Download: Vladislav Delay – Melankolia (Edit) [Leaf]

A fresh track from Vladislav Delay’s forthcoming album Tummaa has dropped in my inbox to share with you lot, the album is to be released on August 24th on the fantastic Leaf label and I’ll be reviewing it here at a later date. Vladislav Delay was brought to my attention by Leaf after hearing of my love for Vertical Ascent the fantastic album by Mortitz Von Oswald Trio who Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay is part of. So get your ears around this beautiful piece of almost jazz like electronica as a taster of things to come.

Download: Vladislav Delay – Melankolia (Edit)

http://www.myspace.com/vladislavdelaymusic

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Worriedaboutsatan Arrivals Teaser

The album is close now but for now watch the teaser and download a radio edit of one of the tracks.



Download: Worriedaboutsatan – You’re in my Thoughts

http://www.myspace.com/worriedaboutsatan

Rolo Tomassi – Hysterics

Hold on to your hats because Rolo Tomassi will blow it sky high… This young Sheffield band have been making waves in more than one circle for a while now, from the indie scene on tour with the likes of This Town Needs Guns and I Was A Cub Scout, to the circle pits of Download Festival.

They manage to span so many very different audiences, it’s pretty beautiful to see, and I urge you to see it live in the flesh. You get people moshing sporadically, disjointed spazz dancing, hardcore flailing or others just stood mouths agape not knowing what the hell is happening in front of them, I even once saw a human pyramid built during the end of one of their sets, but I digress, on with the Hysterics…

Rolo Tomassi are a strange beast they come on like a hardcore band guitars blazing with a burning emotional passion, yet they do it in this cut’n’run disjointed style mixed up with free jazz like on the track Fofteen, and a digital 8-bit Transylvanian horror soundtrack with epic ambiance as on An Apology To The Universe. Vocals come in the form of either beastly screams from Eva the glamorous front woman and James the keyboardist, or sweet ghostly serenades.

One second you are bouncing high reaching for the sky or getting pushed around by the hardcore kids. Then the next you are swaying gently to some droney noise or sweet melodies see Everything Went Grey, which sounds a bit like Aphex Twin’s ambiance in places. They genuinely throw you off with a knowing smile, the tension this disjointed juxtaposition brings to the music is just incredible.

Some picks from Hysterics are: I Love Turbulence that has some phat licks and that metal guitar sound where it goes really high for just one moment… ‘duh duh duh, wah!’ it’s hard to convey in words to be fair, but it’s pretty exciting.

An Apology To The Universe runs into the massive Nine, which is just insane and my favourite one on the album right now. The way those two tracks come together is like Gary Numan swooping in majestically with heavenly wings then being ripped apart by a Triceratops. Then if that wasn’t enough we morn the death of the angelic Numan premonition by breaking it down into a meandering chilling serenade. The album finale Fantasia is a blistering burnt out trailblazer that hits pretty much all of the moods on the album over its course.

Rolo Tomassi have made a compelling album in Hysterics they are very talented indeed. This certainly won’t be to everyone’s taste but the ones who dig it are in for a treat.

Tracks for you, download get a taster, get hooked, buy the album...

Abraxas

Scabs

Worriedaboutsatan – I Am a Crooked Man / Evil Dogs

Yet more slabs of Satan come my way from the Worriedaboutsatan camp and I’m far from worried about what they have to offer. The album Arrivals is shaping up to be a cracker, so far I’ve heard 3 finished tracks, these two I’m posting about and the title track Arrivals.

I Am a Crooked Man is a beautiful melancholic yet uplifting minimal monster with chords that shoot right through you and remind me of some Detroit techno of the ye olde days. The bass is huge and the kick’n’clicks really hit you and take it all forward. This would fit into a DJ set as much as an ambient electronic post rock set as it builds slowly into some epic guitar noise, before descending into fireworks and explosions that crack, fizz and pop all over the shop.

Evil Dogs was always one of my favourites from the early demo stages, its an echo drenched ambient brooder. By the time the high hat style sounds and throbbing kick come in your mesmerized and then you get some massive bass, that makes my speakers really work for it… cold air streams out of them and a faint smell of warm wires hits my face.

More of my words on satan

Worriedaboutsatan Space

More to come from these lot no doubt as the album is out next month and I’m hopping to see them Live.

Rolo Tomassi – Abraxas / Scabs (Free album tracks)

I’m going to see these lot later on today so I thought to myself, why not put up a couple of their tracks from the recent album Hysterics, I got them from Rolo’s promo people so they are all above board and up for your listening pleasure.

Abraxas is a deranged and beautiful in your face number that takes you on twists and terns at each possible moment. Eva growls and screams like a banshee before some jazz infused grooves come out of the brutality and snap back into more hardcore guitars and disjointed electronics. Scabs, continues this theme and is full of ideas and energy. I can see my self bouncing around to this one, its full of beans.

I wont write to much on theme here as I intend to review the album and a live show, this is just the beginning of the Rolo Tomassi scribblings on this blog for now…

Rolo Tomassi album tracks to give to you for free:

Abraxas

Scabs

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Worriedaboutsatan – Arrivals (new version)

The wonderful Worriedaboutsatan have been in the studio again working on a new album, which is going well I hear. They decided to give me their new version of Arrivals to have a listen to. I have heard a previous version on a Demo I got sent and that was a sweet little number check out my review here…

This new version is a beautifully textured epic and soothing listen, much like the demo I heard but a better more finished mix. To quote the band them selves, ‘Listen out at 3minutes 30seconds (ish), there's some crushing guitar work played by Gav using his magic bow’ and it is indeed some epic magical sounds that send a spooky little shiver down my spine, especially when the bass kicks in again with the magic bow sounds. The new album, which they hope to have finished for November, will also be called Arrivals, which makes this the title track. You can hear it for your self on the myspace player.

In other Worriedaboutsatan news: they have remixed the excellent Maybeshewill’s Takotsubo. This can also be heard on their myspace. It’s a texture driven minimal influenced beast that they do so well.

More Please!

Quote and tour dates plus news stolen from myspace (right at the time of post anyway check it yourself for up to date info):

‘More finished tracks to follow. don't forget the release date and album party - November 1st at the holy trinity church in Leeds, tickets now available! £7 + p&p’

5 Oct 2008
The Cockpit (w/ Pivot) WAS onstage at 8.30pm Leeds

10 Oct 2008
The Shakespeare (Electronic Music Festival w/ Rothko and many more) WAS
onstage 10pm Sheffield

1 Nov 2008
Holy Trinity Church (w/ The British Expeditionary Force & Her Name Is Calla) WAS
onstage 9.30pm Leeds - tickets now available!

1 Nov 2008
’ARRIVALS’ ALBUM RELEASED... Everywhere...

3 Dec 2008
Brudenell Social Club(w/ Dälek, Zach Hill, and Broken Bone) WAS onstage 8.30pm Leeds

This Town Needs Guns – Animals (Exclusive Album Track Free Download)

Oxfords This Town Needs guns have been one of my favourite bands for a little while now ever since I saw them supporting Forward, Russia! With Rolo Tomassi, hell that was a good line up for a gig, any way they make some wicked indie pop in the vain of Owls, Maps and Atlases, and all that good stuff.

They have a new album dropping in October called Animals and I have been sent by the fantastic label Big Scary Monsters an exclusive album track that isn’t even on their myspace, for me to put up for all you lovely people to download and listen with your ears and everything. Oh yeah a single is coming in September and my sources say it’s as catchy as hell, the album is going to rule.

Baboon is the tracks name and it’s nothing short of wonderful. Links bellow and a video for a track from their previous EP, and one of my favourite tunes of theirs 26 Is Dancier Than 4.

This Town Needs Guns – Baboon (Animals exclusive preview)

'26 Is Dancier Than 4' Video

This Town Needs Guns Space