Fantastic live performance of Black Wood Crimson by TalkDemonic! #justbecause

Above Them – Are We A Danger To Ourselves CD (+ shirt) preorder

2nd full length from loveable Yorkshire lads, Above Them. If you’ve heard their 2009 album ‘Blueprint For A Better Time’ you’ll know just what to expect – super catchy, anthemic, British sounding punk rock. Recorded recorded in Nottingham last year with Paul Yeadon(Bivouac/Wireless Stores) and Johnny Carter (Pitchshifter).

CD comes packaged in a 6 panel card digifile with artwork and photography from Jamie Morrison (of The Arteries / Ssssnakes fame).

Also available with a white Hanes ‘Comfortsoft’ 100% organic cotton shirts, available in men’s S-XL.

And as usual all preorders will automatically get a download link with mp3s for the entire record, so no waiting around before you can check it out.

***THIS IS A PRE-ORDER, EVERYTHING WILL BE POSTED OUT LATE FEB, AHEAD OF THE FEB 27TH RELEASE DATE!***

!!!!Pre-Order Here!!!!

The excellent PUNKTASTIC is offering the chance to win the brand new Above Them album- ‘are we a danger to ourselves?’ – plus some free official band merch.

Here’s the deal….

“The title explains it all! Our wonderful music player on the right hand side of your browser window contains a brand new song from ABOVE THEM called ‘Step Back, Release’, taken from forthcoming album ‘Are We A Danger To Ourselves?’.

As a Brucie bonus, you can download the track for free from http://soundcloud.com/punktastic/above-them-step-back-release.

If you’d like to win some ABOVE THEM “swag”, including a copy of the album and a bit of merch, do one of the following:

Head to http://www.facebook.com/punktasticdotcom, make sure you like the page, and post “Give me free Above Them stuff”.

or

Follow us on Twitter (@punktastic) and send a tweet saying ‘Give me free Above Them stuff @punktastic’”

Above Them now have their first official website. The site designed and bulit by Rob from Loss Leader is a nifty little tool that draws all the best elements of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook and keeps them all neat and tidy in one place.

Above Them have added the lead track from album ‘are we a danger to ourselves?’ to kick off the site. Head to AboveThem.net to take a listen to ‘A New Year’ now.

John Kennedy over at XFM gave the first play of a track (A New Year) from the new Above Them full length, ‘are we a danger to ourselves?’ last night. John, who is always a fine supporter of new music can be heard plugging Above Them and Attack Vipers, who are both on Specialist Subject Records.

Listen in here at around 2:08hrs: XFM

The long awaited second album from West Yorkshire’s Above Them will be out this coming February. The record, entitled ‘are we a danger to ourselves?’ will be simultaneously released on the 27th by Specialist Subject Records (UK) Yo-Yo Records (Germany) and Kiss of Death (US). The record see’s the bands first release as a newly expanded four piece, with the addition of Leagues Apart guitarist Adam Bilboa; Above Them brandish a new luxuriously full sound that only adds to the already incendiary and intense live show. We predict big things for the band in 2012…

Fantastic track from our Northern friends…

During the first couple of songs of Black Shark, you might not notice anything different from Durham’s Hammer No More The Fingers. Granted, the second album from the kinetic trio doesn’t come out swinging like their debut, Looking For Bruce, did with that “Automobiles” and “Shutterbug” one-two punch. Instead, “Atlas of an Eye” and “The Agency” bob and weave, carefully choosing when to turn up the volume and rock out. Still, the group’s off-kilter sense of humor and melodic smarts are just as present here as on older Hammer offerings. The group even brings back noted producer/ former Jawbox and Burning Airlines frontman J. Robbins to turn the knobs and slide the faders. Same as it ever was, fitting enough for a band often typecast for its ’90s nostalgia impulses.

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Deleted Scenes transmit a fun racket out from their native DC, and Alice Cohen pieces together some of the more inventive and frenetic video collages being made for most any kind of racket, though she’s done a particularly good job of repping local DC folks. For “Baltika 9″, Cohen channels the track’s sleazy swinger organ hooks and splays 60s pinups and bottles of booze against psychedelic stars and Monty Python visions of the National Mall-as-field-of-blooming-mushrooms.

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