POSTPONED – Æ Presents Firefriend & Guests

FIREFRIEND
There was a thread in American music in the late 1960s that someone untangled across the U.S., then stretched over to Europe, where it took root in 80s shoegaze. It ties together bands as disparate as the 13th Floor Elevators, the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Mazzy Star, Blonde Redhead, and the Jesus & Mary Chain. It’s noise rock or math punk or psychedelic or shoegaze or doom: It’s the down-tuned sound of chaos and beauty, and while no one was looking, it also worked its way through the Americas and took root in Brazil under the name Firefriend. The Black Hole (Little Cloud Records, 2017) – a tight three-song EP that clocks in at 21 minutes – is the eighth release from the Sao Paulo trio. This is music to play in the dark, a sonic soundscape made for dreaming beside the campfire or – as the title track demands – it’s music for turning up and driving through the desert night with, full-tilt and fully immersed. The bass grooves move you along; the drums tell your heart to beat; the guitar-work needles its way into your subconscious and pulls forth demons; and the vocals ease you back to sleep. Firefriend pulled that thread from the 60s and created something that feels like a bit of everything that thread ever touched. Their sound doesn’t rush to the pop hook or stall itself in the crunchy riffs, it glides above everything else in its own orbit, echoing the best parts of psychedelic, shoegaze, and noise by taking it all into strange new fields of bliss. And with a vinyl release from Portland’s Little Cloud Records, it can be heard as God intended at epic 45 rpm. Do yourself a favor: Turn the music on, the lights off, and let yourself go.
https://www.facebook.com/firefriend.sulfur/
FRANKIE TEARDROP DEAD
Following two critically acclaimed albums and successful headline performances, festival appearances and sharing the stage with the likes of The Brian Jonestown Massacre; The Telescopes; Magic Shoppe and The Cambodian Space Project, Frankie Teardrop Dead return with their highly anticipated third album Plane Eclipse. Working from their sonic bunker deep inside the chaos of the concrete Fountayne Road in North London and recently relocating to the bustling music scene of Manchester, Frankie Teardrop Dead have been conjuring up their most ambitious project to date and are set to melt minds and blow the lid off the psychedelic rock’n’roll scene!
https://www.facebook.com/frankieteardropdead/
GARDENBACK
Garage rock three piece from Oldham.
https://www.facebook.com/gardenbackmusic/
JESUS KNIEVEL
Jesus Knievel, bending fact and fiction since 2007, the convergence of three lives from the post-nonsense scene that exploded in small town northwest England at the turn of the millennium. In a career punctuated with hiatuses, breakdowns and fleeting moments of brilliance they have managed to self-produce and release 3 albums under their own label, and blazed a live trail across pubs, clubs and bandstands, leaving audiences to remark “I usually hate local bands, but you guys are alright”. Rumours began circulating in 2017 that the band were working on new material, and a re-energised Jesus Knievel have hit the live scene with an unexpected wave of support. As of 2019 the 4th album is in production and expected to make landfall by early 2020. Jesus Knievel, they’ve travelled through time, at a leisurely pace, from the past. The legend continues…
https://www.facebook.com/JesusKnievelUK/
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