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The Yorker presents this week's succinct guide to goings-on of the musical variety, both locally and nationally. Here you'll find previews of a selection of single and album releases from the week ahead, as well as a guide to the hottest tickets in town for live music.
Tickets for the increasingly popular LATITUDE Festival go on sale tonight at 7pm. The Suffolk music, performing arts and literature festival takes place on the 14th-17th July, and is practically guaranteed a spectacular line up (last year’s festival boasted the likes of Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, The National, The XX, Belle and Sebastian and many more). For info and a lovely sheep animation click here.
On to more local listings, and Fibbers takes the pick of the bands at the start of the week. Teesside rockers The Chapman Family will be on their stage tonight with support from O. Children. Following the release of debut album Burn Your Town last week, these guys are making a name for themselves with their energetic live shows and would be well worth your Monday evening. For those of you avoiding Salvation tomorrow night, blues maestro Ian Siegal and his spectacular band will be taking over Fibbers. The established blues player is coming to York as part of his three month UK and European tour, this is an act that for fans of blues rock is surely a must see. Later in the week Manchester-based The Heartbreaks take the headline spot with their mix of melodramatic pop and rockabilly beats. In the last year this quartet has gone from strength to strength, receiving notable nods from Guardian Music and BBC 6 Music. Head along to Fibbers on Wednesday for some of their heavily Smiths-influenced tunes.
You fill of synth-driven indie pop this week comes in the form of Escort Knights, who’ll be performing in Stereo on Thursday night. Moving swiftly on to Sunday evening and those of you with a folky disposition should head to Duchess for Scottish trio Lau.
The highly-hyped The Vaccines release their debut album today, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? The band played to a sold-out Stereo crowd last term, and recently completed the NME Awards tour where they played alongside the likes of Magnetic Man, Crystal Castles and Everything Everything. Let’s hope their first record lives up to expectations. Recent performers on Fibbers’ stage, psychedelic pop group The Naked and Famous also release their massively hyped debut, Passive Me, Aggressive You, today (so far I’ve found adverts all over spotify and 4OD). For a review of their gig, click here.
Other albums out this week include Degeneration Street, the fifth album from Montreal band The Dears. What we’ve heard so far reveals some impressive falsetto vocals, brooding bass lines and a gradual build enough to have you entranced ten seconds in to the first track. Also released this week is Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You, the second album from Reading quartet Does It Offend You, Yeah?, comprised of 10 tracks of highly charged (pardon the pun) dissonant electronic music. Glam rock stalwarts New York Dolls release their fifth studio album, Dancing Backward In High Heels, this week after a successful reunion in 2004.
Other notable releases this week include Josh T. Pearson’s Last of the Country Gentlemen, for the country fans. Anyone looking for in-your-face clashes a la Sleigh Bells but with added harmonies should head in the direction of A/F II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, by Akron/Family, and electronica fans would do well to look up Wagon Christ’s latest effort, Toomorrow.
Patrick Wolf - The City
'The City' is an upbeat offering about keeping love alive throughout recessions and hard times. Written at a happier time of his life than his previous album, this shows that it is easier to rebel against the world once in love, and this song makes you want to stand up and shout about it. The brass and saxophone (and even the handclaps) add a polished brashness to the song, and Wolf’s vocals seem natural and charming. This definitely bodes well for the new album in May. - Charlotte Tobitt
You may want to update this, Latitude released their line up yesterday as well! http://www.eadt.co.uk/entertainment/music/top_acts_announced_for_latitude_festival_1_829515
No mention of Funeral For a Friend or Rise Against. Wow.
I think that's quite refreshing...
I think that's because they're shit.
And I could say the same thing about most of the bands that were mentioned, but I won't because I haven't actually listened to most of their music and even if I had, that's my opinion nothing more. The fact of the matter is, this is a music news article and there are 2 relatively big-name bands who have both released new albums this week and have not been mentioned in this article.
I think it's totally legitimate for the music section to highlight whomever they want to - they shouldn't have to pander to mass appeal artists just because they are the biggest names, otherwise all they'd write about is Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. Oh, and The View, The Unthanks, Sylosis, and Cornershop also all had albums out, but the writers chose to focus on two, one that played at a York music venue. These are university students after all, not NME. You want to read about FFAF or RATM - go there.
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