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Tribes

THE SUPERNOVAS
Dingwalls
Thursday 9 June 2011
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If the past couple of years have been rock’n’roll’s radio iceage, right now our toes are teetering on the brink of a lush new dawn. The question is; beyond the frenzy of supposed saviour bands whose name-drops have christened the New Year, which of the lauded gangs of axe-wielders are the genuine sculptors of tomorrow?

Well, of the few promised Next Big Things, none have earned their hype more than Camden’s TRIBES. “When you’re a kid you want to be cool, so you make experimental weird music. But for us, I think there just came a point where we couldn’t be bothered messing around anymore,” prophesises singer Johnny Lloyd. “I realized that there’s no point being in a band if you’re not gonna be one of those life-changing bands. Not the one’s you stroke your chin too, the one’s you beat your heart plate to.”

It’s this unabashed manifesto of anthemia that’s taken the rag-tag four-piece from prodigious debutant slots opening for idols The Pixies, to relentless grassroots grafting of the UK’s dives, to being christened “The future of rock’n’roll” by fanboys The Mystery Jets, a sentiment chimed by everyone from NME to Radio 1’s Huw Stephens. They’re a shining testament to the blood, sweat and tears so many buzz bands seem to bypass these days, at their peril.

Joining the dots between Mudhoney and The Libertines, their debut EP ‘We Were Children’ (which has already gained Zane Lowes coveted ‘Hottest Record In The World’ status) is a fittingly heart-racing call-to-arms for a generation left crying out for band name worthy of being Tip-Ex’d onto a satchel.

Released on June 6th through Island Records, the band will be coming straight back at us with their debut album in August which is currently being recorded in Liverpool with Mike Crossey. Don’t miss their trademark live show.

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Tribes

Dreadnought

BLAWAN (DJ SET) + PARIAH (DJ SET)
Shacklewell Arms
Wednesday 8 June 2011

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‘Dreadnought’ is the collaborative live project between Untold (Hemlock Recordings / Hessle Audio) and Samuel Chase (Samuel and The Dragon). The duo are set to self release their debut EP ‘Caroline’ in early June and the show at the Shacklewell arms will be their Live debut’

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Dreadnought

When Saints Go Machine

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Shacklewell Arms
Monday 6 June 2011

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Scandinavia has an impressive track record of bands treading a clever line between dance and pop. Danish four-piece WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE – are the latest. Their new mini album is an avant-garde pop gem that sounds like Fever Ray meets ‘Missing’ by Everything But The Girl. Lead track ‘Fail Forever’ pitches lyrics that ache with existential angst against a gorgeous backdrop of electronics and mournful cellos. It sounds like a cooler Empire Of The Sun.

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King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

The Mountain Goats

THE SUBMARINES
Koko
Wednesday 25 May 2011

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John Darnielle who leads cult band THE MOUNTAIN GOATS has been long recognised by their (understandably avid) fans as one of the most imaginative and downright thrilling lyricists of his generation.
Despite having a dense and sometimes impenetrable output, Darnielle has fashioned a live show that pleases both devoted fans and newcomers alike. With over 400 songs in his repertoire, Darnielle has a lot to choose from, often dropping in rarities and newer material amongst the crowd pleasers.

Their new record label, Tomlab, a German independant known for its ambient experimental electronic music are releasing The Mountain Goats new album, All Eternals Deck (out on the 4th April) and as a celebration of this release, The Mountain Goats are back to play Koko. After the success of their show last autumn, we are sure this is one not to miss!

THE SUBMARINES’ 2006 debut, ‘Declare A New State’ launched the Subs into the global slipstream, as their songs appeared everywhere — from television (Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy) and film (Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist) to multiple spots for Apple’s iPhone — and it wasn’t long before The Subs took their show on the road. The band toured North America and Europe extensively, sharing a stage with the likes of The Morning Benders, Aimee Mann and Brazilian Girls. Now, there back with a new album and supporting The Mountain Goats on the UK leg of their tour, including a highly anticipated show at KOKO.

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The Mountain Goats

Niki and the Dove

SEAMS + I AM A CAMERA
Electrowerkz
Tuesday 24 May 2011

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Niki & the Dove is a band from Stockholm, Sweden with two members, lead vocalist and song writer Malin Dahlström and instrumentalist Gustaf Karlöf. Formed in February 2010 Niki & The Dove have spent the time since figuring out just how pop music works and then discovering new ways to break it.

Their first single DJ, Ease My Mind, on leading UK independent Moshi Moshi, was one of the most striking debuts of the year immediately grabbing the attention of everyone from Artrocker through to The Sunday Times and the NME.

Self-released follow up Mother Protect showed a band poised for great things. A riotous collision of barely constrained electronic pop and Malin’s distinctive glacial vocals, Mother Protect, confirmed Niki & The Dove as a unique talent and gained them heavy support from the likes of Huw Stephens and Annie Mac on Radio 1 despite being only available through the band’s website. Their next single will be released by Sub Pop this May.

With a background in writing for theatre and dance productions Niki & The Dove’s live show is an integral part of the band, and Niki & The Dove like to involve their wide circle of talented friends and collaborators to ensure no two Niki & The Dove shows are the same. This will be the band’s debut headline London show and they are promising something very special indeed.

SEAMS is 21 year old James Welch from the leafy suburbs of southern England. Spending his days interning at record labels across London and taking shifts at a local restaurant, Seams spends his nights making irrepressibly emotive electronica. For some, Seams’ style of music is labelled that of Soundscape, for others it’s post-Dubstep, you might even try beatless House. In truth, it’s none of these. It is simply a reflection of James’ thoughts, moods and surroundings, and the resulting sound is Seams.

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THE DODOS

LUYAS
Scala
Thursday 19 May 2011

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THE DODOS return to London after the release of their new album, No Colour due out in March. Their wildly percussive style is still centred around the two key elements of punchy rhythm courtesy of Logan Kroeber and the Fahey-infused finger-picking of frontman Meric Long. Last year’s major addition to the dodos’ creative core: Keaton Snyder, a 21-year-old music school dropout who plays a mean vibraphone completes the harmonic picture.

No Colour will be released on 14th March and was recorded with John Askew who produced the band’s first two albums. The tracklisting for the release is as below:
1. Black Night
2. Going Under
3. Good
4. Sleep
5. Don’t Try and Hide It
6. When Will You Go
7. Hunting Season
8. Companions
9. Don’t Stop

THE DODOS are a duo from San Francisco, who throw together a delightful mix of ephemeral psych-folk-pop. Singer and guitarist Meric Long’s fleeting, intricate and finely-tuned finger-picking is warm and focused, resonating under his refined lyrical hopscotch and drummer Logan Kroeber’s foot-stomping tom and-tambourine back beat. The propulsive results recall everything from John Fahey to the Akron/Family, and hones the callings of free-spirited, unhinged acts like Animal Collective.

You would be mistaken when listening to their recordings that The Dodos consist of many more members than they actually do. The San Franciscan duo create beautifully orchestrated music, ranging from soft chanting and wistful lyrics, to escalating primal screams and frantic strumming. Visiter, their pioneering debut with ethereal vocals, tribal drumming and urgent guitars, was undoubtedly influenced by Meric’s studies in West African drumming and experimentation with percussion including the inventive ‘tambourine foot’ which involves having a tambourine strapped to your foot.

“San Francisco duo the Dodos matches fleet strumming and picking with steady percussion and select other instrumentation, playing deceptively low-key songs that accrue a modest power like proverbial stones and moss” Time Out New York

No longer does “to go the way of the dodo” denote becoming an obsolete thing of the past. Instead, Meric Long—chief songwriter and guitarist of San Francisco-based duo the Dodos—gives the phrase a fresh new meaning, playing ephemeral psych-folk-pop music. Long’s fleeting, intricate and finely-tuned finger-picking is warm and focused, resonating under his refined lyrical hopscotch and drummer Logan Kroeber’s foot-stomping tom and-tambourine back beat. Last December, the band self-released its sensational full-length, Beware of the Maniacs, which it took on the road this year with Jennifer Gentle and Akron/Family. It’s only a matter of time before the Dodos really get the attention they truly deserve. And it won’t be because they’re extinct.”
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LUYAS are four musicians named Jessie Stein, Mathieu Charbonneau, Pietro Amatro and Stefan Schneider. They made a record called Too Beautiful to Work at 6 Nassau in Toronto, Ontario, and call Montreal, Quebec home. The Luyas enlist the help of many friends on Too Beautiful to Work. These friends happen to double as world-class musicians. (We love Canada!) Owen Pallett plays the violin and arranges the strings. Colin Stetson adds saxophone and clarinet. Sarah Neufeld (who plays in a band called Arcade Fire) also plays violin. John Marshman adds some cello, Daniel Tavis Romano plays the bass, Lisa Chisholm brings the bassoon and Leonie Wall plays the flute. Too Beautiful to Work was recorded by Jeff McMurrich, whose fingerprints can be found on fantastic recordings by Tindersticks, Constantines, Owen Pallett and countless others.

A picture-perfect collection of echo-drenched space-age pop songs, their album, ‘Too Beautiful to Work’ buzzes and pops into retro-futurist sonic bliss. From the vintage effects crackling throughout “Tiny Head” to the cerebral repetition found on the title track, the Luyas’ smart, heady pop sounds vital and modern, yet utterly timeless.

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THE DODOS

Erland and the Carnival

MARCUS FOSTER + HANNAH PEEL
The Garage
Wednesday 18 May 2011

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ERLAND AND THE CARNIVAL are a folk-rock supergroup, formed as they were by multi-instrumentalist Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good, The Bad And The Queen) and erstwhile Paul McCartney-collaborator David Nock (The Orb, The Cult, The Fireman) and Orcadian singer Erland Cooper. They mix traditional folk music with Americana, garage and psychedelia, and then steam-roller it with a rollicking fug of analogue Ethiopique keyboards and hypnotic effects to create an engaging, deep and beautiful procession of noise, topped majestically by Orcadian frontman Erland Cooper’s sonorous, vintage voice.

After wowing the critics with their debut album last year, we’re expecting great things from Erland and the Carnival when they release their sophomore album in March.

“The folk baton has found a new and worthy hand” Mojo

“the sound of musicians on an extended honeymoon with each other, barely aware of the delight they instill in their listeners” The Times (Album of the Week)

MARCUS FOSTER is no ordinary singer songwriter, and so he was never going to be quite so easily tempted into the tried and tested route of overnight success and instant fame. “Organic” is an awfully clichéd word, but his slow and stealthy gestation into a new artist of genuine note has nevertheless been just that. When you hear his songs, you realise it could never really have gone any other way. After much anticipation and preparation, his debut EP is finally ready for release. Entitled ‘Tumble Down’, and featuring four tracks rich with languor and melancholic life, it sounds like the work of someone who has been doing this for years, forever. You listen to the four songs here, particularly the slow six-minute burn of the title track and the exquisite ache of Shadows of the City, and at no point do you imagine him to be only 24 years old. These are folk songs and bluesy too, but nobody would ever be able to describe them as “nu”, which, frankly, is a relief. They sound, like many great things, as old as the hills.

HANNAH PEEL, a folk singer, recently released her debut LP ‘The Broken Wave’. Her compositions avoid the conventional verse-chorus-verse form, their restrained melodies giving each its own distinctive charm. They vary in mood, covering subjects from the joy and hope of falling in love through to the pain and loss of betrayal. Peel’s lyrics often have a mysterious, poetic quality. Rather than tackling a subject head-on, she tends to employ allusions and metaphors. Her insights into the break up of relationships display a maturity rare in a 28-year-old. Her voice is her other great asset. Although occasionally reminiscent of other singers, it is unmistakably unique. Crucially, its fragile beauty ideally conveys the longing and yearning contained within the complex emotions of the songs.

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These New Puritans

NEDRY
Heaven
Wednesday 18 May 2011

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As their name suggests, THESE NEW PURITANS are a group on a very precise mission. Hailing from around Southend-On-Sea, and consisting of Jack Barnett, his twin brother George, Thomas Hein and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, they have established their reputation through a series of high profile live appearances alongside the likes of The Kills and Klaxons.

The much accalimed second album, ‘Hidden’, which came out last year on Domino was one of 2010 most compelling records – youthful mastermind Jack Barnett pits brass and woodwind against the digital thunder of hip‑hop and dancehall, but that’s just the beginning. Hidden is a wintry labyrinth of arresting details: the swords that slice through the centre of We Want War, and then the children’s choir that chants the title of Attack Music. It’s an album which on paper with the sounds Barnett is putting together looks hard to get it right but These New Puritans created one of the most interesting and enjoyable records of 2010.

Eat Your Own Ears presents
THESE NEW PURITANS
NEDRY
 
Wednesday 18 May 2011
Doors 7pm

Heaven
Under The Arches, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NG 020 7930 2020

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These New Puritans return with a one-off show – featuring an expanded band line-up – playing music old, new and current.

These New Puritans premiere ‘Hidden Live’ video & give away free live track

2010 achievements:
# 1 Album of the Year : NME
# 2 Album of the Year : Artrocker
# 3 Album of the Year : Rough Trade Shops
# 4 Album of the Year : The Fly
# 5 Album Of The Year : The Guardian

These New Puritans are a British band based around the Thames Estuary, consisting of twin brothers George and Jack Barnett, their friend Thomas Hein and assorted other instrumentalists. They have released two albums on Domino/Angular Records, 2008’s Beat Pyramid and 2010’s highly acclaimed Hidden.
 
The group’s ‘Hidden Live’ shows at the end of last year drew an exhilarating close to a triumphant 2010.  Conducted by Andre de Ridder (Monkey : Journey To The West, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra), this ambitious production featured a 14 piece orchestra and a children’s choir,  and wowed audiences across Europe, including sold out shows at The Barbican in London and The Pompidou Centre in Paris. This stunningly shot split screen film is the encore from ‘Hidden Live : Berlin’, featuring ‘Irreversible’ and ‘En Papier’ reworked.
 
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All music arranged by Jack Barnett, video directed by George Barnett.
 
We are thrilled to announce TNPS first shows of 2011, details as follows:
 
Support at this show will come from ‘Nedry’ (http://www.nedrymakesmusic.com <http://www.nedrymakesmusic.com/> )
 
“Inspired by the sounds of The Knife, Mike Patton, Battles and Bjork,
combined with the pulsing rhythms of dubstep music, Nedry are a three
 piece electronic/instrument/rock/dance collision hailing from North East
London making music for the ‘post generation’.”

ENDS

NEDRY are a london trio who, like the xx, incorporate space, eerie FX, glitchy textures and dubstep techniques. Much of their music is instrumental but when lead singer, Ayu Okakita comes in, her high, haunting voice is stunning and a briliant compliment to the beats around her. The band has released one album, ‘Condors’, originally released on On The Shelf Records in 2009, and subsequently re-released on Monotreme Records last year.

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Slow Club

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O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Wednesday 18 May 2011
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Unfortunately due to the album release date being pushed back, we have had to postpone the show until 26th September. All tickets remain valid for the new date, but refunds are available from your ticket outlet.

After selling out a The Union Chapel, SLOW CLUB have announced a show at Londons’s Shepherds Bush Empire.

Slow Club are defined by their own distinct and powerful partnership. They are more than just charming anti-folk troubadours, or the lo-fi acoustic end of the Sheffield scene; they are the real thing. Everything, from their cheery optimism to their crestfallen lovesickness is life-sized and lived-in, resulting in a crop of tiny, good-natured tunes that invite the intense identification of young romantics. Charles sings with a bruised vocal, and plays rasping guitar with a disarming lightness of touch; Rebecca, with her dash of Northern Soul and sharp wit, plays stand up drums amid an array of percussive apparatus – wooden chairs, glass bottles and spoons.

PRAISE FROM THE PRESS

“From the outset there is something immediately familiar and yet vitally inventive about Slow Club” – Rough Trade

“Slow Club are a funny, winning combination of playful poetry and punchy, happy pop-folk.” – Londonist

“Slow Club’s brilliance lies in their charm and sincerity, which simply pours from their music” – Clash Music
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Slow Club

WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE

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The Macbeth
Tuesday 17 May 2011
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Scandinavia has an impressive track record of bands treading a clever line between dance and pop. Danish four-piece WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE – are the latest. Their new mini album is an avant-garde pop gem that sounds like Fever Ray meets ‘Missing’ by Everything But The Girl. Lead track ‘Fail Forever’ pitches lyrics that ache with existential angst against a gorgeous backdrop of electronics and mournful cellos. It sounds like a cooler Empire Of The Sun.

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WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE

Gang Gang Dance

HIGHLIFE
XOYO
Monday 16 May 2011

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We’re very excited to be hosting GANG GANG DANCE, in anticipation of their amazing new album at XOYO.

Emerging from the same experimental scene as Animal Collective and Black Dice,
Gang Gang Dance blend African rhythms, Middle Eastern dance music, industrial, noise, grime and more. Today’s skewed pop and eerie vocals are less chaotic than their earlier work, glistening with Arabian synth lines and delayed out shimmer guitar.

“Correct us if we’re wrong, but the album of 2008 has just arrived on our doormat. It’s called Saint Dymphna, and it’s by Gang Gang Dance. ‘One of the best albums we’ve heard all year… astonishing in it’s breadth and quality’.
Fact Magazine

“Their sound is natural yet manmade, gangsta yet gentle at varying turns throughout their seemingly improvised sound.”
I-D Magazine

“… St. Dymphna spins scattered global sounds into a dance both ethereal and ecstatic.”
Plan B Magazine

“St. Dymphna is a super- produced, dancefloor-ready rebooting of tribal psych… The eclecticism is exhilarating…”
Uncut Magazine

“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.”
NME

“St. Dymphna further ups Gang Gang Dance’s ritualistic ante and might be their best yet.”
Time Out

“… a glorious celebration of sonic excess.”
The Observer

“It all sounds wonderful, sparkling and glistening.”
Wire Magazine

“Their album is enormous” – Dave Sitek, TV on the Radio

”Gang Gang are the sound of some soon to be found tribe lurking in the wigs of forever. Gang Gang Dance seamlessly blend the sound of something so otherworldy while seeming so familiar. The pied pipers of Never Never Land.” – Simon Taylor, Klaxons

Featuring members of Gang Gang Dance, Ariel Pink and lead by White Magic’s Sleepy Doug Shaw, Tropical psych-pop outfit HIGHLIFE were born in 2008 when Shaw, along with White Magic collaborator Mira Billotte, retreated from New York to the small island of Gaspar Grande off the coast of Trinidad, at the southern most point of the Carribean trail. The pair spent long, wandering nights chanting and inducing trance, recording on a portable setup that Shaw had lugged along. Shaw chose the name highlife to imbue a feeling of rejoicing and high consciousness, while also giving a nod to the genre of african music ‘highlife’, which has greatly influenced his guitar style.

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Perfume Genius

ANR
Bush Hall
Monday 16 May 2011

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Even though he is only in his 20’s, the story to date of one Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, has the peculiar twists and turns of a person who has lived through at least several lifetimes, and has seen rather more darkness than most. “I spent my whole life hiding from the things that happened to me, to my family and friends”, Hadreas explains now. “The entirety of all these experiences: abuse, addiction, suicide…all that cool stuff. I couldn’t bear to look at it”.

Now, as Perfume Genius, Hadreas is not only turning an unforgiving mirror on those demons that have beset him, but somehow managing to make breathtaking, utterly heartbreaking music out of them. How this actually came to pass however, is far from conventional. For a number of years Hadreas himself admits that he was headed down the path of self oblivion; as he recalls, “I was running around doing drugs and being fucking insane and getting into some dangerous business”. At his lowest ebb, and with the instability of his lifestyle threatening to overwhelm him entirely, Hadreas decided to make a clean break and moved back into his mother’s house in Washington. It is here, in this suburban setting, that a self-imposed spell of complete isolation seemed to tap into a wellspring of dormant creativity. “I have always played the piano but was really embarrassed of my voice, so I never sang. But a few years ago, after spending a long time alone, I suddenly had something to say and my voice didn’t matter”. The watershed moment came one day when he sat down and wrote “Learning”, which was to be his first song. Hadreas remembers it with vivid and piercing clarity. “I wrote it and spent at least a month after that constantly writing for long stretches of time. I do not know how it happened, but I intuitively could see and feel my experiences for the first time in this really overwhelming and honest state or whatever. I felt like my heart actually broke but in this sort of hopeful, genuine way. Like I could finally rebuild it”.

The song in question is a ghostly shiver of fluttering beauty, a gorgeously sparse ballad with a simple, rippling melody, anchored by the bracing, ominous couplet “No one will answer your prayers/ till you take off that dress”. It is simultaneously tender and haunting, exquisite and unsettling, and sets the stall perfectly for what’s to follow: confessionals so stark and searing that the natural human instinct is almost to flinch, to look away, if not for the lushly heart rending music it’s all set to. Listeners would already have gotten a taste with the February release of the debut single “Mr Petersen”, which turned a seemingly innocuous tale of a high school teacher inside out, but it is with the forthcoming debut album, “Learning” – entirely written and recorded during the year Hadreas sequestered himself in his mother’s house – that the world of Perfume Genius will finally be unveiled in all its majestic yet unstinting glory. “The songs on the album are the ones I think are the most real”, Hadreas asserts. “And they are about everybody, you know? Even though some of them are directly from my experience – I always had everybody in mind”. Indeed, there is a definite universality to the record which renders it brilliantly accessible, despite the intensely personal subject matter, from the poignant and spectral “You Won’t B Here” and the twilight swoon of “When”, to the strangely yearning “Write To Your Brother”, with its elliptical allusions about a mother treating a son “like a lover”.

However, the album also treads some very dark, tormented places indeed, especially when Hadreas swaps his piano for the doomy organs and layered synths of “Gay Angels” and “No Problem”, both slowed down, sorrowful elegies that could easily have soundtracked the saddest David Lynch film ever made. “Look Out, Look Out”, meanwhile, is simply harrowing, with Hadreas pleading “Look out, look out, there are murders about”, although it is unclear as to who exactly he is warning; us or himself. Ultimately though, the album ends on a note of sheer, transcendental beauty with the hymnal atmospherics and crystalline notes of “Never Did”, which sounds like he is singing to the heavens. It is a stirring finale, and one which crucially resists the thematic trap of casting Perfume Genius as a purveyor of doom and gloom. For, as much as “Learning” is often a catalogue of remembered pain and sadness, it is also about what it takes to get through it. Nothing is lost forever. Hadreas’ own story is proof of that. And this record is an indelible testament to his strange, magnificent journey so far.

ANR is a two-piece band from Miami Beach, Mr Brian Robertson and Mr Michael John Hancock.  Each member enjoys Giorgio Moroder, Phoenix, Prince, Liars and Funkadelic equally.  

Their debut album Stay Kids was a Rough Trade Album Of The Week on import; import 7” of Big Problem sold out in a week in the UK and radio sessions have happened with John Kennedy and Steve Lamacq with plays from Rob DaBank and Huw Stephens

Rising increasingly purposefully from gallery and warehouse parties, ANR has become THE most-likely-to band from the South Florida arts scene, panting from dates with Yeasayer, Animal Collective, MNDR, Washed Out and No Age under their belts. 

They have just remixed Hercules & Love Affair, the Naked & Famous, Kele, Visions Of Trees, Million Young.

LOVE….

“utterly awesome, how have I never heard of this before?” Sean Adams Drownedinsound
“fully formed and totally enjoyable” PITCHFORK
“A marvel of melodic majesty, file next to Jamie Lidell, MGMT” THE GUARDIAN
“One of the newest exponents of this growing tropical bohemia” – NEW YORK TIMES
“post apocalyptic Disney soundtrack music” NYLON
 “One of the songs of the year” TheLineOfBestFit
“laptop-laced mix of guitar rock, crunked party beats, Hot Chip but….soaring stadium rock” STEREOGUM
 “wild and energetic disco whirlwind rock” PASTA PRIMAVERA
“a joy, emotionally-charged, widescreen pop with drums so enormous, they might as well be fireworks” DrownedInSound

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