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Meet: The Intriguing And Blindly Brilliant Snow Ghosts
With three singles already released to the world from the band’s forthcoming album ‘The Fell’, Snow Ghosts are set to unleash one of the best albums of the year. We caught up with the band to find out a little bit about them before they release that album. Give us a potted history of the …
Track: Snow Ghosts – Prophecies
Snow Ghosts have shared the third single from their forthcoming album, ‘The Fell’, which is set for release on the 24th of February via Houndstooth. Following the propulsive dense electronics of ‘Curse‘ and the earthy folk of ‘Buried‘, the band share the delicate, suspense-filled new track ‘Prophecies’ along with a video, commenting: “Prophecies is about the seasonal gatherings that mark the year. These ritualised …
Track: Snow Ghosts – Buried
Following the band’s announcement of their new album ‘The Fell’ which is due the 24th of February via Houndstooth, Snow Ghosts have shared the second single titled ‘Buried’. Singer Hannah Cartwright describes the track as “A threnody to all the stories and lives lost to the landscape.” Hypnotic and atmospheric brilliance. Cartwright’s honey dipped vocals are soothing over the repetitive …
Track: Snow Ghosts – Curse
Snow Ghosts are set to return with their fourth album, ‘The Fell’, due for release on the 24th of February via Houndstooth. The trio of Hannah Cartwright (Augustus Ghost, Masakichi), Ross Tones (Throwing Snow) and Oli Knowles (The Keep, Sex Swing) will present a collection of old folk songs that were never written – an album that conjures images of animals and ancient tales experienced within …
News: Fresh from trepanning with Squarepusher, SCALPING announce British headlining dates for the start of the year
BRISTOL’S quite literally skull-reshaping post-rave quartet Scalping, fresh from what must’ve been a sonically mental tour in support of Warp Records bass ‘n’ breaks genius Squarepusher, are back out on the road early next year, with a string of UK dates just announced. 2021 has been a stellar year for SCALPING: it all began with …
See: SCALPING whirl you through 360° in the crunch and spin of ‘Empty Cascade’
BRISTOL’S post-rave sonic guerillas SCALPING have followed up May’s single drop, “Empty Cascade” by doubling down and supplying that dark, heavy breaks muscle with a new 360° video, directed by Jason Baker; and a busy old summer has begun, with their FLOOD EP out on new home Houndstooth at the end of last week. FLOOD is …
Bristol’s post-punk-rave scorchers Scalping drop ‘Empty Cascade’, announce a June EP and dates, including Squarepusher shows
BRISTOL’S groove-heavy post-rave, post-punk sound system scorchers Scalping are celebrating signing to Houndstooth with a first full EP drop next month; from which they wish to whisk you deep into their eternally strobe-lit 2am tent with a first reveal, “Empty Cascade”. Melt your mind below. The track, we’re told, is a mission statement, mixing the …
See: Throwing Snow – Halos: generative, organic visuals and chattering electronica connect
ROSS TONES, the electronic voyager who records for Houndstooth as Throwing Snow, has dropped a video for new single “Halos”, the latest intelligent bodymover to be lifted from his forthcoming album Dragons. Dragons will be Throwing Snow’s fourth album and seeks to explore the space between science and ancestral wisdom, connecting modern electronica back to …
See: Throwing Snow unveils a June album for Houndstooth; watch the grainy, generated imagery for the hip-fizzin’ groove of ‘Brujita’
ROSS TONES, the West Country-based practitioner of a very I form of textural IDM, has announced he’s releasing his forth album under that moniker for Houndstooth come the end of June. It’s to be entitled Dragons, and he’s dropped a first sonic enticement in “Brujita”; scroll down, press play, come back up to finish reading. …
Penelope Trappes announces final album in her trilogy; hear the sultry electronic noir of ‘Nervous’
BRIGHTON-based, Australian-born mistress of noir electronica, Penelope Trappes, has announced that the concluding album of her Penelope trilogy will be out on her home of the past few years, Houndstooth, at the end of May; and she’s dropped the lush, draping velvet of “Nervous” to curl you like incense smoke into her world. There’s also …