SEE: RON – ‘What Can The Feeling’: ambient grace from the Pacific Northwest
SAM WENC and Carl Laukkanen, while resident in that cultural hub in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon, got together and, sharing an interest in the textures and spaces of slow-moving ambient electronica, got together and laid down three albums’ worth of exploration of sonics as RON. Together they developed a language of sound at the interstice …
NEWS: Rozi Plain concludes subscriber-only V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series for Lost Map
LOST MAP RECORDS, the beautifully curated imprint run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from the Scottish island Eigg, has a second series of V I S I T ▲ T I O N S ready for you: a subscriber-only, three-part set of special limited-edition releases, written and recorded in rural seclusion in a “bothy” cabin …
ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Cooper – ‘L.I.S.T.E.N.’: Ugly Duckling lyrical scientist in flight
Possibly best enjoyed on tape on a decent ghetto blaster wearing elegant shades, let the old-skool embrace you
SEE: HighSchool – ‘New York, Paris And London’: another jangly cracker from the scene Down Under
HIGHSCHOOL, the Melbourne trio known to their friends as Rory, Lilli and Scotty, have signed to British indie Dalliance (home already to Wilsen and Gia Margaret); and in celebration they’ve dropped a first tune for their new label this morning, in the shape of “New York, Paris And London” – another cracker from the Southern …
TRACK: Tamar Aphek – ‘Show Me Your Pretty Side’: introducing a new Israeli swamp-blues guitar talent
SHE HAS a smokey caress of a voice, she has clear sight, passion and direction, and she can wield six strings with the best of them; ladies and gentlemen, get ready to make some room in your heart for Tamar Aphek, coming at you with the dark, sultry reverb noir of “Show Me Your Pretty …
TRACK: John Cale unveils a new song, ‘Lazy Day’
WELSH music legend John Cale has returned with a new single and video for Domino, “Lazy Day”; his first outing since his recent collaboration on Kelly Lee Owens’ “Corner of My Sky”. Watch the video with us, below. “Lazy Day” is a gradual unfolding, with droning organs, skipping interjections, little guitar flurries, an off-kilter melodic drift; over which …
NEWS: Billy Bragg announces tour dates for autumn ’21
THE BARD of Barking, conscious songwriter and lyricist extraordinaire, provider of mushroom biryanis to John Peel, and a steadfast political commentator: national treasure Billy Bragg has announced an 22-date tour of Britain and Ireland for autumn 2021. It’s a way away, but that’s got to be something to look forward to. Billy says: “In these challenging …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Galaxy Electric – ‘Tomorrow Was Better Yesterday’: a real trip into raw retrotronic deep space
The Galaxy Electric’s new ‘un is a real psychedelic trip; If you need a route offworld so you can look at back at humankind from a safe distance in the corona of the galaxy’s beauty, and you’re also not afraid to ride the edge of the solar winds, Tomorrow Was Better Yesterday is likely the record for you
TRACK: Pole – ‘Nebelkrähe’: deep Berlin atmospheres tease for next month’s album
STEFAN BETKE, the legendary vinyl masterer, deep electronic dub explorer and all-round sonic wizard who records as Pole, has dropped another fine piece of spacious, textural electronica ahead of his new album, Fading, next month. “Nebelkrähe”, which you can hear below, fashions some of those Pole trademarks into new and alluring shapes: the texture, the …
SEE: The Lathums – ‘I See Your Ghost’: a ska-psych grenade lobbed over pop’s wall
WIGAN’S THE Lathums? I mean, they’re sweet, thoughtful lads (see their recent, very neat plan to raise funds for beleaguered hometown football club by raffling off a one-only vinyl pressing of their cover of northern soul classic, “The Snake”- and there’s still time to enter the draw). But appearances can be deceptive; they’ve followed up …