Released on the 10th January by Faux Discx, this four track 7" houses some smart bands and sharp sounds - Women's track Bullfight has been going round the magazines and blogs trailing this, and if you'r at all tuned in to brittle affecting guitar noise then you'll already be in love with them so it's Cold Pumas from Brighton that really take the lead on this record - and I'm not just saying that because we share a town. Theirs is one of the meanest instrumental sounds in the city - all that anarchic post-punk energy that dissipated around 2003 (when The Rapture slid from view and Liars traded in their pyromania for conceptualism) has reformed here with a renewed aggression and frothing intensity. You can get their sold-out Cyan 7" split with Male Bonding for free download from Faux Discx Bandcamp HERE
Back to the record in hand. Fair Ohs take on the jagged Vampire Weekend deck-shoe shod cow-bell shuffle that leaves these ears cold and turned inward, but the final Friendo track is a lovely warm and muited showegaze affair that slides along on a silky bassline, really pretty and comforting after the more unyielding tones of Women and Cold Pumas.
Stream the full ep from Bandcamp, and then go buy the physical record to hold in your hands from the label HERE
Massive total repost for this jaw-dropping mind-blowing freakfest happening in London this Saturday
Scene Not Herd is proud to present the Noise on Noise All-dayer: a ten hour spectacular featuring the best new bands the UK has to offer. This tirade of awesome musicality will be accompanied by an archive film mash-up of video-art oddity; regular art oddity; fabulous arty zines; and a wonderful agglomeration of delicious merchandise.
Advance Tickets: £7.50 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86453
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125583207483417
The Others Warehouse, 6-8 Manor Road London N16 5SA
http://www.theothers.uk.com/
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A collective arranged around the Shigeru Ishihara (better known as DJ Scotch Egg) and E-Da (Ex-Boredoms drummer), Drum Eyes combine dueling drums, cornets and game boys to form a devastating live show.
With their debut album released on 9 August, anticipation for the record is feverish after the band blew away audiences countrywide with their insatiable, mind expanding live performances. Drum Eyes are a band who are impossible to pigeonhole in any category other than fantastic. (Last FM)
www.myspace.com/drumeyes
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STP is more than just a band, it’s an orgy of clashing and crashing, of sounds and cultures colliding like a beer-soaked bodyslam. Your hosts flip from swirling, fairground folk to ferocious riffing like it’s no big thing. (NME)
www.myspace.com/screamingteaparty
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Teeth of the Sea create a turbulent, fiery and atmospheric instrumental brew that encompasses searing cosmic psychedelia, melodramatic giallo soundscapes, mariachi melancholia and kraut-tinged droning occultism. (recordstore.co.uk)
www.myspace.com/thewrongjaws
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Gum Takes Tooth is a single-headed beast with two bodies: a duo of Thomas Fuglesang on live trap drums, physically wired into home grown electronic instruments, bare circuit boards, tweaked, moulded and mangled in real-time by Jussi Brightmore (Infants). Frequent double drum live action with second kit from Valentina Magaletti ($hit & $hine) Always a totally live symbiosis of unique and manually manipulated home grown electronics driven by a dense and expansive percussion attack; NO GUITARS, BASS, KEYBOARDS, BACKING TRACKS OR LAPTOPS FEATURE IN GUM TAKES TOOTH (www.copsandrobbers.net)
www.myspace.com/gumtakestooth
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These tropical punks create a vicious, infectious sonic snarl. This is day-glo, psychedelic flower-punk, all tribal beats and off kilter harmonies. Imagine Shellac with a sense of fun and you’re nearly there. Cold Pumas are neither subtle nor clever and it works just fine. (TLOBF)
www.myspace.com/coldpumas
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Rica Minami is a singer songwriter based in London from Japan. She playing piano like a cat tapping the keys and she sing like a innocent child. her amazing band members are from Wales and Italy. This mixed cultural band makes contemporary cinematic pop song with floating female vocal. (Green Man Festival)
www.myspace.com/ricaminami
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Lovesick Teenagers specialise in scuzzy, floaty , sweet, romantic, dreamy, lucid pop. Once of our favourite finds of the moment so catch them before everyone else realises how good they are.
www.myspace.com/lovesickteenagers
Dirty Bingo (DJ)- www.myspace.com/dirtybingo
The 405 (DJ - http://www.thefourohfive.com/
Scene Not Herd (DJ)- www.myspace.com/scenenotherdevents