Durham alt-rock quartet Edenthorn reveal the brand new video for single release 'Mind Like A Minefield', taken from their forthcoming album release Exist. The album is released on April 20, and the new single premiered on Johnny Doom's Kerrang! Radio show earlier this month.

"'Mind Like A Minefield' is influenced by the experiences that we've all had with anxiety and panic attacks, and generally stressing out and overthinking things. The idea of battling with yourself and your mind, a war within yourself and your mind. The positive message in the track is 'I will defeat it, I can beat it and in the end I will win the war within." states the band when talking about the new single release.

The band will be touring the country in 2018 and below are the live dates confirmed so far, with more to be announced.

March

24th - The Cluny 2, Newcastle

April

24th – Eleven, Stoke-on-Trent

27th – Woolpack Live, Doncaster

May

10th – Grand Central, Manchester

June

23rd – Northumberland Live, Blyth

July

14th – The Old Salutation, Nottingham

August

18th – Sanctuary, Burnley

September

14th – The Garage (G2), Glasgow

15th – Dreadnought Rock, Bathgate

16th – Black Mass, Wakefield

November

22nd – Trillians, Newcastle

December

16th – The Penny Gill, Spennymoor

Following the release of their second album Modern English Decoration last year, London-based art-rock five-piece Ulrika Spacek are back with new EP Suggestive Listening, which is set for release April 21 via Tough Love Records for Record Store Day. The first single from the EP, Lord Luck, is streaming online now.

Ulrika Spacek have always been strong believers in a long play format when it comes to making records, but for this new release they decided it was time to explore the 'extended play' format. The band started working on the new record in January 2017, “in that empty space when you're waiting for your last record to come out”. Recording began at KEN, their shared house – a former art gallery so named because of a cryptic inscription found above the front door. Not just a studio and home, KEN is essentially the band’s hub, a space in which the surrounding ephemera of videos, artwork and even band photos are all created. After this, work for the EP moved to France where the band explored recording live for the first time and here the band worked with now-full-time member, Syd Kemp.

In an act of self-awareness, Ulrika Spacek chose to make something that killed the ‘three-part interweaving guitar’ characteristic that partly defined Modern English Decoration. The intention was to deconstruct the standard three guitar, bass and drums line-up used on the first two albums, aiming to strip back the overall sound whilst simultaneously bringing certain elements to the foreground. Very few guitar effects pedals are present on the record, and a different computer was deliberately used in order to steer away from the plug-ins employed on previous albums.

This change in approach was foreshadowed around the release of Modern English Decoration, when they claimed that, “We won’t return to this sound again. Though as fanatical fans of music, we feel the beauty lies in how these different offshoots go on to inform our future records”. As such, Suggestive Listening, might be continued an evolution more than a wholesale shift in focus.

See Ulrika Spacek live:

April

25th - Corsica Studios, London, UK

May

10th - Psych Over 9000 @ Kolonie, Gent, BE

12th - Le Beau Festival @ Le Trabendo, Paris, FR

19th - Schon Schon, Mainz, GE

20th - Volksbuhne, Berlin, GE