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Heathen wrote:new Swans

Praise be! A union of mightiness has come to pass! It is nuclear fusion in musical form! Yep, Mute have revealed that they'll be releasing the next album by Swans. To Be Kind weighs in at over two hours long, and will feature guest vocals from Little Annie, Cold Specks and St Vincent. Says Michael Gira, "A good portion of the material for this album was developed live during the Swans tours of 2012/13. Much of the music was otherwise conjured in the studio environment."

TLR 096: horseback piedmont apocrypha LP released march 25, 2014 in a limited edition LP of approximately 1000 copies. $19.00 LP, $12 CD. Available for streaming (on/after march 25) or as a direct digital download from bandcamp.

http://threelobed.com/tlr/tlr096.html
http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/piedmont-apocrypha

Young Widows‘ new album, Easy Pain, isn’t out yet, but you can listen to it in full above. Such opportunities are pretty normal these days; most bands stream their recorded output in public before it’s on sale. But Young Widows chose to debut Easy Pain in an unusual way: they played it in full on Sunday night here in New York, and they’ll play it again tonight at The Boot and Saddle in Philly. (They played their excellent second album Old Wounds at a second NYC show last night, and will do so again tomorrow in Philly.) The Young Widows guys seem pretty smart, so one assumes that they figured that the performance was likely to be filmed and passed around online.

Three years on from the release of Wolves in the Throne Room's Celestial Lineage, the Pacific Northwest brother duo have announced they're set to explore the outer reaches of black metal with a drum- and guitar-scrubbing instrumental companion piece called Celestite.

An exact due date has yet to be determined, but the band confirmed in a press release that the recording sessions for their fifth full-length have been completed, and that the LP will arrive through their own newly formed Diadem Records. Wolves in the Throne Room's last few full-lengths had arrived through Southern Lord.

super nintendo chalmers wrote:
Thirty seconds into the first song and I ordered the cassette. Best eight bucks I spent all week.

Agalloch's frontman John Haughm announced on his official Facebook page that the new Agalloch album is ready and mastered, the only thing left to do is to design the CD/LP cover art. So it seems safe to assume that we will be seeing its release in the coming months. Their label Profound Lore Records had already revealed that the successor to Marrow Of The Spirit would come out this year. It's just a matter of patience now.

When the Skull Defekts entered the studio in the Spring of 2013 with nothing more than a collection of loosely organized riffs, they set out to record their most extreme, challenging rock record. Much to the band’s surprise, what emerged were their most incessantly listenable, approachable songs to date. The Defekts merge the coarse vitality of punk with the ritualism of folk dances to create music that is addictive, wondrously discordant, and rooted in a belief in the overwhelming power of pure sound. Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown is the Swedish group’s third release as a quintet, with the legendary Daniel Higgs joining Joachim Nordwall and Daniel Fagerstroem on vocal duties and acting as the group’s spiritual ringleader. The Defekts have long acted as the backbone of the Swedish experimental underground, but since their 2011 breakthrough Peer Amid, the group has emerged at the vanguard of a new wave of radical Scandinavian rock music alongside Iceage and the Posh Isolation label.

solace wrote:Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

psychobain wrote:

solace wrote:Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

Interesting. Sounds like a poppier Tame Impala. A little bit of The Black Angels also.

solace wrote:Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

Fire! Orchestra is a 24 member avant-garde, free jazz group that emerged from the Scandinavian jazz scene. Already popping up in Album of the Year lists in The Wire, Mojo, Jazzwise and The Quietus, their first album Exit! was a success when it was released back in January 2013, getting great reviews everywhere and leading to a number of very popular live shows.
One of these you will find on Second Exit, albeit a slightly scaled down version of the full 30 member orchestra, but still sporting 13 members including new boy Goran Kajfes on cornet and previous Fire! collaborator Oren Ambarchi on guitar. The album was recorded live in concert at the Festival Les Rendez-vous de L´erdre in Nantes.

Heathen wrote:

solace wrote:Temples full length is def one of the best debuts we'll hear this year:

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026216 ... structures

30 seconds into this thing I hated it so much that I knew people were gonna eat it up.