Newsround :: Featuring The Sadies, David Holmes, Woods & Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

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Aren’t these morning Newsround pieces fun! Something to read over your morning cuppa and toast…

First up, The Sadies have announced plans to release a new album via Yep Roc in May. Entitled Darker Circles, it’s the follow-up to their acclaimed last album New Seasons and sees guitarist brothers Dallas and Travis Good, drummer Mike Belitsky and bassist Sean Dean again pair with legendary Jayhawk and sought-after producer Gary Louris. The album was recorded in one marathon twelve day session at the ‘Bathhouse’ studio and five more at Toronto’s Woodshed.

On a less Americana note, David Holmes is set to release The Dogs Are Parading on 26th April, a best of that takes you on a journey through the last two decades of his output. It features, the now prerequiste new songs; The Girlfriend Experience, Your On Fire (Too Fat) and The Lower Orders. The collection was lovingly compiled, sequenced and edited by the man himself, and here’s the tracklisting:

DISC ONE
The Girlfriend Experience
I Heard Wonders
My Mate Paul
Rodney Yates
Holy Pictures
Jackson Johnson
Hey Lisa
69 Police
Sugar Man
Living Room
(I Wish I Had A) Wooden Heart
Gritty Shaker
Don’t Die Just Yet
Theme IMC
Gone
The Ballad Of Sarah And Jack

DISC 2
The Ballad Of Sarah And Jack (Geese Remix)
Don’t Die Just Yet (Holiday Girl Arab Strap Remix)
I Heard Wonders (Weatherall Vocal Remix)
Living Room (Kevin Shields Remix)
My Mate Paul (Major Force Remix)
Little Short One
Head Rush On Lafayette (Fridge Mix)
Your On Fire (Too Fat)
The Lower Orders
Gone (Alter Ego Decoding Part 1)
Don’t Die Just Yet (Mogwai Mix)
Smoked Oak
The Die Hard Rationalist
Return Of The Night Farmers (Instrumental)*

On the horizon is a new lo-fi marvel from Woods. Their new EP will be limited to a pressing of 1500, the A-side is a 3 part tape collage/head scratcher called ‘Days Gone By’ and the B-side features the new easy breezy psych, ‘I Was Gone’ as well as the drugged out tribal child, ‘Hang On.’

I Was Gone EP track list
1. Days Gone By> Untitled > Days Gone By (continued)
2. I Was Gone
3. Hang On

The band are also set to release a new album At Echo Lake in the UK on 17th May via Woodsist.

The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster are a band with plenty of fight and they’re back. Armed with a new album Blood and Fire, it’s travelled via Russia, rehab, personnel upheaval, scraps and the searing heat of unquenchable souls on fire (so it says here…). The album is due on the 17th May and the band will be playing at two festivals in that month; the Camden Crawl (May 2nd) and The Great Escape (May 13th) and have just announced a much anticipated London headline show at the Relentless Garage on June 3rd.