MONGOL HORDE SELF-TITLED ALBUM OUT 26 MAY 2014 // PRE ORDER NOW // VIDEO FOR 'MAKE WAY'

MONGOL HORDE IS MORE THAN A BAND. MONGOL HORDE IS A MOVEMENT. MONGOL HORDE IS AN INVASION.

That's not actually true. Mongol Horde is a band. We don't really want to talk about it. So here's some answers to questions we imagine you might be itching to ask:

  1. London.
  2. From the Van Pelt song "We Are The Heathens".
  3. No.
  4. Kill the fucker, slowly, with a blunt knife.
  5. Yes. Tour dates in June coming soon, plus Reading and Leeds.
  6. Lots of stuff - Refused, Napalm Death, Converge, Hot Snakes, Kenny G, your mum.
  7. Yes.
  8. Why in the living fuck would we?
  9. Probably.
  10. Hello to all our fans in Mongolia. And your mum.

Listen to the music. Enjoy it, or don't. Stop fucking asking questions.

Mongol Horde release their debut album on 26th May 2014 through Xtra Mile Recordings.

Here’s a taster of what to expect - the video for opening track 'Make Way'.

Make way for the Mongol Horde. Debut album 'Mongol Horde' is out on 26th May 2014 through Xtra Mile Recordings. Pre-order album here: http://smarturl.it/MongolHorde-XM-Pre http://smarturl.it/MongolHorde-iTunes http://smarturl.it/MongolHorde-Amazon http://smarturl.it/MongolHorde-Banquet www.mongolhorde.co.uk www.facebook.com/mongolhordemusic https://twitter.com/Mongol_Horde Xtra Mile Recordings is a London-based record label home to the likes of Frank Turner, Against Me!, Cheap Girls, To Kill A King, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Reuben, Million Dead, Jamie Lenman & many more!

The album features the tracks ‘Casual Threats From Weekend Hardmen’, ‘How The Communists Ruined Christmas’ and ‘Blistering Blue Barnacles’. It will be available on CD, download and limited edition white vinyl. Vinyl out 16th June.

You can purchase it at the following retail outlets:

Xtra Mile Recordings

iTunes

Amazon

Banquet Records

www.mongolhorde.co.uk

GET YOUR SONG ON THE NEXT 'XTRA MILE HIGH CLUB' COMPILATION!

Xtra Mile Recordings is set to release the fifth Xtra Mile High Club compilation this summer, and are looking for your unsigned band to provide the final track to the collection.

Xtra Mile High Club Vol 5: Smokin' includes songs from almost every artist on the Xtra Mile roster and one unsigned track chosen by each band, adding up to 40+ songs for your listening pleasure. Further details about this digital release will be announced soon, but if you're an unsigned band and interested in being on this wonderful comp - which includes Frank Turner, Against Me!, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Chris T-T, To Kill A King, Beans On Toast, Rob Lynch and many more - do read on.

Yes! Xtra Mile is giving you the chance to get your best song on Xtra Mile High Club Vol 5: Smokin' by sending it to our team of experts who will choose their favourite entry for inclusion on the compilation.

How do you do that? Simply make sure you have a Soundcloud account, upload the track you think will win us over, and send the Soundcloud link to: competitions[at]xtramilerecordings[dot]com

You must get the track into us by Friday 23 May to be considered for inclusion and we will not accept emails with mp3s attached (these will be deleted as they clog up the inbox, sorry). It must be a Soundcloud link, please. All the best and we look forward to listening!

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - NEW VIDEO FOR 'AS ALWAYS' // 'ONLY RUN' OUT 2 JUNE

Pitchfork has premiered Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's video for 'As Always' from their fourth album, Only Run which is released on 2 June worldwide through Xtra Mile Recordings and self-released by the band on 3 June in North America. Watch the video and read up on tour dates here.

Following the success of Alec’s sold out UK/EU 'Living Room Tour' in May, which saw Alec perform solo at intimate and informal gigs in fans’ living rooms, plans are afoot to return to UK and Europe in October with the full band for a headline tour. More details to be announced.

Like the band's fateful first album, Only Run is an artist's singular vision. Once again, Alec Ounsworth crafted the songs himself before bringing them to the studio for completion and the album is further proof that CYHSY thrives because of a strong sense of identity.  

Fans can pre-order Only Run on iTunes now and receive the instant gratification track, 'Coming Down' or through Xtra Mile's shop for vinyl, CD or download.

XMR SINGLES SESSIONS BOX SET BONUS TRACKS (AND HOW TO GET THEM)

So, you've been lovely and clever enough to purchase the wonderful Xtra Mile Recordings Single Sessions vinyl box set and are enjoying the nine tracks from eight of our artists on four coloured slices of vinyl. Well done on being really good.

Well, this is the box set that keeps on giving. So you can also download 10 additional tracks - one from each of Xtra Mile's 10 years in action - for free!

XMR Single Sessions vinyl, all in a row. Look at the back of the sleeves for the code.

XMR Single Sessions vinyl, all in a row. Look at the back of the sleeves for the code.

To do this you'll need eyes, hands, a PC, an Xtra Mile Recordings digital shop account and the box set (or each of the four vinyl releases). 

First, put the singles in order - from five to eight - then look for the numerical code hidden on the back of each vinyl sleeve. Put the digits together and you have your code. Next, go to www.xtramilerecordings.com and sign into your shop account (or register if you don't have one). Once inside, go straight to the checkout and input the number into the 'Promotional Code' box.

Once you've pressed 'Apply', you should get a confirmation screen and then you can download the songs, which are:

2004 - Million Dead 'I Gave My Eyes To Stevie Wonder'
2005 - Reuben 'Kick in the Mouth'
2006 - Dartz! 'Fantastic Apparatus'
2007 - Jonah Matranga 'Not About a Girl or a Place'
2008 - Frank Turner 'I Knew Prufrock Before He Was Famous' [live from Shepherd's Bush Empire]
2009 - The Xcerts 'Crisis In the Slow Lane'
2010 - Straight Lines 'Versus the Allegiance'
2011 - I Am The Avalanche 'Brooklyn Dodgers'
2012 - future of the left 'Robocop 4 - Fuck Off Robocop'
2013 - Ben Marwood 'These Are the Days When You Can't Go Home'

Not only are they all ace, but they detail the breadth and history of Xtra Mile in its short decade of operation. And again, they're free so go grab 'em.

If you don't have the box set yet, you can get it in your local independent record store, or over at our digital shop. Thank you for your support and love!

OXYGEN THIEF NEW ALBUM 'THE HALF-LIFE OF FACTS' OUT 16 JUNE 2014

Oxygen Thief has announced the release of his debut long play chunk of ferocity entitled The Half-Life of Facts out 16th June 2014 through Xtra Mile Recordings. You can pre-order it on CD or download here or via iTunes here.

Following last year's mini-album Accidents Don't Happen, They Are Caused and March's five-track acoustic EP One Day This Will All Be Fields – three tracks of which get the gargantuan rock makeover here - Barry Dolan's first full-length full band, full throttle album is tight, unplugged songwriting as interpreted by demolition machinery. And new track 'Co(extra)ordinates' more then demonstrates this.

The Half-Life of Facts is twelve tracks of full-band flamethrower wit and wry cacophony, blanched in Barry Dolan's melodic suss and staccato delivery. Wordplay parries aggression and searing distortion fences with on-the-dime fits and starts, and the pace is one of hot pursuit. Barry's solo songs are fully realised with volume that competes with his vocal delivery and a studio polish that still refuses to sandpaper any rough edges.

From the maudlin acoustic tease of 'The Incredible Sulk', which combusts with complexity and anthemic glide, to the churning bombast of 'Lock Ness Monster Truck', The Half-Life of Facts douses the word 'potential' in petrol and sets it alight.

Tracklisting for The Half-Life of Facts:

1. The Incredible Sulk
2. Trial & Improvement
3. Too Many Trees
4. Hubristolian
5. Crowbars Up!
6. Vectors
7. Co(extra)ordinates
8. Self-Righting Mechanism
9.Con.script.shun
10. It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It
11. Loch Ness Monster Truck
12. Bench Press Your I.Q.

Catch Oxygen Thief live supporting InMe in May 2014. Dates are below:

MAY
09 Southampton @ Talking Heads
10 Plymouth @ White Rabbit
11 Bristol @ The Fleece
12 Birmingham @ The Flapper
13 Nottingham @ Rock City
14 Glasgow @ Audio
15 Sheffield @ Corporation
16 Manchester @ Sound Control
17 London @ Islington Academy

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ALGIERS RELEASE NEW SINGLE 'MILES AND MILES' OUT 9 JUNE 2014 // VIDEO GETS VEVO PREMIERE

Algiers are releasing 'Miles and Miles', their second single from debut album You're The Captain, on 9 June 2014. Released digitally, the single is backed with the brand new track ‘Dirty Monsters’.

Plucked from a record full of indelible melodic crescendos, 'Miles and Miles' represents the apex of their guitar-drums-vocals simplicity. Guitarist William K J Anderson and drummer John W Goodwin's voices soar over the glorious chiming racket, almost an uplifting herald for the summer with a tinge of regret for the end of spring.

A video accompanies the single -  nostalgic slow-motion training action in tasteful black and white – which is premièred on VEVO here.

Music video by Algiers performing Algiers - Miles & Miles of Rosary Beads.

Algiers are also embarking on a short but sturdy Scottish tour. Go see them:

MAY
28 Dundee @ Non Zeros
29 Glasgow @ 13th Note
30 Aberdeen @ Cellar 35
31 Arbroath @ TBA

Algiers started following a chance meeting in a bar. After realising who one another was, and big fans of the others' previous band - The Maple State (Goodwin) and Dartz! (Anderson) - one rehearsal together turned into four months of collaboration. A musical bond and partnership was born.

Not knowing any bass players who would fit, they settled on being a two-piece and with a common ground in their fondness for indie-rock bands such as Death Cab for Cutie, American Football, The Weakerthans and The Walkmen, they set about writing songs, focusing on standard pop-song formulas; relying more on melody and simpler structures than their previous bands. The result is a sound that’s both heady and visceral. A sound that feels weightless and timeless with wandering guitars and heart-on-sleeve vocals.

“‘Four Priests’…an indie-pop gem if there ever was one. Algiers are definitely one to watch.” Punktastic

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