September 2010
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Errors on Bruce Haack
Great piece on Rockfeedback by Errors. Click the link at the end to check out loads more great stuff on their website.
Bruce Haack- The Electric Lucifer (1970) When I was 17 I wrote a concept album based on a war between a society of ants and a race of robots influenced by the then recent events of September 11th. That pioneering electronic composer Bruce Haack had 33 ...
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Woodpigeon
A lovely video session with one of our favourites Woodpigeon. Here they are playing ‘…And as the ship went down’ in what looks like a disused reservoir/dam. It looks a bit like the one used in one of The Terminator films but it probably isn’t.
Regardless, Woodpigeon bring their own evocative power, with the ever-beautiful interplay of the male and female vocals. The...
Blonde Redhead
We’ve just seen some pictures from the European Blonde Redhead dates and the production is looking great. The band have been playing some bigger venues across Europe, touring their excellent new album, and throwing in favourites from their always seminal backcatalog.
The bigger production in these venues has let the band loose into their own magical world of huge photo-shades and...
Tomorow Night: Blonde Redhead + Porcelain Raft
Tomorrow night (29/09) we are so so excited to host Feted New York trio BLONDE REDHEAD plus Londoner Mauro Remiddi aka PORCELAIN RAFT.
Taking in nine countries (with more still to be added), the Blonde Redhead tour coincides with the worldwide release of Penny Sparkle, their first album in over three years and eighth in an already illustrious career. The record marks another sonic twist for the...
This week...
Tuesday 28th: Amiina at XOYO
Tickets available here.
Wednesday 29th: Blonde Redhead + Porcelain Raft at Shepherds Bush Empire
Tickets available here.
Thursday 30th: The Kissaway Trail at Cargo
Tickets available here.
Thursday 30th: Four Tet Live at Oxfam
Full info here.
Friday 1st: Born in London with Ghost Poet + Radiant Dragon + There’s More of Us than there are...
Errors and The Twilight Sad have recorded a...
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Of Montreal Making Of
Something nice, informative and light for you for Friday. Here is a nice little making-of video for Of Montreal’s latest video. Some great homemade weapons, and the guy lying facedown on the beach looks colder than the rain in London. So it has that bonus of making you feel warmer.
Can’t wait for the show in October now!
(Of Montreal // 6th October // KOKO)
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Junip
We are getting excited about Junip in a couple of weeks supported by the brilliant Woodpigeon. This live video was shot at a recent Junip show in Stockholm. They play tightly, and Jose Gonzales definitely sounds in his element with this expanded sound. The album is great and well worth checking out too!
You can listen to the entire show HERE and get yourself prepped for October 4th.
And...
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Blonde Redhead
The new Blonde Redhead video debuted this week. It’s sultry and dark with the band playing in a big spotlight. The simplicity works as it relies on the bands chemistry - which is pretty abundant here, and highlights just what a good live band these guys are. Plus there are some projections of Horses. Pretty much all you need.
We expect the light show will be something similarly special...
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Matthew Dear - Little People (Black City) - Mark E...
MDBC Abstraction from Ghostly International on Vimeo.
As you should know by now, the new Matthew Dear album is incredible. One of the best of the year with its ear melting bass and pitched vocals. Stand out track ‘Little People (Black City)’ has been given the Mark E treatment and his remix is rude with hugeness, embracing the vocals with all manner of good sounds.
Check out this...
James Blake - Klavierwerke EP
We’re big fans of the endlessly shape-shifting James Blake and we’re happy to hear that he is preparing a new E.P. in October called ‘Klavierwerke’.
You can read all about it over at Neu Magazine and sample a track from there too.
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James Blake plays for us this Saturday in the Main Room at XOYO. Info and tickets -
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James Yorkston
It’s become Tour Tuesday on the blog today. Check out this amazingly beautiful tour documentary of James Yorkston and a couple of others on tour in Ireland. It’s graceful and blurry portrait of Ireland and music is charming and haunting in equal measure.
We’re really quite excited to announce the return of James Yorkston for his traditional Christmas show with us. It...
Jamie Lidell
Really nice tour video from Jamie Lidell featuring ‘Telephone’ and some great dance moves. One of the best live acts going at the moment, so check this trailer out and come and see him in the Autumn.
(Jamie Lidell // 18th November // KOKO)
Turning Point Festival
This weekend sees the Turning Point Festival at the Roundhouse in Camden. The line-up is great and varied and Eat Your Own Ears have curated a room at the festival. We’ll be in room 2 on the Sunday and offering up an eclectic fare of up-and-coming new music talent from London and beyond including Actress, Bo Ningen, Gallops and Radiant Dragon. London Word Festival play host in the...
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Four Tet All-Nighter
One of the best things about Four Tet’s music is its ability to move silkily between different modes - the daylight hum of his gorgeous remix of ‘Melody Day’ by Caribou, the early evening swoon of ‘Angel Echoes’ from his latest album There Is Love In You or the late-night crack of his work with Burial.
This of course brings us to a special Eat Your Own Ears show at...
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Eat Your Own Ears September 2010 Playlist
Welcome to the first of our monthly playlists highlighting what we have coming up and introducing you to a couple of the support acts too. The playlist is available through a spotify link below the tracklist.
This months playlist sees an eclectic mix of darker folk complimenting the bassier strains of dubstep with a couple of favourite Four Tet remixes thrown in. Check out the hot remix of...
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Olof Arnalds
Great review of the new Olof Arnalds album on Drowned in Sound. The album is out worldwide today and Olof plays for Eat Your Own Ears tonight at Bush Hall. There are still tickets so don’t miss out!
Icelandic artists are prone to being stereotyped as a bunch of otherworldly fantasists, all glacial wonder and fairy tale charm. Ólöf Arnalds risks being guilty by association alone;...
Ólöf Arnalds - Jonathan
This song is on...
Four Tet
Amazing retrospective of Four Tet’s back-catalog courtesy of Fact magazine…
Go over and check it out, really gets you in the mood for some Four Tet
http://www.factmag.com/2010/09/08/the-essential-four-tet/
(Four Tet // 19th November // Coronet Theatre)
Glasser
Here is an odd video for ‘Home’ from Glassers eagerly awaited debut album Ring, which is out at the end of this month.The video mutates and shifts in perspective gradually and oddly mirrors Glassers woozy pop music. The music is fairly inward but in the moments when she opens up her voice it expands the whole song into a world of bright colours and texture.
It all makes us very...
The XX
Congratulations to Eat Your Own Ears favourites and regulars The XX who won the Mercury Music Prize last night. It’s been exciting to watch this band’s meteoric rise to the top of the pile, and their award is completely deserved and refreshing to see it go to a young London band who have taken time to develop and work hard. They have come a long way since this:
Amiina Video Picks (via Schmooze Blog)
1 – Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
“This is the first film with live sound that is known of. Nice to think back to the roots now and then to remember how easy things have become with modern technology. “
2 – Lumière Brothers – The Serpentine Dance (c.1899)
“A classic, always beautiful ”
3 – Gamelan Gong Kebyar
“This video from Bali is just stunning. Makes you want to...
Of Montreal Competition
We have a competition on our Eat Your Own Ears facebook right now! Head on over to www.facebook.com/eatyourownears to enter.
Of Montreal Competition We have four copies of the new Of Montreal album ‘False Priest’ to give away! To win we want you to write your favourite Of Montreal line as a status update with ‘@eat your own ears’ at the end so we can see it. Good luck!
The Mountain Goats
Director Rian Johnson filmed John Darnielle a.k.a. The Mountain Goats as he played songs from ‘The Life of The World to Come’ in a room. The result was captured on a special DVD release for record store day this year, and is still haunting to watch as this take of “Ezekiel and The Permanent Efficacy of Grace” testifies.
(The Mountain Goats // 9th September // Koko)
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Caribou Vibration Ensemble
As you know we’re big fans of Caribou here and so we are really excited to hear about the new double LP live album that they are preparing for sale on tour. The artwork is beautiful and anybody who caught Caribou at either of our two shows earlier in the year or Field Day 2010 will know how good Dan Snaith and his cohorts are live.
The live album is recorded from a special set at ATP New...
