WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – ALWAYS AND ECHOES
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Ahead of their debut full-length, White Belt Yellow Tagunleash ‘Always and Echoes. It’s reasonably high-tempo and exciting. The track goes straight for the jugular, with a minimal intro; tribal drums and crashing guitar creating a sound fitting somewhere in between Doves and the Bunnymen.
WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – REMAINS E.P
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White Belt Yellow Tag have announced details of the release of a new EP, ‘Remains’, out on Monday October 19th 2009 through Distiller Records. Self-produced and mixed by Chris Potter (The Verve, Blur).
‘Remains’ is taken from the band’s recently recorded debut album ‘Methods’, an amazingly far-reaching and beguiling record. The pair’s song-writing nouse and Lockey’s “sonic alchemy” have combined to create something unique where epic wide-screen atmospherics work in harmony with moments of white-noise and fragile beauty.
Methods is due to be released in early 2010, but in the mean time the band will release and tour the incredible ‘Remains EP’ on the following dates:
OCTOBER
6th Cardiff Barfly
7th London Roundhouse Studio
8th Manchester Ruby Lounge
9th Leeds Cockpit
11th York Fibbers
12th Glasgow King Tuts
13th Derby Royal
WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – YOU’RE NOT INVINCIBLE
WhiteBeltYellowTag release their debut EP You’re Not Invincible on 6 April 2009, with the title track being named as ‘Track of the Day’ on Q Magazine’s website.
Released through Distiller Records, London their new 4 track EP ‘You’re Not Invincible’ is the first piece of material to be released, Lockey and Pilbin produced all four tracks in their own studio.
The self-produced 4-track EP features: ‘You’re Not Invincible’, ‘News’, ‘Picture All The Same’and ‘Song About Growing’, and can be bought here.
WHITEBELTYELLOWTAG – YOUR NOT INVINCIBLE
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Although a duo, made up of Justin Lockey and studio boffin bandmate Craig Pilbin, White Belt Yellow Tag have managed to conjure up a grand, sweeping, sound reminiscent, in part, of Doves or Editors, which has been winning them glowing endorsements from critics and DJs alike.
The EP was recently branded “the hottest record in the world” by Radio One‘s Zane Lowe – not that singer Lockey is getting carried away by all the positive feedback. He’s been here before.
Lockey is determined to keep his feet on the floor about his latest project. The band came about when he met Pilbin (a Chris Lowe to Lockey’s Neil Tennant) while working on a British Expeditionary Force album in the North East last year. As Lockey puts it, the pair have “both been around the block a bit” and this are determined to do it their own way.
“It’s great actually,” says the singer. “We don’t have to make lots of other people happy any more. This time is just us making the music we want to make. We got together by accident really. Craig happened to be working in the same studio where I was and we clicked. We started writing songs and it turned out they were really good. A couple of months later and here we are. We’re just winging it really, seeing what turns up.”
Having gone through the mill with YCNI:M, Lockey reckons he’s better prepared now to deal with the pitfalls of pop stardom and is looking forward to releasing a new album later this year with little pressure for it to perform.
“We’re not signed to a major label, which helps,” he says. “We’ve got more time to develop at our own pace now. We’re not 17-year-old kids any more desperate to be rock stars. Now we can take the more relaxed route. As long as I can pay the rent and feed my kids at the end of the day, I’m happy.”
Originally an instrumental by Kent based band Codes In The Clouds, on there album Paper Canyon, they then had none other than milo’s Paul Mullen add his contribution which was added to a remix of there album entitled Paper Canyon Recycled.
THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE – A LONG WAY FROM HOME
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The music featured on ‘Chapter One : A Long Way From Home’ is the most unusual to ever come from this camp. It’s indie music for people who want a little more for their money, pop music for people getting bored with pop or electronica for those of you who don’t mind some vocals slapped about over the glitches and pads, and somehow it works.
Justin Lockey is emerging as the pre-eminent young British producer.
Lockey’s music is supplemented on The B.E.F. by the vocal talents of Aid Burrows. The creative partnership between the two was forged despite geographical difficulties: using a process not to dissimilar to Benjamin Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello’s Postal Service, Lockey constructed the music in isolation in Newcastle upon Tyne and then, via the magic of the internet, sent it on to the Warrington based Burrows who supplied lyrics and vocals before sending the music back to Lockey for mixing and Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths for co-production and mastering. This meant that neither Justin nor Aid never meet together in the whole recording process. The result is an inspired collection of songs that are representative of the return of progressive, genre-defying music to the British Isles.
THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE – CHAPTER ONE
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