Sea Monsters starts tonight - Stream the beasts now!

One Inch Badge Records massive five-day Brighton-band extravaganza SEA MONSTERS kicks off tonight at the Albert!! I'll see you there tomorrow and Friday, but tonight I'll be playing this to ready my head - the Sea Monsters compilation album. Available from next week on CD, stream it all now!

PREVIEW: Sleepy Sun, Hind Ear, Laish Quartet

Next week this hugely promising gig is being put on by our friends One Inch Badge records and features our friends Hind Ear and Laish Quartet! Needless to say, we will be there.

San Francisco sextet Sleepy Sun bring their massive waves of pastoral psych blues to the Freebutt, coming on like a warped and extra ethereal fusion of Black Mountain and Dead Meadow through the addition of soem West Coast occult cosmic heaviness this band have been rolling across the states like a Carnival, bringing the weirdness with them. Lead 7" White Dove was a bewitching foreboding of the Embrace album which we're hoping will get a complete airing on the night.

The support are two Not For Resale veterans, both having played gigs for us - In their previous Revenge of Shinobi guise Hind Ear played a trippy heady set at the Greenhouse, but now their reconfigured sound is lighter yet, more intricate and substantial at the same time with anintoxicating mix of electronics and analogue loops, beats and revebed shimmer their unique pretty pulsing flowering drum beat euphoria should lift everything intoa pre-climactic peak. Ge there even earlier to be spell bound by the Wilkommen Collective's most recent addition Laish Quartet. The band that power's the visions of Danny Green, his (not always) quartet of revolving instrumented musicians play awe inspiring folk songs that involve wry meditations on love, uplifting odes to death, deadpan humour weighed down and boued up by a weary, yet tangible sense of hope.

A mesmerising night for sure.




Lynx:

Sleepy Sun: www.myspace.com/sleepysun
Hind Ear: www.myspace.com/hindear
Laish Quartet: www.myspace.com/laishmusic
One Inch Badge Records: www.myspace.com/oibrecords
www.willkommenrecords.co.uk/

Lonely Ghosts 7" and Video

One of our favourite Brightons acts, Mr Tom 'Help She Can't Swim' Denney's Lonely Ghosts has two new releases on the horizon.

On 20th July One Inch Badge release a bumper sized four-track double A-side 7" with 'Come Down from the Mountain' and 'Ghosts of Mice', taken from his full length album 'Return from the Search Party'due out later in the year. It also features 2 new tracks exclusive to this single; 'Forever Distortion' & 'Game Faces On'.

There is a beautifully lit and shot video for Ghosts of Mice made by Dan Nixon (www.dannixon.com) in a forest and a city somewhere near Brighton.






Lynx:

MySpace - www.myspace.com/lonelyghosts
Last.fm - www.last.fm/music/Lonely+Ghosts