Innitial pressing soul out at once, now repress in neon green vinyl colour available! Ride bassist Steve Queralt's debut solo album Swallow is a beautifully brooding nine-track collection that combines the darkly textured soundscapes of early M83 and Sigur Rós with an electronic sheen reminiscent of Boards Of Canada. It also features guest vocals from Sonic Cathedral labelmate Emma Anderson (formerly of Lush and Sing-Sing) and Verity Susman (Electrelane, MEMORIALS).Swallow has been slowly but surely pieced together between Ride albums and tours over the past five years and, perhaps as a result, has a slightly dystopian, Blade Runner feel that reflects the liminal spaces in which it was created. Despite the fact that the majority of the album is instrumental, there is plenty of power and emotion poured into these moody, moonlit soundtracks. When words do appear, an underlying anger and political slant emerges and amplifies the album's dark intensity. This is most notable on the closing track, `Motor Boats', where he overlays words from Julie Sheldon's polemic poem The Same Boat ("We're all in the same boat they say, but I would disagree"). According to Steve, these simple words of rejection "capture the reality of our times perfectly". However, it was the collaborations with the two guest vocalists that tied the whole thing together and paved the way to the finished album. "After a few false starts, I had started to doubt the project altogether. It was going nowhere," says Steve. "Then, out of the darkness, Emma got in touch to tell me that she'd found her voice and could I send her some tracks. A few files back and forth and an afternoon in the studio later and we had `Lonely Town' and `Swiss Air'."In the meantime, Verity from Electrelane had added vocals to the song `Messengers' and transformed the track. Matthew Simms, now her bandmate in MEMORIALS, would go on to mix the finished album."Swallow has turned out so much better than I had hoped," enthuses Steve. "I'd fallen out of love with it so many times I was thinking of calling it Loveless. But then, that wouldn't be the whole story...
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Der erste Longplayer des Trios aus Avilés in Asturien. Energiegeladener Streetpunk mit melodischen Bassarrangements, einem treibenden Schlagzeug und einer rotzenden Rock'n'Roll-Gitarre. Bei Ihrem Song ,Streetpunk" könnte man meinen Motörhead und Cock Sparrer hätten mal was zusammen ausgeheckt. Dieser Sound zieht sich durchs ganze Album, keine Pause, kein Luftholen - einfach Druck ins Gesicht des Publikums blasen - keine langen Intros, gleich drauflos! ,Get Ready!" beinhaltet 10 Krachersongs, mal in Englisch, mal in Spanisch, einfach aus Ihrem Leben gegriffen. Ein gelungenes Debüt des spanischen Trios, ein echter Tyger im Tank, einfach gut, einfach Rock'n'Roll! Get ready!
- 1: Invasion
- 2: From The Ashes
- 3: When The Shadows First Lengthened
- 4: Unchained Predator
- 5: Hebeth
- 6: Atlan Battleground
- 7: Sentinel Barracks
- 8: Holy City
- 9: Blood Red
- 1: Last Bastion
- 2: Unholy Siege
- 3: Pursuit Of Demons
- 4: Unyielding
- 5: Infernal Chasm
- 6: Hellspawn Rift
- 7: Titanic Prison
- 8: Ancestral Beast
- 9: Transdimensional
- 1: Cosmic Sea
- 2: Into The Void
- 3: What Lies Below
- 4: Battle On The Blackened Tide
- 5: Steel Beyond The Grave
- 6: Rebirth
- 7: Divine Retribution
- 8: Wither And Writhe
- 1: Rebuild
- 2: Colossus Unleashed
- 3: Onslaught Of The Damned
- 4: Theomachy
- 5: Blood Spill
- 6: The Prince
- 7: Between Hex And Flame
- 8: Apotheosis
- 9: He Is Out There
- 1: From The Ashes
- 2: When The Shadows First Lengthened
- 3: Unchained Predator
- 4: Blood Red
- 5: Infernal Chasm
- 6: Battle On The Blackened Tide
- 7: Steel Beyond The Grave
- 8: Pursuit Of Demons
- 1: Into The Void
- 2: What Lies Below
- 3: Unholy Siege
- 4: Divine Retribution
- 5: Wither And Writhe
- 6: Theomachy
- 7: Blood Spill
- 8: Between Hex And Flame
- 9: Apotheosis
- 1: Against The World
- 2: Gunfire
- 3: Easy Bruh
- 4: Look At Me Feat. Clipse
- 5: The M. The O. The B. The B. Feat. Big Noyd
- 6: Down For You Feat. Nas & Jorja Smith
- 7: Taj Mahal
- 8: Mr. Magik
- 9: Score Points
- 10: My Era
- 11: Pour The Henny Feat. Nas
- 12: Clear Black Nights Feat. Raekwon & Ghostface Killah
- 13: Discontinued
- 14: Love The Way (Down For You Pt2) Feat. Nas & H.e.r
- 15: We The Real Thing
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Yazmin Lacey returns with Teal Dreams - her soulful, fearless second album, rich with real-life storytelling and sonic flair.
Following the breakout success of her debut album Voice Notes, praised by Billboard, Fader and Pitchfork (who likened her to Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill), Yazmin’s star continues to rise. Last year saw her headline London’s Village Underground and KOKO, as well as perform with Ezra Collective on Strictly Come Dancing and Radio 1’s Live Lounge, the unforgettable voice behind firm festival favourite “God Gave Me Feet for Dancing.”
With Teal Dreams, she builds on her signature sound blending soul, ska, lover’s rock and indie into a vivid, emotionally sharp record shaped by real life, late-night reflections, and a last-minute trip to Thailand.
Collaborating with some of the best in class Miles James (Lotus), Barney Lister, Matt Maltese and more, Yazmin has expanded and elevated her sound on this album. Teal Dreams is a bold, honest evolution, and proof that Yazmin Lacey is only just getting started.
Classic and timeless, the Teal Dreams 12” black vinyl LP comes housed in a beautifully designed sleeve with a foldout lyric booklet. Artwork shot by Wukda brings the album’s mood to life with bold, striking design from Lauren Harewood.
Teal Dreams eco-friendly digipack CD, featuring an 8-page lyric booklet. Elegant photography by Wukda and striking design by Lauren Harewood complete this elevated package.
Le Motel and Bruce Wijn met at school, during a school art trip to Munich. They went separate ways for a long time.
Hailing from Brussels, Le Motel's world is a vortex of sight and sound that takes in the many and varied corners of the planet. As a music producer and film composer his versatility has taken him to festivals and clubs in every direction as naturally as he has ventured out to the less accessible areas of the globe as a field recordist. It's somewhere in between these spaces that Le Motel operates, gathering unique experiences and sounds to channel through his studio.
Bruce Wijn is a Brussels-based guitarist who played in several postrock kind projects such as Sound Film, 52 Commercial Road, or more shoegaze Lazy Sin. These collaborations gave him the opportunity to perform in various locations in Belgium, France, England, and the USA. As a musician, his focus has always been attracted by progressively built rhythmic melodies, which would eventually turn into long reverberated or distorted swells, or the otherway round.
All these experiences brought them both to the idea of scoring movies with different yet similar approaches.
That's how their first collaboration happened as Le Motel was working on the soundtrack of the movie Binti, and invited Bruce Wijn for the track Exode, in 2018. Since then, they've been working on other scoring projects, such as the feature film 'Aller Retour' more recently.
Alongside the movie scoring activities another audiovisual live project was born, in collaboration with Antoine de Schuyter and his mesmerizing images.
This one is more focusing on tape textures, field recordings and glitchy effects in order to build atmospheric tracks that they decided to bring together in a first E.P. 'MAAR'.
'MAAR' is elaborated as a soundtrack for an imaginary journey between cold seas and volcanoes explorations.
From the first echoing sounds of playing kids on the shoreside in the opening track 'La Perche' Le Motel & Bruce Wijn let you slide in a technicolor dreamworld, reverbing slowly innocent childhood memories into a chilled, out of range, future.
'MAAR' dives deep into a kaleidoscopic microcosmos watching Nautilus playing hide and seek with 'Captain Ahab' floating on sonic breaking waves, while seagulls gently spread their wings flying through the breezy and misty clouds of Blankenberge.
Lava vulcanica slowly melts in the sad euphorica of the cold North Sea, crystallizing sounds only Le Motel and Bruce Wijn can deliver.
- A1: God Bless The Child
- A2: All Africa (The Beat)
- A3: The Music Is The Magic
- A4: Perdido (Reimagined)
- A5: Pay Black Women Interlude
- A6: Woman Of The Ghetto (Reimagined)
- B1: Jazz (Ain't Nothing But Soul) (Reimagined)
- B2: Detour Ahead (Reimagined)
- B3: Go Away Little Boy
- B4: Beginning To See The Light (Reimagined)
- B5: What A Difference (Reimagined)
















