 | Gravenhurst is back with a new album “Fires In Distant Buildings” and a preceding single “The Velvet Cell”, both out on Warp. The new video for “The Velvet Cell” is out and you can downlod it from the links below. Quicktime / small / medium / large Windows: small / medium / large |
Gravenhurst's new EP "Black Holes In the Sand" is out now.
The Ep marks a significant progression for Gravenhurst - the sonic elements of the previous record have been magnified, the undercurrent of lyrical dread intensified, yet the title track is as immediate and approachable as anything on the previous album.
‘Still Water', a beautiful, strange song evoking images of lost civilisations and cultural entropy, quickly collapses into a Velvets-inspired wig-out complete with shredding Telecasters, tambourines and shaky Moe Tucker percussion. The rural elements of the album ‘Flashlight Seasons’ are extended with the epic 'Flowers in Her Hair', then stretched to breaking point with a cover of Hüsker Dü's ‘Diane’, reinterpreting a punk classic as a murder ballad.
TOUR DATES
The US tour is just finished and Gravenhurst has announced a new European tour later this year, culminating in some live UK shows.
The London date on 9th December will be filmed as part of the sixteenth Tiscali Showcase. You will be able to watch it online a few days after the gig.
A full list of dates is as follows:
30 Nov Leuven, Stuk
1st Dec Paris, Tryptique
3rd Dec Amsterdam, Melkweg
4th Dec Koln, Gebaude 9
5th Dec Munich, Ampere
6th Dec Zurich, G5 Club
7th Dec Milan, La Casa
9th Dec London, Islington Bar Academy TISCALI SHOWCASE info
10th Dec Nottingham, Social
11th Dec Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy
Gravenhurst Desert Island Discs
1) my bloody valentine - come in alone
if the desert island i was stranded on was peopled by a primitive tribe I would use this song to demonstrate the art of guitar playing in the 20th century
2) the smiths - there is a light that never goes out
this song could be used to school a primitive civilsation in the use of darkly humourous melancholy and flamboyant guitar overlays
3) depeche mode - enjoy the silence
demonstrating to the tribe the art of dark, sensual, meticulously arranged synth pop
4) can - i want more
who knows, maybe me and the tribe will hit it off. maybe we'll get loaded. maybe we'll have a party.
5) can - bel air
With only ten songs to listen to forever, i will soon get very bored of them. this song is twenty minutes long, so that might help a bit.
6) bert jansch - jack orion
the tribe have become bored of my music. they decide to eat me. they allow me one last song, and I choose a blues influenced fingerstyle interpretation of a traditional english folk song played by the jimmy hendrix of acoustic guitar. clocking in at nine minutes and fifty seconds, this song might give me enough time to plan my escape
7) husker du - green eyes
perhaps if the tribe just understood that without this band we wouldn't have had the pixies or nirvana, they wouldn't eat me, but just grill me for interesting bits of indie rock trivia
8) augustus pablo - king tubbys meets rockers uptown
maybe there is a shit load of pot growing on this island
9) joy division - shadowplay
this song changed my life. maybe it will change it again, and somehow get me off this fucking island
10) gravenhurst - black holes in the sand
everything is absolutely fine. it turns out that the tribe are massive Gravenhurst fans.
source: Warprecords website
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