The noise duo are back on the road next January, with a string of dates in Europe followed by a set at CTM Festival in Berlin.
Here's where you can catch 'em:
Jan. 25 - Graz, AT - Orpheum Extra
Jan. 26 - Zagreb, HR - Mochvara
Jan. 28 - Linz, AT - Kapu
Jan. 29 - Prague, CZ - Underdogs
Jan. 30 - Warsaw, PL - Klub Poglos
Jan. 31 - Poznan, PL - Pawillion
Feb. 1 - Berlin, DE - CTM Festival
We also just announced the repress of Lightning Bolt's Fantasy Empire, nab yourself a copy of that here.
Just over one month from the release of their new album "Plastic Anniversary" on 15 March, electronic duo Matmos (Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt) have unveiled the album's title track.
"Plastic Anniversary" was crafted as the duo celebrated their 25th anniversary as musical collaborators and as a couple. The sounds used on the album were crafted using exclusively plastic objects, with the title track utilizing: poker chips, pvc panflute, plastic ocarina, plastic trumpet and trombones, and a plastic fish fashioned into a jock strap - the very same fish that Daniel was wearing as a go-go dancer when he met Schmidt in San Francisco.
Listen to Matmos' Plastic Anniversary title track now
Matmos will also be touring Europe in June.
Matmos European tour:
Jun. 3 - Berlin, DE - HAU 1
Jun. 4 - Copenhagen, DK - Copenhagen contemporary
Jun. 6 - Dublin, IE - National Concert Hall
Jun. 7 - Belfast, UK - The Sonic Lab
Jun. 9 - Athens, GR - Tectonics Festival
Jun. 11 - London, UK - Jazz Cafe
Jun. 12 - Paris, FR - Les Instants Chavirés
Jun. 13 - Brussels, BE - Botaniqu
Jun. 14 - Den Haag, NL - Korzo Theater (Rewire x Korzo)
Opening on ominous sampled church bells before quickly switching into grinding guitars, "Love Amnesia" is the second single from Japanese metal innovators ENDON's new album Boy Meets Girl, out February 15th.
Listen to "Love Amnesia"
Boy Meets Girl is available to pre-order now on rasberry vinyl and CD.
ENDON will be playing their native Tokyo with Neurosis and Converge on February 16th, before touring Europe with now-labelmates SUMAC in March. Full list of dates:
Feb. 16 - Tokyo, JP - O-EAST *
Mar. 14 - Dortmund, DE - Junkyard ^
Mar. 15 - Brussels, BE - Magasin 4 ^
Mar. 16 - Bristol, UK - The Exchange ^
Mar. 17 - Glasgow, UK - Stereo ^
Mar. 18 - Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute ^
Mar. 19 - London, UK - The Underworld ^
Mar. 20 - Paris, FR - Petit Bain ^
Mar. 21 - Karlsruhe, DE - Jubez ^
Mar. 22 - Leipzig, DE - Institut fur Zukunft ^
* w/ Neurosis, Converge
^ w/ SUMAC, Baptists
Following the release of his visceral and expansive new album Seven Horses For Seven Kings, Black To Comm has shared the video for track "Double Happiness in Temporal Decoy". Opening on sparse, resonant piano chords that ripple outwards through the low buzz of static, a lone caped figure explores a seemingly desolate landscape. Ambient noise from the video bleeds into the track, the rustle of wind through reeds or the splash of stone against water adding surprising new textures to the piece, blurring the lines between environmental sound and composed music.
Watch the video for "Double Happiness in Temporary Decoy" now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The first single from the Japanese extreme music innovators' new album Boy Meets Girl, "Doubts as a source" shifts styles with marked intensity, guided by Taichi Nagura's caustic howls and hyperventilation.
Listen to "Doubts as a source (single version)" now
Boy Meets Girl is available to pre-order now on rasberry vinyl and CD now.
ENDON will play with Converge and Neurosis in their native Tokyo next month, before embarking on a European tour in March with now-labelmates SUMAC. Full list of dates:
Feb. 16 - Tokyo, JP - O-EAST *
Mar. 14 - Dortmund, DE - Junkyard ^
Mar. 15 - Brussels, BE - Magasin 4 ^
Mar. 16 - Bristol, UK - The Exchange ^
Mar. 17 - Glasgow, UK - Stereo ^
Mar. 18 - Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute ^
Mar. 19 - London, UK - The Underworld ^
Mar. 20 - Paris, FR - Petit Bain ^
Mar. 21 - Karlsruhe, DE - Jubez ^
Mar. 22 - Leipzig, DE - Institut fur Zukunft ^
* w/ Neurosis, Converge
^ w/ SUMAC, Baptists
Taken from the Basque multi-instrumentalist's debut Thrill Jockey album Another Kind of Revolution, out February 15th, "She Was So Fair" showcases Setién's intricate, nuanced approach to songwriting.
Through a gentle haze of wispy, swirling melodies, Setién's distinguished voice tells a tale of a beautiful woman falling into the sea, reaching the bottom, and transforming to stay there, irradiating.
Another Kind of Revolution is available to pre-order now on limited edition red vinyl
Setién is touring Europe this Spring through Summer, including a set at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Full list of dates:
Feb. 13 - Aalborg, DK - Huset i Hasserisgade w/ Jakob Bro
Feb. 14 - Århus, DK - Tape
Feb. 17 - Gnesta, SE - Vår Lokal
Feb. 21 - Helsinki, FI - G Livelab w/ Lac Belot
Feb. 22 - Gothenburg, SE - ögat
Feb. 23 - Copenhagen, DK - Jazz Club Loco, Bryggekælderen
Feb. 24 - Copenhagen, DK - MEUF Festival (performing improvised music with Johanna Borchert)
Feb. 26 - Odense, DK - Posten
Mar. 30 - Oñate, ES - Beratu Festival
Apr. 18 - London, UK - The Lexington w/ Anna St Louis
May. 16 - Bilbao, ES - Kutxa Beltza
May. 17 - San Sebastian - Dabadaba
May. 30 - Barcelona, ES - Primavera Sound Festival
The latest single from Louise's forthcoming album Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars, out January 25th, "Rime" sees the guitarist tap into minimalist traditions, transforming sounds from her 12-string guitar into an ocean of aural texture.
Listen to "Rime"
Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars is available to pre-order now on LP and CD.
Blunts at the ready - the Chicago trio are back with a new collection of rippers, bangers and burners, out this March.
The first single "Tween Shitbag", is up to stream now. A continuiation of Oozing Wound's hatred of, well, pretty much everything, the track seethes with rage at the music industry players that trade on and commodify subculture.
Listen to Tween Shitbag now
High Anxiety is available to pre-order now on "nuclear waste green" vinyl and CD.
Oozing Wound will be touring Europe this Spring, with US dates in the pipeline. Here's when you can catch 'em:
Mar. 28 - Manchester, UK - Peer Hat
Mar. 29 - Glasgow, UK - Nice n Sleazy
Mar. 30 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
Apr. 1 - London, UK - The Black Heart
Apr. 3 - Lyon, FR - Grnd Zero
Apr. 4 - Clermont Ferrand, FR - Raymond Bar
Apr. 6 - Eindhoven, NL - Fast & Louder Festival
Apr. 7 - Brussels, BE - Mag 4
Apr. 9 - Berlin, DE - Zukunft
Apr. 10 - Leipzig, DE - Zoro
Apr. 12 - Winterthur, CH - Gaswerk!
Hypnotic, wild and unruly - the Baltimore electronic duo return with a new collection of mutant dance tracks and sonic curiosities exploring the world's obsession with plastic.
Watch the trailer for Plastic Anniversary
Comprised entirely of sounds derived from plastic objects - everything from PVC panpipes and billiard balls to silicone gel breast implants and synthetic human flesh, the album was crafted as a celebration of Matmos' Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt's own anniversary as a couple. It also explores our (possibly unhealthy) relationship to a material whose durability, portability and longevity, while heralded by its makers, are the very qualities that make it a force of environmental devastation.
Plastic Anniversary is available to pre-order on CD / LP now
Envisioned as a soundtrack to an imagined horror film about love, Boy Meets Girl sees the Japanese metallic noise unit continue to carve out their own space in the extreme music continuum, with songs that shift from pounding sludge to off-kilter hardcore to synth-driven dance to utter oblivion.
The album will be out February 15th, and we'll be releasing the first single in the new year, but in the meantime watch the trailer video for Boy Meets Girl.
Boy Meets Girl is available to pre-order now on LP / CD
Your first chance to hear the entrancing effortless beauty of Setién's Thrill Jockey debut Another Kind of Revolution live, Elena will be heading out on a short run of Scandinavian dates in February 2019.
Here's where you can catch her:
Feb. 13 - Aalborg, DK - Huset i Hasserisgade w/ Jakob Bro
Feb. 14 - Århus, DK - Tape
Feb. 17 - Gnesta, SE - Vår Lokal
Feb. 21 - Helsinki, FI - G Livelab w/ Lac Belot
Feb. 23 - Copenhagen, DK - Jazz Club Loco, Bryggekælderen
Feb. 24 - Copenhagen, DK - MEUF Festival (performing improvised music with Johanna Borchert)
Feb. 26 - Odense,DK - Posten
Listen to the title track from Another Kind of Revolution
Good news for Thalia Zedek fans in Europe: she'll be heading back over to your side of the Atlantic with a full band early next year for a pretty extensive tour.
It'll be your first chance to hear the fragile beauty and intensity of new album Fighting Season live, don't miss it.
Here's where you can catch them:
Jan. 23 - London, UK - Cafe Oto
Jan. 24 - Brussels, BE - Cafe Central
Jan. 26 - Paris, FR - L’Espace B
Jan. 27 - Rennes, FR - Institut Franco Americain (afternoon show)
Jan. 28 - Bordeaux, FR - La Fiacre
Jan. 29 - Valencia, ES - 16 Tonelades
Jan. 30 - Huesca, ES
Jan. 31 - Barcelona, ES - Sala Vol
Feb. 1 - Guernica, ES - El Trinkete
Feb. 2 - Lyon, FR - Le Sonic
Feb. 3 - Lausanne, CH - Le Bourg
Feb. 4 - Zurich, CH - El Lokal
Feb. 5 - Bologna, IT - Freakout Club
Feb. 6 - Ravenna, IT - Circolo Abajur
Feb. 7 - Terni, IT - Mishima
Feb. 8 - Savona, IT - Aurora Live Music
Feb. 9 - Busto Asirio, IT - Circolo Gagarin
Feb. 10 - Vienna, AU - Rhiz
Feb. 11 - Brno, CZ - Kabinet Múz
Feb. 12 - Nuremberg, DE - Cantina
Feb. 13 - Berlin, DE - Ausland
Feb 14 - Prague, CZ - KC Kaštan
Feb. 15 - Weikersheim, DE - W7
Feb. 16 - Bremen, DE - Die Friese
Feb. 17 - Amsterdam, NL - OCCII
Thalia Zedek Band's Fighting Season is out now on LP / CD / DL from our online store.
Thrill Jockey is proud to announce the signing of the unparalleled ENDON. Hailing from Japan, ENDON have been called the "Most extreme band in Tokyo" (Noisey), and are born of the same music scenes that helped birth the likes of Merzbow and now-labelmates Boredoms. The quintet, comprised of vocalist Taichi Nagura, drummer Shin Yokota, guitarist Koki Miyabe, and noisemakers Taro Aiko and Etsuo Nagura, are revered for their uncompromising intensity, blending elements of black metal, sludge, hardcore punk, noise and beyond into visceral sonic chaos. ENDON will be releasing a mini-album in early 2019. In addition to touring with SUMAC and Baptists in March, the band be performing alongside Neurosis and Converge in Tokyo in February. Previously, they have performed and toured alongside the likes of Boris, Godflesh, Full of Hell, Mutoid Man, The Body, and more.
This coming February, Wrekmeister Harmonies will be touring throughout Europe and Russia in support of new album The Alone Rush. Earlier this year, Wrekmeister Harmonies (the duo of JR Robinson and Esther Shaw) performed at Roadburn Festival and Doom Over Leipzig.
Wrekmeister Harmonies tour dates
Feb. 1 - Buxelles, BE - Madame Moustache
Feb. 3 - Leeds, UK - Temple of Boom *
Feb. 4 - Newcastle, UK - Trillians *
Feb. 6 - Hull, UK - Adelphi Club *
Feb. 7 - London, UK - Elektrowerkz
Feb. 8 - Diksmuide, BE - 4AD *
Feb. 10 - Angers, FR - Jokers
Feb. 11 - San Sebastian, ES - Dabadaba
Feb. 13 - Sevilla, ES - Sala X
Feb. 14 - Lisbon, PT - ZDB
Feb. 20 - Utrecht, NL - dB’s
Feb. 21 - Nijmegen, NL - Merleyn
Feb. 22 - St. Petersburg, RU - Serdce
Feb. 23 - Moscow, RU - Model
Feb. 24 - Ekaterinburg, RU - Syndrome Bar
* w/ FVNERALS
The powerhouse psych trio are hittin' the road again next March, with a string of European tour dates announced for March 2019, including a show with fellow Thrillers Wooden Shjips.
Another chance to lose yourself in the hypnotic grooves of their heady guitar workouts, here's where you can catch them:
Mar. 6 - Prague, CZ - Futurum *
Mar. 7 - Budapest, HU - Durer Kert *
Mar. 8 - Bratislava, SK - Fuga *
Mar. 9 - Verona, IT - Colorificio Kroen *
Mar. 10 - Torino, IT - Magazzino sul Po *
Mar. 11 - Rome, IT - Largo *
Mar. 12 - Milan, IT - Ohibo *
Mar. 13 - Ravenna, IT - Bronson ^
Mar. 14 - Lausanne, CH - Le Bourg
Mar. 15 - Winterthur, CH - Gaswerk
Mar. 16 - Dortmund, DE - Dietrich-Keuninghaus *
Mar. 17 - Munich, DE - Feierwerk *
* w/ So Low
^ w/ Wooden Shjips
Pontiak's latest collection of acid-scorched riffing Dialectic of Ignorance is out now.
A work of entrancing, effortless beauty, Basque multi-instrumentalist Elena Setién's Thrill Jockey debut Another Kind Of Revolution will be out on 15 February 2019.
Listen to the title track now
Another Kind of Revolution is available to pre-order now on red vinyl and CD from our online store.
This weekend, Elena Setién plays the prestigious BIME Festival in Bilbao, performing alongside the likes of Aphex Twin, MGMT, Slowdive, Kurt Vile, and more.
Mere weeks after blazing a cosmic trail through Europe this fall, West Coast pysch mainstays Wooden Shjips have their return for March 2019, bringing their own brand of peaceful resistance to more cities on the mainland.
Here's where you can catch 'em:
Mar. 5 - Bergen, NO - Hulen
Mar. 6 - Oslo, NO - Blaa
Mar. 7 - Gothenburg, SE - Pusterviks
Mar. 8 - Stockholm, SE - Slaktkyrkan
Mar. 9 - Malmo, SE - Plan B
Mar. 10 - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
Mar. 11 - Hamburg, DE - Molotow
Mar. 12 - Munich, DE - Import-Export
Mar. 13 - Ravenna, IT - Bronson
Mar. 14 - Rome, IT - Monk
Mar. 16 - Istanbul, TR - Salon
More info / tickets here.
