The Proper Ornaments - Mission Bells9 months since the release of 'Six Lenins', THE PROPER ORNAMENTS are back with 'Mission Bells', a sombre but uplifting record that began its life while they were on tour earlier this year, when new ideas emerged in different soundchecks around Europe. As the 'Mission Bells' sing, echoes of black albums Velvets, Swell Maps, Spiritualized and Cluster might reach inside your brain, but the truth is that it's hard to pinpoint influences on an album that

Causas Y Azares

Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography

performed as the backbone of Yoko Ono’s reformed Plastic Ono Band

Germany and travelled to Melbourne to work with RVG

a rhythm section adept at skewed tempos and a tendency to veer off in unexpected directions

the pulsing sway of the vibrato & the ecstatic chord resolves

The preceding years have been extraordinary for Ryley Walker

when you‰۪ve got a job this big

with dates supporting Antibalas and Fu Manchu as well as a headlining trek through the EU & UK

the band lovingly gives voice (all four voices) to lives lived on the edge: institutionalized children (“Mini Was a Preteen Arsonist”)

and truly unique

with text by Paul Gilroy