Easily one of the finest record companies on the planet, Sargent House held a label showcase at Dublin’s Button Factory last night, featuring And So I Watch You From Afar, Russian Circles, No Spill Blood, Emma Ruth Rundle and more. Check out Shaun Neary’s photos from the show below.
With the now-sold-out largest music & arts festival in Ireland very much looming before us, it’s a relatively quiet week ahead in terms of gigs, but there are a few of doozies in the coming days scattered across the island. First and foremost: Electric Picnic – Stradbally Estate, Co. Laois; August 29-31 Unfortunately for most, it’s now too late to snap up tickets for Electric Picnic, but for those who wish to see out the Irish summer in style, there’s always one of the most eclectic bills on the circuit. For those who are heading, the Picnic contains some acts of…
There are few bands who can write a song that is equally melodic, complex, and crushingly heavy in quite the way that Tera Melos do. Even in their earlier, scuzzier part of their career – when the three-piece’s songs really just sounded like a patchwork of fairly disparate ideas and virtuoso instrumentalism – their first, self-titled release was a group of nine songs, ‘Melody 1’ to ‘Melody 8’. The band have always shirked the “math-rock” genre that is often applied to them, and as their sound has developed it becomes easier to see why. Their sound has followed a very…
Sacramento math rock trio Tera Melos have unveiled the Behn Fannin-directed video for their song, ‘Weird Circles’. The opening track from the band’s superb fourth album X’ed Out – released via Sargent House in April – the song is a typically bananas slice of experimental pop wonderment, something the video manages to reflect – via luminous cereal milk, robotic squirrels and dancing hotdogs – extremely well. Watch the video below. Alternatively/also stream X’ed Out via Bandcamp here.
Home to acts as spearheading and diverse as our very own Adebisi Shank (pictured) and And So I Watch You From Afar to Texan psych-rock five-piece Zechs Marquise and Zorch, LA based record label Sargent House is arguably one of the most exciting record labels in the world today. Formed in 2006 by Atlantic Records music video commissioner Cathy Pellow, it has grown in massive leaps and bounds over the last seven years. Through her own vision and seemingly faultless sonic intuition, Pellow has expanded the Sargent House name far from beyond its modest beginnings as a platform to release…