May 13, 2013
Here’s a wonderful new video from our girl in Paris, Melody’s Echo Chamber, for the latest single to be taken from her outstanding eponymous debut album, released by us here at Weird World late last year. The video was directed by LA based Grant Singer and features Melody frolicking on a recent trip to La Habra Citrus…
April 29, 2013
The Bardo Story’ is the new album by Baltimore-based musician, film maker and artist Michael Collins, AKA Salvia Plath, set for release by Weird World on July 8th 2013. The latest in a series of off-centre pop perversions by space cadet Collins (not to be confused with his namesake, the actual astronaut who partook…
April 3, 2013
Melody’s Echo Chamber has been invited to join Tame Impala on their forthcoming UK and European tour, which includes a show at Hammersmith Apollo in London on June 25th. This will follow the band’s appearance as part of the Grizzly Bear-curated ATP event I’ll Be Your Mirror at Alexandra Palace on May 5th in London.…
March 21, 2013
Happy to announce the forthcoming release of the informatively titled Singles, Demos and Rarities (2007-2010) by Outer Limits Recordings. OLR is one of several artistic monikers adopted by prodigiously talented songwriter and bedroom pop pioneer Sam Mehran – an artist with which we have been fascinated for some time and from whom the world will…
February 27, 2013
Melody’s Echo Chamber has released a video for her forthcoming single Crystallized (out March 18th). Director Zaiba Jabbar had the following to say about the video: “The track has a very mellifluous syncopation to it, built from many repetitious looped sounds, so in the film I wanted to visually connect these sounds to simple actions…
February 18, 2013
Whilst Aaron and Indra of Peaking Lights are holed up in LA working on new material (and preparing to have another baby!) the duo have announced a new remix EP. Entitled Lucifer Re-Lit, the digital package features edits of last year’s lauded Lucifer album by Barcelona house top dog John Talabot, acclaimed UK-based producer and ex-Spacemen…
February 1, 2013
Melody’s Echo Chamber has announced the release of ‘Crystallized’ – the next single to be taken from Parisian Melody Prochet’s eponymous debut album, released late last year to great excitement by us right here at Weird World. Recorded with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker in Perth in the Summer of 2012, ‘Crystallized’ is one of the…
January 28, 2013
Following last autumn’s release of the rapturously received ‘Total Loss’, Chicago based artist Tom Krell, AKA How to Dress Well, has announced a return to the United Kingdom for a string of new dates in 2013. After an enormous worldwide tour that extensively takes in Australia, Asia and north America, Krell and his celebrated band…
December 10, 2012
To round off what’s been a fantastic year, Tom Krell, AKA How To Dress Well, has today premiered the video for ‘& It Was U’ – one of the many highlights of Total Loss. The video was directed by photographer and filmmaker Luke Gilford and produced by Urban Outfitters. Watch here. Says Krell of the…
December 3, 2012
Peaking Lights’ monstrously great ‘Lucifer in Dub’ re-imagination of this year’s Lucifer album is released on super limited edition LP and digitally next Monday, December 10th and, ahead of that, Dazed Digital are now streaming the whole thing in its entirety here. Says Aaron Coyes of the idea behind the new collection: ““Before Lucifer even…