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2008 ALBUM RELEASES: 2008 FORTHCOMING ALBUMS
using rateyourmusic.com: 2008 Album Releases [Updated Regularly]
This information is updated on a continual basis.
[These dates apply to the UK and can change as record companies/distributors do have a habit of messing us around!]
Everything feels fucked up. The environment, the economy, war, terrorism, an unraveling Constitution, obesity, reality shows, the coming 2012 apocalypse meme-- it's hard to be optimistic about much these days.
The new album ''Endless Future'' of the ambient project Art of Infinity , featuring members of The Scorpions, Rammstein and Roedelius will see its release on September 19th 2008 by Prudence/Rough Trade.
TITLE: Solid Ground / ARTIST: The Black Seeds / LABEL: Sonar Kollektiv / RELEASE DATE: 22nd September 2008 / CAT NO: SBCD0010
The Black Seeds truly find their feet on solid ground with these twelve tracks of dub, funk, afro beat and soul, closely chased with a vintage reggae base.
Eclectic UK phenomenon CAINA, comprised of sole mastermind Andrew Curtis Brignell, have completed work on the next anticipated full-length album for Profound Lore Records.
Entitled Temporary Antennae, the new album sees Brignell stretch his musical oeuvre to new unheard levels culminating in a maturity which presents more depth and substance to the unique sound he conjured by combining the likes of raw black metal, 4AD post-rock, and folk/singer-songwriter music
We are happy to introduce the excellent young singer and songwriter Hilde Marie Kjersem with her first solo album. Neither a jazz album nor your typical melancholy Nordic singer songwriter album, let´s say it´s pop music with a twist, quite a few twists come to think of it, inviting the listener to a dramatic, beautiful, mysterious, seductive, dark, intricate and quite simply different sounding and fascinating musical ride.
Burst have posted "(We watched) The Silver Rain" and "Cripple God", two songs of different character from our forthcoming album Lazarus Bird (released mid-September) through our Myspace-thing.
I love the versatility of this band, their sense of individuality by combining numerous music styles and tempos, the full on production, dynamic musical ideas and ambitious arrangements.
BURST will release their new album, Lazarus Bird, via Relapse Records in Mid September. # posted by DJ Martian 7:10 PM
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community. # posted by DJ Martian 7:00 PM
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Wire - New Issue: #294 | Tricky | August 2008
New issue of The Wire features Tricky on the front cover. On sale in the UK on Thursday July 17th.
On The Cover: Tricky - Knowle West Council, strong women and Jesus Christ: Bristol's self-described 'Mr. Darkness' explains his return to form to Mark Fisher. Plus: Michel Chion, avant jazz saxophonist Joe McPhee, Sick Llama/Fag Tapes, Asva, the fluorescent Atsuhiro Ito, Reiko Kudo and The Primer explicates Digital Dancehall. # posted by DJ Martian 3:03 PM
Monday, July 14, 2008
Enslaved Announce New Album: Vertebrae
Enslaved announce new album: Vertebrae due in September on Indie Recordings
Indie Recordings are extremely proud to announce the signing of Norway’s finest - Enslaved - 14/07/08 11:05
Having worked with Enslaved before it is an honour to again being allowed to work with one of the absolute top acts in metal today. Their new album “Vertebrae” will be released September 2008, marking a quantum leap for Extreme Metal. “Vertebrae” is Enslaved’s most important achievement to date, and will convince through haunting songs, the most powerful production and unmatched integrity. More details on the album itself will be revealed shortly. Enslaved is also widely acclaimed as one of the best live acts on the scene today - following the release, Enslaved will commence on an extensive European Tour, being supported by fellow Norwegians Stonegard and Krakow. See the Events section for complete tour-list.
In a statement the band comments the signing:
“We’ve known the people behind the label for years, and have first-hand knowledge of their dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism. This signing makes perfect and utter sense to us; and we are proud to start off this cooperation with our strongest album ever”
New issue of Terrorizer magazine features Carcass on the front cover. On sale Thursday July 17th in the UK.
Terrorizer #173
Feature Highlights: THE ROTTED + WITHERED + CAPRICORNS + ABORTED + HARVEY MILK + ASCEND + CULT OF LUNA + GRAVE + MADE OUT OF BABIES + THE HEADS + HOLE IN THE SKY PREVIEW + AT THE GATES + TOXIC HOLOCAUST + ASPHYX + EXODUS + BRUTAL TRUTH + CARCASS + KEEP OF KALESSIN + EXCLUSIVE AMON AMARTH
Free CD
#173 - Fear Candy Track Listing
1 -- Aborted -- I35 --3.45 2 -- Sotajumala -- Kuolinjulistus --4.08 3 -- Deception -- Praying To Liar --1.34 4 -- Arkangel -- Slow But Heavy --3.41 5 -- Whitechapel -- This Is Exile --3.40 6 -- Insidious -- Charges Of Disgust --2.57 7 -- Soulfly -- Unleash --5.10 8 -- Daylight Dies -- A Subtle Violence --5.41 9 -- Withered -- ...The Fated Breath --4.54 10 -- Brown Jenkins -- Dagonite --5.41 11 -- Repugnant Inebriation -- Dead Soul --4.01 12 -- Algazanth -- The Phosphorescent --5.42 13 -- Kalmah -- For The Revolution --5.07 14 -- Waylander -- Walk With Honour --5.00 15 -- Capricorns -- November Suicides --5.38 16 -- Klimt 1918 -- Suspense Music --4.07 17 -- Ogre -- Drive (edit) --3.52 18 -- Blood Farmers -- Orgy Of The Rats (Edit) --5.00 # posted by DJ Martian 1:14 PM
1. Vashti Bunyan – I Want To Be Alone 2. David Karsten Daniels – Martha Ann 3. Gregory And The Hawk – Ghost exclusive 4. Nina Nastasia – Your Red Nose 5. Vetiver – To Baby 6. Tom Brosseau – True To You exclusive 7. Silje Nes – Dizzy Street 8. Ten Kens – Y’All Come Back Now 9. Charlottefield – Snakes 10. The Rank Deluxe – Tightrope 11. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices exclusive 12. Frightened Rabbit – I Feel Better 13. The Twilight Sad – Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did 14. Max Richter – Return To Prague exclusive 15. Our Brother The Native – Augural Wraith exclusive 16. Hauschka – Blue Bicycle exclusive
This autumn, Gavin Russom - producer, musician, synth technician, sculptor and general polymath - will unveil Black Meteoric Star, his new acid house project for DFA Records
Invisible Conga People’s ‘Cable Dazed’ is surely one of the most serene and sensuous records to be cut to vinyl this year. It was released through Mike Simonetti’s Italians Do It Better imprint,
IQ
news update: IQ - Official Website - THE NEW IQ ALBUM - AN UPDATE FROM MIKE AND PETER
Grace Jones
Grace Jones is back to scare the mainstream with a brilliant new single - and a new album in October !
On 25 august the new Grace Jones single ''Corporate Cannibal'' gets released. It is the first single of the new album ''Hurricane'', which is slated for a October 27th release.
Deep cuts, deep digging, deep passion: Norwegian DJ/producer Prins Thomas is very much a self-made man. RA caught up with him on the eve of his label's first compilation release to talk hip-hop, Wham and adult oriented disco.
We are very happy to inform you that we have warmly welcomed keyboard player Harald de Haan (Kevin´s Crew). He will join and help the band with working on the new album. And he will be in control of the keys when The Wounded go live on stages again in the near future. Ed Dresscher also will be helping to get the album done as soon as possible. In the last few years Ed became a very important factor within the band. We thank you for the days on the road and for never letting the band down. And we wish you all the best!
The cover artwork for "Awaken The Dreamers", the new album from the Oakland extreme metal outfit ALL SHALL PERISH, can be viewed below. Due on September 5 via Nuclear Blast Records
Chicago-area producer Stephen Hitchell is a man of many projects. As Soultek, he recently released 12-inches on soundshift [detroit] and Lee Purkis’ Fortune8. He collaborates with Rod Modell as cv313 and Echospace.
AMERICAN BLACK METAL BANDS SPECIALIZE IN A UNIQUELY BRUTAL, HOMEGROWN SOUND, BUT THEY DON’T ACTUALLY KILL PEOPLE. SO WHY SHOULD THEY BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY?
Norwegian pop singer Annie's first album won her a devoted internet following. Now she's relocated to Berlin, recruited Girls Aloud and is bidding to conquer the charts proper, writes Alex Macpherson
Even more importantly, Mt Sims wasted no time finishing up the third album "Happily Ever After" slated for an October US release on Hungry Eye Records, produced by none other than Thomas Stern of Crime and the City Solution,
We are looking to finish in the studio by fall '08 and have the album soon thereafter.
The Week That Was
The Week That Was - comparisons to Kate Bush / Talk Talk / Tortoise / XTC / Prefab Sprout / Frazier Chorus - debut album due on Memphis Industries on August 18th
The new album by Minotaur Shock is titled Amateur Dramatics due August 11th on 4ad
It was influenced by many things, notably Fleetwood Mac, Detroit techno, Frank Zappa, Cluster, Andrew Poppy, Bowie, Italo house, Glass/Reich, Gentle Giant and Todd Rundgren. Each track has it’s own artwork and the tracklisting is pretty fluid. # posted by DJ Martian 1:47 PM
The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Summer '08
this installment covers a wide swath of the crucial cuts you'll be jamming on through the summer and into the fall, from LPs and EPs to singles and music-related DVDs of note. # posted by DJ Martian 1:38 PM
In mid August we will release 'A Killer For That Ache' by brilliant singer and songwriter Hilde Marie Kjersem, to be followed later in the year by new releases from MoHa!, Huntsville (with some very special guests), Susanna (solo) and Humcrush (live). We also plan to finally release 'Money Will Ruin Everything 2'. # posted by DJ Martian 1:30 PM
HTRK - Marry Me Tonight
experimental ambient dub noise-pop band HTRK will finally release their much anticipated album: Marry Me Tonight on September 1st on BlastFirstPetite
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community. # posted by DJ Martian 1:09 PM
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Music Links Roundup - Update - July 2nd
Some links of interest:
New issue of Rock-A-Rolla magazines features Nurse with Wound on the front cover: ISSUE 15 OUT NOW!!!
Club Night 2008 is comprised of about 90 bands playing at 25 different venues. As we see it, this year's bill is the grooviest ever and contains for example summer pop, Balkan rhythms, indie rock, psychedelia, hardcore, rock'n'roll, prog, punk, garage rock, country, electronica, blues, and a whole lot more. A music event of this magnitude doesn't happen in downtown Oslo too often. As usual, the bill is dominated by up-and-coming Norwegian acts, but there are also a few well-known names to be found. The program is now more or less complete, but a couple of names may be added during the next few weeks. Artist info will be made available under ARTISTS in the weeks to come.
According to the press release, Kemp is influenced by classic Black Metal, Doom and 70's prog, right through to timeless songwriters like Kate Bush and Tom Waits. # posted by DJ Martian 11:56 PM
textura - New Issue
New issue of electronic / experimental music webzine: textura
JULY 2008, NO. 46
Articles Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia: Two Voices Create a Third The Fun Years: The Fine Art of Audio Magma, or Putting Women To Sleep Since 2003 James Blackshaw's Top 10 Recent Favourite Records Lullatone's Top 10 Sounds Around the House
Albums @c: Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom (Cronica) Antenne: #3 (Helmet Room) The Antripodean Collective: The Massacre of the Egos (Extreme) Rudi Arapahoe: Echoes From One To Another (Symbolic Interaction) Black Gold 360: Suite 17 (Beluga) Brael / Tokyo Bloodworm: Living Language (Moteer) Richard Chartier: Further Materials (Line) Jack Dangers: Music For Planetarium (Brainwashed) Rae Davis: Positive Thinking! (Exponential) Depth Affect: Hero Crisis (Autres Directions in Music) Taylor Deupree: Northern (12k) Engine7: Me, But Perfect (Herb) Emanuele Errante: Humus (Somnia) Force of Nature: III (Mule Musiq) Gel-Sol: IZ (Psychonavigation/ Upstairs Recordings) Glissando: With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea (Gizeh) Hardfloor: The Life We Choose (Hardfloor) He Can Jog: Middlemarch (Audiobulb) Hulk: Rise of a Mystery Tide (Osaka) Adam Hurst: Dwelling (Ash) Adam Hurst: Ruin (Ash) Kenny Larkin: Keys, Strings, Tambourines (Planet E) Loco Dice: 7 Dunham Place (Desolat) Mad EP: Bass.hed (Ad Noiseam) Maju: Maju-5 (Extreme) Evan Marc + Steve Hillage: Dreamtime Submersible (Somnia) Izumi Misawa: Speaking Behind the Raindrops (Symbolic Interaction) Nico Muhly: Mothertongue (Brassland) Toshimaru Nakamura: Dance Music (Bottrop-Boy) Organum: Omega (Die Stadt) Maja S.K. Ratkje: River Mouth Echoes (Tzadik) Nicola Ratti: From the Desert Came Saltwater (Anticipate) Recue: All the Wrong Places (Rednetic) Renfro: Mathematics (Meltwater) Sawako: Bitter Sweet (12k) Seawalker: Every Love Unwinds (Lathelight Ltd) Raoul Sinier: Brain Kitchen (Ad Noiseam) Spyweirdos, John Morjopoulos and Floros Floridis: Epistrophy at Utopia (Ad Noiseam) Svartbag: Svartbag (Rump) Tape: Milieu Plus (Minority Records) John Tejada: Where (Palette) Asmus Tietchens + Richard Chartier: Fabrication (Die Stadt) Transitional: Nothing Real Nothing Absent (Conspiracy)
Compilations / Mixes Nicolas Matar & Willie Graff: Cielo-Cinco (Tommy Boy) VA: Ai022LP (Ai Records) VA: Buzzin' Fly 5 Golden Years In The Wilderness (Buzzin' Fly) VA: Deconstructive Music (More Mars) VA: Om: Miami 2008 (Om) VA: Sounds of Om Vol. 6 (Om) VA: Traum 100 (Traum) VA: Underscan Now (Underscan)
EPs Claro Intelecto: Warehouse Sessions Volume 5 (Modern Love) Funckarma: Dubstoned EP (Highpoint Lowlife) Tanaka Hideyuki: Think Zero (Microcosm) Jona: Antiplano (Planet E) Alton Miller: Late Night Fantasy (Yore) Move D: Drøne (Modern Love) saidsound: Singing Laundry (Microcosm) Sebastian San: Rising Sun (Planet E) Patrice Scott vs. Andy Vaz: Split EP (Yore) Philip Sherburne: Salt & Vinegar EP (Lan Muzic) Vakula: Hohol (Uzuri) # posted by DJ Martian 1:59 PM
Monday, June 30, 2008
Mojo - New Issue
New issue of Mojo features 20 Years on...Sub Pop and the Rise of Nirvana. Nirvana again ! zzzzzzzzzzz
FREE CD! SUB POP 300! MOJO celebrates 20 years of America’s most iconic label with 15 killer tracks from the likes of Mudhoney, Green River, Tad, The Shins, No Age and many, many more # posted by DJ Martian 1:23 PM
UK atmospheric rock band ANATHEMA will release its new album, "Hindsight", on CD on August 25 via on Kscope. It will be available to download from August 11.
"Due to unforeseen difficulties with the printing of the new DAYLIGHT DIES album 'Lost To The Living', Candlelight Records have regretfully had to postpone its UK and European release date until 14th July 2008. This difficult decision has been taken in order to ensure that the band's vision for their stunning new album is preserved, and to make sure it looks as good as it sounds!
Deeply soulful electro-RnB, unconventional in it's way of expressing pop and electronics ***** K7 (K7228CD) August 25th, 2008
DOTSHOP FAVOURITE. RECOMMENDED **** Introspective, sensual electro-folk steeped in weightless melancholy: The third Milosh album ‘iii’ takes the listener on an emotional journey through an exquisitely beautiful musical landscape.
A classically trained cellist, Toronto-based Michael Milosh does not fit conventional pop categories - and neither does his music which combines beats, samples, guitars, strings and the most silken falsetto voice.
Signed to the renowned Plug Research label (John Tejada, Flying Lotus etc), Milosh's previous two albums made it into the Top 10 Electronic Music albums on iTunes and earned warm reviews that likened his different musical shadings to Radiohead, Cocteau Twins, and Brian Eno. During the past years, Milosh shared the stage with artists like Imogen Heap (a big supporter of his music), Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Dntel, Psapp and others.
The tracks on ‘iii’ combine the best of both Milosh’s cerebral electronica and soulful singer-songwriter sides, stirring deep emotions with lush arrangements, honeyed vocals and delicately deconstructed beats. Mixed and mastered by Josh Eustis from Telefon Tel Aviv (who also mixed Apparat´s last record), it's his richest album yet. Music to nourish the mind, stimulate the body and soothe the spirit.
Finnish atmospheric doom metallers SILENTIUM have issued the following update:
"After a while of silence, the band has retired to a studio in central Finland. At this point the drums, the bass and most of the guitars [for the next SILENTIUM album] have been recorded. Some of the vocals have been recorded as well, although Riina [Rinkinen; female vocals] and Matti [Aikio; bass, vocals] are due to return to the studio in July. The band has some major surprises reserved for their loyal fans, who have been more than patient in the wait for the new album. All the Silentians agree that the new material is the most impressive up to date! Prepare yourselves for a massive music experience. This fall, SILENTIUM will be back, more powerful than ever!"
SILENTIUM's new album, which is scheduled for release on October 29, is being produced by the multi-talented mainman of WALTARI, Kärtsy Hatakka.
MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. FEATURING JEREMY GREENSPAN OF JUNIOR BOYS ON VOCALS *****
"Double Night Time" is the new album from Morgan Geist and his first solo artist album in over a decade. released on his own Environ imprint - home to loveables such as Kelley Polar.
After turning the dance music world on its head with his Metro Area project (alongside collaborator Darshan Jesrani) and mining rare disco gems with the seminal obscure disco DJ mix Unclassics (2004), Geist decided it was time to turn his attention to a solo album that would indulge his own early influences and guilty pleasures: techno-pop, prog rock and pure electronic music.
While "Double Night Time" is very much a solo flight, made during a challenging period in which dark personal themes inflected the compositions, Geist collaborated with friend and fellow new wave traveler Jeremy Greenspan for the vocal tracks on the album. An ardent fan of Jeremy’s band Junior Boys, Geist knew the vocalist would be perfect as a sympathetic collaborator; indeed, having remixed Junior Boys “The Equalizer” in 2006, he already knew what it was like working with Greenspan’s voice in the studio. Greenspan also co-wrote one of the tracks on the album, “City of Smoke and Flame.”
Instrumentally, the orchestra Geist employs is decidedly more Yellow Magic than philharmonic: unlike his Metro Area project or the disco music he DJs all over the world, a conscious decision was made to design an album that was almost purely electronic outside of human vocals, with classic synthetic sound design and arrangements. Geist wanted Double Night Time to be the sound of one person making music in a studio, programming a private world, recapturing the lonely and romantic sentiments associated with his formative music-making experiences. And while the conceit of a producer-as-one-man-band is well-worn in today’s digital world, Geist felt he could do it differently, aiming for the compositional richness, subtlety and dynamics of an era when artists took their time, had bigger studio budgets and a more attentive listening public. # posted by DJ Martian 12:58 PM
Nick Luscombe's Flo-Motion show on NMERadio 8pm - 11pm every Sunday
Reminder that Nick Luscombe's Flo-Motion show is on NMERadio every Sunday, starting from today: NMERadio - Flo:Motion
Flo:Motion 20:00:00 to 23:00:00 on Sunday
Nick Luscombe delivers modern electronic music, from deep house to dubstep plus guest interviews, club and live music updates.
Tip, you can listen to NMERadio using Winamp, go to Shoutcast and search for NME Radio - then listen on Winamp and add it your bookmarks !
It's good to have Nick Luscombe's Flo-Motion show back for 3 hours on a Sunday night, after those corporate muppets on Xfm axed the Flo-Motion show in December 2006.
In the UK you can also listen to NMERadio on Sky 0184 and Virgin Media 975 # posted by DJ Martian 12:54 PM
Australia's extreme industrial metal collective THE AMENTA will enter The Vault Studios in Sydney, Australia this week to mix its latest release, "n0n", with longtime engineer Lachlan Mitchell (NAZXUL).
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