Xiu Xiu / Fathre Murphy Split 7" Picture Disc
Photos By David Horvitz
Side A Xiu Xiu "i luv
abortion"
Side B Father Murphy "In the Flood with the
Flood"
Father Murphy May / June Tour Dates
May 01 THE STONE New York, NY
May 02 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel /with Xiu Xiu
and Dirty Beaches
May 03 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church /with Xiu
Xiu and Dirty Beaches
May 04 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom /with Xiu Xiu and
Dirty Beaches
May 05 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs /with Xiu Xiu
and Dirty Beaches
May 07 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse /with Xiu Xiu and Dirty
Beaches
May 08 Portland, ME - SPACE Gallery /with Xiu Xiu and Dirty
Beaches
May 10 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa /with Xiu Xiu and
Dirty Beaches
May 11 Ottawa, Ontario - Mavericks /with Xiu Xiu and Dirty
Beaches
May 12 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Place /with Xiu Xiu and
Dirty Beaches
May 14 Pontiac, Michigan - Crofoot Ballroom - Pike Room
/with Xiu Xiu and Dirty Beaches
May 15 Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme /with Xiu Xiu
and Dirty Beaches
May 17 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall /with Xiu Xiu and Dirty
Beaches
May 18 Madison, WI - Memorial Union Terrace /with Xiu Xiu
and Dirty Beaches
May 19 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club /with Xiu
Xiu and Dirty Beaches
May 21 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room /with Xiu Xiu and Dirty
Beaches
May 23 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater /with Xiu Xiu and Dirty
Beaches
May 24 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge /with Xiu Xiu and
Dirty Beaches
May 27 Seattle, WA - Neumos /with Xiu Xiu and Dirty Beaches
May 28 Vancouver, British Columbia - Biltmore Cabaret /with
Xiu Xiu and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
May 29 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge /with Xiu Xiu and
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
May 31 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill /with Xiu Xiu
and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
June 01 Los Angeles, CA - Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
/with Xiu Xiu and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
June 02 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar /with Xiu Xiu and Yamantaka
// Sonic Titan
June 05 Marfa, TX - Padre's /with Xiu Xiu and Yamantaka //
Sonic Titan
June 06 Austin, TX - The Mohawk /with Xiu Xiu and Yamantaka
// Sonic Titan
June 07 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks /with Xiu Xiu and
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
June 08 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree /with Xiu Xiu and
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
June 09 Atlanta, GA - The Earl /with Xiu Xiu and Yamantaka
// Sonic Titan
FATHER MURPHY Anyway, your children will
deny it
Mixed by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof
After excellent reviews and endless touring all over the
world, supporting bands like Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu and Sic Alps, the Italian
weirdos Father Murphy are back with a brand new album titled “Anyway your
children will deny it”. It is the latest, boldest installation of an
ongoing series of albums investigating the band’s favorite themes: life, death,
love, religion and even more death.
For this album, the Italian trio comprised of Reverend
Freddie (vocals, guitar), Chiara Lee (vocals, keyboards, percussion) and
Vittorio De Marin (vocals, drums, strings), took some time to craft and expand
their sonic palette to almost epic proportions, unleashing an LP that is their
most personal, sophisticated and—dare I say—accessible work to date.
The opener “How we ended up with feeling of Guilt” sets the
tone with a distant rumble of crashing waves, introducing the desolate chanting
of Reverend Freddie. Father Murphy’s amalgamation of noise and pop instincts
collide with echoes of Henry Cow, Jacula and far-out contemporary classical
music. “It is funny, it is restful. Both came quickly” is another sonic
surprise. It’s Father Murphy at their most black metal-ish—a fuzzy aural slab
reeking of fury and desperation. “In praise of our doubts” continues with big,
menacing orchestral stabs and tortured vocals.
But it is not all madness and desolation in Father
Murphyland. The last two tracks are the band’s most hopeful moments. “In the
flood, with the flood” tackles celestial drones and ecstatic buzz while the
closer “Don't let yourself be hurt this time” is a subdued call-to-arms, a hymn
to personal responsibility sung and performed with a ‘Young Marble Giants
simplicity.’
Recorded by the band and mixed by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof
(who added an extra beautifully psychedelic shade to the songs), “Anyway, your
children will deny it” is the group’s definitive album: dark, uncompromising,
yet still open to the future and its possibilities.
Tracklisting
1. How we ended up with feelings of guilt
2. His face showed no distortions
3. It is funny it is rest both came quickly
4. Digging the bottom of the hollow
5. In praise of our doubts
6. Their consciousness
7. In the flood with the flood
8. Don't let yourself be hurt
2. His face showed no distortions
3. It is funny it is rest both came quickly
4. Digging the bottom of the hollow
5. In praise of our doubts
6. Their consciousness
7. In the flood with the flood
8. Don't let yourself be hurt
Also available on Aagoo....
KELVOX1 Grazed Red
Listen to "Hanged Man"
Kelvox1 are a three-piece group from Cambridge, UK who use
synths, sampler, voice, guitar, bass and other useful objects that happen to be
at hand. Over the past year and a half they have played with bands including
Gary War, Braids and Conquering Animal Sound.
A Kelvox1 recording is as much an exploration or an account
of the location it is recorded in as it is a document of a song. The texture of
the space is only revealed by the sounds produced in it, which are like matches
being lit in a darkened room. In these circumstances, the band relinquishes
mastery over the sounds they record, they can only use their equipment to
harness and perhaps direct the properties of the environment. The lack of
complete control is the condition of being in this world; what emerges is an
expression of the group's attempt to create something meaningful within it.
In 'Grazed Red' there is also an idea that songs themselves
are environments to be inhabited, by both the band and the listener.
'Grazed Red' is Kelvox1's first physical release.
Tracklisting
1. Hanged Man
2. Stephen-Grazed Red
2. Stephen-Grazed Red
People have said:
“Cambridge seems to be quite the unlikely hive of outsider
musical activity right now, what with the hauntological techno of Nochexxx and
his gang. Elsewhere on the Cambridge fringe, we have Kelvox1 – absolutely the
finest new British post-rock band this here blog has heard in quite a few
years.
This sense of organically expanded song-form immediately
brings to mind Bark Psychosis’s classic 'Scum' single. Kelvox1 certainly have
the slow-burning moodiness to justify that comparison but nothing here is quite
as dank and nocturnal as 'Scum'. That is to say, the arrangements are colourful
and vivid, in a fashion that recalls the
electronically-enhanced-chaos-in-a-jam-room ambiance of Disco Inferno’s DI
Go Pop. The sullen vocals certainly add to this.
Obviously, these comparisons put Kelvox1 very much in the UK
post-rock continuum. However, where other bands with the same influences
(Epic45 and Hood spring to mind) don’t really add much to the mix, Kelvox1
clearly have their own thing going on.” Bubblegum Cage III
"Post-everything, their sound brings to mind
instrumental dubstep visionaries Mount Kimbie, as well as the dark, expansive
spaces created by the likes of Zola Jesus." We Like Wildlife
“Haunted underwater glitchstep from Cambridge. Burial meets
David Lynch meets “Let’s Dance” meets Sega Megadrive.” Crushing Death and Grief
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