Roberts and Lord (Rafter Roberts and Simon Lord), the duo who met via Myspace, have announced they'll be releasing their debut full-length album, Eponymous , on October 3rd through Asthmatic Kitty Records. The album artwork/tracklist can be seen below, as well as one of the album cuts, 'Windmill'. 1. mosquito - 3:27 2. wild berries - 2:15 3 bottom of the bottle - 3:21 4. windmill - 3:08 5. oblique - 2:59 6. [...]
Okay, so the weather's been a bit patchy recently, but the fact that we're swanning about topless and sweating buckets when we do any exertions above the level of just blinking means that summer has arrived, and we'll be damned if we let a non-festival weekend go by when we don't stuff our faces with barbecued meat, and our [...]
Octagon Court Occasional contributor to The Line Of Best Fit, John Brainlove talks through last weekend's Brainlove Festival - now a much loved annual event held at the Brixton Windmill. With photographs by Sonny Malhotra . Brainlove Festival is one of my highlights of the year, without fail. Everyone on the label (who's able) comes together for an epic celebration of all the magical music we put out, with a range of weird and wonderful guests that we find on our travels. This year, the headliner was Meursault from [...]
There were just ninety tickets available for the intimate tour finale behind the grubby yet welcoming doors of The Windmill. Mere days after sharing a headline slot at The Electric Ballroom with fellow hype casualties Rival Schools, Connor wanders around chatting to fans whilst sporting a promotional t-shirt of theirs. Read more..
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Tweet We've reached 'O' in the A to Z and despite serious competition the winner is, drum roll please, Octopus Windmill . Hurrah. Origin - Octopus Windmill have been extending their tentacles into the blog world since Jan 2010 and they're based in Amsterdam, Holland. Frequency and style - OW posts 4 to 5 times a week. Expect nice pic, well written paragraph [...]
Brooklyn songstress Lia Ices is not alone in palying a soft whispered vocal over tender piano. A mere cursory glance at fellow female acts Feist and Cat Power reveals a similar summit of musical ideas: lovelorn musings threaded into the path of an impressive voice; glottal tumbling over stirring melodies amid gentle instrumentation. Regaling an audience packed into intimate Brixton hideaway the Windmill however, it soon becomes apparent that Ices is an all-together different entity. Sailing through a brisk forty minutes of music that begins with the jerking handclaps of sophomore album title-track 'Grown Unknown' [...]
The strangest thing happened, a confluence of memories and events that doesn't happen very often. It's kind of hard to explain, but I'm going to try. I recently re-read Watership Down , which if you haven't read, you ought to. It's the fantasy/adventure tale of a bunch of rabbits and, yes, I know it sounds pretty weird, but it's a wonderfully rich, beautifully realized story with characters that I really got attached to, even though they were rabbits. Just now, I [...]
Don't say we never give you anything! Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today Nurses - Winter The Russian Futurists - It's Not Really Cold When It Snows Arrah And The Ferns - Bundle Up The Windmills - When It Was Winter Belle & Sebastian - Winter Wooskie Mercury Rev - Endlessly Au Revoir Simone - The Winter Song Colin Clary - Meow Meow [...]
für den dezember ist die "the matinée holiday soirée" angekündigt, eine fünf tracks umfassende ep, die einige der besten acts des labels mit einem weihnachtssong auf den plan ruft, es wird die letzte veröffentlichung des jahres auf matinée sein, einen track dürfen wir vorhören, laz, der typ hinter dem bunten bandnamen, spielte zudem gerade sein zweites album ein: bubblegum lemonade - white noise christmas passend zur jahreszeit zwei weitere matinée records tracks, als aufmunterer, appetithappen, wie auch immer, geschenke fände man auf dem qualitätslabel eh eine menge: [...]
Wintercoats: Windmill In the last week or so, Melbourne’s Wintercoats (James Wallace) has been generating enough buzz to power a small city. I finally dove into his Cathedral EP last night (late to the bandwagon again) and wound up spinning it on repeat till the wee hours of the morning. From the swooping harmonies of “The Overture” to the melancholy-tinged elegance of “Cathedral”, this thing is an absolute tour de force of dreamy chamber-pop. I could throw out [...]
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Alright...if you're familiar with Windmill -- the musical outlet for Matthew Thomas Dillon (not to be confused with soul-patch pioneer Matt Dillon) from London -- then you're likely wondering why this is going in New Music. His last album, "Epcot Starfields" was out in the fall of last year, one of his singles appeared on the November playlist of 09. So, you're right -- not technically "new", but new to me and anyone who haven't yet checked out the full extent of his music. Keeping in the vein of music-au-courant, Windmill is releasing a new single [...]
Fit - Windmill (from Puddle City Racing Lights ) Perfect Fit - Laurel Music (from This Night and the Next ) So I'm thinking about buying a new car. This is a pretty major deal since I've been driving the same Dodge Caravan for about 12 years now. And while I love the old minivan, the recognition of rising gas prices and the initial investment required to buy a car designed for a family leads me to believe I really ought to buy a nice little fuel-efficient car. [...]
(photo by Johannes G. ) As I did last year, I've decided to cap off 2009 by offering my top 50 songs of the year (in two parts). These are the tried-and-true songs that have stuck with me throughout this past year filling my days with joy and my mix CDs with, uh... songs. These are the ones that I love more than milk steak and jelly beans . The list is presented in a highly unscientific ordered list form, and as in past years, no artist will be listed twice. There’s a link [...]
Hot off the success of second album Epcot Starfields (Friendly Fire), London's Windmill has been busy this fall, touring the U.K. and Europe. Recently, Matthew Thomas Dillon and friends have been working a cover of the National's "Start A War" into their nightly setlist. Download Epcot Starfields' "Ellen Save Our Energy" below. And as a bonus, here are mp3s [...]
Windmill's recently-released opus Epcot Starfields is one of the more spectacularly sprawling & ambitious records in recent memory. A childhood trip to Florida's EPCOT Center... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
I was thinking about the unavoidable year-end-lists today (I'll give you the reason for that further down below), and I remembered that I wanted to check out what two of my former best-album-winners are up to right now. Well, whilst Youth Group have announced that they will take a year off in 2010 and return in 2011, The Shins have no real news whatsoever on a new album. Sad news from both parties, I think... at least, the [...]
barsuk records hat sich diese band aus saratoga springs geangelt, ihre interessante mischung aus indierock, electro und shoegaze brachte sie zumindest schon mal auf us tour mit school of seven bells, das album kommt am 09. februar: phantogram - when i'm small neu aus der san franciscoer popschmiede um allen clap und seine truppe, "2020" heißt das gerät und erscheint via parasol bzw. mystery lawn music: the orange peels - we're gonna make it [...]
Cover News is a weekly feature keeping you up to date on the goings-on in the world of cover tunes, tribute albums, etc. Plus, at the bottom we post our array of cover tunes we’ve been sent in the past week. Have you recorded a cool cover? Send an mp3 to the email address on the right!
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A couple of weeks ago, we went to New Orleans for a friend's wedding. We had a chance to see the World War II museum and the fancy new wing that Tom Hanks helped contribute with and the new theater much cooler than an Imax (it's in 4D!). The picture from above is taken from the museum, and before the trip, I had no idea there was a WWII museum. I guess Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are teaming up again to retell the story of the US invading the Pacific during [...]
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