Clone Quartet have released their ace, electronic second coming 'Broken Spectre' in Japan on TETO Records. Find out more info at their blog page HERE.

The release features twelve all new tracks:

1. Cloak & Dagger
2. Meet The Team
3. Juggernaut Part 1
4. Juggernaut Part 2
5. The Operator
6. Time To Tell
7. Lost (Wires Crossed)
8. Rough Diamond
9. That's What's Goin' On
10. Can't Stop
11. Ammonite 2000
12. High Hopes (Japanese Bonus Track)

Check out Steven Quinn's amazing retro-futuristic video for 'That's What's Goin' On' here:

Clone Quartet — That's What's Goin' On from Teto Records on Vimeo.

Gum Takes Tooth will be appearing at Glastonbury Festival this week, with two official slots at the following times:

Friday night @ Dog Faced Geisha Stage (1am)
Sunday night @ Dog Faced Geisha Stage (1.30am)

If that's not exciting enough (and for any Londoners who are too poor to attend), the trio will be putting on a special single launch party at the Korsan Bar on Kingsland Road on Saturday 3rd July. Details below:

LIVE:

GUM TAKES TOOTH (double drum kit acid-grind), LADYSCRAPER (Breakcore), DETHSCALATOR (Neanderthal grunge), COMPANY FUCK (noise karaoke), LESS CROÛTON JONEZ (sound sculpture short circuit grooves), OMMM (deft electronica), SUNDAY MOURNING (acoustic brooding), CLUB CLUB (no-fi R'n'B)

DJs:

Club Pacific DJs & Mystic Rock (horror/space disco), Leather Sphinx (booty, Detroit), Love's True Flavour/Wifey (2 step innit!), Lucy Red/Illegal Seagull (party anathema), Bad Guys (cock rock), The Baron Liam Slack (weird world), Sanna Charles & Nina Circle Pit (rock cock)

YES!! - celebrating Gum Takes Tooth's debut release Young Mustard/Lofty Thatch on Adaadat Records with an ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT BLOW OUT with live performances from seven amazing bands and partying hardy till dawn.

BBQ from 3pm in large covered outdoor garden. Bands 6pm-11pm. GET THERE EARLY. All bands are totally rad.

3rd July at KORSAN BAR 161-165 Kingsland Road, Old Street, London, E2 8AL

3PM till 6AM £5 all night

The second album from London-based noise-mongers Applicants hit the shops today! 'Escape From Kraken Castle' is available on CD and also digitally and features 12 spangly new tracks, including forthcoming single 'Evelyn Waugh'.

As we're in a celebratory mood, we're giving away a free taster in the form of the rather smashing 'Robert Mugabe'. Download away guilt-free by clicking on his name there.

The press have had these nice things to say about the album:

""We can't help but think, just maybe, they might just be total bona fide geniuses." - 8/10 - NME

"It's abrasive, it's energetic and there are plenty of choruses to shout along to" - ROCK SOUND

"Applicants dredge influences from colourful surrealist noise rockers Melt-Banana to GameBoy noises and moustachioed African dictators" - 7/10 - LOUD & QUIET

Upcoming live shows:

14th Jun @ Alchemy, WOLVERHAMPTON
29th Jun @ The Old Blue Last, LONDON
8th Aug @ A Boat on the Thames, LONDON

Applicants celebrate the release of their most spiffy second album 'Escape From Kraken Castle' tomorrow (Friday 4th June) at Buffalo Bar in Highbury. They're on at 9pm, so come down early and stick around for Indieokie action (featuring Fidel) at Mutton Club, which will also be lots and lots of fun.

The lovely folks at NME have just awarded the album 8/10, saying "We can't help but think, just maybe, they might just be total bona fide geniuses."

You can stream the whole album here on the Tigertrap website by clicking the Applicants link and pre-order the CD from our spangly new online store.

London noiseniks Applicants release 'Escape From Kraken Castle' through Tigertrap Records on 7th June 2010 on CD and digital formats. It is now available to pre-order in our online store.

This second album expands on debut ‘Life In The Bus Lane’, adding live drummer Adam Boult and ratcheting up the volume levels yet another gear. Rammed with pop hooks to irritate indier-than-thou hipsters and eardrum-blitzing noise to terrify the pop kids, ‘Escape From Kraken Castle’ is an unrelenting, unapologetic punk rock tour de force that laughs in the face of musical etiquette. The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Schoolchildren Of Japan
2. Evelyn Waugh
3. Cold War In Reverse
4. Tesco Metro Disco
5. Crash Mat
6. Robert Mugabe
7. They Wrote Gone Fishing On His Grave
8. Obey eBay
9. Since Porn Took Over The World
10. Treble 20
11. The Darien
12. Packing Up

You can stream the whole album at SoundCloud now. We've had a couple of reviews in so far, so here's what folks have been saying:

"It's abrasive, it's energetic and there are plenty of choruses to shout along to" - ROCK SOUND

"Applicants dredge influences from colourful surrealist noise rockers Melt-Banana to GameBoy noises and moustachioed African dictators" - 7/10 - LOUD & QUIET

Go see them at one of these upcoming dates:

28th May @ Ryan's Bar, LONDON
29th May @ The Windmill, LONDON (Brainlove Records Alldayer)
4th Jun @ Buffalo Bar, LONDON (Album Launch Party!)
14th Jun @ Alchemy, WOLVERHAMPTON
10th Jul @ Buffalo Bar, LONDON
8th Aug @ A Boat on the Thames, LONDON