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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – The Bros. Landreth

The Bros. Landreth
Let It Be

Release Date:
8 June 2015

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“Leave it to a group of Canadians to dish up some of the best Southern-style blues we wolfed down all weekend. … a quiet storm of slide guitar solos, blue notes, three-part harmonies …”. 
Rolling Stone: 20 Best Things We Saw at Americana Music Fest 2014

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Anchored by the bluesy wail of electric guitars, the swell of B3 organ, and the har- monized swoon of two voices that were born to mesh. At first listen, you might call it Americana. Dig deeper, though, and you’ll hear the nuances that separate The Bros. Landreth — whose members didn’t grow up in the American south, but rather the iso- lated prairie city of Winnipeg, Manitoba — from their folksy friends in the Lower 48.

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Van Hunt

 

Van Hunt
The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets 

Release Date:
18 May 2015

This album is intimate, raw, and funky. It is the history of black American music filtered through modern technology. Full of African rhythms, blues, and funk, it also has contem- porary components often found in the music of St. Vincent, James Blake, Dev Hynes, and FKA Twigs.

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“The Fun Rises” represents the gritty side of the album, and “The Fun Sets” is the softer side of things. Headroom and If I Wanna Dance With You, both heavy piano ballads, have a vocal urgency reminiscent of modern hip-hop and R&B, while the orchestrations are pure early 70‘s Philadelphia soul. There are also French For Cloud (cstbu), a pure funk and soul track, and Vega (stripes on), which features the jangly guitars from Howlin’ Wolf records and closes with a short rhyme reminiscent of early Rae Kwon (Wu Tang Klan).

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Turbo Fruit

Turbo Fruit
No Control

Release Date:
20 April 2015

Emerging from a cloud of pot smoke as teenagers in 2007, Turbo Fruits have made their name with notoriously wild live shows and frenetic rock songs about girls, drugs and frying their brains. Their 4th and most self-aware album, No Control, still covers familiar themes but with a notably different perspective and remarkably strong songwriting. No Control arrives April 21st, 2015 as a co- release between their own label, Turbo Time, and Melvin Records/Thirty Tigers.
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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – St Paul & The Broken bones

 

St Paul & The Broken Bones
Live From The Alabama Theater

Release Date:
18 April 2015

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“A promising Muscle Shoals made debut. Blue eyed soul with a gritty bite.”
MOJO

“Old school soul with a perfect pedigree”
The Guardian

“A fusion of pulsating soul music and honest to goodness song writing, delivered with a passionate near religious fervour.”
Clash

“Best Soul Band”
Rolling Stones

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Scott Matthews

 

Scott Matthews
Mona (Birthday Mix)

Release Date:
30th March 2015

“Raw, beautiful and unrelenting” Wonderland

“A classy and original performer” Guardian

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Second single from the amazing 4th Album from Scott Matthews Home Part 1.

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Home part 1’, Scott Matthews’s fourth record, features eleven beautiful and personal tracks, following  the wonderful radio favourite ‘Sunlight’ Now comes the captivating new track ‘Mona’, which Scott remixed on his Birthday hence the title.  The Album was recorded at home in his custom made studio, the album was called a “gem” by the Daily Mail and “a beautifully produced acoustic melancholic collection” by the Sun, who both awarded it four stars.

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield

 

Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield
Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield sings Elliott Smith

Release Date:
16 March 2015

This record is an overall truth between two friends and, as is true with any covers-based album of quality, comes from a place of true admiration.  The album, produced by Seth Avett and recorded over the last three years at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC as well as at Avett’s and Mayfield’s homes, covers twelve Elliott Smith songs;
Both artists are currently known for their contributions to the indie folk rock landscape. The recordings are, in many cases, defined by bare instrumentation, driven by a simple yet bold vocal delivery, the depth of feeling complimenting that of the subject matter. This album is an obvious labour of love; a comment based on the genuine reverence which Avett and Mayfield clearly hold for Smith. At times, the songs feel light as a feather, while in others, thematically leaden with heartache, they are given a deep breath, a different dimension, a new colour. In modern fashion, melodies intensely whispered by Elliott Smith are sung in a harmonious way, akin to the folk aesthetic of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.
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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – The McCrary Sisters

 

 

The McCrary Sisters
Let’s Go

Release Date:
09 March 2015

The McCrary Sisters (Ann, Deborah, Regina and Alfreda) are the daughters of the late Rev. Samuel McCrary—one of the original members of the legendary gospel quartet The Fairfield Four. The daughters were raised in harmony, singing at home and at their father’s church, but word soon spread of their individual accomplished voices and each began sharing the family vocal legacy as solo artists with a wide range of performers to include Bob Dylan, Elvis, Isaac Hayes and Stevie Wonder.
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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – The Fairfiled Four

 

The Fairfield Four
Still Rockin’ My Soul

Release Date:
09 March 2015

Started in 1921 in the basement of The Fairfield Baptist Church in Nashville, TN, the group won a promotional contest that gave them a daily appearance on a national radio show for a decade. When radio died out, the fortunes of the group waned, but in a comeback in the 90’s, The Fairfield Four received numerous honors including two Grammy awards, a National Heritage Award, and an introduction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. This resurgence of support and recognition led to an appearance in the major motion picture and the corresponding soundtrack, “O Brother Where Art Thou”, awarding the group Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002.
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Bombadil: Scattered By Fate, A Band Regroups And Rebuilds (NPR) – ‘Tarpits and Canyonlands’ Out 24th June 2014

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In both digital and double vinyl formats

Remastered from the original analog tapes direct to 24/96 at 45rpm, producing the highest sound quality possible bringing out the warmth and intimacy of Bombadil’s whimsical arrangements and studio production like never heard before.

Custom triple jacket gatefold with string closure includes 14 art prints by American illustrator Robbi Behr of Idiots’ Books for each of the album’s songs.

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Bombadil’s last album was almost its swan song. The quartet of singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists – Stuart Robinson, Daniel Michalak, Bryan Rahija and James Phillips recorded All That the Rain Promises in ten days, while living in a barn in Oregon. The barn was so cold, they had to warm their hands by a wood-burning stove between takes. The album’s sparkling blend of folk, rock and gentle psychedlia earned rave reviews, but Michalak’s continuing hand problems made the future look grim. He¹d developed a case of neural tension that made playing and driving painful.  They toured sporadically and weren’t sure about the future of the band.

Just prior to the original 2009 CD release, Tarpits and Canyonlands was receiving absolute rave notices from press that concurred that this was the band’s breakthrough album. It was only their second record, but they were already soaking in some very heady accolades.

But then, everything fell apart. The band’s Daniel Michalak, considered Bombadil’s main driving force, was diagnosed with neural tension, an ailment that caused such debilitating pain and incapacitation, he couldn’t play keyboards, bass, harmonica, guitar or ukulele. Consequently, Bombadil couldn’t tour, an essential component in the promotion of the album. So, despite all of the tremendous early reviews, the buzz, and the forecasting of a great success, Tarpits and Canyonlands was essentially stillborn.

OK, that’s the strange and sad part of the story; now here’s the triumphant part:

After five years of visiting every kind of doctor imaginable and ingesting every form of medication, Michalak saw improvement.

Fast-forward to 2012. Bombadil launched its first U.S. tour in five years with Michalak, who is on the road, playing shows and doing great.

Now it’s time for Tarpits and Canyonlands to be given a second chance at life.

With an album that is “loaded with charm, playfulness and an unpredictable bent that keeps every song interesting,” it deserves a wider audience. Bombadil is set to tour for the bulk of 2014, so they’ll be able to give this magical album the support it initially deserved, and people will have the opportunity to hear what one writer called “a breakthrough and breakaway from a band whose ideas, enthusiasm, abilities and emotions have finally found their nexus.”

Watch Bombadil’s amazing video for ‘So Many Ways to Die’ which is taken from the album here:

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For further information about Bombadil, please email:
sara@thirtytigers.com
+44 208 265 0772
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