UTR'S 'KINGDOM TOUR'

18 January 2011

This February sees us hit the road with three incredibly inventive bands from our native soil.

Gentle Friendly, Way Through and Peepholes will be performing in a revolving line up, bringing their pastoral punk, junked rhythms and tribal synth dance parties to the near and far of the United Kingdom.

The full tour dates are below and all three bands have fresh releases over in the shop.

03.02 - BRIGHTON - Green Door Store
04.02 - MANCHESTER - Kraak Gallery
05.02 - CARDIFF - Undertone
07.02 - LONDON - Cafe Oto
08.02 - LEEDS - Brudenell Social Club
09.02 - NEWCASTLE - Teasy Does It
10.02 - GLASGOW - Nice N Sleazy
11.02 - LEAMINGTON SPA - Leamington Assembly
12.02 - CAMBRIDGE - The Portland

UTR ON NTS RADIO

19 December 2011

We just started doing a monthly radio show on NTS, through which we'll be bringing you lots of live sessions, new releases and heaps of our favourite songs.

You can hear on first "effort" and/or "attempt" featuring live recordings of Total Control, The Pheromoans, Sauna Youth and Mickey Gloss here.

PEEPHOLE'S 'CALIGULA'

12 December 2011

Today sees the release of our new record from Peepholes.

Entitled 'Caligula', it's an epic mini-album of throbbing synth, heavy drum workouts and vocal swirling par excellence. In short, it's extremely required listening and one of our best records yet!

You can check out closing track "Picture The World In Signs" here or pick up the 12" in the shop.

GENTLE FRIENDLY'S 'RRRRRR'

17 October 2011

Gentle Friendly's new EP 'Rrrrrr' is available now in all good record stores and our shop.

The London duo have always had a penchant for circular melodies, tidal fuzz and rapid junked rhythms, pushing against the pop boundary and trapping their songs on tape like a continuous sun-warped field recording.

But, bittersweet in its tendency to mix ecstatic moments with contemplative pools, 'Rrrrrrr' shows how the band's emotional range has grown since their debut.

You can check out a few songs from the EP over at Gentle Friendly's Soundcloud.

GENTLE FRIENDLY are a duo from London, comprised of David Morris and Richard Manber, who have a penchant for circular melodies, tidal fuzz and rapid junked rhythms. With an austere setup of Casio keyboard, vocals and drums (sometimes electronic) the band push against the pop boundary, trapping their songs on record like a continuous sun-warped field recording. 2009 saw Gentle Friendly release their debut album 'Ride Slow' to critical acclaim, with Pitchfork even citing Clipse and Lil Wayne as influences on the band. Since then Gentle Friendly have remodeled and rebuilt their sound into a stronger beast at their home studio called Deep House. Bringing us up to date, new EP 'Rrrrrrr' is the first fruit to fall from the tree, with its seven tracks washing the band's insistent prism punk alongside more tender, filmic textures.

WAY THROUGH are a pastoral punk duo originally from Shropshire, now residing in London. Informed by the field as much as the flyover, Way Through write songs which phase in and out with guitar, tapes, damaged drums and vocals. Using wrong-footed repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance the band create a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound. Their songs walk the streets of market towns, wait forever at bus stops and lose themselves in edgelands. Way Through find great resonance with the spirit of place and try and channel its feeling into their music, joining the dots between lost places and deteriorating histories. Their debut album 'Arrow Shower' is out now on Upset The Rhythm, alongside the band's new deep map project of London's East End.

PEEPHOLES are Katia Barrett (drums, vocals) and Nick Carlisle (keyboards). The Brighton / London duo formed in 2006 after bonding over a Chinese violin and the quietest of music. Pretty soon they turned the volume up and hit on their winning strategy of soaring, stammering synth lines, tribalised drumming and low-slung vocals. Walking a tightrope between underground punk and dance music, Peepholes write cloaked anthems as likely to open celestial gates with keys of repetition as to soundtrack a slow motion fairground accident. Their sound is otherworldly, aching with wild beats, echoing with cavernous atmospheres. Upset The Rhythm have released a split 12" and a mini-album entitled 'Caligula' most recently.