March 8 street date. "Focus On Nature" is the new studio album from celebrated post-psych singer songwriter Nick Saloman and his band The Bevis Frond. Seventy-five minutes of glorious melodies that span 60s psych, English folk, The Wipers, the buzzsaw pop of Dinosaur Jr, and Hendrix-esque explorations. There's always an element of playful Englishness to their music. The cult icons have produced another off-kilter mix of melodic piano-led melancholy, acoustic ruminations, scratchy garage rock with a punky edge and full-on guitar histrionics. Like its much-praised predecessor, "Little Eden", the new record studies the world's weariness but fills out a bigger canvas; fast food and global warming, broken hearts and long gone nights out, everyday immortality, and being God's gift all share space. It's like Townshend at his most thematic; Big Star in all their acoustic glory, perfectly balancing the punky garage rock combo who end up running on ‘Empty’ with Gilmour breaks that elevate it all to grandeur.
March 8 street date. "Focus On Nature" is the new studio album from celebrated post-psych singer songwriter Nick Saloman and his band The Bevis Frond. Seventy-five minutes of glorious melodies that span 60s psych, English folk, The Wipers, the buzzsaw pop of Dinosaur Jr, and Hendrix-esque explorations. There's always an element of playful Englishness to their music. The cult icons have produced another off-kilter mix of melodic piano-led melancholy, acoustic ruminations, scratchy garage rock with a punky edge and full-on guitar histrionics. Like its much-praised predecessor, "Little Eden", the new record studies the world's weariness but fills out a bigger canvas; fast food and global warming, broken hearts and long gone nights out, everyday immortality, and being God's gift all share space. It's like Townshend at his most thematic; Big Star in all their acoustic glory, perfectly balancing the punky garage rock combo who end up running on ‘Empty’ with Gilmour breaks that elevate it all to grandeur.
April 20 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Pressed for the first time on vinyl, an incendiary live set of greatest hits of The Bevis Frond circa 1998. Featuring over an hour's worth of prime Frond, it mixes the bittersweet melodies of Nick Saloman's much-covered ‘Lights Are Changing’ and ‘He'd Be A Diamond’ with fuzz fuelled riffs and masterful solo-ing. Played as a power trio with Saloman enlists his long-time associate and former Hawkwind bass player Adrian Shaw and Andy Ward, former drummer with 70s prog giants Camel. With a staggering ten-minute rethinking of Love's come down anthem ‘Signed DC’ closing the show, this set also includes culled cuts from their debut ‘Miasma’ through to the groundbreaking ‘New River Head’ and beyond into the 90s. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide.
|
Full Catalogue Search