May 2012
2 posts
1 tag
'WILD PEACE' TEASER
1 tag
ECHO LAKE - EVEN THE BLIND
Check out the new Natalia Stuyk produced video for ‘Even The Blind’, the lead single from Echo Lake’s forthcoming debut album Wild Peace.
Shot in a World Way II bunker in East London, the projection feedback-heavy visuals mirror the shimmering, beautiful guitar lines.
Pre-order Wild Peace direct on vinyl or CD here.
April 2012
2 posts
2 tags
Echo Lake - Wild Peace
Photo credit: Natalia Stuyk
We’re overjoyed to announce Echo Lake’s debut album - Wild Peace - will be released through No Pain In Pop (Europe) and the seminal Slumberland label (North America) on June 25th/26th.
Marrying Thom Hill’s huge, dense production with countless interweaving layers of Linda Jarvis’ emotive and cavernous voice the album seems to float like the...
1 tag
PATTEN - RADIO 1 SESSION
Two new post-GLAQJO XAACSSO tracks from patten - ever in ellipses - taken from his BBC Radio 1 session with Huw Stephens. Listen from 1:18hrs onwards here.
March 2012
1 post
1 tag
Echo Lake - Peaking Lights remix
With a debut album very nearly finished and primed for a summer release, Echo Lake have released a remix of Peaking Lights’ ‘Marshmellow Yellow’ from last year’s 936.
February 2012
1 post
1 tag
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
2012 release news shortly.
January 2012
1 post
1 tag
PATTEN - EDITS
After the acclaim of his 2011 debut album - GLAQJO XAACSSO - we’re very excited to say patten will play his first audiovisual show on Thursday 19th January at CAMP Basement in Old St, London (Facebook event/£5 advance tickets). The album is now available on CD for the first time and limited UK indie shop and NPIP webstore orders will receive EDITS, a full length work “extending,...
November 2011
6 posts
1 tag
The Proper Ornaments - Who Thought
Centered around the close partnership of frontmen Max Clapps and James Hoare, The Proper Ornaments make a thrillingly taut and melodic pop indebted both to the sun balm’d West Coast (the Byrds, Brian Wilson) and the driving, terse rhythms of the British Invasion & C86 (the Beatles, Postcard Records). Their debut EP is out on 12” vinyl and DL through No Pain In Pop next week and...
1 tag
Echo Lake - Buried At Sea
Natalia Stuyk directed video for Echo Lake’s ‘Buried At Sea’, from last spring’s Young Silence EP, shot off the coast of Granada, Southern Spain. Want to live inside it.
1 tag
PATTEN - LOGQAJ ACSXSOA
A third remix EP, with Spare, Yearning Kru, Erratic Boulder and Lee Gamble taking select tracks from patten’s GLAQJO XAACSSO album:
“Each remixer gets a bunch of chunks from a finished track. One track per remixer. No stems. No finished full track to compare against. Passing the fragments like bits of code divorced from the full program. See what gets retained, what comes through from the...
2 tags
Grimes - Crystal Ball (Doldrums refix)
Doldrums gets tangled in with Montreal sparring partner and tour mate Grimes’ ‘Crystal Ball’ track from this spring. His own ‘Empire Sound’ EP is both out now through No Pain In Pop and available to stream in full over at Altered Zones. ’Crystal Ball’ appears on ‘Halfaxa’ LP through Arbutus Records, Montreal.
1 tag
PATTEN - QALOGJ OACSSXA
Listen to QALOGJ OACSSXA, the second remix EP from patten’s acclaimed GLAQJO XAACSSO album, with Ukkonen, Dro Carey and Halls again working to the London producer’s following diktat:
“Each remixer gets a bunch of chunks from a finished track. One track per remixer. No stems. No finished full track to compare against. Passing the fragments like bits of code divorced from the full...
2 tags
Doldrums - Endless Winter
Doldrums flying too close to the sun with his ‘Endless Winter’ video from the avant-pop Empire Sound EP, out on DL and 12”.
“A voice comes across mid panic attack..”
October 2011
6 posts
2 tags
Echo Lake - Alisa
Halloween video for Echo Lake’s cover of Ariel Pink’s ‘Alisa’, due to appear on the Japanese reissue of the Young Silence EP through Coco Heart Records, out 16/11/2011.
1 tag
PATTEN - PLURALS
Lava strewn video for ‘Plurals’ by the ever-enigmatic patten, directed by Jane Eastlight. We’re proud to announce the London producer will perform a special audiovisual live show to celebrate the album’s release on January 19th 2012 (details and advance tickets).
‘Remarkable. One of the year’s most exciting debuts.’ - FACT ‘Among the albums of the...
5 tags
Nail the Cross IV
Our fourth Nail the Cross festival is Friday and Saturday this week at the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston, East London. Alongside the above line up - featuring Nite Jewel, Pariah, Echo Lake, Sex Worker, Doldrums, patten and more - we’ve a special secret guest and a video installation courtesy of Take Courage gallery. Tickets are available in advance or at the door on either evening. For a...
1 tag
Doldrums - Empire Sound
The work of Doldrums - aka. 21 year old Montrealer Airick Woodhead - floats in a sea of chopped up samples, disembodied vocals and tribal percussion. We’re happy to announce Empire Sound - a manic EP of electro-hallucinogenic freak outs and fuzzy warm nostalgia - will be available through No Pain In Pop shortly. For now, listen to ‘I’m Homesick Sittin’ Up Here in My Satellite’ below.
...
2 tags
Forest Swords - Bones (remix)
We’re happy to say over £1100 has been raised for the Red Cross to date from the Forest Swords’ ‘Fjree Feather’ EP. We made our first donation today - proofs - but hope to add to this figure with the few final copies of the 12” and download release of the EP still available through our online store.
To say thanks to all those who supported the release we’ve a...
1 tag
PATTEN - JLAGQO CSOAAXS
Patten released his debut album - GLAQJO XAACSSO - last week to significant praise from FACT (“tremendous”), Boomkat (“among the albums of the year”), Bleep.com (track of the week), the Quietus (“excellent”), The Wire and Pitchfork.
Today sees the release of JLAGQO CSOAAXS, a remix EP by artists including Sculpture, C Powers and The Slow Revolt....
September 2011
4 posts
2 tags
A GRAVE WITH NO NAME - CROWS
Beautiful Anupa Madawela produced video for A Grave With No Name’s recent ‘Crows’ 7” (buy here) - a 3 track release of Alexander Shields’ piano led songs which trace delicate fissures in the emotional radiography of loss and longing.
1 tag
PATTEN FACT MIX
Listen to patten’s mix for FACT Magazine ahead of his GLAQJO XAACSSO album - recently given 9/10 on Drowned in Sound and called “one of the year’s most exciting debuts” by FACT themselves - release today.
1 tag
Nail the Cross IV
2010, featuring Vondelpark. Filmed by Martin Thomas.
The fourth annual new music and arts festival curated by London label No Pain In Pop and promoters Lanzarote, held for the first time in East London but remaining the definitive event for establishing acts that are on the cusp of breaking into wider popularity, has been announced. The line up over the two day - 21st and 22nd October 2011 -...
2 tags
PATTEN - 'FIRE DREAM'
“Remarkable” - FACT
“Thrilling” - Abeano
“A revelation… perfectly honed and executed… dense 4/4 psychedelia that is just madly engrossing… suggests superior mid-90s IDM re-wired for the hypnagogic generation… disorientingly complex but breathtakingly immediate too.. this will surely rank among the albums of the year” - Boomkat
...
August 2011
4 posts
Autumn/Winter 2011
“I never saw so many tigers.”
2 tags
Echo Lake - Breathe Deep
2 tags
patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
Heady, raw and visceral, mysterious London producer patten’s ‘GLAQJO XAACSSO’ record will be released on September 26th through No Pain In Pop on limited 12” vinyl and DL.
Working out from a space somewhere between early house, Factory Records and post punk, Warp’s mid-90s catalogue, shoegaze, Musique Concrète and 2000s Funktion One bass pressure, a myriad of forms...
1 tag
Doldrums - Daytrotter session
Arick Woodhead, a.k.a. Montreal’s Doldrums, recorded a three track session for Daytrotter. Listen here. Announcement on a new release to follow shortly.
July 2011
5 posts
1 tag
The Proper Ornaments
4 tags
Forest Swords - 'Trust Your Blood' remixes
Forest Swords’ ‘Trust Your Blood’ remixed for No Pain In Pop by cult London/Atlanta producer C Powers and No Not Fun’s Parisian bohème Holy Strays.
All money raised from the ‘Fjree Feather’ EP release will be donated to the Red Cross’s tsunami recovery efforts in Japan. Thanks to everyone involved (Forest Swords, Forte Distribution, Rough Trade and Ooh...
1 tag
PATTEN
2 tags
Grimes - 'Geidi Primes'
‘Geidi Primes’ by Grimes – aka 22 year old Montréaler Claire Boucher - was originally released by Arbutus Records as a free download and cassette in early 2010. We’re now very happy to say the debut record will be available through No Pain In Pop from 8th August 2011 on CD and vinyl.
1 tag
Holy Strays
June 2011
3 posts
1 tag
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
2 tags
Echo Lake - 'Another Day'
We’re proud to announce Echo Lake’s second release - following February’s ‘Young Silence’ EP - is a double A-side single entitled ‘Another Day’/’Breathe Deep’ and it’s out on 7” vinyl and download on July 18th 2011. Visit here for more info.
1 tag
DOMINO RADIO
We hosted a show on Domino FM last week. It features The Proper Ornaments, Lone, Arch M, Forest Swords, Vondelpark, Real Life, Big Hard Excellent Fish, The Rollercoaster Project, talking donkeys and many more. You can stream it direct from their website here and the tracklisting is ‘after the jump’.CLAUDE LARSON - “SOFTWARE DPT” BATHCRONES - “VINEYARD OF THE...
May 2011
1 post
2 tags
Forest Swords - 'Fjree Feather' EP
The ‘Fjree Feather’ EP consists of remastered early demo material released on limited edition white vinyl 12” and DL. It was previously only available on a self released CDR prior to the release of 2010’s universally acclaimed ‘Dagger Paths’ EP.
All money raised from the release will be donated to the Red Cross’s tsunami recovery efforts in Japan. The Red...
April 2011
2 posts
1 tag
Ocelot Rojo
New Ocelot Rojo release - ‘Pacarina’ - available from Bandcamp now.
2 tags
A Grave With No Name - 'Balloons'
From a forthcoming 7” arriving Spring 2011 through No Pain In Pop.
March 2011
3 posts
1 tag
Hypermagic
New Hypermagic release - ‘San Fairy Ann’ - available from Bandcamp now.
2 tags
Patten - '▬▬──━┈'
Patten LP arriving summer 2011 through No Pain In Pop.
2 tags
A Grave With No Name - 'Streams'/'Feathers
Limited 7” out 21/3/2011. Preorder here.
A Grave With No Name is the recording moniker of Londoner Alexander Shields plus friends. This is the band’s first new material since 2010’s acclaimed ‘Mountain Debris’ debut. Recorded without the meticulous production work which characterized ‘Mountain Debris’ the focus of this single has shifted to the...
January 2011
1 post
2 tags
Echo Lake - 'Young Silence'
Echo Lake’s ‘Young Silence’ EP is available to preorder through the No Pain In Pop label now.
Video by Dan Nixon.