A GRAVE WITH NO NAME LIVE - ICA, LONDON, 23RD APRIL 2009

Videos from the last night of The Big Pink tour.

PACIFIC GHOST - A GRAVE WITH NO NAME

'Pacific Ghost' - A Grave With No Name

'OCEAN GHOSTS' - NATURAL NUMBERS

After announcing the demise of his recording alias, Natural Numbers, Trevor Fitzhugh has re-emerged like from the flames of non-existence with the ‘Ocean Ghosts’ E.P. If certain rappers are allowed to keep on saying they’re retiring and then coming back, then it’s all fair game in our eyes.

Originally conceived as the full length follow up-to out #14 album of last year ‘Forest Diving’, ‘Ocean Ghosts’ has now been scaled-down to an E.P. and leaked onto the internet as a free download over the weekend. Over its 23 minute run-time, Trevor brings together Fennesz-like ambient sketches, pulverizing hardcore and a Q and Not U-esque-emo jam, before waves of guitar straight off ‘Loveless’ splash themselves over closing track ‘Powhattan’ – probably my favourite song of the year so far incidentally.

‘Ocean Ghosts’ will be release physically at some point in the future, so keep make sure you pick up a copy when it is, but for now, you can download the whole thing for free below.

Download: ‘Ocean Ghosts’ – Natural Numbers

NO PAIN IN POP COMPILATION

The guys at No Pain in Pop have taken it upon themselves to compile a compilation of everything that’s brilliant about music. From Abe Vigoda’s tropical punk, Banjo or Freakout’s digital vortex of sound, Health’s motorik noise jams, Telepathe’s ice cold Brooklyn melancholy, right through the trashed keyboard punk of Gentle Friendly, A Grave with No Name’s 8-track grunge soundscapes and hiccupping, diced two-step from Sunni Geini the compilation literally never puts a foot wrong asides from maybe not featuring a really good morally reprehensible rap song. It’s straight up 10/10 awesomeness all the way through and the world needed this so, so badly.

The standout moment comes from the reverb-laden world of Trailer Trash Tracys, and you can download it below, but you may as well come to the launch party on Saturday night, pick yourself up a copy, lose it along with your favourite hoodie that you stuffed under the DJ booth and then order a replacement online straight from the dudes themselves.

Download: 'Strangling Good Guys' - Trailer Trash Tracys