The time has come: On Friday, the first album of PALE WAVES, the alternative pop phenomenon that has already collected countless cover stories in the UK and is now playing big sold-out shows and celebrating airplay successes, will be released. Since the quartet from Manchester put the first song on the web in 2015 and landed on the BBC hotlist shortly thereafter, so much has happened and now has logically gathered a considerable following for the quartet.
Steven Wilson has published information about a new concert film. ‘Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall’ will be released on November 2, 2018 in various formats at Eagle Rock Entertainment. On March 22, 2019, a limited deluxe vinyl version will follow at Caroline International. ‘Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall’ contains nearly three hours of live material from the last of the three shows at the Royal Albert Hall, which Wilson played in late March 2018, and was mixed by himself into 5.1 surround sound and stereo. It will be released on 2 November 2018 on DVD, Blu-Ray, DVD + 2CD, Blu-Ray + 2CD and digital video and audio. The 5 LP Slipcase Set contains more songs as bonus material on 180g vinyl with printed inner sleeves and book. It is like the movie from now on pre-orderable.
Music for the lost: In their music, HOLYGRAM combine Post-Punk and New Wave with Krautrock and Shoegaze elements to a stubborn, multi-layered and modern homage to the sound of the 80s with a definite look into the future: driving, dark and full of catchiness moments. The different influences of the five band members who gathered in the vibrant music landscape of Cologne in 2015 are unmistakable: NEW ORDER meets NEU! Their unpretentious treatment of their own role models is the proof that the view into the past must inevitably also be directed forward. Skilfully incompatible merges to form the soundtrack of a city that looks threatening in the dim light.
Whether the true translation of the album title means “Hate to Love (change)” or “hate to love” leaves IN STRICT CONFIDENCE deliberately open. If you get involved in the new work ‘Hate2Love’ (release: 21 Sept), you will experience a thrilling journey into the emotional sound world of the band. Referring to old strengths and yet so refreshingly young. Also there was co-producer Rhys Fulber (FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY, PARADISE LOST, FEAR FACTORY), who contributes to the industrial electronics sound. A dozens of new songs are presented by STRICT CONFIDENCE. Danceable titles like ‘Used & Abused’ blending with melancholy on ‘Stay’ to create a varied work of art where old and new fans alike will get their money's worth.
With their first release of the EP, ‘Krieger’, NULL POSITIV has stirred up a lot of dust. Fat guitar riffs and blatant drums meet a front singer who appears from another star on the first listening. Growls and screams switch confidently with Hard Rock vocals or soulful calm tones. There does not seem to be anything singer Elli Berlin does not like or cannot do. Flat and clichéd statements are not the thing of the band. NULL POSITIV still understand music as a mouthpiece with real content.