DOWNLOAD: Adolescent - Run Away From Bad People

Adolescent
Run Away From Bad People
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Another excellent Brighton based electronics artist producing blurred head and heart music. Alex Parish is Adolescent, and although it's not the greatest of names to get started with don't let that deter you at all because the music inside it is of as high a calibre as that fuck-off massive rifle on the cover art.  It's rare to find artists transposing a tangible mental and physical state into their own music, and sharing such personal problems in as subtle a fashion as Alex does - he suffers from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and takes the distortions of "mood, memory, time perception" which affect him through his condition and replays his experiences through synth and computers to produce a sound  that shimmers with a deeper resonance that merely artfully placed sound can convey alone.

As the EP progresses, whether by design or happy accident, the tracks seem to get denser in their cloudbursting sense of euphoric harmonic detail - the double ambient sucker punch drift implosion of KNEKT and The Source is an equal to the hallucinatory bliss produced by artists such as Vondelpark, Moths, and Holy Other.

Follow him on Soundcloud, then watch this:  The haunting docu-music-video to the opening track TLE (Temporal Lobe Epliepsy), which records Alex's visit to a hospital for a brain scan for the condition which he suffers from. His backstory is copied below.




BACKSTORY:

Since I was very young I've had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. In my case, seizures are quite infrequent, usually occurring in batches over a few days, every 4-6 weeks.

The seizures are not so physical, instead they affect my mood, memory, time perception, and create massive confusion.

For the past 5 years I have been attending frequent brain scans such as EEGs and had an MRI, the reason for this being that my seizures are so infrequent it is almost impossible to catch one on record to analyse it.

This 72 hour brain scan was the last ever scheduled for me, and I was told that if I didn't have a seizure whilst staying there, then there wasn't much else they could do.

I decided that I would document the first day of the brain scan to accompany a piece of music I had been working on, that was supposed to mimic my seizures in both the sounds used and the mood created.
This was the second time I had produced and edited a video, so I hope you like it!

In the end I DID have a seizure whilst there which was a miracle and am waiting on the results of the test.

DOWNLOAD: Illness - Break​-​Up Tape

Illness
Break Up Tape
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Spencer and Emilio's guitar/drum instrumentalism is calling it a day; Illness will be no more after a series of gigs in August.  Lament Brighton, lament all rock fans, but fret not too hard for they are also leaving this Break Up Tape in their wake; a rollicking, guttural, groove-heavy four track swansong that finishes with a rare vocal appearance. Furiously intense noise rock on form.

DOWNLOAD & VIDEO: Regal Safari - Only, Triumph and Light

Here's one of the most intriguing and exciting propositions to have emerged from my Brighton city in a while: Regal Safari.  One pay through the three tracks on their Bandcamp will have you besieged by contemporary comparisons; the first ones that struck me were Balam Acab (or indeed, one side to the TriAngle sound that isn't shaded the colour of Witch House), Solar Bears, Caribou, Blondes, Worriedaboutsatan - lot's of dreamy and spacey artists who evoke elusive and somewhat intangible landscapes built of disembodied vocals, drifting cosmic ambience; sensuality, euphoria.

They're playing the Green Door Store in October and supporting Gazelle Twin in November. Stalk them on Facebook too.

Here's a brand new synapse frazzling remix of similarly awesome category-evading artist Seams' Hung Markets from their Soundcloud, stream three of their own tracks - Only, Triumph and Light - and/or download them all from Bandcamp.

DOWNLOAD: Vortex Collisions - Nowhere To Turn (Too Cool To Rule)

Vortex Collisions
Nowhere To Turn
Too Cool To Rule Records
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Another band called Vortex for you, this one Vortex Collisions is a solo experimental drone outfit from Brighton by the enigmatically pseudonymed Gravity B.  Nowhere To Turn is his first cohesive full album proper after a string of increasingly formidible experiments that can be found hanging off his Soundcloud.  Gravity B has set up his own label to release this project, Too Cool To Rule on Bandcamp.

There is a mix of styles over the ten tracks on this album, all feedback heavy and awash with frayed noise but ranging from JAMC propulsive churn to weightless amniotic ambiance. Shoegaze influenced noise, or noise saturated drone rock, whichever way you turn it this record is a visceral affair.

Download the album for free from Bandcamp now, hard copies coming soon.

DOWNLOAD: Bernholz - Consequences 1 (Variations on a Theme)

Bernholz
Consequences 1 (Variations on a Theme)Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records
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Berholz is the name of the solo out-wardly experimental explorations of one member of Brighton's Duke Raoul.  Most of the tracks in this release are very brief, only a couple stretch over two minutes creating a flickering tapestry of an album that offers up a lot of very neatly realised ideas in its brief twenty minutes.

Starting off with a minute of loose jazz-based bass & voice freestyle that segues through fifty seconds of prettily delayed white tone, then real beats kick in; for ninety seconds a clicking see-saw of minimalism is seduced by luscious grey hum that all simmers away to starkness.

The fourth track builds on the third, the minimal clean lines to all sounds are there, an organ playing a short chiming refrain that rolls around in small cycles, disappearing under a rumbling bass mid-section, then reappearing on the other side loaded up on effects. The piece is fleshed out of the longest running time of 4:26, giving the listener their first and only chance to really immerse and breathe in the ambience and feel the languid pace of the rhythm.

On the fifth, Beach Boys harmonies back a fatter dirtier bass-drum beat, the skin reverberating with the solid thumps propelling the track along, the vocals floating lazily over the top like they were basking under Californian sun – a fantasy which the atonal grinding tone between them attempts to aggravate as best it can.

The ninth track breaks up the smoothness by chopping into the rhythm with an almost glitch-like disrespect for form, but the trajectory isn't separated by too much to actually vibrate your teeth out with dissonance, the track progressing with a linearity to lock on to. The final piece is three minutes of vocal harmony, voices layered upon on another, firm toned, heavy breath and sighing.

The ten tracks are each titled with a simple number from one to ten 1,2,3 – but not in sequence. Reordering the album into track title sees it play with equal, if not more success, so it's worth giving both orders a listen. Minimalist abstract art jokes. The music is no joke. Excellent stuff.

DOWNLOAD: Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea - What's There To Write About?

Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea
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They've been releasing records since 2009, when they first put out A Small Version of a Party but until the last 6 months, have so far kept a relatively low profile. At the end of last year local monthly music (and more) bible Source Magazine featured One Hundred Yards Into The Desert from the band's (also free d/l) It's The Falling That Counts, Not The Landing album in their songs of 2010 writers chart, and they have also been garnering praise from all ove the UK.  They follow in the footsteps of fellow Brightonian based wielders of angular punk dissonance such as Charlottefield, Everyone To The Anderson, Ack Ack Ack, Zettesaur, Illness, Projections.... That felt good listing off all those bands. This city has bred a good heritage of confrontational guitar bands steeped in the heavy melodies and dirty rush of hardcore, imbuing heavily rhythmic feral rock with an Albini-raw presence, diamond sharp turns and steely hooks and on the strength of this release alone Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea deserve to feature amongst those names.

The tracks on What's There To Write About? rarely last more than three minutes, but each manages to squeeze a dynamic shape into its abrasive structure; The storms of howling feedback in It's The Same ge lashed down onto a driving rhythm; the spacious reverb guitar line that opens Chances Scattered is suddenly obliterated by dry hoarse throated barks, the way the beat hacks into the spiralling descent of the riff in Hours In The Frame. Across the ten tracks of this album the band drop more headspinning moments of excellence than it would be possible to describe in easily readable sentences, so abrupt and profound the changes in direction - Other Places, Other People features four increasingly head-noddingly potent shifts before two minutes, one of which involves cleanly sung harmonising.  It's an attention to songwriting detail that is emphasised further by the unsubtle caustic tones they flick their guitars to when the atmospheres get a little dark and the moods shift from fist in the air to fist in yr face. 

The album is free to download now from their Bandcamp, along with several other releases. There will be a physical release bound in recycled book covers on Box Social at the start of May. 
Get it on mp3 now, and start saving your pennies for that.

VIDEO: P For Persia - Turtles All The Way Down

Brighton's P For Persia have been forging a kinetic, non-linear path through the scuzzy underground for a few years now - famously (for me, anyway) showering stages with an unpredictably dangeous energy and an engaging predeliction for carnage. Their last album, Mount Muffin Top was a huge hit around these parts and now they have another full set of chaotic, frenetic wildcore chiptune deviance to batter into yr ears with their new self-released album Coral Canyon.

This is a video for the track Turtles All The Way Down, recorded and produced by the band -guitarist Luke Smith who has a production company called L.S Productions, with stop motion artwork created by guitar/synth mangler Alex Porter.

Full brace of lynx here for you, including Soundcloud where you can download four tracks off their album right now. GO GO GO!!!:

http://pforpersia.tumblr.com
www.facebook.com/pforpersia
http://www.last.fm/music/p+for+persia
http://soundcloud.com/p-for-persia