Cuckundoo Records

Vessels are currently in Dallas, Texas, recording their second album with John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky, St Vincent, Baroness). The band are writing a diary of their exploits as they make the follow up to 2008’s White Fields and Open Devices. You can keep up to date with the band’s words and pictures here:
http://vesselsband.com
http://twitter.com/vesselsband

Meanwhile, the Leeds five-piece have also announced a clutch of dates with fellow noisy Loiners These Monsters this July. This will be an early opportunity to hear tracks from the as yet untitled second album by Vessels and to hear music from These Monsters’ debut Call Me Dragon, which came out earlier this year. See all the band’s shows below.

Friday 9 July - Brudenell Social Club, LEEDS (with These Monsters)
Saturday 10 July - The Zuu Bar, BRADFORD (with These Monsters)
Monday 12 July - The Lexington, LONDON (with These Monsters)
Tuesday 13 July - The Freebutt, BRIGHTON (with These Monsters)
Wednesday 14 July - The Croft, BRISTOL (with These Monsters)
Thursday 15 July - Play, READING (w/ A Genuine Freakshow and Talons)
Saturday 17 July - 2000 Trees Festival, CHELTENHAM

http://myspace.com/vesselsband
http://facebook.com/vesselsband
http://youtube.com/cuckundoo

Quack Quack’s debut album Slow As An Eyeball was released this week and the band have announced a handful of new shows including a fundraiser for Leeds listings guide Cops and Robbers and an appearance at the rescheduled Fell Foot Sound festival.

The gigs:
Saturday 12 June - Rock & Roll Circus, LEEDS (with Pifco & Quip) NB facebook invite only
Saturday 26 June - The Cube, BRISTOL (with Nitkowski and The Wailingest Cats)
Friday 9 July - Sewing Room Bar, Playhouse, BRADFORD (with Executive Legs)
Friday 10 September - Fell Foot Sound Festival, ULVERSTON (with Bo Ningen, Juffage, Plank! and That Fucking Tank)
Saturday 25 September - North Finchley Arts Depot, LONDON

On Slow As An Eyeball:

“This Leeds band rock, they swoon, they hypnotise. In my parallel universe, Slow As An Eyeball goes in at No. 1. It’s a thing of spellbinding, powerful beauty”
John Kennedy, XFM/Dazed & Confused

“Good grief, Slow As An Eyeball is fun…. The sort of immediate, raw and inescapable joy that leaps out of the speakers to demand smiles, dance action and increased volume all at the same time.”
All About Jazz

“Quack Quack is crafting some of the finest instrumental music since Tortoise’s Millions Now Living Will Never Die. Seriously…. Slow As An Eyeball is one of the finest recordings to come out this year – one that offers hope and promise for the future of instrumental rock music”
8/10 The Silent Ballet

“Rhythmically minded in the extreme, they have the chops to conjure hooky splendour”
Rock Sound

“Kraut-prog craziness… stunning musicianship”
Rock-A-Rolla

“Porn for people who hum…”
Cokemachineglow

“Fans of innovative sounds and killer rhythms should make this a must hear”
5/5 Album Of The Fortnight Leeds Guide

7.77 Lodown Magazine

“The album does pack quite a wallop”
The 405

“It’s the ghost of Ron Pickering, calling you across the the ages to a shared childhood that never was”
Vibrations

Buy the album here. Of course you can find the album in the best indie record shops and online at the usual places…