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Warm Widow 'Impossible Acts' |
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CD - FHCD0301 - £3 |
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| "Utterly Fabulous" Artrocker |
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| Filthy Home Recordings says: Warm Widow submerged into their former bass player's cellar with a bunch of begged borrowed and stolen recording equipment to produce this marvellously traumatised collection of modern rock songs. The fifteen minutes of the EP flash past in a disorienting montage of backwards rhythms, anthemic ranting, twisted time signatures unfolding into slick post-punk grooves and blasts of intense sonic bullying resolving into hauntingly plaintive melodic passages. This debut release is limited to just 200 hand numbered copies. Get one! |
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| LoneLady
"Army / Intuition" |
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| 7" Vinyl - FHV0101 - CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE |
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| CD - FHCD0103 - CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE |
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| "Rich and enthralling" - High Voltage |
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| "altogether different and overwhelmingly
contagious" www.manchestermusic.co.uk |
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| After a year which saw LoneLady dazzle
the crowds in Texas at SXSW and, with new drummer in tow, bolster a reputation
for blisteringly tight live shows, we finally have the first release since
2005's landmark 'Have No Past' EP. The double A-Side single Army/Intuition
marks a sure and confident evolution in LoneLady's style and 4-track recording
alchemy. 'Army', the first LoneLady recording to feature live drums, is
an sublimely stripped down war-cry of self-resurrection. Showcasing the
duo's devious rhythmical interplay, the song drives brutally to it's light-splintering
conclusion, fusing Peter Buck and Barney Sumner guitar hooks perfectly
enough to erase a 1000 recent 'post-punk' crimes. 'Intuition' releases
it's ice-haze atmospherics over pounding android drums and a jagged, steel-spattering
guitar groove. It leads you a crossroads where NEU and REM exchange art-rock
gunfire then yanks you back to the dancefloor for another maliciously
catchy chorus. Gloriously cool, intelligent, future-tugging pop. |
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Danny Saul "History+3" ep
FHCD0202 - £3 |
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"Stunning" |
| Foxy Digitalis |
| Danny Saul's second release on FIlthy Home
sees him developing the skills employed so effectively on last year's
'Balance' EP. 'History+3' is another epic-feeling showcase of Danny's
increasingly compelling talents and techniques. Tracks are once again
bracketed by passages of ambient unease, hilighting Danny's interest in
experimental noise, but this time they escape into the songs proper to
exhilarating textural effect - like the ending of 'Cuts' dissolving into
a chaos of snare and cymbals, or the expansive intensity of 'History's'
middle passages. The songs remain, in Danny's own words "Pretty Bleak",
but there's a kind of tainted warmth bleeding through in the beautiful
guitar lines and in the increasingly expressive vocals. As well as three
original songs, Saul has included his cover of Jandek's 'I'm Ready' -
originally recorded for broadcast on a Pittsburgh radio station hosting
an open mic night in tribute to the reclusive Houston based musician.
In it's place as the closing track of the EP it provides a fittingly tender
coda to another darkly engaging, sonically and lyrically captivating piece
of work..
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| Danny Saul lives, writes and records in Manchester. |
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dannysaul.com |
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| LoneLady "Have No Past" ep |
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"...bursting with well crafted, unusual but strangely catchy
hooks and plenty of substance. LoneLady's guitar-playing is in itself enough
to leave most dedicated string-slingers feeling distinctly impotent...Oh
and did I mention she can sing? LoneLady possesses a voice that is tuneful,
expressive and powerful. Coupled with Have No Past's superb instrumentation,
there's more power here than a band ten times the size" |
| Record of the week -manchestermusic.co.uk |
| Following the critical success of her debut
single on Filthy Home "Hi Ho Bastard/Fear No More", LoneLady returns with
a collection of five new songs in which she deploys more of the weapons
from her startlingly diverse sonic arsenal. Opener 'Cattletears' is a
coolly delivered post-punk Telecaster blast, 'I Won't - He Won't' is a
deliciously warped, detuned rant and 'Accord' wields acoustic guitar and
cello to stunningly bittersweet effect. Title track 'Have No Past' is
a sharp, wiry and intricate journey full of ghosts and memories, and closer
'The Forest' is a beautiful mini epic that is both tender and chilling
in its tales of loss and defiance.
visit: myspace.com/hiholoneleady |
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| Danny Saul "Balance" ep |
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"positively screams with depth, intelligence,
innovation and character .." |
| Record of the week-manchestermusic.co.uk |
| Following a succession of acclaimed live
performances Danny Saul arrives on Filthy Home with a Debut ep that is
of such intimidatingly high quality you would believe this was the work
of an artist years into a well-matured career. Stunning, intricate guitar
playing, subtly and skilfully applied arrangements and a perfectionist's
attention to detail form the backdrop to songs that cast a razor sharp
gaze over the ways people fuck each other, and themselves, over. At times
intimate and warm, at others chillingly expansive Danny Saul draws on
influences ranging from the most esoteric US alt noisemakers to the pioneers
of British folk, in order to create a sound that raises the bar for the
bustling hordes of singer-songwriters employing inferior weapons in the
battle to touch hearts and minds.
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| visit www.
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| LoneLady - Hi Ho Bastard/Fear No More |
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| "Hi Ho Bastard is a jarring 4 minutes of sky
reaching breathy vocals and abrasive guitars that connects deep inside" |
| Everette True - Plan B Magazine |
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"A sleazy, driven lo-fi debut...as scuzzy as the Kills and
as sexually driven as Royal Trux" |
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City Life - Single of the week. |
| Filthy Home welcome LoneLady to the label for
her second single, and celebrate the fact that our debut release is such
a seductively skewed masterpeice. The opening song is a joyfully warped
blast of jarring guitars and giddy vocals that tell a tale of love, sex
and death set before a fantasy rodeo backdrop. The second track has LoneLady's
four-track recorder acting like a tardis, somehow containing under its little
dials an atmosphere as vast and beautiful as the song's longed for skies
of Montana or Idaho. |
visit: myspace.com/hiholonelady |
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