New stuff for the upcoming month! The new White Lies will be very interesting! The Reset from KillTheLogo is also worth it too! My dauhter choose the new Foxes album as album of the month. Disorientations has the best one and will get a review from us! We enjoy their retro and very black 80's retro sound! It will be our album of the month! Check out the rest!
KILLTHELOGO: ‘Reset’ (physical version) 04.02.21
killthelogo’s full length album is a fact. 12 tracks of uncompromising sound and content. This album respectfully revisits the ‘90s metal sound with a fresh and strong message. Co-produced with former .calibre producer Jo Francken and mixed by the great David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, dEUS, Dreamtheater, Placebo, Peter Gabriel, …)
Reset is an audio-bomb waiting to detonate. From the unapologetic opener Riot As One to the +9 min epic closer Translucent. killthelogo is firing on all cylinders. There’s heavy & snappy riffing on brand new single Buy More Sh!t, The Deep State and the jarring Fuck Your Data. There’s dark and furious fretwork and nasty gangvocals on Conspiracy. Iconoclast combines a monumental chorus with more melodic almost balladry verses. Clear as Day is a maze of curveballs, riffs and counter-rythms and the face-melting Taxes is as frantic as a wasp nest set on fire.
25.02.2022 @ Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD:‘Ants From Up There’ 04.02.22
Black Country, New Road return today with the news that their second album, Ants From Up There. Following on almost exactly a year to the day from the release of their acclaimed debut For the first time, the band have harnessed the momentum from that record and run full pelt into their second, with Ants From Up There managing to strike a skilful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before, as well as a natural progression.
DISORIENTATIONS: ‘Memory Lanes’ 04.02.22
Memory Lanes is a sharp and well-knit attack on the senses. The 10 songs never outstay their welcome and have enough hooks and melodic twist to keep your ears wanting more. It’s an impressive feat for this young 3-piece from Antwerp, Belgium.
Disorientations debuted with single and EP Close To Disappearing in early 2020, right before the pandemic bolstered their grim musical vision. Single Wandering was self-released at the end of 2020, accompanied with a Lynchian black-white short movie by visual artist Achiel De Vlerk.
Memory Lanes continues in that melancholic atmosphere of loss and mourning. It confronts the listener with moments of despair, but the guitar wall of sound, the harsh rhythmic power and the haunting vocals give enough energy to embrace those inevitable tragic moments of life.
05.02.2022 @ De Kreun, Kortrijk
18.02.2022 @ Trix, Antwerp
THE SLOW SHOW: ‘STILL LIFE’ 04.02.22
The making of STILL LIFE has been quite the ride. Following their breakthrough album, White Water, it was clear The Slow Show were not just ‘another band from Manchester’. The legacy of The Smiths, Joy Division and all those other great predecessors is not something to be trifled with, but The Slow Show didn't need to wear their address on their sleeve: this was something else, fully formed, with a mesmerising sound, rich in atmosphere and melody.
With the band’s desire to push each other outside of their respective comfort zones during the recording process, STILL LIFE subsequently offers a more diverse, rich and interesting sound than previous albums.
13.02.2022 @ De Roma, Antwerp – SOLD OUT
SOFIANE PAMART: ‘LETTER’ 11.02.22
Sofiane Pamart was one of the top 10 most-streamed Classical Music artists in the world in 2021. Accustomed to the most prestigious stages – having headlined the 2021 Montreux Jazz Festival and performed sell-out shows at the Olympia, the Trianon, the Louvre Museum, Ancienne Belgique and the Salle Pleyel (twice) – Sofiane Pamart has just announced a milestone show at the Accor Arena (Bercy) as part of his first tour as a solo artist. Musically, his style evokes both majestic film scores and mighty tales of adventure. His work, as brooding as it is poetic, is imbued with the kind of emotional accuracy that allows him to reach and attract a very wide audience: spectacular music that is accessible to all. Sofiane Pamart’s new single LOVE, romantic and delicate, illustrates the distance in love. The symbolic aspect of distance with detachment and the physical aspect, with absence. The pianist star refers to distance with a sweet melancholy.
09.01.2023 @ Ancienne Belgique, Brussel
FOXES: ‘The Kick’ 11.02.22
The Kick is Grammy winning artist Foxes highly-anticipated third album, it was written and recorded remotely via zoom during the height of the pandemic, offering a form of escapism for Foxes. Inspired by the desire for freedom that the world collectively shared over the last 18 months of lockdowns, the near-animalistic desperation to socialise, and a longing to dance again, Louisa naturally pivoted the sonics to feed that escapism and create a record that simultaneously feels close to her euphoric, dancefloor-filling pop roots that brought us hits like Let Go For Tonight, Youth and Body Talk, while still feeling completely fresh. Unafraid of the art of the well-loved melancholic-banger, lyrically The Kick touches on themes of loss and heartbreak, narrating painful places and soundtracking new beginnings to create an album for the post-pandemic world and a summer of never leaving the party early.
BAXTER DURY: ‘Mr Maserati’ 11.02.22
Baxter Dury will be releasing a 20 year Best Of called Mr Maserati 2001 to 2021 on February, 11, 2022 through Heavenly Recordings. The album will be on LP/CD.
Mr Maserati showcases two decades of Baxter Dury’s idiosyncratically louche music, a universe of late-night London meet-ups, shuffling basslines and comedown disco tunes, all run through with a wry bleakness and sweet love of humanity. Mr Maserati collects tracks from across Dury’s six albums, plus a new song D.O.A.
WHITE LIES: ‘As I Try Not To Fall Apart’ 18.02.22
White Lies have today announced details of their forthcoming sixth album, As I Try Not To Fall Apart. Recorded at Sleeper and Assault & Battery studios in West London, the album sees long-term collaborator Ed Buller, who has worked on many of their albums including their debut To Lose My Life…, return to produce several tracks along with Claudius Mittendorfer (Weezer, Panic! At The Disco) also producing and mixing the entire album.
08.04.22 @ Vooruit, Ghent
09.04.22 @ Trix, Antwerp
TENNYSON: ‘Rot’ 18.02.22
Throughout the album’s 12 tracks Luke refines the signature Tennyson sound, making his flurried beats come into focus and his already riveting hooks catchier. This is also the first project in which Luke lends his voice to almost every song, with the exception coming from a feature with singer-songwriter Rae Morris on the pained but heartfelt Slow Dance. Dramatic dynamics and emotional weight are the driving force of Rot, making for pop music fit for misfits.
18.05.2022 @ Trix Bar, Antwerp
BEACH HOUSE: ‘Once Twice Melody’ 18.02.22
It will be the first album produced entirely by Beach House, and was recorded at Pachyderm studio in Cannon Falls, MN, United Studio in Los Angeles, CA, and Apple Orchard Studios in Baltimore, MD. For the first time, a live string ensemble was used, with arrangements by David Campbell. Once Twice Melody was mostly mixed by Alan Moulder with a few tracks were also mixed by Caesar Edmunds, Trevor Spencer and Dave Fridmann.
Once Twice Melody features 18 tracks, and in the lead up to the physical release, will be presented in four chapters with lyric animations for each song.
28.05.2022 @ De Roma, Antwerp
30.05.2022 @ Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
SPIRITUALIZED: ‘Everything Was Beautiful’ 25.02.22
Following this year’s acclaimed reissue of their classic first four albums, Spiritualized announce news of their new studio album, Everything Was Beautiful.
While some people imploded in the lockdowns and isolation of the epidemic, others were thriving. “I felt like I’d been in training for this my whole life” says J Spaceman.
He was referring to his fondness for isolation and when you reframe loneliness as “beautiful solitude” then it isn’t so bad. He would walk through an empty “Roman London” where “even the sirens had stopped singing” and where the world was “full of birdsong and strangeness and no contrails.” He used the birdsong walks to listen and try and make sense of all the music playing in his head. The mixes of his new record, a ninth studio album, weren’t working out yet.
11.03.2022 @ Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
