Epic Pop Melodies and Post Punk of the 80s The band's flair for epic pop melodies and their soft spot for post punk of the 80s is illustrated by the single 'Until I Found A Rose', which is one of the most direct songs from the previous one Representing the British. The album covers the entire spectrum of emotions, in which in-depth lyrics meet ambitious songwriting. Both a focus on the essence of a song and extensive choruses are characteristic. The recordings made at Big Jelly Studios in Kent in September 2019 were directed by producer Jolyon Thomas, who has already worked with U2, Royal Blood and Slaves, among others.
Mercury Music Prize winner Badly Drawn Boy, aka Damon Gough, is finally releasing his new album Banana Skin Shoes via AWAL. Produced and mixed in Stockport last year by Gethin Pearson (Kele Okereke, JAWS) after an original production by Youth (The Verve, Paul McCartney), the album marks the end of a seven-year hiatus. The new longplayer combines a total of 14 brand-new titles, with which Gough is constantly rethinking its classic sound by maintaining trademarks but also incorporating completely new elements. Much of the album was recorded last year at Eve Studios in Stockport, assisted by producer Gethin Pearson (Kele Okereke, JAWS), who also mixed the entire album. Before that, Gough had recorded individual songs with producer legend Youth (The Verve, Paul McCartney) in his London studio and also worked with Keir Stewart (formerly The Durutti Column) at Inch Studios and with Seadna McPhail at Airtight Studios. Badly Drawn Boy has been known for over 20 years as a musician who expresses his feelings and thoughts openly, and so is his ninth studio album - his first in 10 years! - an absolutely personal matter: combined, the 14 tracks make up what is probably the most emotional, warmest, most colorful and honest pop statement that you will hear this year.
"The Prettiest Curse" is a record that is brimming with life in a positive way, as the musicians are finally playing to the full extent of their pop skills and unleashing songs that sound bigger, bolder and more complex than anything they have ever known. Of course, this does not mean that they have turned away from being "Hinds" - quite the contrary! They multiply what makes them so special - the bright melodies, the heartbreaking themes of isolation and betrayal, the encouraging moments, the glowing 'don't mess with us' girl gang attitude - and go even further. For the first time they sing prominently in their mother tongue and for the artwork they worked with one of their childhood heroines, the Spanish photographer Ouka Leele, which resulted in magical results. Under the watchful production eye (and ear) of the Grammy-nominated producer Jenn Decilveo (including Beth Ditto, Bat For Lashes, Albert Hammond Jr.), the team of four managed a wild ride - but one that should not be missed.
The Electric Soft Parade around the two brothers Alex and Thomas White catapulted themselves straight into the hearts of the indie fans in 2002. With their fifth album "Stages" they make a change of direction, which is surely also to blame for the death of their mother. "Stages" consists of seven almost symphonic explosions with long instrumental endings and a length between five and twelve minutes. Heartbreaking, beautifully melancholy songs, epics, somewhere between pulp and burlesque 1970s glam pop, which look like catharsis and also sound the same.
Wesley Gonzalez, former enfant terrible of DIY indie punk, takes another turn after his Sophisticated pop album "Excellent Musician" (2017) and delivers with "Appalling Human" an airy pop album with dance appeal that he recorded with a full band, including Rose Dougal as a singer. The 12 songs were produced and mixed by James Greenwood (Ghost Culture, Daniel Avery, Kelly Lee Owens).
The debut album of the Swedish indie quartet Maple & Rye from Gothenburg on the Stockholm label Icons Creating Evil Arts. All four band members are songwriters, lyricists and singers, whose powerful melodies and harmonies meet bombastic drums, danceable rhythms and grand choirs and create a dynamic folk pop that contrasts fragility and introspective on the one hand and joy and dance on the other.
Now also available on vinyl! "DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL is the solo project of FURTHER SEEMS FOREVER front man Christopher Carrabba. But while he is producing pleasant emopoppunk with his actual band, only acoustic guitars dominate here. Ten songs, decorated with a driving, but often very reserved drums and bass, sing Christopher met us with his sometimes deeply sad poetry, which, combined with a few string passages, really brings tears and gives us goosebumps. "
The second Snow Patrol album "When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up" was released on Jeepster in 2001 as an original and in 2006 as a special edition, expanded by 4 bonus tracks (B-sides of the singles from the album) and a video clip ("Ask Me How I Am "). This re-release also achieved gold status in the UK in 2007. The original album (14 tracks) has been available in remastered quality on vinyl for the first time since 2019, the edition also includes a 7 "on gold-colored vinyl with 2 previously unreleased tracks.
"If You're Feeling Sinister" (1996) is Belle & Sebastian's second album and their debut with indie label Jeepster. For Pitchfork and Rolling Stone (US) it is one of the "100 best albums of the 1990s", for Spin it is one of the "125 best albums of the past 25 years" and is also part of the encyclopedia "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" ".
The debut album "Tigermilk" by British indie pop favorites Belle & Sebastian was released on Electric Honey in 1996 and was re-released in 1999 by Jeepster. The opener "The State I Am In" stands for Pitchfork at # 17 of the "Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s", the album is included in the encyclopedia "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
"Storytelling" (2002) is Belle & Sebastian's fifth album and at the same time the soundtrack to director Todd Solondz's US comedy drama of the same name. At the same time, "Storytelling" also embodies the band's farewell to their long-standing label Jeepster and the move to Rough Trade Records.
"The BBC Sessions" (2008) contains the BBC recordings of the Belle & Sebastian classics for the shows of John Peel, Mark Radcliffe and Steve Lamacq between 1996-2001.
With "The Boy With The Arab Strap" (1998) Belle & Sebastian made their commercial breakthrough. The album charted at # 12 in the UK, the following year Belle & Sebastian won the BRIT Award for "Best British Breakthrough Act". For the NME, the title track in 2011 was one of the "150 best tracks of the past 15 years".
The LA band around mastermind Jeff Martin, who is responsible for vocals and guitar, release "Levitate", another slowcore classic from 2001. "Levitate" is the sixth studio album and was remastered by Bill Sanke for this vinyl release. After the vinyl edition of "Hearts of Palm" at the end of 2018, the album will be released for the first time on Talitres on vinyl. - "It's easy for sad-rockers to sound melancholy, but it's hard to do it with as much elegance as Jeff Martin." Pitchfork 8.3 Format: Black LP with printed inner cover and MP3 download card
Finally available in Germany in small quantities! Already in April 'Plate of the Month' in Visions, 'Everything Is A-OK' has so far been kept under wraps for Europe. Now a LP edition is available in small quantities! "The fifth album in twelve years - and the band still hasn't lost any of their youthful grunge storms and pangs that alternate between pissy and pop-like. It's a round album, perfect in its no-frills" (visions) "" Billy Corgan has called that he would like to have the best Smashing Pumpkins album back since 2000. And that says someone who even strangers with the big throws of the band. But these Australians make me a fan myself (Visions). The album appears in small edition in clear / blue / red splatter vinyl!
With influences from Pink Floyd to Grizzly Bear to King Crimson, Caravan Château is at home amidst the classic Southern California records of the past and present. On Caravan Château - the bewitching reflection on the mirror cabinet of love - Izenberg creates her own with the help of a handful of collaborators, including Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear), Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Whitney, Lemon Twigs), Ari Balouzian (Tobias Jesso Jr) , sophisticated world with 11 songs that are easy to worship but difficult to define.
After the Viennese band Bilderbuch caused a sensation in 2013 and led the BR Puls as well as the Tape TV annual charts, things went steadily upwards in 2014 in the band's 10-year history. 4 nominations for the Amadeus Award, whereby the category FM4 Award could be won, support tours with Casper, Beatsteaks and Seeed, over 30 festivals, as well as millions of clicks on their videos, caused a lot of hype around the four boys in 2014. 2015 is all about building on that, because the media agree: Bilderbuch is the Breakthrough Artist for 2015 (intro, Fritz FM and others).
The front man of the English cult band Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine is back with a brand new solo album. Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine recorded 14 top 40 singles and 4 top 10 albums in England, sold over a million records and gained a loyal fan base worldwide. "Pop Up Jim Bob" is his first solo album after the band's final split in 2014. Eleven earwigs with great hooks and intelligent indie pop rock. - Vinyl edition with an exclusive Jim Bob calendar 2021!
Second album by British singer / songwriter Willie J Healey from Oxford after his debut "People And Their Dogs" in 2017 on Columbia. Healey's voice breathes the sympathetic lightness of early John Lennon, combined with his leftfield eccentricity and his classic songwriting, "Twin Heavy" is an extremely pleasant indie pop work, produced by Loren Humphries (Florence And The Machine, Last Shadow Puppets, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala). - "This Oxfordshire troubadour is awash with the sounds and textures of early solo Lennon." - Sunday Times Culture - "A tastily evocative blend of Americana together with pop sounds, rough-around the edges garage rock sensibilities, all with a very Lou Reed tone." - Gigwise
On their sixth album, US indie band STRFKR changes from high-gloss electro-pop productions to powerful indie-pop songs that are reduced, spacey, profound and dreamy. The two new collaborators, the Amsterdam musicians Mathias Janmat and David Hoogerheide, certainly contributed to this. STRFKR's music now surrounds a strange and beautiful sound environment as they have shown themselves mature enough to take advantage of the chance and spontaneity from which the new songs emerged.
Demon / Edsel publishes Gene's 5 album catalog. The band was musically based on The Smiths, The Jam or The Faces. 10 top 40 hits in the UK were recorded from 1995 to 2001. The vocal style of Martin Rossiter has often been compared to that of Morrissey. With the album 'Olympian', originally released in 1995, the band created a Brit pop classic which, in addition to high chart ratings, had three successful singles. Gene was also voted 'Best New Act' at the NME Awards at this point. The luxurious box will be released for the 25th anniversary of the debut album and contains all four studio albums as well as a best of compilation by the band. All five albums (two of them double LPs) come in colored vinyl and printed inner sleeves as well as a 12 x 12 art print signed by the band. 1. Olympian (White Vinyl) 2. Drawn To The Deep End (Maroon Vinyl) 3. Revelations (Green Vinyl) 4. Libertine (Pink Vinyl) 5. To See The Lights (Gold Vinyl)
Palace Winter’s third record - infused with duality - is a more colorful, grandiose, yet edgy return. Palace Winter are back with their first new music in over two years. The band, led by Australian songwriter Carl Coleman and Danish songwriter/producer Caspar Hesselager, are set to release their third album ...Keep Dreaming, Buddy via Tambourhinoceros. The new record is a collection of the band's most exciting and ambitious songs to date. Whilst keeping their widescreen, pop sensibilities, Coleman and Hesselager wanted to broaden their horizons, exploring hip-hop beats, 70s soul, 80s electronics and 90s guitars: “Jim James and St. Vincent producing Elliot Smith over Kendrick Lamar beats”. Despite being a melting pot of these styles the new record still sounds very Palace Winter. The band's first two records, Nowadays and Waiting for the World to Turn, received critical acclaim from The Guardian, NME, The New York Times and more, with several singles playlisted at BBC Radio 6 Music. In typical Palace Winter style, these albums explore themes of death, grief and trauma but always with an unmissable, forward-looking shade of optimism. ...Keep Dreaming, Buddy, was however conceived among obviously absurd circumstances. The two songwriters had established a daily long-distance correspondence of demos between Copenhagen and Tenerife while Carl was living on the island last winter. “I was walking around this weird volcano island. The retro hotel was like some kind of forgotten paradise resort. The whole thing felt like some kind of Lynchian alternate reality” says Coleman. While the album expands on Palace Winter’s characteristic contrast between sonic buoyancy and thematic struggle, it marks a departure from their earlier confident optimsm. “There’s a hint of a cry for freedom” says Hesselager of the album. This tone is reflected in the ambiguous album title ...Keep Dreaming, Buddy, conveying what could be interpreted as easy-going encouragement or condescending sarcasm. “A passer-by might cry it out on a busy city street, or your partner might whisper it patronisingly under their breath.”
The new work has nine pieces over 41 minutes of playing time and convinces with impressive and unique soundscapes. The singing of the studied jazz musician is not unjustifiably compared to the Icelandic singer Björk. And yet unique soundscapes manifest themselves in the versatile mixture of jazz, folk, acoustic rock and modern classical music. File under: Artpop, Indie, Shoegazer, Experimental.
Sonic Ballroom - the second vinyl pad now in elegant white. When asked whether album number five is the most personal in the band's history and the writing process was particularly intense and enlightening this time, whether one can perhaps speak of a further development and / or reinvention of MONTREAL, drummer and media professional Max Power said a nebulous “possible “From the beard.
Recorded at the band's studio in Los Feliz, California, bandleader Mark Oliver Everett aka E also played the role of producer on Earth to Dora. The new album was recorded by E himself, Koool G Murder, The Chet and P-Boo. With the exception of 'Are We Alright Again' - "kind of a quarantine daydream I desperately needed to have" as E himself says - all songs were written before COVID-19. Before the pandemic changed all of our lives. 'Earth to Dora' is the 13th full-length album by EELS after 'The Deconstruction' in 2018. Vinyl -> 180g black vinyl, gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeve
Das gleichnamige Album von 1993 war das bis dato am schnellsten verkaufte Debütalbum im UK überhaupt. Der Nachfolger 'Dog Man Star' gilt als Opus Magnum der Band um Sänger Brett Anderson und Gitarrist Bernard Butler. 'Coming Up' konnte in England alleine fünf Singles in den Top 10 platzieren, und drei der Alben stiegen direkt auf Platz 1 ein. Insgesamt 14 Singles kamen in die UK Top 20, und die Erfolgswelle trug die Band durch ganz Europa bis nach Japan. Die brandneue Werkschau des Suede-Katalogs (zusammengestellt von der Band) erscheint nun in vier unterschiedlichen Konfigurationen, die, ganz nach Bedarf des Fans, keine Wünsche offen lassen. Auch Songs der drei nach der Reunion 2013 erschienenen Alben ('Bloodsports', 'Night Thoughts', 'The Blue Hour') sind hier erstmalig enthalten. Diese Compilation ist damit die umfassendste Werkschau die es jemals von dieser nach wie vor von Fans verehrten Glam- und Britpop-Band gegeben hat. 'Beautiful Ones - The Best Of Suede 1992-2018' erscheint in folgenden Formaten: - 6 LP-Box (180 Gr., White Vinyl). 56 Tracks auf sechs mit individuellen Sleeves gestalteten Artworks, darunter natürlich 'The Drowners', 'Metal Mickey', 'We Are The Pigs', 'Lazy', 'Pantomime Horse', 'Heroine', 'Snowblind', 'Tightrope' u.v.a. - 4CD-Mediabook inkl. 36-Seiten-Booklet mit informativen Linernotes und vielen Archiv-Fotos. Auch hier mit 56 Songs. - 2LP-Set (Black Vinyl) mit 21 ausgesuchten Songs. - 2CD-Digifile zum Entdecker-Preis mit 34 ausgesuchten Songs.
"Another Wave is Coming" is the solo debut of Emily Edrosa, singer of the New Zealand indie rock band Street Chant (Flying Nun), who moved to Los Angeles in 2016 and there the tradition of solid, punky indie rock from the renowned indie label continues.
140g vinyl reissue of the 2017 remastered LP first release. The album "Encore" (2007), the successor to the legendary, self-titled debut album by Brazilian musician Arthur Verocai from 1972, has also become a modern classic, combining Brazilian rhythms with US soul and soundtrack experiments.
Stockholms Postpunk-Helden V**gra Boys (mit **, um Spamfilter zu umgehen) endlich mit ihrem neuen Album. Produziert wurde das Album von Matt Sweeney (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Run the Jewels), Justin & Jeremiah Raisen (Yves Tumor, Kim Gordon, Sky Ferreira), sowie Pelle Gunnerfeldt und Daniel Fagerström (The Hives, The Knife), mit denen sie schon in der Vergangenheit zusammengearbeitet haben. V**gra Boys sind für ihre satirische Seite bekannt und auch diesmal erwarten uns schneidender Postpunk, eine tief empfundene Ablehnung für gängige Genremerkmale und leidenschaftliche Wut auf die Gesellschaft wegen der zunehmenden Normalisierung von toxischer Männlichkeit, Rassismus, Frauenhass, Klassendiskriminierung und Egozentrismus. Sogar der Albumtitel hat ein satirisches Element, denn die Umschrift des Begriffes für das finanzielle Unterstützungsprogramm für Jazzmusiker aus dem Schwedischen trifft ins Herz institutionalisierter Klassendiskriminierung und Prioritätensetzung. “Ich bin nicht besonders gut darin, über Politik zu sprechen, aber irgendwie ist doch heute alles politisch”, meint Sänger Sebastian Murphy. “Ich schreibe über Ablehnung oder eine Niederlage, denn dann bin ich ehrlich und authentisch.” Auf dem neuen Album vermischt sich das Kleine mit dem Großen und Murphy erklärt weiter: “Als wir diese Songs schrieben, hatte ich gerade eine lange Beziehung hinter mir, nahm jeden Tag Drogen und benahm mich wie ein Arschloch. Als ich merkte, wie unausstehlich ich war, war es zu spät. Auf dem Album geht es unter anderem darum, dass ich akzeptieren musste, dass ich mir selbst völlig falsche Ziele gesetzt habe.”
Limited first edition of the fourth album by British rock musician Charly Coombes (member of Supergrass, The New Breed and 22-20s). Recorded in Sao Paolo, Brazil with fellow musicians from Supergrass and Ride, "All In The End Is Harvest" is an organic, warm and complex approach to a modern rock and roll album. Limited & numbered edition on 200g superheavyweight vinyl.
The ultimate Bob Mold retro show on vinyl! The Edsel label recapitulates the solo creative phase 1989 - 1995 of the former Hüsker Dü guitarist on eight LPs. With the band Sugar and the album 'Copper Blue' (Musikexpress 'Platte d. Jahres') he set new standards in US alternative rock, until he recently made a name for himself with several critically enthusiastic solo albums. This large-format box was created with the close involvement of the artist and contains eight studio albums, all of which have been given a new artwork. In addition, they all appear in different splatter vinyl. The package includes an exclusive bonus LP with rarities and cover versions on clear vinyl. The set is supplemented with a 28-page booklet containing many archive photos and background information as well as liner notes from Keith Cameron, among others. The following albums are included: Bob Mold - Workbook (1989), Bob Mold - Black Sheets Of Rain (1990), Sugar - Copper Blue (1992), Sugar - Beaster (1993), Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening (1994), Sugar - Besides 2LP-Set (1995), Bob Mold - Distortion Plus: 1989-1995
"5 EPs" comprises, as the name suggests, a collection of 5 different EPs by the Dirty Projectors, which were already released in a strictly limited edition in the course of this year, are now released on CD and 2LP! 5 EPs includes, as the name suggests, a collection of 5 different EPs that were released in the course of 2020 and each put one band member in the foreground: The first 4 EPs each feature a lead singer of the band members and also differ in sound: Maia Friedman's Window Opens is acoustic & folky; Felicia Douglas' Flight Tower electronic, Kristin Silpps Earth Crisis is a digitally deconstructed orchestral collage and Dave Longstreth's EP Super João Bossa Nova. The 5th EP Ring Road is then sung by all members and recapitulates everything with a classic full-band Dirty Projectors sound.
Inspired by Mazzy Star's vocals and Kurt Vile's guitars, King Hannah's debut EP / mini album is released on City Slang! King Hannah's debut EP “Tell Me Your Mind And I Tell You Mine” will be released on November 20th, 2020 and will feature an intro, an outro and four fantastic pieces in between. It's an intoxicating autumnal and intoxicatingly dark and melancholy EP. A melodically swirling, atmospheric sound collage, designed and recorded by the band's creative core called Hannah Merrick (the voice!) And Craig Whittle (the guitar!). As rambling as the sound is, the focus here is nevertheless on intimate and quiet everyday stories that all too often trickle away unheard in the noisy monotony. Ms. Merrick's singing is currently being compared by excited critics in the UK and USA (depending on where you live and age) alternately with Hope Sandoval, Lana del Rey and even Beth Gibbons. We think she just sounds like Hannah Merrick! And she prefers to write her texts in the blue hours of the early morning, which is really good for her rawness and fragility. - "A Raw And Unpretentious Indie Rock Sensation." (Nothing But Hope And Passion)
Bright Eyes third album from May 2000. Pitchfork ranked # 170 of the best albums of the 2000s.
The fourth album by Bright Eyes from August 2002, which was also able to enter the US Billboard and independent charts for the first time.
Bright Eyes' debut album from January 1998, at that time still almost completely single-handedly recorded by Conor Oberst. 2012 reissue on 180g vinyl plus CD insert.
With bonus tracks, Saddle Creek extended the reissue of the collab EP "One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels" by Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova from 2010, originally 2004 on Crank! Records appeared.
The second album by Bright Eyes, which followed in November 1998 and was recorded with musicians from Neutral Milk Hotel, Tilly and The Wall and Of Montreal
Calexico's first "year-end album" (Don't call it a Christmas album). CALEXICO balance once again with sleepwalking security over all their narrow multicultural degrees and take everyone with, among others, Bombino, Gaby Moreno, Gisela Joao, Nick Urata (from DeVotchKa) and Camilo Lara (from the Mexican Institute Of Sound). Incl. Cover by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Tom Petty. Messrs. Burns and Convertino from Calexico have not only locked themselves away in midsummer to create a “year-end album” instead. No, they also took their best and top-class friends into a headlock and recorded a non-Christmas album. It goes to the heart (it has to be - it's the season!), But it's still fun, it's seriously worn, but it can also celebrate lightly. Calexico balance once again with sleepwalking security over all their narrow multicultural degrees and take everyone with them! Whether Portuguese fado, old Mexican folk classics, whether stripped down to the duo or with the really big international party cutlery. This album can do it all. On board are artists such as Bombino, Gaby Moreno, Gisela Joao, Nick Urata (from DeVotchKa) and Camilo Lara (from the Mexican Institute Of Sound).
„Arctic Monkeys - Live At The Royal Albert Hall“ wurde auf dem Benefizkonzert der Arctic Monkeys zugunsten von Warchild UK im Rahmen der "Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino"-Tour aufgenommen. Nun erscheinen die Live-Aufnahmen auf CD und LP und die Band spendet alle Erlöse aus deren Verkauf an die Wohltätigkeitsorganisation für Kinder, die von kriegerischen Konflikten betroffen sind. Die Arctic Monkeys erklären das Zustandekommen des Live-Albums so: "Am 7. Juni 2018 spielten wir eine ganz besondere Show in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall. Der gesamte Erlös dieses denkwürdigen Abends wurde War Child UK gespendet, um die lebenswichtige Arbeit zu unterstützen, die sie zum Schutz, zur Ausbildung und zur Rehabilitation von Kindern leisten, die das Trauma des Konflikts und die Schrecken des Krieges erlebt haben. Die Situation, die 2018 schon schlimm war, ist jetzt verzweifelt, und diese Kinder und ihre Familien brauchen unsere Hilfe mehr denn je. Damit War Child UK sein Finanzierungsdefizit abbauen und seine wertvolle Arbeit fortsetzen kann, freuen wir uns, dass wir jetzt ein Live-Album veröffentlichen können, das an jenem Abend in der Royal Albert Hall aufgenommen wurde. Alle Einnahmen gehen direkt an die Wohltätigkeitsorganisation. Wir danken allen unseren Fans im Voraus für ihre Unterstützung dieser Veröffentlichung und im Gegenzug für ihre Unterstützung von War Child UK." - Arctic Monkeys. Diese Liveaufnahme bietet 20 der besten Momente der Band von Klassikern bis zu den aktuellen Songs.
Debut album by the indie pop trio Caro around singer and songwriter Adam Pardey from Leeds, whose extravagant, fresh future pop is celebrated by the British press and compared to acts like Alt-J, Everything Everything or St. Vincent. After the first singles and tours (including 2018 with Ghostpoet in Germany) Caro are now making their debut on pink vinyl with "Burrows". "One of the most exciting new bands in the country." - Gigwise "A Leeds-based trio sporting stately, delicately-arranged pop that'll slap you round the face with a fish." - DIY Magazine "Sounds like Alice in Wonderland, if written by Morrissey. Terrific stuff." - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music
The Kills veröffentlichen am 11.12.2020 eine außergewöhnliche, karriereumspannende Compilation aus B-Seiten und Raritäten mit dem passenden Titel Little Bastards. Little Bastards, das sind die Aufnahmen, die The Kills 2003 und 2018 neben ihren regulären Alben veröffentlich haben, die aber nicht die Aufmerksamkeit bekamen, die sie eigentlich verdienen. Dazu gehört I Call It Art von der Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited-Cover-Compilation, der brillante Midnight Boom-Bonustrack Night Train, eine mitreißende Darbietung von Love Is A Deserter aus einer XFM-Radiosession und eine Handvoll klassischer amerikanischer Roots-Songs, die mit der Art von Schnodderigkeit aufgeführt werden, für die The Kills berühmt sind: Howlin' Wolfs' Forty Four, Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put A Spell on You und Dock Boggs' Sugar Baby. Über fünf Alben und vier EPs, erdachten Alison Mosshart und Jamie Hince in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten die Möglichkeiten der modernen Dualität neu - die Alchimierung von Garagenrock, Punk und Blues zu Rauchwolken, psychischem Gemetzel und einem schwelenden nächtlichen Abstieg in eine Nordwestpassage zwischen Outkast und Suicide. Ihr letztes Album, Ash & Ice (2016), wurde allgemein gelobt, und ihre jüngste Veröffentlichung - ein Cover von Saul Williams' List Of Demands und Peter Toshs Stepping Razor von 2018 - markiert 15 Jahre seit ihrem ersten Album Keep On Your Mean Side von 2003. Als Performer ist ihre Chemie unübertroffen und uneingeschränkt; sie sind magnetisch und fesselnd, ob sie nun von Gitarrenfeedback durchtränkt sind oder unter einem einzigen Scheinwerferlicht einen klaviergeführten Kerzensong abliefern. The Kills haben das Genre, das sie zuerst beansprucht hat, überwunden und nehmen einen ganz einzigartigen Platz in der Musikkultur ein. Sie sind sie selbst. Unnachahmlich und unvergleichlich. Little Bastards ist eine musikalische Auffrischung, die sich als ein Schuss reines Adrenalin manifestiert.
At the same time as the start of the new James Bond film, the British indie band The Wedding Present is initiating the sampler "Not From Where I'm Standing" with cover versions of famous Bond themes, recorded by friendly bands like Sleeper, Jetstream Pony, The Donalds, The Sleazoids or The Ukrainians. The latter probably deliver the first Madonna cover in Ukrainian with "Die Another Day". All proceeds from this sampler, which is published in cooperation with the 7 "club" Come Play With Me CIC (CPWM) ", will go to the British suicide prevention organization" Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) ".