29.11.09
resident new releases 30th november 2009
Album of the Week : King Midas Sound – Waiting For You (Hyperdub)
Single of the Week : Papercuts – White Are The Waves limited 7″, non album track (Gnomonsong)
Well we’re getting closer & closer to Christmas & the new releases are supposedly drying up but looking around me right now, that is simply not true! Heading up the quality releases this week is the new album by King Midas Sound aka Kevin Martin (who you may be more familiar with as The Bug) & Roger Robinson (featured on The Bug’s ‘London Zoo’). As with that project he draws his inspiration from dub & dancehall but this is an altogether more dark & atmospheric ride & though it may have been too late to be included in our end of year lists, it could still end up being one of the albums of the year… Aussie trio The Necks return with another expansive single track of “post-everything” wonder… Type come up trumps once again with the the new album by Zelienople that gains favourable comparisons with Talk Talk, Slowdive & Bohren und der Club of Gore amongst others… Tom Waits may have lost a Nanny but we have gained the bewitching voice of Jesca Hoop……the big news this week is that Nurse With Wound return with a new full length album costing a credit-crunch busting 99p! At the request of the band, it is only available in record shops (no mail order at all) so, if you are a fan or if you haven’t yet checked out these industrial/ambient/drone legends, you’ll need to get off yer bum, into the shop with a quid & make the most of the band’s ridiculous generosity…….Hackney’s very own Bass Clef returns with his 2nd album of “dubstep (not dubstep)” with freshly injected African percussion & copious amounts of joy & of course, bass… Norway’s disco overlord, Lindstrom, returns accompanied by Christabelle & while stocks there is an additional disc with his festive forty minute take on “Little Drummer Boy”… Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek hook up for a collection of beautiful, intuitive soundscapes… Jason Spaceman has seen fit to remaster his masterpiece: Spiritualized’s “Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space”… All of this & more from Johnny Flynn, Mark E Smith & Ed Blaney, Peverelist, Pinch, Steve Reid, Yasmin Levy, Wet Dog, Royal Bangs, MV & EE & much more besides. For the complete new release listing, click on the link below.