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News: The magnificent Crime and the City Solution embark on killer UK/Europe tour to promote first album in ten years.
With Simon Bonney at the helm since it formed in Australia in 1977, the stateless Crime and the City Solution have been haunting and mesmerising audiences with their ethereal, dark gothic flavoured music ever since. Forever intertwined and associated with the vibrant Sydney and Melbourne scene in the late seventies and early eighties, with band …
See: Mute to release SUICIDE career retrospective; see new short film including previously unreleased version of Frankie Teardrop
SUICIDE, the celebrated and increasingly thought of as seminal duo of Alan Vega and Martin Rev, is to have their first collection – Surrender, released via the ever brilliant Mute / BMG label on March 25th. From it is a new short film directed by Douglas Hart (My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, The Jesus & …
News: CAN’s next live instalment gets release date
Earlier this year, the grand archives of Can’s long dormant live bootlegs were reopened to the public, with the series started by the band’s legendary 1975 performance in Stuttgart. Irmin Schmidt himself oversaw the series alongside engineer/producer Rene Tinner, sharpening the decades old bootlegs to their enormous potential. Now, the deeply thrilling “prospect of further …
Track: Martin Gore reveals mesmerising ANNA remix of Howler
Speech Mode mainstay Martin Gore has recently released his new EP The Third Chimpanzee, on the ever brilliant Mute Records. Howler, taken from the release, has now been remixed by Brazilian DJ ANNA, who’s been busy recently remixing the likes of Grimes (on the Miss Anthropocene(Rave Edition) album and Jon Hopkins’ ‘Singularity’. All sweeping electronics and …
Track: Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore releases new track, Howler
Taken from his forthcoming 5 track instrumental EP, The Third Chimpanzee, out on January 29th, Depeche Mode stalwart and (increasingly) sonic experimenter Martin Gore has a new track out right now on Mute Records, titled Howler. Of the track, Martin says “Howler was the first track I recorded for The Third Chimpanzee EP,” Martin says. …
SEE: The video for A Certain Ratio’s ‘Berlin’: UK dates for 2021
MANCHESTER legends A Certain Ratio, whose brilliant new album ACR Loco will be with us on Mute come September 25th, have just dropped the video for the none-more-Mancunian effortless pop of “Berlin” – we’ve embedded it, below. And it really is a great record: we’ve embraced its taut, breathtaking funk and its intelligent pop and …
News: The Knife celebrate 20 years with reissue / unreleased music series
Karin and Olof Dreijer well loved electronic pairing The Knife are celebrating 20 years since the release of their first 7” by releasing their catalogue via their own imprint Rabid Records, who are also releasing music from Fever Ray, and Olof’s solo outpit. Added to that are a bunch of vinyl releases from Mute Records. Previously unreleased …
SEE: Daniel Blumberg – ‘On & On & On & On & On’: pushing songcraft into new shapes
THERE’S really no point in gathering together fancy wordsmithery here: if you like your music tending towards to the acoustic auteur with a personal vision, an artist who’s not necessarily content to take a finely wrought and heartfelt tale and sit inside it, not try to stress-test it, push the further boundaries of the song …
TRACK: A Certain Ratio return with new single “Always In Love”
A CERTAIN RATIO are back with a new album, ACR Loco. Revitalised by their most successful tour in over two decades, the band returned to the studio to record their first album in 12 years – due for release on Mute on 25 September 2020. Listen to the first single taken from the album, the poignantly beautiful ‘Always …
Track: Nicolas Bougaïeff – Nexus
Listening to his new single Nexus, it’s easy to see why Berlin-based producer and artist Nicolas Bougaïeff describes the tracks on his album as being like “little open scores”. More specifically he describes Nexus – taken from the album out via Mute Records on 24th July as being “a crossroads from the old world to …