February 2012
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Valerie
I marvelled at the album artwork before I heard the music, listened to the wondrous music before I watched the film and now finally I’ve watched Valerie and Her Week Of Wonders.
Made in 1970 by Czech director Jaromil Jire the film was based on a novel with the same name written in 1935 by Vitezslav Nezval.
Aesthetically beautiful and alarming in equal measures, it’s a wonderfully...
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Savages
Fuck reverb-soaked female vocals lost in meadows of dreamy soundscapes (just for a minute if you please). Smell the pits of Savages instead…
With no tracks online as yet, this footage is taken from one of their first shows, back in January at The Shacklewell in London.
With a frontwoman like Jehnny Beth, here is visceral goth pop you can believe in.
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Octopus
Regular visitors (oh how we neglect thee!) may be aware that we love, love, love, Micah Lidberg. Not solely for the fact his fauna-filled mind is responsible for our deep blue Treehouse Politics print, but mainly because in the land of the 2 handed illustrator Micah Lidberg is an octopus.
Here’s a sneak peak into his world…
Hugo & Marie Presents: An Interview With Micah...
December 2011
1 post
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Antidote To Christmas
If you’re already sick of the Christmas cheer and Mariah sing-alongs then we suggest this as the perfect Christmas enema.
White Hills; exquisitely designed to sodomise your senses.
http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/?id=12183
November 2011
2 posts
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Dance Macabre
A new discovery…
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Michael Garrick
RIP the wonderful Michael Garrick
October 2011
2 posts
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Stay Curious
We’ve been meaning to post about this beautiful feast for the senses that goes by the name of Kuriosas for some time now. Penned by an old friend (who I hold responsible for many of the best introductions that I’ve had in life), this is one highly recommended companion for anyone who deems themselves curious.
Run by a London/ Berlin collective of artists and designers, Kuriosas reads...
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I Ching
We don’t know what we like the most… the video montage of monochrome women with flashing red lips or the sophisticated pop sounds of Drive.
With an emphasis on sound and texture and with guitar hooks as lyrically heavy as the words, London-based band I Ching excite us.
http://iching.bandcamp.com/
September 2011
3 posts
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Never Fall In Love With A Musician
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Musical Self-Medication
Listening to Moral this morning.
Relatively unknown minimal synth 3-piece from Denmark. They supported Nico and Monochrome Set but were together barely 4 years with sadly only a couple of cassette releases and 1 LP release.
Short but very very sweet.
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Road Trip
Hitting the road with Francis Harold & The Holograms tomorrow.
Can’t wait to see the band rider..
August 2011
8 posts
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Buying Records Cheers Me Up
Fun fact of the day…
With 17,897 strips published in all, Peanuts was arguably the longest story ever told by one human being. Wow!
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Because Sometimes Old Things Are The Best..
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"I change the world around me since I cannot...
Ana Mendieta, Body Tracks (1982)
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Chelsea Wolfe
Had the pleasure of meeting the intriguing Chelsea Wolfe at La Route Du Rock festival in France at the weekend. Asides from being decidedly lovely, she makes decidedly great music. Music that can only be described as doom folk.
Check out the playfully macabre video for track ‘Advice And Vices’.
From the label Pendu Sound Recordings
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I Work Better To Music
Right now it’s this…
Maria Minerva- A Little Lonely
From her debut album Cabaret Cixous.
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Nine Circles
Oh that sweet and heady delight of a new discovery of what sounds like new music but is infact from three decades ago.
Netherlands based Nine Circles (Lidia Fiala and Peter Van Garderen) are exactly that. They released only one album in 1996 (self-titled), but the tracks were recorded back in 1982.
Here lies a killer icy synth-driven electro track of 80s euro post-punk minimal wave origins. Say...
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HyperMagicMountain
Warmest Chord are feeling excited..
We will be gracing/ enchanting/ soiling the decks at HyperMagicMountain, a new and curious night that looks set to pepper the folk of London with strange wonder and considerable oddity.
Asides from talk of wizards, thrones, noise and harmony, Old Forest will be playing some good ol’ fashioned stoner sludge rock.
And with lyrics like this… ...
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Dancing In The Dark
Riots and revellers. Very glad not to have a television set at home last night. Listened to the hallowed hues of HTRK instead.
This track is from their new album ‘Work (work, work)‘…out 9th September via Ghostly International. Comfortingly dark, hypnotic and repetitive, it’s bleakness surprisingly seductive.
July 2011
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Creation
“Nostradamus did say that Creation would end in 1999…but he didn’t specify it would be a space rock label”- Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals, Upside Down
Somewhat late to this party but Upside Down: The Creation Records Story is a must-watch documentary for all fans of the iconic label. Responsible for releasing the likes of Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, My Bloody Valentine,...
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The Monster of Nix
Tom Waits & Terry Gilliam on vocal duties you say?
Consider us salivating for The Monster of Nix’s release.
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Revolutions Per Minute
You know what Lenin said about Beethoven’s Apassionata…?
If I keep listening to it, I won’t finish the revolution.
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Slowdance
This song does the bizarre trick of making us want to wear a grass skirt and wobble our ample thighs whilst at the same time reminding us of the of the zombified horror corps of the sorely missed Slant 6. Neat-O-Rama Slowdance, way to go. We’re very much looking forward to your next trick.
<a href=”http://slowdancewith.us/track/sweetness-2”...
June 2011
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Einstein. What A Guy.
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Leader Of The Pack
The Shangri-Las … one of the most influential girl groups of all time?
60s queens of the teen melodrama pop song, they overthrew the constraints of their initial squeaky clean image. With knee high boots, revving motorbikes, and the controversial subject matter of teenage rebellion, bad boys and running away from home, they were considered one of the most ‘dangerous’ girl groups...
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R. Stevie Moore: The Unsung Father Of Lo-Fi
With thunderstorms overhead, Warmest Chord are currently holed up in self-imposed exile, house-sitting in rural Wiltshire. What better climate to indulge an afternoon with the unsung father of lo-fi, Mr R. Stevie Moore..?
Long before indie rock and DIY were accepted mainstays, he was the man who essentially spearheaded the home-brewed DIY approach. Since 1966 he’s been home-taping his own...
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Still Corners
Cuckoo is the latest single from London-based Still Corners, and their first release on Sub Pop … and we can’t stop listening to it.
Softly stirring with undulating keys and soporific drums, Cuckoo evokes a dream-like state that exists somewhere between sleep and wake.
This is dream pop at it’s most ethereal. Where the air thins and you can no longer distinguish the real from...
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I Was Just Some Kind Of Tourist In Your Bed
Today I imagined how marvellous pillow talk with Leonard Cohen would be…
“Nobody says the word ‘naked’ as nakedly as Leonard Cohen”…
Tom Robbins
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Meet Paul Mawhinney...
A man devout about records, and whose story brought tears to our eyes.
If you’ve ever been curious about what the world’s largest record collection and it’s owner looks like, then here they are…
Dir. Sean Dunne / USA / 2008
The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
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Yohuna
Knock us down with a feather if this isn’t the sweetest sound we’ve heard since Peaking Lights 936 got birthed earlier this year.
All cavernous melodies and rudimentary rhythms the tracks on young siren Yohuna’s Revery ep come on like a joyous clarion call to dance sung from within some distant, deep canyon.
There’s something about them that remind us of Low at their...
Our Advice For The Weekend: Be Naughty
Because sometimes trouble is good…
Avant-Garden Of Earthly Delights
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To sit amongst friends at a late night lock-in at a certain record shop in London is surely one of our favourite past-times.
Tonight was especially memorable. With pockets emptied and supplies brought in, dedicated record-playing frenzy ensued. Manic jotting down of new music recommendations led us to this soporific drone/ psyche mongrel from experimental...
Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride
A beautiful slice of 1966.
A great playful garage psych track from the little-known The Kynds.
Enjoy the flirtation of that heaven-sent organ lick. Very almost lulls you into not noticing he’s telling his girl he doesn’t care about her…
Ologies And Isms
I Wear Black On The Outside Because Black Is How I...
Proud owners and obsessive listeners to today’s new purchase. The beautifully miserable ‘The Sorrow Of Two Blooms’ EP from Tropic Of Cancer.
Evoking the overcast mindset of Joy Division and The Cure, these are 3 perfect “gothic odes to the romance of misery”.
Brought to us by the delightfully macabre, Blackest Ever Black label....
April 2011
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Hausu?
We are loving the Little White Lies print that arrived in the post this week and are so glad we snagged one. The limited beauties by Paul Willoughby are in aid of the Japanese earthquake relief work carried out by Mercy Corps & Shelterbox. It’ll be taking pride of place on the wall right next to our very own prints once we’ve taken a trip to the framers. As it so happens...
Respect Your Elders
Currently enjoying some good ol’ fashioned Sunday afternoon quality time with one of our all-time favourite independent record labels Sarah Records.
Based in Bristol and active 1987-1995, they deployed a strict DIY approach and a firmly defined aesthetic. Their releases included a mix of 7s, 10s, 12s, fanzines, flexi-discs, and even a board game (featuring Alan McGee as a playing piece no...
March 2011
4 posts
Kids In America
Warmest Chord have been road tripping through the US making our merry way from New York to Austin, Texas. We arrive just in time to join the SXSW Festival music lovers and bands from here, there and everywhere. We have a long long list of bands to see and maybe just maybe sniffing out our next release….
Will report back with music mayhem and taco tales very soon x
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Chris Ware vs Uncle Boonmee...
We love Chris Ware’s graphic novels and we have more than a passing interest in Asian movies, so not sure how this poster for the Thai movie Uncle Boonmee passed us by, but it proves way to delicious not to post. If anyone knows where we can get our mitts on a print please leave a comment. The movie (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - to give it’s full title) tells the...
Stories From The City
This here short film was sent in to Warmest Chord HQ and we wanted to share it with you…
Reducing the universe down to the size of a fish bowl, a mere science experiment, this is a visionary world where skies bleed ink and the cityscape gives birth to plant forms.
Watch ‘Sate’ here…
“Sate” from Lucas Sharp on Vimeo.
Made by the fair hands of Mr Lucas...
Warmest Chord in Amelia's Magazine
Blowing our own trumpet just a little but we’re proud to say we have a little spot in the fabulous Amelia’s Magazine.
You can read the interview here.
February 2011
4 posts
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Talking of fabulous women…
Warmest Chord are off to see all-girl LA-based Warpaint tonight.
Heavy and emotional, playful and melodic, this band make you want to dance and cry at the same time. With all it’s beautiful imperfections, it is one of our favourite albums from last year.
Woman's Hour: Do, See, Make and Hear
Warmest Chord endorse women.
Gotta love the way Kim Deal says ‘cool thing’.
And remember… Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
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Creature feature
Over the past few years Warmest Chord’s fascination with the doe-eyed, sad sack monsters that populate Ben Woodward’s work hasn’t slowed one bit.
We love each and every one of their bright bleeding guts.
Definitely feels like time Mr. Woodward did a show in London, please?
Music To Our Ears
Warmest Chord are asking why is this band not huge?!
Chimes and Bells give Beach House and Warpaint a run for their money.
January 2011
3 posts
Warmest Chord On The Box
Warmest Chord are homeward bound with a little skip in our step after filming for a new Channel 4 programme. Lots of fun but bit concerned of how many times we said the word ‘cherish’..!
Airing in a fortnight.
Warmest Chord Striptease
Warmest Chord are making the pilgrimage to Cecil Sharp House for the mighty Shhh! Festival today. The goodie bag equivalent of DJ sets can be expected.
Our Hearts Wait In Winter Now
RIP Trish Keenan of Broadcast
A sad post we wish we weren’t posting… to bid farewell to Trish Keenan of Broadcast. A band whose music takes you by the hand through their wonderful world of 60s bleached electronica. And Trish Keenan, a voice that could cover you in goosebumps.
Thank you for all the wonderful music.
November 2010
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We Were Given Two Ears And One Mouth For A Reason
Warmest Chord are currently cross legged surrounded by vinyl. Putting together a kaleidoscopic playlist for Nail The Cross festival on Saturday.
You better eat your Ready Brek…
October 2010
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Eat That Question with.... Micah Lidberg
WC: Please introduce yourself… Micah: I’m an illustrator currently residing in Kansas City, Missouri. Recently, I had been living on the east coast, close to New York, but I decided to give the midwest another go. WC: How long have you been illustrating and what still inspires you about the medium? Micah: I’ve been professionally illustrating for about three years now....