PR
TYPE PR ROSTER
A Dancing Beggar
(Audiobulb Records)
- Official
- …delicate songs blur into each other seamlessly, drifting on clouds, sounding almost robotic. 7/10 Rock Sound
- It marries intimate Eno ambiance with reverberant, Sigur Ros-like grandeur. Mojo
- Ambient, minimalist post-rock with transformative powers; a truly serene yet stirring flow of music. It’s made by young Brightonian James Simmons, but kick back and go with it and you’re on Bowie-Eno’s autobahns in the sky, glowing in a past future. Chris Roberts – UNCUT
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- This second album from A Dancing Beggar offers a shifting pattern of tranquility that produces both a calming and sophisticated landscape. Igloo Magazine
…almost unbearably beautiful with its delicate and melancholic guitars. Gorgeous. The Stool Pigeon
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Cuushe
(Flau Recordings)
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The Lowland Hundred
(Hundred Acre Recordings)
Review The Wire Magazine
This is visionary and deeply poignant music. 4****Uncut Magazine
*** Mojo Magazine
Ones To Watch Buzz Magazine
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Sun Glitters
(Ufolk Records /Lebensstrasse Records)
Lovely buzzing sounds from Luxembourg’s Sun Glitters. It’s a good way to pass the time, a good way to clear your head, a springtime sweatshirt when you’re not sure if a jacket is enough. The Fader
The Luxembourg-based solo artist makes dark, semi-orchestral synth wave. An all-consuming yet minimalist bassline dominates. What’s hot on our playlist – Independent
A name to watch. The Fly Magazine
Decorative high-end catchiness that one would expect from a post-everything-era chillwave beat…a promising producer . XLR8R
…finest example of chillwave synth-pop meets ambient dream-pop. Victor Ferreira’s pitch-shifted vocals and chopped-up melodies create a compellingly itchy, glitchy R&B. Guardian
The Line of Best Fit Review
Dazed and Confused interview Here
405 Interview Here
Pitchfork article HERE
Guardian ‘New Band of The Day’ article Here
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Sacred Animals
(Delphi Music)
With its Hill St Blues synth sounds, delicate harmonies and sense of space this is a gorgeous introduction to a very interesting Irish artist. New Music Matters
This is a stunningly accomplished debut, showcasing a sound that is hugely impressive despite the feeling it is in its natal stage. State Magazine
Fittingly moving. The FADER
Video of The Week Shout 4 Music
Dazed and Confused interview
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Coolrunnings
(LebensStrasse Records)
In spite of their shyness, melodies fight their way through the fig and by the end you’ll be shuffling about despite yourself. The Guardian
Psych-pop grooves with oodles of hypnotic grooves – Irish Times
4/5 – Artrocker Magazine
Song of the Day – The Line of Best Fit
It’s like Sonic Youth with soft synths instead of modified guitars. Bowlegs
Coolrunnings produce a fantastic debut album, and in my opinion will be highly well received by pre-existing and new listeners. The 405
Forkast – Pitchfork
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Soccer96
(Demons Are Real)
‘SuperWarrior’, which is taken from their self-titled album, is a monster hit, plain and simple. The 405
Quietly-epic and strangely beautiful. Screen Invasion
I really like this a lot. It’s daft, transient music that isn’t hung up about having fun, and human enough to win you round. Incendiary Mag
As potential future festival favourites, hopefully they will be able to harness the momentum they will get from the impending release to catapult themselves to the success they certainly deserve. Bearded Magazine
Drowned in Sound Preview
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MayMay
(Flau Recordings)
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Piano Interrupted
(Photogram Recordings)
A subtle and well-produce foray into glitchy electronic, cinematic sound design and classical piano. DJ Magazine
Effects fizzle and stutter, like frayed wires sparking about as piano melodies come and go in small movements that both feel deliberate and spontaneous. One Thirty BPM
…very much “Lost Chord” era Moody Blues hanging out with Nils Frahm. Incendiary Magazine
Muso Magazine interview
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Land Observations
(Enraptured Records)
Land Observations is exactly that: the observations, thoughts, feelings and emotions of places of just one person, beautifully evoked through the use of just a guitar. 7.5/10 405
Interview Drowned In Sound
Interview Stool Pigeon
Most Wanted Record Collector
Review The Wire Magazine
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Three Fields
(Installed Worlds)
This is a great EP, romantic, warm and sympathetic in its outlook. Incendiary Magazine
No Fear in Pop Feature
20jazzfunkgreats feature
The Morton Report.Interview
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USRNM
(Photogram Recordings)
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Madegg
(Flau Recordings)
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Monsters Build Mean Robots
(Nice Weather For Airstrikes Records)
Classic Rock Magazine Review Here
Bearded Magazine Feature HERE
This is a record that is built from melancholic strings, big guitars, and cinematic tones. Bowlegs
…pulsating bass line and rolling drums push towards chanted harmonies which are genuinely rousing and recall Yndi Halda. The Line of best Fit
Echoes of Sigur Ros and Explosions in the sky. Artrocker
Pretty post-rock 3/5 Mixmag
Soaring and uplifting and urgent. Drowned in Sound
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Paperfangs
(Unsigned)
Paperfangs may just be the best music to come forth from northern Europe since Bjork. In Your Speakers
Without the usual ephemera that litter bands online presence it’s up to the music to speak for itself and boy does it speak for itself. The Devil Has The Best Tuna
‘Valleys and Peaks’ is part synth-heaviness, part Scandinavian vocals, complete unadulterated joy. Music Fans Mic
Anyone who loves Scandinavian dream pop, i.e. everyone(?), really should listen to this. Ja Ja Ja
Wonderful pop. The Arts Desk
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We Cut Corners
(Delphi Music)
Excellent…short-and-sweet burst of witticisms and scuzz. The Line of Best Fit
This Is Fake DIY Feature
lovely bittersweet stories, filled with wit. BBC
astounding vocal delivery and a blend of ballads and rock anthems are We Cut Corners’ greatest assets. The Fly
Creative Review Feature
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Alex Monk
(Smeraldina-RIma Recordings)
Monk has succeeded in finding a distinctive voice, which is greatly to his credit and anticipates greater things yet to come. Wire Magazine
Singularly appropriate to the long, cold nights and grey daylight hours of January, The Safety Machine acts as an ominous overture to what promises to be one heavy motherfucker of a year. The Quietus
We can’t recommend anything so highly as this collection of contemplative sounds. Mixmag
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aus
(Flau Recordings)
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Kontakte
(Drifting Falling Records)
Kontakte have released a perfectly accomplished, assured album MusicOMH
This album could still have the power to stir you profoundly The Quietus
This album is perfect soundtrack music. On the evidence of this, 2011 could very well be their year. 8/10 contact Music
Classic Rock Presents Prog Review HERE
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Dollboy
(Kooky Records)
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Crewdson
(Slowfoot Records)
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Last Days of Lorca
(Nice Weather For Airstrikes Records)
Past Reviews
Last Days of Lorca do their thing, creating a jagged racket not far off At The Drive-In topped off with Matt Bellamy vocals, and it’s an affecting blend. Kerrang
At times so choral that it soars to the clouds, ‘I Start Fires…’ hits nerves and nurses souls. Bearded Magazine
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Twenty-One Crows
(Mulso Primary Records)
Excellent debut of fireside folk from Brighton 4**** Uncut Magazine
Sons of Liberty is, by and large, a consistently interesting and affecting listen, that succeeds on its own terms. For Folk Sake
This four-piece are to be highly praised. Thank Folk For that
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Snorkel
(Slowfoot Records)
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Gagarin
(GEO Records)
**** Mojo Magazine
There is a feeling of a drama unfolding at its own pace in their dark geometries, something to be unpicked on the repeat listenings which it definitely deserves Joe Muggs – The Arts Desk
Soundblab Interview Here
Tokafi Interview Here
Headphone Commute Interview Here
Logan takes Gagarin’s ravey dubstep into much more angular post-industrial terrains, first by greatly emphasising the metallic nature of the percussions and expanding on the spatial aura of the piece, then by twisting the lot until virtually nothing of the original remains. 4.4/5 Themilkfactory
**** – Mixmag
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Greg Hall
(Photogram Recordings)
This is a hugely promising start from a young man finding his solo voice. For Folk Sake
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Franz Kirmann
Goosebump-inducing. Coke Machine Glow
poignant melodies and textural atmospheres to shroud his slow-bouncing rhythms. XLR8R Magazine
This release is destined to hold curious minds. Sometimes it’s still, sometimes it gathers pace, often creates a scene, and more often, generates a trance. Igloo Magazine
Lovely…Waves of sound and melodies building up to powerful emotional effect. Mixmag
Lush experimental electronica. 8/10 IDJ Magazine
Review Rock A Rolla Magazine
Interview with Future Frequency HERE
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Bright Future
(Unsigned)
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The Astroboy
(PAD Records)
Fact Magazine Article HERE
The retro science fiction inspired excursion of every track has its own touching presence, and, not only that, it leaves a dense, trance like, vapor trail thereafter. Igloo Magazine
He creates here a somewhat vibrant and atmospheric piece which seems to simultaneously contemplate past and future. 4/5 The Milk Factory
Their execution is so sincere, so impeccably rendered, that they have the sense of being devotional music. Joe Muggs – The Arts Desk
Astroboy could be seen as hiding from the realities of modern life by immersing himself in this alternative reality. The Liminal
Preview The Wire Magazine
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FESTIVAL/EVENT ROSTER
Semibreve Festival (Portugal)
The line up for the first edition of Semibreve festival has been announced. The festival takes place in Braga, in the north of Portugal, and will include a series of lectures, talks, performances and installations.
Lectures take place on 10 November at the Tibães Monastery. Speaking at Semibreve will be Hans Joachim Roedelius, Taylor Deupree, Stephan Mathieu, Vitor Joaquim and The Wire‘s publisher Tony Herrington. Performing at the Teatro Circo on 11–13 November are Qluster with Luma.Launisch, Taylor Deupree and Stephan Mathieu performing Transcriptions, Jon Hopkins, Fennesz joined by video artist Pedro Maia, Blac Koyote, alva noto, Vitor Joaquim, plus Murcof with AntiVJ. Braga various venues, 10–13 November.
Preview The Wire Magazine
Preview Digital in Berlin
Preview / Review Clash Magazine
Preview Notion Magazine
Review The 405
Review Drowned in Sound
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Soundwaves Festival (UK)
Step out of the ordinary with four days and nights of new commissions, collaborations, performances and experiences.
Soundwaves Festival is Brighton’s pioneering festival of new music and sound art.
Step out of the ordinary and into a fun and endlessly fascinating world, a world which is created when artists begin to work without constraints when experimentation becomes the norm for both audience and artist alike, always pioneering, always something that bit different, Soundwaves Festival is totally unique in Brighton and in 2011 returns with an ambitious and hugely entertaining programme of events, exhibitions and experiences.
2011 line up includes David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Scanner, Leafcutter John, Kaffe Mathews, Anat Ben-Davis,, The Letter Piece Company, The NKR, Lucia Tong, Shila Anaraki, Andre Borges, Sound Intermedia, CHROMA, Gazelle Twin, Mikhail Karikis, Amy Cunningham, Lost Parade, Martin Parker, Mira Calix, Me and Machine.
Review Drowned in Sound
Preview Artrocker Magazine
Preview Guardian
Preview The Line of Best Fit
Review Artrocker Magazine
Soundwaves festival is suited perfectly to its free-spirited Brighton home. Guardian
Article The Wire
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De La Warr Pavilion
(Live Music Programme)
Anyone who has been to a concert at the Eden Project or Somerset House will know there is magic in the air when setting and sounds collide – so there is the making of something very special indeed with the line-up of shows arranged at the UK’s first public modernist building… Not that the building isn’t worth a visit in its own right, but now you have the perfect excuse. The Independent
Unkle feature/review The Quietus
Unkle preview Clash Magazine
Unkle Preview Artrocker
The Necks preview The Guardian
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Nice Weather For Airstrikes Festival
Nice Weather For Airstrikes Records was set up to promote new and innovative music. The bands own all their copyrights and are free to do as they wish with their music. Bands on the Nice Weather For Airstrikes roster include:
Last Days of Lorca
You Me The Switch
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ALUMNI
Spotlight Kid
(Club AC30 Records)
405 review HERE
like M83 landing on the moon with Neu! playing in the background. Drowned In Sound
With shimmering guitars and ethereal vocals, they take the building blocks of your favourite shoegaze bands and create something refreshing. Music Week
‘Haunting Me’ is a haunting indication of their prowesss and makes Spotlight kid potentially the UK’s answer to Asobi Seksu. God Is In The TV
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Magic Panda
(TigerBeat6 Records)
The bounty of slightly tweaked sounds that make up the melodic portion of Magic Panda’s upbeat track float and flitter throughout the ambient soundscape he’s crafted here, and are all driven by a quick-pulsing dance rhythm from start to finish. XLR8R
Bearded Magazine Interview HERE
