#able noise

Big ups to @lena_kemmler for this poster, a piece of design which successfully conveys that Able Noise (World Of Echo, NL/GR) and dogg sneeze (Berlin, first show!) are playing at WestGermany on July 8.

Presented alongside Hose shows.

Here at Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we like to get to the heart of what an artist is all about. We feel that what influences them is just as important as the music they make. With that in mind, off the back of releasing their debut EP ‘New Assumptions…’ (out now via Collapsing Drums Records), Bristolian outfit Ex Agent talk us through a number of influences. Take it away, Ex Agent… Words: Andy…

Able Noise, cross-continental duo of George Knegtel and Alex Andropoulos, were originally a live and mostly improvisational arty rock outfit; debut studio recording High Tide has plenty of echoes of that, jazzily spare in its empty spaces and temporally liberated in its stretches and compresses. It’s intriguing enough, but also sounds like it would be far, far more gripping live.

Live Review: Caroline at Soup in Manchester 4 April 2022

Words: Constance Witham ‘Post-rock’ does caroline the band a disservice. The group’s primal aesthetic, dressed in layers of earthtones of amber, russet, grey, black and white, and their reliance on stringed instruments and percussion demonstrates a band out of time. Soaring and sonorous vocals hark back to an ancient tradition of acoustic song-forms. The whirling dervish of sound played out for…