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Drawing on the musical traditions of his native Iran, Hiatus' acclaimed single gets a Vinyl release. A record steeped in both melancholy and a stirring sense of hope. Cinematic electronica spiked with samples and waves of long-forgotten memories awakening. Hiatus draws on the traditions of Persian music and mixes it up with the sampling culture we live in today. Ray Keith's mighty Save Yourself remix does what can only be described as 'the business'

CD Album
1.
Junk Of The Heart (Happy)
2.
How'd You Like That
3.
Rosie
4.
Taking Pictures Of You
5.
F**k The World Off
6.
Time Above The Earth
7.
Runaway
8.
Is It Me
9.
Killing Me
10.
Petulia
11.
Eskimo Kiss
12.
Mr. Nice Guy

,In the Grace Of Your Love" kam ursprünglich 2011 raus und war ein Neustart für The Rapture und eine willkommene Rückkehr zu DFA, dem Label, das ihnen zu ihrem sofort erfolgreichen Debüt ,Echoes" verholfen hatte. Der Schwung und Erfolg dieser Jahre führte zu einer Achterbahnfahrt mit einem großen Label, die sie wieder da landete, wo sie angefangen hatten - mit Narben, aber jetzt frei, die Grenzen der Erwartungen zu sprengen. Begleitet wurden sie dabei vom verstorbenen, großartigen Philippe Zdar, einer Hälfte des französischen Dance-Duos Cassius und Produzent von Künstlern wie Phoenix und den Beastie Boys. Zdars Begeisterung und technisches Können sind schon in den ersten 30 Sekunden des Albums zu hören: ,Sail Away" ist The Rapture in voller Pracht und Strahlkraft, ein fünfminütiger Ausatem mit Disco-Drums. Natürlich gibt es auch jede Menge Futter für die Dance-Kids - ,How Deep Is Your Love" rockt immer noch die Tanzflächen der New Yorker Bars, ,Miss You" ist ein unwiderstehlicher kleiner Streich in Moll -, aber insgesamt herrscht das Gefühl vor, dass man langsamer wird, Bilanz zieht und an den richtigen statt an den falschen Orten nach Sinn und Liebe sucht. Daher auch das Finale: ,It Takes Time To Be a Man", ein charmant ehrlicher, von Klavierklängen untermalter Song über Verantwortung übernehmen und anderen helfen. Er klingt wie nichts anderes im Repertoire von The Rapture und rundet es dennoch perfekt ab. Der Abspann läuft, die Zeit vergeht, Platten bedeuten immer noch alles.

A collection of remixes by MNDR, Mark Pistel, Planningtorock, Steffi, Kool-Thing and Still Going

Limited Yellow vinyl 12" !

'Gangsta' recently took on a different shape when the band made their US TV debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon two weeks ago, with Merrill and the band performing it with The Roots.
This 12' takes the hip-hop inspired elements of 'Gangsta' even further with remixes from legends in the field, Adrock (Beastie Boys) and Cut Chemist (Jurassic 5, Ozomatli and DJ Shadow collaborator). Like all good old school records, the 12' is completed with not only the original but also with both the instrumental and
a cappella versions of the track.

Limited 300 copy repress made avaialable for the bands UK tour coming up. TPOBPAH are a New York 4 piece who play genius noisy pop songs with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies, fuzz guitar and blistering drums. Within a year of releasing their blinding debut album (sure to pop up on many an end-of-year list), Brooklyn's TPOBPAH are back with more: a full EP of all-new material. Indie popsters aren't meant to work this hard, but, in the words of songwriter and vocalist Kip Berman, 'Days off are no fun!' Recorded by the same team behind the album, with US indie legend Archie Moore (Black Tambourine, Velocity Girl) at the mixing desk, the new tracks were cut before the band's latest tour. Up first, the beautiful Higher Than The Stars is dream-pop of the highest order, polished to the highest sheen with some additional mixing effort from Rob Kirwan (Editors, U2). It also contains some of Kip's most despairing and sombre lyrics: 'Shitfaced, fumbling in a dark place/Drinking in the last days/This street looks just like the next street/Bumblefuck on repeat,' it says. We're not sure what a bumblefuck is, but the song, says Kip, is about 'growing up in the suburbs, the endless days and nights given to boredom and chemical and sexual experiments that inevitably end tragically. It's about being young, falling in love with your best friend and the beautiful and terrible consequences of all that.' Next, 103 is raucous, fuzzy and a total earworm, and the closest thing on this EP to the sonic template of the album. It's closely followed though by the pure 80s pop of Falling Over with its biting lyrics about 'Spending time with someone who broke your heart long ago, who's trying to remove your pants in the present. Realising you have no self control, it's a plea that they exercise some'. Meanwhile, closing track Twins is 'About finding someone that's just like you, only to realize you can never be together. It's not about incest.' Tracklistings : 12"

2000 units available worldwide
Includes a poster: 500 of these have been signed by the band!

'Plage' is the latest single to be taken from Crystal Fighters' critically acclaimed debut album 'Star Of Love'. Due for release in August the song, with the sun at its heart, euphemises bawdy tales of beachside antics of French holiday makers in Italy in the 70s.
Crystal Fighters delve with their usual irreverence into this obscure pocket of historic revellry and turn up with a joyous, organic, techno-infused symphony of a ukelele pop song worthy of any good mood anywhere