Soft Hair are Connan Mockasin and Sam Dust (LA PRIEST / Late of The Pier). Their eponymous debut album is due for release via Weird World on October 28th 2016. The album’s recording took place over five years amongst the pair’s solo careers and outside lives. After the dispersion of Late of the Pier, whom Connan supported on tour
How To Dress Well announces new album ‘Care’, shares first single “Lost Youth / Lost You”
How To Dress Well – aka Tom Krell – will release his fourth album, Care, on September 23, 2016 via Weird World / Domino. Written by Krell, mixed by Andrew Dawson (Kanye West, fun.), and featuring co-production from Krell alongside Jack Antonoff, Dre Skull, CFCF, and Kara-Lis Coverdale, Care is a sensual, dazzling alt-pop tour
Drugdealer – The End of Comedy out September 9th 2016
It’s been a bit quiet around here for the first half of 2016 but we’ve been busy behind the scenes readying a clutch of new releases, the first of which we can finally and very happily lift the lid on today. The End of Comedy is the debut album by Drugdealer, a new project conceived
Jaakko Eino Kalevi on tour in Europe now!
Jaakko Eino Kalevi begins a pretty mammoth European headline tour in Stockholm tonight as he continues to support his rightfully lauded self-titled album. See him in your city! And get the record in your life if you’re not wise to it already. Oct 21- Bryggarsalen, Stockholm, Sweden Oct 22 – Munken, Norrköping, Sweden Oct 23
Weird World to reissue two Richard Dawson albums + new tour dates
Following the release of the acclaimed Nothing Important in 2014, we are thrilled to re-issue a couple of essential albums by Tyneside songwriter Richard Dawson, The Magic Bridge and The Glass Trunk, on December 11th 2015. The Magic Bridge marked a significant leap in Dawson’s development as a musician, a moment when he
Richard Dawson announces Australia / New Zealand dates
In more down under news, Richard Dawson is bringing his truly phenomenal live show down under this month. Read an incredible 5* review of his recent London show here and then get your tickets if you’re in that part of the world. Full dates below: AUSTRALIA 25/9 – MELBOURNE Mission to Seafarers: 717 Flinders St,
SILICON announces Laneway dates
Fresh off the release of his brilliant debut LP as SILICON, Kody Nielson has announced he’ll be playing at Laneway this year alongside Grimes, DIIV, Purity Ring, Shamir and more. Check out the full dates and line up below:
“Personal Computer” by SILICON out now!
“Personal Computer”, the debut album by New Zealand’s Kody Nielson AKA SILICON, is out now! Pick up a copy of this beautiful thing from your local record store, or at DomMart or via Itunes now.
Jaakko Eino Kalevi announces new dates; shares album bonus track ‘Letter’
Following the release of his critically acclaimed self-titled album earlier this year, as well as a sold out June tour, everyone’s favourite Finnish Zac Efron (?!) has today shared a bonus track from the album recording sessions. Taken from the special edition of Jaakko Eino Kalevi, ‘Letter’ is a cover of a little known Finnish band
Slime – “Company” out now!
Slime’s brilliant, singular debut album is in stores worldwide now! Some nice things people have said about “Company” so far: “Languid grooves, haunting vocals and crafted songwriting” – 4*, MOJO “One of this year’s best low-key releases” – 8/10, Loud & Quiet “An enigmatic watercolour, at once intimate but elusive, warm but aloof”
SILICON shares new song “Cellphone” via SPIN
On August 28, SILICON, aka Kody Nielson, will release his debut album Personal Computer on Weird World. Previously, the New Zealand-based musician has shared tastes of the “mind-bending and soulful pop” [FADER] and “super-funky synth grooves” [Stereogum] that course throughout Personal Computer with singles “God Emoji” and “Burning Sugar.” Today he offers up a
Stream “Company” by Slime in full
Will Archer, AKA Slime has today shared a full stream of his forthcoming debut album Company, out August 14th 2015 via: http://slime-music.com Recorded over two years in-between a number of behind-the-scenes collaborations, orchestral performances and the artist’s on-going education after a relocation from Archer’s native Newcastle to London, Company was brought to live in a