REVIEW: Filtergeist’s ‘Invocation EP’ is one for the Chain Reaction heads
US BEATS stable Loot Recordings has welcomed Indian producer Aditya Prabhu to its roster. Recording as Filtergeist, Aditya has begun to carve out a name for himself in the past couple of years with a brace of mixes and a series of individual tracks for Quilla with trademark geometric videos. His debut release for Loot, …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Gist – ‘Interior Windows’
CARDIFF’S Young Marble Giants subverted the revolution while the fires were still lit. In an age when guitars were razor-loud and lyrics were spat, the Welsh four-piece turned it right back down to a female-led fragility. One album was recorded for Rough Trade before fragmentation and the group’s main protagonists went firing off in different …
TRACK: Sunderland’s Sly Hand’s fiery debut, ‘Big Pharma’
FORMED just last year, Sunderland duo Sly Hand’s sound was forged in the fire of family trauma, which brought two hitherto estranged cousins = Andrew (vocals and guitars) and Paul (drums) – together to make cathartic music. And the first fruits of this consanguinous collaboration is single “Big Pharma”, which is available now at Bandcamp. …
NEWS: Alex Taylor, RIP: the indie world pays tribute
AS THE sad news of the death of Alex Taylor, singer of fuzzpop legends The Shop Assistants and The Motorcyle Boy, reverberated around the indie music world, peers and contemporaries paid tribute on social media. RIDE said, via their Twitter portal Ride – The Network: “Sad news about Alex Taylor … a small but significant …
TRACK: swim in Lindsay Munroe’s ‘River’
JUST pause a second, and see Lindsay Munroe. Just a brief pause, before you press the right-cursor on her latest track, “River”. I’ll pretty much guarantee you that you’ll utter an expletive in surprise. Like Micah P Hinson, her physicality belies the depth and power of what she’s capable of delivering; like Tim Buckley, you’ll …
SEE: Ane Brun releases ‘Honey’ ahead of autumn album, UK tour
NORWEGIAN songstress Ane Brun has released the fifth in a series of monthly tracks ahead of an as-yet-untitled eighth studio set. The album is due to be in the racks in time for winter, and will be her first set of original material since 2015’s When I’m Free, and her first longform outing in the …
ALBUM REVIEW: Braids soar on ‘Shadow Offering’
“YOU want me to love myself, more than I love anyone else / I tire of myself sometimes, just like I tire of you … do I need you, do I want you, do I hate you … I’m here for you, even if you don’t want me to be”. So offers Raphaelle Standell-Preston during …
NEWS: Shop Assistants’ singer reported to have died
IT’S been reported across C86 newsgroups and fan sites over the past 48 hours that Alex Taylor, dulcet singer with Edinburgh’s great and ramshackle Shop Assistants and later of The Motorcycle Boy, has died – as long ago as 2005. The Shop Assistants formed in the Scottish capital in 1984, and were originally called Buba …
TRACK: bathe in the sun of PELA’s ‘South Of’
OFF THE back of their debut single, “You Got Me” last month, South London’s PELA have shared their second outing, “South Of”. It’s a beguiling, dazed bliss of a track, with an underscore of Rhodes shimmer and a lazy break shuffling forward, courtesy Olly Shelton; south-of-the-river chanteuse Hannah Coombes drips honeyed sun over the top. …
TRACK: Red River Dialect frontman shares ‘Ballad of Ross Wyld’
DAVID MORRIS, proud Falmothian and singer with Red River Dialect – the six-piece who’ve brought us some of the most vital of British folk-rock over the past decade – has shared a solo sketch. Described by David as “a lockdown love letter to my housemates”, “The Ballad of Ross Wyld” strips back the layered instrumentation …