On September 21st SUMAC, the trio of Aaron Turner (ISIS, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer), Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists, Erosion), and Brian Cook (Russian Circles), will be releasing new album Love In Shadow.

Watch the album trailer: https://youtu.be/6QbZ8vbBR8o

Recorded live in a single room at Robert Lang Studios in Washington by Kurt Ballou (Converge), who later mixed the album at his own studio God City, Love In Shadow ushers in a more improvisational songwriting approach for SUMAC - a sea change galvanized by their collaboration with Haino. Finding comfort in the negative spaces within each track’s borderland was the trio’s primary goal in writing the four massive tracks comprising Love In Shadow.

On the album's emotional motif, Turner says: “Since many of the surface level aspects of our being are often used as divisive tools to separate/alienate us from one another, the intent here is reveal that at our base level all humans desire and need to be loved and accepted for who they are, for just being.”

Thalia Zedek fans rejoice - following close of the heels of the new E record, the Thalia Zedek Band will release their new album Fighting Season on September 21st.

Listen to first single "Bend Again," featuring Chris Brokaw (Come / Codeine) and J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.).

On the track, Zedek says:

"On “Bend Again”, I was hearing J. playing on that song from pretty much the moment that I wrote it. We have known each other for ages and I have sung on Dinosaur Jr. songs in the past, so I thought why not just ask? It was amazing to hear in person what I had been hearing in my head for so long while performing the song's solo."

Pre-order Fighting Season 

Good news for UK noise fans - Lightning Bolt are back on British soil this August for a short run of shows in tiny venues, part of Brooklyn Brewery's Brooklyn Sounds series:

Aug. 23 - Nottingham, UK - The Bodega 
Aug. 24 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast 
Aug. 25 - Manchester, UK - Jimmy’s 
Aug. 26 - London, UK - The Black Heart

Tickets are £5 and go on sale 10am Friday 6 July. More info / tickets: 

www.brooklynbrewerypresents.com/brooklynsound

 

 

After releasing her terrific Thrill Jockey debut Deeper Woods, Sarah Louise has shared the video for "Pipevine Swallowtails". The track features Sally Anne Morgan, Louise's collaborator in duo House and Land (also of Black Twig Pickers). Louise is touring this summer with labelmate Marisa Anderson in the U.S., before embarking on a string of House and Land shows in Europe and the U.S, including performances at Fanø Free Folk Festival in Denmark, and Pickathon Festival in Portland, OR. 

Describing the song as the emotional core of Deeper Woods, "Pipevine Swallowtails" conveys the conflicting feelings Louise experienced moving to her current home in the forests of North Carolina. She explains: "My sense of belonging was so great at this house but my community isn't in the woods, unfortunately, so this record really involves wrestling with that to some extent." That duality of belonging and isolation is perfectly mirrored in the video itself, in which Louise traverses a landscape that seems at once eerily empty and yet brimming with life.

Watch the video here

Full Sarah Louise & House and Land tour dates

Ahead of the release of their new album Love In Shadow on September 21st, SUMAC will be touring throughout the U.S. midwest and east coast. Love In Shadow, SUMAC's third full-length album, delves into the innate warmth of human magnetism and the cold realities of corrupted love. The trio explore these complexities by employing minimal tools and the tactile immediacy of abstract expressionists, juxtaposing intricately composed arrangements against unbridled improvisations.

Pre-order the album: thrilljockey.com/products/love-in-shadow

Full list of SUMAC tour dates: thrilljockey.com/artists/sumac

Just after the release of her debut Thrill Jockey album Cloud Corner, guitarist Marisa Anderson has released the video for album single "Lift," directed by Christopher Kirkley and featuring Anderson playing the charango.

Anderson kicks is touring throughout North American with the likes of Joan Shelley, labelmates Sarah Louise and Glenn Jones, as well as Tara Jane O'Neil and Nathan Bowles. Marisa Anderson was also a guest performer on LeVar Burton's podcast LeVar Burton Reads, for the Portland live episode.

Watch the video for "Lift" here

On May 25th, Boston trio E released their blistering new album Negative Work - ten tracks of angular, energized and idiosyncratic rock music, rooted in punk and post-hardcore sounds but taking this to new and unusual places. Now, the band share the video for "Hole in Nature", a track that dissects the words of Swiss sculptor, painter and printmaker Alberto Giacometti.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Jv3oUzd6GBk

E will be on tour in Europe throughout the month of June, and will be making a special appearance at The Bell House with Shellac in NYC in September. Full list of dates here!

Masterful sound artist Brendon Anderegg (of Mountains) will release his solo album June on June 15th!

June represents Brendon limiting his tools and thereby departing from familiar approaches to creating music. Folding time, space, and ambience across June’s two sides, a shimmering expanse of synthesizer-fed ambience, structure, and tone emerges: a singular sonic landscape with varied emotional triggers from melancholy to playful. The music on June is a complex network of layers, combining to create a congruous whole. Collapsing history into its own contemporary sonic movements, Andregg’s methodically created work falls in the lineage of electronic pioneers like Bernard Parmegiani, early ambient projects like Tangerine Dream, Popul Vuh, and Cluster, and puts his solo work in the realm of New Age figures like Michael Sterns and JD Emmanuel.

On August 24th, unparalleled instrumentalist Glenn Jones will be releasing new album The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works for 6 & 12 String Guitar.

According to Jones, the album's first single "The Sunken Amusement Park" is "an evocation of images of the amusement parks and boardwalks of the New Jersey Coast submerged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012."

You can listen to that on our mixtape, or via Spotify here: http://open.spotify.com/album/3GlkVPkcPtKNNPQDhzFpvy

Grumbling Fur's own Alexander Tucker will also be releasing a new solo album on August 24th, Don't Look Away. Tucker continues to carve out a space as one of Britain's most forward-thinking songwriters through distinctly honest vocals with subtle shifts through unexpected variations.

You can listen to first single "Objects" on our mixtape, or via Spotify here: http://open.spotify.com/album/6YbI33OoTghk1a99WSnbxR

Ahead of the release of his new album Bird Dog Dante, out 6/15, John Parish pays tribute to one of his childhood heroes with new single "The First Star".

Listen now: https://spoti.fi/2IDk3Dq

Recorded as a duet with Italian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marta Collica, he explains:

"The song is a bitter sweet celebration of George Best's life and what he meant to me, alongside countless other young kids who grew up with him as their first wayward idol."

Bird Dog Dante is available to pre-order from our online store now.

Ahead of the release of their new album Negative Work, out May 25th, Boston trio E (Thalia Zedek, Gavin McCarthy, Jason Sidney Sanford) have unveiled the video for new single "Pennies". Watch the video here: thrilljockey.com/artists/e-e

Following the release of Negative Work, the band will be touring through summer and into autumn, including shows with Shellac, Superchunk and Omni, as well as a set at Keizsalon Fest in Berlin. Full list of dates HERE and below!

Upcoming E tour dates
May 24 - Providence, RI - AS220 w/ Whorepaint
May 25 - Boston, MA - Midway Cafe w/ Whorepaint, Arch Cape (feat. Rachel Blumberg)
Jun. 1 - Kortrijk, BE - DeKreun w/ Superchunk
Jun. 2 - Zichem, BE - Den Hemel
Jun. 3 - Liege, BE - La Zone
Jun. 5 - Prague, CZ - 007
Jun. 6 - Bratislava, SK - Fuga
Jun. 7 - Zagreb, HR - Mochvara
Jun. 8 - Vienna, AT - Venster99
Jun. 9 - Caorle, IT - Bar al Castello Da Capota
Jun. 10 - Milano, IT - Spazio Ligera
Jun. 11 - Bologna, IT- Freakout Club
Jun. 12 - Avelino, IT- Godot Art Bistrot
Jun. 13 - Florence, IT - Area San Salvi
Jun. 14 - Ravenna, IT- Circolo Abajur
Jun. 15 - Allesandria, IT - Cascina Bellaria
Jun. 16 - Lyon, FR - Le Sonic
Jun. 17 - Freiburg, DE - Slow Club
Jun. 18 - Paris, FR - L’Espace B
Jun. 19 - Lille, FR - Bar L’Imposture
Jun. 20 - Oberhausen, DE - Druckluft
Jun. 22 - Liberec, CZ - Azyl Pivni Bar
Jun. 23 - Brojkovice, CZ - Mis Mas Festival
Jun. 24 - Halle, DE - Pierre Grasse w/ Omni
Jun. 26 - Potsdam, DE - Kuze
Jun. 27 - Berlin, DE - Musikbrauerei (Keizsalon Fest) w/ Beatriz Ferrerya
Sep. 10 - New York City, NY - The Bell House w/ Shellac

Following the news of the forthcoming album Negative Work, out May 25th, E have announced a pretty extensive European tour, including shows with Superchunk and Beatriz Ferrerya.

Full list of dates below, with more to be announced.

Listen to new single "Untie Me" now:
http://open.spotify.com/album/18NXNFNy6JIoPmsyRfUfOJE - summer European tour:

Jun. 1 - Kortrijk, BE - DeKreun w/ Superchunk
Jun. 2 - Zichem, BE - Hen Hemel
Jun. 3 - Liege, BE - La Zone
Jun. 5 - Prague, CZ - 007
Jun. 6 - Bratislava, SK - Fuga
Jun. 7 - Zagreb, HR - Mochvara
Jun. 8 - Vienna, AT - Venster99
Jun. 9 - Caorle, IT - Bar al Castello Da Capota
Jun. 10 - Milano, IT - Spazio Libera
Jun. 11 - Bologna, IT- Freakout Club
Jun. 12 - Avelino, IT- Godot Art Bistrot
Jun. 13 - Florence, IT - Area San Salvi
Jun. 14 - Ravenna, IT- Circle Abajur
Jun. 15 - Allesandria, IT - Casino Bellaria
Jun. 16 - Lyon, FR - Le Sonic
Jun. 17 - Frieburg, DE - Slow Club
Jun. 18 - Paris, FR - L’Espace B
Jun. 20 - Oberhausen - Druckluft
Jun. 22 - Liberc, CZ - Azyl
Jun. 23 - Brojkovice, CZ - Mis Mas Festival
Jun. 27 - Berlin, DE - Musikbrauerei (Keizsalon Fest) w/ Beatriz Ferrerya

Good news for experimental music fans in the UK - this June, YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, SAICOBAB), Susie Ibarra and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens) will be hitting your fair shores, performing together as Yunohana Variations. The tour launches at Supersonic Festival Birmingham, with the full list of dates below.

As with Flower of Sulphur - their first recording, released on Thrill Jockey earlier this year - each show on the tour will be completely improvised, the trio responding to each other and the space in that moment to create something totally unique each night.

Forgotten how good Flower of Sulphur is? Give it another spin:https://open.spotify.com/album/5GLAPwA3WuspPJSnDNOM9q?si=-Hd1MqG-Reif21UtM12Vyg

Jun. 22-24 - Birmingham, UK - Supersonic Festival
Jun. 26 - London, UK - Oslo Hackney
Jun. 27 - Bexhill, UK - De La Warr Pavillion
Jun. 28 - Cambridge, UK - Cambridge Junction
Jun. 29 - Milton Keynes,UK - MK Gallery
Jun. 30 - Bristol, UK - Arnolfini
Jul. 1 - Manchester, UK Soup Kitchen
Jul. 2 - Bradford, UK - Fuse Art Space
Jul. 4 - Plymouth, UK - KARST

The tour is commissioned by OUTLANDS, a new experimental music network in the UK, and produced by Supersonic Festival.

 

The Body will be hitting the road hard in North America this summer, with five weeks of dates throughout much of the U.S.! The'll be joined on the road by Lingua Ignota, and The Body's performances will also include Lingua Ignota's Kristin Hayter, who is also featured on the track they've just released, "Can Carry No Weight"! Check it out on our mixtape, or on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1tGTcyIvhGnbJUR9uwU97b

Full list of tour dates on here