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New Memphis Industries Signings Poliça
New Memphis Industries Signings Poliça
“Poliça deals in a type of R&B inflected electronic music that defies explanation.... Music with this many synthetic textures and vocal treatments has rarely sounded so natural.” Spinner
“A swirly combination of layered rhythms, some awesomely manipulated vocals and a dragged-out, slow motion feel....the perfect soundtrack to an almost-winter weekend” NYLON
“Ryan Olson and singer Channy Leanagh lead the group, Channy front and centre with her potently echoed voice riding over forward drums and driving bass” The Fader
Minneapolis continues its golden run of producing quality talent with the first project to arrive out the Gayngs collective, the super slick electronic pop-soul outfit Poliça. Fronted by ice cool vocalist Channy Leanagh who sang with Gayngs, produced by Ryan Olson and featuring Mike Noyce from Bon Iver, it’s a who’s who of the current Twin Cities scene.
Continuing the tradition of having friends in high places with Prince and Kanye West among Gayngs fans, Poliça have already been backed by none other than Jay Z who posted their video for the new for single ‘Lay Your Cards Out’ on his Life + Times blog: http://lifeandtimes.com/lifetimes-video-premier-polica-lay-your-cards-outThe result is 11 perfectly formed auto-tuned songs that re-shape the intersection of pop and digitised R&B. And for all Poliça’s synthetic manipulation, Channy’s soft vocals and Ryan’s electronic soundscapes reveal a tender heart beneath, pulsating with life and raw emotion. First sashaying single proper ‘Lay Your Cards Out’ features Mike Noyce of Bon Iver on vocals and is equally as deliciously funk laden as it is hypnotic, with more ratatat drums from Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson, propelling the lush arrangements and slinky bass, provided by Chris Bierden.
The name Poliça refers to the word ‘policy’, meaning a definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, suggesting they were formed out of necessity. Which is exactly how this album feels and sounds; urgent, original and genre defying, Poliça are absolutely essential in 2012.
Poliça will be playing a handful of shows at this year’s SXSW, more details to follow soon.
Coming Up: The Kabeedies - Soap
Coming Up: The Kabeedies - Soap
Releasedate 30 januari 2012
LIVE:
6 April Mezz / Breda
7 April Partonaat / Haarlem
** THE KABEEDIES Rory, Fab, Katie and Evan. With their childhood roots in both Norfolk and Suffolk they are the biggest thing to come out of East Anglia since Stephen Fry’s colossal brain.
** ‘Soap’ is their second album, and their first release on fierce panda following on from their 2009 debut album ‘Rumpus’ which, as the title may suggest, was a fizzbanging collage of yelps and twangs and jumpy artrocking angles which – to some sage old ears anyway - came across not entirely unlike Claire Grogan fronting The Futureheads. It was generally described as being ‘insanely life-affirming’, got voted number 9 in Artrocker’s top albums of the year and kick started a touring schedule which saw near
riots at Latitude and Hamburg’s Dockville Festivals and hectic live shows with Everything Everything, Darwin Deez, Hurts and CSS.
** That was then. And this, as they say, is now. “We’re not writing songs as fifteen year olds anymore,” says Rory. True, there are still moments of twitchy fun to be had (cf previous singles ‘Come Out Of The Blue’ and ‘Santiago’) but elsewhere ‘Soap’ is the relative calm after the bubblegum storm of ‘Rumpus’. There are touches of Paul Simon’s more sombre moods, a flourish of grown up brass here, a soupcon of morose strings there and some songs with titles like ‘Bones’ and ‘Drowning Doll’. Oh, and then it
gets really introspective and weird in ‘Underfloor Lover’.
Coming Up: Radical Face - Family Tree Presents: The Roots
Radical Face - Family Tree Presents: The Roots
Releasedate 23 Januari 2012
LIVE
Woensdag 1 februari Paradiso -Amsterdam
Donderdag 2 februari Vera-Groningen
Opvolger van zeer succesvolle debuut album Ghost uit 2007 van singer-songwriter Ben Cooper alias Radical Face. Waar Ghost veel verstilde gitaar/piano/ingetogen liedjes bevatte, in de regio van bv Elliott Smith of Bright Eyes, is het nieuwe album veel voller, meer orkestraal geproduceerd. Adembenemend mooie indie folk pop songs met prachtige strijkers vormen het eerste deel in een trilogie die verhaalt over een fictieve familie door de generaties heen. Radical Face is niet bepaald een onbekende nieuwkomer meer te noemen. Het nummer Welcome Home is al meer dan 7,5 miljoen keer bekeken op Youtube. Het is tevens de soundtrack van I Am Nikon reclame en is te horen in films zoals Humboldt County, The Vicious Kind en the Reel Rock Documentary. The Family Tree Presents The Roots zou zo maar de definitieve doorbraak voor Radical Face kunnen betekenen.
Creature With The Atom Brain op tournee met Mark Lanegan
Creature With The Atom Brain op tournee met Mark Lanegan
Creature With The Atom Brain, de band van Millionaire-lid Aldo Struyf die zich eerder al uitnodigingen van o.a. The Dead Weather (UK/Europa) en Alice In Chains (USA/Canada) mocht laten welgevallen, kan opnieuw een mooie Europese tournee in het vooruitzicht stellen. Deze keer zullen ze de support verzorgen voor Mark Lanegan op een tournee van maar liefst 28 optredens in 13 landen.
Creature’s eerste volwaardige album 'I Am The Golden Gate Bridge' verscheen in 2007 op het Munich label en werd een mix van scherpe, explosieve en melodische songs met gastvocalen van Tim Vanhamel en - niet toevallig dus - Mark Lanegan. In 2009 verscheen de opvolger ‘Transylvania’ waarop Lanegan opnieuw een gastbijdrage leverde. Voor de mix van dat laatste album werd overigens niemand minder dan Chris Goss opgezocht; de man achter Masters Of Reality en producer van prima albums van Kuyss en Queens Of The Stone Age. Het pareltje kwam niet enkel uit in de Benelux (Munich Records) maar ook in de USA en de meeste Europese landen (The End).
Intussen is het ook uitkijken naar de release van het derde album van Creature With The Atom Brain. De eerste opnames zijn net afgerond en we verwachten een release kort voor de zomer.
Line-up.
Vocals & guitar: Aldo Struyf (Millionaire)
Bass: Jan Wygers (Mauro & The Grooms)
Guitar: Michiel Van Cleuvenbergen (Dead Stop)
Drums & percussion: Jean-Philippe De Gheest (Lyenn, Joy As A Toy)
Tour dates.
Feb 26th - HELSINKI, FI - The CircusFeb 28th - GRONINGEN, NL - Oosterpoort
Feb 29th - AMSTERDAM, NL – Paradiso
March 1st - EINDHOVEN, NL - Effenaar
March 2nd - ANTWERP, BE - Trix (SOLD OUT!)
March 3rd - ANTWERP, BE - Trix (Extra show)
March 4th - BRISTOL, UK - Academy
March 5th - MANCHESTER, UK - Academy 2
March 7th - DUBLIN, IE - Academy
March 8th - BELFAST, NI - Mandela Hall
March 9th - GLASGOW, UK - ABC
March 10th - LEEDS, UK - Cockpit
March 12th - BIRMINGHAM, UK - Library
March 13th - LONDON, UK - Shepherds Bush Empire
March 14th - COLOGNE, DE - Gloria
March 15th - HAMBURG, DE - Gruenspan
March 17th - COPENHAGEN, DK - Amager Bio
March 18th - BERLIN, DE - Columbia Club
March 19th - WARSAW, PL - Proxima
March 20th - PRAGUE, CZ - Lucerna Music Hall
March 22nd - VIENNA, AT - Arena
March 24th - BOLOGNA, IT - Estragon
March 25th - MILAN, IT - Alcatraz
March 27th - BILBAO, ES - Kafé Antzokia
March 28th - SANTIAGO, ES - Sala Capitol
March 30th - PORTO, PT - Hard Club
March 31st - LISBON, PT - TMN ao Vivo
April 1st - MADRID, ES - Sala Kapital
April 2nd - BARCELONA, ES - Sala Bikini
Social.
Official: http://creaturewiththeatombrain.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/creaturewiththeatombrain
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cwtab
March 2nd - ANTWERP, BE - TrixComming Up: Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester
Comming Up: Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester
DOMINO RECORDS
Releasedate 09 January 2012
LIVE: 14 december Paradiso Amsterdam De show geplande show van The Vaccines op 14 december in Paradiso is uitgesteld naar 3 januari. Trailer Trash Tracys spelen wel op 14 december. Kaarthouders voor de Vaccines show hebben gratis toegang.
“A dramatic nocturnal wonderland” – Metro
“Low-lit, hot breathed noise pop that could just as easily be transported from a David Lynch soundtrack...gorgeous” – NME
“Both potent and poignant” – The Fader
Inhabiting their own beautifully dark, ethereal corner of the musical universe, poised somewhere at the crossroads between the nocturnal, rolling soundscapes of Angelo Badalamenti and the sublime, naive melodies of 50s pop, Trailer Trash Tracys are a deliciously unique proposition.
Recorded by the band themselves on a “solfeggio scale” – a scale to which, apparently, western guitars and pianos are not pitched to – Ester is an ambitious achievement that marries an experimental urge with a love for the standards and classics of pop eternal.
The freeform intro “Rolling - Kiss The Universe” leads us into Trailer Trash Tracys’ own otherworldy sonic space in which their ideas play freely. Deep and hazy sonic textures drift around singer Suzanne Aztoria’s gossamer light vocals, which sound as though they were beamed from another dimension, evoking a sensual, yet unnerving tension. The album progresses to reveal ever expanding possibilities, running the gamut from the spiralling guitar shreds of “Engelhardt’s Arizona” to the gloriously seductive and brooding pop of "You Wish You Were Red”, out to the delicate, pinprick orchestrations of “Starlatine”. The smouldering slow-burn of “Turkish Heights”, meanwhile, closes the album in poignant style, romantic, dreamy and sincere, revealing a tender heart beating indelibly inside the machine.
With “Ester”, the inimitable world of Trailer Trash Tracys is brought to haunting, vivid life (in a visual sense as well, with Kurt Ralske responsible for the artwork) – a little off-kilter, a little askew, but nothing less than utterly beguiling and completely memorable. Treasure them now.