With less than a month to go until the release of his new solo record Don't Look Away, due out August 24th, Alexander Tucker has shared new single "Visiting Again". 

Listen to "Visiting Again" 

Propelled ever forward by a sparse drum loop and skeletal bass melody, Tucker's lyrics grapple with "the unstoppable motion of time, the fleeting aspects of our life on earth"  as he puts it - cosmic wrapped up in stetched minimalist pop.

Tucker will be in tour in Europe this August and September, here's where you can catch him:

Aug. 23 - Perugia, IT - T-Trane Record Store
Aug. 24 - Avellino, IT - Godot Art Bistrot
Aug. 25 - Recanati, IT - Dong Festival
Aug. 28 - Liverpool, UK - 81 Renshaw
Aug. 29 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast [tickets]
Aug. 30 - Newcastle, UK - The Cluny
Sep. 5 - London, UK - Shacklewell Arms *
Sep. 7 - Brighton, UK - Rose Hill
Nov. 29 - Bruxelles, BE - Café Centrale
Nov. 30 - Rotterdam, NL - Worm

*Don't Look Away album release show

 

Thrill Jockey is proud to announce the signing of San Sebastián, Spain-based musician Elena Setién. Her vivid songwriting and nuanced compositions breathe life into allegories, from the mundane to the mythical. Previously known for her work in the Scandinavian experimental duo Little Red Suitcase with Johanna Borchert, Setién's solo material is direct and adventurous, effecting and engaging.

This fall, Elena Setién will be a featured artist at the BIME Festival in Bilbao, on Oct. 26th-27th, performing alongside the likes of Aphex Twin, MGMT, Slowdive, Kurt Vile, and more.

Setién's Thrill Jockey debut will be out in early 2019, and features guest performances by Steve Gunn.

Ahead of the release of new album Fighting Season on September 21st, Thalia Zedek Band have shared the album's title track:

Listen to Fighting Season

The track exemplifies the album’s rebellious spirit with a steady, marching call to action against senseless conflict. 

Fighting Season is available to pre-order now.

Thalia Zedek Band will be playing an album release show in Boston with labelmate Helen Money, and later this fall, Thalia Zedek will be embarking on a solo Living Room tour throughout the U.S. with former Come bandmate Chris Brokaw:

Sep. 21 - Boston, MA - Midway Cafe #
Oct. 12 - Brooklyn, NY * 
Oct. 13 - Baltimore, MD * [
Oct. 14 - Norfolk, VA - Charlie’s American Cafe +
Oct. 15 - Durham, NC * 
Oct. 16 - Asheville, NC - Revolve * 
Oct. 17 - Greenville, SC * 
Oct. 18 - Athens, GA - Flicker Bar +
Oct. 19 - Atlanta, GA - Kavarna * 
Oct. 20 - Gainesville, FL * 
Oct. 21 - New Orleans, LA - Parker Barber * 
Oct. 23 - Houston, TX * 
Oct. 24 - Austin, TX * 
Oct. 26 - Denton, TX * 
Oct. 27 - Fort Worth, TX * 
Oct. 30 - Nashville, TN *
Oct. 31 - Louisville, KY - Surface Noise Records * 
Nov. 2 - Cleveland, OH * 
Nov. 3 - Pittsburgh, PA *
Nov. 4 - Clearfield, PA * 
Nov. 5 - Kingston, NY * 

# Thalia Zedek Band album release show w/ Helen Money, Sleepyhead
* Living Room Shows tour w/ Chris Brokaw
+ Club show w/ Chris Brokaw

On 9th November 2018, Koen Holkamp (of Mountains) will release his Thrill Jockey debut as BEAST, entitled Ens.

Listen to the first single "Color Feel"

Crafted leading up to and after the birth of Koen's first child, Ens is a profoundly intimate and heartfelt journey into the composer's psyche. BEAST reins in his sprawling sound with new resolve, crafting tightly constructed pieces of engaging and ecstatic beauty.

Ens is available to pre-order now.

Ripling with raw, chaotic energy, “Mars” forms the album's euphoric peak. Complete with a cosmic freakout in the middle, the track's choruses are bumped up by a host of guest vocalists, including Guided by Voices bassist Mark Shue, pop punk activist Jeff Rosenstock.

Listen to "Mars" now

Mars will be out on October 19th, and is available to pre-order now.

Upper Wilds touring  the east coast U.S. around the release:

Sep. 29 - Brooklyn, NY - Alphaville 

Oct. 27 - Cleveland, OH - The Happy Dog 

Oct. 28 - Chicago, IL - The Hideout

Oct. 31 - Chapel Hill, NC - Nightlight

Nov. 1 - Philadelphia, PA - Ortlieb’s

Nov. 2 - Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong

Nov. 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool

Nov. 10 - Boston, MA - Hassle Fest 

Late this summer and fall, Helen Money (cellist Alison Chesley) will be touring throughout the midwest and east coast, including shows with labelmates Thalia Zedek and Wrekmeister Harmonies.

Helen Money’s 2016 album Become Zero continued Chesley’s exploration of emotive and intense music. Written after the death of both of her parents, Become Zero amplified Chesley’s musical ferocity with palpable sadness and striking beauty. Using her extensively manipulated cello, Chesley joined forces once more with drummer Jason Roeder (Sleep, Neurosis), Rachel Grimes (Rachel’s) and collaborator and co-producer Will Thomas (who provides sound effects and samples) on an album that is incredibly personal and visceral.

Helen Money tour dates
Sep. 5 - Chicago, IL - Reggie’s w/ Wovenhand
Sep. 19 - Detroit, MI - Deluxx Fluxx
Sep. 20 - Syracuse, NY - Spark Art Space
Sep. 21 - Boston, MA - Midway Cafe w/ Thalia Zedek
Sep. 23 - Brooklyn, NY - Saint Vitus w/ Wrekmeister Harmonies
Sep. 24 - New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine w/ Sea of Bones
Sep. 26 - Philadelphia, PA - Ortliebs
Sep. 27 - Durham, NC - The Pinhook

At the portentous moment when Mars is the closest it's ever been to earth, we're pleased to announce the cosmic sophomore album from Brooklyn trio of Dan Friel (Parts & Labor), Zach Lehroff (Ex Models) and Jeff Ottenbacher as Upper Wilds. A collection of noise-pop epics that imagine our colonisation of the red planet, Mars will be out on the 19th October.

Listen to the first single "Perfect Eyesight" now

Pre-order MarsUpper Wilds will be on tour in U.S. following the album's release, with more shows to be announced:

Sep. 29 - Brooklyn, NY - Alphaville
Oct. 31 - Chapel Hill, NC - Nightlight
Nov. 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
Nov. 10 - Boston, MA - Hassle Fest

 

 

Ahead of the release of their forthcoming new album Love In Shadow, SUMAC have shared the album's first epic single "Attis' Blade." The track traverses through thundering passages, waves of dirge-like contemplation, and barrages of spontaneous chaos.

Listen to Attis' Blade now

Love in Shadow is due out on September 21st, and is available to pre-order now.

On the track, Aaron Turner explains:

"Before SUMAC was even a fully formed band there was a goal I had in mind for how to approach writing songs: marrying fully realized structures to freely improvised movements - and trying to find fluid passages between these worlds. Attis' Blade is a breakthrough for us in that it comes closer to meeting that goal than anything else we’d written previously. It's a song I’m happy with in its own right, and more importantly as a key to the next step in our evolutional process. In this song I hear the three of us learning to trust one another more fully, and collectively embracing a more expansive dimension of our existence. Lyrically the song has to do with succumbing to base desires, the subsequent self-abuse/admonishment to atone for these perceived transgressions of moral code, and also the personal histories that can lead to this kind of behavioral dysfunction."

SUMAC are on tour in the U.S. this September. Full list of dates here. 

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 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