Tuesday 17th May 2011
NEW RELEASE: TLV046 – SLIME – INCREASES

Slime is the alias of 19 year old electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Archer. Moving from his North East hometown to London in late 2009, Archer met a few kindred spirits (including Vondelpark) and quickly began focusing his eclectic taste to produce the distinctively pastoral electronic sounds of Slime.

Recorded at home and tweaked in the 4AD studio, the unabashedly emotional Increases is a sonorous and deeply textured record, and reveals a striking new talent.

Released Monday 27th June, the record will be limited to just 300 12″s. The artwork was designed by Will himself.

Pre-order the record here and listen to several tracks below.

Track listing:
1. “Caffeine (feat. Gaskell Greed)” – listen here
2. “2 Player (feat. Vondelpark)” – listen here
3. “First Cape”
4. “Gals (feat. Vondelpark)”
5. “Breakfall”
6. “Next Time”

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Thursday 12th May 2011
CHICAGO DAMN – “IF I COULD”


The bank holidays may nearly be behind us, but strutting into view is Chicago Damn to remind us that the weekend is always only a heartbeat away.

The weekend is always only…

The weekend is always only…

The weekend is always only a heartbeat away.

Are you ready?

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Chicago Damn – “If I Could”

(Photo: Lindsay Caplan)

Wednesday 11th May 2011
TLV045: CYMBALS – UNLEARN – DEBUT ALBUM RELEASED THIS WEEK

CYMBALS debut album Unlearn is officially released this week on 12″ vinyl and download. Limited to 300 copies, with beautifully hand-printed, hand-numbered sleeves, available in six different colours (blue, red, green, yellow, grey and peach), copies are also available now from the Tough Love Store (see below).

Please note that there are very few copies of the 12″ remaining – only 30 at the writing of this message.

A free download for “Single Printed Name ” is available online now. Watch the video for “Totally Over” here.

Finally, thanks must go to artist Sinead Evans, and directors Ollie Evans and Dan Brereton.

BUY 12″:
Tough Love
/ Rough Trade / Puregroove

BUY DIGITAL:
Amazon / iTunes

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Wednesday 11th May 2011
PICTUREPLANE – “REAL IS A FEELING”



Real is only a feeling, sutured to the infinity room of reality.

And Pictureplane is Disneyland, forever aboard Space Mountain, exploding in the dark.

A fake that’s better than the real, but may no one doubt the commitment to the sparkle motion of the club at night.

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Pictureplane – “Real is a Feeling”

(Photo: Roman Noven)

Thursday 5th May 2011
ZOMBY – “THINGS FALL APART”

Ahuman and emotional?

As cryptic as ever.

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Zomby – “Things Fall Apart”

(Photo: Jo Gtz)

Thursday 5th May 2011
HOOP DREAMS – “XCPR”

A reminder that five boys in a room still has the power to obliterate. That got unfairly forgotten somewhere along the way.

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FYI, Hoop Dreams feature Tommy Davidson from Dream Cop on bass.

(Photo: Bruno Zhu)

Wednesday 4th May 2011
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – “FRIGHT NIGHT (NEVERMORE) (DAM FUNK REMIX)”

Saturday night drive time through the still gray air, the heat of the land floating off into space.

The road running parallel to a beach where waves lap the shore.

And when you arrive there’s always a line on the door.

Go round the back. There’s a secret knock, three times, no more.

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Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Fright Night (Dam Funk remix)”

(Photo: fenk)

Monday 2nd May 2011
ICEAGE – “COLLAPSE”



The world’s a child’s senesless act of violence inflicted on a neighbourhood cat.

The world’s a hideous road accident on a silent week day night, dead passengers, the driver unharmed.

The world is not a soft as lace. It is cold and dark and barbaric, where anger deserves to resound forever and likely will. A certainty to pin your hopes on.

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Iceage – “Collapse”

(Photo: fenk)

Monday 2nd May 2011
FAIR OHS – “EVERYTHING IS DANCING”

Web 2.FairOhs.

Who would have thought?

Go buy here, let sunshine into the dark.

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Everything Is Dancing from Fair Ohs on Vimeo.

(Photo: Grand Bataille)