Mykel – ‘Hold On’(Stream)

Irish singer, song writer and producer Mykel aka Michael Fitzpatrick, is back with debut EP ‘Hold On’, an artfully crafted five track EP out 15th April via Ntrang Music.

2013 looks to be a huge break out year for Mykel. His EP is set to build on the stirring success of his debut single - ‘Sweet Valentine’ which received early support from the likes ofNME, SBTV and Indie Shuffle. Nine months in the works, the finished EP is a stunning collection of soulful and emotive tunes from start to finish.

Title track ‘Hold On’ is a moving track written to express his love and support for a friend who was dealing with a tragic passing of a loved one. In its purest form, it’s a stripped back acoustic track with Mykel’s haunting vocals adding depth and intensity to the rawness of the subject matter.

Download:Johan Reinhold ‘Heart In A Jar’

Johan is a Swedish indie electro-pop singer/songwriter with influences from Roxy Music to Bowie to Daft Punk.  In anticipation of his EP scheduled for early October he has given away the lead track as a free download.

Debut album from Chilean indie sensations ASTRO (Nacional Records)+Video

 Astro’s upcoming self-titled US debut, to be released September 4^th.

A streaming preview of the album will debut next Monday on NPR Music.  The Chilean indie sensations’ song “Panda” will appear in the upcoming EA Sports video game ‘FIFA 13’ as well as the new Bloomingdales television ad campaign: http://bcove.me/fn3qycw1

 

 
“Lovely, melodic, reverbed falsetto, epic/dreamlike synth effects and real rock ‘n’ roll drumming.” MTV IGGY

“Designers of one of the most universally beloved indie hits to come out of South America in years (“Maestro Distorsión”), Astro is also the protagonist of one of the most divisive young careers in our Iberoamerican pop landscape.” CLUB FONOGRAMA

Astro – Ciervos

The Invisible new album ‘Rispah’(Stream)

‘Rispah’ is out now in Europe (6/12 in North America) on CD and download (LP released 9 July)

 

‘Rispah’, the sophomore album by The Invisible and their first for Ninja Tune, is out now.

Buy at Ninjashop: http://bit.ly/M7MTDh
Buy at Amazon: http://glnk.it/1a9
Download on iTunes: http://glnk.it/1av

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The Hudson Branch “Piggyback” MP3 Download – new album “World Kid” out today

The Hudson Branch release “Piggyback” as a free download/stream to celebrate the release of their new album “World Kid,” out today. 

Recorded with John McEntire (Broken Social Scene, Tortoise) and produced by Neil Strauch(Andrew Bird, Iron & Wine, Anathallo), “World Kid” retains the nuanced complexity of the band’s debut album “Tightrope Walker” but sees The Hudson Branch (Cobey Bienert, Corey Bienert, Matt Boll, Jake Boll, Enoch Kim) embracing new territory. In addition to traditional instruments (guitar, bass, drums, piano), ukuleles, programmed beats, tambourines, shakers, glockenspiels, marimbas, a Wurlitzer, an organ, Casio synths, violins combine to create “World Kid’s” unique sonic texture.

 

In addition to digital format, “World Kid” is also being released as a multimedia physical songbook, featuring original illustrations for all album tracks by visual artist Rachel June,the short story “Work” by award winning radio producer Andy Mills (NPR, PRX, WBEZ), lyrics, exclusive photos from the making of “World Kid” and full album download code. The limited edition books will see an initial print run of 300 and are only available at the band’s live shows. They make their debut when The Hudson Branch headlines Chicago’s Lincoln Hall on May 8.

The Hundred In The Hands Announce “Keep It Low” Single, Share MP3

“Keep It Low” 12” Single Includes 4 Remixes and the B-Side “Mountains”

Free MP3 Download of “Keep it Low” or Stream the Track on YouTube

Don’t Miss The Hundred In The Hands Live at Brooklyn’s Glasslands on May 15th 

The Hundred In The Hands has announced the upcoming release of the “Keep It Low” single from their upcoming album, RED NIGHT. The 12” single is due out May 28 via Warp Records and will include an original B-side, “Mountains” and remixes from Andy Stott, Pattern, and JD Twitch of Optimo who supplies two reworks. The anthemic “Keep it Low” has a driving rhythm that underpins Eleanore Everdell’s seductive and wistful vocal turn and Jason Friedman’s echoing guitars and spiraling atmospherics building the song from its melancholy beginning to a fever pitch.

The Hundred in the Hands chose remixers who have been inspiring them, the band says: “We were listening to Andy Stott’s “Passed Me By” and “We Stay Together” EP’s a lot as we started the record. So many good ideas and textures, with low end in the extreme that kind of rattled our minds a bit. When it came to looking for people to remix, he was first on the list. The legendary Optimo duo have been such an influence on so many artists in recent years, and in maybe too many cases we end up liking their versions a bit more than the originals. We just had to ask. JD Twitch turned in two versions, each unique and equally epic. We couldn’t make up our minds so, we stuck them both on. We’d been hearing bits from Patten and got excited. It’s hallucinatory, uneasy and fractured. Pretty much everything we like. “Mountains” was a track that was written totally in the flow of the album but still just couldn’t fit in, it just wouldn’t play nice with the other tracks and just became its own beast of a thing. This seemed like the best place to let it out.”

After successful showings at two recent VICE events which included the San Francisco installment of the Creator’s Project, the band will debut their new material live for the first time next month in NYC. This Glasslands performance on May 15 will be an opportunity to join The Hundred in the Hands in their own nocturnal city where time stretches, tempos drop, and guitars plunge rumbling and throbbing out against denser and denser vocals as the story unfolds.

“Keep It Low” 12” Tracklisting
A1. Keep It Low (Edit)
A2. Keep It Low (Andy Stott Remix)
A3. Keep It Low (A JD Twitch Optimo Remix)
B1. Mountains
B2. Keep It Low (Pattern Remix)
Keep It Low (A JD Twitch Optimo Dub)

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The Hundred In The Hands Announce New Album, Red Night(June 12, Warp Records)(Preview)+Stream Faded

The Hundred In The Hands 

RED NIGHT

(June 12, Warp Records)

The Hundred In The Hands’ self-titled debut quickly established them as one of the most compelling new acts of the last few years. After touring that album across the globe, the duo consisting of Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman, returned to their dimly-lit New York studio to work on their mesmerizing follow-up, RED NIGHT, due out June 12th via Warp Records. RED NIGHT is a self-produced meditation on separation and reunion, love nearly lost and the long night back to it; a chronicle of late-hour pining awash in
digital glow and urban buzzing.

Album opener “Empty Stations” begins with a haunting string arrangement that is overtaken by a propulsive rhythm and Eleanore’s spellbinding vocal turns. “Come With Me” guitar stabs, icy keyboard, and polyrhythm underscore the lyrical siren’s call. The heart broken vocal on “Faded” wraps itself around the spiraling bell and fragile arrangements to devastating effect. The goth RnB monster “Stay the Night” is a tale of yearning with a seductive slowed-down groove. The vast soundscapes of “Lead In The Light” start out sparse and build to an otherworldly climax and then back down again.

“From the start there was a darkness that was coming out both lyrically and sonically, the songs were all heartbreak and fear of losing something special, trying to find that better light.”

RED NIGHT is an opportunity to enter the winding tunnels of The Hundred in the Hands’ nocturnal city where time stretches, tempos drop, and guitars plunge rumbling and throbbing out against denser and denser vocals as the story unfolds. The band’s boundary-pushing sound is unafraid to marry minimalism and abstraction with big melodies. They have recently been playing some of the new material to rapturous audiences at big events including a Vice party in LA at the end of February with Odd Future and Kid Cudi as well as the most recent Creators Project event in San Francisco with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, James Murphy, and Squarepusher.  On RED NIGHT The Hundred in the Hands have created an inimitable world that is sure to be one of this year’s standouts.

Tracklisting
01. Empty Stations
02. Recognise
03. Come With Me
04. Red Night
05. Keep It Low
06. SF Summer
07. Faded
08. Tunnels
09. Stay The Night
10. Lead In The Light
The Hundred In The Hands – Faded (taken from forthcoming album ‘Red Night’)


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Download:The Invisible – ‘Protection’ (Radio Edit) new album on Ninja Tune

Ninja Tune is pleased to announce the signing of Mercury-nominated band The Invisible.

The band’s upcoming sophomore album ‘Rispah’ will be released 11 June 2012.

Dave Okumu, Tom Herbert (bass & synthesizer) and Leo Taylor (drums) have been working together as The Invisible for the last six years, though their musical collaborations stretch back much further. After a year out on the road playing in Matthew Herbert’s band, Herbert said he wanted to produce and release Dave’s solo record via his label, Accidental. But Dave instead decided to recruit his longtime friends for a genuine collaboration, The Invisible’s name arriving after the three began writing.

The result was their eponymous debut, which was nominated for the 2009 Mercury Music Prize, as well as critics’ choice as iTunes album of the year. Unafraid to challenge themselves compositionally, The Invisible’s boundless approach to arrangement flows effortlessly between the texturally rich and the rhythm heavy, the ethereal and the visceral, taking in unique and subtle electronic dancefloor rhythms as well as deviations into experimental rock. It’s a mixture that’s won peer level praise from the likes of Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Foals, Hot Chip, Wild Beasts, Anna Calvi and Everything Everything.

Download:The Invisible – ‘Protection’ (Radio Edit)

YACHT Premieres Video for Shangri-La

YACHT has returned in the midst of touring to release their new video for the title track off their new album, Shangri-La. The video is a document of a perfect day in YACHT’s newly-adopted hometown of Los Angeles, California. From sunrise to sunset, the video follows our movements throughout the sprawling strangeness of the Southland, from ice-cream parlors to beach bonfires.

Catch YACHT on tour at one of the upcoming dates below:
02/17/12 Madison, WI – The Sett, University of Wisconsin
02/18/12 Dekalb, IL – The House Cafe
02/19/12 Columbus, OH – The Basement
02/20/12 Pontiac, MI – The Pike Room @ Crofoot Ballroom
02/22/12 Ottawa, ON – Ritual Nightclub
02/23/12 Toronto, ON – Wrongbar
02/24/12 Monreal, QC – Il Motore
02/25/12 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
02/26/12 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
02/27/12 Waltham, MA – Chum’s, Brandeis University
02/29/12 Gamier, OH – The Horn Gallery, Kenyon College
03/01/12 St. Louis, MO – Plush
03/02/12 Lawrence, KS – Jackpot Music Hall
03/03/12 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
03/05/12 Fort Collins, CO – Aggie Theater
03/15/12-3/16/12 Austin, TX – SXSW
03/29/12 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios

Papertwin share two free tracks

Papertwin began as an experimental recording project started by the mind of artist and songwriter Max Decker (vocals, gtr., synths), and was soon joined by friend Francis Cardinale (drums, programming).  Decker had been painting and drawing since childhood and the musical collaboration started off as a casual exchange between friends. After some time apart, both living in Brooklyn, they reunited and experimented with electronic music and melodic structures that became the foundation of Papertwin, still, there was a need for real time instruments and immediate sound.  Meeting each other as students at a New York audio engineering school, Francis met piano technician Nick Shopa who eagerly brought his musical sensibilities to the band through playing synthesizers.  Completing the four-piece circle, music producer and former Berklee College of Music student Justin Miller came and provided the bass the band needed.

The influences behind the sounds have become more apparent after songs are finished and there is an evidently common ground when it comes to the musical sensibilities of the band members.  Papertwin continues to record and perform and is looking forward while taking cues from the past.

Porcelain Tracklist

1. Sleeptalk  DOWNLOAD (save as)
2. Coma         DOWNLOAD
3. Cross
4. Levers
5. Also Aquatic

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