Track – Moscow Apartment – Halfway
‘Halfway’ from indie duo Moscow Apartment is a whimsical joy – floating on delicate guitars and subtle harmonies to create a track that is beautiful in its low-fi fragility. Moscow Apartment consists of Canadian singer-songwriters Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla who will release an EP entitled ‘Better Daughters’ in June with a full band. ‘Halfway’ …
Track: Jacknife Lee – I’m Getting Tired ft Earl St Clair + Beth Ditto plus album news
An epic thundering excoriating track and video for the times, ‘I’m Getting Tired’ has just been released by legendary producer Jacknife Lee in anticipation of an album ‘The Jacknife Lee’ due out on 26 June 2020. ‘I’m Getting Tired’ features the vocals of Def Jam singer Earl St Clair and the iconic Beth Ditto The …
Track: The Murder Capital – Live From BBC Maida Vale (EP)
Recorded live at BBC’s Maida Vale Studio just before the pandemic closedown, The Murder Capital have just released an EP that features a sparse, haunting cover of FKA Twigs’s song Cellophane as well as a couple of early singles “Don’t Cling To Life” and “Green & Blue”. Of the choice for lead single off the EP, …
Track: Runaway Belles – The Weekend
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 …
Track: Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death plus album news
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 …
See: Moon Panda – Rick F***in Dalton
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 …
Track: Yr Eira – Middle of Nowhere
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 …
See: Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles in Allem
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, …
Track: Prudence – Heart Sways
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 …
EP: Destrends – Wastelands
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 …