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Jenny Hval announces her new album ‘Blood Bitch’, due Sept 30th, via Sacred Bones Records, and shares the first dreamy single ‘Female Vampire’. As well as various European festival slots, the Norwegian artist is also set to tour the UK in October this year with shows in London, Glasgow and Manchester.

In the words of Jenny Hval herself:

“Blood Bitch is an investigation of blood. Blood that is shed naturally. The purest and most powerful, yet most trivial, and most terrifying blood: Menstruation. The white and red toilet roll chain which ties together the virgins, the whores, the mothers, the witches, the dreamers, and the lovers.

Blood Bitch is also a fictitious story, fed by characters and images from horror and exploitation films of the '70s. With that language, rather than smart, modern social commentary, I found I could tell a different story about myself and my own time: a poetic diary of modern transience and transcendence.

There is a character in this story that is a vampire Orlando, traveling through time and space. But there is also a story here of a 35-year old artist stuck in a touring loop, and wearing a black wig. She is always up at night, jet lagged, playing late night shows - and by day she is quietly resting over an Arp Odyssey synthesizer while a black van drives her around Europe and America.

So this is my most fictional and most personal album. It’s also the first album where I’ve started reconnecting with the goth and metal scene I started out playing in many years ago, by remembering the drony qualities of Norwegian Black Metal. It’s an album of vampires, lunar cycles, sticky choruses, and the smell of warm leaves and winter.”

See Jenny Hval live:

3rd Jun – Kilbi Festival, Duedingen CH
4th Jun – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona ES
16th July – Pitchfork Festival, Chicago US
5th Aug – Off Festival, Katowice PL
1st-5th Sept – End of the Road Festival
14th Sept – Ultima Festival, Oslo NO
30th Sept – LPR, New York City, NY
17th Oct – Stereo, Glasgow 
18th Oct – Soup Kitchen, Manchester 
19th Oct – Oslo, London 
21st Oct – AB, Brussels BE
22nd Oct – Point Ephemere, Paris FR
24th Oct – Suedpol, Luzern CH
26th Oct – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin DE
27th Oct – De School, Amsterdam NL
28th Oct – Kampnagel, Hamburg De
29th Oct – Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, DK
11th Nov – Resident, Los Angeles CA  

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{https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/jenny-hval-female-vampire}

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London based folk-rock outfit, Van Susans, return with a new widescreen single 'Seagulls', available digitally now on Beatnik Geek Records.

The new single, produced by John Cornfield is a song written about the pain of dealing with the loss of a loved one, but it's engaging from the start. The band have created a gem of a song that get's you hooked straight away.

The core of the songwriting trio consists of frontman Olly Van Andrews; Ed Dullaway on piano and guitar and Holly McLatchie on violin, with Innes Christie and Harvey Simpson completing the quintet. 

Watch the video for new single 'Seagulls'

Festival Dates

June 17th- 18th - Beacon Festival - Oxford

July 10th - Cornbury Festival

August 27th Towersey Festival - Oxford

August 28th - P4P Festival, Reigate

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Mourn are to release ‘Ha, Ha, He.’ the follow up to their 2014 self-titled debut album on 3rd June via  Captured Tracks Records. A band that with this release will build on their growing reputation. Early listens to the record really throws up someting original with the song structures. You really don't know where the song is going half the time  and that is a real joy these days.

Pavement, Throwing Muses come to mind, as do last year's wunderkids Chastity Belt. Have a listen to new single, 'Storyteller' below.   

{https://soundcloud.com/capturedtracks/mourn-storyteller}

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A much talked about band at SXSW this year, New York duo Diet Cig are returning to the UK for a run of dates, including a handful of performances at the Great Escape Festival and across the Dot To Dot Festival.

Dates

20/05/2016 - The Green Door Store, Brighton (Great Escape Festival)
21/05/2016 - The Hope & Ruin (Downstairs), Brighton (Great Escape Festival)
21/05/2016 - Sticky Mike's (Downstairs), Brighton (Great Escape Festival)
23/05/2016 - La Mecanique Ondulatoire, Paris
24/05/2016 - Dalston Victoria, London
25/05/2016 - Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
27/05/2016 - Dot To Dot, Manchester (Dot To Dot Festival)
28/05/2016 - Dot To Dot, Bristol (Dot To Dot Festival)
29/05/2016 - Dot To Dot, Nottingham (Dot To Dot Festival)
30/05/2016 - Range Life, Leeds

Watch the Video for "Dinner Date"

 

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The rhythm of Liverpool band, Vynce will be on display at the Great Escape on Saturday.

The band consists of Peter Pegasiou (lead vox, guitar), Jack Kelsey (vox, guitar), Conor O’Shea (vox, bass) and Tom Davis (drums) and if the track below is anything to go by, their infectious sound will be populating the airwaves this summer.

Tour Dates

21st May –The Great Escape Festival, Brighton: Set time: Sticky Mikes- 9.30pm – 10.00pm
22nd May – Waterfront, Norwich w/ Lisbon
24th May – SoundControl, Manchester w/Lisbon
25th May – University, Sheffield w/Lisbon

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{https://soundcloud.com/vyncemusic/taste-1}

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FUFANU play the Latest Music Bar, on Saturday 21st May at 8.30pm. New Single 'Plastic People' is out 17th June via One Little Indian Records.

 

{https://soundcloud.com/fufanu_music/plastic-people-mumu-radio-mix}

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