Torching UFOs on a shoestring budget

Torche's LP Songs For Singles has been out for a little bit, am yet to procure it, but Im sure it is awesome. Out on Hydra Head Records, home of brilliance such as Jesu, The Austerity Program, Helms Alee and many many more, Torche released single 'UFO' albeit without their own lyrics, instead superimposing some Van Halen howling over the mix. It proved to be a bona fide smash, at least as a novelty item. Now its time to hear it as it is truly intended, and while we're at it, here is the music video. Amazing CG here guys...

Torche are playing the UK in November - especially salivatory is their mooted show with Part Chimp and Chickenhawk - but that is an exclusive Leeds show - fuckers! Still, for us Londoners we can revel in Torche's brutal dirtiness at the Garage on the 22nd November.


Torche - "U.F.O." from Andrew James Cox on Vimeo.

And while we're at it - here's another new Torche track!

Torche - Out Again

Chickenhawk

Leed's Chickenhawk did a great show a few months back when supporting Bo Ningen and Pulled Apart By Horses at the 100 Club. I must admit I was blown away by the bands that came after, but just a few tracks was enough to have me intrigued. Paul mentioned that their sound had matured somewhat - I just have to shrug my shoulders here as Ive only caught them the once. But they are worth keeping on the radar...

And this is going to be a little easier to do in the upcoming months as Brew Records push Chickenhawk's newie 'Scorpieau', their upcoming LP Modern Bodies due out November 1st, and their tour with Alexisonfire. Plus they are playing the Constellations Festival (as are SM favourites Liars), and doing a show with Torche and Part Chimp. Get set for Chickenhawk to swoop into all your houses, blister the paint of your walls and the skin off you bones, then pick at the entrails...