''The irrepressible Onions slap on more harmonies and rattled beat guitars than the Beatles at a 60’s garage psyche convention. Don’t call them quirky, but do compare them to maybe Sparks fettling around with the new sound of Irwell. “I Want To be A Dancer” is beat music played sideways with an admirable chunk of pop madness.''
4 out of 5
manchestermusic.co.uk
''An awe inspiring mix of The Coral, Kaiser Chiefs & the Super Furry Animals – the former subba podcast stars do it again, creating something sumptuously odd ball yet really powerful simultaneously – more than just quirky, trust me!''
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/singles.php
Our three track single (plus 5 page booklet) below includes Pickin' Up Pieces, Shop and Origami Bird. Released through Fopp Records and the PRS Foundation. Click on picture to buy
''Single of the week: There's the solid rattle of the drums and the jingling, active, buzzing strums of guitar, that once again cascade over the bands semi-vaudeville brand of scuzzy pop. Onions can be both mellow (cue the sound of a Carnaby Street Barber’s shop) or direct enough to stir up guitars that sound like nails in a jam jar being shaken, whilst a sublime melody is passed between the band members as easily and as welcome as a shared “cigarette”. Onions definitely continue to add some much needed flavour to the more jaded corners of the NME led music scene, by just doing their own thing.''
4 out of 5
Below is our second CD containing the songs If It Ain't Gonna Happen Now, Onion, Look Like A Loser and Metal Belt in its very own origami case
''The tightly knit combo that is the intriguingly named Onions, sparkle with their wonderful lo-fi pop. There are a lot of bands that do this sort of stuff but “If It Ain’t Gonna Happen Now” is intrinsically different because of the way the live styled recording jumps out at you with an excitement and energy that’s sadly lacking in other darker corners of the music scene. “Onion” a potential theme tune for tearful vegetable obsessives, grinds one of its guitars in the background like a patient bacon slicer waiting for its next ham, whilst the vocals skew over Barber Shop harmonies and the entertaining skitters. “Metal Belt” is the bands punk song – or rather their song had they been at CBGBs in late 1975 – arthouse spikiness played out with more twists and turns than a Monaco race circuit, there’s just enough New Wave infusion to come up with something akin to XTC working their way through Brian Wilson songs.''
4 and half out of 5
Last but not least, our first ever CD. This has the songs Big Flake Finale, Amy and Ruth and Penniless Woman
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Legends Of Flight
live at Night & Day Café, 26 Oldham Street, Northern
Quarter, Manchester M1 1JN. Thursday 1st October 2009.
£5 entry (£4 with flyer). Doors open at 7:45pm.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
We just thought we'd just drop you a heads up about some of the stuff we've been blogging about at IndieLab this month, hope you enjoy it. Keep us in touch with what your up to....
