6/30/2023

Loma Prieta Release New LP ‘Last,’ Share “One-Off (Part 2)"

Loma Prieta Release New LP Last, Share “One-Off (Part 2)"

Last is out today on Deathwish Inc. // See Loma Prieta on tour now.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

"masters of moody, serrated, expressive post-hardcore" - Stereogum

For nearly two decades, San Francisco's Loma Prieta have evolved in front of our eyes. With each release, they have elevated the post-punk subgenre to high art without abandoning the heart at its core; all serving as an artistic reflection for their personal growth amid the complex world that surrounds us all.

Their latest— Last— arrives today from Deathwish Inc.  A long eight years since their most recent LP, and three years since their excellent Continuum b/w Fate 7inch, Last is comprised of eleven new songs that took shape amid the turbulence the world has collectively faced since. The emotional tension within each song on Last is palpable; at times unfurling contemplatively with delicate melody while at others, exploding with sonic violence. The songs all give voice to the manic nature of the modern human experience.

Loma Prieta share another new track today, "One-Off (Part 2)."  Vocalist/guitar Sean Leary says the song "...talks about the loss of objective truth as an anchor in our conversations and debates, and attempts to understand an increasingly complex world. A close friend of the band got lost in the spiral of this 'news cycle' and took their own life as a result. The lyrics quote some of their sentiments, and some of my own, in the last few conversations the two of us had."

Recorded at Atomic Garden Studios with Jack Shirley, Last expands upon Loma Prieta’s kaleidoscopic discography — 2020’s “Continuum b/w Fate,” heralded LP's Self Portrait (2015), 2012’s I.V. and 2010’s Life/Less to name just a few.  Revisit previous singles "Sunlight," "Glare" and "Circular Saw" below, and see Loma Prieta on tour now.

 

Loma Prieta, on tour:

6/30 Oakland, CA Ivy Room
7/1 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen #
7/2 Detroit, MI Sanctuary #
7/3 Grand Rapids, MI Pyramid Scheme #
7/4 Toronto, ON Garrison #
7/5 Montreal, QC Bar Le Ritz PDB #
7/6 Pawtucket, RI Machines #
7/7 Brooklyn, NY TV Eye #
7/8 Philadelphia, PA Milk Boy *
7/9 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery *
7/10 Pittsburgh PA @ TBA

w/ Frail Body #
w/ Eyelet *

3TEETH Announces New Album “EndEx” Out September 22 Via Century Media, First Album in 4 Years from Modern Industrial Metal Outfit; Band Also Shares New Track + Video for “Scorpion”

3TEETH Announces New Album
EndEx
Out September 22 Via Century Media Records
 
First Album In 4 Years
Features Several Tracks Produced By
DOOM Composer Mick Gordon
 
Band Shares New Track + Video For “Scorpion”
See It HERE
 
 
Four years after the release of their last full-length album and with several teases of new music unleashed the past few months, 3TEETH is now sharing all the details behind their much-anticipated LP EndEx coming this fall.
 
EndEx will be released by Century Media Records on September 22, showcasing the modern industrial act at their most raucous yet, unveiling bold revelations of humanity’s technosocial disintegration behind a brutal soundtrack that sounds all the alarms.
 
After giving the first glimpse at the new material with the early release of “Paralyze” (featuring Ho99o9), 3TEETH re-emerged in May with more previews, including their gripping sonic salvo, “Merchant of the Void” that touches on the bleak landscape of modern society amid A.I. takeovers and economic collapse.
 
It was hailed as a one of the “best new songs” by Metal Hammer and Revolver. While Metal Hammer says the song “traces lineage in both Al Jourgensen and Trent Reznor,” Revolver hails the song as “utterly gigantic and over-the-top in the best way possible” and applauds the return of 3TEETH in 2023 at a time “when we needed their apocalyptic, incendiary industrial-metal most.”
 
Next came “Slum Planet” taking aim at the ills of a sick planet obsessed with over-consumption at all costs. With today’s album announcement, 3TEETH shares the newest single for the moody missive “Scorpion,” a track in which the band’s instrumental arsenal is tempered by alluring female vocal chants that provide an ambient feel. It’s featured alongside a combustible video, with the band excavating deep desert secrets. It was helmed by director Vicente Cordero & 3TEETH frontman and creative lead Alexis Mincolla.
 
Says Mincolla, "The scorpion symbolizes the challenge to confront and integrate those parts of ourselves that we repress, ignore, or fear. It invites a descent into the depths of the personal and collective unconscious. Its venom is the entropic catalyst for the dissolution of old, rigid structures of the psyche, making room for rebirth. To acknowledge and embrace the scorpion is to accept the necessity of change."
 
See the video for “Scorpion” here: https://youtu.be/P5LlUe-lKRQ
 
 
Ahead of the release of EndEx in late September, 3TEETH will continue to release a new single every month. Other highlights on the album include a cover of Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” continuing 3TEETH’s penchant for aggressive reworks of pop songs, previously seen on Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz” and Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record).”
 
To lay the foundation for the new material, 3TEETH migrated to the deserted quiet of Joshua Tree, escaping from the palpable anxiety of their hometown of Los Angeles for fresh new perspective. The material is currently being wrapped up with a solid extended team including the accomplished sound designer Mick Gordon (best known for his work on the gaming phenomenon DOOM) who produced several of the tracks along with producer Nick Rowe and mixer Sean Beavan (NIN), bringing in another dimension to the band’s unmistakable sound.
 
Says Gordon, “3TEETH are one of my favorite acts. They proudly fly their own unique flag. The new album charts course through the next stage of our vanity-led evolution as a species, and by that I mean the album is a world unto itself. I’m just stoked that these guys have allowed me along for the ride.”
 
EndEx will be available in CD, Gatefold LP, and digital album formats. Special formats include: 
  • Red LP (available at all EU outlets)
  • Red Smoke LP (available at all US outlets)
  • Utra-Clear / Red Splatter LP (available from 3TEETH)
  • Utra-Clear / Red Splatter LP (available from Revolver)
Pre-order EndEx here: https://3teeth.lnk.to/EndEx
 
EndEx Tracklist:
1. Xenogenesis
2. Acme Death Machine
3. Slum Planet
4. What's Left
5. Merchant of the Void
6. Higher Than Death
7. ALI3N
8. Plutonomicon
9. Paralyze (feat. Ho99o9)
10. Scorpion
11. Drift
12. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
 
 
(Photo credit: Jim Louvau)
 
 
ABOUT 3TEETH
3TEETH first manifested their cybersocial intentions as early as 2013: a musical entity born out of Mincolla’s Downtown L.A. weekly gatherings known as “Lil’ Death” With Xavier Swafford (keys, synth), Chase Brawner (guitars) and Andrew Means (bass, synth) joining Mincolla. 3TEETH released their first self-titled album the following year. Alliances with the likes of TOOL and Rammstein resulted in the collective’s first live performances and a rise to further notoriety with the release of 2017’s album shutdown.exe. which took 3TEETH to global stages. Working alongside producer and mixer Sean Beavan (NIN) at new label home, Century Media, 3TEETH upped their own sonic arms race with Metawar (2019) and entered a new echelon of cultural consciousness with a collection of tracks including the biting “President X” and their haunting take on Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.”
 
"The modern carriers of the industrial rock torch" — Revolver
 
"State-of-the-art sensory overload with take-no-prisoners level of aggression" — Rolling Stone
 
“3TEETH bring the aggression with aplomb” — Loudwire
 
 
3TEETH is:
Alexis Mincolla – vocals
Chase Brawner – guitars
Xavier Swafford – keyboards and synthesizer
Andrew Means – bass
Nick Rossi – drums
 
Find 3TEETH Online

Body Of Light’s ‘Bitter Reflection’ Out Today on Dais Records

Body Of Light’s Bitter Reflection Out Today on Dais Records

Stream the luminous new album now, and see Body Of Light on tour in select west coast markets this summer.

Photo by: Andrew Jarson and Peter Shikany.

"a poignant work of art" - Post-Punk

Bitter Reflection, the fourth album by Arizona desert brotherhood Alex and Andrew Jarson aka Body Of Light, further hones their smoldering strain of tempestuous synth-pop into a transformative suite of anthems, reveries, and reckonings. 

Written in the wake of 2019’s neo-EBM classic Time To Kill, they sifted inspiration from hidden moments within their own arcana– childhood tapes, home movies, abandoned demos– asking themselves the question: “How can we make this grow?” Sampled snippets of voice, noise, synth, and field recordings flicker in the periphery of Bitter Reflection's 11 tracks, murmuring like nostalgias half-forgotten, or displaced memories. This is music pulled between twin flames of truth and desire, romanticization and reality, catharsis and control, born of a bond sealed by years, dreams, and blood.

Bitter Reflection spins through a gallery of Body Of Light’s ongoing fascinations: Depeche-esque declarations of dread and excess, brooding dance floor epiphanies, lovesick looking glass ballads laced with Art Of Noise orchestral stabs, and smooth, Thomas Dolby city skyline melancholias.

Working with Telefon Tel Aviv co-founder Josh Eustis in Los Angeles, Body Of Light incorporated an expanded array of live instrumentation – piano, bass, saxophone, acoustic guitar – in addition to vintage Akai samplers, Moogs, and archaic hardware to Bitter Reflection, giving the albm an eclectic, unpredictable palette. 

A new age demands new waves, and Body Of Light belongs at the forefront of a resurgent generation fusing modern methods with the sounds of futures past. Singer Alex Jarson sees their muse clearly, at the axis of anguished transition, temporal collapse, and, just possibly, the brink of hope: “Time is dysphoric. The dream breaks down. Everyone’s beginning to panic, but in the end something will come from it.”

Bitter Reflection is out today via Dais Records, and Body Of Light will be playing select shows this summer in support of the album.

 

Body Of Light, on tour:

July 7  Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge (Record Release Show)

August 2  Las Vegas, NV @ Artifice

August 5  Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst Atrium

August 6  San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Shop

August 8  Portland, OR @ Holocene

August 9  Seattle, WA @ Barboza

August 11  Riverside, CA @ The Hideaway Cafe

August 12  Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room 

August 13  San Diego, CA @ The Whistle Stop

JORJA SMITH RELEASES "LITTLE THINGS x GYPSY WOMAN" REMIX; NEW ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 29

JORJA SMITH RELEASES 

"LITTLE THINGS x GYPSY WOMAN" REMIX


NEW ALBUM FALLING OR FLYING

OUT SEPTEMBER 29th


PHOTO CREDIT: Romany Francesca

LISTEN HERE



Hot off the heels of releasing the Nia Archives remix of her latest summer single "Little Things", today, Jorja Smith has unveiled a second remix in the form of DJ L Beat’s viral TikTok mash-up. The remix see’s "Little Things" go head to head with Crystal Water’s 1991 hit, "Gypsy Woman’" Listen HERE.


Since its release in May, "Little Things" has become 2023’s summer soundtrack; having dominated a plethora of global charts and surpassing 15M global streams! In addition, last week the single broke into the UK Top #20 at number #15, marking Jorja’s second top #20 record to date.


Of the many British voices in music today, Jorja is among the most commanding, writing at a pitch of intensity and urgency that few can match. Over the past five and half years, since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album Lost & Found, she has been celebrated unanimously across the world for her evocative songwriting, powerful delivery, pure emotion, and unbridled talent as a young woman navigating her way through life. It was in 2021 that Jorja’s hiatus from music was broken - enter Be Right Back, the holding space between the sensation that was Lost & Found, and her next project. ‘Be Right Back’ was born from playing, jamming, freestyling, and sounding out what Jorja had been on the edge of expressing all her life. It was a project entirely for her fans. “Be Right Back did exactly what I wanted it to do. It was a little waiting room so people knew I was coming back.”


And come back she did - entering a chapter of her return to music that’s certain to draw in and intoxicate Jorja’s fans and new listeners alike. And what has changed for her, in the five years since Lost & Found dominated the charts and the soundscape? “I like this world that I've just come into. And I’m still figuring things out. Always figuring things out.” Jorja says. “This is the first time I’m putting stuff out there that I can connect with right now.” Over the last few years, it’s been a reflective and transformative step into her mid-twenties for her. She’s been able to step into herself and evolve as a songwriter and a woman despite an ever-changing musical landscape.


While she recognizes that the global pandemic has been completely devastating, she acknowledges that it allowed her to stay still, to come more into herself, and to be more in control of the person she is, and of her musical output. Like some of the legendary musicians that came before her, Jorja is looking at the chaos and disorder in the world right now with resourceful, refined eyes, and she sees the glorious opportunity and enormous responsibility that affords. Grab a spritz in the sun and enjoy Little Things below.

LISTEN TO "LITTLE THINGS x GYPSY WOMAN" REMIX

https://famm.orcd.co/jorja-x-gypsywoman


LISTEN TO "LITTLE THINGS" & WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO

https://famm.orcd.co/littlethings


LISTEN TO JORJA SMITH x NIA ARCHIVES "LITTLE THINGS" (REMIX)

https://famm.orcd.co/jorja-x-nia


PRE-ORDER FALLING OR FLYING

https://famm.orcd.co/fallingorflying


 

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COIL - Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), remastered reissue out today via Mute / Threshold House

COIL GOLD IS THE METAL (WITH THE BROADEST SHOULDERS) OUT TODAY VIA MUTE / THRESHOLD HOUSE   WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘ CARDINAL POINTS ’ FEATURIN...