A bit frustrating this week, since I can't really talk about a couple of the most significant musical arrivals here, due to record label embargoes and so forth. Sorry, as ever, about the teasing: I'll reveal more as soon as I can.
A rare Aphex Twin album that only reached the test pressing stage is streaming online. Click below to listen now.
The extremely rare album, titled Caustic Window, was printed on four sides of vinyl and went on sale earlier this year priced at nearly £8,000. A Kickstarter campaign set up by fans to buy the album raised over £20,000 from fans of the producer.
Hiss Golden Messenger has announced details of a new album, Lateness Of Dancers.
Lateness Of Dancers is the fifth by Hiss Golden Messenger - the alias of songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor.
It is due for release on September 15 on Merge Records. Scroll down to watch a trailer for the album.
A copy of an Aphex Twin album that only reached the test pressing stage is being sold for $13,500 (£8,000).
The extremely rare album, titled Caustic Window, was printed on four sides of vinyl and is currently listed for sale on Discogs.
Fans of BBC’s Sherlock will know that the legendary detective has what he calls a Memory Palace, in which he is given to roam around, looking usually for clues to mysteries galore. My own equivalent is a sort of Memory Shed, where I am inclined to potter, most recently after reading Peter Watts’ excellent cover story on The Ramones in the current Uncut.
Religious dissidents and juvenile delinquents, Greenwich Village and Potsdamer Platz, doomed soldiers and vacuous celebrities... David Cavanagh files the epic, definitive review of The Next Day. From Uncut's April 2013 (Take 191) issue._______________
Arcade Fire's Win Butler has described the band's new album Reflektor as a "mash up of Studio 54 and Haitian voodoo."
The frontman shed further light on the band's forthcoming album, due for release in October, during an interview with Zane Lowe on Radio 1 that aired last night (September 11). In the interview, Butler discussed the sound of the double album and also revealed some new touring members of the band who will join Arcade Fire on the road when they come to tour Reflektor.
