Grimes performed ‘Genesis’ on Later With Jools Holland.

Hold On

Be Mine

From their stunner album ‘Boys & Girls’ of course…!

Rough Trade / Rhythmethod on CD and delicious LP…

www.alabamashakes.com

Interpol frontman Paul Banks releases a new 5-track EP Julian Plenti Lives… this June ahead of a Paul Banks album due later this year.  Available digitally, the EP will also be released on a limited edition run of 1,500 CD and 2,300 vinyl copies and marks the first time Paul Banks has chosen to use his own name to release music by.

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The Julian Plenti Lives… EP centres around the new original track ‘Summertime is Coming’ plus original instrumental ‘Cavern Worship’ and cover versions of J Dilla, Frank Sinatra and The Running Man movie theme (by composer Harold Faltermeyer), which demonstrate the breadth of Paul’s influences.

Track-listing:

Perimeter Deactivated  [The Running Man theme cover - Harold Faltermeyer]

Summertime is Coming [Original]

Mythsysizer [J Dilla cover]

Fool To Want You [Frank Sinatra cover]

Cavern Worship [Original, instrumental]

Paul Banks - Julian Plenti Lives… EP out June 11th on Matador Records/ Rhythmethod

POP ETC have made a wee mixtape, listen to it here….

http://popetcetera.com/

Set for release on July 23rd 2012, Shrines is the debut album by Purity Ring, a Halifax/Montreal-based duo comprised of Corin Roddick and Megan James.

Purity Ring make lullabies for the club, drawing equally from airy90s R&B, lush dream pop, and the powerful bone-rattling immediacy of modern hip hop. Megan’s remarkable voice is at once ecstatic and ethereal, soaring joyfully through Corin’s carefully chopped beats, trembling synths, and skewed vocal samples.

Despite the band’s young age (Corin is 21, Megan 24) and short gestation (they formed in late 2010), Purity Ring have delivered one of 2012’s most assured – and anticipated – debuts with Shrines. Indeed, Shrines feels like anything but a first record – its vocal hooks are inescapable, its lush production futuristic and sophisticated but also as pristine as anything on pop radio. The record’s 11 tracks trace a unique aesthetic universe that is carefully crafted and fully realised – deftly walking the lines between trap-rap exhilaration and otherworldly rapture, pleasure-centre pop and diaristic emotion, childlike dread and total self-possession. Purity Ring’s is a universe that invites exploration and demands revisiting.

Download Shrines album track, ‘Obedear’ from

www.purityringsongs.com

TRACKLISTING :

1. Crawlersout

2. Fineshrine

3. Ungirthed

4. Amenamy

5. Grandloves

6. Cartographist

7. Belispeak

8. Saltkin

9. Obedear

10. Lofticries

11. Shuck

The London-based trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella, collectively known as Daughter, has signed to 4AD worldwide, outside of North America.

On the strength of just two EPs, ‘His Young Heart’ and ‘The Wild Youth’, Daughter have built for themselves a dedicated following, illustrated by their sold-out show at the 700-capacity Assembly Hall in North London. No mean feat for a band whose current incarnation has been performing together for a mere eighteen months.

Commenting on their new career path, Daughter say,

“We couldn’t be happier to be working with 4AD, a label that has released so many inspirational records and whose ethos we hold in very high regard. It really is a privilege.”

Daughter are working on their debut album.

www.facebook.com/ohdaughter

www.twitter.com/#!/ohdaughter

‘Powa’

POP ETC are excited to announce the forthcoming release of their debut, self-titled album via Rough Trade/ Rhythmethod on June 12.

POP ETC was recorded by the band over the course of 2011 at both Headphone Cave and Pull Studios in New York City as well as in Los Angeles at SoundEQ Studios.  Though largely produced by the band, the album also features contributions from Danger Mouse and Andrew Dawson (Kanye, Lil’ Wayne, etc)

Until late last month the band was known as the morning benders – they announced the name change to POP ETC via this announcement (http://www.themorningbenders.com/) and at the same time released a free mixtape featuring all new material (http://popetcetera.com/)

Pitchfork announced the release with an extensive interview with the band’s frontman Chris Chu.  You can read more about POP ETC here (http://pitchfork.com/news/46067-pop-etc-talk-name-change-new-album/).

POP ETC released June 12 via Rough Trade/ Rhythmethod