Smalltown Supersound

Review of "Selvutsletter"

Loud and Quiet Magazine

Lost Girls – Selvutsletter - Loud And Quiet Selvutsletter by Lost Girls reviewed: A second bout of avant-garde intrigue and dance pop from Jenny Hval and Hårvard Volde

Barker's debut EP for Smalltown Supersound is out today!
"Unfixed" is available physically and digitally on Bandcamp: https://sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/unfixed

Cover art by Kim Hiorthøy.

Big news today: the second Lost Girls album "Selvutsletter" will be released on October 20th!
New single "With the Other Hand" out now: https://ffm.to/lostgirls-withtheotherhand

Catch them on tour:
Tue. Sep. 26 - Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
Sun. Nov. 5 - Paris, FR @ Petit Bain *
Tue. Nov. 7 - London, UK @ Corsica Studios
Sat. Nov. 11 - Berlin, DE @ Silent Green

Rounding out a series of happy announcements lately: Lost Girls' first new track since the Menneskekollektivet album in 2021 is out now!

Check out "Ruins" here:
https://ffm.to/lostgirls-ruins

Photo by Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard

Proud to announce Barker's debut release for us: "Unfixed"! Hear lead single "Birmingham Screwdriver" now, the full EP is out August 25th.

Vinyl available through our Bandcamp: https://sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/unfixed

Cover art by Kim Hiorthøy

Carmen Villain releasing new music

there’s a new Carmen Villain LP out today and it is quite a thing.

huge recommendation if you’re into ‘Selected Ambient Works Vol.II’, Various Artists / x Chain Reaction or Jim O'Rourke in meditative electronic mode

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https://bit.ly/3CGt1td

Proud to announce Bendik Giske's upcoming self-titled album, produced by Beatrice Dillon!

Album is out June 9th. Pre-order and pre-save: https://ffm.to/sts417-bendikgiske

Oslo this weekend: Kim Hiorthøy + Andy Stott and Carmen Villain + DJ Python at BLÅ!
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1190327298283062

The new Deathprod album "Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth" is out now!

LP, CD and digital all available through Bandcamp: https://deathprod.bandcamp.com/album/sow-your-gold-in-the-white-foliated-earth

Two years of Kelly Lee Owens' Inner Song today!

"Kelly Lee Owens has made one of the most beautiful records of the year."
- 5/5***** NME

Back in stock on LP/CD now through our Bandcamp store: https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/album/inner-song

On this day two yrs ago INNER SONG was released! I’ve been blown away by how deeply you’ve all connected with this album 💜 it’s a very special body of work for me. One that captures immense periods of loss, beauty & the re-wilding of self. Love, x

Kelly Lee Owens' "LP.8" is out now!
"This thing she’s made with Marhaug is unafraid and untethered and honest. It is by far her best record, and it seems to me it’s about as good as records get." - Bernie Brooks for The Quietus

Listen and preorder vinyl: https://kellyleeowens.ffm.to/lp-8

Thanks to Pitchfork for including Carmen Villain's "Only Love From Now On" in their "26 Great Records You May Have Missed: Winter 2022" write-up!

Eric Torres calls it "a rich sensory experience, where acoustic instrumentation meets painterly electronics and ambient textures in one seamless blend."

26 Great Records You May Have Missed: Winter 2022 The best under-the-radar finds in hip-hop, rock, ambient, and more

Kelly Lee Owens' third album LP.8 is out April 29th! So, so stoked about this one.
Pre-order here: https://kellyleeowens.ffm.to/lp-8

Announcing LP.8 - out April 29th 2022

Co-written and co-produced with Lasse Marhaug
Mixed by Cherif Hashizume
Mastered by Beau Thomas

Artwork shot by Josie Hall and her incredible team

Pre-orders available via https://kellyleeowens.ffm.to/lp-8

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Set Design: .lee
Photography Assistants: Sinclair Jaspard Mandy, Fred Hare
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Happy 5th anniversary to Kelly Lee Owens' debut album, released on this day in 2017!

Carmen Villain's Only Love From Now On is out now!

Listen here: https://ffm.to/carmenvillain_onlylovefromnowon
People of Oslo: make sure to catch her release party tonight at BLÅ: https://www.blaaoslo.no/arrangementer/carmen-villain/

Carmen Villain live right now on NTS Radio. Tune in at https://www.nts.live to listen!

Her fourth album Only Love From Now On is out this Friday!

Guest show Wednesday at 12pm CET on NTS Radio 💙 celebrating the new album with some live flute overdubs by Johanna Scheie Orellana, upcoming remixes, some singing (!) ++ Tune in - NTS2 - https://www.nts.live

Carmen Villain's new single "Subtle Bodies" is out now! You can listen to it here: https://ffm.to/carmenvillain-subtlebodies

The full album "Only Love From Now On" drops on Feb 25th. The album is the culmination of a build-up that began with a turn in sound evident on 2019’s Both Lines Will Be Blue, and presents Villain’s aesthetic blossoming into something unexpected.

Photo by Signe Luksengard

Thanks to The New York Times' Jon Pareles for highlighting Carmen Villain's new single "Gestures"!

"This meditative but constantly changing instrumental begins with the assembly of a steady-state percussion pattern on bells and hand drums. It’s joined by the trumpeter Arve Henriken, improvising a solo that’s backed by loops and washes of his harmonized, electronically warped trumpet."

Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs Hear tracks by Alice Glass, Jean Dawson and Mac DeMarco, Girlpool and others.

Perila's "How Much Time It Is Between You And Me?" and Lost Girls' "Menneskekollektivet" are both featured in Pitchfork's "Best Electronic Music of 2021"!

The Best Electronic Music of 2021 From SHERELLE’s breakneck breakbeats to Equiknoxx’s surrealistic dancehall, and from aya’s dissociative club fugues to Space Afrika’s mournful ambient, these are the electronic releases that made our year.

Carmen Villain's fourth album "Only Love From Now On" will be out February 25th 2022!

Read more at Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/news/76509
Listen to first single "Gestures" with Arve Henriksen of Supersilent Official here: https://ffm.to/carmenvillain-gestures
Photo by Signe Luksengard

A great review in The Times and The Sunday Times of Kelly Lee Owens Brixton show last week:
"At her biggest headline show in the capital to date, she radiated euphoric relief, offering gushingly grateful thanks to the packed crowd."

Kelly Lee Owens review — the Welsh techno-pop star gets the festive season started ★★★★☆Joyous release was much in evidence, on stage and off, when Kelly Lee Owens played her first indoor London date in more than two years. Since releasing one

Thanks to everyone who have been coming out for Kelly Lee Owens' shows in the UK and Ireland the past weeks! Today, the last show of the tour takes place at a sold out EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) in London.

We currently have LP represses for both of Kelly's albums in the works, due to ship in February 2022. Get your copies now at our Bandcamp – complete with a 20% discount if you use the code "smalltown2021"!
https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/

The past few months of touring have been some of the best moments of my life.. Connecting with people who love the music & who feel a deep sense of community within that space - there’s nothing like it!

I’ve given everything in my performances - all my energy and all my love - I feel like I’m in service to you. People have been telling me how much they’ve needed these moments of communion. Me too.
The last show this side of the pond is tonight at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) and has been sold out for 6 months.
Let’s dance, cry and sing together.

Love,
Kelly

Custom dress by Tara Hakin