Gum Takes Tooth stream 'A Heaven For The Minerals'

Gum Takes Tooth released a very limited edition cassette, special like, for Record Store Day 2012. It's called 'A Heaven For The Minerals, A Hell For Your Livestock' , featuring two spanking new sides and there were only 50 copies in circulation from 21 April at the various records stores involved, plus their online store and at gigs from that date. Each cassette comes with a free MP3 download code for the tracks, just in case you foolishly chucked out your tape deck in 1997. Tracklisting as follows:

A. A Heaven For The Minerals (10:19)

B. A Hell For Your Livestock (12:17)

We're lucky enough to have a stream of the a-side, 'A Heaven For The Minerals'; track full of  feverish intertwining equatorial psych-drum polyrhythms, shapeshifting acid synth lines and ghostly spirit invocation.

You can listen here and you can also catch them at our next show on 30 May at the Old Blue Last, supporting the magnificent Extra Life. A limited number of tickets are still available here.

Announcing Extra Life (US) + Gum Takes Tooth + Playlounge - Old Blue Last - 30/05/12

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. 

You can buy tickets in advance here and join the Facebook event here.

PHOTOS! Warm Digits + Pseudo Nippon + Gum Takes Tooth

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Warm Digits

Warm Digits + Pseudo Nippon + Gum Takes Tooth - 25 October - Old Blue Last - FREE!

The third free show of the Scene not Herd autumn sees three superb bands with debut albums out in 2011 light up the Old Blue Last with their mixture of electronics and live drumming.

Expect raw, thrumming and ferocious grooves, improvised and sampled electronics and whacked-out visuals.

For full details, sign up for our facebook event.

Warm Digits

Warm Digits is the krautophonic blizzard-wave duo of Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis, based either side of the Pennines in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Manchester. Warm Digits make a semi-improvised brew of metronomic rhythms, snowstorm guitar and radiophonic electronics, dual-laptop electro, swathes of no-wave guitar and frantic free jazz drumming, taking their cue from the hypnotic repetition of Neu!, the textural overload of My Bloody Valentine, the glacial otherworldliness of Emeralds, and the sensuous modernity of cosmic disco, along with a pinch of Brian Eno-esque melody. After remix duties for the likes of UNKLE and Maxïmo Park, Warm Digits coalesced these improvisations into a set of crisp, propulsive instrumental songs for their debut album Keep Warm... with the Warm Digits.

Warm Digits have already pricked the ears of Marc Riley who invited them in for a BBC 6Music session, and David Brewis of Field Music who asked to play bass on their album as a guest. The live show, recently aired around Europe in support of the likes of Field Music, Goblin, Modeselektor and Barbara Morgenstern, aims for fully engaged sensory overload with a live-mixed collision of colour-coded structural films and live-feed video cameras.

September saw the release of their debut album on Distraction records and this will be the sole London date on their UK tour.

Pseudo Nippon

Topless, shouting like a deranged preacher, and restlessly twitching across the stage, Pseudo Nippon isn’t your average frontman. He’s backed by cheap electronics and two live drummers who mimic, jam and interlock, and it all comes at you like an alternative soundtrack to a particularly frenetic Sega game. Come with an open mind and dancing shoes and catch them while you can. Shows like this don’t often stick around for long.

Pseudo Nippon recently released their debut album on One Inch Badge. See their live show here: http://www.pseudonippon.com/#!__live-video

Gum Takes Tooth

Gum Takes Tooth are Scene Not Herd favourites. They played our festival last year and basically make any show they play. Originally a two-some featuring the extraordinary live drumming of Thomas Fuglesang, sampled live and manipulated by electro wizard Jussi Brightmore, they have recently added a second drummer just to make things that bit more propulsive.
GTT’s debut album Silent Cenotaph was released earlier this year to acclaim from mainstream and underground press alike. They have an unrivalled ability to tread the line between wild and weird whilst remaining amazingly danceable.