Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Cd / Lp / Digital Sp 1232 Release Date: April 5Th, 2019
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WEYES BLOOD TITANIC RISING CD / LP / DIGITAL SP 1232 RELEASE DATE: APRIL 5TH, 2019 TRACKLISTING: 1. A Lot's Gonna Change 2. Andromeda 3. Everyday 4. Something to Believe 5. Titanic Rising 6. Movies 7. Mirror Forever 8. Wild Time 9. Picture Me Better 10. Nearer to Thee GENRE: Alternative Rock The phantom zone, the parallax, the upside down—there is a rich cultural history of exploring in-between places. Through her latest, Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, has designed her own universe to soulfully navigate life’s mysteries. Maneuvering 0 9 8 7 8 7 1 2 3 2 2 709 8 7 8 7 1 2 3 2 1 0 through a space-time continuum, she plays the role of melodic, CD Packaging: LP Packaging: Single-pocket jacket sometimes melancholic, anthropologist. Gatefold jacket with with custom dust sleeve dust sleeve Includes mp3 coupon Tellingly, Mering classifies Titanic Rising – which was written and NON-RETURNABLE recorded during the first half of 2018, after three albums and years of touring - as the Kinks meet WWII or Bob Seger meets Enya. The latter captures the album’s willful expansiveness (“You can tell there’s not a guy pulling the strings in Enya’s studio,” she notes, admiringly). The former relays her imperative to connect with listeners. “The clarity of Bob Seger is unmistakable. I’m a big fan of conversational songwriting,” she adds. “I just try to do that in a way that uses 0 9 8 7 8 7 1 2 3 2 4 1 abstract imagery as well.” CS Packaging: Four-panel The Weyes Blood frontwoman grew up singing in gospel and madrigal J-card in clear case. choirs. (Listen closely to Titanic Rising, and you’ll also hear the jazz NON-RETURNABLE of Hoagy Carmichael mingle with the artful mysticism of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the monomyth of scholar Joseph Campbell.) “Something to Believe,” a confessional that makes judicious use of RETAIL: Posters and play copies will be available. the slide guitar, touches on that cosmological upbringing. “Belief is something all humans need. Shared myths are part of our psychology PUBLICITY: Album serviced to all music & lifestyle media. and survival,” she says. “Now we have a weird mishmash of ONLINE: Artist page (incl. album art and a focus track): capitalism and movies and science. There have been moments where https://www.subpop.com/artists/weyes_blood I felt very existential and lost.” Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weyesblood/ - 23k followers Twitter: https://twitter.com/weyesblood - 5800 followers As a kid, she filled that void with Titanic. (Yes, the movie.) “It was Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weyesblood/ - 22k likes/followers engineered for little girls and had its own mythology,” she explains. Website: http://www.weyesblood.com/ Mering also noticed that the blockbuster romance actually offered a Advertising will be purchased on select sites. story about loss born of man’s hubris. “It’s so symbolic that The Titanic would crash into an iceberg, and now that iceberg is melting, RADIO: Titanic Rising will be worked to commercial and non-commercial/college radio. sinking civilization.” Today, this hubris also extends to the relentless adoption of technology, at the expense of both happiness and TOURING: Weyes Blood will be touring the US in 2019 attention spans. But Weyes Blood isn’t one to stew. Her observations play out in an ethereal saunter: far more meditative than cynical. To Mering, listening and thinking are concurrent experiences. “There are complicated influences mixed in with more relatable nostalgic melodies,” she says. “In my mind my music feels so big, a true production. I’m not a huge, popular artist, but I feel like one when I’m in the studio. But it’s never taking away from the music. I’m just making a bigger space for myself.” FAT WHITE FAMILY serfs up! Overview: Fat White Family’s first album Champagne Holocaust was released on April 1, 2013; an iconoclastic debut, a freakshow which reminded that, as with Throbbing Gristle/The Gun Club/Butthole Surfers/Jane’s Addiction before them, the outside is the only viable place from which to make true art. America beckoned, and all the temptations and troubles that go with the touring life. The carousel began to spin. Tracklist: 01. Feet When second album Songs For Our Mothers arrived in January 2016, the band 02. I Believe In Something Better were running on fumes. Incarcerated in a fiscal Gulag, every single member 03. Vagina Dentata had developed serious problems with alcohol and/or hard drugs; most were 04. Kims Sunsets homeless. They were just about held together by singer Lias Saoudi who had 05. Fringe Runner led, Rommel-like, from day one. Saoudi’s songwriting partner and band director 06. Oh Sebastian Saul Adamczewski had been jettisoned from the band. 07. Tastes Good With The Money Salvation came via the intervention of Domino, who signed the band and 08. Rock Fishes backed their frontman’s stratagem to move them away from temptation. In a 09. When I Leave sprawling suburb in the North of England they established Champzone studios 10. Bobby’s Boyfriend and, bloodied but not unbowed, they hunkered down. The collective mission Catalog Number: statement: to make a pop record, something to distance the band from the many WIG401 Fat Whites imitators who had formed in their wake. Lias’ lyrical irony, previously adopted as a protective layer against insecurity and criticism, was discarded Release Date: in favour of a forensic examination of the self, what the frontman describes as April 19, 2019 “a genuine mapping out of my innermost psychological landscape, without File Under: ever patronising the listener, which for me is the lowliest crime in lyricism.” Alternative “F” Nathan Saoudi, Lias’ keyboard playing brother, honed his own songwriting contributions, and Adamczewski returned from both rehab and time working Formats: with his other band Insecure Men - freed from the past burdens of musically Indie Exclusive Gold LP w/ MP3s carrying the project, he sank his teeth in as producer-arranger. UPC: 887828040131 With the smoke cleared and the battlefield-free of casualties, Fat White Family re-emerge triumphant. Serfs Up! is a lush and masterful work, lascivious and personal. Tropical, sympathetic and grandiose. It invites the listener in rather than repel them through wilful abrasion. In one of the most gratifying and vinyl is non-returnable unexpected creative volte face in living musical memory, the band you hate to love have stormed the palace, ceased the throne, and are set to embark are on LP w/ MP3s their imperial phase as overlords of a kingdom of their own making. The struggle continues, always, but for now… Serfs Up! UPC: 887828040117 Selling points: • The triumpant return of one of the most exciting bands in recent history! • Full press servicing underway by Grandstand Media, life to date coverage vinyl is non-returnable includes a US TV appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, CD and feature coverage within Pitchfork, Noisey, Under The Radar, NME, The Guardian, Dazed, and more UPC: 887828040124 • US radio campaigns to impact Non-Comm, Alt Specialty, and College • Indie Retail Exclusive version of the record comes on limited pressing gold vinyl, comes with 35” x 20” fold-out poster, and MP3 download card Recommended if you like: Primal Scream, Butthole Surfers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Frankie Goes DOMINO RECORDING CO LTD 20 Jay Street, Ste 626, Brooklyn, NY 11206 to Hollywood, Shame, IDLES, provocation, eroticism, and hog-like indulgence. ARTIST Nouvelle Vague TITLE Curiosities FORMAT CD / LP PACKAGING Digisleeve / Standard (incl. printed innersleeve) LABEL Kwaidan Records CAT. NO. KW110CD / KW110LP BARCODE 4012957331027 / 4012957331010 GENRE Pop / Bossa Nova REL. DATE April 19th Nouvelle Vague – Curiosi ties CD In response to the 2004 debut album, which became an instant 01 – Sweet Dreams (03:48) classic, Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux experimented with various 02 – My Girl (04:14) 03 – Girl You Want (02:50) musical paths. Many songs are thus recorded. The songs that are 04 – Under The Flag (03:01) relevant to each album's theme are released. 05 – Brass in Pocket (04:08) 06 – I’m In Love With a German Film Star (03:37) But many covers would remain under wraps, while others, 07 – Don’t You Want Me (03:19) although ready for release, were relegated to the vaults. These 08 – Blank Generation (02:36) previously unreleased recordings are featured on "Curiosities". 09 – Mirror In The Bathroom (03:46) 10 – Sex Beat (03:19) 11 – Ghost Rider (06:01) 2004 - 2019. 12 – Nowhere Girl (03:25) For the last fifteen years, Nouvelle Vague has been resuscitating, sometimes introducing, dozens of songs from the New Wave and Punk repertoires – some quite well known, others almost forgotten. LP But the story is far from over. A1 – Sweet Dreams (03:48) A2 – My Girl (04:14) A3 – Girl You Want (02:50) A4 – Under The Flag (03:01) "We’re on a Road To Nowhere, Come on inside" (David Byrne) A5 – Brass in Pocket (04:08) A6 – I’m In Love With a German Film Star (03:37) B1 – Don’t You Want Me (03:19) Tour 2019 B2 – Blank Generation (02:36) 03/02 Auditorium Flog / Florence, IT B3 – Mirror In The Bathroom (03:46) 04/19 Printemps de Bourges, FR B4 – Sex Beat (03:19) 04/20 Dreamland / Margate, Kent, UK B5 – Ghost Rider (06:01) 04/21 Junction / Cambridge, UK B6 – Nowhere Girl (03:25) 04/22 Islington Assembly Hall / London, UK 04/23 Islington Assembly Hall / London, UK 04/25 St. Lukes / Glasgow, UK STREAMING PLAYER 04/26 Liquid Rooms / Edinburgh, UK https://node.flasheet.net/d849eedc4810cddca8 04/27 Sage 2 / Gateshead UK 04/28 Gorilla / Manchester UK 05/06 Eglise St Eustache / Paris, FR 05/16 L'Orangerie Botanique / Bruxelles, BE 05/17 La Source / Fontaine, FR 06/09 Q-Factory Amsterdam, NL 06/12 Rock School Barbey / Bordeaux, FR 06/16 Stary Klasztor / Wroclaw, PL 06/17 Filharmonia / Szczecin, PL 06/21 Lumbardhi Cinema / Kosovo 06/25 Dubai Opera House, Dubai 07/18 Zeltival / Karlsruhe, DE 07/19 Kulturarena / Jena, DE ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER IN THE CAPITAL 7”/ DIGITAL SP 1316 RELEASE DATE: APRIL 26TH, 2019 TRACKLISTING: 1.