Some new material from Rob St. John has made its way round these parts this week. The promo single Sargasso Sea is a bit of a belter. You can listen to it right here. It's a five minute intense of darkly intense tunage that is a perfect soundtrack for a miserable November weekend. Saragossa Sea is drawn from the forthcoming release Weald that is being released through Song By Toad Records on 21st November. [...]
You know the story these days; a new album announcement accompanied by a free taster song. It works nicely for me, but often these things come along like buses. So over the past day there's been news of three potential belters coming out in the next few months. First up, Field ...
Here's a new tune from hazzy lo-fi group Lil Daggers called "Dada Brown" that was sent to me recently. The jam is on a new self-titled album from the group due out December 5th on Song, By Toad Records . Until that physical release date, you can actually stream the entire new album and buy it digitally over on the Lil Daggers bandcamp page . Hope you enjoy. Download: Lil Daggers - Dada Brown [MP3]
This week featuring Mode Moderne, Two Wounded Birds, Eleanor Friedberger, Young Husband, Ellie Lawson, Flow Machines, Emily Barker , The Finger, Little Daggers and The John Peel Approved Festive 50. ****************************** ** Mode Moderne. Vancouver's Mode Moderne seem to like the dark side of life and come across rather like The Arcade Fire meets Depeche Mode in a graveyard, which believe me is a good thing. The darkness, which makes Nick Cave seem positively sanguine is all enveloping, [...]
Lil Daggers will release their debut self-titled album via Song, by Toad Records on December 5th. Song, By Toad and I may rarely agree on music, but when we do, we most certainly do. I don't usually quote PR emails directly, but Matthew's description of this Lil Daggers album sums up my feelings exactly: "It's [...]
Lil Daggers, whose first release on Song, by Toad Records was the amazing King Corpse EP, which we put out on 73 vinyl back in June, are gearing up for their debut album, out on Song, by Toad Records on 5th December 2011. It is self-titled, coming out in the first week of December, and will be on vinyl only, with a download code included. In fact, there will be two versions of the vinyl available: a normal black version, and about twenty special editions on lovely marbled stuff, for the nerds and obsessives out there (yes, I [...]
Split singles can be funny beasts. The Gerry Loves Records team have put out a trio of great ones, yet over in a box in the corner there's some shockers that I've clearly bought for just one of the bands. The Mogwai/Dweeb split seven particularly stands out. This one though, this falls firmly into the "ace" category. The single features Rob St. John 's Your Phantom Limb on one side, Ian Humberstone 's House on the Hill on the other, neither artists that I'm as familiar with as I probably should be. Both songs have [...]
Split singles can be funny beasts. The Gerry Loves Records team have put out a trio of great ones, yet over in a box in the corner there's some shockers that I've clearly bought for just one of the bands. The Mogwai/Dweeb split seven particularly stands out. This one though, this falls firmly into the "ace" category. The single features Rob St. John 's Your Phantom Limb on one side, Ian Humberstone 's House on the Hill on the other, neither artists that I'm as familiar with as I probably should be. Both songs have [...]
On 10th October Song, by Toad Records will be releasing a split 73 by Rob St. John and Ian Humberstone (who formerly recorded under the name of Tissø Lake). House on the Hill is Ian's side of the record, which he recorded to half inch tape on a whirring old Tascam reel-to-reel recorder over the course of a handful of fog-strewn days in a frozen Cambridge kitchen in winter 2010. The video below was assembled from archive footage of the Telstar satellite, which receives signal from Andover Maine, and retransmits to Cornwall in England. [...]
Trips And Falls - People Have To Be Told By Steve McGillivray A record coming out on Song, by Toad Records is something that gets me a little bit excited these days, thanks to the consistently high quality of the label's output. It's with something akin to "Christmas 1978 and hoping that the big box contains the X-Wing Fighter" excitement that I open the envelope containing the label's latest promo. This time round it's Canadian band Trips and Falls , with their album People Have To Be Told. [...]
Jonnie Common - Deskjob The brainchild of Jonnie Common , Deskjob is a collaboration between ten different acts, with each act recording a stripped down song which Common then put his stamp on during the production, adding instrumentation where he saw fit. Common himself is a Glasgow based artist and a member of the band Inspector Tapehead, who are one of the acts featured on the album. The first track given the Common touch (sorry!) is Panda Su's 'Eric is Dead'. It's a very atmospheric opening as sounds [...]
Right, this is the last of this week's spam, I absolutely promise. I am caught up now anyway, so there'll no need to keep bombarding you with stuff after this. Anyhow, what you see above is the most eye-meltingly gorgeous thing we've released to date: a clear, colour-streaked 103 vinyl record of Surrender to Summer by The Japanese War Effort . It even comes with a packet of the custom made rock sweets you see photographed there on the cover, as well as a free download of the EP itself and a fully remixed version, with reworkings [...]
geht auch. hook geladener, griffig experimenteller pop. jamie scott ist der erzeuger dieses ohne zweifel tanzflächen füllenden knallers. unter the japanese war effort agiert der ansonsten bei conquering animal sound angestellte. das vorliegende vinyl wurde 250 gepresst, der hauseigner vom veröffentlichenden song, by toad records behielt sich aber bereits ein exemplar dieses form- wie cverschönen dingens vor. scott, freunde, darf ich Euch ansonsten auch ans herz legen, das ist nicht nur ein schnöder frickler, sondern ein sehr guter musiker und produzent. da kommt noch mehr, ich bin sicher. das vinyl ist natürlich um weitere tracks ergänzt, [...]
Next up in this meet-the-blogger series, where we focus our attention on the editors behind the world's finest music blogs, is the charming Matthew Young, who is the editor for Song By Toad . Having been placed in the top five in last year's peers-only poll on the best music blogs in the world , (Song By Toad ended up joint fourth with Gorilla vs Bear ), he was a natural for a Q&A selection. His tidy blog is well-established, even branching out as an excellent independent label , and is particularly great at [...]
Two of our writers give their thoughts on the new EP by The Japanese War Effort , Surrender To Summer . The Japanese War Effort - Surrender To Summer There's a little known record label in Edinburgh called Song, by Toad Records. An unusual name, but probably more unusual is the extreme high quality of music the label is putting out. Already here at Muso's Guide we've reviewed Meursault, King Post Kitsch and Lil Daggers. The latest preview that dropped [...]
My my, this has been a long time coming, this particular review. I put a song from this album on a podcast months ago, and have somehow never quite managed to write a review so umm… apologies for keeping you all waiting. Whilst this is was presented to me as an album, I get a [...]
I haven't been all that excited by new Scottish bands for a while, so it's quite nice to see some more interesting ones emerging again. Plastic Animals are Edinburgh based and have apparently been going for ages, but have only recently acquired a manager, who has basically been whipping them into shape to get their [...]
There were so many s***e puns I nearly used for this title (PAWSome!, PAWS; the BAWS! and other abominations) but I showed some unusual restraint in the end, which will surprise some. It certainly surprised me. This lot surprised me too, I have to confess. I've seen them on a few hipster-friendly bills around Edinburgh [...]
Yes that is my cheesy mug up there, and yes I am ever so slightly tipsy. The photo was taken at last years Bloggers Delight night at the Flying Duck for Pin Up Nights. It wasn't my first foray into 'spinning tunes', however, it was the first time that I did it as Peenko. From what I can remember of the night it was really good fun, I don't recall making too many mistakes aside from dropping my pint. It was just after the first ever Ayetunes vs Peenko gig, so I had already had a few sherbets to calm [...]
This is going to be a really difficult record for me to review sensibly. This is not for the usual reasons – that I happen to consider the band to be good friends, although I do – but for a more mundane one: I actually know this music and these songs so well that sitting [...]
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