As soon as I record and publish this I will be heading out to watch England’s inevitable hard-luck story as we go out of the Euros to Italy in the quarter finals, as seems to be traditional with England. And then I get on a ferry to the Governor’s Ball, which is a music festival on Randall’s Island, which looks like it will be rather fun.

Mrs. Toad might actually be able to get a three-month secondment out here, which might be fun.  We’d have to find some way of making sure the cats were fed in our absence, and that the house was looked after in general, but given I can basically work from a laptop pretty much anywhere, it seems like it would be a really rather fun thing to do, don’t you reckon? The Song, by Toad Records New York office!

Direct download: Toadcast #231 – The Applecast

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01. Milk Maid – Stir So Slow (Toad Session) (00.16)
02. New Fabian Society – Necropolis (06.02)
03. Jesus H. Foxx – Permanent Defeat (13.56)
04. Yola Fatoush – Celine (20.25)
05. Min Diesel – A Bitter Pop Song (23.29)
06. Rick Redbeard – Now We’re Dancing (31.49)
07. I Am Oak – Palpable (40.15)
08. Meursault – Lament For a Teenage Millionaire (43.25)
09. Eels on Heels – Kaleidoscope (51.09)
10. Barna Howard – Timber, Nails and Tears (56.46)

Other music from:
The See See
Ambulances
Secretaire
Patterns
Driver Drive Faster
Dolfinz
Wave Machines
The Bordellos
OLO Worms
Dad Rocks!
Giant Burger
Yola Fatoush

Contained herein: music I’ve wanted to play for months; music which will probably appeal to fans of Women; music that could have you staring through things; music recommended by Gold Panda; and music by a well-established band under a different name. I’m not allowed to say who it is. 

With regard to the bits in between the songs, I seem inordinately excitable in places. Sorry about that. There’s a chance you’ll actually be able to discern which of the links were recorded directly after a giddy slug of coffee.

To be clear, this podcast isn’t coming to an end; it’s just the name that’s changing.  As explained on last week’s pod New Noise will soon become All Back No Front. Hopefully before the end of July. 

I also have Slowcoaches, Drop Out Venus and Snapped Ankles playing at the Waiting Room in Stoke Newington on Wednesday 4th July. I may have mentioned it. I’d really like you to come. Tickets are £4, on sale here.



New Noise: 21st June 2012


1. Ty Segall Band ‘The Tongue’ (In The Red) from album ‘Slaughterhouse’ out 26th June

2. Faux Fur ‘Tied’(-) streaming at Bandcamp

3. Teleman ‘Cristina’(-) streaming at Teleman.tumblr.com

4. Christian Löffler ‘Eleven ft Mohna’ (Ki/Kompakt) from album ‘A Forest’ out now

5. Death to Dreaming ‘Monster Mask’  (-) download via Bandcamp

6. Joey BADA$$ ‘Daily Routine (prod. Chuck Strangers) (-) from ‘1999’ mixtape out now

7. Quaker Parents ‘Hung Up’ (-) from split poster release with Jon McKiel [streaming now at Soundcloud]

8. Crushed Beaks ‘Grim’ (Paint It Black) single out now

9. Seams ‘Punch’(Full Time Hobby)single out6th August

10. North American War ‘Geraniums on a Spit’ (-) single out now [via Bandcamp]

Or, I suppose, too hungover.

Because there was a window – one, tiny, podcast-recording-shaped window of time – where I could actually have got the damn thing done, in the middle of the afternoon in Iceland, before the England game I suppose I might have been able to squeeze it in but you know what?  Yes, I bottled it.  I bottled it because I was hungover. I know.  I feel the shame.

So there you go, whinging out of the way, let’s get on with this week’s music choices.

Direct download: Toadcast #230 – The Roadcast

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01. Adam Stafford – Vanishing Tanks (00.07)
02. Kate Nash – Underestimate the Girl (10.37)
03. Glass Animals – Cocoa Hooves (18.11)
04. Eagulls – Coffin (22.25)
05. David Byrne & St. Vincent – Who (27.35)
06. Loch Awe – The Diamond King & Six Holy Mirrors (34.44)
07. Keel Her – Prize Catch (41.19)
08. Mission of Burma – Second Television (44.49)
09. Hut – Smiley (Demo) (48.36)
10. Fantasy Rainbow – Sun is a Drug (53.19)
11. Brer – Sea of Doubt (60.02)

The first involves news of a gig I’ve organized.

The second explains why ‘New Noise’ is no more.

You are required to get your subs up for a good three quarters of the music included.  Low-end rumbles seem to dominate, albeit in a variety of different forms including the liquid lovestep of Deft, the Black Noise of Erol Alkan and Richard Norris’ Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve, plus a summery bouncer by way of Bodhi’s euphoric ShadowBox refix. 

There’s further groove-driven reverberation from a brand new EP by underground London collective Old Apparatus, much hyped yet hypnotic hip hop from Kitty Pryde underpinned by a total beaut of a hazy beat from up ‘n’ coming producer SELA, and Can-esque psychodrama from a brilliant new Vision Fortune EP. It’s all rounded off rather violently with some punishing yet unmissable organic techno from London’s California Jr.

New Noise: 14th June 2012

1. Deft ‘Thought You’d Fancy It’ (WotNot Music) from ‘Clotting’ EP out now

2. Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve ‘Black Noise’ (3rd Mynd) aa-side single out now

3. Slowcoaches ‘54’ (Tye Dye Tapes) from ‘We’re So Heavy’ cassette EP out now

4. Snapped Ankles ‘True Ecology (Shit Everywhere)’ (Ears Have Eyes) from ‘True Ecology’ 10” single out July

5. Drop Out Venus ‘Morning Star’ (Soundcloud) [download via Bandcamp]

6. ShadowBox ‘AM (Bodhi Remix)’ (Pictures Music) [download via XLR8R]

7. Old Apparatus ‘Dealow’ (Sullen Tone) from ‘Derren’ EP out 16th July

8. Vision Fortune ‘Drag’ (Italian Beach Babes) from ‘Night Jukes’ cassette EP out now

9. Kitty Pryde ‘Ay Shawty: The Shreckoning (ft Dankte) (prod. by SELA) (-) from ‘HaHa, I’m Sorry’ EP [via Bandcamp]

10. California Jr ‘Oh, Sharky Shark’ (-) out now [stream via Soundcloud] 

Mind you, given that their hands are permanently in the fucking public purse anyway, the idea of ‘their money’ and ‘our money’ is a little blurred.  Burn the fucking lot of them I say.  Burn them alive and do it in public.

Why?  Because having done away with inherited rule, we now have another stratum of unelected persons running countries, in the form of the pornographically super-rich.  Burning the Royal Family alive might just serve as a warning to the bankers that we like the people who run the country to actually be fucking accountable, thank you very much.

Direct download: Toadcast #229 – The Republicast

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01. Chumbawamba – Farewell to the Crown (00.)
02. Playlounge – Conor, Oh Burst! (07.41)
03. Joanna Gruesome – Tugboat (Galaxie 500 cover) (Toad Session) (09.25)
04. Piano Magic – The Slightest of Threads (16.43)
05. The Thlyds – I Fucked the Queen (22.12)
06. Silver Jews – Secret Knowledge of Back Roads (25.05)
07. Easter – Begin Again (30.54)
08. Onions – Louise Louise (36.52)
09. North American War – Geraniums on a Spit (42.16)
10. The Grand Gestures – There’s No Place Like Home (47.22)
11. Sonny & the Sunsets – I See the Void (53.09)
12. Sex Pistols – God Save the Queen (58.10)

Alongside ten hot gobbets of new music this podcast contains hasty evaluations, me talking directly to a piece of plastic in the name of art and the odd hum 'n' buzz of electronic equipment overheating.

I’m off to see Julia Holter.


New Noise: 1st June 2012

1. Cold Warps ‘Hang Up on You’ (Noyes) from ‘Cold Warps’ EP out now [via Bandcamp]

2. Playlounge ‘Conor, Oh Burst?’ (Art Is Hard) from ‘Family Portrait’ EP out 18th June

3. Boddika & Joy Orbison ‘Dun Dun’ (SunkLo) single out now 

4. ALAN WATTS ‘Africa Bats’ (Blackburn Recordings) from ‘….Is The Fantasy Band’ EP out now

5. Slime ‘Anni’ (GETME!) from ‘Increases II’ EP out 25th June

6. Swimming Lessons ‘Hall’ (-)

7. Ela Orleans ‘In Spring’ (ClanDestine) from ‘High Moon Low Sun’ tape out June

8. Daniel Avery ‘Movement (Andrew Weatherall mix)’ (Throne of Blood) from ‘Movement’ EP out now

9. Chad VanGaalen ‘I Want You Back’ (Altin Village) from split ‘Green Corridor II’ EP w/Xiu Xiu out now

10. Among Brothers ‘Keep’ (Kissability) single out 9th July 
 

In addition to Phil Collins, we have some Phil Spector, Phil Ochs, Phil & the Osophers and, somewhat more tenuously, Esther Phillips.  Also, for some utterly inexplicable reason, the Spider Man theme song came up when I searched my iTunes library for ‘Phil’.  Any ideas?  Was it written by Phil Phillips from Philadelphia?

Also, we have the first ‘Fucking Preposterous Song of the Week’, in the form of Phil Collins’ Easy Lover.  For reasons of being a fuckwit, mostly, I suppose, I’d quite like to make this a regular feature.  Next week Turn Around Bright Eyes by Bonnie Tyler or Hello by Lionel Richie – whaddaya reckon!

Direct download: Toadcast #228 – The Philcast

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01. Billy Bragg – I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (01.20)
02. Phil Ochs – Jim Dean of Indiana (08.20)
03. Pet – Black Arts (15.49)
04. Money – So Long (God is Dead) (20.10)
05. Phil Collins – Easy Lover (27.05)
06. James Yorkston – Catch (33.26)
07. Esther Phillips – Home is Where the Hatred Is (37.46)
08. Crystals – Then He Kissed Me (41.10)
09. The National – The Rains of Castamere (47.07)
10. Stagnant Pools – Dead Sailor (49.40)
11. Phil & the Osophers – Uses of a Man (56.01)

What better way to enjoy it than listening to the sunshine psyche of artist of the month, The See See? They have a new album out called Fountayne Mountain and they are playing Manchester on June 9th. Tickets are available here, and, if you don’t come, I will literally smash your face in.

Other music from:
Onions
Chips For The Poor
The Wellgreen
Easter
Y Pencadlys
Tim Calleja (The Weary Band)
Magic Arm (Jonnie Common remix)
State Broadcasters
Jesus H. Foxx
Drunk Mule
Pulco
The Magnetic North

The haunted rave of Bass Clef’s ‘Stenaline Metranil Solar Flare’ is one of ten songs on this new podcast.  Alongside it: the rambunctious return of Chips for the Poor, something from the deliriously good new Laurel Halo album, the second release on Sonic Router records – a rattling, bouncing bomb by Watville - and brand new songs by Girls Names, PET, Meursault and the much talked-about Savages.

It all begins with a piece ofunspeakably beautifulambient magic from Port St. Willow.



New Noise: 25th May 2012

1. Port St Willow ‘On Your Side’ (-) from album ‘Holiday’ out now [via Bandcamp]

2. Chips for the Poor ‘Fistula’ (Parlour/Invisible Spies) single out now

3. Wattville ‘We Jostle’ (Sonic Router) single out 2nd July

4. Girls Names ‘A Troubled See’ (Tough Love) split single (w/Weird Dreams) out 25th June

5. Drop Out Venus ‘Love In Vein’ (-) free download via Bandcamp

6. Laurel Halo ‘Thaw’ (Hyperdub) from album ‘Quarantine’ out 28th May  

7. Bass Clef ‘Stenaline Metranil Solar Flare’ (Punch Drunk) from album ‘Reeling Skullways’ out now

8. PET ‘Together Apart’ (-) single out 2nd July [stream via Bandcamp]

9. Meursault ‘Flittin’ (piano version)’ (Song, By Toad) b-side of single out 2nd July

10. Savages ‘Husbands’ (Pop Noire) download single out 28th May, 7” forthcoming

Given we played Born Gold, Odonis Odonis, Slow Down Molasses and Hot Panda on last week’s show, however, I figured that was probably enough new Canadian bands for the time being, although the excellent Hooded Fang did sneak on this one at the beginning.

But mostly, apart from the more usual new stuff I tend to play, I’ve included a handful of nostalgic songs by Canadian bands, most of which I haven’t listened to in quite a long time.  And I must say it was sort of nice to look this stuff up again, after so long.

Direct download: Toadcast #227 – The Maplecast

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01. Hooded Fang – E.S.P. (00.44)
02. The Tragically Hip – Ahead By a Century (09.26)
03. UMA – Drop Your Soul (feat. Silver Apples) (16.20)
04. White Heath – In a Glasshouse (19.36)
05. 54-40 – Casual Viewin’ (33.11)
06. Bruce Springsteen – Circus Song (Live on WBCN 9th Jan 1973) (41.07)
07. Giant Giant Sand – Detained (47.35)
08. Alan Watts – Africa Bats (51.37)
09. Barenaked Ladies – Wrap Your Arms Around Me (1.00.59)
10. Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Kiss and Say Goodbye (1.08.12)
11. Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Heart Like a Wheel (1.11.00)

Scotland is actually rather isolated when it comes to music.  Hence, I suppose, the importance of the local Scottish music community to bands and labels based up here. Nevertheless, it is really important to connect with the rest of the UK.

A lot of our most appreciated supporters are people I know only from Twitter and the other end of an email, be they fans, label customers, writers and broadcasters who have supported us or labels who have inspired us.  So, in the interests of cementing these relationships, meeting new people and drinking an absolute fucking shitload of beer, off to Brighton we went…

Direct download: Toadcast #226 – The Rainbowcast

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01. Hot Panda – Fuck Shit Up (00.24)
02. Slow Down, Molasses – Light (07.44)
03. Born Gold – Lawn Knives (16.19)
04. Odonis Odonis – Tick Tock (23.07)
05. PAWS – Bainz (26.17)
06. The Black Tambourines – Let You Down (Toad Session Sneak Preview) (34.15)
07. Fear of Men – Doldrums (44.06)
08. PINS – Eleventh Hour (47.13)
09. Perfume Genius – Lookout, Lookout (55.02)
10. Fanzine – L.A. (62.51)

So what I'm saying is, I'm short on time and can't scribble a natty blurb selling the music on this podcast.

Expect a man with a mower, an apology, and 10 quite brilliant pieces of music. But then I suppose I would say that.

New Noise: 11th May 2012

1. Bruce Peninsula 'Of Songs' (-) out now via Bandcamp

2. Snapped Ankles 'I Want My Minutes Back' (-)

3. Girl Unit 'Double Take'  (Night Slugs) from 'Club Rez' EP out now

4. Boneyards 'Passed Out' (-) Batman video here 

5. Björk 'Virus (Hudson Mohawke Peaches and Guacamol Rework)' (One Little Indian) out May 14th 

6. Onions 'An IE or a Y' (-) from album 'Pleasure Blast' out 17th May

7. dÉbruit 'ATA' (Civil Music) from album 'From The Horizon' out 4th June 

8. Joanna Gruesome 'Sweater' (Art Is Hard) from 'Family Portrait' split 7" out 18th June

9. Sunless '97 'Body Weather' (Not Even) single out 18th June

10. Bass Drum of Death 'White Fright' (-) 7" tour single

Well, Wednesday now.

And of course I am off to The Great Escape in the morning.  Actually, it already is the morning.  Oh all right then, by the time this is uploaded and ready to go and I can actually get some sleep, I think I might be due to get out of bed in two hours time.  Cock and balls.  I thought the night time was supposed to be a little more glamorous than this.

Direct download: Toadcast #225 – The Nightcast

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01. The Pictish Trail – Of Course You Exist (FOUND Remix) (00.26)
02. Plastic Animals – Ghosts (07.56)
03. Playlounge – Boner Hit (Keel Her cover) (15.24)
04. Yoofs – Love at 140 (18.17)
05. Dead Rat Orchestra – The Geshin & the Guga (23.15)
06. The See See – Fix Me Up (30.24)
07. Meursault – Flittin’ (36.26)
08. Woody Guthrie – So Long, it’s Been Good to Know You (40.37)
09. PAWS – Misled Youth (46.20)
10. Blank Canvas – Golden (53.53)
11. The Eighteenth Day of May – Cold Early Morning (59.04)

I’ve been considering doing an artist of the week thing, like Ted from Cloud Sounds where he plays two tracks from an artist one week (well, one month now that the show’s monthly) and then one from the same artist the next week as well, so there is a degree of reinforcement

Knowing me, I doubt I’ll ever get round to it, honestly, but you know, it seems like a good idea.  Or something vaguely like it seems like a good idea, because it would be a shame if all this music just vanished into the ether.  So this week we have a lot of repetition of bands already played on the podcasts, just to make sure you’re paying attention properly.  Like you should be.

Direct download: Toadcast #224 – The Repeatcast

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01. Easter – Damp Patch (00.21)
02. The Spyrals – Long Road Out (06.40)
03. Mac DeMarco – She’s Really All I Need (11.40)
04. Apostille – Journal (17.42)
05. Apostle of Hustle – National Anthem of Nowhere (28.26)
06. The Babies – My Name (35.46)
07. Islet – A Warrior Who Longs to Grow Herbs (41.17)
08. Niilo Smeds – Summer Air (45.26)
09. Kalle Mattson – Miles (51.35)
10. Slowcoaches – We’re So Heavy (58.19)

Other music from:
The Junipers
Cate Le Bon
Pins
Songs For Walter
Cheapskate
Eat Lights, Become Lights
Ambulances
The Leg
The Son(s)
Johnny 5th Wheel and the Cowards
The Bordellos
Morris Major

So, having worked all through the working week, and then having spent all of Saturday working at Record Store Day stuff, I got to Sunday and was honestly just not up for doing anything at all, sorry. I was pooped.  Bushed.  Knackered. Tuckered. Done for.  So I did fuck all, and I actually felt guilty about this for a while, and then realised that actually, every cunt gets a fucking weekend, so stop feeling sorry for yourself, embrace a day of doing bugger all, and just do the podcast as soon as you can reasonably manage.  So there you go.

Next week I might do a bit of a podcast on my Record Store Day purchases (and there were many) but not this week, because I haven’t had the chance to sit down and listen to them yet.  Maybe Thursday that might happen.  And/or Wednesday.  And then I will waffle on about them on the internet next week, for which I am sure you will all be truly grateful.

Direct download: Toadcast #223 – The Justcast

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01. The Leg – Witch on the Speaker (00.15)
02. Algiers – Blood (05.33)
03. The Walkmen – Heaven (14.17)
04. Milk Maid – Do Right (18.49)
05. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Powers and the Glory of Love (23.44)
06. Daily Life – Alabaster (29.26)
07. Possimiste – Clockworkbird (33.17)
08. Liars – No.1 Against the Rush (40.16)
09. Richard Hawley – Leave Your Body Behind You (46.13)
10. The Babies – My Name (57.33)


Musically - along with a few of Spencer's favourites - there's a chance to hear some of the most sought after releases of this year's event: namely a split 7" which, on either side, features Mastodon covering Feist and vice versa; a piece of punk rock history from The Dead Boys; the first new PIL song for over 20 years; new Beach House and an unreleased Top of the Pops recording of David Bowie's 'Starman'. 



In the interview Spencer and I discuss the plans, logistics and limited releases of RSD '12, and the possibility that the event may have even become too big and commercial for its own good.  We also cover the current state of independent record shopping and vinyl sales in the UK, especially in light of the decline of HMV, and I finally get the chance to ask why it is that Rough Trade is so blimmin' expensive. 





New Noise: Record Store Day 2012 Special



(intro) Moodymann/Kenny Dixon Jnr spoken excerpt from RBMA Lecture, London 2010


1. Dead Boys 'Sonic Reducer' (Sire) ltd 7" RSD release

2. Beach House 'Lazuli' (Bella Union) ltd Blue / Opaque 7" RSD release

3. Arctic Monkeys 'R U Mine?' (Domino) ltd 7" RSD release


4. The Psychedelic Furs 'Dumb Waiters' (CBS, 1981) from album 'Talk Talk Talk'


5. The The 'I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life)' (Some Bizarre/Epic, 1983) from album 'Soul Mining'

6. Feist 'Black Tongue' (Warner) from ltd split 7" w/Mastodon RSD release


7. Mastodon 'A Commotion' (Warner) from ltd split 7" w/Feist RSD release


8. Public Image Ltd 'One Drop' (Cargo) from ltd 12" 'One Drop' EP RSD release

9. Grimes 'Circumambient' (4AD/Arbutus) from album 'Visions'

10. David Bowie 'Starman (Top Of The Pops version, 6/7/72)' (EMI) ltd 7" picture disc RSD release

I get the impression that with golf, the costumes became so ludicrous that really the only way to look cool, instead of dressing like a normal person, was to try and look like an even bigger fuckwit than the rest of them.  Which, given the exceptionally high bar that has already been set, takes some doing.

Anyhow, there is no danger of me ever taking up golf.  None at all.  I already find playing pool frustrating enough, and it strikes me as really quite similar in the following crucial way: you play what turns out to be a perfect shot, then the next time you do what feels like the exact same fucking thing, and yet somehow the shot you produce is dreadful.  With no clue what you’ve done differently.  It would drive me round the fucking bend.  Anyhow… erm, oh yes, the podcast:

Direct download: Toadcast #222 – The Golfcast

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01. Broncho – Try Me Out Sometime (00.09)
02. Silence at Sea – Gladiators on Repeat (05:13)
03. Fat Bicth – The Seagull (12.49)
04. Slowcoaches – 54 (15.57)
05. Mac DeMarco – Baby’s Wearing Blue Jeans (20.54)
06. Islet – This Fortune (27.15)
07. Werk – Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy (33.54)
08. Ziggy Bolus & the Thomas Fergusson Band – Me, Myself and Isopod (37.10)
09. The Spyrals – Calling Out Your Name (42.39)
10. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler (46.27)
11. R.M. Hubbert - Sandwalks (with Stevie Jones & Paul Savage) (55.54)

New Noise: 12th April 2012 // SIDE B



1. Taragana Pyjarama 'Growing Forehead (ft Kicki Halmos)' (Kompakt) from album 'Tipped Bowls' out 18th June [via Soundcloud]

2. Here We Go Magic 'How Do I Know' (Secretly Canadian) from album 'A Different Ship' out 8th May

3. Playlounge 'Dye' (via Souncloud)


4. Quakers / Kutmah 'You’re Gonna Be Sorry (edit)' (Stones Throw) from album 'Quakers' out now [via Soundcloud]

5. Mean Wind 'Down For The Count' (free via Bandcamp)

6. Splashh 'Something's Here' (Soundcloud) [via Basement Fever]

7. Deptford Goth 'People Get Still' (demo) [d/l via Soundcloud]

8. Moodymann 'Basement Party' (Scion A/V) from album 'Picture This' out now [free d/l via Scion A/V]

9. Dive 'How Long Have You Known' (Captured Tracks) from album 'Oshin' out 26th June [d/l via Soundcloud]

10. Julia Holter 'Goddess Eyes II' (RVNG INTL) from album 'Ekstasis' out now

Cate Le Bon triumphs in the scuffle for the coveted* artist of the month slot. Her new album Cyrk is out on April 30th on Turnstile Music.

Other music from:
Cousins
Y Niwl
Richard James
The Gentle Good
Morffe
The Wobbly Hearts
Secretaire
Islet
Georgia Ruth

Don’t forget, Y Niwl play The Kings Arms, Salford, THIS MONDAY!

*It’s not.


(Intro) Ryan from British Columbia '…And The Cheese Fell Down (acapella)' [via PJ Dirty Water/Soundcloud]


1. Future of the Left 'Sheena Is A T-Shirt Salesman' (Xtra Mile Recordings) single out now


2. Cornershop 'Milkin It (ft. Light of Aquarius)' (Ample Play) single out 9th April, from album 'Urban Turban' out 14th May

3. Tall Ships 'T=0' (Big Scary Monsters) single out 16th April


4. Monster Rally & Rumtum 'Tribes' (Waaga/Lefse) from album ‘MR&RT’ out now [via Portals/XLR8R]

5. Slowcoaches 'We're So Heavy' (Tye Die Tapes) from 'Slowcoaches' EP out 23rd March [via Lost Lost Lost]

6. Death Grips 'Lost Boys' (Epic) free download out now, from album 'The Money Store' out 24th April 


7. Traams 'Klaus' (via Soundcloud) from 'Traams' EP out now [via Bandcamp]


8. Peter Broderick 'Colin' (Bella Union) from album 'http://www.itstartshear.com/' out now 

9. Little Black Ant 'Forever' (streaming via Soundcloud)


10. KEEL HER & R. Stevie Moore 'I Wanna Be Your Lover' (via Soundcloud) from 'Wedding Album (#2)' out now [via Bandcamp]

Luckily we got the music to back up our vocal warmth with dynamite from Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and DJ Format, some new Death Grips, from two of our favourite UK labels we have Sonic Cathedral's Dead Mellotron and Best Friends from Art Is Hard records. We also pay a small tribute to Chris Reimer from Women and pad the rest with further delights.

Before you run, this doesn’t mean an hour of finger-tap widdle hell from Vai, or a series of thumb funk numbers courtesy of Caron. 

This New Noise goes out to Che, Getz, Dilla, Stanier, Reinhardt, Stetson, Coxon, Shepherd, Burton, Boon and, especially, Reimer:  heroes who found the soul in skill.  

New Noise: 2nd March 2012

1. Felt Letters '600,000 Bands' (M'lady's Records) single out now

2. Hundred Waters 'Visitor' (Elestial Sound) from album 'Hundred Waters' out now [via I Guess I'm Floating]

3. NHK'Koyxen '587' (PAN) from album 'Dance Classics Volume 1' [via 20JFG]

4. Pinkunoizu 'The Abyss' (Full Time Hobby) from album 'Free Time!' out 26th March

5. The Wave Pictures 'Stay Here and Take Care of the Chickens' (Moshi Moshi) from album 'Long Black Cars' out 2nd April

6. Water Liars 'Cold Hearted Woman Blues' (Misra Records)

7. King Khan And The Shrines 'Bite My Tongue' (Bruise Cruise) from split single w/Mikal Cronin out now

8. THEEsatisfaction 'Enchantruss ft. Palaceer Lazaro' (Sub Pop) from album 'awE naturalE' out 9th April

9. Bernice 'New Bodies' (via Bandcamp) from album 'What Was That' out now [song via free compilation 'Oh! Canada 20' at The Line of Best Fit]

10. Eric Chenaux 'Dull Lights (White or Grey)' (Constellation) from album 'Guitar & Voice' out 26th March

11. Dead Mellotron 'Stranger' (Sonic Cathedral) from album 'Glitter' out 7th May [download 'Stranger' via Soundcloud)

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*of the musical variety, obviously.

Also this month, I present the show half asleep, talk for an awfully long time about pyjamas and make a plea for medical assistance. PLUS WE HAVE REWIND! I WONDER WHICH BAND WILL GET ?!

There may also be a rogue cough / throat clear in there somewhere. Apologies in advance.

Other music from:
Tennis
Y Niwl
The See See
Randolph’s Leap
Aloha Tigers
Free Swim
Coves and Caves
Chips For The Poor
Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog
Sex Hands



1. PET 'Bench Connection' (self released) b-side of 'Wear Black' single out 20th Feb, viapetpetmusic.com



2. The Pharmacy 'Dig Your Grave' (Kind Turkey) 7" single EP now

3. John Talabot 'Destiny ft Pional' (Permanent Vacation) from album 'fin' out now



4. California X 'Sucker' (Sounds of Sweet Nothing) single out March 12th [stream aa-side at Bandcamp]



5. Torus 'Cavemonsters Are Kind' (Sonic Router) from 'Torus' EP out March



6. Tu Fawning 'Bones' (City Slang) from album 'A Monument' out 7th May [download track free via tufawning.com]



7. Abdoulaye Cissé 'KoDJougou' (Analog Africa) from compilation 'Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979'



8. Seun Kuti & Africa 80 'The Good Leaf (Spoek Mathambo Remix)' (via The Fader)



9. Bobby Champs 'Lucid' (Pictures Music) from 'Moonlight' EP out 20th Feb



10. All The Saints 'Half Red, Half Way' (Souterrain Transmissions) single out 12th March



11. Dream Continuum 'Giv A Lil Luv' (Planet Mu) from 'Reworkz' EP out 26th March



12.  Weird Dreams '666.66' (Tough Love) from album 'Choreography' out 2nd April [download track free at Tough Love]



13. Lower Dens 'Brains' (Ribbon Music) from album 'Nootropics' out 30th April [download track from lowerdens.com]

Working links and full archive at http://newnoise.tumblr.com 

Rob Morgan and Callum celebrate 2 years of the podcast, in the only way they know how; unprofessionalism, ramblings and opinions, with some music that we like dotted inbetween the cracks.
There’s something new from Wes Doyle and his new rock-duo Treefort, a bite from Field Music’s Plum, FIDLAR with a song every bit as good as their acryonym name, TheeSatisfaction provide spoken-word and beats, Lee Fields provides the loving, Here We Go have something motorik frenetic and we’re starting with steel drum funk.

Monthly shows are go. Tennis are the first artist of the week of 2012. The band, not the game. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The only tracks I could play for you from them were the three free downloads that I nabbed from their Tumblr.

I’ll be honest, it felt good to be back. Even if I do sound as morose as usual.

Other music from:
Texas Radio Band
Telefair
Sen Segur
Internet Forever
Rose Elinor Dougall
King Post Kitsch
Pulco
Coney Island Sounds
Jewellers
Air Cav
Dan Amor

See you next month…

Honestly.





New Noise: 24th January 2012



(intro). William Cody Watson 'Hand on My Knee' (Bathetic Records) from free 'Expressway' compilation 

1. Constant Mongrel 'Reflex' (80/81 / RIP Society) from album 'Everything Goes Wrong' due April  


2. Sinkane 'Jeeper Creeper' (-) from forthcoming album 'Mars' 

3. Altarboy 'Crap ft LL Caspi' (Wonder Wet) 12" single out now  [via Keytars & Violins]

4. Hospitality 'Eighth Avenue' (Merge) from album 'Hospitality' out 31st January [download track from Fluxblog]

5. Tonstartssbandht 'Dad Beating Up Dudes Downtown (Orlando, 1992)' (Bathetic Records) from free 'Expressway' compilation [download here]

6. Amateur Best 'Be Happy' (Double Denim) aa-side single out now

7. ScHoolBoy Q 'There He Go' (Top Dawg) from album 'Habits & Contradictions' out now 


8. Coolrunnings 'Spirit of the High' (LebensStrasse Records) from album out 13th Feb

9. Cross Record 'In A Volcano' (Bandcamp) from album 'Ring Bell' out now [via Bandcamp]

10. Way Yes 'Important' (Lefse) from 'Walkability' EP out 27th March [download track via Stereogum]
 


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*Update. I haz poster. Massive thanks to my favourite man.

Anyway, the top 30 tracks I’ve played all year. I hope you enjoy it. Sorry if your band missed out. And sorry if you’re already sick of end of year lists…

Merry Christmas.

Obviously, then, you'll find included a few of the many, many things I'm excited to see at Butlins over the weekend (namely Hot Snakes, Caribou, Roll The Dice and Thank You), along with other new stuff, such as the glorious return of AU, a short sharp/daft shock from new Sub Pop project Full Toilet, disturbingly special audio chocolate from Zack Christ, Hookworms (swiped from an excellent new free Gringo Records sampler), and the very welcome arrival of fresh Royalty.

There's also something brand new from New Noise favourites Breathe Out – a new aa-side made in aid of Shelter. Spend spare pence in the name of charity if you can. 

New Noise: 9th December 2011
 

1. AU 'Solid Gold' (Leaf) single out 9th Jan, from album 'Both Lights' out in March 

2. Hot Snakes 'Automatic Midnight (John Peel session version, tx November 18, 2004)' from 'Peel Sessions' 7" (2005) 

3. Zack Christ 'Steadybeat Holidays (Old Beat)' [via Soundcloud] 

4. Thank You '1-2-3 Bad' (Thrill Jockey) from album 'Golden Worry' out now

5. Royalty 'Cookie Dough' (Five Easy Pieces) from 'Purple Nights' EP out now

6. Hookworms 'Teen Dreams'  (Gringo Records/Faux Discx) from ltd. 'Hookworms' 12" EP out now, also from free Gringo Records sampler

7. Breathe Out 'White Chalk Cross' (via Bandcamp) part of aa-side download single out now, all proceeds to Shelter  

8. Junior Boys 'You'll' Improve Me (Caribou Remix)' (Domino) from 12" single out now

9. Full Toilet 'Keys, Wallet, Phone, Gun' (Sub Pop) from album 'Full Toilet' out now

10. Roll The Dice 'See You Monday' (Leaf) from album 'In Dust' out now

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With that in mind - and hopefully without sounding like I am trying to flog you a can of Lynx Africa – here are ten new songs cobbled together in an attempt to help you try and maintain at least a modicum of freshness.   

New Noise: 3rd December 2011

1. Zammuto 'FUC-3PO' (Make Mine) from EP out 26th December

2. Silver Dapple 'M'sorry' (Bandcamp) from album 'English Girlfriend' out now [via Said The Gramophone]

3. J£ZUS MILLION 'Benefits' (Soundcloud) [via Lost Lost Lost]

4. Young Man 'Low' (Frenchkiss) from album 'Ideas of Distance' out now

5. Halls ‘Lifeblood’ (The Sounds of Sweet Nothing) from 'Fragile' EP out 16th January

6. In One Wind 'Up or Down (Greg Saunier remix)' (Primary Records) from 'How Bright A Remix!' album out January [stream track at Bandcamp]

7. Slime 'Draw In' (Tough Love) video here

8. Ingvild Østgård 'Brave & Crazy Days' (Brilliance) from 'Urban Sound Live Sessions # 1' EP out now [via Yvynyl]

9. Powell 'The Ongoing Significance of Steel & Flesh' (Diagonal) from 'The Ongoing Significance of Steel & Flesh' 12" out now [via Fluokids]

10. Jane Jane Pollock 'Punching Jackie' (Bandcamp) from album 'Jane Jane Pollock' out now

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Having spent half a week in bed, head lifted from the gushing musical stream, to me now this stuff sounds even more fresh and exciting than it did pre gland-swell.



The footwork jungle herein should be singled out for special services to recuperation.  



Tell me when and where you listen: I honestly find your context fascinating.



Ilikenewnoise@gmail.com / http://twitter.com/jonhillcock 





New Noise: 25th November 2011


(intro). Barry Stoller ‘Condition Red’ (Soul Jazz) ltd. 7” single out now, from forthcoming ‘Film & TV Collector’s Club’ compilation out 2012


1. Leila ‘(disappointed cloud) anyway (ft Mt. Sims)’ (Warp) from album ‘U&I’ out 23rd Jan


2. Le Pécheur ‘Torture’ (Azbin) from album ‘Medieval Dreams’ out 12th Dec [via Basement Fever]


3. Roof Light ‘Lots Of Things All At Once, And In No Particular Order’ (Soundcloud)


4. Video ‘Prison’ (Play Pinball!) from album ‘Leather Leather’ out now [via Raven Sings The Blues]


5. White Denim ‘Handwriting’ (Downtown Music) from ‘Takes Place in Your Work Space’ EP out now 


6. Philip D Kick/Remarc ‘R.I.P (Footwork Edit)’ (white label) from ‘Footwork Jungle Volume 3’ EP [more information at Rhythm Incursions]


7. Dive ‘Human’ (Captured Tracks) single out 29th November

8. Rob St John ‘Sargasso Sea’ (Song, by Toad) from album ‘Weald’ out now 

9. Bry Webb ‘Rivers of Gold’ (Idée Fixe) from album ‘Provider’ out now 


10. Ela Orleans ‘In The Night’ (Beko) free download via Beko

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That is except for two of the most exhilarating musical moments of the year so far, both of which surfaced online within the last few days – brand new songs by Factory Floor and Hans Peter Lindstrøm. 

As ever, notes, comments and suggestions are gladly received, via @jonhillcock on Twitter or email - ilikenewnoise@gmail.com.  

New Noise: 11th November 2011

(intro.) Ursula Bognor ‘Sonne = Blackbox’ (Faitiche) from album ‘Sonne = Blackbox: Voice And Tape Music By Ursula Bogner’  [via Keytars & Violins] [Momus article] 

1. Factory Floor ‘Two Different Ways’ (DFA) single out 14th November 

2. Childhood ‘Just Floating’ (demo)

3. Blue on Blue ‘We Never Sleep’ (Tip Top) single out now 

4. Tycho ‘Hours’ (Ghostly International) from album ‘Dive’ out 14th November 

5. GRMLN ‘Relax Yourself (Dolphin Cry)’  [via Music Fans Mic] 

6. iTAL tEK ‘Pixel Haze’ (Planet Mu) from ‘Gonga’ EP out 5th December 

7. Younghusband ‘Constantly in Love’ (Sonic Cathedral) from ‘Crystal’ EP out 5th December 

8. Samoyed ‘Malamute’ (Astro:Dynamics) from ‘Spit’ EP out now 

9. FAMY ‘Dogg Dogg’ (FiFi) single out 12th December 

10. Lindstrøm ‘De Javu’ (Smalltown Supersound) from album ‘Six Cups of Rebel’ out Feb

11. Adam & The Amethysts 'Dreaming' (Kelp) from album ‘Flickering Flashlight’ out now [via Said The Gramophone] 

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Anyway, Texas Radio Band are artist of the week. Their new album is called Bluescreen, is out now on I Ka Ching Records, and is seriously, seriously good.

Also, this month (not week), I announce two major gigs in December. Click here and here for info and tickets. Please come to them as I really want the money to buy new trackie bottoms, maroon trainers, a jumper and Skyward Sword.

Other music from:
Ivan Campo
Euros Childs
Jane Weaver
Y Niwl
The Bell Peppers
Lil Daggers
H.Hawkline
Cate Le Bon
Baaneex
Monster Island


1. Sea Weeds ‘Fall Boi’ (SoTM) from album ‘Fur Coast’ out 31st October

2. PET ‘Middle Child Syndrome’ (Bandcamp) single out 7th November  

3. Dauwd ‘What’s There’ (Pictures Music) from ‘What’s There’ EP out 21st November

4. Gonjasufi ‘Eatfish (ft. Blu)’ (Hydroshare) from ‘The Ninth Inning’ EP out now [free via Hydroshare] 

5. Samantha Crain ‘Toothpicks’ (Ramseur) from album ‘You (Understood)’ out 7th Nov (in UK)

6. Krampfhaft ‘Makin’ Magic’ (Rwina) from ‘Makin’ Magic’ EP out now 

7. The Proper Ornaments ‘Who Thought?’ (No Pain in Pop) from ‘The Proper Ornaments’ EP out 28th November 


8. Altered Natives ‘Galactic’ (Eye4Eye) from album ‘Tenement Yard Volume 2’ out now 

9. Joel Brandt ‘Lovers’ Island’ (Bandcamp) from ‘The Wind & The Waves’ EP [download via Said The Gramophone] 

10. Hunt In Pairs ‘Slow Dance’ (-) [stream via Facebook]

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Rob Morgan and Callum Eckersley would live in Portland but we hear we eat too much meat to be granted the required indie permit. We play a track from the new M83 long-long player and ask whether the double-album requires too much commitment? We finally get round to hearing and loving the new Stepkids LP, there's something new from Grimes, something Beach Boys'y from Minks, a song from Bad Boys who will be bringing their metal riffs and punk rants to Lead Soup on 29th oct and some other delights. Take a listen innit.

2. Zomby ‘Labyrinth’ (4AD) from ltd. edition white vinyl ‘Nothing’ EP out November 

3. Gold Panda ‘An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds (Peaking Lights Vocal Remix)’ [d/l via Soundcloud] 

4. Cousins ‘Secret Weapon’ (Noyes) 7” single out now [via Bandcamp]

5. Pariah ‘Left Unsaid’ (R&S) from ‘IOTDXI’ R&S compilation out November 

6. Gap Dream ‘My Other Man’ (Burger) from forthcoming album ‘Gap Dream’ 

7. Eras ‘Oath’ (Track Number) from album ‘Portals’ out 7th February 

8. Girls Names ‘Black Saturday’ (Tough Love/Slumberland) single out October 31st  [d/l via Pitchfork] 

9. Vanilla ‘Else’ [via Soundcloud] 

10.Twerps ‘This Guy’ (Chapter Music/Underwater Peoples) from album ‘Twerps’ out now [d/l via Gorilla vs Bear] 



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2. Doldrums ‘Chase The Tear’ (Portishead cover) (Amnesty International/XL) b-side of ltd. ‘Chase The Tear’ 12” out 14th November 

3. Wet Illustrated ‘Saints’ (True Panther Sounds) from album ‘1x1x1’ out 25th October

4. Pyramid Vritra ‘Untitled ft K.C 2.0’ (Stroll On) from album ‘The Story of Marsha Lotus’ out 21st November [via Prefix] 

5. Quaker Parents ‘Teeshirt’ (Hot Money) from forthcoming split cassette with Dream Friends [via Weird Canada] 

6. Art Crime ‘Nobody Can Breathe on the Moon’ (716) Forever & Never’ [via Unholy Rhythms]

7. Fidlar ‘Oh’ (White Iris) from 7” album ‘DIYDUI’ out now [via Everybody Taste] 

8. Hollows ‘Hot Sand’ (Soft Power) ltd 7” out 17th October

9. Little Kid ‘Map’ (-) from ‘Map’ EP out now [via Bandcamp] 

10. Sea Pinks ‘Autumn Song’ (C/F Records) from album ‘Dead Seas’ out now

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Even if we spent all day lounging on couches, for better or worse its presence made me feel accomplished. When it posed for our parents their pride just came bubbling out. With a stunning awareness it put the right words in my mouth.

This is the creature."

This week’s New Noise podcast is dedicated to Jessie ‘Babs’ Read, who would most definitely have hated the music it contains, but nevertheless maintained a dignified silence. 

 

New Noise: 9th October 2011

1. Happy People ‘Brooklyn’ (-) from free ‘HP EP’ out now [via Soundcloud] 

2. Stay + ‘Fever’ (RAMP) single out 10th November 

3. Thee Ludds ‘Where To Begin’ [via Song, By Toad] 

4. Xavier León ‘Slow Down’ (-) [via Lost Lost Lost]

5. Chris Read 'Sons D'Afrique' (Breakin’ Bread) single out now 

6. King Krule ‘The Noose of Jah City’ (True Panther) from ‘King Krule’ EP out 8th November 

7. Gem Club ‘Twins’ (Hardly Art) from album ‘Breakers’ out now

8. Crushed Beaks ‘Sun Dogs’ (Too Pure Singles Club) b-side of single out 21st November

9. Bwana ‘When There Is Nothing Left’ (-) 

10. The Fatty Acids ‘Creature’ (-) from album ‘Leftover Monsterface’ out now [via Bandcamp] 

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Though I’m most likely taking the line utterly out of its intended context, it’s one that resonated with me as I walked along in the London sunshine today.



Every week I fret enormously over the music I include.  Is it too bleak?  Is it too pop?  Is it too awkward? Is it too try-hard? Is it too limp?  Is it too straight?  Is it too grandiose?  Is it too underground?  Is it too overground?  



My podcast is called 'New Noise' (a name I regretted approximately a week after choosing it in 2006). I’m sure there are plenty of people who arrive hoping to hear something more akin to the Refused classic - after which it is named - and quickly leave.  I know there are people who fast-forward the vocal-free electronic inclusions each week, probably wondering what on earth it is I like about them. Then I’m sure there are those who baulk at even the merest hint of a hook or melody.  That’s if they listen at all.



Last night, in a mildly drunken, frustrated humid haze at about 1am, having fruitlessly searched all week for the goods, I reluctantly placed what I’d found into playlist, stuck it on my phone and called it a night, pretty unsatisfied with my haul.



This morning, travelling into London on a phenomenally bright and beautiful Autumn day, I listened to the 15 songs again.  Jesus.  Each and every one sounded amazing.  



This all proves a few things: 1) context is everything. 2) I worry too much. 3) My own fickleness sickens me.



I hope you find something you like, even if the sun’s not out while you listen. 





New Noise: 30th September 2011



1. TEETH ‘Flowers (Gross Magic Remix)’ [via Earmilk]


2. Eleanor Friedberger ‘Roosevelt Island’ (Merge) from album ‘Last Summer’ out 14th November (UK) 


3. PZLD ‘Never Better’ (Top Billin) [via XLR8R]


4. Xeno & Oaklander ‘Autumn’s Edge’ (Wierd) from album ‘Sets & Lights’ out over 17th October 


5. Great Dads ‘Ladies Knight’ (Bandcamp) from free ‘Crunk Goblins’ EP [via Get Off The Coast]


6. Birdy ‘People Help The People (Two Inch Punch Rework)’ (Soundcloud) 

7. xxxy ‘Think Twice’ (free via Soundcloud for limited time) [via Abeano)

8. Tessa & The Typecast ‘Straight on ‘til Morning’ (MGM) from ‘Lemons’ EP out Oct 14th (Australia)

9. Witch Cult ‘Deteriorate’ (Holy Roar) from forthcoming one sided ltd ‘Witch Cult’ 12” 

10. EMOT ‘Ancients’ (EMOT) from album ‘Make You Electric’ out now [download via Minneapolis Fucking Rocks] 

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All that, and I’m finally able to share a brilliantly sinister take on Love Buzz by Edinburgh’s PET, this week’s opener, which I’ve been impatiently spinning to myself with no small amount of repressed glee for a few weeks now.  


Back in (just!) seven days.






New Noise: Friday 23rd September 2011



1. PET ‘Love Buzz’ (Bandcamp) b-side of single out 5th November 

2. The Revival Hour ‘Run Away’ (Secretly Canadian) b-side of single out 14th November 

3. DRMCNT ‘Ballin’ (T-Reks) free download [via T-Reks]


4. Weird Dreams ‘Holding Nails’ (Tough Love) single out 31st October 


5. Jonwayne ‘Just A Minute’ (-) from ‘I Don’t Care’ mixtape [via Sonic Router] 


6. Thundercat ‘For Love I Come (Lapalux Flip)’ (Brainfeeder) 


7. Fairewell ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’ (Sonic Cathedral) from album ‘Poor, Poor Grendel’ out December [d/l track via The Line of Best Fit]

8. Sacred Harp ‘Julie’ (Brainlove/Trust Me) from album ‘Window’s A Fall’ out 5th December

9. Real Estate ‘Green Aisles’ (Domino) from album ‘Days’ out 17th October [d/l track via Soundcloud]


10. TV Girl ‘Benny & The Jetts’ (-) from ‘Benny & The Jetts’ EP [d/l via Facebook] 

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2. Peggy Sue & The Pirates ‘The New Song’ (demo)

3. PJ Harvey ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ (Island, 1993) from ‘Rid of Me’

4. Peggy Sue ‘Boxes’ (Wichita) from album ‘Acrobats’ 

5. Townes Van Zandt ‘Waiting ‘Round To Die’ (Poppy, 1968) from album ‘For The Sake of the Song’ 

6. Throwing Muses ‘Teller’ (4AD, 1995) from album ‘University’ 

7. Chad VanGaalen ‘Peace on the Rise’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Diaper Island’ 

8. Neil Young ‘Vampire Blues’ (Reprise, 1974) from album ‘On The Beach’

9. Department of Eagles ‘While We’re Young’ (American Dust, 2010) from album ‘Archive 2003-2006’

10. Peggy Sue ‘There Always Was’ (Wichita) from album ‘Acrobats’

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I’d love to say something funny and interesting about the show here but I’m late to see The Troll Hunter.

ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR! That’s my impression of a troll.

Other music from:
Trwbador
Douga
Plank!
The Travelling Band
The Bell Peppers
Bill Ryder-Jones
The Bordellos
Trips and Falls
VVolves


New Noise: 10th September 2011

1. Wintercoats ‘Working on a Dream’ (Cascine) from ‘Sketches’ EP out 27th September [download track via Soundcloud] 

2. Hospitality ‘Friends of Friends’ (Merge) from album out 2012 [download via Said The Gramophone) 

3. Blawan ‘What You Do With What You Have’ (R&S) single out 3rd October 

4. The Intellectuals ‘Troppo Odio’ (Shit Music For Shit People) from album ‘In The Middle of Darkwhere’ out now

5. Das Racist ‘Shut Up Man (ft. El-P)’ (Greedhead) from album ‘Relax’ out 13th September

6. Stranger Son ‘Inside Many Summers’ (White Box Recordings) from ‘Inside Many Summers’ EP out 12th September

7. Trips & Falls ‘Marginally More Than Mildly Annoying’ (Song, by Toad) from album ‘People Have To Be Told’ out 26th September


8. Rudi Zygadlo ‘Achtung (Go Easy, Come Easy)’ (Pictures Music) from ‘Achtung!’ EP out 19th September 

9. The Field ‘Looping State of Mind’ (Kompakt) from album ‘Looping State of Mind’ out now 

10. Pink Playground ‘Dark Bloom’ (Mexican Summer) from album ‘Destination Ecstasy’ out 27th September [download via Soundcloud] 


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Other music from:
Maria and the Gay
Golden Fable
My Side Of The Mountain
Tramp Attack
Violas
Lady North
Paws
Telefair



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New Noise: 2nd September 2011



1. M83 ‘Intro (ft Zola Jesus)’ (Mute) from album ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’ out 18th October

2. Rats on Rafts ‘The Moon is Big’ (Subroutine Records) from album ‘The Moon is Big’ out 23rd September

3. Recloose ‘Electric Sunshine’ (Rush Hour) from ‘Saturday Night Manifesto’ EP out now

4. HEALTH ‘Goth Star’ (download via Gorilla vs Bear) 

5. Death Masks ‘Gather Yr Thoughts’ (via Bandcamp) 

6. Fear of Men ‘Ritual Confession’ (Italian Beach Babes) 7” single out now 

7. Sandro Perri ‘Changes’ (download via Fluxbog) 

8. Machine Birds ‘Time’ (download via The Line of Best Fit) 

9. Kutosis ‘Skin’ (Barely Regal) aa-side single out now 

10. Tasseomancy ‘Diana’ (Turf/Out of This Spark/Classy Stitch) from album ‘Ulalume’ out now 

2. It was ace.

3. Sorry I haven’t been here in a while. Some valid excuses. Some not.

4. Maria and the Gay are artist of the week.

5. They have a new album out now on Big Print Records.

6. It is ace.

Other music from:
Jen Jeniro
Euros Childs
Trwbador
Secretaire
Coves and Caves
Coupled With Comfort
Stitches
Evils
Redlip

On a related note, I would now like to ask you to spin your own minds back in time.  But not very far.  

It is the afternoon of Friday 19th August 2011.  You’ve just had an amazing sandwich for lunch, a hefty, unhealthy beast glooped in mayo, but what the hell, it’s Friday!  You’re dreaming of the weekend: a night out tonight; a bit of football tomorrow, perhaps. As an Arsenal fan you’re envisaging a welcome change in fortune, a long-awaited right turn for Arsene and a glorious home win against Liverpool! Imagine!  All you’ve got to do before heading off is tie up a few loose ends and, oh… what’s this?  It’s 2.20pm and a new New Noise podcast has arrived.

Enjoy the rest of your Friday, and make sure you don’t spend your entire night editing, only to forget to back up your work. You might lose the lot and then have to start all over again tomorrow. That really would be irritating, you might even end up missing Danny Baker on the radio.   

New Noise: 19th August 2011

1. In One Wind ‘Go Follow John’ (Primary Records) from ‘Primary Records Compilation #1 2011’ (download free)

2. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks ‘Forever 28’ (Domino) from album ‘Mirror Traffic’ out 22nd August 

3. Nazca Lines ‘Compass Points’ (Loaf) from forthcoming album 

4. Cloud Boat ‘Bastion’ (R&S) single out 29th August 

5. SYNKRO ‘Here’s Your’ (Box Clever) aa-side single out now 

6. Veronica Falls ‘Bad Feeling’ (Bella Union) single out 26th September 

7. patten ‘Blush Mosaic’ (No Pain in Pop)  from album ‘Glaqjo Xaacsso’ out 26th September

8. Rudi Zygadlo 'Variously Made Men' (Pictures Music) from ‘Achtung!’ EP out 14th September

9. Sleepers Work ‘Catherine’ (Primary Records) from ‘Primary Records Compilation #1 2011’ (download free)

10. Fantasy Rainbow ‘Soft Coral’ (Tiny Lights) from ‘Teens’ EP out now 



New Noise: 12th August 2011


1. Pinkunoizu ‘Everthing Is Broken or Stolen’ (Full Time Hobby) from forthcoming ‘Peep’ EP 


2. Wooden Shjips ‘Lazy Bones’ (Thrill Jockey) from album ‘East’ out 15th August  


3. Deptford Goth ‘No Man’ (Merok) from ‘Youth II’ EP out 17th October 

4. Warpaint ‘Billie Holiday (Steve Mackey Edit)’ (Rough Trade) single out 19th September 

5. Remember Remember ‘John Candy’ (Rock Action) from album ‘The Quickening’ out 26th September 

6. Esben & The Witch ‘Warpath’ (Matador) from album ‘Violet Cries’ out now

7. Samiyam ‘Wonton Special’ (Brainfeeder) from album ‘Sam Baker’s Album’ out now 

8. Pete & The Pirates ‘Half Moon Street’ (Stolen Recordings) from album ‘One Thousand Pictures’ out now 

9. Mogwai ‘Get To France’ (Rock Action) from ‘Earth Division’ EP out 12th September

10. Aiden Moffatt & Bill Wells ‘Let’s Stop Here’ (Chemikal Underground) from album ‘Everything’s Getting Older’ out now 




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Anyway, Jen Jeniro are artist of the week. They have an ace new EP out called Swimming Limbs. It’s out now on I Ka Ching Records.

With all the ‘look how interesting my life is’ spiel, I forgot to mention this. It’s quite important. I should’ve really said something about it. There’s always next week.*

Other music from:
The Voluntary Butler Scheme
The Miserable Rich
Super U
The Moth and the Mirror
Maria and the Gay
The Fountain
The London Electric

*There isn’t. I’m on All FM again next week. I’ll be back here the week after.

Two tracks from his new album. One from his first. Plus one extra, really old, track which I’m pretty sure he hates…

Anyway, the album. It’s called Grandad Galaxy and it’s currently streaming here. That website says it’s out tomorrow (July 18th). However, Amazon says it’s not out until July 25th. Luckily, the label clears up any confusion by having absolutely no mention whatsoever of the new album on their website.

Cheers.

Other music from:
Spencer McGarry Season
Wickes
Sweet Baboo
Vultures
The Japanese War Effort
Campfires In Winter
Haiku Salut
Cats In Paris

7. IFEEL Studio ‘Watching Stars Over The Rubicon Beltway’ (International Feel) 12” single out now (via XXJFG) 


8. Water Borders ‘What Wiwant (Tri Angle) from album ‘Harboured Mantras’ out 10th October

9. Burning Hearts ‘Into The Wilderness’ (Shelflife) single out now 


10. Computer Magic ‘End of Time (Deptford Goth Remix)’ (via Transparent)


11. (Bonus Holiday Track) Tiny Ruins ‘Pigeon Knows’ (Spunk) from album ‘Some Were Meant For Sea’ 

The album was released last year on Businessman Records. I offer you a most humble apology I haven’t featured it properly before now.

Enjoy.

Other music from:
By The Sea
The See See
One More Parade (Can’t find owt online)
Race Horses
The Voluntary Butler Scheme
The Travelling Band
Moustache of Insanity
Sneakpeek
Death Masks
The Forest

Since we last spoke I’ve been to quite a few gigs.  About nine live ‘experiences’ in all.  And somewhat helpfully - for a knackered, cold-ridden sloth the wrong side of 30 – it felt like the giddy, gaudy essence of tribal teen spirit teased me at every turn.  From the anarchic ADD menace of the OFWGKTA circus to a gladdening resurgence of explosive razor sharp guitar pop courtesy of Evans The Death, I. Felt. Old.  At one point an audacious grinning little foetus quite blatantly and unapologetically took the piss out of me for ordering a water at the bar. Before I had the chance to explain myself he’d bounded off like a demented Relentless-injected kitten.  I contemplated leaving this callous gig game for good. 

Age concern aside, this week’s NN has also taken about three times as long to edit together because I’ve been forced to use a different bit of software. Horrifically boring but true, and more than a bit bothersome for a tired, grumpy old gimmer like me.

Ultimately, it’s now Friday night.  I’m running behind by approximately 24 hours, and I dribble out this blurb whilst sat on the sofa with a cup of Lemsip and half a Dairy Milk.  Man, it feels good. Hopefully you’ll feel the same when you hear what’s lurking in this week’s tardy but fresh collection of life affirming, ageless new music. 

Thanks to any listeners or subscribers who’ve newly chanced upon this podcast via last week’s Sub Pop special.  Hopefully you’ll not be put off by the fact that someone as erudite, funny and interesting as Megan Jasper isn’t here every week.  And congratulations go to Kenny Close of Richmond, Virginia who correctly emailed to say that the business located beneath the Sub Pop offices is a bakery.  Kenny bags himself a lovely bunch of shiny brand new Sub Pop albums

New Noise Podcast: 8th July 2011

1. Virgo Four ‘It’s A Crime (Caribou Mix)’ (Rush Hour) from 12” EP out now

2. Spooky Campers ‘Cemetery Date’ (-) from ‘Shitty Campground’ EP (download free via Bandcamp)

3. Disclosure ‘I Love… That You Know’ (-) from free EP via Facebook

4. Celestial Shore ‘Maps’ (Double Denim) b-side of single out now 

5. LA2019 ‘Living Among Us’ (Blood & Biscuits) from ‘Deco’ EP out 15th August

6. Devon Williams ‘Your Sympathy’ (Slumberland) single out now, from album ‘Euphoria’ out 30th August 

7. Seams ‘Focus Energy’ (Pictures Music) single out 11th July 

8. Pet ‘What You Building?’ (-) single out now via Bandcamp

9. Anika ‘He Needs Me’ (Invada) b-side of single out now via Bandcamp 

10. Baxter Dury ‘Leak At The Disco’ (Regal) from album ‘Happy Soup’ out 15th August 

The other side of that record is by The See See. I don’t have that track to play, but to make up for it, I play a new (and frankly disturbing) jingle written by their keyboardist. He’s a bad man.

Other music from:
Awesome Wells
Jonnie Common
Lil Daggers
Trwbador
Johnny 5th Wheel & the Cowards
Bill Ryder-Jones
The Spectres (all online stuff deleted)
Adam Leonard
A Farewell To Hexes
Fingers Wilson + The Castlehaze
Ivan Campo

Over 20 years later, and now vice president of the label, Megan was good enough to spend an hour with me in London last week to discuss all manner of Sub Pop-related business. From first getting in the door as ‘a crusty punk with a big ass mohawk’, to surviving and learning from the best and worst moments of the label’s tumultuous history.  From sharing a cigarette on the roof with the boss every night to holding office parties when the bosses were away.  Discover which band was so explosive on stage that the owner of the Seattle club in which they were playing took it upon himself to risk his own livelihood (and the lives of his punters), to lock everyone in past curfew, thus keeping the police out.  And which legendary 90s frontman had the nickname ‘Chemo Boy’ at school?   

Find out in this, the New Noise Sub Pop Special podcast, which also features 10 incredible songs picked by Megan herself from Sub Pop’s past, present and future. 

To celebrate the Sub Pop New Noise Special here’s an added bonus: a competition to win yourself a bag of delicious Sub Pop swag including a bunch of new releases, stickers and the like.

To enter, answer the following question:

The Sub Pop office is in a shared brick building in downtown Seattle, but what sort of sweet-smelling business can be found downstairs, as referred to by Megan in the podcast? 

Email your answer and address, with ‘SUB POP COMP’ in the subject line, to ilikenewnoise@gmail.com by 12pm Thursday 7th July 2011. One winner will be chosen at random from the correct entries. 

New Noise Sub Pop Special: 30th June 2011
 

1. Shabazz Palaces ‘Swerve… The Reeping of All That is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Black Up’ out now

2. Screaming Trees ‘Change Has Come’ (Sub Pop) from ‘Change Has Come’ EP (1990) 

3. The Shins ‘Saint Simon’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Chutes Too Narrow’ (2003)

4. No Age ‘Teen Creeps’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Nouns’ (2008) 

5. Mission of Burma ‘Academy Fight Song’ (Ace of Hearts) (1980)

6. Wipers ‘Taking Too Long’ (TRAP/Park Ave) from album ‘Youth of America’ (1981)

7. Chad VanGaalen ‘Sara’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Diaper Island’ out now 

8. Sharon Van Etten ‘Save Yourself’ (Ba Da Bing) from album ‘Epic’ (2010) 

9. Fruit Bats ‘Tangie and Ray’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Tripper’ out 1st August (download track here)

10. Mudhoney ‘You Got It (Keep It Out of My Face)’ (Sub Pop) (1989)  

Anyway, the two people in question are Awesome Wells and Jonnie Common. They both have albums out on the wonderful Red Deer Club. That’s why I’ve done it. I don’t just throw this show together, you know?

Other music from:
King Post Kitsch
The Maladies of Bellafontaine
Found
Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell
Inspector Tapehead
VVolves
Flipbook

Not sure what’s going on next week. Possibly a takeover. Possibly me. Possibly fuck all.

2. The Twerps ‘She Didn’t Know’ (via Altered Zones) 



3. Guy Andrews ‘Recollect’ (-) stream at Soundcloud



4. Hot Head Show 'Payload' (Hakisac) single out 27th June



5. Death Grips ‘Klink’ (thirdworlds.net) from mixtape ‘Ex-Military’ (download here) 



6. U.S Girls ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ (Palmist) from split release album w/Slim Twig out now 



7. John Tejada ‘Farther and Fainter’ (Kompakt) from ‘Parabolas’ album out now


8. The British Public 'Bloodsports' (Tip Top) single out 18th July



9. Gala Drop ‘Rauze’ (Golf Channel) from ‘Overcoat Heat’ EP out now (download at Gorilla vs Bear) 


10. Thousands 'Everything Turned Upside Down' (Bella Union) from album ‘The Sound of Everything’ out now 
 

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Anyway, during the very small window when I’m not talking, King Post Kitsch is artist of the week. His debut album is ace and available from here.

Other music from:
Driver Drive Faster
Being There
Youth Lagoon
The Weary Band
Owls*
Maria and the Mirrors
Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
The Silhouettes (no link as they don’t exist anymore, or anywhere on the internet)

2. Gross Magic ‘Sweetest Touch’ (Sounds of Sweet Nothing) from ‘Teen Jamz’ EP out 8th August

3. Holy Other ‘Know Where’ (Tri Angle) from ‘With U’ EP out now 

4. Soft Metals ‘Psychic Driving’ (Captured Tracks) from album ‘Soft Metals’ out 18th July

5. Tropics ‘Mouves’ (Planet Mu) from ‘Mouves’ EP out 18th July 

6. Extra Happy Ghost!!! ‘So At One’ (Saved by Radio) from album ‘Modern Horses’ out 26th July, dowload track via Soundcloud

7. Samaritan ‘Hide Then Seek’ (via No Modest Bear) 

8. The War on Drugs ‘Baby Missiles’ (Secretly Canadian) from album ‘Slave Ambient’ out 15th August

9. Washed Out ‘Echoes’ (Domino) from album ‘Within & Without’ out 11th July 

10. Volcano Playground ‘Waiting’ (download via Chromewaves)

And what a week it’s been.  Wall to wall incredible music - new, old, weird, wonderful and, in some cases, exclusive.  Most of all different. Just today I’ve been awed by the Alex Chilton-inspired show by About Group, a fifth and final breakfast show with a difference from James Endeacott, the concluding selection of sublime future music courtesy of Jack Shankly’s Liquid Lunch and a guest spot from Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, which kicked off with Thomas Mapfumo and ended with Four Tet, by way of J Dilla and Ween. 

There are still two full days to go, and once it’s finished the whole lot - all 168 or so hours - will be available to hear on listen again for at least a month.  See it as a challenge. 

I too was fortunate enough to be invited on to present a two hour New Noise, on Tuesday lunchtime, a 10 song portion of which comprises this week’s podcast.

New Noise Podcast: 10th June 2011

(Intro.) Scott Churchman ‘Things Will Always Go Your Way’ (self-released) out now via Bandcamp

1. Little Black Ant ‘I’m Happy To Be Sad’ (Soundcloud) 

2. Crystal Antlers ‘Séance’ (Recreation LTD.) from album ‘Two Way Mirror’ out 11th July 

3. Re. You ‘Ghost’ (Souvenir Music) from ‘Our Thing’ EP w/ Rampa, out now (download via Keytars & Violins) 

4. Norwegian Arms ‘Run! Ran! Run! Rah!’ (self released) from Trimmings of Hides EP (Bandcamp)

5. Civil Civic ‘Airspray’ (self released) from album ‘Lamington Drive’ due out when the band reach their target

6. Leather ‘No Motivation’ (Jade Tree) from ‘Sterile’ 7” out now

7. Dreadnought ‘Caroline’ (-) from ltd. ‘Caroline’ EP out 27th June 

8. Shadow Cabinet ‘For The Docklands’ (via Keytars & Violins)

9. Moths ‘<3’ (via Bandcamp)

10. Live Domino Radio Studio Session Recording: Family ‘Barbie Girls’ 

To hear my entire 120 minute Domino Radio New Noise show, complete with musical choices and chat with Rich Thane, venerable Editor of The Line of Best Fit, and to see a list of everything played, head to http://www.dominorad.io  

Enjoy.

Music from:
Dr. Mahogany’s Goat Circus
Bugs In Ember
Borland
Alexander Tucker
Dutch Uncles
Maps and Atlases
Glasser
Mount Fabric
Mwsog
Patterns
Runaround Kids
8 Bit Moon

Regrettably my train of thought has been comprehensively derailed by a slow, creeping nausea, brought on by inadvertent exposure to ‘The Lazy Song’ by Bruno Mars, which is currently being piped into the canteen I am in. It truly is a lyrical marvel.



Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like pickin' up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doin' anythin'
I'm gonna kick my feet up

Then stare at the fan
Turn the tv on
Throw my hand in my pants
Nobody's gon' tell me I can't

Yes, that really is Bruno loudly and very proudly declaring his private right to go knuckle to knacker.  Screw you, Mummy Mars!  But the line that truly jolts my core is that which documents his audacious and resolute determination to escape the pressures of modern life by retreating to his room to ‘stare at the fan’.



I think this song is a cry for help. Bruno is lost. Somebody needs to help Bruno.  I’m scared for Bruno.



Anyway, after last week’s marginally heavier foray into the Pink Mist universe the first New Noise of June gets back to the simple business of plucking and placing ten incongruent songs in a row, spanning a mere 45 minutes.   Among the nuggets, something brand new from 19 year old Londoner Slime and a cut from the upcoming Battles album, featuring the vocal talents of one Gary Numan.  

Lyrical references to the meditative merits of household appliances are few and far between.





New Noise: Thursday 2nd June 2011



1. Super Wild Horses ‘Black Book’ (Goner) split 7” out now

2. Caged Animals ‘Girls on Medication’ (Lucky Number) single out 4th July

3. Slime ‘First Cape’ (Tough Love) from ‘Increases’ EP out 27th June

4. Weekend ‘End Times’ (Slumberland) single out 6th June

5. Doctrine ‘You And Your Dad Issues’ (Beko) single out now 

6. Bandshell ‘Midas’ (teaandcakerecords) from ‘Bandshell’ EP out now  

7. Battles ‘My Machines (ft Gary Numan)’ (Warp) from album ‘Gloss Drop’ out 6th June

8. Burning Buildings ‘The Sleep Tapes Part A: Great Circular O, or A Dream Of Leaving A Train Station As Your Lover Jumps To Their Death’ (-) from The Sleep Tapes single (download at Bandcamp) 

9. Bop ‘The Amazing Adventures of One Curious Pixel’ (Med School) from album ‘The Amazing Adventures of One Curious Pixel’ out now 

10. Paul Thomas Saunders ‘Appointment in Samarra’ (RT60) from ‘Lilac & Wisteria’ EP out 4th July 

1. Tall Ships ‘Hit The Floor’ (Big Scary Monsters/Blood & Biscuits) single out 13th June


2. LA2019 ‘Water’ (Blood & Biscuits) from ‘Hello Pink Mist’ compilation out now


3. Three Trapped Tigers ‘Cramm (Teej Remix)’ (Blood & Biscuits) forthcoming


4. Daggers ‘Euphoria’ (Holy Roar) forthcoming


5. Torche ‘Hideaway’ (Hydra Head) from EP ‘Songs For Singles’ (2010)


6. Gallops ‘Joust’ (Blood & Biscuits) single out now


7. Björk ‘Jóga’ (One Little Indian) from album ‘Homogenic’ (2007)


8. †Hymns† ‘A Punch To The Temple’ (Big Scary Monsters/Function) out now


9. Bear vs Shark ‘Buses/No Buses’ (Big Scary Monsters) ltd. repressed 12” single out now


10. Rosa Valle ‘Mathmagician’ (Big Scary Monsters) available as part of BSM ’11 collections


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Also, this week we have a mini festival plug for the mini festival that is The Imploding Inevitable Festival. Hopefully they won’t cancel the entire thing, just because I plugged them, which is what happened with The Trip Festival. They blame poor ticket sales but we all know that’s not the case!*

Other music from:
Pulco
Wave Machines
Hannah Peel
Liz Green
Samson and Delilah
The See See
The Bordellos
King Post Kitsch
Sparky Deathcap
Zabrinski

*Obviously, that was the case and I was making a joke.

Michael Azerrad. Indie label bosses everywhere.  I salute you.   



Outsider music ftw.





New Noise: Thursday 19th May 2011



(Intro.) Delicate Steve ‘Welcome-Begin’ (self-released) from album ‘Wondervision’ out now


1. Free Swim ‘I Want To Be A Mountaineer!’ (free download via Soundcloud)

2. Niki & The Dove ‘The Fox’ (Sub Pop) (download via Soundcloud)


3. Ossie ‘Moves’ (Hyperdub) from ‘Set The Tone’ EP out 20th June

4. Planningtorock ‘Manifesto’ (DFA) from album ‘W’ out 23rd May


5. Kids on a Crime Spree ‘I Don’t Want To Call You Baby, Baby’ (via Said The Gramophone)

6. Diagrams ‘Antelope’ (Full Time Hobby) free download via Soundcloud

7. White Hills ‘The Condition of Nothing’ (Thrill Jockey) from album ‘H-p1’ out July via Faronheit blog)

8. Disclosure ‘Carnival’ (Transparent) single out 13th June

9. Ivan Mairesse ‘Harvesting’ (Bandcamp) from album ‘Lovers Lane’ out now

10. Youth Lagoon ‘July’ (via Pitchfork)


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As you can see, it’s going to be an amazing festival. Gutted I can’t go. Is two weeks long enough to sabotage the relationship of the guy whose wedding I’m going to that weekend?

Other music from:
Sara Lowes
Gintis
The Loungs
John Stammers
Race Horses
Stealing Sheep
By The Sea
Colorama

Anyway, the multi-talented, extremely friendly and aesthetically pleasing Sara Lowes is artist of the week. Her debut album Back To Creation is out on May 23rd on Through The Railings, a label so amazing, they don’t seem to have a website…

Other music from:
The Sixteen Tonnes
H.Hawkline
The Voluntary Butler Scheme
Awesome Wells
Driver Drive Faster
Randolph’s Leap
Steven Milne
The Bell Peppers

Audacious axework, incredible songs and a very fine line in sweatbands. Between us, a friend and I made off with two 12”s, one 7” and a t-shirt (and only that was because they’d run out of mediums meaning we couldn’t have one each). Further illustrating our gleeful reaction to the show we were even compelled to ask somewhat bashful frontman Paul Saulnier to sign our plastic at the merch stall. Thrillingly he obliged, though it should be noted his indelible, scant ‘P/S’ does look like someone’s scrawled ‘PIS’ on the label.

What a band. Of course ‘Facelove’ appeared on last week’s New Noise, I only hope I get to enjoy witnessing one of the tracks from this week’s podcast performed live at some stage in the next few weeks.

Anyway, sorry for the garbled words, it’s late, I’m hungry, and I’m buzzing on empty. It’s all I’ve got in my brain. Hope you find something you like, and cheers for listening.

Jon

P/S - Unbecoming and marginally obscene as it is to openly beg for stars, if you enjoy the New Noise podcast I’d hugely appreciate an iTunes rating, or even maybe a sentence review, however brief. It all helps.

New Noise: Thursday 5th May 2011

1. Fixers ‘Another Lost Apache’ (Young & Lost Club) from ‘Here Comes 2001 So Let's All Head for the Sun’ EP out 9th May

2. Driver Drive Faster ‘It’s All Over It’s Everywhere’ (Akoustik Anarkhy) forthcoming single, from album ‘Open House’ out June

3. Knowing Looks ‘Abandoned Skip’ (West Norwood Casette Library) 12” single out now (download via Keytars & Violins)

4. Fucked Up ‘The Other Shoe’ (Matador) from forthcoming album ‘Queen of Hearts’ (download free via Fucked Up blog)

5. Gatto Fritto My Etheric Body’ (International Feel) from album ‘Gatto Fritto’ out now

6. Tasseomancy ‘Soft Feet’ (Out of This Spark) from album ‘Ulalume’ out in August

7. Washed Out ‘Eyes Be Closed’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Within and Without’ out July (download via Sub Pop)

8. Porcelain Raft ‘I Found A Way’ (Acéphale) from ‘Gone Blind’ EP out now

9. Let’s Wrestle ‘In The Suburbs’ (Full Time Hobby) from album ‘Nursing Home’ out 16th May

10. Fair Ohs ‘Everything Is Dancing’ (Honey High) from album ‘Everything is Dancing’ out 1st June, download free via fairohs.com

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Following in the footsteps of the Texas Radio Band, Euros Childs and Richard James, H.Hawkline is artist of the week. A career highlight, no doubt. This includes an exclusive track from his forthcoming album, The Strange Uses Of Ox Gall.

Also this week, I say little else other than ‘I’ve probably pronounced that wrong’ and ‘I’m not even going to try and pronounce that.’

BRILLIANT!

Other music from:
Sweet Baboo
Euros Childs
Attack + Defend
Zwolf
Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog
Pulco
Sen Segur
Vvolves
Land Of Bingo
Islet
Jakokoyak
Trwbador

On this week’s podcast I invite you to share in the crackles and grooves of a few my own RSD purchases, and to have your mind politely blown by brand new music from the likes of Chad VanGaalen, Gardens & Villa, Amusement, Triptides, Iceage, and a quite beautiful rework of a recent Austra single by Vondelpark.
  

Enjoy the long weekend.


New Noise: Thursday 21st April 2011

(Intro) Metronomy ‘Picking Up For You’ (Because) b-side of ‘The Look’ ltd. #rsd11 7”

1. Chad VanGaalen ‘Freedom For A Policeman’ (Sub Pop) from album ‘Diaper Island’ out 19th May

2. Austra ‘Beat & The Pulse (Vondelpark Remix)’ (Domino) download via The Line of Best Fit

3. Delta/Alaska ‘DLOI’ (Pink Mist) from ‘Hello Pink Mist’ ltd. #rsd11 12” compilation

4. Anthony & The Johnsons ‘Swanlights (Oneohtrix Point Never remix)’ (Rough Trade) from ‘Swanlights EP’ ltd. #rsd11 10”

5. Gardens & Villa ‘Black Hills’ (Secretly Canadian) via Said The Gramophone / Bandcamp)

6. Amusement ‘Take Me Alive’ (Soundcloud)

7. Triptides ‘Shadows’ (via No Modest Bear / Bandcamp)

8. Floating Points ‘Sais (Dub)’ (Eglo) ltd. #rsd11 10”

9. Iceage ‘White Rune’ (What’s Your Rupture?) from forthcoming album ‘White Brigade’ (download via Pitchfork)

10. Wild Beasts ‘Smother’ (Domino) b-side of ‘Albatross’ ltd. #rsd11 7”

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Also this week, there’s just a lot of hungover ramblings about 90′s American indie, releasing albums by bands who have split up and the like. Same old, same old.

Other music from:
The Son(s)
Lil’ Daggers
Animal Magic Tricks
Yoshimi
Spaceships Are Cool
Inspector Tapehead
Meursault
Beaulieu Porch
Yacht Club

Please insert an informative and witty line about the show here, while I go and play in the sun.

Other music from:
Erland and the Carnival
American Trainers
Mof Gimmers
Baaneex
Death Masks
By The Sea
Two Sunsets
Fingers Wilson
Supreme Vagabond Craftsman

2. Zodiacs ‘Faraway Friend’ (Captured Tracks, 2011) single out now

3. Dum Dum Girls ‘Catholicked’ (Captured Tracks, 2008) from ‘Dum Dum Girls’ EP

4. Cosmetics ‘Sleepwalking’ (Captured Tracks, 2010) single out now

5. Girls Names ‘Don’t Let Me In’ (Captured Tracks, 2010) single out now

6. The Chills ‘Pink Frost’ (Flying Nun, 1982)

7. Teardrop Explodes ‘Ouch Monkeys’ (Zoo, 1981) from album ‘Wilder’

8. Widowspeak ‘Burnout’ (Captured Tracks, 2011) single out now

9. Crystal Stilts ‘Shake The Shackles’ (Slumberland/Fortuna Pop!, 2011) from album ‘In Love With Oblivion’ out 11th April

10. Craft Spells ‘From The Morning Heat’ (Captured Tracks, 2011) from album ‘Idle Labor’ out 29th March

Also this week, I initiate my own battle of the bands, the participants of which may find amusing. They are probably more likely to think it’s unfunny and out of order, though.

*I only mention it once and edited out all the sniffing (although I do sound awful).

Other music from:
Gintis
Mazes
The London Electric
Asteroids!
King Post Kitsch
Hannah Peel
Land Of Bingo
VVolves
Morris Major
Spaceships Are Cool

Hopefully, this lanky beast will be taking over the show next week. I’ll see you the week after.

HOW sunny is it?!

Seriously, though?  Jesus it’s lovely out there. 

F*cking love the sun. 

Some of the songs on this week’s New Noise suit the Spring sun more than others, particularly those from Dream Hits, Idiot Glee and London Elektricity.  Fortunately, for those who run from hot daylight faster than you can say ‘ginger goth’, there’s a healthy bit of contemplative darkness and angst in there too from Timber Timbre, D. Paris and Elliot Whale Boy.

Also, I forgot to mention this week, the next podcast, (due next week), is going to be a little bit different.   Just a one off.

See you then, enjoy the sun.

Jon

New Noise: 24th March 2011

1. Little Scream ‘Cannons’ (Secretly Canadian) from album ‘The Golden Record’ out 12th April (free download via Secretly Canadian) 

4. Timber Timbre ‘Woman’ (Arts & Crafts) from album ‘Creep On Creepin’ On’ out 5th April

5. Idiot Glee ‘Let’s Get Down Together’ (Moshi Moshi) from album ‘Paddywhack’ out 7th June 

6. D. Paris ‘1954’ (download from Altered Zones)

7. Balkans ‘I Can’t Compete’ (Double Phantom) from album ‘Balkans’ out 10th May

8. Peter & Kerry ‘Knees’ (Tape Club) from ‘Clothes Friends Photos’ EP out now

9. London Elektricity ‘The Plan That Cannot Fail’ (Hospital) from aa-side single out now

10. Elliot Whale Boy ‘Kingdom’ (Audio Antihero) from ‘Bob Hope Would: A Charity Compilation for the Japan Relief Effort’ buy/contribute here  

It’s real Gintis love-in, featuring friends, well wishers and side projects. Plus, a rare play of the winner of the first ever Festive Bestive – the only song I know of that has brought Cloud Sounds listeners to tears.*

Other Gintis related music from:
Onions
The Loungs
Bong Squad
The Wobbly Hearts
Telefair
Mexican Walking Fish
Hexicon
Junebug

*Cloud Sounds listeners are often in tears, but that’s usually down to my lolz…right?

It is now Sunday night, and it is done.

I feel quite proud of this one.  I think it works.

Thanks for listening.

Jon

New Noise: 13th March 2011

1. Taragana Pyjarama ‘Sundanese Blonde’ (Fool House) from ‘Taragana Pyjarama’ EP out 28th March
2. Carnivores ‘Darker Days’ (Double Phantom Digital) from ‘Chandelier EP’, download free via Bandamp

3. Wild Beasts ‘Albatross’ (Domino) free download here, from album ‘Smother’ out 9th May

4. Nicolas Jaar ‘Space is Only Noise If You Can See’ (Circus Company) from album ‘Space is Only Noise’ out now
5. Love Inks ‘Blackeye’ (Hell Yes!/City Slang) single out 25th April

6. Peaking Lights ‘Hey Sparrow’ (Not Not Fun) from album ‘936’ out now

7. Royalty ‘Don’t Break Me’ (Five Easy Pieces) from ‘Royalty’ EP out now
8. White Denim ‘Anvil Everything’ (Downtown) from album ‘D’ out 6th June, download free from whitedenimmusic.com

9. Alkibar Gognor ‘Hommage a Ali Farka Toure’ (Sahel Sounds/Mississippi Music) from album ‘Ishilan N Tenere: Guitar Music From The Western Sahel’ out now
10. Charles Bradley ft. The Menahan Street Band ‘How Long’ (Daptone/Dunham) from album ‘No Time For Dreaming’ out now 

To celebrate further, the unquestionable stars of the comp, Onions are artist of the week. I’ve been sitting on their album for about 9 months now and, with no release date in sight, I decided enough is enough. Their third track is pretty special. Listen and marvel.

Other music from:
The See See
Driver Drive Faster
Patterns*
Christopher Eatough*
Milk Maid
Golden Glow
Blind Atlas*
Ghost Outfit
Weird Era
Young British Artists*

*Manchester Scenewipe sessions.

There’s no artist of the week (there never has been in the takeover slots, not sure why?), but there’s loads of ace music, including a welsh band that even I haven’t played before…

Music from:
Antarctica Takes It!
Trwbador
The Leaf Library
Emperor Zero
God’s Little Eskimo
Grubby Mitts
Woods
Benjamin Shaw
Free Swim
The Savings and Loan
Sarandon
Eat Lights Become Lights

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New Noise 2nd March 2011

1) Lapalux ‘There Are Monsters in This Bed’ (Pictures Music) from ‘Many Faces Out of Focus’ EP out 14th April

2) King Creosote + Jon Hopkins ‘Bats in the Attic’ (Domino) from album ‘Diamond Mine’ out 28th March 

3) Dananananaykroyd ‘E Numbers’ (download free via Soundcloud)

4) Drugg ‘In These Found Times’ (Less Music) from ‘Shackled’ EP out now

5) Blouse ‘Firestarter’ (Captured Tracks) b-side of ‘Into Black’ single out March

6) Roof Light ‘Playground Sunburst’ (from Pinglewood)

7) Headless Horseman ‘1CHRD’ (download from My Old Kentucky Blog)

8) Shackleton ‘Deadman (King Midas Sound Death Dub remix)’ (Honest Jon’s) out now

9) The Laurel Collective ‘Sunshine Buddy’ (Tape Club) single out 11th April

10) Sin Fang ‘Two Boys’ (Morr) from album ‘Summer Echoes’ out 4th April

Also this week, I have further problems with a certain band’s MP3s cutting off halfway through, I get distracted by the rain and I open the show as camp as possible.

Other music from:
Conquering Animal Sound
Beaulieu Porch
The Forest
The Wellgreen
Coves and Caves
Free Swim
Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog
Skinjobs
The Lovely Eggs
No Hay Banda

This sexy beast will be here next week. I’ll be back in a fortnight.

Also this week, I make a pretty pathetic plea for you to say nice things about me here, and one of the tracks cuts off halfway through. I don’t let the situation bother me though, I’m a real pro…

Other music from:
The Voluntary Butler Scheme
H Hawkline
Brown Brogues
Red Tides
Asteroids!
Air Cav
Beaulieu Porch
The Wobbly Hearts
Giant Root Attack

No artist of the week but plenty of garage / surf rock, shoe gaze and shed pop.

Enjoy.

Music from:
George Thomas and the Owls
Boy or Bison
The Suns
La La Vasquez
Grand Canonical Ensemble
The Electric Sugar Children
Death and Vanilla
Glass Graves
Keep Shelly in Athens
Novak
Cheapskate

I’ll be back next week, you lucky fuckers.

New Noise: Tuesday 8th February 2011

1. Tame Impala ‘Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? (Erol Alkan rework)’ (Modular) download out now

2. Smith Westerns ‘Still New’ (Fat Possum) from album ‘Dye It Blonde’ out now 

3. Conquering Animal Sound ‘Wasp’ (Gizeh) from album ‘Kammerspeil’ out now

4. Mode Moderne ‘Les Neuf Souers’ (from Pitchfork)

5. Kutmah ‘The Aggrovators/Brainticket/Seiji/Lazer Sword/Letherette’ (-) from mixtape ‘The New Error’ out now

6. Friends ‘Friend Crush’ (Lucky Number) single out 

7. Isolée ‘Hold On’ (Pampa) from album ‘Well Spent Youth’ out now

8. Dog Is Dead ‘River Jordan’ (Your Childhood) single out 28th Feb

9. Ela Orleans ‘I Know’ (-) forthcoming

10. Melted Toys ‘Come On’ (Underwater Peoples) from ‘Washed & Dried’ EP out 22nd Feb (download track from Altered Zones) 

To get you even more excited (you are already excited, right?), The Voluntary Butler Scheme is artist of the week as we play tracks from his forthcoming EP, ‘The Chevreul.’

Plus all sound problems are fixed. Choo! Choo! All aboard the happy train.

Other music from:
Y Niwl
Patterns
Christopher Eatough
Golden Glow
Vultures
Jen Jeniro
Sweet Baboo
Sensegur
Youngteam
Islet

I won’t be here next week as the first takeover of 2011 is happening. The show will be presented by the wonderful Tania K of Morris Six and 3030 Magazine fame. I forgot to mention this on the show. Whoops…