Upset The Rhythm

19/08/2025

Awesome Upset The Rhythm radio special from Key Grips here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/key-grips-with-kristen-bernie-07th-august-2025/

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Kristen Gallerneaux and Bernie Brooks present a monthly thematic exploration of sounds that occupy the gradients in between. || https://twitter.com/twitter.com/DHALLLLC || https://metaphysicalpowers.bandcamp.com/ || Broadcast on 07th August 2025 at CAMP || http://listen.camp

16/07/2025

RSTB faves Upset The Rhythm pitch a perfect pairing. Just off their recent tour together, Linda Smith pairs up with East Coast jitter-janglers The Smashing Times. The split 7” leads off with a slow, simmering cut from Smith. Awash in keys and Smith’s lamenting vocals. https://bit.ly/44y6n5d

16/07/2025

Cor Blimey! On August 15th Upset The Rhythm will release a split 7” EP by Linda Smith and The Smashing Times. Both based in Baltimore and both best buds, this record celebrates that friendship sharing two new tracks by each act; united by DIY spirit, a bedroom-pop sensibility and now a puddle of black vinyl. Today you can witness their tea-based, umbrella-powered advertisement, listen to Linda’s track ‘So Long Ago’ (streaming through the digital ether) and even choose to pre-order the coveted disc yourself from our Bandcamp or UTR webshop: https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/

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Songwriter Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalogue. Smith’s pioneering work with four-track production in the '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During this most active period, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases. This trailblazing time was recently revisited on Captured Tracks’ compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996’. Shortly after Smith’s retrospective, she teamed up with like-mind and collaborator Nancy Andrews to release an album of beguiling pop entitled ‘A Passing Cloud’ (2023). The duo performed songs from that record at Upset The Rhythm’s 20th anniversary party at Café OTO that same year. 2024 saw further reissues of Smith’s music including Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996).

The Smashing Times are a premier East Coast Pop Experimental Group. They have also gleefully performed in London for Upset The Rhythm twice in quick succession. Known for their dogtooth style, waggish mod attitude and tumbledown sound, The Smashing Times have holes in their socks and sit idly between The Kinks and Tori Kudo. Their previous albums on K Records, Perennial and Meritorio are a cherished commodity steeped in Paisley psych and slapdash panache.

This split 7” EP comprises 4 new tracks. Two from Linda Smith in keyboard-warble anthem mode and two low-fidelity daytrips by The Smashing Times. It will be released on 500 black vinyl 7”s by Upset The Rhythm on August 15th 2025.

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08/07/2025

Check out this sublime 24-minutes of BBC Radio Scotland as they shadow Josie Vallely (Quinie) and her horse, Maisie, on a trek (or should that be stravaig) through the Dumbarton countryside!

LISTEN: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lmn175

Quinie’s album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
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Helen Needham meets artist Josie Vallely and her horse Maisie

08/07/2025

Only one month to go before the wondrous Me Lost Me returns to London to play at St Pancras Old Church Music!

03/07/2025

"It’s an album you feel more than follow. Dent’s luminous voice, its melodies crowded by the narrow shapes of words, spreads its wings and lifts into the air, blurring them across one another."

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Backed by clarinets, bass and drums (the latter courtesy of Ewan Mackenzie or Pigsx7), Jayne Dent's latest channels random processes into her most personal material to date

02/07/2025

"It’s an alarmingly good album, stormy and intense at one moment, wise and contemplative the next." Thank you KLOF Mag, top insights!

This Material Moment is Me Lost Me’s most personal album yet. On this new release, Newcastle-based Jayne Dent's songwriting has become both more immediate and more accomplished, with each song existing in its own undeniable present. It’s an alarmingly good album, stormy and intense at one moment, wise and contemplative the next. Upset The Rhythm https://klofmag.com/2025/07/me-lost-me-this-material-moment/

27/06/2025

Today… Upset The Rhythm are proud to release Me Lost Me’s astonishing new album ‘This Material Moment’.

MOJO recently described it as “a reassuringly complicated fusion of Björk and Richard Dawson with intense mid-’70s Virgin Records vibes”. It’s a miraculous exploration of the fabric of being and artistic motivation set in non-linear vistas of electronic folk idiom. It’s a miraculous exploration of the fabric of being and artistic motivation set in non-linear vistas of electronic folk idiom.

‘This Material Moment’ was written and woven by Jayne Dent, but performed with a core band of John Pope on electric/double bass, Faye MacCalman on clarinet, and for the first time Ewan Mackenzie (Dextro/Pigs x7) on live drums. The album was recorded by Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle, who also worked on its immense predecessor ‘RPG.’

You can hear the whole album streaming everywhere now, plus it is also available on CD and as a limited radiant red LP from all the best shops. We have copies available on Bandcamp and our own webstore too: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

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