After providing guest vocals for the original track with Disclosure, Sam Smith has recorded his own acoustic version of ‘Latch’ – this acoustic cover emphases the heart wrenching lyrics through Sam’s stunning vocals, accompanied by piano and cello.
Sam recently performed alongside Disclosure at Coachella Festival, as well as selling out two nights at St Pancras Old Church where he debuted new material in an intimate setting.
Catch Sam Smith on 26th May at Love Saves Sunday Festival in Bristol.
London-based Lewis Watson has developed a thriving fan base in his young career, already hailed by BBC Radio 1 and The Independent -The Wild EP will be his third of a series of EPs via Warner Music. He has also collaborated with producers and writers including Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys), Richard Wilkinson (Kaiser Chiefs) and Kid Harpoon (Florence + The Machine).
Gravenhurst Announces New Album
The Ghost In Daylight Out May 1
Gravenhurst is the work of songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Talbot from Bristol, England. The Ghost In Daylight is his most sonically diverse work yet, building upon his brand of gloomy folk with starkly acoustic songs resting alongside densely layered pieces. The album’s lead single “The Prize” is a dark meditation on recurring Gravenhurst themes of compulsion, degradation and the possibility of transcendence, and contains some of Nick’s finest lyrics to date.
Conjured from disparate ingredients, Gravenhurst’s roots lie in the melodic noise of My Bloody Valentine, the lush vocal harmonies of Simon and Garfunkel, the alchemical guitars of Richard Thompson and Johnny Marr, and the widescreen ambient visions of Brian Eno.
Over the course of five startling and critically acclaimed releases, Talbot has developed and retained a unique identity across multiple genres. The inability to pigeonhole his sound is what made his music appealing to fans of former tourmates as diverse as Animal Collective, Broadcast, Explosions in the Sky, and Belle & Sebastian. Now five years on from his last album, Gravenhurst is back and ready to pull listeners into his world.
Listen to new track “The Prize”
Continuing the series’ 10th anniversary, 2011’s third Late Night Tales compilation is by celebrated psychedelic rock band MGMT.
Formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, New York the band consists of multi-instrumentalists Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, both alumni of Wesleyan University. Their 2008 debut album ‘Oracular Spectacular’ spawned the almost ubiquitous hit singles ‘Kids’, ‘Time To Pretend’ and ‘Electric Feel’ while 2010’s follow up ‘Congratulations’ saw them embrace more of a progressive, guitar-driven sound.
The band’s Late Night Tales selection of post-punk, cult indie and counter-culture figureheads reflects the band’s multifaceted sound, and draws comparisons with contemporary dreampop/chillwave/shoegaze/folk scenes on both sides of the Atlantic.
The listener finds MGMT presiding over the playlist “after-the-after-party”; daybreak creeping through the curtains earlier than desirable, broken bodies lining the corridors, the emotionally bankrupt kept alive by timeless songs of heartache and longing.
Luminaries The Velvet Underground, Suicide and Julian Cope, although not with their most famous songs, sit alongside less familiar names such as Disco Inferno; whose ‘Can’t See It Through’ from their final ‘96 album ‘Technicolour’ opens proceedings.
MGMT’s exclusive cover of ‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’ by Bauhaus sits comfortably alongside the UK post-punk-gothic band’s peers The Durutti Column, The Chills, The Jacobites and Felt’s brief but imposing instrumental ‘Red Indians’.
Paranoia strikes deep: the double header of Cheval Sombre’s ‘Troubled Mind’ and ‘Drug Song’ by 60’s Christian folk singer Dave Bixby accentuate the hope offered by the ever penitent Spacemen 3 (MGMT’s second album ‘Congratulations’ was recorded with founder Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom), who deliver ‘Lord Can You Hear Me?’ in respect to the beautiful closer ‘Morning Splendor’, taken from Pauline Anna Strom’s rare ‘82 LP ‘Trans-Millenia Consort‘.
Putting a full stop on the selection, music journalist and Art Of Noise founder Paul Morley continues his ‘Lost For Words’ short story.
Label: Late Night Tales
Cat no: ALNCD26
Web: www.latenighttales.co.uk
Released: Monday October 3rd, 2011
More info can be found at:
www.whoismgmt.com
Ben Westbeech releases his new album – 12th of September
Singer, songwriter, DJ and producer Ben Westbeech follows up to his 2007 debut album, Welcome To The Best Years Of Your Life, with the mythical second album, titled There’s More To Life Than This. The album was recorded over the past 12 months in Berlin, New York, London, Bristol, Munich, Stockholm and Stuttgart featuring a superb line-up such as Motor City Drum Ensemble, Redlight, Georg Levin, Chocolate Puma, Midland, Soul Clap and Henrik Schwartz.
Reflecting on the record Ben says “I feel like I’ve got my spark back, like I’ve found myself – I feel excited about music again.”
The end-result is a soulful, house music-inspired summer gem well worth the wait.
Tracklist
01. The Book feat. Georg Levin
02. Something For The Weekend feat. by Danny J Lewis
03. Falling feat. Lovebirds
04. Same Thing feat. Chocolate Puma
05. Justice feat. Motor City Drum Ensemble
06. Stronger feat. Midland
07. Inflections feat. Henrik Schwarz
08. Sugar feat. Redlight
09. Let Your Feelings Show feat. Georg Levin
10. Butterflies feat. Rasmus Faber
11. Summer’s Loss feat. Rasmus Faber
We have a lot of posts about Jamie Woon (incl.Official Video and Hudson Mohawke Re-fix),this remix is one the best UNOFFICIAL remixes we heard lately!
Take a listen and Download if you like it
and here are 2 official remixes from Jamie Woon’s soundcloud
Download Lady Luck (dÉbruit’s Suave Remix)wav.format
Download: Lady Luck (Royce Wood Jr. Retwix)
Recent and Forthcoming WV releases Free Downloads for you
BALMORHEA
“Clamor” from the new limited edition 7″ release CANDOR/CLAMOR.
BOTANY
“Waterparker” from the debut release Feeling Today.
CALLERS
“How You Hold Your Arms” mp3 from their new album Life of Love. There’s also a video for this song available here.
GLASS GHOST
The band recently recorded a cover of “Fake Out” by Bear in Heaven.
WIRES UNDER TENSION
“Mnemonics in Motion” from their forthcoming debut Light Science.
More info on these releases, live dates, … is available here.
UPCOMING RELEASES – Wires Under Tension – Light Science | Bamorhea – Candor/Clamor | Rolf Julius – Music for a Distance | Soema Montenegro – Passionaria
NOW AVAILABLE - Callers – Life of Love | Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott | Botany – Feeling Today | J. Tillman – Singing Ax | Goldmund – Famous Places | Secret Cities – Pink Graffiti | Rolf Julius – Music for the Ears | Balmorhea – Constellations | Slow Six – Tomorrow Becomes You | Sleep Whale – Houseboat | Ola Podrida – Belly of the Lion | Glass Ghost – Idol Omen | Here We Go Magic – s/t | Dirty Projectors – The Getty Address
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