The penultimate New Tunes Guide of 2013 arrives today with highlights from Turning Plates and Night Sins.
Glaswegian quintet Turning Plates are showcasing their forthcoming debut album with the track ‘Falling Lives’. Its video, which sees the group collaborating with two professional ballet dancers, is described as telling the story of ‘two lives pulled together and ruined by the world of online pornography’. Night Sins, led chiefly by singer/songwriter Kyle Kimball, released their second full length album at the start of this week, led by the gothic strains of ‘To London Or The Lake’.
These and eight other picks of the week can be found by scrolling through our latest collection, and you can catch up with all our previous editions by clicking on the New Tunes Guide logo below.
“No Ceremony round off their year with the release of double A-side single ‘AWAYFROMHERE/WARSONGS’, both from their debut album which was released earlier this year. The band played the iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse alongside the Pixies in September, followed by a string of headline UK dates, a European tour with Foals and two further Dublin shows with Pixies. Their last show of the year will be in their hometown of Manchester at the Soup Kitchen on December 9th.”
“The first musical sketches of Lolawolf came into being while singer and actress Zoe Kravitz was filming in LA. Worn down by the mental and physical demands of her role as an anorexic in forthcoming film The Road Within, Zoe was joined by friends James Levy, Raviv Ullman and Jimmy Giannopoulos. ‘It was really draining emotionally and physically, so I needed something to sort of keep my mind off of that,’ the 24-year-old actress explains. “Music was like my therapy.’”
“Mecanico has been around since late 2010, and with just a 4 song EP and a couple of singles, the band has already performed at Chile’s Primavera Fauna, Mysteryland and Lollapalooza festivals. They have just finished the production of their debut album ‘M’ which has been independently produced by the band in its entirety during the course of this year.”
“Having recently announced his new album which is out in January, Doug Paisley has unveiled the first track to come from it. ‘Strong Feelings’, the new album, is set for release on January 20th 2014 through the US label No Quarter.”
“‘Abandoned City’ was recorded in Hauschka’s home studio. “With the exception of Elizabeth Bay, which is based on a piece of music I wrote for a reinvention of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman, the music was composed and recorded in ten days,” says Hauschka. “After the baby, I had to concentrate to find time to work, so the process was very intense.”
“Since their conception in 2007, Super Adventure Club have toured their live show from Inverness to Cork to Bordeaux, and many spots in between. The band has released two albums – 2009’s ‘Chalk Horror!’ and 2010’s ‘Avoid Zombies’.”
“Thursday the 12th of December sees Glaswegian post rock quintet Turning Plates release the first glimpse of their début album with a music video for the song ‘Falling Lives’. The album ‘The Shouting Cave’ which is funded by Creative Scotland is due to be released in early 2014.”
“Hailing from Philadelphia come Night Sins, a project taken on almost entirely by singer / songwriter Kyle Kimball. Last year saw the release of their debut LP ‘New Grave’, modern day dark wave with nine tracks touching on early and hot on the heels of a recent US tour with Youth Code the band are preparing for the release of their second full length due out on December 10th.”
“KID Army & The Future Machine are a British indie rock band, composed of KID Army (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Zeo (lead guitar, vocals), Faye XT (bass guitar, synths, backing vocals), and Sia (drums, backing vocals). The band was formed at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival by KID Army. They went through a variety of names before settling for the Future Machine.”
“With their debut album ‘moon’ due for release 27th January on Bella Union, Snowbird (aka Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen) have just unveiled an animated video for first single ‘Porcelain’. Created by Matt Yarrington and Sarah Winters the video follows a blond-haired doll as she comes to life, wanders through a snow-covered forest and carries out her very own version of Edwards Scissorhands’ Ice Dance.”
