Best of Airwaves 2012

Amazing #Rare Songs Mixtape

BRAINLOVE SIGNS VÄLJASÕIT ROHELISSE

+ "Külastus" released on 10" vinyl June 4th
+ Only Väljasõit Rohelisse UK Show - Brainlove Festival
+ Acoustic Festival Warmup Show Announced
+ Andrew Paul Regan Album Release Show Announced

FREE TRACK:  http://soundcloud.com/brainlove/v-ljas-it-rohelisse-teine
10" PRE-ORDER: http://www.brainloverecords.com/order

Brainlove Records is proud to announce the signing of Valjasoit Roheliise (pronounced Val-Yah-Sweet Row-Hell-Ease, meaning "roadside picnic"), an Estonian four-piece from Tallinn.

Making dreamlike, hypnotic, atmospheric drones, doused in emerald green light and lost in thick smoke, the band caught the label's attention at Tallinn Music Week 2012, where they played alongside Napoleon IIIrd and Mat Riviere in a huge ex-soviet cinema called Söprus (trans: "friendship"). Their set was a highlight of the festival, and also saw the band invited to play in Moscow by Russia's premiere rock critic, Artem Troitsky.

The members of Väljasõit Rohelisse come from the disparate but interconnected worlds of music, art and fashion, giving them a audio-visual quality reminiscent of lo-fi legends The Velvet Underground, but with elements of shoegaze, dream-pop and dark mysticism.

Their debut EP "Külastus" was, amazingly, recorded in one take, with no overdubs and a single mic. It captures the band weaving their unique magic in their natural live habitat, and comes out on MP3 and limited 10" vinyl on June 4th in collaboration with their Estonain label, One Sense Music. The vinyl (ltd. to 300 copies) is available for pre-order at http://www.brainloverecords.com/order.

Väljasõit Rohelisse will come to UK for their only UK live performance of 2012 at Brainlove Festival 2012, on May 26th. http://www.brainloverecords.com/festival

 

Andrew Paul Regan

In other news, Brainlove Festival has announced two fringe shows, £5 general admission or £1 to festival ticket holders. On May 25th, there'll be an acoustic festival warm-up show featuring Dad Rocks! and Napoleon IIIrd. Then on June 7th, Andrew Paul Regan will celebrate the release of his new album "The Signal and the Noise" at Power Lunches, with Dad Rocks! and Mat Riviere in support. The shows in full:

May 25th BRNLVFSTVL Warmup: Dad Rocks! + Napoleon IIIrd (acoustic) + Guests
£5 (or £1 with BRNLV FSTVL ticket!) http://dadrocks.bandcamp.com

May 26th Brainlove Festival 2012 @ Brixton Windmill (Väljasõit Rohelisee only UK show)
£12 adv http://www.brainloverecords.com/festival

June 7th Andrew Paul Regan (Album Party) + Dad Rocks! + Mat Riviere
Power Lunches - £5 (or £1 with BRNLV FSTVL ticket!) http://andrewpaulregan.bandcamp.com

http://www.brainloverecords.com
http://brainlove.isalso.at

ICELAND 101

(originally published on Drowned In Sound)


The Kex hostel is on Skulagata on the coast of Reykjavík (translation: "smoky bay”) was once a biscuit factory, and it still bears many of the building's original hallmarks. A Sweeney Todd-like barbers is housed in a walk-in safe with metal door a foot thick, and there are steel lockers instead of wardrobes, wooden crates used as tables, and careworn original signage everywhere. But now, the Kex building has become a bustling hostel that houses a multi-purpose bar, restaurant and arts venue that's equal parts bric-a-brac installation, cosy study and über-cool warehouse space. Before it was the hostel, it was a pool bar that morphed into an illegal after hours party venue, eventually closed down by city police for becoming too popular. At January's Reykjavík Music Mess it was the festival centre, holding daytime gigs while performers and punters looked on over their hangover coffee.

Haukur S Magnusson (Reykjavík) at Kex

Kex becomes the hangout on this trip to talk to some of the great and the good of Reykjavík’s music scene, made famous worldwide in recent years by breakout acts like Múm, Björk and Sigur Rós. But some inhabitants see this as a curse as much as a blessing. Haukur S Magnusson, guitarist in the band REYKJAVIK! and editor of the local English-language paper Reykjavik Grapevine, is frustrated by the perception of an 'Icelandic sound'. "Some people started seeing the Icelandic sound not as I would like to classify it, as a liberal, spirited, lively sound that allows for everything, but as just something that sounds like glaciers," he says. "This troubles me. When I was working with the Iceland Music Export I helped put together a Made In Iceland compilation. I solicited the tracks that had been picked, and sent them off to a PR firm in America, and set up a Google alert for the reviews. And I remember reading them. It was like, 'this is amazing, Valgeir Sigurðsson is crying gold tears from heaven, and Rökkurró are heaven being cried from gold tears', etcetera. But then the reviews would hear Mugison, and be like 'what the fuck? Do we really need blues from Iceland?' Whereas I remember in 2004, one of the best bands I have heard here was a total homegrown mix of Madchester, hip-hop and punk rock. This is the Icelandic sound to me."

That kind of post-everything creativity is shot through the Icelandic approach to music making. Anything goes here, and the arrival of a signature sound could could indeed lead to an abandonment of this special creative instinct as new bands scramble to be part of a musical gold rush. But exciting bands like Retro Stefson crush together myriad genres into original afro-metal-party-dance-funk-disco music, and the multi-generation five-piece Apparat Organ Quartet not only feature both a students and a grandfather but play high-throttle kraut-synth-chamber-metal - the city’s new generation aren’t showing too many signs of turning into copyists.

Halli Valli (Æla) at Kex

Later we talk to striking singer Halli Valli, frontman of local scene heroes Æla (translation: "puke"). They're one of the best kept secrets in Iceland – a mix of Shellac-style tense post-hardcore, explosive punk and ridiculously catchy indie-rock, sung in Icelandic. Their much-anticipated second album will feature their first English language songs. “We wrote in Icelandic because it’s very Icelandic music we make,” says Halli. “We never had any plans to take over the world. We just planned to have fun. But our plans have changed,” he smiles. “Icelandic bands get a lot of support from the Icelandic Music Export, the Loftbrú travel grants to fly out and do shows, that kind of thing, it’s really good.” When asked about his favourite Icelandic bands, he reels off a long list. “I really like the band REYKJAVIK! of course; and Prinspolo, Sudden Weather Change, Kimono, Agent Fresco. And I really like Sin Fang and Seabear, both from the same guy, Sindri.” It says something of Reykjavík’s size that we later bump into members of half of these bands, including Sindri, in one or the other of the city’s two favourite downtown party bars, Bakkus and Kaffibarinn.

At the foot of the town, opposite the hot dog stand with pictures of Metallica and Bill Clinton trying out its famous “pylsur”, stands Harpa - a brand new concert hall that’s construction ground to halt for several years, plagued by the Icelandic financial collapse. Finally finished, it stands like a gleaming glass and metal mecca for Icelandic music. But many of the people we talk to are unhappy with various aspects of it – some bands have not been allowed to use specific sound equipment and shifted gigs elsewhere last-minute; nobody can sell merch except the in-venue 12 Tónar store, damaging valuable incomes for performers, and local promoters have found negotiations with the venue to be unforgiving. But nevertheless, the spectacular Harpan is finally complete, and will be a part of the 2011 Airwaves festival, throwing its doors open to the music lovers and party goers who descend for the city-wide party from all over the world every October. "It's not a single venue - there are four different venues inside and we are using them all," says Grímur Atlasson, the festival director. "For us Icelanders Harpa is a token of many things - some negative - but for Iceland Airwaves it's just magnificent."

This year is an even more special Airwaves, as the country’s most famous daughter Björk will present her Biophilia project in all of its multimedia glory at a series of intimate shows. With all of this talent and invention bubbling away like the hot water under this magical country’s lava landscape, Reykjavík remains a wellspring of new music and creativity. For those yet to make the trip, Airwaves 2011 is the perfect opportunity to experience it first hand.

Thanks to Kex http://www.kexhostel.is

Photography by Vasilis Panagiotopoulos

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5 Hot Bands From The Land Of Ice

Úlfur (Apparat Organ Quartet) at Kex

Apparat Organ Quartet are like no other band. Acquiring a towering cult status from their self-titled debut, their second LP Pólýfóníá sees them stepping up their analogue dance music to a frenetic pace and an epic scope - a favourite of Bjórk, there're unmissable live.

Gus Gus are from the Icelandic old-school – they have been going for over 15 years in one form or another, be it as a trip-hop collective or as purveyors of upbeat pop on 4AD. They recently reinvented themselves as a soulful minimal techno outfit on Kompakt, and in recent albums 24/7 and Arabian Horse have moved the goalposts for the genre.

Sin Fang is one guise of Sindri Mar Sigfusson, a heavily tattooed skateboarding fanatic and singer of Icelandic indie-pop urchins Seabear. With Sin Fang he explores more abstract territory via African rhythms, synth washes, lumbering beats and interweaving vocal layers to create a hypnotic mass of sound.

Kippi Kaninus is the solo project of choir singer and sample wizard Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson, creating lush, organic electronica from sounds as odd as an apple being eaten, recorded from inside the apple. He joined Amina for their second album Puzzle, and his solo project has since found a new form with a five-piece band including two phenomenal drummers, one of whom was in Björk’s band The Sugarcubes.

Samaris were one of the standouts at Reykjavík Music Mess festival, and have tongues wagging as a result. They make a brooding, melancholic brew of languid trip-hop, breakbeat and scratching that reminds of Portishead and Lamb. They were one of the winners of the 2011 Kraumur awards for new Icelandic music: previous winners have included Retro Stefson and FM Belfast, so watch this space.

BRAINLOVE FESTIVAL:
ENJOYED, VÄLJASÕIT ROHELISSE
& AK/DK ADDED TO LINEUP

Brainlove Festival 2012 is happy to announce three more acts added to this year’s line-up. Joining the likes of Dad Rocks!, Crushed Beaks, Female Band and Napoleon IIIrd are electronic producer Enjoyed (pictured above), synth-rock-noise-improv duo AK/DK, and Estonian drone/shoegaze band Väljasõit Rohelisse. 

Enjoyed has currently garnered wide-spread media attention for new track ‘Teeth’, what The Guardian called “music firmly in 2012”, while AK/DK are currently out touring Europe with The Dandy Warhols. Väljasõit Rohelisse were a standout band at Tallinn Music Week, and are brought to the UK in conjunction with the Estonian festival. Says festival organiser John Brainlove: "VR played at the Brainlove night at Tallinn Music Week and blew everyone's minds with their narcotic drones, creepy green lights and smoke. We're really excited to be hosting their first ever UK performance."
 
We’re also happy to announce media partnerships with DIY magazine, as well as web coverage and live video sessions from The 405 and 7bitArcade. We will also be bringing you a DIY Radio festival special in May.

Along with all this, we will soon be unveiling a series of exclusive interviews with each artist on Snipe as well as an exclusive streamable and downloadable compilation starring all the festival’s line-up of acts.

Tickets are on sale now at http://www.musicglue.com/brainlovefestival priced £12.

Meet The Bands...

ENJOYED

"part Balearic, part house, part synth-pop, all vibes" - XLR8R
"Tropical tones to see off the last of winter... absolutely worth a spin" - DUMMY
"head-nodding atmospherics and gorgeous synth work" - Dipped In Dollars"an intelligent appropriation of pop song structures, dabbling in the abstract realm of blips and glitches...
we can report back that his live set-up is just as enthralling." - The Line Of Best Fit 


 
"What do we know about the mysterious Enjoyed? We know he is Peter Evans-Pritchard, and he describes his music as "joystep". We also know he was named after a Chemical Brothers B-side (not his birth name, that would be ridiculous). Oh, and he's also a musical synesthete, creating bespoke art for each song he records based on colours he sees in the music. So the excellent Teeth, premiered here exclusively, looks like a swirling mass of purple and green or a print for the best tie-dye T-shirt this side of of the early 70s. Musically, however, we're firmly in 2012, specifically the kind of dreamy bedroom-producer feel of Chad Valley and Seams. That's not to say Pritchard buries the song's melodies beneath lo-fi production or allows it to meander. One of Teeth's many charms is that it launches into a soaring chorus about a minute in and builds and builds with layers of vocals and Technicolor synths." - The Guardian

http://www.enjoyedmusic.com

 

VÄLJASÕIT ROHELISSE

"swathes of echoing noise and passages of hypnotic minimalism, they disappear behind a wall of swirling smoke and emerging as their throbbing, dark repetitions chase it away. Their compositions ebb and flow invitingly, pushing their persuasive, teasing tendrils through the crowd and making the air feel thick with sound." - The Line Of Best Fit
 

 
Väljasõit Rohelisse is an Estonian quintet, playing one chord psychedelia with swamp blues, surf and Krautrock tinges, bathed in green light and shrouded in smoke. A 10” EP entitled “Külastus” will be released in the UK on Brainlove this June 4th, in collaboration with Estonian label OneSense.

Väljasõit Rohelisse (trans: ”Roadside picnic”) is the Estonian title for a short novel by Soviet sci-fi writers the Strugatsky brothers. It is read to you by Lauri (tremolos, echos, amateur surf sounds), Martin (cathedral electronics, space shots and prairie licks), Eiko (motoric boom), Kersten (sound magician) and Marit (heartbeats, glittering tambourines and killer claps).

http://valjasoitrohelisse.tumblr.com

 

AK/DK

"“Rhythmic and synthy, they’re like a more direct Add N To (X) – you’ll be astounded how much they can achieve from behind their kits. AK/DK completely blew me away."” - SOURCE“
"Music you want to lose yourself on the dancefloor to”" - God Is In The TV

AK/DK are Graham Sowerby (drums and synths) and Ed Chivers (drums and synths), currently out touring Europe as support to The Dandy Warhols. Their shows include improvisations. from the chaotic to the beautiful, and the simplicity of the line-up allows them the freedom to create improvised layers of fuzzed-up synths, delays and arpeggios, and thunderous double drums. The sound has been described as a mixture between Battles, Death From Above 1979, Raymond Scott and Neu, moving between progressive/motorik rhythms to beautiful melodic sections, from abstract electronics and raucous energy. They've been seen earned supporting and remixing artists as diverse as Fujiya & Miyagi, Three Trapped Tigers, Damo Suzuki, Napoleon IIIrd, The Woo!Worths, and ManRaySky.

http://www.akdk.co.uk

http://www.brainloverecords.com/festival

OH MY GOD THAT'S A BRNLV T SHIRT

Buy one here.

New Radio Show with a Mat Riviere interview! New DJ Mix!

DIY Radio: Brainlove: Braindio (14th March 2012) by Diy on Mixcloud

NEW BRNLV MIXTAPE

BRNLV Mixtape #9 - I Will Come Again by Brainlove on Mixcloud

I reviewed a Lambchop show

for Drowned In Sound. It were right good.

Mat Riviere - not even doom music

Brainlove Radio Show on DIYradio

DIY Radio: Brainlove (3rd February 2012) by Diy on Mixcloud

Best of 2011: travels in pictures

I was lucky to travel a lot in 2011. Life, work and music took me to some amazing places. Here are some photographs of some of my most memorable scenes and moments of last year, many of which will stay with me forever.

BRNLV11: A List of Beautiful Music From the Year 2011

Hello! 7:56pm, December 31st, 2011. In a few hours, it's the end of the year. What better time to post an end-of-year list?

So: here are BRNLV's ten favourite albums of the last twelve months. From icy, weirdly spiritual techno to acoustic punk, from Scandinavian alt-pop to homegrown ambient soundscapes, each of these contains something very special.

Each comes with a standout track to listen to, and you can listen to them sequentially here on Spotify if you prefer not to watch video or get mouse-click related RSI. (Note: Gus Gus has been taken down from Spotify - maybe Kompakt were part of that dance music distro who pulled their catalogue. So no Gus Gus on playlist).

(nb. You may notice both albums released by Brainlove are present. That's because they are two of my favourite albums that came out this year. For a lot of record labels, signing and releasing is as much an extended form of fandom as a business arrangement. And if we hadn't released them, I'd still have given them both 10/10. So, I included them here, as seems fair and just.)

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1. = Gus Gus - Arabian Horse Spotify
Dark, sensual, perfect Icelandic techno. Sung from the heart. A rare thing: an emotional, moving 'dance' album.

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1. = Dad Rocks! - Mount Modern Spotify
Eleven beautifully humane and melodic songs about real life; family, domesticity and the modern world.

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3. Austra - Feel It Break Spotify
Ostensibly a dark, danceable pop album, Austra's record reveals lyrical depth and hidden resonance on repeated listening.

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4. Sacred Harp - Window's A Fall Spotify
An album quite unlike anything else, Window's A Fall is an elegant tumble of ideas.

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5. Blanck Mass Spotify
Benjamin Power's solo album is rich with warmth, emotion and a sense of enveloping kindness.

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6. David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding Spotify
DTB plays the poet and the clown in a brave and rewarding collection, his best since the seminal "Complete Guide to Insufficiency".

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7. When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie Spotify
Several striking high points make this sophisticated alt-pop debut something special. Arthur Russell influenced finale "Add Ends" is one of the songs of the year.

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8. Planningtorock - W Spotify
A direct, complete, stylish art-pop album with a pleasingly limited palette revealing a clear vision.

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9. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves Spotify
More unhinged, washed out, impassioned earworms from a man who's allegedly a professor of philosophy. In Hawaii.

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10. Active Child - You Are All I See Spotify
Pat Grossi's debut is a grower that sneaks in above Future Islands due it's consistency, glossy texture and open-heart lyrics.

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JHNBRNLV's gigs of the year:



15/02 - Zebra and Snake - Fisk og Vilt, by:Larm Festival, Oslo
25/03 - Kreatiivmootor - Tallinn Music Week
31/03 - When Saints Go Machine - Ja Ja Ja @ The Lexington, London
20/05 - David Thomas Broughton - Kings Place, London
09/06 - Future Islands - Upset The Rhythm @ Plan B, London
14/06 - Deerhunter - Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg
24/06 - Gus Gus - Kompakt Party @ ℅ Pop, Bootshaus, Cologne
24/07 - Portishead - I'll Be Your Mirror, Alexandria Palace, London
14/09 - Battles - Berlin Music Week @ Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
12/10 - Björk - Harpa, Reykjavík



And finally, a double-sided mixtape of BRNLV artists' songs and selections. See the tracklist (and who picked what) here.



Enjoy the music. See you in 2012.

John // BRNLV

David Thomas Broughton Announces UK Dates

VIDEO FOR "ELECTRICITY": http://youtu.be/fp-Behi0IXI (Directed by Claire McArdle)

David Thomas Broughton has announced two rare UK live shows in London and his hometown of Leeds, on the 12th and 13th of January.

His mesmerising live show has become the stuff of legend: from his hypnotically strange, mannerism-packed stage presence, to his use of rape alarms, improvised props and unpredictable tactics, always to enthralling effect. His songs appear and retreat through a bed of looped sound both beautiful and jarring. Broughton is an engaging and startling performer truly like no other.

Broughton will play songs from his seminal debut, "The Complete Guide To Insufficiency", and the well-received 2011 follow up "Outbreeding", out now on CD and digital formats via UK indie label Brainlove Records. More information can be found here http://www.brainloverecords.com/outbreeding and here http://www.davidthomasbroughton.co.uk.

FREE MP3 - Ain't Got No Sole: http://snd.sc/tKawp9

Thu 12 Jan Brudenell Leeds
Wegottickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/148906

Fri 13 Jan Lexington London
Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/148954

Björk at Iceland Airwaves

I reviewed some of Iceland Airwaves Festival 2011 for the Reykjavík Grapevine, one of my favourite music and culture publications in the whole world. It was a privilege to write for them, and my allotment of shows happily included Björk's Biophilia set at Harpa. CLick below to read the piece, and you can read my other two reports via the little author box at the bottom if you'd like to.

Brainlove Mixtape #8

Brainlove Mixtape #8: sAddEnds by Brainlove on Mixcloud

Brainlove Release Debut Album by SACRED HARP

"Window's A Fall"
released 05/12/11 on Brainlove Records

"Sacred Harp is an imaginary movie directed by David Lynch, where Billie Holiday, Deerhoof, Earth and Low are picking mushrooms with John Cage."
It's almost hard to believe "Window's A Fall" is the debut album by Norwegian four-piece Sacred Harp, such is the assuredness displayed throughout it's eight kaleidoscopic tracks.



From atonal blues to teutonic prog; from jazz tinged freakouts to delicate lullabies to arena-sized climaxes, the album writhes, seduces and entices, all the time refusing to be pinned down to a signature sound. A surprise hides around every corner, and the imagination and variety of "Window's A Fall" fills the imagination of the listener with colour.

In the past two years, Sacred Harp has inadvertently grown into one of Oslo’s favourite new bands. Their self titled EP, released in 2009, startled reviewers into bewildered praise and set off word of mouth that created widespread anticipation for what was to come next. After developing and polishing their extraordinary sound in the studio, they now present their debut album “Window’s a Fall”. Recorded and mixed by Bjarne Stensli (of Harrys Gym) and by Sacred Harp´s own Juhani Silvola, the record has one foot in the Norwegian rock aesthetic, but that narrow categorization doesn’t begin to cover their sonic breadth.



Sacred Harp is a four-piece band, comprising Jessica Sligter (vocals, guitar, keys), Juhani Silvola (guitar, bass, keys), Øystein Skar (keys) and Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød (drums). All come from the tight-knit community of Oslo musicians embracing experimental, free improvised music, as well as rock and alternative popular music, and they shamelessly blend and combine elements of their collective musical fancy into their endeavours. In fact, Sacred Harp, started out as an improv-trio, without drums, but soon they realized that their strength as a group lay in another direction. With Jessica´s expressive vocals and ability to create unique, strong melodies and lyrics, Juhani´s wide-ranging experience working in genres like noise, rock and folk music, and Øystein´s colorful pallet and versatility on keyboards, the trio found that in bringing together their strongest qualities they could construct powerful compositions and intricate arrangements. Sacred Harp found it’s fourth member in Andreas, the two-metre-tall anchor that creates a rhythmic foundation to their recordings and performances.

The music of Sacred Harp clearly reflects the eclectic mindset of the environment they sprouted from. As the title conveys, “Window´s a Fall” is an ominous record, inspired by the work of greats like David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, and also by regular TV, for example the TV series True Blood. Danger is always present, evidently or subtly insinuated, but it’s the uncertainty that it is exciting and enchanting. Their influences also lead to a combination of polished and freakish elements, tied in a highly cinematic and dynamic aesthetic. Needless to say, Sacred Harp´s music has great theatrical potential that makes their live show the ultimate Sacred Harp experience.



"Window's A Fall" comes out via Brainlove on December 5th 2011, in partnership with Trust Me Records of Oslo.

http://www.facebook.com/sacredharpmusic
http://www.myspace.com/sacredharpmusic

BRNLV Loves #2

BRNLV Loves #1

The National "APARTMENT STORY" from Banner Gwin on Vimeo.

New BRNLV Band: Bleeding Heart Narrative

"Vintage tones and instrumentation - a truly enticing sound" - Clash
"Musically sumptuous and highly arresting... pulled off with an enviable sense of beauty and inspired musicality" - The Quietus
"Filled with lush instrumentation" - The Line Of Best Fit
"Satisfying and dramatic" - Breaking More Waves

Bleeding Heart Narrative are a London sextet who weave together beautiful sounds with a haunting intensity. As interested in textures and orchestration as they are with rhythm and melody, theirs is a distinctive and captivating style that never settles on a single genre or approach. In creating their own music, Bleeding Heart Narrative incorporate their more abstract influences into traditional song structures, applying pop sensibilities to them as they go. You might hear the shimmer of Tortoise or Steve Reich built into a song that could be played on an Arcade Fire-sized stage, or pick out a Battle-esque repetition in a Mogwai-sized crescendo - but it'll always be Bleeding Heart Narrative you're listening to.

Live, Bleeding Heart Narrative are inspired. Having been the loudest band at the Shhh! All-dayer (Cecil Sharp House), they attracted the biggest attendance of 2010 at the Daylight Music Sessions (Union Chapel); they've also soundtracked films & readings for the British Film Instute and Whitechapel Art Gallery, and performed at arts spaces like Cafe Oto, The Shunt Vaults and Bristol's Cube cinema, and at festivals such as Truck, Green Man and the Huw-Stephens-curated SWN.

"Bison" is their first release on Brainlove Records, and follows their acclaimed 2010 album "Tongue Tangled Hair". But there are long-standing links twixt band and label: BHN ringleader Oliver Barrett (also of Petrels) is currently working on new material with emergent BRNLV artist Mat Riviere, having played cello with him at Brainlove Festival 2011 and turned in an orchestral reworking of "The Give In".

LIVE:
Aug 7th Fat Out Till You Pass Out @ Islington Mill, Manchester
Aug 11th HOWL presents @ The Others, London
Aug 21st Green Man Festival, Wales
Sept 17th Southsea Festival
Oct 20th SWN Festival, Cardiff, Wales

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bleedingheartnarrative
Soundcloud: http://www.myspace.com/bleedingheartnarrative
EP PAGE: http://www.brainloverecords.com/bhn
Twitter: http://twitter.com/BHNnoise