It’s Friday, therefore time for the usual amodelofcontrol.com round-up of new music coming your way this week and soon, as well as a look at the events and gigs in the future, and finally nods to any other notable news that affects artists and music that I cover here.

Over the past month I’ve run through the best of 2018 in my Countdown series, you can find the links to these posts at the bottom of this post.

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New and Upcoming Releases this week

Up-and-coming electronic stars Boy Harsher release their excellent new album Careful today – their London show later this month has already been upgraded from Electrowerkz to Heaven and is apparently near selling out there too. Then there is the return to releasing music after a significant gap for two artists: Acretongue releases the elegant Ghost Nocturne, and Ladytron’s new self-titled album, out today, is their first in seven years – although it may not be available to stream for a couple more weeks, from what I can tell.

Over on Armalyte, i! return with their first release in a while, in the form of End of Transmission, and Seething Akira have released their Rabbit Junk remixed-single I Am The Devil.

In addition, Keef Baker returns today with his new Nimon album The Slow Atrophy of Hope.

At long last, the WaxTrax! documentary Industrial Accident has a release date: both DVD/Blu-Ray and the Soundtrack are out on 16-April.

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Upcoming Club Nights and Events

01-Feb: Sentinel Vol. 8 at Zombie Shack, Manchester
01-Feb: Some Weird Sin #63 with Oh! Gunquit, Raw Fun, The Pacers Live at Paper Dress Vintage, E8
01-Feb: Metaltech (10th Anniversary) Live at Opium, Edinburgh
02-Feb: Mondlicht VII at The Albany, W1W
02-Feb: Carpe Noctum Dawn of Elysium & Sometime the Wolf + VII Victim
02-Feb: RevolutioN at Corporation, Sheffield
08-Feb: Achtung! Achtung! live: Mitra Mitra at Aces and Eights, NW5
09-Feb: REPTILE at Nightclub Kolis, NW1
09-Feb: Sin City Manchester at Zombie Shack, Manchester
15-Feb: Sin City at Electric Ballroom, NW1
22-Feb: Drøne : Test Dept, Domenico Crisci, Celldöd & More at The White Hotel, Salford
23-Feb: Bunker 13 at Eiger Studios, Leeds
23-Feb: Spellbound at The Mulberry Bar and Venue, Sheffield
09-Mar: Projekt Nemesis – ESA / Tapewyrm / Pandemonium Live at Wharf Chambers, Leeds

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Upcoming Gigs

02-Feb: No Sleep ’til Bristol (Nature of Wires, This Human Condition, Fourth Engine and SOMBRE Moon) Live at The Crofters Rights, Bristol
03-Feb: VNV Nation + Empathy Test Live at Electric Ballroom, NW1
04-Feb: Tempers Live at The Waiting Room, N16
07-Feb: Lebanon Hanover + Uncanny Valley Live at Oslo, E8
08-Feb: Behemoth Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town, NW5
19-Feb: KÆLAN MIKLA Live at Electrowerkz, N1
23-Feb: Byronic Sex & Exile Live at Wharf Chambers, Leeds
27-Feb: Boy Harsher Live at Heaven, WC2
01-Mar: Laibach Live at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, W12
02-Mar: Renaissance Alternative Music Festival – 8th Edition at Electrowerkz, N1
16-Mar: Senser Live at Hoodoo’s, Croydon
21-Mar: Pist.On Live at O2 Academy Islington
22-Mar: Siglo XX Live at The 100 Club, W1
22-Mar: Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Live at The Lexington, N1
23-Mar: The Young Gods Live at O2 Academy Islington, N1
23-Mar: BEAT:CANCER Reading feat Petrol Hoers, Bitman and guests/victims Live at The Facebar, Reading
29-Mar: Ventenner & Cold In Berlin Live at Thousand Island, N5
05-Apr: Desperate Journalist Live at The Garage, N5
06-Apr: The Last Cry, Kadeadkas, Psychoformalina, Future Daughters Live at Electrowerkz, N1
09-Apr: Author & Punisher, Lingua Ignota, Riotmiloo Live at Electrowerkz, N1
14-Apr: Aesthetic Perfection with Priest and Amelia Arsenic Live at O2 Academy Islington, N1
02-May: Terrorvision Live at Islington Assembly Hall, N1
03-May: Sacrosanct Presents – The Rope – Siberia plus support Live at The Face Bar, Reading
08-May: dEUS Live at Electric Ballroom, NW1
14-May: Samael Live at Underworld, Camden
31-May: Red Sun Revival and Burning Gates Live at Hope and Anchor, N1
01-Jun: She Past Away Live at The Dome, NW5
15-Jun: AT:10 – Celebrating 10 Years of AnalogueTrash at The Bread Shed, Manchester
20-Jul: Neurosis and Godflesh Live at The Forum, NW5
03-Aug: The Mirimar Disaster Live at The Hubs, Sheffield
23-25-Aug: INFEST 2019 at University of Bradford, Bradford
20/21-Sep: The Sisters of Mercy Live at The Roundhouse, NW1
17-Oct: Electric Wizard Live at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire W12
09-Nov: BEAT:CANCER Festival 2.0 with Promenade Cinema Live at Electrowerkz, N1

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Other Music News

Street Sects have announced a UK and Europe tour (at last!), while there appear to be strange goings-on in the world of Batushka…

Finally, this is well worth a read – a great article about The B-52s.

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amodelofcontrol.com content in the past month

Tuesday Ten: 356: Product Placement
Products and brands of food and drink in song
Tuesday Ten: 355: How Great Thou Art
I look at modern art, design and architecture in music
Countdown: 2018: Compilations and Re-issues
I begin the wrap-up of 2018 with the best in compilations and re-issues
Countdown: 2018: Tracks
The best forty tracks of the year
Countdown: 2018: Albums
The best fifty albums of the year
Countdown: 2018: Gigs
The best twenty gigs of the year