Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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EP: The delicately beautiful ‘Creatures of Habit’ from Brisbane artist Aren’t is an exquisite triumph. Plus news of launch date.

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Premiere: Versari exclusively unveil for us their new EP Brûle: an epic filled with glorious edits and remixes casting a whole new light on the originals

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Right before the isolation iron curtain came thundering down on live gigs, I caught an impressive performance from PARKER (Tash Parker with her band) supporting the brilliant Costume – read my review here. PARKER is the solo work of one highly talented Tash Parker who has emerged from the confines of isolation to work with …

Last year, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. released what what I considered to be one of the best albums of the year, if not decade, with ‘Dogrel’. All the more incredible considering it was their debut album. 2019 began with them playing small venues around the UK (see my review of their April 2019 Manchester gig) and …

With a title inspired from Tarantino’s recent classic, ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’, the new single ‘Rick F***in Dalton’ from US/Danish duo Moon Panda is not what you’d expect. It is a dreamy and mesmerising single filled with lush instrumentation and a divine melodic spine. This a song for the times, as singer/bassist Maddie …

Yr Eira have just released a delightful, thoughtful and dreamy single in the form of ‘Middle of Nowhere’ off their forthcoming album ‘Map Meddwl’ out on 15 May 2020 through I KA CHING. Beneath the hazy shimmering feel is a message where freedom from romantic entanglements is interweaved with a subtext of Welsh independence. Do …

In anticipation of their forthcoming album, ‘Alles in Allem’ (All in All) on 15 May 2020, legendary Berlin industrial band Enstürzende Neubauten have released an imperial and highly elegant video for the title track. Featuring the eminently theatrical and enigmatic front person Blixa Bargeld with spectacular eye make-up on organ, and black and white vignettes, …

If you caught Australian act DMA’s brilliant live performance live at the Brixton Academy in the UK, streamed twice over the past few days, you might have noted bass player Tom Crandles modestly driving the rhythm at the back of stage. Crandles is in fact a talented multi-instrumentalist and songwriter in his own right and …

Destrends have produced an explosive post-punk EP that recalls an eighties Australian post-punk mentality epitomised by bands like Midnight Oil and Spy Vs Spy: vibrant, passionate and intelligent, danceable and thrashy. Added to this is a level of theatricality and attitude leavened by an inherent larrikin sense of humour. Opening track, ‘Missing People’ sets out …

For a duo with members in Hawaii and Utah, Lunar Twin have perfectly captured a glacial Arctic chill with deep dark gothic trimmings in their glorious album ‘Ghost Moon Ritual’. With a mix of The Mission-like thunder, a Leonard Cohen/Nick Cave delivery and a Massive Attack trip-hop bedrock, this is a divine collision of the …

We were highly impressed by The Brave Faces single ‘In the Dark’ which we were honoured to premiere recently, and it great to be able to see the new video for the track. It is fittingly haunting, psychedelic and evocative video and a perfect accompaniment to the dream pop/shoegaze timbre of the song: You can …

Melbourne band RVG (Romy Vager Group), in their second album ‘Feral’, have somehow managed to coalesce all that is great in the Australian indie scene – past and present – to produce what is in my opinion one of the best global releases in recent years. Hyperbole? Have a listen. You can detect all that …