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.
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”
5 years. It feels like a long time. It feels like it went by fast. It feels pretty good, all in all, to have got this far without someone insisting we stop. Either that, or we just didn’t listen to their callow cries.
On the 24th of July we’ll be celebrating this and it wont cost you a penny. Details just below. Between then and now, we’ll be posting some exclusive and long lost songs from the Tough Love archive, as well as previewing the bands to play the party. Keep checking back over the coming weeks for more stuff.
TOUGH LOVE IS 5 – ALL DAYER
Saturday 24th July @ The Stag’s Head, Dalston
Fair Ohs
Graffiti Island
Calories
Cold Pumas
Becoming Real
Prize Pets
Mazes
Cymbals
DJs
Home.Under.Ground
Dummy Magazine
This Is Tomorrow
Tough Love
…more TBC
FREE entry
14:00 – 01:30
BBQ from 14:00 – 18:00
(Photos: Rory Barber)
If ever anybody tries to convince you that ‘DIY production’ is easy and cheap and that you should go and do it, you can call them a liar from us. Putting together TLV033 took the entirety of Saturday and Sunday, furnished with bloody papercut fingers and induced thousand yard stares. But we made something beautiful.
These here photos are our weekend in work. Not pictured are the 1000s of hand-folded and -cut fanzines that took an entire Saturday to assemble. It’s worth it. It has to be.
And yes, I know what you’re all wondering – yes, it is an original Bretton hat.
You can pre-order TLV033 from here now.
TLV033 – Calories//William – Split 7″
A1: Calories – “Mortal Boys”
A2: Calories – “Drink The Potion”
B1: William – “Dilettante”
B2: William – “Lustreless”
7″ white vinyl
+ exclusive fanzine/poster
Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies
The latest release in the Tough Love split 7″ series brings together Birmingham natives Calories and south-London power trio William. Aesthetically, this record makes a lot of sense to us, both bands charged on the same post-punk/post-hardcore records and coming out of leftfield with a lot of pop structure suss.
Artwork (below) is provided by man-machine and human ink-pad Gordon Armstrong . He’s also the man responsible for the free fanzine/poster inserted into the record sleeve, and the various illustrations and videos that have adorned Vilest Thug Loop. Speaking of which, over the coming weeks, all of the tracks will be streaming on VTL.
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The record is now available for pre-order from our Shop here. All orders will be shipped two weeks prior to official release (Monday 15th February) and we’ll also send you a code to download all of the songs for free. Launch parties in respective hometowns have already been announced (see here and here), but that you already know.
V I L E S T T H U G L O O P - T R A C K 1.
Calories - “Mortal Boys”
The first track from TLV033 is streaming at VTL now
Listen here now
Pre-order TLV033 here now
Now
V I L E S T T H U G L O O P
L A U N C H P A R T Y
L O N D O N
Tough Love Records presents….
Vilest Thug Loop @ Jamboree, London
Saturday 13th February
Tough Love Records DJ’s
Zineswap DJs
19:00 til late
Zineswap zine workshop from 19:00 – 21:00, with projections, skillz workshop and zine archive.
£2 advance tickets, available here
Location info:
Jamboree, 566 Cable St, Limehouse
Nearest transport: Limehouse DLR (about 2 mins walk from the station)
The first song from the forthcoming record is also streaming on Vilest Thug Loop now
Details of the first VILEST THUG LOOP party have just been announced, listed on that poster above or in the information below, your choice:
Tough Love and This Is Tomorrow present…
VILEST THUG LOOP – BIRMINGHAM
Friday 5th February @ The Victoria
This is Tomorrow DJ’s
Tough Love Records DJ’s
8 until late
Capacity//120
£2 advance tickets – available here
Facebook event here
NOTE: This event WILL sell out
Thanks to Gordon Armstrong for all his tireless work and insatiable creativity. This simply could not have happened without him.
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