Category: Live Dates

Artist: sleepmakeswaves
Title: It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Bird’s Robe Records
Distribution: MGM
Genre: Post-Rock
Release Date: 12/04/2024

Australian instrumental post-rockers sleepmakeswaves have announced they will tour Australia, Europe and the USA in support of their new album It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It, due out April 12, 2024 on Bird’s Robe Records/ MGM.

The new album was produced by the band themselves, at Golden Retriever Studios in Sydney, Australia. Written during the pandemic, it was originally recorded during 2022 just before the band embarked on a 3 month tour for their previous EP trilogy These Are Not Your Dreams. Further recording was completed in 2023, including string arrangements by Simeon Bartholomew (SEIMS). The record was then mixed by Andrei Eremin (Closure In Moscow, Tash Sultana, G Flip, Luca Brasi) in Philadelphia USA and mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering in Boston USA.

The first single Super Realm Park, prefiguring the record as a whole, is a majestic return to the classic hallmarks of the band’s melodic post-rock sound, whilst introducing new production and arrangement elements. Fans of the band’s heavy bombastic aggression will resonate with tracks such as All Hail Skull and Ritual Control. They also shine with invigorated melodic and emotive performances and arrangements on tracks like Black Paradise and Terror Future. Retaining their signature approach to heavy dynamics and crescendos the band are still at their unmatched peak when they turn their hand to cataclysmic emotional epics such as the title track and the album closer This Close Forever. The band released a statement to fans, saying:

“The instrumental band sleepmakeswaves

Decided rock music they must save
In the year twenty twenty four
Fans were clamouring for more
So they dropped a new record
It’s a rave!”

The mysterious phase of nothingness, crucial to the smw creative process, is over: our new album is finally done. Thank you so much to all our listeners for your patience. It has been a slow but intense labor of love and we are proud of the songs on this record, and grateful for the many people who helped bring it to life. Hope to see you on the road in 2024, more show announcements to come, and we truly hope the new music we’re about to release resonates with you in the same way it does with us. – Love smw“

The band will kick off their world tour in Australia in April, playing shows in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane with support from Taiwanese math rock legends Elephant Gym and fellow Australian post-rock veterans Meniscus.

sleepmakeswaves will then return to Europe in May to headline Belgium’s Dunk Festival, and North America to co-headline PostFest in Indianapolis in July. Further shows will be added.

Tracklist
1. All Hail Skull   
2. Super Realm Park   
3. Ritual Control   
4. Black Paradise   
5. Verdigris   
6. Terror Future
7. It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It   
8. This Close Forever

sleepmakeswaves Australian tour 2024
w/Elephant Gym (Taiwan) & Meniscus
Fri 26 April – Max Watts, Melbourne VIC
Sat 27 April – Manning Bar, Sydney NSW
Sun 28 April – The Triffid, Brisbane QLD
+ more to be announced

sleepmakeswaves UK/EU tour 2024
Sat 11 May – Dunk Festival, Zottegem BELGIUM
+ more to be announced

sleepmakeswaves USA tour 2024
25-27 July – PostFest, Indianapolis INDIANA
+ more to be announced

Links
Order: https://sleepmakeswaves.bandcamp.com 
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sleepmakeswavesaus
Facebook: https://facebook.com/sleepmakeswaves  
Label: https://birdsrobe.com 

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Artist: Manus Louis
Title: Club Copy
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Igloo Records
Distribution: Broken Silence (GAS), Socadisc (France)
Genre: Experimental Pop
Release Date: 29/09/2023

Club Copy brings us a futuristic world dominated by standardisation, in which, your place on earth no longer matters. In Paris, Bangkok or Hanoi everything is the same. Visitors are doomed to find the same street, the same shops, playing the same music, frequented by people wearing the same clothes, made in the same places… 

However in one of these towns, a small oasis of resistance is emerging in spite of itself.

Club Copy, a small, outdated photocopying centre has been converted into an alternative venue.

Here, each photocopy generates new variations. Because of the obsolescence of the equipment and the technical incompetence of its managers, it is impossible to make a photocopy without deviating from the original. 

Initially on the verge of bankruptcy, the shop soon becomes a new place of resistance for the freaks….

Built on the ashes of Manu Louis‘ latest release (Front de Cadeaux’s remix of Internet), Club Copy bounces again to the sexy BPM of the slowed-down clubs. 

Manu is joined by an impressive cast of collaborators: Spanish singer from Las Victimas Civiles, Héctor Arnau; Brussels experimental jazz vocalist, Lynn Cassiers; and performer Vicente Arlandis offer their voices. Mastering by the cult Rashad Becker sculpts the bass and widens the space, and Spanish artist Escif’s hijacked covers plunge us into the heart of the beauty of the photocopy shop. Club Copy is undoubtedly the Berlin singer/producer’s most accomplished, touching and disturbing work to date.

Tracklist
1. Flou
2. Flu
3. Clone
4. Full
5. Peu
6. Economy
7. Winter
8. Encore 1x
9. Winner
10. Ecology

Club Copy Tour
14oct – Brussels (B) – Festival Francofaune @Un Peu
21oct – Dusseldorf (Deu) – TBA
22oct – Berlin (Deu) – Lark
26oct – Amiens (Fr) – L’accueil froid
27oct – Paris (Fr) – Café de Paris
28oct – Caen (Fr) – La demeurée
02nov – Valencia (Esp) – Centro Excursionista
03nov – Barcelona (Esp) – El Pumarejo
10nov – Charleroi (B) – Rockhrill
14nov – Birmingham (UK) – Centrala
15nov – Manchester (UK) – The Peer Hat
16nov – Newcastle (UK) – Cobalt Studio
17nov – London (UK) – Iklektik
19nov – Glasgow (Sco) – The Old Toll Bar
23nov – Chemnitz (Deu) Odradek
24nov – Dresden (Deu) – Hanse03
25nov – Leipzig (Deu) – Handstand &, Moral
09dec – Madrid (Esp) – El Juglar

Links  
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/manulouis
Official: www.louislouis.org
Instagram: https://instagram.com/manu_louis_music
Facebook: https://facebook.com/louislouis.org
Label: https://igloorecords.be

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Artist: Dez Dare
Title: Critical Mind Dump EP
Format: 7″, Digital 
Label: Six Tonnes De Chair (under exclusive licence from CH!MP)
Genre: Garage Punk 
Release Date: 05/05/2023

A fuzz beast clawing out of a pit of noise, riffs and existential joy.

Critical Mind Dump EP is the follow up release to the current album Perseus War. Veering further into the existential than the album’s anti-authoritarian bellowing, it lingers in the electric realms of the mind’s purgatory. Like a dream, good, bad or forgotten, it is critical to relieve yourself of whatever shackles tie you to convention. A life dump. This release is the unburdening of thought before the next release…

Dez comments: “Vinyl is what I grew up with. 7 inches were how we all experimented with new bands. Saving up the spare cash we could find, some borrowed from my unknowing Dad (sorry!), me and my mates would take the train to Melbourne to Au-Go-Go or maybe stay in Geelong at Caveman Records. We would buy as many records as we could, get as many different bands in our bag… try and outdo our mates on nerdiness. It’s a format I love.”