We’re thrilled to announce that Brooklyn’s experimental art-rockers, Extra Life, will be performing for us, in conjunction with Pink Mist, on May 30 at the Old Blue Last. Support comes from fearsome psych-noise duo Gum Takes Tooth and woozy punksters Playlounge. We also have Artrocker and New Heavy Sounds on the decks to spin some killer tunes.
The New York group, Extra Life, is fronted by guitarist/vocalist Charlie Looker, who has played with ZS, Mick Barr, and was a member of Dirty Projectors.
The band’s two first albums (‘Secular Works’ and ‘Made Flesh’) received wide critical acclaim, landing them on countless end of year Best Of-lists. These were accompanied by split singles with Parenthetical Girls, Nat Baldwin and Larkin Grimm, and remixes by artists including Xiu Xiu, Justin Broadrick and Tyondai Braxton.
The band are soon to release their third album, ‘Dream Seeds’, which builds on the avant-garde rock, and enthralling post-punk, sound of the first two offerings, but sees a shift in terms of a musical level. ‘Dream Seeds’ is set to be EL’s most clearly defined concept album. With seven songs dealing with themes for dreams and children, the band moves away from the morbid, dark lyrics of their former offerings; instead purveying lyrical focus centred around innocence and meaning.
'Gum Takes Tooth, a thunderous rampage of noise tempered with an aptitude for precise rhythms and splintered melody, is a single-headed beast with two bodies: a duo of Thomas Fuglesang on live acoustic drums, physically wired into home grown electronic instruments and bare circuit boards, tweaked, molded and mangled in real-time by Jussi Brightmore.
The group decisively bring together their wildly varied influences of out-there noise, metal, primeval rhythms, spacious psyche, pan-ethnic oddities, primal punk, acid house and vintage electronics on their debut album, 'Silent Cenotaph'. Their incredible live set has found them in high demand, with storming festival sets including Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Supersonic and British Wildlife Festival in 2010-11, plus supports with luminaries such as Napalm Death, Melt-Banana, Acid Mothers Temple and Otto Von Schirach.' (Tigertrap)
The chilled out post-rockers from Playlounge provide a hazy backdrop of hooky riffs and bold drums, shrouded in euphoric, dreamy vox. Think 90s baggy shogazers a la Smashing Pumpkins. Jolly good stuff.
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