Hull based shoegaze quartet bdrmm return with a new single titled “Mud”. The track arrives hot on the heels of the bands widely lauded second album “I Don’t Know”, which came out earlier this year on Mogwai’s Rock Action label.
The post-shoegaze, dream pop, heavy guitar effects quartet’s latest album arrived in late-June to critical acclaim with the likes of Consequence calling it “one of their most enticing successes yet” and Rolling Stone UK describing it as “a chaotic, thrilling evolution”. The lead single “It’s Just A Bit Of Blood” was also playlisted on BBC Radio 6 Music, and Brooklyn Vegan made the record their Album Of The Week saying that “I Don’t Know” saw them “not only avoid the sophomore slump, but deliver a second album that is miles better their debut.”
Now, just two months on from release, the band have returned with a...
The post-shoegaze, dream pop, heavy guitar effects quartet’s latest album arrived in late-June to critical acclaim with the likes of Consequence calling it “one of their most enticing successes yet” and Rolling Stone UK describing it as “a chaotic, thrilling evolution”. The lead single “It’s Just A Bit Of Blood” was also playlisted on BBC Radio 6 Music, and Brooklyn Vegan made the record their Album Of The Week saying that “I Don’t Know” saw them “not only avoid the sophomore slump, but deliver a second album that is miles better their debut.”
Now, just two months on from release, the band have returned with a...
- 10/10/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Harold Budd, an innovative American composer who helped pioneer the genre of ambient music has died at the age of 84, due to Covid-19 complications.
Budd who collaborated with Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins, and his solo work combined elements of jazz, minimalism and more inspired experimental electronic music.
The official page on facebook confirmed the news "Harold Budd 1936-2020. Harold Budd passed away today at the age 84 years old from complications of Covid-19.
Thank you to all of the friends and fans who have so wonderfully supported him through the years. We ask that you please respect the family’s privacy during this difficult time."
Born in Los Angeles, California (1936), Harold Budd had music ingrained from childhood. Budd developed a style of piano playing he deemed "soft pedal". The official website stated "Although Harold’s music is intimately associated with his unique “soft pedal” style of piano, he did not...
Budd who collaborated with Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins, and his solo work combined elements of jazz, minimalism and more inspired experimental electronic music.
The official page on facebook confirmed the news "Harold Budd 1936-2020. Harold Budd passed away today at the age 84 years old from complications of Covid-19.
Thank you to all of the friends and fans who have so wonderfully supported him through the years. We ask that you please respect the family’s privacy during this difficult time."
Born in Los Angeles, California (1936), Harold Budd had music ingrained from childhood. Budd developed a style of piano playing he deemed "soft pedal". The official website stated "Although Harold’s music is intimately associated with his unique “soft pedal” style of piano, he did not...
- 12/9/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Harold Budd, the acclaimed composer known for his minimalist works and collaborations with Brian Eno, died Tuesday. He was 84. Steve Takaki, Budd’s manager, confirmed his death, adding that the cause of death was complications due to the coronavirus.
“A lot to digest,” Cocteau Twins frontman and frequent Budd collaborator Robin Guthrie wrote on Facebook. “Shared a lot with Harold since we were young, since he was sick, shared a lot with harold for the last 35 years, period. Feeling empty, shattered lost and unprepared for this. … His last words to...
“A lot to digest,” Cocteau Twins frontman and frequent Budd collaborator Robin Guthrie wrote on Facebook. “Shared a lot with Harold since we were young, since he was sick, shared a lot with harold for the last 35 years, period. Feeling empty, shattered lost and unprepared for this. … His last words to...
- 12/8/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Where do you even begin with a year brimming with as much exciting music as 2020 had to offer? Even if you limit it to what made it to TV screens, it’s still a daunting collection of possibilities.
To start, there were the undeniable musical charms of “Central Park,” “The Eddy,” and “P-Valley,” all of which drew heavily on original songs to help tether their stories to a distinct time and place.
Phillip Glass, Harold Budd (“I Know This Much is True”), Alan Silvestri (“Cosmos: Possible Worlds”) and Atticus Ross all added to their robust, ever-growing bodies of work.
Musicians who have helped define the atmospheres of their respective series — like Ramin Djawadi for “Westworld” or Jesse Novak for “BoJack Horseman” — continued to do so as the characters in focus faced monumental changes. In the middle of it all, Jeff Russo held onto his title of the busiest musician in...
To start, there were the undeniable musical charms of “Central Park,” “The Eddy,” and “P-Valley,” all of which drew heavily on original songs to help tether their stories to a distinct time and place.
Phillip Glass, Harold Budd (“I Know This Much is True”), Alan Silvestri (“Cosmos: Possible Worlds”) and Atticus Ross all added to their robust, ever-growing bodies of work.
Musicians who have helped define the atmospheres of their respective series — like Ramin Djawadi for “Westworld” or Jesse Novak for “BoJack Horseman” — continued to do so as the characters in focus faced monumental changes. In the middle of it all, Jeff Russo held onto his title of the busiest musician in...
- 12/3/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
With nods to King Crimson, Talking Heads, Death Grips, and many others, London’s Black Midi creates a unique brand of cathartic punishment on their excellent debut. The band’s barely college age (they met at the same prestigious performing arts school that produced Adele and Amy Winehouse), but they’ve attained striking erudition, dexterity and compositional know-how for musicians so young — not to mention a lot of UK hype for a band this odd.
Add to the above-mentioned touchstones Pere Ubu, Congolese soukous, modern classical music, electric Miles Davis,...
Add to the above-mentioned touchstones Pere Ubu, Congolese soukous, modern classical music, electric Miles Davis,...
- 6/24/2019
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Gregg Araki's unique coming-of-age story "White Bird in a Blizzard" already has his distinctive imprint on it, but the film's dreamlike atmosphere is aided by the music department. A couple of months back, we brought you a preview of Cocteau Twins member Robin Guthrie and avant pianist Harold Budd's score for the film, and today, we're taking a look at the songs that power the official soundtrack. Featuring, of course, Cocteau Twins, along with New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and Tears For Fears, the song choices mark out the very specific sound Araki uses to tell his tale. The inclusion of The Jesus And Mary Chain gives things a bit of an edge, while selections by Everything But The Girl brings the music toward the '90s, and Ulrich Schnauss pulls the soundtrack into the new millennium. It's clearly a soundtrack selected and programmed with care,...
- 11/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
For a film already moving along with its own dreamlike tenor and mood, director Gregg Araki wanted to ensure the sonic elements matched the rest of his carefully calibrated film "White Bird in a Blizzard." So why not enlist the talents of former Cocteau Twins member Robin Guthrie and avant pianist Harold Budd? After all, it's a collaboration that has worked before. The musical duo first paired up to score Araki's "Mysterious Skin" and also released a pair of albums together. And together they return for 'Blizzard,' and the results are pretty gorgeous. Below, you can hear a six-minute preview of the entire soundtrack, and it gives a nice sense of the airy, ethereal work on display. And even if most of the tracks see Guthrie and Budd working separately, it still feels like there's a unified vision behind the songs. "White Bird In A Blizzard" opens on VOD...
- 9/16/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It’s been a decade since Gregg Araki’s arresting coming-of-age examination of the ramifications of child molestation debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 and the devastating remnants are still lingering. Despite its off-putting subject matter, Mysterious Skin proved to be a near universal critical hit that brought Araki back to the fore, launched the auteurist acting career of Brady Corbet and redirected Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s in the wake of his childhood gig on 3rd Rock from the Sun to much more serious adult cinema. Told from the perspective of two boys who are ripped from childhood by their kiddy league baseball coach, he director’s impeccable sensitivity to the emotional nuance of novelist Scott Heim’s heartbreaking semi-autobiographical story continues to resonate as a means of reckoning with the residual effects of abuse.
While Corbet’s mumbly asexual Brian blocked the experience out of his memory and replaced...
While Corbet’s mumbly asexual Brian blocked the experience out of his memory and replaced...
- 3/25/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
By Terence Johnson
Managing Editor
There are so many ways that one could start a review of White Bird in a Blizzard that it was tough to figure out where to begin but here’s a shot: this film is an interesting look at depression, teenage angst, and life in the suburbs for about 86 minutes of it’s 91 minute running time that completely comes undone in the final 5 minutes of the film.
Kat (Shailene Woodley) is a girl who is coming into her own. She’s a few months away from college, enjoying a romance with the boy next door (Shiloh Fernandez), and is really beginning to understand her sexuality. But all is not well in paradise, her father is distant and her mother (Eva Green) is a mess, drinking heavily and struggling to hold on. One day her mother vanishes, and Kat and her father try to resume their lives.
Managing Editor
There are so many ways that one could start a review of White Bird in a Blizzard that it was tough to figure out where to begin but here’s a shot: this film is an interesting look at depression, teenage angst, and life in the suburbs for about 86 minutes of it’s 91 minute running time that completely comes undone in the final 5 minutes of the film.
Kat (Shailene Woodley) is a girl who is coming into her own. She’s a few months away from college, enjoying a romance with the boy next door (Shiloh Fernandez), and is really beginning to understand her sexuality. But all is not well in paradise, her father is distant and her mother (Eva Green) is a mess, drinking heavily and struggling to hold on. One day her mother vanishes, and Kat and her father try to resume their lives.
- 1/23/2014
- by Terence Johnson
- Scott Feinberg
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno has led a multi-faceted life. To modern rock fans he's perhaps best known as the imaginative producer of U2's, David Bowie's, and Talking Heads' most adventurous work, and secondarily remembered as an early and eccentric member of Roxy Music. To new age and techno fans, he's the de facto inventor of the ambient music genre. Pop fans can thank him for the best work by James, Coldplay, and Ultravox. Punk fans owe him one for No New York's introduction of the four most iconic No Wave Bands.
His collaborations with Harold Budd (favorite: The Pearl), Robert Fripp (favorite: (no pussyfooting)), David Byrne (the groundbreaking My Life in the Bush of Ghosts), John Cale (especially the delightful Wrong Way Up), and others sometimes find him as much a facilitator as a creator, yet still have an ineffable Eno-ness to them.
His collaborations with Harold Budd (favorite: The Pearl), Robert Fripp (favorite: (no pussyfooting)), David Byrne (the groundbreaking My Life in the Bush of Ghosts), John Cale (especially the delightful Wrong Way Up), and others sometimes find him as much a facilitator as a creator, yet still have an ineffable Eno-ness to them.
- 5/15/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
When I was growing up, New York 's best (now long-defunct) classical radio station, Wncn, played only American composers' music each Fourth of July. With the classical world dominated by Europeans, this was a welcome and educational corrective. In the history of American music, independence wasn't achieved until the 20th century; 19th century composers such as John Knowles Paine and George Whitefield Chadwick studied in Europe and blatantly imitated European models. Listening to their music "blind," few would guess they were Americans. There was Revolutionary War-era vocal writer William Billings, but his originality was more a lack of proper technique. Continuing Wncn's tradition, here's a look at true American classical. music.
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
- 7/4/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Director of Mysterious Skin and Kaboom is keeping indie pop alive by featuring new music and remixes by his favourite bands
This week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his most recent. It's always tempting to look for patterns and themes in a director's work, but in Araki's case, there's little that connects them all. The disenfranchised gay teens of Totally Fucked Up don't share much common ground with the silly stoners of his later comedy Smiley Face; and it's hard to reconcile the serious, subtle Mysterious Skin with the knockabout thrills of Splendor and Kaboom.
But for all the hallucinatory imagery, ambisexual cavorting, drug taking, violence and other shocking facets of Araki's work, there's one element that runs through them all: the music. When he says that "Kaboom is my most autobiographical and personal...
This week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his most recent. It's always tempting to look for patterns and themes in a director's work, but in Araki's case, there's little that connects them all. The disenfranchised gay teens of Totally Fucked Up don't share much common ground with the silly stoners of his later comedy Smiley Face; and it's hard to reconcile the serious, subtle Mysterious Skin with the knockabout thrills of Splendor and Kaboom.
But for all the hallucinatory imagery, ambisexual cavorting, drug taking, violence and other shocking facets of Araki's work, there's one element that runs through them all: the music. When he says that "Kaboom is my most autobiographical and personal...
- 8/5/2011
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
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