LIVE: MERCHANDISE – 03/11/2016

– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – “Welcome to the public library” quips Carson Cox as he shuffles about the dimly lit stage in the bowels of The Castle Hotel. Merchandise, hailing from Tampa, Florida are about to take us on a journey of eighties influenced nostalgia. The original line-up was a three-piece playing with a […]
Tim Hecker’s forthcoming album, Love Streams, is released on April 8th 2016. His debut record for 4AD, Hecker today releases the first taste from the album, a track entitled ‘Castrati Stack’. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, Love Streams was assembled […]

TIM HECKER RELEASES NEW TRACK ‘CASTRATI STACK’

DAUGHTER LAUNCH ‘HOW’ VIDEO

Daughter – the London-based trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella – have launched the final instalment of their film triptych, for the single ‘How’ (taken from their second album Not To Disappear) Directed by BAFTA-nominated filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (creators of the startling Nick Cave feature film 20,000 Days On Earth), the […]
Prior to the album release, Bradford Cox revealed Concept Map listing the influences of the album, which seems to have acted as a handy companion to any press release. Most reviews already posted seem to pick a circle of the map and use that as the premise for their review (see Ian Cohen of Pitchfork’s focus on […]

Album Review: Deerhunter – Fading Frontier

ALBUM REVIEW: BEIRUT – NO NO NO

Beirut band leader Zach Condon’s story is film-worthy – as a young jazz trumpeter, he was exposed to mariachi music while growing up in Sante Fé, New Mexico. At 17, he dropped out of school and ran away to Paris after working in an international film cinema, where Sicilian funeral brass music and Balkan folk had caught his […]
Joining forces once more with Brother Willis (makers of the kaleidoscopic video for recent single ‘No No No’), and interested by the idea of a setting by the sea and “the massive island of trash that is growing and floating out in the Pacific,” ‘Gibraltar’ follows Beirut leader Zach Condon and band members Paul Collins […]

BEIRUT RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘GIBRALTAR’

U.S. GIRLS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND UK TOUR

U.S. Girls is Illinois-born, Toronto-based artist Meghan Remy, who releases her new album Half Free on September 25th. Half Free is Remy’s first album for 4AD and is her most realised yet. Focusing on characters in everyday struggles, with narratives inspired by the work of director John Cassavetes and Bruce Springsteen, Meg also explores themes […]
A documentary following synth-pop band Future Islands on the road has been made available online. Road Dawgs follows the three piece on last year’s world tour, after the success of their fourth album, Singles, released through 4AD. The film, which was directed and produced by Jay Buim, who was also behind the video which accompanied […]

FUTURE ISLANDS DOCUMENTARY SHARED ONLINE

DAUGHTER AND WARPAINT TEAM UP TO RELEASE REMIX EP

Daughter and Warpaint have joined forces to produce one off remixes of each other’s work. The first track to be released from the collaboration was Warpaint’s re-imagining of Winter, from Daughter’s debut album If You Leave. In addition, Daughter’s version of Feeling Alright has been shared, which is taken from Warpaint’s second self-titled album, which […]
Pixies will release an expanded version of their classic album Doolittle to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Pixies: Doolittle 25 is a three-disc collection featuring 50 tracks including demos, B-sides and Peel sessions. More than half of the tracks included have not been commercially released before. The album, which was originally recorded in 1989 with producer […]

PIXIES ANNOUNCE 25TH ANNIVERSARY DOOLITTLE REISSUE