SEE: the glamorous and glittery new video for Erasure’s ‘Nerves Of Steel’
VINCE CLARKE and Andy Bell, better known to all and sundry as electropop legends Erasure, have just released the video for their latest single, “Nerves of Steel”: watch with us, below. The none-more-glamorous video clip features more than 20 LGBTQIA+ stars, including several best known for their appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Andy said: “This is …
NEWS: Yorkshire shoegaze princes bdrmm to live stream show tonight
YORKSHIRE’S shoegaze princes-in-waiting, bdrmm, who have a rather lovely debut LP under their belts for Sonic Cathedral in the shape of this summer’s Bedroom (stop by and read our review, then proceed forthwith to Sonic Cathedral to get thee a copy), are to live-stream a free show tonight, August 11th. The show will be relayed …
NEWS: Andy Bell unveils solo LP – watch the video for the 12-string psych-pop monster ‘Love Comes In Waves’
NOT content to sit back with the recent release of his GLOK remix project, Dissident Remixed (read our review here), Andy Bell, blonde-locked Ride singer-guitarist, has chosen the day of his half-century on the planet in order to announce the release of his debut solo album, The View From Halfway Down, which will be released on …
TRACKS: hear the Deadenz and MICROCORPS remixes of Wrangler’s ‘Rhizomatic’: bleak and off-kilter retro-synth funk
WRANGLER, the leftfield tronica supergroup comprised of Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder, Cornish-based Moog explorer Benge and Tuung’s Phil Winter, have released a brace of remixes of tracks taken from their latest for Bella Union, A Situation. Wrangler formed with a simple aim. They had a select collection of vintage analogue synths from which they tasked …
TRACK: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Forward’: confessional folk elegance
SOPHIE JAMIESON took a time-out from her career after a great beginning; and five years away from ‘the biz’ has left her stronger, more aware, ready to slam some finely honed truths into your chest with her EP Release, which is out on December 1st. Debuting aged 22 with her Where EP, which featured fragile …
SEE: Matt Costa – ‘Slow’: songwriting swoon full of doowop classicism
MATT COSTA is of that stripe of really gifted songwriters, like Liam Hayes (aka Plush), Andy Shauf, Patrick Watson, Eric Matthews, who quietly whittle away at some very classic songcraft and seduce those who come into their particular clearing in the songwriting forest. He’s following up 2018’s semi-conceptual set Santa Rosa Fangs – an album …
See: Jamie Webster’s acoustic pop rallying cry, ‘Common People’
HE’S got that big Liverpudlian heart, has singer-songwriter Jamie Webster – like Gerry & The Pacemakers, like The Mighty Wah!, The Pale Fountains, so many others, he has that understanding of a great and stirring tune written through him like a stick of rock. He’s just released the upbeat acoustic pop of “Common People” – …
TRACK: Bill Callahan makes it seven over ‘Breakfast’
DRAG CITY aren’t too far off the mark when they say that “over the past month, we suddenly love Monday … the best part of waking up is a new Bill Callahan song. He’s given us “Breakfast” today, a song with the ghost of Bill Fay’s “I Hear You Calling” preserved in amber somewhere down in its …
ALBUM REVIEWS: Andrew Elaban – ‘Variegated Tributary’/Claire Rousay – ‘Tuufuhhoowaah’: by turns, handsomely dronesome and fiercely plunderphonic
WHITED SEPULCHRE is one of those loving little curators of out-musics that play nuanced and important roles in our lives: their guiding light is that these creations are out there, finding the ears of those who are receptive, who will swoon, who’ll gather little aural treasures to their chests. The label has been operating out …
EP Review: Dana Gavanski – ‘Wind Songs’: covers remoulded, lauded, brought into the light
MORPHIC resonance is one of those curious little theories out on the borders of the scientifically credible that nevertheless contain intriguing possibilities. Simply put, it states that once something enters the realms of the possible and probable, it’s infinitely more likely for that idea to begin occurring elsewhere; an illustration is that when comes time …