December is the one month, above all of its fellow eleven, that grows increasingly unsavoury as it dwindles and wading through Islington on the evening of an anything but fateful Friday the 14th, the twelve-of-twelve salubrious London borough veritably reeks of Christmas party smut; of the uncontrollable release of testosterone and other hormonal spew prompted by the unchained festivities of this godforsaken time of the season . The puff-chested bravado appears to have inflated the ambience within The Lexington too, though upstairs unravels an altogether incomparable celebration. It's been nine years since Upset The Rhythm hosted [...]
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If ever the year really felt as though it were drawing to a close once and for all, then it'd have to be this morning. I'd guess were you to look out across London today, few curtains would have yet been unfurled, with most heads still a grotesque mess from last night. I, for one, couldn't deal with much sunlight right around now which, I suppose, is fairly fortunate given the monochromic hue of the sliver of light stained on the carpet underfoot. The one redeeming ray of brilliance to today will, however, be emitted from a whisky bar of [...]
We turn on the holographic projector that we nicked from Admiral Ackbar in the confusion of the Endor post-victory Orgy (so many furries!) to display the Strange Planet whose charting is our cultural rover’s ultimate purpose. We gloss over catalogues of artefacts and genealogies of sound. We identify a disturbance in the force, a void in our cartography. A mountainous and wild zone where we have in the past sent envoys well versed in the arts of diplomacy, dance and arm-wrestling, and that’s all she wrote. As Artificially Intelligent as these minions are, they are not [...]
There are umpteen places I'd rather find myself on a Thursday. It's the one evening upon which the stagnancy omnipresent of Dalston is worst exposed, as they that frequent its faux-bijoux establishments fill the air with the incessant prattle of the irrelevant. Birthdays, too, is one of its worse venues; the sort you wouldn't wish even a nemesis to celebrate a certain special annual event within. A subterraneous corridor blurred by thick fuzzes of hair and general darkness, Parts & Labour mover and shaker Dan Friel is scarcely visible. His cataclysmic chunks of brutal sound, however, are anything [...]
On September 3rd, Future Islands will be releasing a new single, “Tomorrow”, (b/w “Fountain”) via Upset the Rhythm. It really is such a mind blowing experience every time Sam herring opens up his vocal chords. Even if the lyrics are sometimes undistinguishable, we always know how much expansive beauty is being put forth. One of the finest tracks to date frorm the Baltimore gravely synth-rockers.
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Future Islands are already back with a new 7 inch, returning to Upset the Rhythm (who released their wonderful debut) for "Tomorrow" b/w "The Fountain" . As you already know, these guys can't write a bad song and are great at making you feel real happy or real sad - "Tomorrow" is a sad one, so get ready to break down and internalize some shit. Don't worry, it'll be real good for you.
Being on a bit of a run lately, Future Islands are releasing another new single for the masses to gleefully consume. In July they dropped "Cotton Flower" , a single released as part of the Less Artists More Condos series, and now they're releasing another new single called "Tomorrow" , this time via Upset The Rhythm on September 3rd. At points during the song Sam's voice is unrecognisable, and then at others it's unmistakable, especially at the guttural, gravel-coated screaming that comes out of nowhere [...]
Things have changed: The Pheromoans just got serious. Previously a formless gloop of vague, southern English human detritus banging away at out-of-tune instrumentation , the Pheromoans have always made essential, if slightly oblique, records on a myriad of independent labels . For Upset The Rhythm , on their LP 'Does This Guy Stack Up?' the band have scrubbed up to reveal a little detail. And while there's still enough opacity and murk to satisfy lovers of their deformed bar-room language, the crystal clarity of vocalist Russell Walker's lyrics and the detailing of the band's regressive yet inspired [...]
A fascinating, if furtive specimen is Ramona Gonzalez. Having operated under the subtly darkened glint of her Nite Jewel moniker for nigh on five years now, she's been producing largely superb – if momentarily almost satirical lo-fi slo-soul quite consistently since, collaborating with everyone from Dâm-Funk to Julia Holter in the meanwhile. And yet despite her flagrant creativity (Gonzalez doubles up as a visual and installation artist, don't cha know) recognition and subsequent riches continue to illude. Latest full-length One Second Of Love never quite garnered the plaudits many anticipated either, and indeed we had [...]
As much as the expression's strange, it's easy to see why South London duo Gentle Friendly 's sound is described as "junked up". Their songs can sound at time like a hastily-glued-together set of sounds and vocals spat out at random by a sample machine: jarring and jagged. But gradually these noises become easier to digest, as if one as has attuned to the frequency, or learned the language. A new-ish mini-EP, Rrrrrrr , is out now on Upset The Rhythm , featuring these two numbers... Speakers by gentlefriendly [...]
Been wanting to use this image by TagliaMani for a while - thanks to the ever wonderful 50 Watts . Quickly (in 20JFG time*) following on from last week's post about Peepholes ' laboratory-fresh detour, Tunnels, comes the Moon Gang s remix. Combining a decaying Techno drum sequence - seemingly heard from beneath midnight-black ocean waves - with reconstructed Chi-House synth hooks, Tunnels is turned from a cyclopean night drive into something (even) more cosmic. Which you'd expect from Moon Gangs. Katia's vocal forced into a distant endless [...]
We're all for returns at 20JFG and friends of the family Peepholes have made many, many returns to us over the years . Like prodigal siblings returning to our bleak and unforgiving farm to be subjected to biblical metaphors…remorselessly. Having lapped up their last EP on Upset the Rhythm and it's epic closer Carnivore we feel suitably prepped for the increasingly wide pendulum swings by the band, out and away from short bursts of kinetic drum/keyboard frenzy. New mini-LP Caligula opens with another long builder, a Mayan temple of an [...]
Here's a collection of some current Upset The Rhythm required listening. Some of the tracks like the GROUP INERANE and HALO HALO songs are anticipating our excitement about next month's upcoming shows whilst we've also included a lot of demos and forthcoming tracks from upcoming UTR releases too including a frantic pulse grab courtesy of ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT, and a fist-pumping outtake from JOHN MAUS' last album Pitiless Censors . Thoroughly rubbing shoulders with all this is a selection of tracks we've been recently loving from near (BOMBER JACKETS) and afar (ISSUE), we hope you enjoy [...]
Por lo regular diariamente les estoy publicando musica enfocada a un solo proyecto o que forma parte de un nuevo material del cual meses despues les empiezo a hablar un poco mas a detalle pero, esta vez quise aprovechar que tengo este 'espacio' para compartir esto que me acabo de encontrar hace apenas unos instantes que para serles franco, la verdad no tenia ni la menor idea de que esto existiera o que fuera algo que viniera en camino pero...mas vale tarde que nunca, no creen?. Pues bueno, "Your Hand Hold, For I Have No More" es el titulo de [...]
On Plough Tuesday, a Straw Bear marches down the streets of Whittlesea and dances in front of its houses in exchange for gifts of money, food or beer, not that different from what many bands do these days, same as it ever was. This is another of those millennial English folk traditions that the 20jazzfunkgreats endorse and cherish, echoing as they do the cycles of an ancient land spinning through the eternal rerun of the seasons at their own rhythm, connected to itself and the Earth, the Stars and the Secret World in ways that we [...]
If you were lucky enough to be at the underground Yes Way fest in London last weekend, you may have seen Please or Spin Spin the Dogs . You may have bought their lovely split EP too. Marching, manic garage blended with rambly weird punk. I like. Get this EP on vinyl through the wonderful Upset the Rhythm . Richard Greenan.
Jul 22, 2011, 10:53am
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Futuristisch angehauchter Vintage-Wave, blinde Aggression gepaart mit einer Aussage, Intellekt mit Emotion - das alles verpackt in eine aufreibende Liveshow. Miau!!! Wer holt dieses schwitzige Mäuschen in die Schweiz? Dass die Schweiz existiert, dürfte dem Amerikaner hinlänglich bekannt sein. So hat er doch an der European Graduate School in Saas Fee Philosophie studiert. Dennoch stellte John Maus sein exzellentes neues Album zwar unlängst im direkten Umland vor, nicht aber bei uns. Da geht uns ganz schön was durch die Lappen. Live kommt Maus' reverb-schwangeres Oeuvre im Soft-Pop-Mantel ab [...]
Jul 22, 2011, 10:53am »78s
Futuristisch angehauchter Vintage-Wave, blinde Aggression gepaart mit einer Aussage, Intellekt mit Emotion - das alles verpackt in eine aufreibende Liveshow. Miau!!! Wer holt mir dieses schwitzige Mäuschen in die Schweiz? Dass die Schweiz existiert, dürfte dem Amerikaner hinlänglich bekannt sein. So hat er doch an der European Graduate School in Saas Fee Philosophie studiert. Dennoch stellte John Maus sein exzellentes neues Album zwar unlängst im direkten Umland vor, nicht aber bei uns. Da geht uns ganz schön was durch die Lappen. Live kommt Maus' reverb-schwangeres Oeuvre im Soft-Pop-Mantel [...]
John Maus has a lot of ideas. This much must be evident to anyone who has seen the thirty-one year old Minnesotan being interviewed. You can watch as his brain races; he stammers and tumbles over his words in his effort for clarity, hedge phrases such as ‘y’know’ ‘or something’ and ‘aaaaaaaah’ being delivered with equal pace and frequency as his fascinating, insightful profundities on music, philosophy and culture. It’s rare to see an interviewer get much more of a word in; such is the aggressive power of his intellect. It’s an incredibly arresting thing to witness, and I [...]
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