Northwest Music News – 31 Jul: More from Liverpool Music Week

Liverpool Music Week adds more names, Outfit's Andrew Hunt announces new music and there's some heavy Digital Crate Digging for your ears...

Blog by Simon Jay Catling | 31 Jul 2015

Liverpool Music Week taking shape

Liverpool Music Week announcements tend to take the form of a trickle turning into a flood, and following the initial confirmation that Godspeed You! Black Emperor would be playing at the multi-venue event in October, the names have since started coming thick and fast. Now, Deerhunter, Best Coast, Gang Of Four, HEALTH, Holly Herndon, Josh T. Pearson and SOAK have all been confirmed to appear between 22-31 Oct. Deerhunter, Gang of Four and SOAK will play the closing party alongside 40 other acts yet to be anounced, with the other headlining elsewhere during the week. Eyes to liverpoolmusicweek.com for ticket information.

Dialect new album

With his digital-only release Advanced Myth still gaining regular rotation through our speakers, not to mention Outfit's Slowness, Andrew Hunt returns as Dialect at the end of August with a new cassette on 1080P. The first take from Gowanus Drifts is available now, a bubbling flurry of stacatto patterns offset by washes of MIDI vocals increasingly decaying production, doing much to suggest that Hunt is set to further still the immersive atmospherics of his previous release. 

Tor Ist Das! in Todmorden

If we've said it once, we'll say it again: the Pennines are currently brimming with great promoters, not least Was Ist Das. With a reputation of bringing the psychedelic to the hills, they're hosting a weekend's worth of the weird and wonderful across several venues in idyllic Todmorden between 14-16 Aug, with North Eastern folk storyteller Richard Dawson, nightscape conjurer Kemper Norton and French no-wave punks Terrine all on the bill, to name just three. It's promises to be a weekend of sonic extremes, more details on which can be found here.

Digital Crate Digging 

Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura — Clifton Park

Something of a Manchester independent scene super group, featuring all manner of Manchester's more seasoned musicians, including Golden Lab Records founder Nick Mitchell, one-time Lonelady live drummer Andrew Cheetham, improv. stalwart Rob Birchall, Irma Vep, Sex Hands' Dylan Hughes and more, Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura recently embarked on a tour around the US. Some of the results of that trip have since put out on vinyl. Clifton Park parts one and two is heavy on the drone and freeform rock improvisation without ever feeling like they're disappearing too far down a cul-de-sac. A signifier to their sound comes in the artwork for both records, created by Sunburned Hand of the Man's John Moloney, Desmadrados far more in tune with 70s acid freak out merchants like Beefheart and Zappa than the more polished neo-psychedelic revival.

Denim and Leather — Ulcer (Lupus Records)

An increasing rarity in Manchester, in that they're the sort of group you never quite feel safe watching, Denim and Leather have been brazenly bringing venues to heel over the past year or so with a furious brand of guttural hardcore punk. Ulcer is a suitably grim track title for a downright filthy track, that lurches this way and that with a gloriously unhinged sense of abandon, and it comes from their debut 7", being put out from across the Pennines by Leeds label Lupus Records.

Black Corsea

Mixing poetry and broken dub glitch, Liverpool's Black Corsea sees Simon Jones team up with local spoken word artist Mark Greenwood for a bleak and frequently discomforting look into the abyss. Terse, dystopian imagery fights for space between crushing industrialism in the three previews to-date on their Soundcloud, the pair combining to create a truly end of days torrent of sonic chaos.

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