NEW MUSIC: CONOR OBERST 'UPSIDE DOWN MOUNTAIN' LP (WORLD EX US/CA)
Conor Oberst | 24/07/14
'Upside Down Mountain' (2014 Nonesuch Records) is the critically acclaimed new solo LP from Bright Eyes singer-songwriter Conor Oberst. Featuring many a friend including musician/producer Jonathan Wilson, engineer Andy LeMaster, bassist Macey Taylor, multi-instrumentalist Blake Mills, and the Swedish sibling folk-rock vocal duo First Aid Kit, it's beauty is perfectly illustrated by this, the video for single 'You Are Your Mother's Child'. SPOTIFY
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NEW MUSIC: KING CREOSOTE - FROM SCOTLAND WITH LOVE
King Creosote | 22/07/14
King Creosote’s first album since his Mercury-nominated collaborative record with Jon Hopkins (Domino Publishing), 'Diamond Mine', 'From Scotland With Love' was created in collaboration with director Virginia Heath and Producer Grant Keir as an audio-accompaniment to a poetic documentary film of the same name, to be released for the Commonwealth Games this summer. Featuring archive footage but no narration or interview, the film works around themes of love and loss, war, resistance, emigration, work... 
BALAM ACAB
Alec Koone aka Balam Acab, like Salem and oOoOO, traverse the same shadowy territories that seem at once sensual and unnerving. He creates something akin to Burial being slowly drowned in an ocean of Drone, a cybernetic limbo haunted by distant machine moans, those trademark ghostly digi-diva vocals positively lost in another world all together. His first EP 'See Birds' was released by the Tri Angle label in August 2010.
Balam Acab’s debut full length album 'Wander/Wonder' came out on 29th August 2011 and it sees Koone furthering his majestic sound.