Press info: A record bursting with creativity and experimentation.
A blend of dark fables, intricate melodies and moments of revelation.
Album artwork
NME: “On their long-awaited first record, the London trio continue weaving fantastical tales with their surreal sound. The record’s sinewy assurance and structure across its first half also forms a trap, at times more constraint than conduit for the trio’s natural charisma. Across the latter half, the music again feels like a shared pact for dreaming, structures that build and wind. Sometimes magic is all in the details, grand or granular.”
TUTV: MITJ create capricious, entrancing, voltaic indie music with tortoise-like,
torch-burning songs. As inventive and adventurous as their countrymen Black Country,
New Road and English Teacher. They don’t rock, they don’t punk, they don’t pop, they
don’t scream and shout.
They embed illusory and poetic meditations into cloudy compositions with a mesmerising intimacy and creaking violin moments. Guitarist Clari Freeman-Taylor‘s vocals are weirdly charming and instrumental for this engrossing debut triumph. Wrap yourself in their imaginative spheres. It’s a transfixing place to be in.
Number One (lead vocalist/producer) explains: “This song is about trying. It’s about that feeling when you give enough of a shit that it actually hurts, but you do it anyway. We wanted to capture the raucous, bloody energy of the crowds we’ve played for in Prince Edward Island and Scotland—places where people know how to celebrate and mourn in the same breath.”
TUTV: You can expect anything from these mental friends. This one resonates loudly
as if The Pogues team up with The Dropkick Murphys for a zippy punk chant before heading to the pub. I dare you to keep up with the pogo pace without tripping over your own feet and going down, head first. Sounds like big fun, right? You betcha?
Artist: pMAD Who: The moniker of Irish musician Paul Dillon, who draws inspiration
from bands like The The, The Cure, Killing Joke, Echo and the Bunnymen,
Rammstein, and Depeche Mode, and developed a unique sound that
traverses genres from Darkwave Post-Punk to Trash Metal Indie Rock.
Band: CHALK Who: Electro punks
from Belfast, Ireland.
Track: I.D.C.
Newest preview from their debut LP, named Crystalpunk. It’s out on March 13th.
TUTV: Boom! Boom! Boom! Chalk do it again. Here’s another jump here,
jump there, jump everywhere stomper. Their electro fuzz ignites your
funkiest dance moves.
TUTV: Blood is a sort of disco punk stimulator to get the wicked, the outsiders
and the misfits out of their isolation and encourage them to go and visit their
local nightclub and move in mysterious ways in the darkness. It definitely
stimulated me to leave my basement.
Artist: AGATH CRIST Who: The project of a Canadian
musician from Quebec.
“A time-traveling, shape-shifting, meta-force, slipping between genres and
styles while blowing up drum busses and pushing the boundaries of melody
and noise.”
“We’re told to fight. We’re told to kill each other to get what we want. We’re polarised and set into a ring and prodded into engaging in bloodsport. We’re being turned into narcissists and psychopaths and our attention is being monopolised at a savage and unrelenting pace. This new single is the sound of this struggle, set against towering synthesisers and driven ever onward by Liam O’Neill [SUUNS] on drums.”
Turn Up The Volume: A poppy synth trip with a floating flow and near-whispering vocals. Both eerie and affecting, both dizzy and hypnotic with a frenetic guitar attack coming out of nowhere around the 3-minute mark. Fascinating stuff!
Album: BLOOD (double LP – 21 tracks) Released: 22 April 1991 – 30 years ago
Artists: An extended cast including guests such as Deirdre Rutkowski, Kim Deal, Caroline Crawley, Tanya Donnelly, Dominic Appleton interpreting songs by Syd Barrett, Gene Clark, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Pieter Nooten, David Roback (Mazzy Star) and many more.
Full listhere.
Pitchfork wrote: “In some ways this felt like the most American record they’d done yet, given cover choices like Spirit, the Byrds, and Emmylou Harris… Listening to it again in a time when styles are so easily appropriated, it’s actually shocking to hear a band approach those sources so intent on reinterpreting them in their own image. From the opening original “The Lacemaker”, all strings, echoes, and tones, to the slow stomp and grind of “Ruddy and Wretched” and a delicate version of Mary Margaret O’Hara’s “Help Me Lift You Up”– and even the almost light breakbeats of “Loose Joints”, it’s another catch-all that holds together.” Score: 9/10.
Italian synth-guitar popsters THE BANKROBBER, led by siblings Oberti, released a new hazy single called BLOOD, a couple of
weeks ago.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “Starting with a short repetitive intro of
ah ah ah’s bringing Laurie Anderson‘s 1981 hit O Superman to mind, you
instantly enter a twilight zone with dreamy atmospherics, weeping guitars
and poetical, alternating male/female vocals. A darksome, somber, and
pitchy meditation, a misty winter song, a double-edged candlelight beauty.”
Now they have a clip out for the track. Special visuals as usual…
With only two singles it was a relatively calm year for Italian
synth-pop songsmiths THE BANKROBBER with siblings Oberti.
Last June they released the intriguing and darksome saga I.A.M.N.A.Y.A.M.D (Always
In My Nightmare) and to say goodbye to 2020 they just shared new moody emo ballad, titled BLOOD.
Starting with a short repetitive intro of ah ah ah’s bringing Laurie Anderson‘s 1981
hit O Superman to mind, you instantly enter a twilight zone with dreamy atmospherics, weeping guitars and poetical, alternating male/female vocals. A shadowy, somber, and pitchy meditation, a misty winter song, a double-edged candlelight beauty.
