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Zola Jesus’ B-Sides & Remixes Album

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Singer, songwriter, and record producer Zola Jesus has announced a new album of previously unheard tracks and remixes titled Okovi: Additions, due out April 6, which is an experiential interpretation of her 2017 critically acclaimed Okovi album released on Sacred Bones Records. The news comes with with the release of ‘Bound’, the first single from the project released via the Adult Swim Singles Program.

Okovi: Additions couples four previously unreleased tracks from the Okovi sessions with four remixes by a diverse cast of artists spanning a spectrum of genres including Johnny Jewel, Katie Gately, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Joanne Pollock (formerly one half of Poemss with Venetian Snares' Aaron Funk). "The songs on Additions traverse a vast amount of sonic ground, but taken together, they cohere remarkably well as an album, all while serving to enrich the experience of Okovi."

"These four new songs were intended to be on Okovi," Nika Roza Danilova explains. "Each of them represents a snapshot of my journey in making the record, and are just as precious to me as the songs that made it onto the final track listing. The remixes are beloved in their own way, as most were born from organic circumstances, and have drawn the original songs into completely new atmospheres."

Okovi: Additions track list:

1. Vacant

2. Bound

3. Pilot Light

4. Bitten Wool

5. Ash to Bone (Johnny Jewel Remix)

6. Siphon (Katie Gately Remix)

7. Exhumed (Randall Dunn and Aaron Weaver [Wolves in the Throne] Remix)

8. Soak (Joanne Pollock Remix)

 

 

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The Men Find A Rose On Top Of The World

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The Men are sharing the second single, ‘Rose On Top Of The World’, from their upcoming album, which is due on March 2 via Sacred Bones Records. The Brooklyn-based band also celebrate their 10th anniversary this year. Vocalist & guitarist Nick Chiericozzi said the following about the new single "‘Rose On Top Of The World’ came out of a Spanish guitar lick, a radar weather map, a poem and maybe a few other things. It has a good title; one that creates a definite mental image but could really be about anything."

Drift is the seventh full-length by NYC rock polymaths The Men. The band’s last album, the self-released Devil Music, was the sound of a band who had been through hell hitting reset and looking to their roots to rediscover themselves. On Drift, The Men return to their longtime label Sacred Bones Records and explore the openness that Devil Music helped them find.

The immediately evident result of that exploration is the experimental quality of much of the material on Drift. Songwriters Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi chase their muses down a few dozen thrilling rabbit-holes over the course of the album’s nine tracks. The songs on Drift veer in a number of directions, but notably, almost none of them feature a prominent electric guitar. The lone exception, ‘Killed Someone’, is a rowdy riff-rocker, worthy of the finest moments of the band’s now-classic Leave Home and Open Your Heart albums. The rest of the album drives down stranger highways. ‘Secret Light’ is an improvisation based on an old piano riff of Perro’s. ‘Maybe I’m Crazy’ is a synth-driven dancefloor stomper for long after last call. ‘Rose on Top of the World’ and ‘When I Held You in My Arms’ are paisley-hued, psyched-out jams with big, beating hearts.

The album was recorded to 2" tape with Travis Harrison (Guided by Voices) at Serious Business Studios in Brooklyn. A whole pile of instruments was involved — synths, strings, sax, steel, harmonica, tape loops, on top of the usual guitar, bass, and drums. Unlike recent releases from The Men, there aren’t many overdubs on Drift — a reflection of the personalities of its makers becoming less frantic, Chiericozzi suggests. In fact, the band removed a lot of the additional parts they tried adding early on, giving the final product a bit of a ghostly feel. The songs on Drift took giant leaps and trips from their beginnings only to find the band returning to the first spark of creation.

Drift track list:

1. Maybe I'm Crazy

2. When I Held You In My Arms

3. Secret Light

4. Rose on Top of the World

5. So High

6. Killed Someone

7. Sleep

8. Final Prayer

9. Come To Me

 

See The Men live:

June 1, 2018: London, UK @ Oslo

 

 

 

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