Singles of the Week (28//22)

1) Lacing - Days

 

 

New single from indie-rock / shoegaze Chattanooga, Tennessee band

"Days" from our upcoming EP Never 

LACING is: Joe Davenport: Guitar, Vocals Jerry Reed: Drums Robert Parker: Guitar Joseph J Micolo III: Bass Includes Remixes by Mason, Matthew Griffin, and Catholic School 

released July 11, 2022 

 

(digital - Bummer)

2) Gilla Band - Eight Fivers

 

 

 News from Ireland noise-rock / post-punk band... 

new album Most Normal release 7/10/2022 For their first album as Gilla Band, (formerly Girl Band) 

the foursome has redrawn their own paradigm. Most Normal is like little you’ve heard before, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of noise put in service of broken pop songs, FX-strafed Avant-punk rollercoaster rides and passages of futurist dancefloor nihilism. Covid lockdown robbed Gilla Band of any opportunity to try the new material out live, but the pandemic also incinerated any idea of a deadline for the new album. They were free to tinker at leisure, to rewrite and restructure and reinvent tracks they’d cut – to, as drummer Adam Faulkner puts it, “pull things apart and be like, ‘Let’s try this. We could try out every wild idea.” The group also fell under the spell of modern hip-hop, “where there’s really heavy-handed production and they’re messing with the track the whole time,” says Fox. “That felt like a fun route to go down, it was a definite influence.” Most Normal opens with an absolute industrial-noise banger that sounds like a manic house-party throbbing through the walls of the next room as a downed jetliner brings death from above. What follows is unpredictable, leading the listener through a sonic house of mirrors, where the unexpected awaits around every corner. The common thread holding Most Normal’s ambitious Avant-pop shapes together is frontman Dara Kiely. Throughout, he’s an antic, antagonistic presence, barking wild, hilarious, unsettling spiels, babbling about smearing fish with lubricant or dressing up in bin-liners or having to wear hand-me-down boot-cut jeans (“It was a big, shameful thing, growing up, not being able to afford the look I wanted and having to wear all my brother’s old clothes”, says Kiely). Most Normal, then, is a triumph, the bold work of a group who’ve taken the time to evolve their ideas, to deconstruct and reconstruct their music and rebuild it into something new, something challenging and infinitely rewarding. It’s a headphone masterpiece. It’s a majestic exploration of the infinite possibilities of noise. It’s a bold riposte to your parochial beliefs on whatever a pop song can or should be. It’s the best work these musicians have put to (mangled) tape. 

 

 
(digital - Rough Trade)

3) Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed

 

 

 New single from Arizona experimental post-rock / black metal band... 

Holy Fawn's new LP "Dimensional Bleed" is coming out on Wax Bodega September 9th Physically tethered to this reality, yet creatively unmoored from any earthly restraints, Holy Fawn freely slip in and out of metal, shoegaze, electronic, alternative, and rock as if inhabiting multiple states of sonic existence all at once. Blazing new trails both seen and unseen as well as heard and unheard (but always felt), the Arizona quartet continue to cover uncharted territory on their second full-length offering, Dimensional Bleed.  

 

 
(digital - Triple Crown / Wax Bodega)

4) Daniel Avery - Higher

 

 

 New single from London, UK electronic producer and DJ... 

Album Ultra Truth releaase 4/11/2022 Following the announcement of his forthcoming studio album, Ultra Truth, revered producer and composer Daniel Avery has shared ‘Higher’, a brand new track taken from the album featuring a vocal introduction from Sherelle. ‘Higher’ is a masterclass in electronic eclecticism from one of the most versatile producers in the game. Bursting with raw emotion and power, the track couples Avery's signature pads with juggernaut breakbeats, opening with a candid voice note from Sherelle reflecting on how she channels emotion through music. In creating Ultra Truth, Avery went back to many of the things that had inspired him to first make music as a teenager - pensive, emotive records by Deftones, Portishead, Nick Cave or Mogwai, the exquisite darkness of David Lynch’s movies and - on tracks like ‘Devotion’ and today’s track, ‘Higher’ - the thunderous energy of leftfield rave music. Speaking on the track, Daniel explains: "This is the first time I’ve brought together so many people to join me on the journey and each guest plays a crucial role. Sherelle is a supernova artist and someone who always marches to the beat of her own drum”. 

credits released July 13, 2022 

 

(digital, video - Phantasy Sound / Pias)

5) Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Go On

 

 

New single from Lisbon, Portugal experimental pop (Noah Benjamin Lennox) 

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - "Go On" from the album 'Reset' out 12 Aug 2022 on Domino Recording Co. 

Subscribe to Animal Collective Although Panda Bear and Sonic Boom are no strangers to each other’s music, Reset marks their first collaborative release. When Sonic Boom pitched an idea to take their working relationship to the next level, he reckoned Panda Bear might reject the proposition outright—in the nine gloriously, feverishly hook-bound tracks of Reset, though, you can hear exactly how much he loved the prospect. Sonic Boom’s notion was simple enough: After lugging his records to Portugal years ago, his fascination was renewed by old favorites and standards he had not heard in years. Something struck him, the way the ornate intros by Eddie Cochran or the Everly Brothers felt largely like stage curtains, compelling in their own right even if they had very little to do with the hits that followed. Sonic Boom began crafting loops from these preambles, twisting and bending the parts like scrap metal before sending them onto Panda Bear. The kernel of Reset emerged not long after international lockdowns began. If making it supplied temporary medicine for the duo, it is now permanently so for the rest of us, a reminder that sometimes playing and singing along to old favorites with friends can be enough to make the world feel a bit better.

 

 
(digital, video - Domino)
 

vinyl:
The Wedding Present - We Interrupt Our Programme / Telemark (7")
EPs:
Touganī - Spirits /EP/
Tongue Bite - Melting Eyes /EP/
Gleemer - Here at All /EP/
EYOE Recs - split /EP/
Buzzard Mozher - 222gaze /EP/
digi single, video:
The Dawdler - Josephine
april june - Leave Tonight
Birds in Row - Nympheas
Johnny Dynamite & The Bloodsuckers - The Last Ones
Irish Basement - Bear Trap
Electra Complex - Sirens
No One Sphere - Parachutes
Callière - Tombstones / Golden
CASTLEBEAT - Cinema
TEEN BLUSH - Other Faces
Makeout City - Undercurrents
Modern Time Machines - Somewhere Between
High Vis - Blending
Sunstinger - Only In the Morning
Show Me The Body - Loose Talk
Split System - Demolition
Sorry - Let The Lights On
Gulfer - Greetings / Barely
Ruined Church - Worthless Loser
Russian Circles - Betrayal
Ylayali - Circle Change
Death Cab for Cutie - Here To Forever