https://soundcloud.com/rock-action-records/sacredpaws-everyday

LIFE DRAWINGS are an ungoogleable band of tip-top artrockers using lo-fi vocals, low key guitars, catchy bass bits, cheap keyboards, a drums and advanced admin for songs almost exclusively inspired by Country Teasers and The Fall.

https://soundcloud.com/lifedrawings

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Saturday 4 February

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | SOLD OUT