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Joy Overmono Bromley / Still Moving 12” out 22 November 2019 on XL Recordings
Two of the UK’s most respected and exciting prospects in electronic music, Overmono and Joy Orbison have joined forces to release a 12” single that’s already been making the rounds on the DJ circuit to rapturous reception. But one of the decade’s final club bangers comes from an unlikely place- the rural London borough of Bromley.
Overmono’s studio, based in a former magazine printers, already had a rich history in UK dance music before brothers Tom and Ed Russell arrived, having been in use by various prominent artists and DJs since the 90s.
Leaving the city daily to commute to the studio in the suburb of Bromley – the opposite direction to the usual daily grind – helped back up the duo’s creative ethos and push them to make music further outside of the known and well-trodden paths.
Sharing the same sentiments as the Russell brothers, Joy Orbison has been a staple of the U.K scene for over ten years and excitement still bubbles over whenever he releases a new record. This collaboration could hardly feel more natural; two intricate and detailed tracks holding a distinctly U.K feel.
Bromley / Still Moving are an ode to the place where they were made, a moment in time tied and influenced inextricably by that particular geo-location, something once so familiar in dance music that’s now all but lost.
Efterklang announce First North American Tour Dates in Seven years
Currently on their European tour, which extends through March 2020, Efterklang announces North American spring tour dates.
The cross-country April/March tour dates mark the first time Efterklang has performed in the US in over seven years. The band will perform in support of their acclaimed fifth studio record Altid Sammen, which was released earlier this fall on 4AD. A full list of dates can be found below.
To accompany the tour announcement, Efterklang has released a session captured on 16mm film recorded in Copenhagen performing songs off the new album, “Verden Forsvinder” (the world disappears), “Vi er uendelig” (we are infinite) and “Hold mine hænder” (hold my hands) as a 7-piece. The session is directed by Jonas Bang and Efterklang marks the first performers new series called Brodie Sessions.
Deep and sonorous, Altid Sammen (meaning “always together”) is steeped in the sonic experimentation that has long been their trademark since Tripper, the Danes’ 2004 debut. As bold and ambitious in scope as their last collection of songs, Piramida, Casper Clausen (vocals), Mads Brauer (synths, electronics) and Rasmus Stolberg (bass) have taken another creative U-turn, this time fusing baroque instrumentation with their signature expansive sound.
Efterklang’s live shows have always been ambitious affairs and their Altid Sammen tour will be just as elaborate. The band recently performed the record for a sold-out 2100 strong crowd at the iconic Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, during Reeperbahn Festival.
US TOUR DATES 2020
March 27 – KNOXVILLE, TN, Big Ears
March 29 – BROOKLYN, NY, Elsewhere
March 31 – MONTREAL, QC, Bar Le Ritz
April 1 – TORONTO, ON, Garrison
April 3 – VANCOUVER, BC, Biltmore
April 4 – SEATTLE, WA, The Sunset
April 5 – PORTLAND, OR, The Old Church
April 7 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Swedish American Hall
April 8 – LOS ANGELES, CA, Lodge Room
Spoon release special demo version of Inside Out
Fresh off the celebrated release of their greatest hits collection Everything Hits At Once: The Best Of Spoon, Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors have shared an early demo version of their classic 2014 song ‘Inside Out’, now available on digital services for the first time ever.
‘Inside Out’ is one of the 13 tracks tracing the band’s singular trajectory on Everything Hits At Once: The Best Of Spoon, which also includes new single No Bullet’s Spent.
The song was recently selected as one of the 200 Best Songs of the 2010’s by Pitchfork and Stereogum, respectively, with the former describing it as “quite possibly the most lush Spoon song ever written (…) The greatness of ‘Inside Out’ lies not just in its unexpected softness, but in Daniel’s ability to be wise and brash at the same time. Earned wisdom is a part of getting older; rarely does it sound this accomplished.”
Speaking recently to Entertainment Weekly about the stories behind their biggest hits, Britt Daniel noted of the song: “I wrote that on piano. It was just the chords and a melody, and I remember singing it for my girlfriend and at the time and she was not impressed. I was like “Are you kidding me? I know this is fucking great! And then it kind of just existed as this piano vocal song for a long time. I knew something was good about it but we were making I Want Your Soul and I didn’t want to have just a vocal and piano song on there, it felt we had done that too much already. So we put a beat to it that was sort of stolen from this Dr. Dre song. Then we used that kick-snare pattern and Alex [Fischel, keyboards and guitar] came up with the idea of a harp sound on a keyboard. Then it sounded like something we’d never done before.”
Having recently finished a monumental 30-date North American tour with Beck and Cage The Elephant, Spoon will be counting down the year with more rare footage and much sought-after recordings to be made available digitally for the first time.
Kicking off last week with a filmed recording session for ‘My Mathematical Mind and a 2006 live performance of ‘I Summon You, both from 2005’s Gimme Fiction, fans can keep tabs on the releases with the hashtag #spoontbt, shared every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the next month.
Merry Christmas from Lucy Dacus
Ringing in the festive season, Lucy Dacus has released a cover of Wham’s “Last Christmas,”
Following the release of acclaimed holiday-themed singles La Vie En Rose My Mother & I, Forever Half Mast Dancing In The Dark, and In The Air Tonight throughout the year, “Last Christmas” is the sixth installment taken from Dacus’ 2019 EP that is out November 8th on Matador Records. The EP will also feature a yet unreleased original tribute to New Year’s titled “Fools Gold.”
Sped-up, amped-up and delivered through a megaphone to chugging abandon, Dacus reworking imbues the sweater-sporting classic with a spontaneous energy that turns it playfully on its head. “I don’t really like Christmas,” says Dacus. “In the studio, we listened to the original of ‘Last Christmas’ and didn’t talk about an arrangement. I just told everyone to play it angry. This is what happened first take. It actually came out pretty fun, maybe a tad psychotic.”
Following the release of her universally acclaimed second album Historian and revered collaborative project boygenius with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers, 2019 has seen Dacus tour across Australia, Europe and North America, grace the stages of festivals including Primavera, Best Kept Secret and Hopscotch and make her Austin City Limits debut.
She has recently penned op-eds for the New York Times and Vanity Fair, and expounded on the unique approach of the 2019 song series in a recent interview with Spotify For Artists.
Deerhunter Timebends
On September 12th, Deerhunter of Atlanta, Georgia spent a night in New York recording Timebends, a 12-minute opus that is released digitally today.
A separate entity to their eighth studio album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? ‘Timebends’ is a partly improvised stream-of-consciousness outpouring. Recorded live direct to tape and in one take with minimal overdubs and mastered using a completely analogue signal chain, ‘Timebends’ recalls Deerhunter’s early avant-garde recordings and reaffirms their position as one of this generation’s most dynamic live acts.
