UPSET THE RHYTHM: XIU XIU - 'Forget' released today! Plus upcoming London shows!

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Hello Friday!

Today we’re thrilled to help shepherd Xiu Xiu’s new album Forget out into the wider world. It’s a total heart-quake of an album and we’re extremely proud to be involved with its release. Forget was produced by John Congleton, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu's own Angela Seo. Plus, it features guest appearances by fabled minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine, L.A. Banjee Ball superstar commentator Enyce Smith, Swans guitar virtuoso Kristof Hahn and legendary drag artist and personal hero of Xiu Xiu, Vaginal Davis. Forget is available on LP, CD and digitally in shops worldwide as of today, including from us directly through our webshop.

You can also stream the whole album here via Noisey!

XIU XIU is Shayna Dunkelman, Angela Seo and Jamie "Butch Jenny" Stewart. Starting in isolation in San Jose, California in 2002, Xiu Xiu has relentlessly toured all over the world since. Over the course of 15 7"s, five EPs, six collaboration albums and ten full lengths Xiu Xiu has never shied away from any topic that is honest and meaningful to them. Their songs are about gender dysphoria, suicide, loneliness, the tsunami in Indonesia, the Sanrio character Pandapple, abortion politics, cats, queer life and the individual responsibility of U.S. military. Somehow within all of this, cuteness attempts to find a way to embrace death and horrible emotion. Musically they draw from British post punk and synth pop, modern Western classical, noise and experimental musics, Asian percussion musics, American folk, torch singers, house, techno and 1950s rock n roll.

Standout track, ‘Wondering’ is one of the catchiest boogie pop gems in the Xiu Xiu catalog, but like much of Forget, it still bears an underlying tension that manifests differently in each piece. From the haunted guitar duet of ‘Petite’, the hilariously fraught lyrics of ‘Get Up’, the advanced industrial boxing match of ‘Jenny GoGo’, or the experimental goth explosion of ‘Faith, Torn Apart’, all the songs, in their own ways, build to a roiling boil of a fate in vanishing. Xiu Xiu will also be playing for us in London this May, check out our show programme for the exactitudes.

About turn, in terms of concerts, we have two more winners on the horizon for you, next week’s Milky Wimpshake show at The Islington celebrating the 20^th anniversary of their debut album and next month’s Wolf Eyes album release party at ExFed with Mumdance and Guttersnipe. Both of those shows are detailed more below, plus this week we announced new shows for Polish experimental cellist Resina, no wave gang Spray Paint and The Rebel, check out our listings for the wheres and whens!

\ \ \ \ \ SATURDAY 4 MARCH / / / / /

MILKY WIMPSHAKE

‘20th Anniversary Show!’

ROBERT SOTELO

THE PLAN

Saturday 4 March

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382704

MILKY WIMPSHAKE are a passionate punk band from Newcastle Upon Tyne. The band formed in the early 1990s as part of the Slampt Underground organisation, a label and arts umbrella that supported many of the best UK DIY acts including The Yummy Fur, Pussycat Trash, Red Monkey and personal favourites Bette Davis & The Balconettes. Milky Wimpshake play love songs for punk rockers, protest tunes, covers of Northern Soul classics, and some new classics of their own. Characterised by Pete Dale’s wry lyrics and playful, direct guitar riffs, Milky Wimpshake are true stalwarts and legends of the underground and have recorded several ‘personal vs political’ albums in recent times for the mighty Fortuna Pop imprint. This show celebrates the 20th anniversary of their 100% brilliant debut album 'Bus Route To Your Heart', times flies!

http://www.microsofa.net/mw/

ROBERT SOTELO intends to channel ‘Ram’-era McCartney without the chops, at once intimate and ambitiously layered pop music garnished in naive sincerity. Attempting to push beyond limited means, towards the absurd and abundant idea that recreating the feel and sound of The Beatles remains paramount an objective, the entire project rests on the uncertainty and confusion of mid-thirties existentialism and the exploration of the individual post-social life. Accompanied by a host of friends this initial performance will use the recorded compositions as a template on which Sotelo may attempt to draw out and utilise the individual merits of each musician to reconfigure and sensualise the jams. Sotelo’s astonishing debut album ‘Cusp’ will be released through Upset The Rhythm later this year.

https://soundcloud.com/robert-sotelo-3

THE PLAN harness unruly beats and stamp sweet vocal harmonies all over them. Post-punk in origins but evolving and revolving, its members have previously appeared in bands like Wetdog, Private Trousers and Vic Goddard's Subway Sect, and all live by the sea in sunny Southend.

https://theplan1.bandcamp.com/

\ \ \ \ \ FRIDAY 24 MARCH / / / / /

WOLF EYES - ‘Undertow’ Album launch

MUMDANCE

GUTTERSNIPE

Friday 24 March

EXFED, Unit 4, 199 Eade Road, Manor House, London, N4 1DN

8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/389301

WOLF EYES are the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Wolf Eyes dropped a behemoth of a record last year with 'I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces' on Jack White's Third Man Records, but this time they are switching things up in more ways than one for their forthcoming 'Undertow' album. The Detroit dark ambient sculptors are launching a new imprint called Lower Floor Music, and the album will be the first release on the label. The first foray into the new album is the title track, which is self-described as a "sea-bottom R&B sound lurch" featuring ambient synth and haunting spoken vocals. This show acts as an official album launch, celebrating the release of 'Undertow' into the world.

http://wolfeyes.net/

MUMDANCE has built a reputation as one of the world's most inventive DJs and producers, drawing from sounds from across the world but always putting his own unique spin on them. His early days as a producer saw him collaborate with big names from both Europe (Brodinski, Jammer, Skepta) and further afield, such as Mexican legend Toy Selectah, Brazilian groups Bondo Do Role and Banda Uo, and later Egyptian mahraganat icon Sadat. In 2013, following a two-year hiatus from original music, Mumdance released his most critically acclaimed music to date. His 2013 mixtape Twists & Turns was named FACT Magazine's best album of the year, while his collaborations with Novelist, 'Take Time' and '1 Sec' (released on legendary label XL Recordings), mark two of the biggest anthems from grime's recent revival, and topped end of year charts from Resident Advisor, Mixmag, FACT, Dummy, Noisey and more. Recently Mumdance has also launched Different Circles, his record label with Logos that specialises in 'weightless' - an already-influential combination of grime, techno, ambient music, sound design and more, and collaborated with artists such as Micachu, Pinch, AJ Tracey and Nozinja. For this performance Mumdance will present a new set of modular synth workouts.

https://soundcloud.com/mumdance

GUTTERSNIPE are a Leeds drums/guitar duo who dive straight into a cauldron of hellish improv-skronk, paint-stripping abstract noise and nightmarishly deconstructed sonic catharsis – imagine the esoteric mayhem of Angel Blood combined with the venue-destroying psychic power of early Boredoms and Naked City, and you ain’t even close. Comprising the duo of Xylocopa Violacea and Bdallophytum, if Guttersnipe don’t blow away your cobwebs, nothing will.

https://guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/releases

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