Plutonic Rainbows

Stephen King & Owen King - Sleeping Beauties

New book due on 26th September 2017.

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place...

The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?

Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.

Pre-order here.

Bola - D.E.G

Without doubt this is perhaps my most anticipated album of the year. The last release from Bola was back in 2007. There is no news right now except for SKAM having posted a tweet regarding the release date of May 5th.

Update: It's now 26th May.

Jon Brooks - Autres Directions

Pre-orders are open now for the vinyl edition. No idea if this will get a CD release too but I imagine there will be digital downloads in some form, probably Bandcamp.

Clark - Death Peak

Clark's new album, Death Peak for Warp Records is a thunderous progression of drums and keyboards, with sweeping grandeur and oddly uplifting melodies. It's one of his best in some time and a stark contrast to his 2013 album, Iradelphic. It feels like a work of clever programming and yet it never feels like the work of machines. For Clark fans, this will be an instant buy. For everyone else, it's a good place to start.

Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata

Their first new album in ten years, released on the Berlin-based System Leisure label. The style harkens back a little to the 1980s output from Peter Mergener and Michael Weisser and their band, Software. Some tracks heavily remind me of Software Visions from 1988. Dopplereffekt have created an intriguing blend of sounds that you will want to return to again and again.