The debut album by Bicycles With No Riders is released today. “Hold You Up To The Light” is Umair Chaudhry’s debut solo release featuring 11 acoustically based songs. For the most part the only instruments are acoustic guitar and voice, with the occasional backing instrument such as piano and electric guitar. The songs are deliberately sparse and minimalist, drawing on Umair’s primal instincts of tonality and melody.
Link to the release on Blindsight Records
Bicycles With No Riders is the new solo project of Umair Chaudhry (Abandon, Monday Morning Sun, Absence etc) and focuses more on stripped down, basic song writing than the multi-layered approach of his other projects.
“Hold You Up To The Light” is Umair’s debut solo release featuring 11 acoustically based songs. For the most part the only instruments are acoustic guitar and voice, with the occasional backing instrument such as piano and electric guitar. The songs are deliberately sparse and minimalist, drawing on Umair’s primal instincts of tonality and melody.
Release date: 2nd of December 2013, on Digital Download.
Listen to “Gone” taken from the album here:
The debut album by Abandon is now available on CD / Digital from Blindsight Records, Bandcamp, Amazon, iTunes and other retailers.
Abandon’s debut full-length is the culmination of 2 years’ writing and recording. Expanding on the sound of previous releases, the self-titled album features eight unreleased songs, each a separate meditation in sound. Within 65 minutes the songs traverse through contrasting shades of light and emotion, culminating in the celestial dirge of “White Summer”.
Track listing:
1. Wonder (4:22)
2. Flaws (6:45)
3. Constant Reminders (7:34)
4. A Hole That Can’t Be Filled (6:24)
5. Not For Who You Are (7:24)
6. A Dark Room Filled With Light (9:22)
7. Deep Within The Earth (9:22)
8. White Summer (13:33)
Link to purchase the album on CD / Digital on Blindsight Records
Abandon will be releasing it’s self-titled album on the 30th of September 2013. The album has been in the works for the past 2 years and will be the first recording to feature Simon Tierney on Guitar and Christopher Marshall on Bass. We will be playing one off shows to support the album including A Carefully Planned Festival in Manchester on the 20th of October followed by a tour later on in the year.
“Abandon” will contain 8 unreleased songs available on CD lancing pack and Digital Download, featuring the stunning hand painted artwork of Magali Melin. Here is the tracklisting:
1. Wonder (4:22)
2. Flaws (6:45)
3. Constant Reminders (7:34)
4. A Hole That Can’t Be Filled (6:24)
5. Not For Who You Are (7:24)
6. A Dark Room Filled With Light (9:21)
7. Deep Within The Earth (9:22)
8. White Summer (13:33)
We are giving away “A Dark Room Filled With Light” taken from the album, via Soundcloud below.
The first ever recording “Enron Ate My Baby” by experimental hardcore/ambient/post-metal band Xmas Lights is available as a donations-based release from today.
Xmas Lights were formed in Oxfordshire in early 2004 featuring ex-members of other Oxford bands Near Life Experience, Outofinto, Suffer The Fall & Vena Cava.
Taking in elements of metal, hardcore, electronica, and ambience Xmas Lights took their music to a whole new level through the sheer intensity of their live show, with band members often finding themselves scattered throughout the room or on the floor, while continuing to thrust their uncompromising musical salvo down people’s throats.
The new album by Monday Morning Sun is out now on digital. Listen/buy here (price £4).
Monday Morning Sun was formed in 2006 by two members of the Oxford hardcore experimentalists Xmas Lights. Taking their diverse influences the duo make music which meshes shades of light, emotion and drawn-out tension.
MMS was born from an admiration of psychedelic, ambient, dub, trip hop and mind-numbing guitar driven music, with lyrics pondering personal yet universal themes. Live drum loops are the backbone to a mixture of synths, sprawling guitars and the dual vocals of Umair and Marco.
This latest release expands on the dub/psychedelic/shoegaze blueprint of “The Usual Mile”, incoporating heavier beats and layers of synths/guitars.
As part of continuing upgrades to the site, all releases are now available in Apple Lossless format (M4a) as well as MP3 and FLAC.
We have many donations-based releases which are freely downloadable, along side our full-releases in a variety of physical/non-physical formats. Visit the new website here: www.blindsightrecords.co.uk
A new album by Monday Morning Sun called “Boundaries” will be released on July the 1st. It features 8 new songs, with the progressive dub/triphop/shoegaze style first developed on the first album “The Usual Mile”.
Release format will be digital download (MP3 / FLAC / Apple Lossless), price £4 minimum donation.
See below for album artwork, tracklisting and a preview of “Never Look Back” and downloadable “Near a Black Hole” from the album…
1. Worse Than a Murderer (9:23)
2. Never Look Back (8:38)
3. Too Close to Home (6:12)
4. Near a Black Hole (10:00)
5. No Sight / Change (7:26)
6. Boundaries (6:27)
7. The Quest (6:30)
8. Overshadow (7:01)
Preview tracks:
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