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Carpenter Brut Horror Themed New Video

French synthwave icon Carpenter Brut has released the video for ‘Monday Hunt’, the latest song to be taken from his critically acclaimed new album Leather Teeth, out now through Caroline International. The video features ‘80s style horror movie footage which follows the rampage of the deranged slasher killer, and future rock star, Bret Halford at Midwich High School. It follows the release of ‘Beware The Beast’, also taken from the album, which was released to Radio 1 support along with an insane video detailing the unstoppable monstrous rise of the fictional band, Leather Patrol.

Leather Teeth is the soundtrack of a dark coming-of-age film, pulling together dirty synthesizers, stomping rave beats and big rock riffs. The album follows the story of Bret Halford, an introverted science student. He likes a girl who doesn’t like him and much prefers the team’s star quarterback. Bret gets mad. He tries to create a concoction that will allow him to control them all, but ends up disfigured and decides instead to become a rock star. This is how he will seduce the girl, and all other girls: by becoming Leather Teeth, singer of Leather Patrol.

Bret Halford (aka Leather Teeth) is an inspired mix between Bret Michaels from Poison and Rob Halford from Judas Priest, and this is the soundtrack of an imagined movie from 1987, of a cheerleader (the track ‘Cheerleader Effect’), of glances exchanged during a ‘Sunday Lunch’, only to become ‘Monday Hunt’.

Carpenter Brut is telling the story of Leather Teeth through extensive touring this year. He will headline London’s Forum on October 22 and also play dates in Bristol and Manchester. He has announced the US electronic metallers GosT as support.

CARPENTER BRUT OCTOBER UK HEADLINE TOUR

22nd – London, Forum

23rd – Bristol, Motion

24th – Manchester, Ritz

 

 

 

Vessel Announces New Album

Vessel, the pseudonym of Bristolian Sebastian Gainsborough, has just announced their new album, Queen of Golden Dogs, is set for release Nov 9 (digitally) & Nov 23 (physically) via Tri Angle Records. The third album from Vessel - was conceived, developed and rendered into life over eighteen months of solitude in rural Wales. In essence, it is an exploration of living a life devoted to uncertainty, curiosity and change.

Influenced by a range of writers, the painter Remedios Varo, and a new love, the album is a marked departure from Vessel’s previous work. The world of Queen of Golden Dogs is saturated with colour; oscillating between grief, bombast and fierce joy, this is music shot through with both sincerity and irreverence.

Whilst traces of his sonic signature remain, there is much changed since Vessel’s second album, Punish, Honey. An infatuation with chamber music brought about in collaboration with his violinist lover, and a voice given by singer Olivia Chaney leave strong impressions, providing landmarks in a world that is essentially about the joys of difference.

‘Fantasma (For Jasmine)’, a prologue of sorts, careens from bent cello to blunt force percussion and billowing synthesisers, dispersing into the harmonically restless lament of ‘Good Animal (For Hannah)’, providing the album with the first of it’s many purposefully uncomfortable segues. Ideas of transformation are regularly explored internally within individual pieces, as well as across the album as a whole, dominated by unpredictable shifts in tone. The probing string swells of ‘Argo (For Maggie)’ give way to throbbing bass and slippery rhythms, which twist briefly into an almost pop leaning chorus before a barrage of fuzzy drums lead to one of the albums most straightforwardly techno moments. The layered voices of ‘Torno-me eles e nau-eu (For Remedios)’ offer the most overt example of Vessel’s move towards classical forms. Using chromaticism, dissonance and sweetness, he explores a space that seemingly refuses to resolve, although eventually revealing itself as an extended reflection of album centrepiece, ‘Paplu Love That Moves The Sun’.

“I wanted to make this work to realise experiences that I thought I had already had. Quite quickly I realised that I was reaching too far; and because I wanted so much more I had to give more. I often think that the writing was mutual.”

 

Queen of Golden Dogs tracklist:

1. Fantasma (For Jasmine)

2. Good Animal (For Hannah)

3. Argo (For Maggie)

4. Zahir (For Eleanor)

5. Arcanum (For Christalla)

6. Glory Glory (For Tippi)

7. Torno-me eles e nau-eu (For Remedios)

8. Paplu Love That Moves The Sun

9. Sand Tar Man Star (For Auriellia)

 

 

 

 

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