As premiered on Drowned in Sound yesterday, here’s the new video for “FFWD” by Calories, directed by Ollie Evans.
“FFWD” is the first single to be taken from their forthcoming eponymous album, Basic Nature, released on Monday 13th September as a 12″+CD set, CD, and download.
The video is also streaming at the band’s Tumblr, along with four songs.
Pre-order the record from here.
Raindrops land like liquid balloons on hastening windscreens. Taillights merge a red thread that suddenly unravels at will as the day ends over our shoulder in a dying twin flame.
“I’ll write.”
“Sure”
DOWNLOAD: The Bat Caves – “I’m Gone”
(Photo: Jason Lee)
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Respect to Neu, I couldn’t get hold of this MP3 from the band.
How many songs are there left in the world? Do we have enough already? Does invention now only bleed through the seams of the past? Are we at the entrance to the end? Or worse?
If we do ever get to the end of music, there’s the extra dimension of Drew Price’s Bermuda Triangle to dive in to. Sucked from the stoned cosmos of his burned mind and passing under near every radar, he’s managed to piece together a three album collection of weirdo jams and fuzzy textures that’s a testament to both imagination and the isolation of the bedroom.
If you email him, he will send you forty-two songs and graciously request that you share them with everyone. I’m not going to do quite that, but “Lonely Road” did call out to me, because it feels like that’s exactly what Drew Price is walking down right now. Three albums in and still out there on his own? The man’s an island as much as a cosmic triangle.
DOWNLOAD: Drew Price’s Bermuda Triangle – “Lonely Road”
(Photo: Alison Scarpulla)
William play their final ever gig on Saturday 31st July at their spiritual home, The Fox in Lewisham. You can view more details of the night on the Facebook event here.
We’ve put together a Soundcloud tribute to the band, collecting together some of our favourite songs of theirs. Feel free to share the Soundcloud link as you deem appropriate.
We’ll be choking back the tears on Saturday, while raising one final triumphant fist with the spirit they always channeled. Come join us.
Tough Love turns 5 on Saturday 24th July. As is customary of our age, nostalgia bites hard.
For the wistful revisionists among you too, we’ve collected together a selection of our favourite TLV records released over the past half decade. Share the Soundcloud player as much as you like. It’s perhaps also worth mentioning that some of these songs are still available to buy, in both physical and digital form.
Enjoy. We shall see you on Saturday.
(Photo: Helen Korpak)
The connection between the pictures posted above and the songs posted below isn’t always clear on this blog. You can fill that space yourself.
But Wise Blood do sound a little as if a bomb went off inside a mac, probably somewhere around the point where cmd+C and cmd+V meet in some infinite circuit.
And then you Force Quit and start all over again.
(Photo: Lorna Jayne)
Calories’ “The Brink”, the first taster from their forthcoming second album, is now streaming at B A S I C / N A T U R E.
Keep checking that site over the coming weeks for more previews from the album, videos, artwork and exclusive tracks.
In the meantime, you can keep track of what they’re up to by becoming a fan of their Facebook page here.
A ghost ship in a bottle.
Backs against the tide, weathering the storm in the uncharted fog of tomorrow.
In her wake, no waters breed or break.
DOWNLOAD: The Jameses – “The Haunted Rider”
(Photo: Marlon Rabenreither)
Who
One teenage fugitive and two by-standers.
Where
The Heartlands
Sounds Like
Polyvinyl power-trio blowing the dust off the sun.
Listen
Calories – “Forest Of Vargr”
Who
No-wave supergroup went pop.
Where
New Weird Nottingham.
Sounds Like
A mess of help to stand alone.
Listen
Prize Pets – “New Weirdos”
