BILL FAY
'Life Is People'
(Dead Oceans)
Album released: August 20th 2012
MOJO - ALBUM OF THE MONTH - 5 STARS ***** 'Bill Fay's first album in 41 years is astonishing'
UNCUT - 9/10 'Beautifully measured return from this humble master of English song'
Q - 4 STARS **** 'The staggering return of a great lost cult artist…an awe-inspiring experience'
NICK CAVE - 'Bill Fay is one of the greats - this is a beautiful album'
JEFF TWEEDY - 'I can't think of anyone whose records have meant more in my life'
For the unacquainted Bill Fay is one of English music’s best kept secrets – a genuine national treasure. Back at the dawn of the 1970s, he was a one-man song factory, with a piano that spilled liquid gold and a voice every bit the equal of Ray Davies, John Lennon, early Bowie, or Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker. He made two solo albums but his contract wasn’t renewed, leaving his LPs and his reputation to become cult items, later namedropped by the likes of Nick Cave, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Jim O’Rourke. But he never stopped writing, and the music kept on coming. Now, in his late sixties, he has produced Life Is People, his first properly crafted studio album since 1971, that shows his profoundly humanist vision is as strong as it ever was.
Ranging from intimate to cosmic, epic but never grandiose, Bill’s deeply committed music reminds you of important, eternal truths, and the lessons to be drawn from the natural world, when the materiality and greed threaten to engulf everything. After nearly 50 years, Bill Fay has finally delivered his masterpiece.
Friday, 3 August 2012
Friday, 4 November 2011
SUPERCHUNK
LTD EDITION 7" + FIRST UK SHOW IN 10 YEARS + ROUGH TRADE INSTORE
The new SUPERCHUNK single 'LEARNED TO SURF' is from the album 'Majesty Shredding' - album out now on One Four Seven Records
THE GUARDIAN - 5 stars ***** - One of the most flat-out enjoyable rock records in a long time
NME - 8/10 - An unassumingly great record that exists solely to celebrate the pleasures of making a gigantic, melodious racket
MOJO - 4 stars **** - Eleven astoundingly catchy, adrenalised twin-guitar anthems. Most aptly titled album of the year
'LEARNED TO SURF'
(OFS018)
Limited Edition 7" Vinyl Single - only 500 copies worldwide - released exclusively by One Four Seven Records
BUY IT HERE for only £2.99 (ships Nov 28)
Release date - December 5th 2011
a: Learned To Surf - LISTEN HERE
b: Sunny Brixton*
Bad Influence**
*exclusive - specially recorded new Superchunk song
** Neon Christ cover
One Four Seven Records
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SUPERCHUNK LIVE:
NOV 29th - ROUGH TRADE WEST - Instore
DEC 1st - LONDON SCALA (support from Let's Wrestle) - TICKETS
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Superchunk returned last year with their first new album in almost ten years and those ten years have allowed them to create without a doubt the best record of their career. Majesty Shredding telescopes two decades into 41 indelible, action-packed minutes. It is the sound of youthful exuberance fine-tuned with grown-up confidence. Superchunk as always strike a unique and effortless balance between melody and force, craft and spontaneity, the energy of youth and the wisdom of experience.
In a year when indie-rock has had a major resurgence with the likes of Surfer Blood, et al, and Les Savy Fav have regularly been covering the band's classic "Precision Auto" at the end of their sets, it makes sense that Superchunk have returned to claim their rightful position at the forefront of thoughtful, intelligent independent rock music.
They have intermittently played shows in the US since 2001 and released a handful of singles and EPs when time allowed. Each member has been thoroughly busy - not least Mac and Laura who have been busy running one of the biggest US independent labels operating today, MERGE RECORDS, putting out the likes of Arcade Fire, Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel etc.
vanessa.cotton@triadpublicity.co.uk
Friday, 12 August 2011
AMANDA APPLEWOOD - Debut Album + New Single
AMANDA APPLEWOOD
‘I Love Boys’
Debut Album released September 12th 2011
'Pretend We're In Love'
Single released September 5th
Listen to songs from Amanda's album here:
‘I Love Boys’ is the debut album from Amanda Applewood
Up until now, Amanda Applewood has been best known as the keyboardist, recorder player and cake thrower with indie-pop favourites The Boy Least Likely To. While she was sitting on the tour bus to Cardiff one afternoon, she realised that she had written enough songs for her own album. She hijacked the band’s studio, and began recording the very next day.
DRUGSTORE - New Album! + New Video! + New Single! + Gigs!
DRUGSTORE - 'Standing Still' mini video from Triad Publicity on Vimeo.
www.drugstoremusic.co.uk
www.rocketgirl.co.uk
Drugstore’s new single ‘Standing Still’ was conceived during a frosty weekend at the Drugstore cave. Written on a fan-donated guitar, with a poncho-wearing Isabel Monteiro under a mad-prophet guise, reminding us that in the end, it all fades to dust.
The song was recorded during the ‘Anatomy’ album sessions - another freezing day, this time on Platts Eyot, a remote island on the Western fringes of the river Thames - with a bottle of cheap brandy for warmth and inspiration.
‘STANDING STILL’
New Single released SEPTEMBER 26TH
(rgirl82 cd + download)
From the new album, ‘ANATOMY’ released SEPTEMBER 5TH 2011
[CD & Transparent Vinyl LP with bonus track and free download (rgirl79 / rgirl79LP)]
Isabel Monteiro has a story to tell you....
LIA ICES - UK shows + Green Man + Love Is Won video + Lia soundtracks 'So You Think You Can Dance' !
LIA ICES
UK Shows
+ Green Man Festival
+ New Video - 'Love Is Won'
+ 'So You Think You Can Dance' !!
www.liaices.com
Jagjaguwar recording artist LIA ICES returns to the UK for a handful of shows this month - as Special Guest to The Low Anthem and The Cave Singers, plus a performance at this year's Green Man Festival (dates below)
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE - New Album + UK Tour
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
MARTIN CREED - Thinking / Not Thinking
MARTIN CREED
THINKING / NOT THINKING
(Telephone Records)
Watch/Share/Embed the video HERE
Digital Single & Video - Jan 24th / Special Edition Double Disc set – Feb 28th
Live: March 2nd – CAFÉ OTO, London E8 (Tickets £10 adv www.ticketweb.co.uk)
‘like something between Steve Reich and The Ramones’ - The Guardian
THINKING / NOT THINKING is a new single by the Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed.
Written by Creed and performed by Creed and his band, it is accompanied by a video written and directed by the artist.
Each of Creed’s artworks are numbered, his most famous being Work #227, The Lights Going On And Off. In line with his other artworks, the video for THINKING / NOT THINKING is Work #1090
Creed’s music featured recently in a ballet he both wrote and choreographed which ran at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe where it was awarded the Herald Angel Prize.
Creed’s other musical works include pieces for orchestra (Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 2008) and string quartet, for bells (commissioned to be part of the Olympics 2012), as well as the hugely popular singing lift that is now permanently installed at the Royal Festival Hall.
THINKING / NOT THINKING will be released both digitally (January 24th) and as a special edition double disc set, which includes a CD, DVD and signed photographic artwork (available February 28th from www.martincreed.com)
The release of the single coincides with Creed’s forthcoming show, Mothers, at the new Hauser & Wirth space in Savile Row, London (opens 21st January 2011)
Recent gigs include Latitude, the ICA, Palais de Tokyo, Belfast Festival and Art Basel Miami Beach. Martin Creed will play CAFÉ OTO on March 2nd to mark the release of THINKING / NOT THINKING. There will be a special showing of Creed's ‘Sick Film’ beforehand.
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