PANDA BEAR, a core member of the hugely acclaimed Animal Collective, plays a very rare show at 93 Feet East, to launch his new Paw Tracks release ‘Person Pitch’.
THE EARLIES promote their eagerly anticipated new
album ‘the Enemy Chorus’ out in the new year on Names/679 with a live
show at the Scala on Tuesday 6 March.
Their live set sees them blend everything from psychedelia, electro,
layered harmonies, a brian wilson esque star quality and electronic
tweaks, that references Mercury Rev, Neu, Spirtiualized and Phil
Spector and much more besides…
“Truly beautiful pop… ‘Eight Miles High” era Byrds trade super-heavy
bong hits with a melodica-toting Augustus Pablo” 10/10 NME
“Oboes, cellos, Mercury Rev-esque psychedelia, a deft lyrical touch, a
tune more gorgeously soothing than a head massage from Helena
Christensen and all shot through with spine-tingling slivers of
electronica” The Guardian
MAPS deliver their catchy floating space rock with its
majestic layered elegance and uplifting melodic hooks… think Spacemen
3/Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine and The Flaming Lips…
Orkney Islands’ based junkyard pop collective HALF COUSIN play
a live set of windswept and oddly euphoric tunes that take a folksy
shamble along a remote shoreline of the imagination with their shuffle
of rustic reggae, drunken accordions, raw angular drum beats and
faraway vocals. Think part Tom Waits, part Beck with a hint of Simian
and a dash of The Coral all melody and all invention…
Welsh seven piece LOS CAMPESINOS signed to Wichita, home to the likes of Bloc Party, Peter, Bjorn and John and Espers,
deliver a set of catchy inventive melodic but danceable pop on Monday the 5th of March at The Spitz, London.
BAT FOR LASHES creates an intimate, cinematic world,
reminiscent of the nocturnal wanderings of Kate Bush and the heartfelt
prayers of Cat Power. Natasha composes songs that rise out of a dark,
heartbreak wilderness and take you on a journey in to the light. Taking
influence from 70’s film soundtracks, weather phenomena, childhood
Halloween parties and a David Lynchian vision of suburbia, they occupy
the tenebrous space between innocence and a loss of innocence and come
straight from the storyteller’s heart.
Tonight she plays material from her critically acclaimed debut album
Fur and Gold with a live set as she delivers majestic vocal howls,
whispers and hiccups to a backdrop of soaring strings, esoteric folk
instruments, distorted guitar, bass rumbles and thunder-clap drums.
There are also interludes of exquisite heartbreak ? the piano ballad
?Sad Eyes? has on more than one occasion left audience members in tears.
?a neverending story of fantastic dreams and heartbreaking reality? the
chapters unfold with a sense of wonder and slow, powerfully evoked drama?
Bat For Lashes inhabit a magical kingdom you won?t want to leave? 5/5 The Guardian
?Bat For Lashes has clearly and equivocally her own voice? entrancing. One
of the year?s most exciting debuts? Music Week
?reinvent Siouxsie/Kate Bush/Bjork mystical sex, musical travelogue and
poetic dreamstate for the contemporary singer-songwriter milieu. The results
are nothing short of breathtaking? 4/5 Observer Music Monthly
?a divinely phantasmagoric affair packed with elemental images both
beauteous and beastly? to listen to Bat For Lashes is to be pulled into some
exotic otherworld ? a place sometimes dark and disturbing, at others sweetly
exultant. Expect magic? Time Out
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS
Midwestern band TILLY AND THE WALL consists of two
dressed-down boys, two glamorous girls and one frenzied hoofer, the
tutu-wearing Julie Williams with pockets full of melodies sprang out of
Nowheresville, USA, with a penchant for classic 60s pop, boy/girl
harmonies and American folk records. They create jagged, elegant songs,
and rejoice in tales of friendship, broken hearts, and youthful dreams
and frustrations. Their sound is distinctive and classic at the same
time. If you’re looking for reference points somewhere between Rilo
Kiley, Belle And Sebastian and Bright Eyes would be a good place to
start. And the songs are as catchy as anything. Perfectly humable after
one listen. And likely to induce involuntary toe tapping. Talking of
which – percussion on most tracks is provided by Julie’s nimble-toed
tap-dances! She’s also been known to bang old leather suitcases with
drumsticks…
“An optimistic celebration of self-destruction, unspoken longing
and adolescent rebellion, it combines the whimsical spirit of the
Polyphonic Spree with the melancholy of Kirsty MacColl.” The Guardian
“One of the most wonderful things to come out of Nebraska since Kool-aid and that Bright Eyes Dude” NME
“Fiittingly for a gig in an art gallery, tap dancing troupe Tilly
And The Wall look like some kind of travelling art installation. Their
current allbum, Bottoms Of barrels is this years indisputed indie-pop
gem and live they override any of their twee factor by showing
themselves off as tattoo-strewn party-heads dressed in leopard-print
leotards. Treading the lline between Bright-eyes style emo and sparkly
girl-group pop they skip theeir way through irresisitable nuggets
“Sings Songs Along” and “Bad Education” NME Radar special Airwaves ’06 Review
THE LITTLE ONES, a fantastic new outfit from Los
Angeles, every song seems to be a summer smash, great Beach Boys type
harmonies with lovely laidback Grandaddy type keys delivered to a Shins
like pop perfection. Here comes the new breed. The Little Ones
boundless imagination makes music that takes the listener on a magical
journey, evident on their debut 7″ “Lovers Who Uncover” which is a
slice of celebratory, propulsive guitar pop.
KATE NASH “Everyone from Lily Allen to Lethal
Bizzle think that Kate is great… We don’t blame him, Kate deserves
all the gunfinger salutes in the world.” DAZED & CONFUSED
“The music of this 19 year old is fresh, honest and experimental…
her simple reflections capture the essence of teenage London life” VOGUE
“Kate Nash knocks spots of the competition” NME
“Hotly tipped by pal Lily Allen London based poppet Kate Nash is
sure to be the next name to drop in the coming months. A blend of
shimmery lo-fi soundscapes, lullabic vocals and sparse instrumentation
has already marked her as a breed apart from the Myspace flotsam” HOT PRESS
“Getting people excited … is Lily Allen’s mate Kate Nash who is the subject of much interest from labels at the moment.” MUSIC WEEK
Unique canadian electronic pop digital disco outfit JUNIOR BOYS promote their new album ‘so this goodbye’ out now on Domino with a live set that sees them pay homage to kraftwerk, scritti politti, and ‘violator’-era depeche mode as they blend synth-pop with a melodic slice of electro and live drums.
‘…suggest talk talk produced by timbaland…. junior boys’ spectral vision of electronic pop is an understated, unpredictable delight. THE GUARDIAN
‘junior boys blenderize the long-underground sound of electro with the overground sound of me decade bands such as talk talk — the end result is something fresh.’ ROLLING STONE
‘its heights eclipse virtually all other music this year.’ PITCHFORK 8.9/10
“both ‘birthday’ and ‘last exit’ pair quaint synthpop arpeggios with irregular rhythms more suggestive of contemporary r&b; the array of wiry analog tones highlights greenspan’s
shadowy voice as though illuminating him in profile.” THE WIRE
Plus Special Guests BONDE DO ROLE are to support, this is their first UK show since signing to Domino
Mental Brazilian kids doing to bailefunk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_Carioca) what the Beastie Boys did to hiphop. You have to see it to believe it…
Plus Hot Chip djs
THE ALIENS have history – between them they have been
behind some of the most enthralling british music of the last decade.
John Maclean and Robin Jones were members of the Beta Band. Gordon
Anderson was a founding Beta Band member who went on to record two
albums under the Lone Pigeon moniker. You could make parallels between
Anderson and Syd Barrett, both geniuses blighted by psychiatric
problems. The difference, of course, is that Anderson has come back –
albeit as an Alien.
After a packed out Dingwalls in November tonight they step it up to
play the Scala as they deliver an upbeat set of psychedelically
inclined rock and acid dipped electronics, as they bring a freedom of
spirit and a certainty of intent that immediately sets them out from
the current crop of guitar slingers. Inspired by Sergio Leone and Serge
Gainsbourg, Brian Eno and Brian Wilson, Larry David and Ol’ Dirty
Bastard, their songs in the key of Fife reference the past whilst
belonging resolutely to the future.
“… Like Quincy Jones stumbling into a kaleidoscope full of sherbet
and acid… like something the Betas might have come up with if they
also had Ben Folds, Prince and Beck on board… NME
Plus special guests
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