Our recent recommendations for Cafe Kino
Call in sick! Enduring local tendershredders Toodles and the Hectic Pity release a long-awaited new EP into the wild! Their hard-hitting emo/folk/punk anthems are joined in Kino basement revelry by New Jerseyan power-indie singer-songwriter Long Neck and noodling Oxford emo rockers Spank Hair – all the feels for lovers of: The Mountain Goats, Joyce Manor, Tigers Jaw, AJJ, Crywank.
Toodles & The Hectic Pity, Spank Hair & Long Neck at Cafe Kino.
An immaculately curated night of beauty and savagery! Screamo ascendants incaseyouleave oscilate between delicate melodicism and hair-raising violence, with transcendent support from Mountain Peaks’ tortured spoken-word death rattles and Gilded Cage’s menacing emo-doom eruptions. Mandatory pain purging FFO: La Dispute, Kumnears, I Hate Myself, Touche Amore.
Incaseyouleave, Mountain Peaks & Gilded Cage at Cafe Kino.
Fffffeeeeedback, deep resonance and live improvisation from four obscure sonic alchemists. Seth Cooke and Tina Hitchens present deep listening works of live electronics, weaving together delicate flute tapestries, field recordings and environmental sound. Joining the trip: Will Frampton and Pablo Jimenez-Moreno’s architectural drone dreamscapes. Tip!
Seth Cooke+Tina Hitchens//Will Frampton+Pablo JimenezMoreno//Louie Newlands at Cafe Kino.
Harsh noise hump day, the Eggy way. Lo what fresh combinations of analogue destruction – Romxn’s spoken word industrial disintegration, Puddle Brain’s dark ambient feedback tunnels, Prior’s haunting death industrial and paint-stripping power drone. Savage, yet approachable sonics FFO: Ramleh, Puce Mary, the hum at the back of the fridge, Hospital Productions etc etc.
ROMXN / PRIOR / PUDDLE BRAIN / CAVEPAINTING at Cafe Kino.
Up-n-coming bedroom pop to soundtrack your sadboi spring! Dandelion’s stripped-back, heart-on-sleeve confessionals sound like a hushed collab between Christian Lee Hutson, The Sundays and Snail Mail – slow-burn storytelling gorgeousness guaranteed.
Dandelion at Cafe Kino.