Bellman - New Single

Bellman have a gorgeous new single "The Curse" out in a couple of weeks. The track (the title track from the bands awesome 2011 album) comes with two new b-sides in the shape of a remix of "Sleep Forever" and a live version of "The Curse" recorded live and acoustic on the bands recent tour of Korea. 

Check it out here 

New CD Releases Coming Your Way

Digital singles and mp-whatnots are all very well and good but nothing for us gets us excited like getting PROPAH RECORDS like in our grubby little hands. As such we are super excited to announce not one but three new CD releases all of which will be available very shortly.

The first is a limited edition CD run of TWIN PINES MALL amazing new album “Sporting Event” which should batshit Norwegian hardcore be your thing, you will no doubt love. If you just cant wait you can listen to the album on bandcamp for now.

Second up we are super excited about the release of SLEDDING WITH TIGERS heartbreakingly cute ep “The Arrested Cats” (Which I think Im right in saying is the first CD release of the record – certainly outside of the States). The CD will also feature a sneaky bonus track in the form of a live rendition of 10:46.

And finally we are also prepping a new label Sampler (entitled “Norwanglish” for which we thank Synee Eileen) and features a veritable va-va-voom of awesome new music. Tracklisting below. In the meantime keep your eyes and ears peeled on Twitter / FB etc for more details over the coming days:

Tracklisting for Norwanglish:

Bellman – The Curse
Uno Moller – Silent Speakers
Synee Eileen & The Sunbeams – Cuckoo
Twin Pines Mall – Car Crash Hands
Mischa Non Penguin – Fear of Assault
Steffan Galler - Smile
Stylusboy – The Whole Picture
Sledding with Tigers – The Kids Will Be Alright, Eventually.
Sajama Cut – Paintings / Pantings
Sunturns – Season Cyclics

And finally our dear friend Mr Stylusboy releases a new remix mini album this weekend to coincide with Record Store Day. The seven track ep is frankly awesomesauce and you will be able to get hold of it from his bandcamp. In the meantime here is a little sneak peek preview:

Bellman Live at Alcopopalooza

Heres a great little video of Bellman performing the track "Hourglass" live at Alcopopalooza

Bellman: Hourglass (live at Alcopopalooza) from Lazy Acre Records on Vimeo.

You must have heard this by now:

Just...gorgeous... Buy it here.

Another awesome Bellman video

Another great little acoustic video from dear Bellman - recorded on the bands recent UK tour.

New VIMEO and TUMBLR channels

In a bid to get a little more "with it" (ie we dont have enough social media profiles to update) we have started a Vimeo page and a Tumblr page as well. Come follow us for more binary capers.

Among the videos on the Vimeo page is this rather cool little acoustic video that Bellman recorded for us on their recent UK tour:

Bellman - Celestine, Live in London from Lazy Acre Records on Vimeo.

Bellman - The Curse OUT NOW

So Bellmans new album THE CURSE is now available as either a digital download from the bandcamp page or via the webstore on CD. The CD version in particular we're pretty pleased with right now.

The guys have been on tour all week and have just added an extra date on Sunday 10th July at Bar Solo in Camden. You should go and see them. In other news Arne was interviewed on air for Inspiration FM and over here on The 405. Well worth a read. Look out for an interview on BBC Introducing in Northamptonshire next Friday as well. Between 6 and 7pm bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire.

Just remember: #thecurse

Bellman Pre Order

So you can now pre-order your copy of Bellmans new album THE CURSE through our bandcamp page. Anyone pre-ordering the CD copy will receive an immediate download of three tracks from the album and the full download link will be emailed to you on Monday morning while the CD makes its way out of Northamptonshire's lousy postal system.

Anyways - there is a stream of the album below but to order your CD copy of the record please head on over here.



In the meantime dont forget Bellman will be playing a string of dates next week in and around London - if you get chance come check them out here:

July 5th - The Enterprise, Chalk Farm, London
July 5th (thats right two shows in one day!) The Abbey Tavern, Kentish Town (semi acoustic set)
July 7th - The Finsbury, Manor House
July 8th - The North London Tavern, Kilburn
July 9th - Alcopopalooza, Brixton Windmill (w/ My First Tooth, Stagecoach and tons of other awesome bands)

Bellman - New Album and UK Dates for July

Following on from their recent brace of London shows, Larviks very own Bellman return to the UK for a string of shows in July to support their new album THE CURSE (which as it happens will be released July 4th on CD and digital download). The guys will be playing the following shows:

July 5th - The Enterprise, Chalk Farm, London
July 5th (thats right two shows in one day!) The Abbey Tavern, Kentish Town (semi acoustic set)
July 7th - The Finsbury, Manor House
July 8th - The North London Tavern, Kilburn
July 9th - Alcopopalooza, Brixton Windmill (w/ My First Tooth, Stagecoach and tons of other awesome bands)

There will be a couple of other shows to slot into that in the next day or so but in the meantime you can stream the album and preorder your CD copy right over here. Should you take the preorder option your download will be immediately mailed to you while the CD navigates its way out of Northamptons abysmal postal system.

Get a free Bellman MP3

So you can get hold a free mp3 of the track Gasoline by Bellman by clicking through this little link to post a message about the track to your twitter or facebook pages. The track is the first taste of the bands new album "The Curse" which will be released on CD and digital download on July 4th. Enjoy!

Click here for a free Bellman mp3

Acuvi Mixtape

So our friend on the blogvine; Eira @ Acuvi has just published her first mixtape on the excellent Acuvi website. The debut installment - Fascination - features some awesome tuneage not least Stylusboy, I See Horses and Bellman. You can check out the full tracklist here and listen to the mixtape below.

If you dont check by Acuvi you really should every now and then - they feature some great acts on there!

They live at Acuvi.org

Fascination - the mixtape. by Acuvi

Bellman - Debut UK Shows Next Week

So our friends Bellman arrive in the UK for two shows next week to get the ball rolling towards the release of their new album THE CURSE.

Arne and Pal will be arriving to play two acoustic shows at the following venues:

April 27th: Silver Bullet Par, Finsbury Park, London
April 28th: The Regal Rooms, Hammersmith, London

If you need a reminder of exactly why this is an awesome thing and you should come along then you can download the bands "SPACESHIP! MOVE SLOW" ep from our bandcamp page or stream the title track from new album below.

Bellman - The Curse by lazyacrerecords

Bellman - The Curse

So there will be more details on this release to follow but we wanted to let you know that we will be releasing the new album from BELLMAN shortly here in the UK.

We first saw Bellman live a few years back and were over the moon when they asked us if we would like to work with them to release their new album here in the UK.

There are loads more details to share with you (including some debut UK shows in the next couple of days as well) but for now we really wanted to share a track with you and so this is the lead track (and indeed title track) from the album for you to wrap your ears around.

Epic stuff.

Bellman - The Curse by lazyacrerecords

A big thank you...

...To everyone who came out to our split showcase with How is Annie Records last week at ByLarm. It was a stressful evening but we enjoyed beautiful sets from Solvor, Bellman, Sjur and the Little Hands and Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson. A huge amount of fun.

There are some photos of the show up on our Facebook page here.

In the meantime thanks to the bootlegging skills of an as yet unnamed individual (please get in touch if you are reading this we'd love to see if you caught any thing else that night!) you can relive Youth Pictures set with this handy stream

Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson, Live at Parkteateret February 18th 2011 by EDB Recordings

By:Larm showcase

So the secret is out. Our showcase with our friends at How Is Annie Records has been anounced:


You can get the details and let us know if your coming on Facebook

Solvor Vermeer and Bellman Live

What could be better than one of our favourite acts playing a show in Oslo next week? Well how about two of them? Together. In one place.

Thats right - Solvor Vermeer and Bellman team up to play a show at Mono Wed December 15th kicking off at 8:00pm.

The details are all on facebook at this handy link here but for now heres two reasons to get down: this is what your missing!

So the reason then that we were in Oslo

So as you will have noticed (especially if you follow us on twitter) we spent the weekend in a very cold Oslo. And we had a blast - in the company of Oli from the 405. Although it should be stressed we were indeed working.

At what you ask? Well heres the awesome news. First up we took the 405 as in a couple of weeks we will be running a Lazy Acre Takeover on the site and jam filling it with all kinds of Lazy Acre goodness including interviews with Monzano and Bellman, a special edition of the My Favourite Records series, live acoustic sessions from Uno, Bellman and I See Horses and a whole load more.

We were also recording some content for a special show we are doing for BBC Radio Northamptonshire and 6music. The show on Northamptonshire will be a one hour lazy acre special with interviews, live tracks, more lazy tuneage than you know what to do with and plenty of waffling from yours truly. That will go out December 17th.

Oh and we also did some stuff for an oslo-centric insert for Tom Robinsons show featuring Team Me, Einar Stray and Sareena Maneesh.

Phew.

So things we learnt this week: How Monzano would survive a zombie apocolypse, How the norwegians are employing fembot style sirens to recruit new citizens, that solvor vermeer is a bad influence ("just one drink" to 630am bedtimes), that My Little Pony have literally JUST finished a new album, that Einar Stray is astounding live and that it is indeed possible to modestly wax £100 in 26 hours (8 of which you were asleep for!)

Also we learnt this morning that the kind folk of The 405 have gone and named Monzano in their eps of the year list. Alongside Sufjan Stevens and Dad Rocks! for two. Nice company I'm sure you will agree. You can check it out here anyway and for the hell of it why not check out All Scandinavians take on the Ep as well.

Catch Up

Apologies for the lack of updates this last week or so - things have been ever so slightly insane on the acre of late. The new Monzano EP is still continuing to gather some lovely reviews - indeed this last week or so has seen very kind words from the folks of the 405, eardrums, indie today and acuvi.

Also we are super excited to announce that the next installment of the Full Stop To Bad Pop campaign will be provided by acoustic led nord's BELLMAN who will release the "Spaceship! Move Slow" EP in early december on Lazy Acre. There are some beautiful moments on the record and even more on the bands new full length album THE CURSE which will be released on Lazy Acre around the time of By:Larm next year.

Heres an awesome video for the title track of the EP.



And finally the Acre was a place of unabashed excitement this week with the news that we are off to Oslo next weekend in the company of the fine folk of the 405. We are headnig over to record a load of interviews, sessions etc etc for some very special birthday takeovers that are happening with the405, BBC Northamptonshire and 6Music to celebrate turning a whole three years old shortly.

Its going to be immense and crazy busy but there will be lots of awesome stuff to fill you in on in the coming days.

Much Love
The Lazy Boy x