Warm Digits, Nap Eyes & Laraaji London shows, plus Darlene Shrugg's new album announced!

Afternoon all!   We have three outstanding shows coming up fast in the immediate future. Tomorrow we’re beyond happy to be hosting Warm Digits in support of their brand new album at The Lexington. Warm Digits are a motoric epiphany of drums, guitar and pulsing hardware, complete with mesmeric kosmische visuals. All that on-stage multi-tasking makes their live sets a dynamic kraut-disco spectacle par excellence. Peter Brewis (of Field Music) and Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne) will both guest on a track each with Warm Digits tomorrow too!   In support we have Comfort from Glasgow with their own energised synth-n-drums performance, plus Upset The Rhythm will be spinning records throughout the night for your enjoyment. Tickets cost £8 and will be available on the door from 7.30pm, what a way to start the long weekend!

After the bank holiday, we have Nap Eyes and Laraaji both in London on Thursday and Saturday respectively.   Nap Eyes will be bringing their Nova Scotian indie jangle to Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, finding themselves in fine company with H. Grimace and Garden Centre.   Whilst the enigmatic Laraaji will be filling up the Tin Tabernacle with his hymnal transcendence throughout two sets of shimmering metallics. Yes, there will be gong. We have tickets available for both of those shows linked below and if you care to read on full listings for all three fantastic events.

In terms of our record label, we’ve also put our shoulder to the wheel. Yesterday we announced our new album from Canadian rock-n-roll spectacle Darlene Shrugg. Darlene Shrugg features members of U.S. Girls, Slim Twig, Ice Cream and Tropics, so is a veritable who’s-who of Toronto’s prescient underground. Check out Strawberry Milk, the first track from Darlene’s incredible self-titled upcoming album, kindly premiered by Tiny Mix Tapes!   "It starts off with effervescently ambient synths swirling around the listeners ear until a heartbeat bass begins to chug, at which point the synths suddenly coalesce around an angelic voice, rising with baroque-pop strings and a Laurie Anderson-esque choir, ultimately launching the rock rocket to psychedelic heaven in its final minute."

Darlene Shrugg's album will come out through Upset The Rhythm on October 27th and is available to pre-order now: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/   If that’s got your foot tapping in a celestial power ballad sort of way, let’s push onwards towards full pogo with Robert Sotelo’s new song Marinade, which never fails to spin all who hear it into a cycle of melodic craving. Sotelo’s winning debut album ‘Cusp’ is due out on September 1st through Upset The Rhythm, not long to wait now!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   WARM DIGITS COMFORT UTR DJs Friday 25 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS   WARM DIGITS are Steve Jefferis and Andrew Hodson; a trans-pennine, krautophonic blizzard-wave duo that emerged from Newcastle upon Tyne's underground scene with a sound like Neu and Cluster forming a supergroup with Giorgio Moroder, Kevin Shields, Eno and Keith Levene. Their first album, 'Keep Warm... with the Warm Digits', came out in 2011 on Newcastle's Distraction Records; Andrew Weatherall described them as producing some fine "machine funk kraut-a-delia" and the duo were soon went on to headline one of his Live From Outer Space events. Live, Warm Digits are a motoric epiphany of drums, guitar and pulsing hardware, complete with mesmeric kosmische visuals; all that on-stage multi-tasking making their live sets a dynamic kraut-disco experience. The last few years have seen Warm Digits release a second album entitled 'Interchange', tour with British Sea Power and support the legendary Goblin, St Etienne, Future Islands and ESG. Warm Digits now have a new album out now on Memphis Industries, featuring vocal contributions from Field Music, Sarah Cracknell (of Saint Etienne), Devon Sproule and Mia La Metta (of Beards). Look out for some special vocal guests on the night of the show too! http://warmdigits.co.uk/   COMFORT are a queer punk two piece from Glasgow that make music that trades out guitar and bass for a more electronic/sample based approach. Pulsating bass, glitchy synths, crushed drums and vocal rhetoric all feature in their contagiously brilliant dialogue. Check out their first collection of songs titled ‘Built to Waste’ on their bandcamp now. https://comfortglasgow.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents…   NAP EYES H. GRIMACE GARDEN CENTRE Thursday 31 August Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS   NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth's magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science. It's the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following the reissue of their 2014 debut 'Whine of the Mystic' on Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an album of all-new material entitled 'Thought Rock Fish Scale' last year, following that up with two incredible London shows! https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/ H. GRIMACE are a London-based quartet with a penchant for exhilarating rock music, having released their debut album this year it looks set to cement their status as one of the UK’s brightest prospects. Ripping between shoegaze and post-punk influences, H. Grimace are a no-holds-barred explosion of sound and energy, the foundations of which are laid by the integral guitar pairing of Marcus Brown and Hannah Gledhill, from Yorkshire and Melbourne respectively. Debut LP 'Self Architect’ is out now on Opposite Number records and has received glowing reviews. https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/ GARDEN CENTRE is a band formed out of necessity. The specific function of the band was to tell the story of a group of people who found themselves drawn to an abandoned plant nursery in southern England. The band hoped that their messages were transmitted efficiently, broadcast via audio in the form of their debut album 'Garden Centre’. With this task well and truly complete, the members of Garden Centre have become distracted. Some members still obsess over semi-rural boredom and exploration. Others have the audacity to write love songs. The most cretinous members opt to write about energy drinks exclusively. Their distracted and unfocused efforts come to the fore in their new album 'Monster Energy'. https://gardencentre.bandcamp.com/album/garden-centre

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LARAAJI (Performing two sets with an interval) Saturday 2 September The Tin Tabernacle 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   LARAAJI is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album for his seminal Ambient series (Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance, released 1980). Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances.   In recent years he has had his career celebrated extensively, with two All Saints/Warp retrospectives Celestial Music 1970-2011 and Two Sides of Laraaji - as well as reissues on Glitterbeat and Leaving Records/Stone Throw. He has also collaborated with a new generation of underground musicians such as Sun Araw, their new LP Professional Sunflow (Superior Viaduct) being the fruit of the live shows they played together in 2014.   This September sees All Saints release a stunning pair of LPs of new studio recordings by the celestial music pioneer. Bring On The Sun is a magical mixtape of tracks that run the full gamut of 'Laraaji music', from blissed-out percussive jams to reflective vocal hymnals to trance-inducing drones. A perfect Laraaji entry-point on his never-ending creative journey through inner light. The record is recorded by Davey Jewell (Peaking Lights/Flaming Lips) and mixed by Carlos Nio (Leaving Records). This will be preceded by Sun Gong, a major new self-contained work experimenting with gong micro-tonalties processed through various electronic effects. The results are unlike any music he has made before - two side-long long-form pieces that evoke the sound of a shimmering metallic eternal wave.  https://soundcloud.com/all-saints-records/laraaji-introspection-edit/s-YGiAF

See you all soon, thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

WARM DIGITS

COMFORT

UTR DJs

Friday 25 August

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

NAP EYES

H. GRIMACE

GARDEN CENTRE

Thursday 31 August

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB

7:30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

LARAAJI

(Performing two sets with an interval)

Saturday 2 September

The Tin Tabernacle

12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA

7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS

 

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

ROBERT SOTELO

Monday 4 September

Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ

7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS

NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

 

LOWTIDE

ICE BATHS

Tuesday 5 September

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

7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS

 

ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

AMOR

BAMBOO

MIDDEX

UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs

Sunday 17 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS

TV CRIME

Monday 9 October

Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

PRIESTS

DOWNTOWN BOYS

BIG JOANIE

Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

SHOPPING

GAUCHE
THE WORLD

 Friday 10 November
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm - 2am | £9 | TICKETS

 

MOUNT EERIE
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
BOMBER JACKETS
Tuesday 14 November
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

FUTURE ISLANDS

Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT

Tuesday 21 November - SOLD OUT

Wednesday 22 November

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL

7pm | TICKETS 

 

RICHARD DAWSON
(Live band show)
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | TICKETS