Hello there!
Brilliant news… Oakland, CA’s No Babies are back in business
with a brand new album entitled ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’. Upset The
Rhythm will be releasing the LP next month on March 9th on red/blue marbled vinyl.
‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ follows on from the band’s 2011 debut
and its fleet of successive empowering/imploding 7”s. Here’s an
exclusive track to check out called ‘The Weight’, featuring Victoria M.
Ruiz (of Downtown Boys) on backing vocals.
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"Oakland, CA’s No Babies return with their second LP, another
furiously ecstatic exploration of the overlapping margins of punk,
hardcore, and no wave. The pieces we’ve come to expect are all here:
Jasmine Watson’s invectives against capitalism, binaries, police; Ricky
Martyr’s inimitable and always surprising stop-start guitar; horns of
all stripes breaking through the noise (Misha Poleschuck on tenor sax,
clarinet); a nimble and powerful jazz-influenced rhythm section (Laura
DeVeber on bass, Sean Nieves on drums). Their particular brand of
composed/improvised noise/music has never been chaos at all (they’ve
always known exactly what they’re doing), and this time around the band
seems more at one than ever, aided by the crispness and brightness of
Jack Shirley’s able production. These are walls of sound, something like
a runaway train, or a writhing sea serpent, and we are along for the
ride. This is music that feels necessary. These are songs that sound
vital to survival." - Grace Ambrose
‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ is available to pre-order here now!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
GUN OUTFIT
DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA
CALMING RIVER
Tuesday 20 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
GUN OUTFIT's enveloping
'Western Expanse' aesthetic of guitar levitations and honky-tonk hexes
are like the stones eroded by years in the arroyo, they've become
gradually smoother over time. Their fifth LP (Out of Range on Paradise
of Bachelors) ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet.
Drawing from mythologies both classical and postmodern, Out of Range
builds a world in which Brueghel, St. Augustine, and the goddess Cybele
ride with John Ford, Samuel Beckett, and Wallace Stevens on a
Orphic-Gnostic suicide drive towards the hallucinatory vanishing points
of the Southwestern desert, debating the denouement of the decaying
American dream.
https://gunoutfit.bandcamp.com/ DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA see themselves as adrift in a sea of sound and possibility, plucking textures and melodies to craft their idiosyncratic vision of what music can be. Raw, elemental and poignant with a love of idiosyncratic folk traditions and antiquated technology. Their performances have featured flailing axes, salt and sawdust, throbbing harmonium, grinding fiddle and 2000 shards of micro-tuned steel cast to the floor in cascading, shimmering joy. http://www.deadratorchestra.co.uk/ CALMING RIVER is the pseudonym of songwriter Joshua Malcolm, who has recently relocated from Denmark back to his native Britain. The name Calming River may conjure tranquility but there has always been a latent, opposing flow of tension and strife to be found—a fragility that emanates within delicate and darkened confines. Joshua has so far released two singles last year to critical acclaim and will be releasing more material in the coming months. https://soundcloud.com/calming-river |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
GREG ASHLEY
MASS DATURA
Saturday 24 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
GREG ASHLEY has been a fixture
on the underground music scene since the late Nineties while strafing
eardrums as a teenager in Houston in garage- punk band The Strate-Coats.
Since then he’s proven himself not only as a songwriter, singer and
guitar player in bands like The Mirrors & The Gris-Gris, but also as
a producer/sound engineer via his Oakland-based Creamery Studio. His
career as a solo artist is vast and varied, spanning the gamut between
fried-n-beautiful psychedelia, gorgeous & cathartic symphonic suites
and gentle, damaged folk music, beginning with 2003’s debut and last
leaving us with 2017’s ‘Pictures of Saint Paul Street’ (Trouble In
Mind). This recent record carries forward Ashley’s musical palette (a
rootsy amalgam of tortured, Cohen-esque folk tinged with the beer soaked
recklessness of a West Texas honky-tonk). The songs on ‘Pictures of
Saint Paul Street’ are lush & beautiful autopsies of society’s
underbelly, with stark and brutally honest ruminations on humanity.
Songs like “A Sea of Suckers” & “Pursue The Nightlife” pull no
punches, while “Jailbirds & Vagabonds” and “Blues For A Pecan Tree”
carouse on a more abstract, human (almost romantic) level. The
protagonist in many of Ashley’s songs may be Ashley himself - a true
artist willing to admit he’s nowhere near perfect, and honest enough to
document his sunrises & sunsets no matter if they occur in his own
backyard, or on a barroom floor.
https://gregashley.bandcamp.com/
MASS DATURA have spent the last three years earning a well-deserved reputation for their mesmerising, raw and unpredictable live performances. Mass Datura was initially formed by singer, writer and artist Thomas Rowe (with best friend Joseph Colkett), as an outlet to channel his own strange childhood experiences. Born and raised in the rural ghettos of Western Canada, frontman Rowe discovered at an early age what a powerful form of escapism music could be for him. Landing as an alien in London eight years ago, Rowe gathered a group of like-minded East London misfits around him and from this, Mass Datura formed. Mass Datura take their name from 16th century occult mythology, the Datura flower when ingested was said to give you the ability to levitate, flying through bleak night skies around the world snatching up little children. The band’s debut album was released last year alongside a performance at Liverpool Psych Fest. Mass Datura have managed to support some very exciting bands around the country including L.A. Witch, The Black Angels, A Place to Bury Strangers, Holy Drug Couple, Dark Horses and Black Mountain. |
Thank you all for reading and for coming out to see David Nance
and Shopping in your hordes recently, have a great week!
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