Brooklyn Bizzare 2015

The London Souls album ‘Here Come The Girls’ captures the seismic, raw rock & roll and prowess that’s landed them on stages with The Roots and Trombone Shorty, combined with sophisticated studio flourishes yielding psychedelia-kissed power pop a la ‘Revolver’ and Big Star. Guitarist/singer Tash Neal and drummer/singer Chris St. Hilaire recorded every instrument on the album and it was produced by Eric Krasno of Soulive/Lettuce. This is the debut release on Krasno’s Feel Music label, to be released in conjunction with its partner label Round Hill.

Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Sophie Auster is an American singer/songwriter and actress known for her resonant and rich pop songs that concern introspection, love, and life. Her sound evolved from the soft, lounge-like vocal pop on records such as her 2005 eponymous debut and 2012's Red Weather to the more amalgamated sounds on 2019's Next Time, which featured animated and upbeat alt-pop as well as slow, haunting folk.

X-Legged Sally (XLS) is a Belgian avant-garde rock/jazz-band founded in 1988 by composer Peter Vermeersch, and disbanded in 1997. They were one of the first bands from Belgium to combine a set of very different musical styles (jazz, rock, improvisation and classical), becoming a starting point for the Belgian indie music scene that developed in the nineties. Initially, X-Legged Sally was formed to compose and perform the music Peter Vermeersch wrote for dance productions, such as Immer das Selbe Gelogen (Always the Same Lies), released as a live cd in 1991. Vermeersch' composing style was becoming too demanding for the constraints of sheet music such as was used in his earlier band Maximalist! From the beginning, improvisation played an important role in XLS' songs. The first X-Legged Sally concert took place in November 1988. Soon, XLS became a band in its own right, although there would be cooperations with dance ensembles throughout the existence of the group.