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Methyl Ethel Share New Single/Video For ‘Trip The Mains’
Late last year, Australian psych-pop band Methyl Ethel announced their forthcoming album, Triage out next month. Today, they share the single and accompanying video for ‘Trip The Mains’. Methyl Ethel principal Jake Webb says of the track, “behind every eye-twitch, a depleted mainframe barely pulses. ‘Trip The Mains’ is my moment of short circuiting.” The video features Webb suspended in time, defying the laws of gravity, and crashing into beds in this abstract fantasy directed by Matt Sav.
Methyl Ethel will release Triage on February 15 and it marks the Perth, Australia band’s third album. It was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb, mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry. The album was recorded in Webb’s home studio in West Perth and is available for pre-order today.
With the creation of this album, Webb felt a sense of closure – completing the triptych of his three releases. Methyl Ethel has always been a surrealist outfit – a dark and obscured expression of life set to the backdrop of dream pop hooks. But Triage is a more reflective album – one that explores the notion of coming of age, only to reference it for the snapshots and passing memories that it has become.
Methyl Ethel is the musical project of Jake Webb. As a live band it expands to a five-piece and includes Thom Stewart, Chris Wright, Lyndon Blue and Jacob Diamond. Methyl Ethel has enjoyed phenomenal successes over the last years. In their home country of Australia, ‘Ubu’ became an ARIA Accredited Gold single after landing at #4 in triple j’s 2017 Hottest 100. The band have clocked up over 25 million Spotify streams alone and all of their tour dates in Australia and London since 2016 have sold out.
SUSPIRIA UNRELEASED MATERIAL EP TO BE AVAILABLE ON STREAMING SERVICES FEBRUARY 22
Due to popular demand, Thom Yorke’s Suspiria Limited Edition Unreleased Material EP will now be made available on streaming services on the same February 22 release date as the 12” vinyl.
The digital release will consist of the same tracks as on the limited vinyl pressing:
Unmade Overtones
Unused Spell
A Conversation With Just Your Eyes
The7th7th7th7thSon
Volk Spin Off V1
Volk Spin Off V2
Volk Spin Off V3
On November 19 of last year, Thom sat for a solo performance at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, and a rare in-depth discussion of the creative processes involved in Suspiria and beyond. Video of the session, which features three songs from the Suspiria… album, has now been released as Thom Yorke – Live from Electric Lady Studios, a YouTube playlist viewable at http://x-l-r.co/tyelectriclady..
The running order of the video playlist is as follows:
Suspirium (Live from Electric Lady Studios)
Unmade (Live from Electric Lady Studios)
Open Again (Live from Electric Lady Studios)
Bloom (Live from Electric Lady Studios)
STARCRAWLER welcomes 2019 with video for “Hollywood Ending”
Starcrawler debuts their video for “Hollywood Ending” directed by Gilbert Trejo.
The visual is a love letter to their hometown and marks what will surely be another epic year for them filled with more new music and touring, carrying their envelope-pushing vision into the mainstream.
Director Gilbert Trejo says of the video: “Arrow and I almost started sowing the seeds for this video when we first met…one of the first things we bonded over was our shared love for old Hollywood… not “old Hollywood” like Golden age 1940’s Cary Grant and movie stars Hollywood, but old Hollywood like, our parents’ generations and Weetzie Bat’s version… washed out hotels, and restaurants like TOI on sunset. We bonded over freeways and 1920’s apartments covered in Christmas lights. The Hollywood we both got dragged around felt magical at a young age. Freaks like my aunt Vicky, and Arrow’s uncle Jimmy (who stars as the spirit of Hollywood in the video)… John Doe and Exene’s Hollywood meets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown’s. When we got the go ahead to make the Hollywood Ending video, we knew exactly what type of imagery we wanted to convey. We got to bring our own favourite disappearing neighbourhood back to life.”
There’s a lot to say about what makes a “Hollywood Ending.” Lead singer Arrow de Wilde says “This song to me shows a loss of innocence and the dramatic yet sometimes bitter “Hollywood ending” to a first love. Everyone has to go through different Hollywood endings in their own lives, whether they’re good or bad. Sometimes it’s the Wizard Of Oz and you wake up from a crazy nightmare dream and you’re fine, or sometimes it’s Carnival of Souls where you’ve been dead all along.”
THOM YORKE SUSPIRIA LIMITED EDITION UNRELEASED MATERIAL SEVEN-TRACK 12” VINYL RELEASE FEBRUARY 22
February 22 will see the release of seven previously unheard recordings from Thom Yorke’s Suspiria… sessions.
This 12” vinyl release from Thom and XL Recordings in partnership with The Vinyl Factory, will be strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will consist of the following tracks:
Side A:
Unmade Overtones
Unused Spell
A Conversation With Just Your Eyes
Side B:
The7th7th7th7thSon
Volk Spin Off V1
Volk Spin Off V2
Volk Spin Off V3
Named by the AV CLUB as one of the best film soundtracks of 2018, Suspiria was released October 26 on XL Recordings. The album consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic.
The album is a mix of instrumental score work, interstitial pieces and interludes, and more traditional song structures featuring Thom’s vocals including “Open Again,” “Has Ended,” “Suspirium,” and “Unmade”–the latter two having recently been performed for the first time before live audiences on Thom’s current Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes tour.
Suspiria was written and arranged by Thom Yorke, recorded and produced by Thom and Sam Petts-Davies. The album also features the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir, Noah Yorke on drums on “Volk” and “Has Ended,” and Pasha Mansurov on solo flute on “Suspirium.”
Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) is available across digital platforms, as well as 2-LP gatefold package pink vinyl and 2-CD physical versions.
King Krule presents a video for ‘Logos’ Taken from his album ‘The OOZ’
Today King Krule releases a music video for ‘Logos’. It’s a hand-drawn animation and labour of love by Archy’s brother Jack, a South East London-based musician, visual artist and long-time collaborator.
This ‘Logos’ video is the final piece of a three-part collaboration with WeTransfer, which saw King Krule exploring the creative process with each video’s director, hosted on their WePresent platform. With previous videos from cc. Wade and Charlotte Patmore, Jack Marshall’s video is the pair’s latest collaboration since the release of their collaborative multimedia project ‘A New Place 2 Down’ in 2015.
Though using different mediums for their creativity, these two brothers and artists understand each other on a deeper level. Having collaborated on music and art from a young age, their discussion explores this shared narrative link and how both brothers helped shaped each other’s artistic tastes while growing up together.
It’s over a year since King Krule’s second LP The OOZ was released to wide spread critical acclaim. It follows on from 2013’s also critically lauded album ‘Six Feet Beneath the Moon’ and Archy and Jack Marshall’s ‘A New Place 2 Drown’.
Still only 23 years-old, Archy Marshall has created his own immersive universe to inhabit.
“a masterpiece of jaundiced vision from one of the most compelling artists alive” – Pitchfork
“the troubled voice of a generation” – NME
“one of the best songwriters of his generation” Uncut
“a fascinating talent” – The Times
“2017’s Essential Album” – Dazed & Confused
“The enigmatic singer-songwriter proves himself as a true original” - The Evening Standard
