Category: Indie

Artist:
S.C.U.M

Title:
Again Into Eyes

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM327

Release Date:
12th September 2011

Format:
CD, vinyl & digital

Tracklists:
01)
Faith Unfolds

02)
Days Untrue

03)
Cast Into Seasons

04)
Amber Hands

05)
Summon The Sound

06)
Sentinal Bloom

07)
Requiem

08)
Paris

09)
Water

10)
Whitechapel

11a)
14th Floor

11b)
Blindness

Track 11a is exclusive for AmazonMP3. Track 11b is iTunes exclusive.

Info:
S.C.U.M are set to release their eagerly awaited debut album Again Into Eyes on Mute on the 12 September 2011.

A genuinely triumphant arrival, the album features ten stunning tracks including forthcoming single ‘Amber Hands’, that reel from glorious carnival-esque euphoria to a sound that occasionally flirts at melancholy and utter despair.

Again Into Eyes was recorded in London with producers Ken and Jolyon Thomas (whose credits individually and together include Sigur Ros, M83, David Bowie, Psychic TV), the album standouts include ‘Faith Unfolds’, ‘Summon The Sound’, which featured on Mute’s recent exclusive Record Store Day vinyl release Vorwarts and the utopian, future-disco monolith that is ‘Whitechapel’. Indeed, the bands individual listening habits in psychedelia, space-rock, avant-garde and ambient soundtracks collide to form a pop trip that neatly balances the innovative with the rapturously danceable to great effect.

Based in London, S.C.U.M exploded onto the music scene two years ago with the release of their debut single ‘Visions Arise’. The single, together with their exciting and intense live shows, quickly grabbed the imagination of fan
s and critics alike. Since then band have toured extensively across the UK and Europe to a growing fan base.

Listen:
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Full Track Streaming:
“Amber Hands”

“Summon The Sound”

“Paris”

“Whitechapel”

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Videos:
“Summon The Sound”

“Whitechapel”

“Amber Hands”

“Faith Unfold”

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Artist:
Big Deal

Title:
Lights Out

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM332

Release Date:
5th September 2011 (UK), 20th January 2012 (Europe)

Format:
CD, vinyl+CD & digital

Tracklist:

01)
Distant Neighborhood

02)
Chair

03)
Cool Like Kurt

04)
Swoon

05)
Homework

06)
Talk

07)
With The World At My Feet

08)
Locked Up

09)
Summer Cold

10)
Visions

11)
Seraphine

12)
Pi

13a)
Ophelia

13b)
Mai Joy

BonusCD-01)
Distant Neighborhood
(Home Demo Version)

BonusCD-02)
Visions
(Home Demo Version)

BonusCD-03)
Homework
(Home Demo Version)

BonusCD-04)
Swoon
(Home Demo Version)

Track 13a is digital bonus for Amazon. Track 13b is digital bonus for iTunes.
Bonus disc is only available via Rough Trade – see buy links below.

Info :
It is with great excitement that Big Deal unveil details of their eagerly anticipated debut album Lights Out, released on 29 August, and new single Chair, out on Mute on 22August 2011 in addition to a series of dates that includes a very special show at the Tamesis Dock, a converted barge on the Albert Embankment, London, on 24 August.

With the strum of an acoustic guitar set against the fuzzed out chords of an electric guitar and the tones of a boy / girl vocal, the band announced their arrival in the summer of last year. Since then Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe have been making waves with their tales of teen angst and adult compromise.

Lights Out, co-produced by Underwood and Dean Reid, emerges from its bedroom beginnings as a collection of 12 deeply personal songs with universal appeal, innately tapping into the innocence, insecurity, wonder and (sometimes unrequited) love and lust of relationships. The album opens with the nostalgic sweep of the Distant Neighborhood, a blissful, sun-kissed introduction. The raw, confessional Talk perfectly illustrates the push-pull of relationships, Seraphine is enchanting in its deep reflection while Homework is achingly beautiful in its schoolyard simplicity. Locked Up, a wall-of-sound swoon fleshed out from its early recordings, could well be one of the most raggedly affecting love songs this year. Overall, these are songs which are structurally sparse yet emotively rich, sweet and seductive yet raw and jagged.

To coincide with the release of the Lights Out, Big Deal release a new single Chair, a highlight from an album brimming with potential singles. Bringing together electric fuzz and acoustic sheen, the track is a bittersweet 3 minutes about longing to take a crush to the next level, centred around the poignant lyrics: “You don’t trust me to sit on your bed / Put me on a chair in the corner instead.”

Listen:
“Chair”

“Talk”

“Locked Up”

“13”

“Homework”

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Videos:
“13” (acoustic peformance)

“Homework”

“Chair”

“Distant Neighborhood”

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Amazon UK (digital – 12 tracks)
Amazon UK (digital – 13 tracks)

Websites:
Big Deal
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