WILD NOTHING :: ‘Nowhere’ 7″ to be released 21st Feb on Captured Tracks :: Download ‘Nowhere’ now

Download ‘Nowhere’ now // http://soundcloud.com/ctracksbk/nowhere/s-CfkxV

Wild Nothing are set to release a new 7″ through Captured Tracks on February 21st , the first new recordings from the band since 2010′s critically acclaimed album ‘Gemini’.

Where ‘Gemini’ was the product of 23-year-old Jack Tatum’s home recordings, “Nowhere” finds Tatum in a recording studio for the first time. With live instrumentation and vocals from Andrea Estella of Twin Sister, “Nowhere” is a notable departure for Wild Nothing and captures the sound of a maturing songwriter exploring different moods.

The 7″ is currently available through pre-order on the Captured Tracks website with a limited run of 500 on white vinyl.

Gemini and the follow-up EP, Golden Haze landed the band on numerous year-end lists in 2010 including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Under The Radar, Rough Trade, Complex & USA Today.

The band are currently hard at work on their next album, expect to hear it in 2012.

Here’s what the press said:

“While Tatum’s words can edge on maudlin, his delivery is more romantic than dreary, and there’s a sly, understated, and subtly addictive melody that gorgeously frames his sentiments. And melodies like that one, which the album features in spades, are ultimately what make Gemini more than just another indie pop record, and often more than the sum of its parts.” PITCHFORK, BEST NEW MUSIC

“Tatum makes these lovely little musical postcards of all that music, and I can drift off without being pissed at Reagan and stuff.” SPIN MAGAZINE

“Wild Nothing specialise in humming, soft-focus garage indie. But the tunes come gleaming through immaculately in tact, teeming and longing. Every song on the album is a keeper.” NME

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PULLED APART BY HORSES :: New album ‘Tough Love’ released today :: ‘Borrow’ the album app launched

To celebrate the release of their new album ‘Tough Love’, Pulled Apart By Horses are lending fans their new album via a unique facebook app: www.facebook.com/pulledapartbyhorses. Anyone visiting the band’s page can borrow a stream of the album, which they can listen to for an unlimited amount of plays over the course of seven days. As even more of a thank you for their fans awesome support, they can also receive an exclusive free download of V.E.N.O.M’s b-side ‘PWR’. More exclusive treats will be added to the app over the upcoming months, which looks to be an incredible year for the Leeds quartet.

Direct access to the app here // http://tinyurl.com/PABHToughlove

The band’s self-titled 2010 debut was a sonic maelstrom of hard disco riffage; here was heavy music that you could shake a tail feather to, pop music at its most corrupted. Dance music played by wiry punk weirdo’s. Essentially, the band’s much-talked about live show captured on plastic, early singles such as ‘Back To The Fuck Yeah’ and ‘High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive’ somehow ended up being played repeatedly by Radio 1, on whose playlists they gleefully sat like the mad tramp that’s gate-crashed the toff’s tea party. Fuck yeah indeed!

But things move fast. Pulled Apart By Horses have already moved way beyond those early days. The Leeds quartet have put meat on the brittle musical bones of their debut and with their second album have created a monster. It’s a much more muscular creature than its kid brother, one that could go toe-to-toe with titans like AC/DC, Nirvana or Queens Of The Stone Age and still come out looking pretty after twelve rounds. “Our debut was powerful, but it was done in no time at all,” says Lee Vincent. “Really it was an attempt to capture the energy and chaos of our live show. The new recordings sound fuller, bigger, more focused, the playing is better, we’re moving forward all the time. It’s got more balls too. Bigger balls. It’s direct and to the point. We’ve left nothing to chance.”

FEBRUARY 2012 live dates//

13 // GLASGOW, King Tuts

14 // ABERDEEN, Tunnels

15 // NEWCASTLE, Digital Other Rooms

16 // SHEFFIELD, Leadmill

17 // MANCHESTER, Club Academy

18 // BRISTOL, Fleece

20 // BIRMINGHAM, Library

21 // NORWICH, Waterfront

22 // SOUTHAMPTON, Talking Heads

23 // LONDON, Electric Ballroom

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WHALES IN CUBICLES :: New single ‘We Never Win’ released today on Young & Lost Club Records

Released today through the renowned Young & Lost Club label is ʻWe Never Win,ʼ the debut single from London-based alt-rockers Whales in Cubicles.

The track initially bubbles like a cauldron of hypnotic frustration before spilling over into a freakout anthem as fierce guitars and rumbling drums coalesce to devastating effect. ʻWe Never Winʼ is a call-to-arms for the forgotten and downtrodden; an anthem that, in equal parts, finds hope in pessimism andvalidates the underpowered. The song is made all the more amazing by the fact it was home- recorded.

With a band name taken from an Andrew Bird song, itʼs clear to see the boys in Whales in Cubicles have done their research. Musically, the band evoke a huge variety of influences from American greats such as Guided by Voices and Sebadoh, to songwriters such as Neil Young and Stephen Malkmus, all the way through to British heroes Black Sabbath, Blur and Radiohead.

Having grown up in his native Italy, frontman Stef Bernardi developed a fixation with Anglo-American culture and, as such, took a pilgrimage across the English-speaking world, taking in as much music as he could before finally settling in London. Playing in numerous UK-based bands since arriving on Englandʼs shores, Stef found musical-kindred spirits in Leo, Alex and Jamie, and Whales in Cubicles was born. The band created the trackʼs accompanying video themselves, a further example of their DIY attitude.

Upcoming live dates//

3rd February – 93 Feet East

8th March – Ocassional Love Club night at the Amersham Arms