The Label Newsletter –aka "la - BELog"

The Label Newsletter –aka "la - BELog"

Jan 11th
2012 Hope you had a bit of a summer break at least! Bit o' turkey in ya etc! We did here even though we are normally 'pescatarians' - it is my one Free Day to gobble some Gobble as it were... actually it lasts a few days as who can say no to a turkey sandwich! Heaven on earth.

We had time to reflect on the amazing year of 2011 with Adele's phenomenal success in NZ and around the world. '21' holds the Number One album spot at the start of this year firmly holding on to the crown of Longest Running Number One Album in NZ's history... News from her camp is that she is recovering well from the throat surgery and she is super excited about attending the Grammys - where she is nominated for 6 awards.

And so we lurch into 2012 with a bit of a plan... no artists for us at Big Day Out this year (first time in..? ..12 years I think... ) but Laneway we have stacked up goodness of The Horrors, SBTRKT, Glasser and Twin Shadow. How I'm going to recognise SBTRKT at the airport - I have NO IDEA!! Actually ... I do have a spare copy of the LP here - hmm.. happy to 'exchange' that with the first person that can email me a photo of SBTRKT sans mask!

Releases begin next week for us:
Jan 16 - The Big Pink - Future This (4ad) CD / LP

Jan 30 - The Unthanks - Songs of Robert Wyatt & Antony & The Johnsons (Rough Trade) CD
Jan 30 - Howler - America Give Up (Rough Trade) CD / LP

Feb 6 - Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (4ad) CD / 2LP

Feb 13 - Cocteau Twins - Stars & Topsoil (4ad) 2LP

Feb 27 - Perfume Genius - Put Your Back Into It (Matador)

Mar 12 - Grimes - Vision (4ad) CD / LP *see below!
Mar 12 - Ceremony - Zoo (Matador) CD / LP

Apr 1 - Adele - 23 (nah - I'm just kidding!)

Feel free to grab links from the website www.thelabel.co.nz anytime and embed on your own websites.. this is a website for NZ media to use and plunder info from!

The PRESS PHOTOS page where you can download HIGH RES PICS direct to your desktop, is being updated each week – so if you can’t get hold of me for that cover/pic you need for deadline - Right click Save As (or Control -click for Macs) is waitin’ right there for ya...

Jan10 NEW MUSIC BY THE XX ‘OPEN EYES’

And a little treat to start your year off right -
“Open eyes is a demo we did whilst creating our new album, we just wanted to share it with you”. The xx
www. xx-xx.co.uk

The xx- xx is out now via Young Turks / RHYTHMETHOD

Jan10 NEWS: FRIENDLY FIRES – PALA REMIXES
PALA (BONUS EDITION) RELEASED THIS WEEK FEATURING REMIXES FROM TENSNAKE, TIGA, TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS, BENOIT & SERGIO AND TIM GREEN
BRAND NEW CARL CRAIG EDIT TO BE RELEASED IN FEBRUARY
Friendly Fires are set to release the bonus edition of their acclaimed second album Pala. Available exclusively through iTunes, this digital version will feature five remixes from Tensnake, Tiga, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Benoit & Sergio and Tim Green in addition to the original full version of the album.
Friendly Fires’ love of electronic music is well documented and this remix package continues the tradition of brilliant Friendly Fires remixes.
Friendly Fires are also delighted to announce that the legendary Carl Craig has weighed in with an extended edit of their Hurting track. Although the mix won’t be available on the digital bonus edition, it’s set to be released in February on limited edition vinyl via Craig’s Planet E label, and digitally via XL Recordings
The track list is:
1. Hurting (Carl Craig Extended Edit)
2. Hurting (Tensnake Remix)
3. Blue Cassette (Tiga Remix)
4. Hawaiian Air (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix)
5. Hurting (Benoit & Sergio Remix)
6. Live Those Days Tonight (Tim Green Remix)
All the remixes can be heard via the following embeddable link as of today:

www.wearefriendlyfires.com
Friendly Fires – PALA is out now on XL / RHYTHMETHOD

Jan10 Video: In Town This Week – TUNE-YARDS – AND HERE ON JIMMY KIMMEL

tUnE-YarDs (UsA) with Sam Hamilton!
Thursday 12th January
Kings Arms Tavern
TICKETS & MORE INFO FROM UNDERTHERADAR

W H O K I L L is out now through 4AD/RHYTHMETHOD

Jan10 MP3: THE BIG PINK – ‘HIT THE GROUND (SUPERMAN)’ KING KRULE REMIX

Looks like 2012 is kicking all Give Give Give…. gotta love it!
Out next week – Jan 16th is sophmore album from UK’s primo noise-pop duo – The Big Pink – Future This…
And to whet your whistle….
Andrew from CheeseOnToast had a bit of a natter pre-Xmas - I learnt some things! - You can too!
HERE

The Big Pink – ‘Hit the Ground (Superman)’ King Krule Remix [mp3]

The Big Pink – Future This is out next week via 4AD/ Rhythmethod.
[info via Pitchfork]

Jan10 4AD NEW SIGNING: GRIMES - NEW ALBUM & MP3

Welcoming you into 2012 New Release Land with this mighty little gem…..

Grimes will release her new album Visions this March 2012 via 4AD/Rhythmethod.
Grimes is the inventive work of Claire Boucher, a project that has gained notoriety since its inception back in early-2010. Moving to Montreal from Vancouver in 2006, she developed Grimes among the city’s burgeoning DIY scene; a scene where both punk ethos and pop music collide, resulting in a distinct sense of community, religiosity and psychedelic revelry. Also a prolific force, Visions will be her fourth release in less than two years and countless shows have been performed in this time, both helping to build much intrigue as to what’s next – “She’s blossoming and developing almost more quickly than we can keep track of… (She) could very well be poised for a meteoric rise with the release of her next full length.” (Pitchfork).
Claire describes her work as, “the only means through which I can be fully expressive. It is both an ethereal escape from, and a violent embrace of, my experience. The creative process is a quest for the ultimate sensual, mystical and cathartic experience and the vehicle for my psychic purging. Visions was conceived in a period of self-imposed cloistering during which time I did not see daylight.”
DOWNLOAD NEW TRACK ‘GENESIS’ NOW: WWW.THELABEL.CO.NZ

[info via 4AD]

Jan09 LANEWAY FEST DARK HORSE, SBTRKT COVERS FRIENDLY FIRES ‘BLUE CASSETTE’
DUE TO THE REALITIES OF EMAIL - WE ARE UNABLE TO EMBED THE SOUNDCLOUD TRACK HERE : PLEASE REFER TO THE WEBSITE: WWW.THELABEL.CO.NZ TO CHECK IT OUT!
OUT NOW IS SBTRKT’S SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM ON THE YOUNG TURKS LABEL & DISTRIBUTED IN NZ BY RHYTHMETHOD

AND Here’s SBTRKT performing ”Wildfire (feat. Drake & Little Dragon)” from their debut album, at the iTunes Festival in London…
• sbtrkt.com
• lanewayfestival.co.nz

Dec13 VIDEO: HOWLER – ‘BACK OF YOUR NECK’
Filed under: Howler, mp3, Rhythmethod, Rough Trade, video | Edit | by Lisa | Comments

Howler have released a video for their new single ‘Back of Your Neck’ (directed by Robert Semmer). In it the boys take us on a tour of the backstreets, house parties, gigs and supermarkets of their hometown Minneapolis – in all its grainy, Super 8 glory. The video premiered on Rolling Stone, whom singer Jordan Gatesmith told: “We made this video with our good friend Rob. He got us drunk, held us in his arms and told us it would be alright. And it was… It was.”
Howler will release their debut album America Give Up on 30 January 2012 via Rough Trade/Rhythmethod.

Download ‘Back Of Your Neck’ here.

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