Bailterspace - April '23 North American Tour
Today, Bailterspace have announced several tour dates on the East and West Coast slated for April 2023. The tour follows their first American performance in many years last Summer at NYC's Mercury Lounge, supporting their newest album 'Concret' as well as the recent 25th anniversary of their landmark LP 'Wammo.' West Coast dates are on sale today and East Coast dates will be on sale this Friday at 10am EST.
Purchase / Stream Limited Orange 'Wammo' LP
Purchase 'Concret' Directly From Bailter Space
Bailter Space on Tour
Friday, April 22 Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco CA *
Saturday, April 23 Zebulon, Los Angeles CA #
Sunday, April 24 Artifice, Las Vegas NV
Wednesday, April 26th at Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia PA
Thursday, April 27 DC9, Washington DC
Friday, April 28 Mercury Lounge, New York NY
* w/ Terry Gross
# w/ Flat Worms
+ w/ Orange Eats Creeps
Bailter Space Online
Bandcamp
Bandcamp Friday : Snail Mail - 'Valentine' ,14% Off, Plus A Plethora Of Matador Catalog Titles Available On BC For The First TIme
Bandcamp are waiving their revenue share today (Friday, February 4) and with the unselfishness being contagious, we’re putting Snail Mail’s ‘Valentine’ on sale for 14% off today only
https://matadorrecords.bandcamp.com/music
New to Bandcamp this week:
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe (digital only)
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins (digital only)
Lucy Dacus – “Kissing Lessons” download / 7” pre-order (Out June 3)
Circuit des Yeux – “The Manatee” (digital only)
And there's new-to-Bandcamp catalog titles from Bailter Space, Body/Head, CEREMONY, Chavez, Kurt Vile, Lucy Dacus, Mary Timony, MUZZ, Perfume Genius, Snail Mail, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus, Steve Gunn, and The New Pornographers.
Out Today : Bailter Space - 'Wammo', 25 Anniversary Remastered Edition
"Splat" (director, Julie Hermelin
(photo Jill Greenberg)
As previously touted in this space, the 25th anniversary remastered edition of Bailter Space's 'Wammo' is available today via all streaming services, finer record shops and mail order. Author and labelmate Andrew Earles once wrote of 'Wammo', "Bailter Space's final album for Matador (fifth overall) finds the band showing everyone how skilled it was at erasing any lines of demarcation separating wickedly catchy pop songs and washes of guitar noise and toothy dynamics." Alister Parker, Brent McLachlan and John Halvorsen are still erasing lines (sonic and otherwise) to this very day, so where's their Hall Of Fame nomination?
Preorder / stream : 'Wammo'
(Flying Nun are releasing a limited green vinyl edition of 'Wammo'.)
Wammo Tracklist:
Untied
Splat
At Five We Drive
Zapped
Colours
Retro
Glimmer
Voltage
D Thing
Wammo
Bailter Space Online :Splat
At Five We Drive
Zapped
Colours
Retro
Glimmer
Voltage
D Thing
Wammo
Bandcamp
Coming February 12, 2021 : Bailter Space - 'Wammo', 25th Anniversary Edition
"Splat" (director, Julie Hermelin
“The most massive guitar come down music ever. Pop songs that sound like they came from a greyhound bus station at 2am. Riffs baked in slime and flowers that pack the ‘THUD’ of a ball peen hammer to the knee. A blistering bookend to Bailter Space’s unstoppable Matador run, Wammo returns to smoke our collective brain resin and fall asleep with the TV on.”
– Ryley Walker
Mogwai's frequent visits to the Matador office invariably resulted in Patrick, Chris, or pretty much anyone on their coffee break generously shoving records in our faces and convincing us that ‘if we hadn't heard this band already, our lives were about to get better. Bailter Space was one of those bands. I loved the use of just one or two chords (economical!) with vocals that I was happy enough with being almost indecipherable. Listening back to Wammo, that guitar sound hasn't dated to my ears at all. Please generously shove this record in your face.
– Barry Burns (Mogwai)
By 1995, this NYC-by-way-of-New Zealand power trio that not nearly enough people are in love with had already released a multiple-album masterclass in remaking post-punk, shoegaze, and even industrial in their own dense, heavy, beautiful, emotional, and occasionally hostile image. Then Wammo subtracted none of that while adding hooks bigger than Brit-Pop and NEU!-ing up the rhythms. I certainly hope this reissue puts Bailter Space where they should have been for the last quarter-century: In everyone’s inspirational canon.
– Andrew Earles
Preorder / stream : 'Wammo'
This year Matador’s Revisionist History has surfaced a number of outstanding and era-defining catalog items by the likes of Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices, Mary Timony, and Chavez.
Today, we bring you the final title of our 2020 lineup: Bailter Space’s 'Wammo', now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
'Wammo' has been remastered from the original tapes and returns to us pressed on translucent orange vinyl. Pre-orders for the new edition are available now via the Matador store.
Formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1987 as Nelsh Bailter Space, the band’s musical family tree touches on some of the nation’s most revered weirdo luminaries – including Flying Nun mainstays like the Skeptics, the Clean, and the Gordons.
Bailter Space (aka bailterspace) embraced chaos, but celebrated precision, finding melody amid networks of brooding noise and feedback. After relocating to New York City, the band – who by then included Alister Parker, John Halvorsen, and Brent McLachlan – arrived on Matador in in time for the US release of 'Robot World' (1993). 'Wammo' was the trio’s third and final full-length with the label (their fifth album overall) and was among its most tuneful efforts (relatively speaking!).
At the time, music scribes were a bit puzzled by the record’s “accessibility.” In the rear view, though, we can recognize 'Wammo' for the perfectly melancholy and drone-laced brain-zap that it is.
In July of this year, bailterspace released a new album, 'Concret'.
(Flying Nun are releasing a limited green vinyl edition of 'Wammo'.)
Wammo Tracklist
Untied
Splat
At Five We Drive
Zapped
Colours
Retro
Glimmer
Voltage
D Thing
Wammo
Bailter Space Online :Splat
At Five We Drive
Zapped
Colours
Retro
Glimmer
Voltage
D Thing
Wammo
Bandcamp
Alumni Corner : Bailter Space Return To The Stage
Longtime Matador associates and NZ transplants Bailter Space aka bailterspace, will be playing Manhattan's Bowery Ballroom on August 23. Though they've got no shortage of contemporary material to drop on your lovely head, persons familiar with the band's back catalog might get to hear this :Or maybe not. They're musicians, not a jukebox, darn it.