Radiohead announces KID A MNESIA, a multiple format triple-album release marking the 21st anniversary of Kid A and Amnesiac, out November 5th via XL Recordings.
KID A MNESIA collects Radiohead’s fourth and fifth albums alongside the debut of a newly compiled third disc titled Kid Amnesiae. Exclusive to this release, Kid Amnesiae is comprised of unearthed material culled from the Kid A / Amnesiac sessions. Along with alternate versions and elements of Kid A and Amnesiac album tracks and B-Sides, Kid Amnesiae features the never-before-heard "If You Say the Word” and a previously unreleased studio recording of "Follow Me Around.”

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Fusing ’80s-inspired hardcore with playful electronics, the Shears brothers’ bass-and-drums duo enlists a handful of high-profile collaborators in their mission for “total freedom of expression.”

West Coast neo-punk twins, moonlighting models and provocateurs The Garden released their new album haha via Burger/Epitaph.
The duo represent a youthful punk scene in California with their DIY principles, thrift store-cum-glam fashion style and a list of pick ’n’ mix influences that stretch far beyond The Minutemen. Their minimalist two-piece bass and drums essence is dirty, raw and immediate, with a visceral live element that saw them sell-out their first 2 headline runs in the UK - as well as supporting Warpaint across Europe. They strip off everything unnecessary about modern punk and get straight to the heart of it, consistently defying categorization and breaking new ground with their ‘Vada Vada*’ philosophy.

2007 digitally remastered reissue of the Post-Punk radicals influential 1979 debut album featuring one bonus track. The band's name is certainly ironic (they are the furthest thing from Pop), but there is something enchanting about their angry Post-Punk-Funk vibe. Their tribal-like rhythms and avant-garde approach to songwriting influenced a new generation of Post-Punk bands, an influence that can still be heard and felt nearly 30 years later. Vocalist Mark Stewart eventually joined Adrian Sherwood's On U Sound stable of artists while guitarist Gareth Sager went on to form Rip, Rig & Panic in the '80s and Head in the '90s. Bassist Simon Underwood helped form the funky instrumental outfit Pigbag. 11 tracks.

World’s End Girlfriend 堪稱是日本當前最受曯目的電腦軟體音樂家。自2000年在半野喜弘旗下廠牌發行首張專輯後，又被英國Third Ear引荐到歐洲，2002年更受邀參加巴塞隆納全球知名的Sonar音樂節。去年夏天在台北、香港、澳門的巡迴演出讓更多人意識到他獨特的音樂視野。
"The Lie Lay Land"是WEG的最新作品，他再次透過聲音編織出一個龐大複雜的音樂景觀，當中不乏強烈作者風格的戲劇性修飾與拼貼，從流麗的管弦編曲、環境錄音到數十支吉他疊製的強大噪音牆──他還親自往返大阪東京兩地指揮室內樂團作現場錄音──在在建構出高度個人的視覺化音樂語言。從艾米爾．庫斯杜力卡（Emir Kusturica）和楊斯凡克梅耶（Jan Svankmajer）式黑色幽默與荒謬；到拉斯馮提爾（Lars Von Trier）和加士伯奈爾（Gaspar Noe）式執拗與即興，WEG那夢境般的音樂場景穿插著激進的自由爵士、弦樂時而優美彷彿天籟，時而淒厲令人毛骨悚然，典型的後搖秋風掃落葉吉他飆奏導入節拍方正的行進，或抑鬱如送葬進行曲或狂亂如夢魘遊樂場的圓舞曲，生鏽的旋轉木馬失控停不下來而闖入遍地清寥的幽寂......
這次專輯封面特別邀請日本著名繪本作家酒井駒子繪製，可以說將WEG的世界觀以圖像方式傳神表達。

今作のテーマは自身の名でもある「world's end girlfriend」。
18年間、作家自身が想い描き続けたその名が持つ根源のイメージ。
3.11後の世界、テロの時代における抵抗と祝福。
これまででもっともパーソナルな哲学と領域に深く踏み込んだ作品となっている。
世界中のどこにもない音世界で描かれた新作「LAST WALTZ」。
静寂と轟音、生音とプログラミング、旋律とノイズを自在に行き来し、
喜怒哀楽や善悪の彼岸も越え、全10曲70分ひとつの物語として描かれる。
「死の舞踏」のその先、「メメント・モリ」の向こう側。
震える地の上で踊り、放射される光と闇の中で最期まで遊びつづける。
ゲストミュージシャンとして
downyのギタリスト青木裕、湯川潮音、Piana等が参加。
アートワークは中国の現代美術家Jiang Zhiの作品を使用。
The album theme is his own name “world's end girlfriend”.
The writer keeps imagining fundamental images of that name creates, for 18 years.
It's Resistance & The Blessing , among the world after 3.11 and this terrorism-era.
This album is filled with most personal his philosophy. This one steps into his personal universe deeply.
The new album "LAST WALTZ" is painted by a quite unique sounds world that anywhere of the world have not ever heard.
Coming and going freely between silence and roar, acoustic sound and programming sound, melody and noise.
That passes over Joy, Anger, Sadness, Humor, Good and Evil.
It draws as a story of 10 tracks in 70mins.
Beyond "Dance of Death", the other side of" Memento mori".
We are dancing on the shaking ground and keep playing in emitted lights and darkness until the end.
Guest additional musicians are Yutaka Aoki(downy), Shione Yukawa, Piana, so on.
The album cover artwork is a fantastic photograph by Chinese modern artist, Jiang Zhi.

Portishead是英国西南部的一个不起眼的港口,Portishead乐队的灵魂人物Geoff Barrow在那里度过了他的童年.在组建Portishead之前,Geoff Barrow曾在一些小的音乐制作室工作过,曾和Massive Attack合作过.乐队组建之后,先为一部名为'to kill a deadman'的影片制作了电影音乐(同时他们也参加了该片的演出)后加入GO! Discs公司.94年乐队出版了第一张专辑'Dummy',虽然乐队不爱接受采访的习惯使他们无法获得象Oasis那样的商业成就,但专辑却引起了乐评的广泛关注,被许多音乐刊物评为当年最佳专辑,与Massive Attack,Tricky并称为'Trip_pop三巨头'(真是个无聊的名字).这之后,Geoff Barrow这位完美主义者差点因无法获得新的音乐灵感而解散乐队.3年之后的97年,乐队的第二张专辑 'Portishead'出版。

Black Country, New Road return today with the news of their signing to Ninja Tune, who will release their much-anticipated debut album "For the first time" on February 5th 2021.Recorded with Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine) during the early part of this year and then finished at the end of the nationwide lock-down, the album is the perfect capturing of a new band and all the energy, ferocity and explosive charge that comes with that whilst also clearly the work of a group who have no interest in repetition, one-note approaches or letting creative stagnation set in. Featuring six new songs including reinterpretations of early tracks "Sunglasses" and "Athens, France", "For the first time" is a sonic time capsule that somehow manages to bottle the past, the present and the future.
“We wanted it to sound exactly how we love to sound live,” says saxophonist Lewis Evans. “This is basically representative of our first 18 months”, continues frontman Isaac Wood.
Indeed the band found they had to stop themselves running too far ahead in order to document this album in a way that felt as truthful as possible.
“We see this as being a stop in the road” explains Isaac. I've always been interested in a really honest portrayal of what a band is and what they've been working on. I think it's really nice if people can see an artist like: this was them in the early days, this was their next phase and that they're quite clear and honest about genuine progression as people and musicians.”
The band have today also shared the new track, "Science Fair", alongside an interview with The FADER.
Minimalist and foreboding, "Science Fair" opens around their rhythm section, precise percussion and bass locking in to allow a residual build from the rest of the band, viola and sax loop and layer over fits and squalls from dual guitars, a synth break and an ever-anxious narrative laid down by Isaac Wood. Climbing towards his desperate exclamation of - "it's black country out there!" - the song caves in on itself during a blistering, caustic final breakdown. Already a live favourite, "Science Fair" is paired to a video directed by Bart Price who said the following about its themes:
"When developing the music video for 'Science Fair', I was thinking about fictitious worlds that we visit through our screens, such as the American high school. Despite our lack of direct experience, these worlds become a universal means of communicating about and understanding things like what it means to grow up, or what it means to be in a friendship group, or to be in love. I wanted to create such a world around Black Country, New Road, placing their music at the heart of a small American town, that in a sense we’ve all been to and lived in."
Despite having just those two early singles to date, Black Country, New Road - their name originally found on a random Wikipedia generator - have made an impressive impact on fans and critics alike. Declared “the best band in the world” by The Quietus, with glowing reviews from The New York Times to The Guardian, a cover feature for Loud & Quiet, a live BBC 6 Music session, selling out shows across the country (including 1700 tickets in London), being invited to festivals around the world including Primavera and Glastonbury, and finding themselves on French TV sandwiched between Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien.
Their live performances gaining legendary status among fans of the emerging scene that coalesced around vaunted south London venue The Windmill, and which gave rise to many of their peers and contemporaries such as Fat White Family, black midi and Squid, artists with whom they have variously supported, toured with and collaborated with over the years.

The English band’s second album explores big questions with a bucolic, open-ended new sound. Where once they surged forward, now they wander.

black midi - Georgie Greep (vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums) - have a dynamic energy, playing as a musical unit that’s constantly in a state of flux and development.
'Schlagenheim' was recorded with Speedy Wunderground producer Dan Carey, who the band praises for his quick, unfussy approach. black midi laid down eight of the record’s nine tracks in just five days. The process was one of refining and rebuilding tracks around the initial structures. Five hour jams would sometimes yield a riff that then became a few bars of a song. As anyone who’s been lucky enough to catch black midi live over recent months will testify, black midi’s songs are slippery creatures.