Highpoint Lowlife newsletter / June 2006
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Hey there! hope yer all well.
Things have been right hectic over here; new dayjob don't ya know, working over at the exceptionally excellent www.last.fm! The pace hasnt' been dropped with the label however, and we have lots of ace treats for you...
Like A Stuntman "Stan Places" 10" vinyl and CD/EP
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The wonderously surreal follow up to last years "Fresh Air" album, the stuntmen come back with some more gorgeous twisted indie electronics. Now available to buy from our shop at www.posteverything.com and should be in all UK record stores by tuesday morning, plus a new addition to our online outlets, you can also find it at
http://www.bleep.com/?label=Highpoint+Lowlife
"Like a Stuntmen have, in short, done it again, but only better. Not only have they retained their fun and highly inventive use of sounds, but they have notched their songwriting skills several notches, becoming bonafide song crafters in the process. On Stan Places, the band is a tad more mellow, but a lot more focussed, and the end result is a collection of six fabulous songs. A strong mid 2006 contender for EP of the year, Stan Places is sure to give smiles to discerning listeners all summer long. Highly recommended!" 5/5 Somewherecold.com
"This is the kind of material that validates our existence. There's pop enough, there's accessibility enough to justify our ramming it down your elegant throat and there's more than sufficience of cool, left-fielded charm and invention to justify you swallowing with pleasure. Why? Why not? After all, there are riffs, "Stan Places" opening with a killa-dilla that is dressed to the hilt and "Trash Island" does even better with it's hang-dog acoustic riff that pulls all of the cooler sound-band back to make a mini-epic. All of which leaves us, or hopefully, you with a six track slab of weirdly gentle alt-popping that could have taken cues from Party Of One, or Beck or any Chelsea Hotel scratch band, but Like A Stuntman didn't need to because they are. You know, they are and they are here" Unpeeled
They're over here in the UK starting a tour from next friday, the 2nd June:
fri 2 Jun / London, Silver Rocket Club, Upstairs at the Garage w/ UpCDownC, Swimsuit Issue and St Deluxe
sat 3 Jun / Edinburgh, Nektar Bar w/ St Deluxe
mon 5 Jun / Aberdeen, The Tunnels w/ St Deluxe
tue 6 Jun / Glasgow, 13th Note w/ Fuck-off Machete and St Deluxe
wed 7 Jun / Bristol, The Croft w/ Beatnik Filmstars
fri 9 Jun / Brighton, Freebutt, w/ Beatnik Filmstars
Fisk Industries and Izu
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This month, you'll find a few articles and reviews around of our other two latest releases; Clash Magazine has a lovely wee feature and review on oor Mat Ranson aka Fisk Industries new "77 And Rising" 10" EP; and the new issue of the Wire magazine features a track from Izu's "Going Salamander" album on their free covermount Wire Tapper disc.
Bleep.com
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As mentioned above, you'll find a few of our releases for sale over on Bleep.com, with the rest of the catalog making its way onto the site in the following few weeks. I must say i've become quite addicted to shopping on Bleep, and have purchased way too much dubstep in the past few weeks, but its a pretty cool shopping experience. Now the only thing they need is a recommendations system powered by last.fm!
Other shows and upcoming news
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You'll find randomNumber out and about a few shows in June also, playing what looks like an excellent night in Leeds on the 10th June, alongside chevron, headcleaner, jon (rudeboy moris), valve control and way more. He's down in London with Bikini Atoll, Akira at the end of the month on the 30th, plus more shows in July. Check our site for more details on them. Mandelbrot Set will be out playing another special show in July at the saturday afternoon RoTA in Nottinghill alongside Rothko and more.
Release-wise, we're just sending off the Mandelbrot Set album for pressing which will be quickly followed by the Marshall Watson and Marcia Blaine School For Girls albums, all very amazing albums we're stoked to be putting out!
If you havent been to the website in a while, check over for a new mp3 from the Like A Stuntman release, and if you havent subscribed yet, you should check out the rss feed for more up-to-the-minute news.
thanks!
Highpoint Lowlifes
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