David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights - "End Times Undone" - The Jangly Happy RockNRoll Dunedin Sound

I found myself recently flicking through the latest Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader "Have as Much as You Want" Volume 6 the super ice cold Winter edition and found myself studying the new David Kilgour and The Heavy 8's awesome trippy album cover for "End Times Done". Wow who does that hand belong to God, is the fire symbolic of a happy camp fire or mans ultimate destruction, does that phallic object belong to someone haha.

Jokes aside I read the article on Cleaner brother in arms Hamish Kilgours new music making and cutting old school vinyls for an American and low and behold I decided to check out some of the oldschool flying nun stuff on Youtube, the filthy old 16mm clips are great, they are so pre-youtube youtube class great tunes Kiwi history totally!

Anyway I was surfing around in the Google owned music quagmire and rolled across all the great classic songs from the Clean and the Verlaines, gush Dunedin sound those good old Dunedin sound days so innocent just enjoying being alive in the post war baby booming times (bad math give or take some decades. Well I got listening to the new album by Kilgour and Eights and give it a thumbs up nice one kick ass punch in the balls. It's got chills, its got spills, RockNRoll with such a lack of ego in the music you just end up floating round in the cold Blue Auckland Winter night sky.

 

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Multi-Love" New Single Out Now

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Multi-Love" https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/unknown-mortal-orchestra-multi-love Kick ass keyboard intro almost Gothic big vocals aggressive punch you in the face drum fill soulful ballad with great bass need the bass floating cloud like vocals throw in some funky synths and acoustic arpeggios and you get Unknown Mortal Orchestra :)

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra have announced their new album Multi-Love, due out May 26 via Jagjaguwar. It follows 2013's II. Along with the announcement, the band have shared the title track, which you can listen to above. Check out the tracklist, below, and the album cover, above.

In a press release, frontman Ruban Nielson said:

It felt good to be rebelling against the typical view of what an artist is today, a curator. It’s more about being someone who makes things happen in concrete ways. Building old synthesizers and bringing them back to life, creating sounds that aren’t quite like anyone else’s. I think that’s much more subversive.

The band have also announced a tour. Check out their schedule below.

Multi-Love:

01 Multi-Love
02 Like Acid Rain
03 Ur Life One Night
04 Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
05 Extreme Wealth and Casual Cruelty
06 The World Is Crowded
07 Stage or Screen
08 Necessary Evil
09 Puzzles

Unknown Mortal Orchestra:

02-22 Newcastle, England - 6 Music Festival
05-07 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
05-09 Seattle, WA - Barboza
05-10 Spokane, WA - The Bartlett
05-20 Bristol, England - Thekla
05-21 London, England - Islington Assembly Hall
05-22 Coventry, England - Warwick University *
05-23 Liverpool, England - Liverpool Sound City
05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Bitterzoet
05-26 Berlin, Germany - Berghain Kantine
05-27 Brussels, Belgium - AB Club
05-28 Paris, France - La Flèche d’Or
05-29-31 Nîmes, France - This is Not a Love Song Festival
05-30 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-02 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
06-03 Montreal, Quebec - Theatre Fairmount
06-04 Toronto, Ontario - Lee’s Palace
06-05 Pontiac, MI - Pike Room
06-06 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
06-08 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
06-09 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
06-10 St. Louis, MO - Firebird
06-11-14 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06-13 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
06-14 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
06-15 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall
06-16 Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
06-17 Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
06-19 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw

* with Django Django