TRACK: Martha Fffion – ‘Nights To Forget’: intelligent pop about those evenings you wished you hadn’t
GLASGOW-based, Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay, better known to acoustic pop aficionados as Martha Ffion and whose 2018 LP Sunday Best was packed to the rafters with sparkling and confessional songwriting, all draped in her clear, sweet tones, has announced a new album – her first for the label that gave her first single release, Lost …
SEE: U.S. Girls – ‘IOU’: classic pop craft caught in the studio
THE NAME may have originated in a casual joke all those years ago, but Meghan Remy’s U.S. Girls project fashions a very true and lovely music, bringing those classic vocal tones she has to intelligent pop music – and by pop, we of course mean pop as in Carole King, as in St Vincent. Pop …
Premiere: Annie Taylor – ‘The Grass is Greener’: classy fuzz-psych shimmer
LET’S set the record straight from the start: Annie Taylor isn’t a solo artiste, it’s a band. And let’s add to that: Annie Taylor, hailing from Switzerland, is a very fine and classy fuzzpop psych prospect indeed. They formed back in 2017, releasing two now-scarce singles and taking themselves out on tour across their home …
NEWS: Super Furries’ Cian Ciaran marks Hiroshima 75th with six-hour live stream today
AT 4.15AM Japanese time on August 6th, 1945, the world changed forever. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, of the USAF 393d Bombardment Squadron and named after the pilot Colonel Paul W Tibbet’s mother, operating under call sign Dimples 82, arrived over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and discharged the world’s first atomic strike. An …
SEE: The Allergies – ‘I Just Got That Feeling’: fightin’ the 3am blues with crisp Brizzle beatz
HELL, we’ve all been there. The bleary bemusement of the digital clock reading 3.29am. Jeez; and you have this weird intuition, something is off-balance somewhere. In a rare, more introspective moment, Bristol’s crisp party beatz outfit The Allergies have released a video for “I Just Got That Feeling”, making a groove out of the 3am …
SEE: Sneaks – ‘Mars In Virgo’: lofi astrological rave rhyming
LET there be no doubt: Sneaks, known to friends and family as Eva Moolchan, is COOL. Last year’s Highway Hypnosis album for Merge wended through seductive, deconstructed electro; leftfield, whispered lofi soul with an eerie undertow; almost nursery-rhyme incantations, stripped back grooves. I mean, she wears yellow Cons too. This a woman you can trust …
ALBUM REVIEW: Conrad Schnitzler/Frank Bretschneider – ‘Con-struct’: beguilingly far out in sound deconstruction
Frank Bretschneider’s instalment in Bureau B’s occasional ‘Con-struct’ series is a fascinating, rewarding and wholly synapse-rearranging glitchtronica journey – do not operate heavy machinery under the influence
TRACK: Space Captain – ‘Birthday Cards’: graceful psychedelic soul on Tru Thoughts
LIKE that friend you have that you’ve grown with and can always WhatsApp in the middle of the night, Brighton’s TruThoughts is someone you can rely on; that you can turn to when the chips are down and you need a little pizazz. The label’s consistency in panning out the glittering nuggets of artists who …
NEWS: Live-stream shows from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: UK ‘date’ this Friday
FACED by the reality that any chance of getting some gigs under their belt for 2020 was vanishing like a mirage, Austin, TX guitar deities …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have gone some way to assuaging our collective need by announcing a trio of live-stream shows, with a date especially …
TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Let’s Move to the Country’: Bill out-smogs himself
BESIDES being a songwriter we should grasp close to our chests, we’ve seen time and time again this summer that Bill Callahan has an incredible capacity to surprise. First he goes and pulls a whole new LP out of the hat, Gold Record, laid down quickly and announced unexpectedly. Then – ka-bam! – he starts …