Knifeplay - Pearlty - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Kathryn Joseph releases her new album From When I Wake The Want Is, via Glasgows Rock Action Records. The follow up to 2015s acclaimed debut Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I've Spilled, which was named the Scottish Album of the Year, this album is a captivating set that documents both lifes traumas and their resolutions. Produced by Marcus Mackay, who also worked on her debut album, From When I Wake... mixes new songs with material gathered over the past ten years to create an intimate and often devastating portrait of Josephs world.

Knifeplay's sophomore full-length, and first ever studio album Animal Drowning is a sprawling landscape of shoegaze and lofty slowcore. The album finds the band in a blend of folk instruments, walls of distortion, orchestral strings and delicate vocals, all carefully organized by Philadelphia engineer/producer Jeff Zeigler, known for his work with Nothing, Kurt Vile, and more.Though their sonic palette is vast, Knifeplay craft a cohesive aesthetic to carry frontman Tj Strohmer's thematically heavy songwriting, which touches on loss of all kinds against the backdrop of a nihilistic world. These songs cry out with urgency no matter their ever-varied tempo and dynamic, each painting a unique vignette of tragedy. Yet the band's dense, meticulously composed instrumentation exudes beauty, creating a lightness to balance the subject matter.With Animal Drowning, Knifeplay goes deeper into the sonic experimentation and brutally honest lyricism so beloved on their early bedroom recordings, creating an enrapturing experience that deftly builds on previous work.1. Nobody2. Lonely Sun3. Promise4. Bleed5. Animal 6. Deserve7. Hearts8. Ryan Song9. Untitled10. Cold Rain

Yr Knives is a Chicago instrumental quartet built around two overdriven guitars merging into something neither could produce alone. Guitarists Andrew Trim (Hanami) and Brian J Sulpizio (Health & Beauty) are joined by bassist Douglas McCombs (Tortoise) and drummer Quin Kirchner. Two come up as rock players, two as jazz players, and the music lives in how closely they listen across those languages. Their debut, Begin Yr Singing, is searching, exploratory, and grounded. RIYL Sonny Sharrock, Television, Horse Lords