THE HORRORS - NEW ALBUM – ‘SKYING’

RELEASED ON XL RECORDINGS – 11TH JULY 2011

The Horrors make their eagerly awaited return with the release of a new album on XL Recordings on the 11th of July 2011.

A first taste of the new record has been made available here:

‘Skying’, self-produced and recorded in The Horrors’ own self built studio in London’s Dalston, was mixed by Grammy Award winner Craig Silvey. It features ten brand new tracks and includes the forthcoming single ‘Still Life’, also released on 11th of July. ‘Skying’ is the band’s third long player, and follows 2009’s Mercury Prize nominated ‘Primary Colours’ and their debut ‘Strange House’ which was released in 2007.

The Horrors line up of Faris Badwan – Vocals, Tom Furse – Keys, Joshua Third – Guitar, Rhys Webb – Bass / Keys and Coffin Joe – Drums will unveil a selection of new tracks when they play three live dates in June, their first UK shows of 2011. They play Glasgow on the 15th of June, Manchester the following night and then a London show at York Hall in Bethnal Green on the 17th of June. All shows have sold out.

The band will also play festival shows in June at the Eden Project on the 23rd with Primal Scream and Glastonbury on the 25th of the month. More dates will be announced soon and there is high expectation The Horrors will return to New Zealand in the coming months.

The album tracklist is:

1, Changing The Rain

2. You Said

3. I Can See Through You

4. Endless Blue

5. Dive In

6. Still Life

7. Wild Eyed

8. Moving Further Away

9. Monica Gems

10. Oceans Burning

thehorrors.co.uk

New Lightbox session is up online for Firendly Fires – and its the terrific track ‘Hawaiian Air”… which is of course of the brand spankin’ new album ‘Pala’….

Friendly Fires – Pala – out now on XL / Rhythmethod

Friendly Fires were cornered at the Lightbox Club in Vauxhall, South London. There were 5 songs recorded live and this is the first of those…. Live Those Days Tonight

Friendly Fires – Pala is out now on CD and LP and the cover is freakin’ gorgeous!

Dammit Janet, the stock supply gremlins have plotted against us meaning the Thurston Moore album is delayed a week. Release date now May 30th!  But in all its glory on CD and particulary on delicious vinyl L.P. it will be worth the wait!

To keep you satiated though there is the stream of the album that’s online Here

And here’s the video! Thurston Moore Benediction

Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts is out 30 May 2011 via Madator/Rhythmethod

Gang Gang Dance have stepped up to the plate and have joined the impressive line up of artists that have filmed performances for the 4AD Sessions.

In a room appropriately filled with mirrors and tons fairy lights, Gang Gang Dance take us through a  few stand out tracks from their incredible new album Eye Contact

Click HERE to watch the whole thing

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GANG GANG DANCE – EYE CONTACT OUT NOW ON CD AND LP – 4AD / RHYTHMETHOD

Full Music Week story HERE but in short Adele has become only the second UK artist since the millennium to straddle both the album and singles chart in the Number One spot in the good old U.S. of A.. Nice one Adele! (The other UK artist being Leona Lewis – AND they went to the same school – spooky possum!)

Back in the UK, Adele has just guest starred on the fantastic Graham Norton Show – the episode screens here in 2 weeks, May 27 on TV3! It’s hiLAAARious as Graham might say…. ok, take a sneak peek…

Adele – 21 is of course out now on XL Recordings / Rhythmethod

SPUNK RECORDS

PROUDLY ANNOUNCE…

THE IMMINENT RELEASE OF  THE DEBUT ALBUM BY

TINY RUINS

‘SOME WERE MEANT FOR SEA’

Listen to the first single ‘Little Notes’ on www.tinyruins.com

Released Monday May 30 on Spunk Records via EMI distribution

Spunk Records is proud to present Some Were Meant For Sea, the debut album from Tiny Ruins. Its songs, composed & performed by Hollie Fullbrook, follow a year spent collaborating & performing internationally in which the young artist’s worldly voice & stories would connect with audiences as distant as Northern Spain & with artists including Joanna Newsom, Beach House & Holly Throsby.

Both vocally & instrumentally, Some Were Meant For Sea exists in dappled warmness: Fullbrook’s striking timbre recalling a smooth Jolie Holland & conjuring a similar natural imagery born from earth & sea. Bound by their delicate nature, her songs lay within a space & time all their own: ‘Little Notes’ a lover’s airborne ode, the impressionistic, wanting ‘Priest With Balloons’ & the beguiling ‘Running Through The Night’.

Recorded in a diminutive hall, once the local school of South Gippsland’s Morraya, Australia, Fullbrook would work with producer J Walker (Holly Throsby, CW Stoneking, Machine Translations), and between the pair, some cello (bowed and also de-tuned & plucked as a double bass), violin, percussion, piano & accordion were added to the otherwise bare-boned songs, which were all recorded entirely live, with guitar and vocals laid simultaneously.

It is a mannered album, one whose traditional arrangements & classic key are gently commanding & reminiscent of folk’s greatest storytellers: Carole King, The Unthanks & Richard Thompson. She writes with humour and fantasy of cats in hallways, journeys taking flight on moonlight, priests who float into the sky on strings of balloons.

Fullbrook was born one of three in Bristol, England, where she lived until she was ten years old.  Attending the Bristol Waldorf school, she would learn the cello from a young age before moving to New Zealand; her family settling in the Waitakere Ranges of West Auckland. At 11, her visiting Grandad encouraged her to pick up her Mother’s big old acoustic guitar. She wrote songs from age 14 on.

Over the past year, Tiny Ruins has performed internationally as special guest to Beach House, Ólöf Arnalds, Grand Salvo, Joanna Newsom, Holly Throsby, Alasdair Roberts, & The Middle East. The album’s New Zealand debut will be followed by a string of album release shows before the album’s Australian release date of Friday July 1. Tiny Ruins is set to return to Australia for several soon to be announced headline & guest performances in July.

Tiny Ruins New Zealand Album Release Tour- June 2011

Auckland – Friday, June 17th at The Wine Cellar

Wellington – Wednesday, June 22nd at The Mighty Mighty

Dunedin/Port Chalmers – Saturday, June 25th at Chicks Hotel

Christchurch/Lyttelton – Sunday, June 26th at Wunderbar

Australia Tour – July 2011

Dates to be announced soon.

Some Were Meant For Sea

1 Old As The Hills

2 Priest With Balloons

3 You’ve Got The Kind Of Nerve I Like

4 Death of A Russian

5 Adelphi Apartments

6 Little Notes

7 Cat In The Hallway

8 Running Through The Night

9 Just Desserts

10 Pigeon Knows

11 Bird In The Thyme

WEBLINKS:

www.tinyruins.com

www.myspace.com/tinyruins

http://www.facebook.com/tinyruins

http://twitter.com/#!/tinyruins

www.spunk.com.au

Tyler, The Creator – Goblin is OUT TODAY and yes (apologies!) there has been a delay in the shipment of the deluxe edition and the vinyl LP BUT both are now on their way and should be in NZ stores by the weekend! WORTH THE WAIT…

Tyler, The Creator and OFWGKTA landed in Europe last week to play sold out shows in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin. They spent last week wreaking havoc all over the continent and we’ve been doing our best to keep up!

Tyler at the XL Offices and Studios (aka The Mothership)…I notice there were a LOT of staff not at their desks ha ha…

Tyler and OFWGKTA members Hodgy Beats, Syd Tha Kyd and Left Brain played sold-out shows in London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Berlin that showcased their xxxx anthems and talent for causing mayhem.

There were jaw-dropping stage dives…

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Performing at the Recent Camden Crawl causing a chaotic stage invasion

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‘GOBLIN’ is out now via XL Recordings/Rhythmethod.