My friend Chris over at Indie Music Filter suggested I check these guys out and although I was a bit late to give them a listen, I'm really glad I did. I've especially been digging their tracks, 11th Hour and Once and For All off their debut record that just came out called Ways to Forget. There's something hyper, anxious and brooding about it. Once And For All (2012 album version) by clockopera
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If you think you recognise a number of the tracks on Clock Opera's long in gestation debut album, you probably do with 'Once and For All', 'Belongings' and 'Lesson No.7' having all been previously released over the past two years. Fortunately what we get after this length of time is an album that is ambitious, optimistic and epic in its scale. Opener 'Once and For All' is soaring, building track, with Guy Connelly's vocal prowess coming to the fore, emotional and anthemic. It is unapologetically optimistic, a strong way to start. '11th Hour' after a deceptively slow start, [...]
And so concludes The Great Escape Festival , which always turns into the biggest weekend of our calendar year. It's been four days since the event finished, yet our hangovers have barely receded. On one of the nights we finally reached our bed at 8am! A marathon indeed. Below is our review of a handful of experiences and exploits, but in truth it's pretty impossible to extol the real experience in words. Sure we had an amazing time, with lots of live music and venue hopping, but as a Brighton resident every other week of the year, we noticed [...]
Berlin Festival , which takes places in Tempelhof Airport and the Arena Berlin September 7th and 8th just announced a few more acts. New additions are Canadian sensation Grimes , Icelandic rockers Of Monsters and Men , Scottish electro-pop band Django Django , London synth-rock artist Clock Opera , Swedish electronic mystery group iamamiwhoami and House duo Dada Life . Festival weekend tickets are available on Berlin Festival website priced €81,40.
Warm enough yet? I think so and apparently so does Ryan Radler who is back in full effect with one of EMPT's most treasured possessions, the 2012 collectors dream - S U M M E R : a n t i – w i n t e r. Or the best warm weather mixtape you'll hear anywhere ... This is incredible compared to anything else out there, it looks like it's from another planet! - Steve Jobs That's how the tape starts and I won't be the one [...]
Clock Opera will be appearing as part of the programming for the TGTF stage at the Liverpool Academy of Arts on Friday 18 May, playing at 20.30 , as well as performing at Brighton Dome tonight (Friday 11 May) at the Great Escape at 20.30. I got together a bunch of questions for the band, including asking the band how the band formed, how SXSW this year went for them (including an unfortunate run-in with an oil painting), about all those unusual percussion bits they use [...]
After a series of remixes, single releases and artful videos, London band Clock Opera finally released their debut album Ways To Forget just this month and it was worth every second of waiting. The four piece have built quite a reputation as a live band, something we can find out first hand at the Camden Crawl Dublin this weekend. State caught up singer Guy Connelly with some cheeky questions. Following the fate The Fallout Trust then The Corrections , how difficult was it to push forward [...]
Clock Opera will be busy the next two Fridays, playing Brighton Dome at the Great Escape this Friday (11 May) at 20.30, then playing the TGTF stage at the Liverpool Academy of Arts on Friday 18 May, where they will go on at 20.30. We asked Dan Armstrong, sticksman for Clock Opera, to answer our Quickfire Questions. His answers follow. 1. What song is your earliest musical memory? The theme tune to the original Moomins. It's beautiful. If you search for [...]
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Camden Crawl (4-6 May '12) // Words: Saam Das Building on a relatively successful day one of the 2012 Camden Crawl , things got off to less of a joyous start on the Sunday as not one but two passenger emergency alarms on a Northern Line tube scuppered my attempts to catch a low-key Charli XCX performance in the Crawl's media hub. But with plenty of other bands to see over the day, that was only a minor setback. For [...]
Frank Yang People will probably never stop referencing 19972s Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space as the iconic Spiritualized album, and justifiably so. It was Jason Pierce's grand breakup album with a soap opera-calibre backstory, it was the band's marker in the Britpop era (though stylistically they never really fit), it raised the band's profile immensely - I once heard "Cool Waves" coming over the PA at a Mongolian Grill restaurant - and was a gorgeous melange of psychedelia, gospel, jazz, and rock besides. It's the [...]
I've been a huge fan of Clock Opera since the first time I heard one of their songs (was it Belongings or Once and For All, I don't remember). Slowly over the last two years they've been releasing single songs off what was to become their debut record, Ways to Forget. If I had to say something bad about the record, this is the only thing worth complaining about - if you've been following the band, you've heard quite a few of the best songs. However, there isn't a bad song on the album and there are a [...]
It takes a good few listens to realise that any noteworthy emotional mark has been left by Connelly on any of these 10 songs
Camden Crawl (London, 4-6 May '12) // Words: Saam Das The 2012 Camden Crawl draws ever closer, kicking off this Friday with a party at Koko, headlined by Death In Vegas but also featuring the likes of Funeral Suits . The real party begins on Saturday however, as a mass of bands play across dozens of venues in the NW1 area, along with other events such as comedy and spoken word. We've compiled ten of our suggested highlights of the [...]
This year Liverpool Sound City will take place from Thursday the 17th to Saturday the 19th of May. We are pleased to announce that TGTF will be hosting a stage at this year's festival on Friday at the Liverpool Academy of Arts on Seel Street. The night's headliner will be the Temper Trap , making their first appearance in the UK in 2 years this month. They are set to go on at 22.00 (10 PM). Pop rhythmic sensations Clock Opera [...]
Devonté Haynes aka Blood Orange's latest clip for the single 'Champagne Coast' from his recent album 'Coastal Groove' travels through a virtual reality-like maze of bedrooms, where Hynes stands off in the background while a different girl dances awkwardly up front. The video was directed by gif-artist & stylist Haley Wollens, who already worked with artists like [...]
The long anticipated debut solo album, Blunderbuss, from iconic rocker and semi-celebrity Jack White, officially dropped this week to a huge amount of buzz and publicity. While the advanced reviews have been largely positive, it is only in the past few days that most fans have been able to get their hands on the official [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Tony Marks hosts his New Music Show on Juice Radio , the largest independent station in our home city of Brighton, where he delivers contemporary releases on four shows each week. Once a month Tony generously allows us to deliver The Recommender in a completely different way to a new audience via his busy airwaves. You can find all of the past shows that we've appeared on at this link . Below we have the last two shows from March and April. As always, among our meandering rambles, we tried to deliver a broad, fearless [...]
Clock Opera - Ways To Forget By Paul Faller Guy Connelly, the man behind Clock Opera , has already received acclaim for his work as a remixer, reworking the likes of Everything Everything, Metronomy, and Feist to great effect. But with Ways To Forget he's no longer striking out alone, having expanded the project into a four-piece band. The origins of Clock Opera as a one-man project feel pretty evident on the likes of 'A Piece Of String' and 'Fail Better', which feel like they [...]
Clock Opera have appeared from relative obscurity, to produce their debut album 'Ways To Forget,' a beautifully crafted record. I think – no, I know - that people are going to enjoy it. From first listen, Clock Opera most definitely occupy that most odious of genres for me, synthy, indie-poppy, squealy, joyous rubbish. Luckily for them and me, they occupy it, and then completely make it their own. They go from piano solos in songs like 'Belongings', sounding like they could have been lifted straight from Elbow 's 'The Seldom Seen Kid', [...]
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