New MONO Official Music Video “Requiem For Hell” Premiere starts now!
MONO 新MV “Requiem For Hell” 公開スタート！
Musically, “Requiem for Hell” is among MONO’s heaviest work. The suspense is palpable in the music as MONO builds slowly from an eerie calmness into a frantic crescendo before we’re left with a few seconds of feedback and color video. The two are a fitting pair, the perfect soundtrack to tearing through a dark forest in search of an evil being.
Directed by Harri Haataja
Filmed by Vesa Ranta
Screenplay by Sayoko Hirai
Edit by Vesa Ranta & Harri Haataja
Assistant in Oulu by Marko Pelkonen
Assistant in Muhos Cosmo Valtanen
Make-ups by Yanski Sova
Special thanks to Morsiusateljee Katariina
Actors are Vilma Alatalo (Beatrice), Aapo-Matti Puhakka (Dante) & Hannu Kangas (Old Man)
Requiem for Hell will be released worldwide on October 14; more information about preordering the record outside of North America can be found here.
Empire of the Sun have released a new music video for “High and Low,” the lead single from their upcoming album, Two Vines (out October 28 via Astralwerks). Directed and produced by Empire of the Sun, it begins with a group of people in the forest. They then try to make their way up to Empire of the Sun in the sky. From there, the band perform across various striking backdrops.
Earlier this year, they also released the album’s title track. Two Vines features contributions from Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Wendy Melvoin (from Prince’s band the Revolution).
If you’re not familiar with Glasgow duo Honeyblood , it’s OK, but right now is the time to play catch up. Next month they release their second album, Babes Never Die, (just like the Goonies!) and their latests teaser “Sea Hearts.”
It’s fuzzed up, 90s-indebted indie rock that’ll make you wanna mosh and destroy stuff and do shots and headbang and run real fast and ride your bike with your hands nowhere near the handlebars.
“Sea Hearts is about that intense sort of friendship that makes you feel invincible,” says Stina. “Together you can weather any heartbreak and in turn, cause havoc.”
Sugar for Sugar is essentially
Scarlett Johansson’s previous short-lived supergroup, The Singles, minus Este Haim — it features Holly Miranda, Julia Haltigan, and Kendra Morris. Together, they keep things relatively faithful to New Order’s new wave hit, adding a touch more neon to the synth notes and percussion.
October 7th brings the release of The Time Is Now, a new charity covers compilation benefitting amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. Due out from Republic Records/Mass Appeal Records, the album features updates of classic ’80s jams from the likes of Phantogram (Phil Collins’ “Take Me Home”), Lower Dens (Hall & Oates’ “Maneater”), and Aloe Blacc (Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”). It also includes a cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” by Scarlett Johansson’s band Sugar for Sugar.
This is the single edit for Mono‘s ‘Requiem For Hell’ taken from the band’s new album ‘Requiem for Hell’, out via Pelagic Records on 14 October 2016. You can buy ‘Requiem for Hell’ in several formats as follows:
‘Requiem for Hell’ CD
‘Requiem for Hell’ LP
‘Requiem for Hell’ LP T-Shirt Bundle
‘Requiem for Hell’ is the third track on the album of the same name – Mono’s ninth studio album. The track is the centre piece to this latest album from the iconic Japanese post-rock pioneers. The full version of this track clocks in at a little over seventeen minutes, showing that the band remains unafraid to explore their own boundaries – and those of their listeners. This edited version, is an indicator of what you can expect from the rest of the album – atmospheric, sweeping soundscapes of uplifting and emotionally charged compositions.
Chloe Kaul and Simon Lam, the pair of Melbourne musicians known as Kllo, released their Well Worn EP last month. Today the duo has released a glowing, pastel-tinted video for their track “Sense.”
Director James Robinson’s lo-fi video dances between images of Kllo walking in shopping malls, walking along the water and amongst deep rock structures, and lying still amongst one another. It holds a visceral mood while catching introspective images of these two amidst deep bass cuts and Kaul’s soulful coo.
Polyvinyl Record Co., celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Since their inception, the indie label has released records from the likes of Deerhoof, of Montreal, Beach Slang, Japandroids, and Mates of State, just to name a few. To commemorate hitting the big 2-0, Polyvinyl pulled together some of their past and present artists to cover tracks from their vast catalog on “Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl”. Due out November 25th, the covers compilation features 20 Polyvinyl artists reworking songs by their peers
That artwork, described as “a ‘treasure map’ for Polyvinyl die hards,” is also available as a limited edition poster, T-shirt, and even a skateboard deck. The decks were created by Girl Skateboards and measures eight-inches by 37-7/8-inches. All of these can be purchased at the same place Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl can be pre-ordered: the Polyvinyl website.
Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl Tracklist:
01. Generationals – In Green (Volcano, I’m Still Excited!!)
02. Beach Slang – Younger Us (Japandroids)
03. The Dodos – Never Meant (American Football)
04. Aloha – Too Late to Die Young (Beach Slang)
05. Deerhoof – Hi (Xiu Xiu in the style of White Reaper)
06. Fred Thomas – I Heard You Say (Vivian Girls)
07. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Since You Stole My Heart (Saturday Looks Good To Me)
08. Radiation City – The Clod and the Pebble (Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin)
09. of Montreal – Find Yourself (Jacco Gardner)
10. Pillar Point – Heart It Races (Architecture In Helsinki)
11. Shugo Tokumaru – Gronlandic Edit (of Montreal)
12. Psychic Twin – While I’m Alive (STRFKR)
13. Mates of State – So Begins Our Alabee (of Montreal)
14. Wampire – Face to Face (Jacco Gardner)
15. Braid – Next of Kin (Alvvays)
16. Tancred – A Fever (Owen)
17. Owen – Ears Ring (Rainer Maria)
18. Rainer Maria – Big Man (Birthmark)
19. Xiu Xiu – Bubble (Dodos)
20. White Reaper – Exit Only (Deerhoof)
Akira Kosemura (小瀬村晶) - One Day
Akira Kosemura create “One Day” Album used the piano he played as a child in his family’s home; no one should be surprised, then, that the music produced that afternoon is characterized by warmth and intimacy. The music appears to flow through him without premeditation, as if he was able in the moment to draw upon the many years spent refining his technical command and developing his artistic sensibility.
The piano itself is obviously not a world-class concert grand, but if anything its dusty, time-worn character enhances the recording. The action of the piano becomes as much a part of the presentation as the sounds generated by his fingers touching the keys; a light ambient mist coats the music to enhance the homey feeling, and a careful listen sometimes reveals traces of extra-musical sounds (traffic noise, the creak of the piano bench, and the like) working their way into the background.
Ten impressionistic pieces are included, all of them delicately rendered and generally wistful in spirit; while they’re all pretty, none is perhaps prettier than “Family,” as touching a piece as any in his songbook. One Day isn’t the sound of Kosemura aggressively exorcising demons but rather the sound of an artist expressing his inner self in pianistic form. While it might on paper give the impression of being a less significant work compared to some of his more ambitious productions, One Day is perhaps an even more revealing collection in the way it presents him so nakedly.
La Sera have a new song out TODAY called “Queens”, from a new EP coming out on Polyvinyl Record Company on Sept 30th! The EP is also called Queens.
The photo for the cover of this EP was taken by our friend Chris Chang at the end of the night at our wedding in October 2015, after we had just cleaned up the party at our friend Greta’s house (from Springtime Carnivore).
