Eccentric singer, producer and instrumental innovator Look Mum No Computer has released his debut EP, Human Procrastination. To accompany the release, he’s also unveiled a brand new video for the title track where Look Mum No Computer and a group of Teletubbies encounter zero gravity. Blending together the expansive sonic textures of his home-built synthesisers with irresistible indie-tinged vocals, Human Procrastination is a gigantic and inventive electro gem that is both equal parts haunting and graceful.

Regarding the title track Look Mum No Computer says, “Human Procrastination is just about what we all tend to do, from the smallest job right up to the biggest things effecting humanity as a whole, good old procrastination. The funny thing is I wrote this whilst procrastinating from finishing another song, so it goes full circle. It’s looking at the fact we are talking about the issues we are facing and have been facing for many years but not really doing anything about it.”

Continuing further about the EP he says, “All the songs are about similar themes, be it modern life being rubbish, even though I probably have rose tinted glasses on ‘Modern Gas’, to ‘Grandmas Money’ being about baby boomers buying all the houses making it harder for me to build a synthesiser out of a house!!! It’ only a matter of time!”

Following his sold out headline show at London’s Electrowerkz, an extensive sold out tour in Germany earlier this year and a mind-bending performance at Deer Shed Festival in July, Look Mum No Computer will be hitting the road again next month for a seven-date UK tour, before touring Europe in November.

UK TOUR DATES

Oct 2nd – The Black Prince, Northampton

Oct 9th – XOYO, London

Oct 10th – Sound Basement, Liverpool

Oct 11th – Upstairs at Whelan’s, Dublin

Oct 13th – The Deaf Institute, Manchester

Oct 19th – Colston Hall Foyer Performance Space, Bristol

Oct 20th – SWN Festival, Cardiff

Look out for the debut live album from acclaimed misanthropist Benjamin Shaw, the cult artist who was accidentally born in Canada before growing in Blackpool, spent miserable years in London before relocating to Melbourne, Australia. This release sees him traveling to a church in Krems, Austria for donaufestival 2019 and his first live performance in five years. The lead single ‘A Brand New Day (Live at donaufestival)’ is available now.

Evolving and experimenting, this performance sees him reimagine material from his discography with flashes of glimmering electronica, frozen R&B, glitchy beats, post-rock ambience and more as his fragile vocal carries him through songs about hope, hate and hurt. “It’s like I have a mini-breakdown between each song…”

Shaw has released records with Audio Antihero in New York, Kirigirsu Recordings in Japan, Glass Reservoir in London and more. Recorded live on May 4 2019 in Krems, Austria for donaufestival 2019. This was Benjamin Shaw's first live performance in five years.

The material performed here is taken albums like Megadead, Rumfucker, There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet, Guppy, Goodbye, Cagoule World and One Day We'll Laugh About All This. Dissected and reconstructed, the material here evolves often from lo-fi acoustic beginnings to an electronic pop that is both glistening and broken, like shattered glass. Shaw's fractured and frail vocal emotes misanthropic misery over an ocean of beats and waves of sound. Perfectly beautiful and beautifully imperfect.

Anyone who saw Benjamin Shaw performing live in and around London before his move to Australia and live hiatus will find a totally new sound and experience in these recordings.