Some new stuff from a couple of China’s most well-known indie rock acts is floating around the interwebs and well worth a listen.
PK 14’s first album in five years, 1984 is up and streaming on Bandcamp and Douban. Recorded at the legendary Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, the album was engineered by Steve Albini and produced by longtime PK 14 collaborator Henrik Oja. The band goes off on an exhaustive national tour at the end of August.
PK 14, “Crazed Woman”
Carsick Cars uploaded a new track to their Douban site at the end of July. After only intermittent performances for the past 18 months, Maybe Mars has announced that a new CSC album is forthcoming in “late 2013” and just released the dates for a 12-city Mainland tour.
Shanghai duo Pairs released new EP Your feet touch ground, a carousel at the end of July as well, made using “a computer, a dictaphone, a smashed up iTouch, a Samsung laptop, a microphone and a guitar amp.” The new album is drum-free, synthy, sampl-y, and wholly different from any of Pairs’ previous output. We dig.
Pairs “Vatican colours”