The Heavy - No Time
(Download) Counter Records COUNTDNL032, 2009-11-23
The latest single form the superb album, The House That Dirt Built is the hard-rocking No Time. Built from a truly monstrous drum break, horn fanfares and Zepp-gauge riffage, The Heavy build the perfect backdrop on which Swaby can holla and testify. About "losing the love that made you feel whole," the tune is such an ecstatic assault on the senses that, it has to be said, breaking up, has never sounded so good. So good, in fact, that PlayStation are using the track in their adverts for their Champions League adverts. What's better after a break up, after all, than football and computer games?!
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The Heavy - No Time | Comments: 0
Monday, December 28 2009
Alice Russell - Pot Of Gold Remixes | Comments: 0
Monday, October 5 2009
Alice Russell - Pot Of Gold Remixes
(2xCD) Little Poppet LP0P001X, 2009-10-05
This summer, subscribers to www.alicerussell.com could listen to 90 seconds audio clips and vote for their favorite remixes from Alice Russell's Pot Of Gold album. The most popular tracks have been collated into a 22 track double CD featuring remixes from the likes of Mr Scruff, DJ Vadim, Shawn Lee, Yellowtail, The Heavy and many more, to be released in the UK through Little Poppet on October 5th, with lots of bonus goodies for the digital version apparently. DJ Vadim's remix of Got The Hunger? will be released a week earlier on September 28th in the form of a limited 7" vinyl backed with Laura J Martin's remix of Lights Went Out. October is proving to be a busy month for Alice as she embarks on a run of shows to support the releases...
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built | Comments: 0
Monday, October 5 2009
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
(2xLP/CD limited edition/Download/CD) Counter Records COUNT028/COUNTCD028X/COUNTDNL028/COUNTCD028, 2009-10-05
Mixed and produced by Jim Abiss (best known for his work on the first Arctic Monkeys, Adele and Kasabian) and with Noisettes input on three tracks (The Heavy toured with them and have all became firm friends), The House That Dirt Built represents a huge step forward from an already fantastic debut in Great Vengeance & Furious Fire. Since then The Heavy have toured the world and, where the first record was sample-based, the new one is much more a product of working as a band. Like the early rock ‘n' roll, blues and rhythm and blues which have influenced it, The House That Dirt Built is larger than life, funny, terrifying and occasionally beautiful. It is, in fact, a house you'll want to visit again.
Various - Strike! - A Counter Records Sampler | Comments: 0
Monday, October 5 2009
Various - STRIKE! - A Counter Records Sampler
(CD/Download) Counter Records COUNTCD030/COUNDNL030, 2009-10-05
Back in 2006 the good people of Ninja Tune decided they wanted to start a rock label. But not any old, boring, run-of-the-mill rock label. Not a rock label pumping out the latest British indie four piece bands, or carefully crafted facsimiles of classic rawk. Not a label peopled by ironic Hoxtonites playing pisstakes of AC/DC. Not a rock label licensing in already-successful US acts and re-packaging them for the UK market. A rock label that took the same irreverent, iconoclastic, vaguely psychedelic attitude towards that type of music as the parent label had taken to various aspects of dance music. The results of this project are just now beginning to reach fruition and what better way to celebrate (and introduce listeners to a rapidly expanding roster) than with a "Pay-No-More-Than-£2.99" sampler showcasing some of the finest moments from the misfits, freaks and visionaries shaping the label's sound?
The Heavy - How Do You Like Me Now ? | Comments: 0
Sunday, September 13 2009
The Heavy - How Do You Like Me Now?
(CDS/Digital) Counter Records COUNT026/COUNTDNL026, 2009-09-13
The Heavy return with next single from their forthcoming album, The House That Dirt Built, a widescreen funk epic, moving from JB's shuffle to crashing break, Animals guitar and horn fanfares, a huge build which is set to bring the house down wherever it’s played. As if the original wasn’t enough, The Heavy have compiled a superb package of remixes. Fellow West Countryman Joker, gives the original a huge dollop of Purple and comes up with something sounding like Timberlake smoking skunk in St Pauls. Sometime Mowgli-collaborator Solo goes more down a 4/4 route, building up the congas etc into a perfect example of what he calls "midget house". Finally, Ghost takes the tempo down and emphasises the mournful backing vocals for a suitably majestic finale. As if this wasn’t enough, The Heavy have also thrown in a bonus track, Tell It Like It Is, a country-fried hoe-down which emphasises just how good Swaby’s voice is.
The Heavy - Sixteen | Comments: 0
Monday, July 13 2009
The Heavy - Sixteen
(Digital) Counter Records COUNTDNL027, 2009-07-13
The Heavy follow up the garage-band madness of Oh No! Not You Again! with pure vintage voodoo soul . Sixteen asks the question: how much can you learn in sixteen years? The answer is, a hell of a lot, but none of it good. The story of a girl who wants to grow up too fast, taking in dancing with the devil, nightclubbing, drinking and piping on the magic whistle.
The Heavy - Oh No! Not You Again! | Comments: 0
Monday, May 25 2009
The Heavy - Oh No! Not You Again!
(Digital) Counter Records COUNTDNL025, 2009-05-11
The first single to be released from The Heavy's new album, "The House That Dirt Built", is a garage-punk/soul-blues offering of so much power and urgency that the likes of Bunker Hill and Syl Johnson will wonder why the two genres don't get freaky with one another more often.
Daedelus - For Withered Friends / Touchtone | Comments: 0
Monday, November 24 2008
Daedelus - For Withered Friends / Touchtone
(7"/12"/Digital) Ninja Tune ZEN12225/ZEN7225, 2008-11-24
Check the Pixies-styled The Death Set pop-grunge cover of "For Withered Friends" - really surprising! Also worthy are the Kipsy remix of "Touchstone", electro-R'n'B going crazy, and the Thavius Beck heavily psyched-up remix of the same track.
The Heavy & Fink Xmas Remixes!! | Comments: 0
Thursday, October 16 2008
Various - Verve Remixed - Christmas
(CD) Verve, 2008-09-23
Tracklisting :
01. Count Basie - Good Morning Blues (Real Tuesday Weld Clerkenwell Remix)
02. Louis Armstrong - 'Zat You Santa Claus (The Heavy Remix)
03. Ella Fitzgerald - What Are You Doing New Years Eve (Mangini Remix)
04. Billie Holiday - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Yes King Remix)
05. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (The Orb Remix)
06. Shirley Horn - Winter Wonderland (Christian Prommer Remix)
07. Jimmy Smith - God Rest Ye Gentlemen (Oh No Remix)
08. Nina Simone - I Am Blessed (Wax Tailor Remix)
09. Dinah Washington - Silent Night (Brazilian Girls Remix)
10. Mel Torme - The Christmas Song (Sonny J Remix)
11. Nina Simone - Chilly Winds (Fink Remix)
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The Heavy Ready US Headline Tour | Comments: 0
Friday, September 26 2008
The Heavy Ready US Headline Tour
THE HEAVY ripped and roared their way through Europe in the Summer of '08 – including appearances at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and the UK Latitude Festival in Norfolk. Big Bad Wolf howls also rang clear across Germany, Poland, and Belgium, rattling bones wherever the stage was hot and the moon was lit.
It was a phenomenal summer for these renegades of Noid, England, but the band is now ready to bring the pain State-side, as an encore to their eye-opening US run this past Spring. Come October/November, the band will stomp through a 5-city US Tour wielding a battle ax, a road map, and the hardest-hitting live set you'll have the opportunity to see this year.
US TOUR DATES
October 30 || The Echo || Los Angeles (w/ Pop Levi, The Gray Kid)
October 31 || Mr. Roboto Presents Halloween Party @ 1015 Folsom || San Francisco
November 1 || Adrenaline Presents @ The Casbah || San Diego (w/ Kenan Bell)
November 3 || The World Café || Philadelphia
November 5 || Mercury Lounge || New York, NY
In addition, the band will release a digital EP, entitled 'SET ME FREE,' to be released through iTunes. The EP has an exclusive pre-release slated with iTunes for September 30th, and a wider spread release to all digital retailers set for October 14th.
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