Purveyors of the most demented sound this side of the loony bin, Vision Fortune 's latest EP Night Jukes provides more captivating atmospherics: perma-throbbing guitars, monotone vocals and seditious drums that together form an arsenal of blurry meanders. It's like a rock version of witch house - possibly (but probably not) explaining why the third song is simply called Drag (drag being another name for witch house). The raw opening track Heavy Saddles is my fave, though: it's a spellbinding story of how one hook can carry a whole song...
Imagine a 3D model of someone's bedroom containing every single object within it, and every single bit of information concerning that object. Where it is positioned, how it arrived there, what was done with it, what was felt about it. Imagine it as a digital version of Georges Perec in Life: A User's Manual. Photographs, t-shirts and books, disintegrating sneakers and second hand furniture, posters and fanzines, chunky red toys, piles of papers, train ticket & gig stubs, discarded packets of cigarettes, coffee mugs embossed with novelty slogans. The cause of that smear in the sofa and the [...]
Hey, did you hear that the Stone Roses are reforming? You didn't? Perhaps you should dig around in some of the specialist arts pamphlets to see if they have any coverage of this most monumental event. OH WAIT: you won't need to do that, because the mere idea that a once-decent band from 1989 is playing again has sent the UK press into a frenzy of lazy headlines ("The Third Coming" apparently the most common). We commissioned resident ANBAD Cheese Artist, Alex James From Blur, to express the gratitude of an astonished nation in [...]
Lead Soup is a brand new Live Music and Club night coming to Mother Live in London's Old Street from September 10th. Promoted, booked, run and DJ'ed by me, Rob 'Spacehips' Morgan of the If There Is Hell Below blog and podcast. Each week we'll be playing host to some of the most intriguing, forward thinking, exciting, strange, underground and just all-round ace music acts we can find, starting with The Night Jars and Dead Rabbits on September 10th. Bands will blow open the Lead Soup doors [...]
London weirdsters Vision Fortune have uploaded two new songs to their Soundcloud - and, if anything, the band seems to be getting stranger. Part drag and part drone, they're like an super-industrialised, adult version of Vondelpark, all weird and aggressive vocals and distorted beats. They sound, in short, like a really bad drug trip. And yet, unexpectedly, there's something quite appealing about that. GLAZER by VISION FORTUNE SEVEN SAINTS by VISION FORTUNE
Jerusalem. Paris. Brooklyn Ruth Rosenthal & Xavier Klaine our current music is like an apocalyptic report of our life,in a group, a couple, a family, with friendships and farewells. Our 2nd Album 'Red Sugar' is out both in a cd via Subrosa and 2xLP via Alt.vinyl . our music combines the two worlds that we live through. [...]
Signed to the mercurial Italian Beach Babes label, London-via-Tanzania band Vision Fortune 's mesmerising songs seem to me like relationships. For theirs is a hyper-intense music, a combination of sharp-pitched strings, indeterminably chanted vocals and careering guitars that wail towards a crescendo, a taut tension that you know won't be sustainable; and somehow implicit in this tension is the undeniable fact of its imminent failure - a rise built around the acceptance of its eventual fail; what goes up must come down; everything comes to an end. The best mantra here is enjoy it while it lasts; thrill in the palpable highs, and refuse to think [...]
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