Tim “Faux Pas” Shiels has another rad remix on offer. It’s half tropical half cosmic banger reworking of Melbourne troupe Hammocks and Honey’s song Toolz. It’s been hanging on the net for a while though, any excuse to post about Faux Pas is always taken by Only An Earthling.
What have you guys been up to over the past couple of months, we’ve seen a lot your side projects taking off like 48/4. How’s that been while working on the new Seekae record?
It’s been a busy last few months, we’ve each been working on solo stuff (Alex is Stuttah, George is Jensen Brewster and John is Peon) whilst doing the record but we’ve managed to make it work somehow. Certain ideas we’ve come up with individually ended up being used in ‘+DOME’ and anything that didnt quite make the cut eventually made its way into other projects.
The Sound Of Trees Falling On People was one of those records that a lot of people felt a big connection to, how do you guys manage to evoke so much feeling in your music like you do?
Spending as much time as we do with computers you can teach them how to croon the bras off ladies, but really alot of it is luck. Often people make tracks that noone connects to but they feel is full of soul and emotion, we were just lucky to get a good response.
What we’ve heard of +Dome so far, sounds like you guys have been taking in some hip hop and dubstep influences. There’s some darkness and grit creeping into your music. Is this true? Or am I a looney?
+DOME definitely steps into darker territory both aesthetically and chordally, but we feel it still maintains that original Seekae sound that TSOTFOP did. To be honest we listened to just as much Hip-Hop and Dubstep as we did for the previous album, but this time we tried to really focus on using the production techniques those genres encompass.
Gnor is the lastest offering from +Dome tell us about this song, what’s it all about?
George plays in a clarinet quartet with the rest of his family, so one night we decided to sample them and cut up the recording alongside Alex’s drums. Once we got a nice little loop going, we brought in some elements from older tracks we’d been working on for a while and everything slotted together nicely!
Thanks dudes!
Can’t wait for this record! The guys will be on tour through March launching the album.
FRIDAY 15th April – Woodland, Brisbane [tickets here]
SATURDAY 16th April – Manning Bar, Sydney [tickets here]
MONDAY 25th April – The Toff, Melbourne [tickets here] (Anzac day eve)
The Middle East have let rip another cut from their debut long player (now with title) I Want That You Are Always Happy out on Spunk! I shouldn’t say let rip but their first offering the oddly titled Jesus Came To My Birthday Party was what I considered a weak show from a band who promised so much with their debut EP Blood. The paper thin vocals and generic pop choruses had none of the rich arrangements of their initial work so it got me worried about their debut.
Black Death 1349 is a Fleet Foxey like hymnal with the vocals a hell of a lot more forward, less of the falsetto dreaminess of Recordings Of The Middle East, it’s a grim song about plague makes you wonder how dark the rest of the record will be?
Black Death 1349 - The Middle East
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Seekae are back with their second record +Dome real soon! So far we’ve heard a real hip hop influence creeping into this Sydney trio’s beat artillery. Blood Bank was an off kilter throng of bruised subby bass and cut up female-sounding vocal samples.
This exclusive preview of their new jam Gnor sees Seekae continuing down that future beats path with accordion squeeze, flurries of toy whistles and a rumbling bassline that guides this jam into the cosmos beyond. It’s another teaser from an album due out March 25 on Rice Is Nice/Popfrenzy. The guys will be telling Only An Earthling about +Dome real soon, so stay tuned!
Preorder the record here.
You can catch Seekae supporting UK dubstep/ambient duo Mount Kimbie around the country in March. Sydneysiders this’ll be going down at Good God Small Club March 9 and Oxford Art Factory March 10.
Tracklisting:
Go
3
Blood Bank
Reset Head
Mingus
Underling
Gnor
Two
Yodal
Rock’s Performance
+DOME
You’ll
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Gnor - Seekae
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She’s a girl from Auckland with an angelic voice. Holly Fullbrook aka Tiny Ruins will weaken you at the knees. She’s recently been signed to Spunk! and has been doing the support slots for Beach House and M Ward around the country. She’ll be playing in Sydney at an FBi benefit at Church On Chalmers supporting the tribal husband wife duo Wildbirds and Peacedrums with San Diego buzz band Sonny and The Sunsets. This is your chance to catch something truly special from the shakey isles. It’s happening March 8 grab your tickets here.
Running Through The Night – Tiny Ruins
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New Tv On The Radio to wake up to? Yes please! Pretty unexpected really, what’s also sudden is the news that they’ve got a new record due April 12 after their long hiatus and numerous side-projects. There’s less frenzy here than you’d expect from a TVOTR lead single but it’s got those signature rumbling guitars and Tunde Adebimpe’s always haunting vocals! Nine Types Of Light is the name of the new record, get excited ppl!
Will Do - TV On The Radio
With so much attention on Radiohead’s new album this week, it’s clear that the ambient sound is de jour. Call it what you want chillwave, swirly electronica or just plain ambient. There’s always something missing I find and that’s vocals (unless you’re Radiohead of course).
Glass Animals are a London quartet that make evocapop (yep coined that shit right then). But you feel me? I mean this stuff is immersive. Like a wind passing through a deserted little weird town, the opening gusts of Dust In Your Pockets sets the mood perfectly. It’s an overcast (let’s face it London day) and you’re walking to work, the daily grind, slowly you encounter a new mundane yet interesting experience, one after another. This is how Glass Animals suck you in, building layer upon layer of delicacy. It’s lead singer Dave’s pitch perfect baritones, bassy drones and really just the simplicity of it all.
She’s been locked away in her studio wearing kaftans and singing her heart out. What it all means is that you can listen to Lyyke Li’s sophomore effort Wounded Rhymes in full this very day, as Hype Machine have an exclusive stream of the record.
Jerome as one of my picks from the new record, is a rollicking tribal shout to a male figure by that very name. Perhaps a possible lover? Overall this is a lot darker than her debut Youth Novels, suitably so in her mid twenties Lykke has lived through a lot more since that putting that one to tape. You’ll be able to grab hold of it with your own two hands February 28.
Sydney band Sooners are back with something that is as grandiose in name as it is in nature. Sparse and splashy, there are even moments when Rob Irish’s thunderous voice is not front and centre that will still have you feeling slightly woozy.
This song plus one more will be on a nice little 7 inch. You can grab it now at the dudes Bandcamp. The ever amazing Good God will be host to the launch of the physical thing, so check it March 30.
Sooners - Horses Run Out
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RÜFÜS give us a chillwave and beatlaiden salute to summer. Sydneysiders making truly Scando sounding electronica is always nice. Check this jam out and catch it on their EP soon.
We Left – RÜFÜS