Gate Kicks in The Big Issue!

10Foot likes Gate Kicks. In his article on Resonance, he says 'every episode is gold, better than anything I've ever heard on all the cursed, paid up, patronising stations stations put together.'

We like bringing listeners into the auditory world of the Gate art room and we like to imagine this experience being transmitted to many minds globally; from our room to yours, stay tuned.

 

METAL MADNESS reviewed in The Quietus!

Here are the paragraphs on Labake's album from the 'New Weird Britain' section by Noel Gardner:

There are 17 songs on the debut album by Labake Sabbath, but despite this relative glut and its variable styles, it flies by with a keen balance of emotion and humour, personal and political. It’s a window into the life of Labake, who makes music at The Gate in Shepherds Bush, London – an arts centre catering to the learning disabled community – where she’s been attending for about a decade and a half, and recorded Metal Madness over the last couple of years.

There is little if any metal madness to be heard on it, but instead Labake and her band/production team triangulate synthpop, post punk and folk rock with a taste for trippy effects that sometimes blur these modes into one another. ‘It’s Not Easy’ and ‘Life Stinks’, two distinct flavours of  private press-style synth heater, are perhaps this listener’s highlights, but don’t sleep on ‘Life And Struggle’ (proto-rap, no wavey funk bassline), ‘Rights’ (a demand for increased accessibility in public spaces set to a Messthetics-esque punk stroll) and ‘Sitting On The Dock Of The Gate’, one of two quasi-covers on here and which gives this soul staple a Young Marble Giants type do-over. Hearty recommendation!

Thanks to Noel Gardner for the review :)