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Phoebe Bridgers

Stranger In The Alps

    Phoebe Bridgers wrote her first song at age 11, spent her adolescence at open mic nights and busked through her teenage years at farmers markets in her native Los Angeles. By age 20, she’d caught the ear of Ryan Adams, who listened to her perform her song ‘Killer’ in his LA studio, inviting her to come back and record it there the next day. The session blossomed into the three song ‘Killer’ EP, released to much acclaim on Adams’s Pax-Am label in 2015. In the two short years since, Bridgers has toured or played with Conor Oberst, Julien Baker, City And Colour, Violent Femmes, Mitski, Television and Blake Babies among others.

    Now Phoebe Bridgers releases her debut full-length, ‘Stranger In The Alps’. From the weeping strings and ‘Twin Peaks’ twangs of opening track ‘Smoke Signals’, to the simple heartbreak of ‘Funeral’ and melancholic crescendo of ‘Scott Street’, ‘Stranger In The Alps’ is a swooningly beautiful record with a gothic heart.

    ‘Stranger In The Alps’ features guest vocals by Conor Oberst and John Doe.

    TRACK LISTING

    1 Smoke Signals
    2 Motion Sickeness
    3 Funeral
    4 Demi Moore
    5 Scott Street
    6 Killer
    7 Goergia
    8 Chelsea
    9 Would You Rather
    10 You Missed My Heart

    Nine Black Alps

    Live From The Wishing Well

      The story and history of Nine Black Alps is forever etched in UK grunge-rock folklore. 2014 however was the year when they released their 5th album ‘Candy For The Clowns’. Signed to the newly formed Leeds label Hatch Records, the album was a far more distorted and rockier affair that harked back to the likes of Everything Is and Love/Hate.

      With core members Sam Forrest (vocals, guitar), David Jones (guitar), James Galley (drums, vocals) and bass player Karl Astbury, the band retained their distinctive and energetic sludge, grunge-rock sound albeit with a tighter and more dynamic style. ‘Candy for the Clowns’ was praised by the likes of Rock Sound, Classic Rock and Drowned in Sound, while 6 Music and XFM championed singles such as ‘Novokaine’ at radio.

      For a band 12 years into their career ‘Live from The Wishing Well’ marks their first ever live album. Set for release on 4th May it features a full length Nine Black Alps performance captured on 14th December 2013.

      The show, taking place at Gorilla in Manchester was a special concert to celebrate 10 years since the band formed. Nine Black Alps ran through a set that covered the full breadth of their career from early singles 'Shot Down' and 'Unsatisfied' to recent releases like 'Supermarket Clothes'.

      At just under an hour in length, the album showcases the band's fiery live sound with no production trickery and even features a special guest appearance by ex-bass player Martin Cohen.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Burn Faster
      2. Forget My Name
      3. Don't Forget To Breathe
      4. Not Everyone
      5. Buy Nothing
      6. Ironside
      7. Patti
      8. Just Friends
      9. Supermarket Clothes
      10. Ilana Song
      11. Bitter End
      12. Heavier Than Water
      13. Unsatisfied
      14. Be My Girl
      15. Get Your Guns
      16. Shot Down

      Nine Black Alps

      Candy For The Clown - Deluxe Edition

      With core members Sam Forrest (vocals, guitar), David Jones (guitar), James Galley (drums, vocals) and bass player Karl Astbury, the band had retained their distinctive and energetic sludge, grunge-rock sound albeit with a tighter and more dynamic style. 

      The band were formed in 2003 in Manchester, UK and were quickly signed by Island Records after just a handful of local shows and an almighty scramble amongst the music industry. The rest, as they say is history…. Recent single ‘Novokaine’ released at the end of last year to coincide with their 10 year anniversary, and championed by Edith Bowan, (6 Music), John Kennedy (XFM) and Frank Skinner (Absolute Radio) was the first taster of the new record. It’s a far more distorted and rockier affair that harks back to their earlier albums Everything Is and Love/Hate. 

      Other tracks such as their upcoming single ‘Supermarket Clothes’ capture a more British sound for the band but overall ‘Candy for the Clowns’ is an addictive balance of summer college rock and surf-pop. It will be the first album to be released on new Leeds label Hatch Records.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Novokaine
      2. Blackout
      3. Supermarket Clothes
      4. Patti
      5. Something Else
      6. Morning After
      7. Come Back Around
      8. Not In My Name
      9. Destroy Me
      10. Take Me Underground
      11. Clown
      12. Supermarket Clothes (Live At Gorilla Manchester 14th December 2013)
      13. Patti (Live At Gorilla Manchester 14th December 2013)
      14. Come Back Around (Live At Gorilla Manchester 14th December 2013)
      15. You Don't Need Me (exclusive Acoustic Version)
      16. Power Failure (exclusive Acoustic Version)

      During Pavement’s ‘One More For The Money’ tour of 2010, Sic Alps played some British gigs with them. It’s been written that during one long night in Brixton, Stephen Malkmus was heard uttering within shot of a microphone that Sic Alps would be one of the most important bands of the next ten years.

      ‘Sic Alps’ will be the fifth album from Sic Alps, if you include the compilation album ‘A Long Way Around To A Shortcut’ on Drag City. There’ve also been a number of singles and some splits. In the nearly-two-years since ‘Napa Asylum’, Sic Alps have kept busy with a series of singles, culminating in the tape-stretching double-B side ‘Vedley’ and a 7” EP of Tronics covers.

      TRACK LISTING

      Glyphs
      God Bless Her, I Miss Her
      Lazee Son
      Polka Vat
      Wake Up, It’s Over II
      Drink Up!
      Thylacine Man
      Moviehead
      Rock Races
      See You On The Slopes

      Nine Black Alps

      Bitter End

        New single from the Manchester based rockers Nine Black Alps. Taken from their forthcoming album "Love Hate"; "Bitter End" is a powerful yet melodic three-minute pop song drawing influences from the likes of The Lemonheads, Nirvana and Blind Melon.

        Nine Black Alps

        Everything Is

          Nine Black Alps release at last their hugely anticipated debut album. The product of their LA recording sessions with Beck and Elliot Smith producer Rob Schnapf, "Everything Is" includes their long deleted debut single "Cosmopolitan" along with recent singles "Shot Down" and "Not Everyone".


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