Following this week’s release of new album Nothing Important, Newcastle folk innovator Richard Dawson has today shared the video for the record’s centrepiece ‘The Vile Stuff.’ The sinister lament that is ‘The Vile Stuff’ shows Dawson as a master of the minutiae of British storytelling as he charts the downfall of a group of students on a school trip,
Jib Kidder signs to Weird World; announces new album “Teaspoon to the Ocean”
Jib Kidder is the performing moniker of musician and artist Sean Schuster-Craig. Born in Louisville, raised in Georgia, educated in Michigan and bouncing between California and New York ever since, he has spent the last decade exploring a variety of approaches to psychedelic collage. In his audio recordings, songs, videos, sculptures, digital paintings, chalk murals
How to Dress Well shares “Precious Love” (Pitchfork City of Music session) + Cyril Hahn remix
How to Dress Well is on tour in Europe right now and to celebrate he has released his rendition of “What Is This Heart?” favourite ‘Precious Love’, as shot by Pitchfork for their City of Music series. Watch the performance here. The “What Is This Heart?” remix EP, featuring A. G. Cook, Dubbel Dutch, The
Peaking Lights share “Everyone and Us” video; on tour in Europe now!
Peaking Lights have today shared the Robbie Simon-directed animated video for “Everyone and Us”, a highlight from the Los Angeles-base duo’s recently released new album Cosmic Logic. The bubbling, android Naïve Melody of “Everyone And Us” follows the delirious digi-dub of previous single “Breakdown” and heralds the return of the band to Europe for their
Listen to new Hookworms song “Off Screen”
With The Hum getting louder and the release of Hookworms’ second album only a few weeks away – November 10th to be precise – the strongly independent group have decided to share their latest track via the websites of some of the world’s finest independent record shops; full list below. Naturally the band would encourage
How to Dress Well announces “What Is This Heart?” Remix EP
Tom Krell, AKA How to Dress Well has today announced a new EP of “What Is This Heart?” remixes, due for release by Weird World on October 27th 2014. The digital only collection features the previously shared remix of Krell’s single ‘Repeat Pleasure’ by London producer A. G. Cook as well as further edits
Stream new Peaking Lights album “Cosmic Logic” in full
LA’s Peaking Lights, the husband-wife duo of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, release their fourth full-length album Cosmic Logic next Monday, October 6th. The album is now streaming for a limited time via the Cosmic Logic website HERE. Cosmic Logic will be available on CD, deluxe LP including a limited edition bonus 12”, featuring two exclusive
Peaking Lights share new track “Everyone and Us”
LA’s Peaking Lights are set to release Cosmic Logic, their latest studio album, on October 6th. They’ve already shared first single “Breakdown” and today follow that song with another cut from the record entitled “Everyone and Us.” Listen here. Vivid, nocturnal and sensual, the eleven lean and lithe pop songs of Cosmic Logic follow 2012’s
Hookworms share new single “On Leaving”
With the announcement of their new single, Hookworms are set to release the perfect encapsulation of everything that forthcoming second studio album The Hum is set to be. ‘On Leaving’ takes the blueprint of debut album Pearl Mystic – proto-punk, garage rock, Washington DC hardcore, 80’s British spacerock – and further stamps it with
Richard Dawson signs to Weird World; announces new album “Nothing Important”
Rising up from the bed of the River Tyne, a voice that crumbles and soars, that is steeped in age-old balladry and finely-chiselled observations of the mundane, Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in
A. G. Cook remixes How To Dress Well’s “Repeat Pleasure”
Excited to share the first of a great package of “What Is This Heart?” remixes from How to Dress Well by one of our favourite new producers in the world – A. G. Cook of PC Music. How to Dress Well EU tour: 22nd October 2014 – Stereo, Glasgow, UK 23rd October 2014 – St
Peaking Lights share “Breakdown” video; announce UK dates
As announced a fortnight ago, Los Angeles duo Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, AKA Peaking Lights are preparing to release their new album Cosmic Logic through Weird World on October 6th 2014. Today, the duo have shared the official video for first single “Breakdown.” Directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko, the clip portrays a day in the life of a young Los Angeles