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News/Blognew SHRAG recording - Chasing Consummations# On Wed 25th Jan 2012 @ 2:29pm John said... oh, yes... Startling in their ability to catch the listener by surprise, Shrag offer a taster from their forthcoming album Canines, due out in May on WIAIWYA/Fortuna POP! The track “Chasing Consummations” appears at the more melodic, reflective end of Shrags spectrum, and demonstrates a new, more confident side to the Brighton/London 5-piece.Helen King from the band describes it: “’Chasing Consummations’ is a defiant song about allying yourself with your own ridiculousness, refusing to pathologise an outlook and approach to life which enables as much as it debilitates. Colour is not all it is cracked up to be.” Recorded at Gargleblast Studios with producer Andy Miller (Life Without Buildings, Mogwai, Sons and Daughters), “ChasingConsummations” is the first taste of Canines, Shrags third album. More ambitious and mature than their previous work, Canines is a pop record that bristles with urgency, melody and danger. As Helen says: “We wrote Canines between January and August this year in a long series of slightly fevered evenings ensconced in the shed at thebottom of Bobs garden. It is a pop record about bones and skin and cities and compulsions and love and confusion. It is a bit strange, but you can dance to some of it, and it makes a particular kind of sense to us, which feels very exciting.” Canines follows 2009s self-titled debut album, and 2010s Life!Death! Prizes!, which met critical acclaim from Uncut, Pitchfork, The Sunday Times and The Quietus. The band have performed in New York atthe CMJ Music Marathon, played a scene stealing performance at Indietracks Festival, and have recorded three sessions for BBC6s MarcRiley, including one at Londons prestigious Maida Vale Studios for Radio One. Renowned for the energy and vitality of their live shows, Shrag setout on a joint-headline UK tour in February with Tunabunny fromAthens, GA, who share their reputation for compelling live performances. To commemorate this union, the bands will be releasing alimited edition split 7” on February 20th featuring another track from Canines, "Tendons In The Night". NEW Wave Pictures single# On Mon 9th Jan 2012 @ 5:03pm John said... it is a couple of days late, but the new Wave Pictures single (and first release of wiaiwya-7777777, the 2012 singles club) is now avalable to buy:FREE Christmas download# On Tue 6th Dec 2011 @ 10:18pm John said... Tom at Fika recordings and Darren Hayman are doing a download advent calendar this year, and have been kind enough to have wiaiwya behind the 7th door:it is 7th December, so why not sit back and tuck into SEVEN SWANS - the wiaiwya selection box, a CELEBRATION for HEROES on QUALITY STREET... first up let us unwrap the caramel swirl of David Tattersall, with a beautiful instrumental blues hymn, YES! Jesus Loves Me and then, because they are moreish, the peanut cracknell of Jeff Mellin playing a South Carolina Spiritual, Aint That A Rockin All Night World of Fox and Clair Horton will have you chewing on the toffee penny, a gold wrapper for their cover of the Waitresses Xmas Wrappin next up the Werewandas are the purple one, these rocking boys and girls Love You Santa Claus what is in the blue wrapper?, ah, yes, its the coconut eclair of Liverpools Meow Meow, desperate for a film they havent seen This Christmas we are nearing the end of todays treats, but there is always room for Coming Soon, and the vanilla fudge of Last Christmas and saved for last, the strawberry creme of Clemence Freschard, but sadly she has had a Bad Year make sure you dont put the empty wrappers back in the tin, and hope the christmas shopping is going well... thanks to all the bands and Darren & Tom for having us along... HAPPY CHRISTMAS oh, and all the tracks are here, in a handy zip file, if it makes things easier Christmas in Australia# On Fri 2nd Dec 2011 @ 12:00pm John said... oh, yes... the Help Stamp Out Loneliness spin off from the wiaiwya Christmas album is being used for an advert in Australia:which makes this the ideal time to get your copy: all the wiaiwya singles# On Sun 30th Oct 2011 @ 11:01am John said... morning... all the wiaiwya singles are being uploaded, roughly one a week, to the wiaiwya soundcloud page, today was the magnificent MARINE RESEARCH single...and here is the video: DJ Downfall is the Resurrection# On Sat 22nd Oct 2011 @ 12:23pm John said... well, it seemed daft not to... initially released 13 years ago, when Ian Brown was banged up:live video of the Lobster Boat# On Mon 17th Oct 2011 @ 5:28pm John said... our chums in Nottingham managed to film the title track from the Howard Hughes & David Tattersall album - the Lobster Boat - before David fell ill:Howard Hughes & David Tattersall - The Lobster Boat from Louis Lankester on Vimeo. FREE DJ Downfall single# On Wed 5th Oct 2011 @ 7:40am John said... DJ Downfall has recently completed a soundtrack for Choir by Elizabeth Price, a video work premiered at the Chisenhale Gallery in London in July. This involved everything from throwing tambourines on the floor of City churches to recording (his own) high-heeled footsteps He has also been busy on a co-curation project at the Science Museum based around the current exhibition of the Oramics Machine, an amazing, unique instrument from the 1960s. From tracking down obscure drum machines to working out how to explain synthesisers to Korean tourists, there is simply nothing he can nott do - except deliver the next album. He relaxes by practising archery in the house when people are out (mostly). wiaiwya080 - DJ Downfall - Shape! oh, and i am gradually putting all the wiaiwya singles on soundcloud for your listening pleasure 7777777 the wiaiwya singles club# On Thu 15th Sep 2011 @ 2:12pm John said... all the bands and release dates have been confirmed for 7777777 (which is the wiaiwya singles club for 2012... subscribers will get seven 7 inch singles; 21 exclusive tracks on 14 grooves by 7 bands, on the 7th day the month, incorporating the 7 days of the week, on vinyl the 7 colours of the rainbow in limited editions of 777... )YES!, there will be sleeve notes (7 of them, 777 words each)... YES!, there will be presents (7 for each subscriber)... YES!, the prices are all multiples of 7 #1 - Saturday 7th January - the Wave Pictures #2 - Tuesday 7th February - the Werewandas #3 - Monday 7th May - Tally Ho! (featuring Rose Melberg) #4 - Thursday 7th June - Help Stamp Out Loneliness #5 - Sunday 7th October - SHRAG #6 - Wednesday 7th November - Eux Autres #7 - Friday 7th December - Allo Darlin and YES!, there is more information on the blog... new WAVE PICTURES single out on Monday# On Tue 16th Aug 2011 @ 11:25pm John said... oh, yes... you can listen here, just click on the orange dot on Davids nose: |
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