18.04.12
Just 3 days to go until Record Store Day , and the release of Stuck In My Id as a very special limited seven inch single/CD EP package (only 300 copies worldwide). The single and EP, entitled Oblangle Fizz Y’all, have both been produced by Ben H Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club).
And we’re delighted to present another Video from the EP, this time for Blastoff:
11.04.12
After blazing out of Bushwick in 2011 with the two buzz-worthy singles, “I’m His Girl” and “Friend Crush”, a reputation for turning live gigs into spontaneous DIY parties (and vice versa), and a bio built to withstand the most cynical indie-blog cred-vetting – Brooklyn’s Friends will release their debut album Manifest!, on June 4th.
Produced by the band its twelve tracks were recorded between last summer and this spring with engineer Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather studios in Brooklyn.
Full track-listing and more details are forthcoming but, for now, as a further provocative taster we are delighted to present the anthemic “Mind Control”, which is to be the band’s next single and the album’s climax.
Mixed by Paul Epworth, it sums up the seditious streak of Manifest! The musical choices are brazen even by Friends’ standards: superfly bass, slinky synth, crybaby wah, bongo solo, group chants. Lyrically, it also might be the Friends manifesto, were it not for the strong possibility that the band are taking the piss, poking a bit of good-natured fun at their ‘indie’ image and at our expectations of it.
“I don’t want to rule or be ruled/I just want the right to be cool/However I chose to do what I do/Wherever I choose to be or with whom/Hey, I don’t need your money, I can grown my own food/I don’t need your beauty standard, I can be my own dude.”
With “Mind Control” already anointed the Hottest Record in the World by the Zane Lowe show on Radio 1, the band’s Spring tour close to selling out and more shows to come in the Summer, Friends look set to make the rest of the year theirs alone.
03.04.12
Seventeen Evergreen’s sophomore long player, Steady On, Scientist!, is released this week. An incredible album that, like their debut, is entirely self-written, recorded and produced and, once again, emphasizes its creators clear and unique identity, away from the pack.
Names like New Order, Air, Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, Sonic Youth or Flaming Lips may come to mind, but sonically and spiritually, it’s a singularly triumphant and liberating concoction, an anthemic vision.
To further celebrate the release, we’re delighted to present this visual album trailer. A forcefully kaleidoscopic immersion into the mini-verse of Seventeen Evergreen’s wonderful new album, created by Antoine Boilevin (who also designed the album artwork).
Steady On, Scientist is available now!
“uplifting future-pop anthems that sound like a mixture of first-album MGMT and Little Dragon” The Guardian
06.03.12
We are thrilled to announce that we have signed Athens, GA, based quartet Reptar for the World excluding US/Canada.
Their debut international single, Stuck In My Id, will be released physically as a very special limited seven inch single/CD EP package for Record Store Day on April 21st and as a single track download only on April 23rd. The single and EP, entitled Oblangle Fizz Y’all, have both been produced by Ben H Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club).
Reptar are Graham Ulicny (Vocals, Guitar), William Kennedy (Keys), Ryan Engelberger (Bass) and Andrew McFarland (Drums) and have been likened to The Talking Heads, Animal Collective, Prince, and The Jackson 5.
Video for EP track Rainbounce:
