News: Giving some back: Drew Daniels releases anarcho punk covers set
COMING just weeks after Thrill Jockey put out his politically charged, drifting, textured set Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?, The Soft Pink Truth – Drew Daniels of sonic mavericks Matmos – has released a companion album; except this set consists entirely of anarcho-punk covers. Whereas Shall We Go on Sinning …
Gettin’ under the covers: Death Valley Girls new 7″
LA glam-punkers Death Valley Girls are looking to drill further into that hole in yo’ soul with a brace of cover versions out on limited 7” from this Friday, June 12th. And they’ve shared the title track online to lure you in. The title track is “Breakthrough”, a cover of the heavy scented organ boogie …
LISTEN: LOCK SHOCK – Reclaim Vienna surprise single
LOCKDOWN hasn’t been all bad: we all have friends who’ve suddenly been able to invest time in hobbies and develop themselves, beit gardening, painting or writing. All that extra time has lead to a bout of creativity. And such is the case for 42 Records’ septet Reclaim Vienna who, trading demos remotely, found they had …
Track: Andy Bell remixes bdrmm’s ‘Reason To Celebrate’
IT’S a marriage made in (sonic) heaven: new-skool Yorkshire shoegazers bdrmm have debuted a remix of their current single, “Reason To Celebrate” by Ride man Andy Bell. Working under his GLOK nom-de-plume, Andy has taken the anthemic original – with its yearning refrain and towering guitars very much in the early Creation-era Ride vein and …
See: watch the video for Sea Girls’ latest single, Do You Really Wanna Know?
BOUNCY London guitar popsters Sea Girls have unveiled the video for their latest single, “Do You Really Wanna Know?” For the clip, Italian animator Francesca de Bassa has taken photos that members have taken during the virus lockdown and brought them to life as kaleidoscopic, animated collages. An initially empty canvas erupts into an absurd …
NEWS: Classic Creedence set gets half-century deluxe treatment
DELUXE vinyl reissue imprint Craft Recordings are marking the half-century of southern swamp rockers Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic Cosmo’s Factory with a heavyweight vinyl remaster. The album, set for general re-release on August 14th, features such boogie classics as “Long As I Can See The Light”, an 11-minute jam on “I Heard It Through The …
Album review: The Wolfhounds – Electric Music
A FEW days ago, I wrote in a review that you can’t keep a good genre down; necessarily, it follows that you can’t keep a great band down. And a great illustration of this would be East London’s The Wolfhounds, back with us once more and poised to release their third long-player since reforming, and …
NEWS: Haiku Salut to live stream new film score
DERBYSHIRE post-folk trio Haiku Salut have announced a lockdown live stream of a new, alternative score they have composed for the Studio Ghibli animated classic, Spirited Away. Their new accompaniment will feature edits and reworks of songs from their first three albums and one new piece of music. And they will be hosting two ‘watch …
Album Review: Modern Nature – Annual
JACK COOPER has had a mercurial musical decade. Cast your mind back ten years and you’d have found him in that harbour of all things leftfield, FatCat, plying his trade in garage-motorik band Mazes. A tour with indiepoppers Veronica Falls led to a brace of albums filled with sunshiney, Californian country psych as Ultimate Painting, …
Album review: Windy & Carl – Allegiance and Conviction
DEARBORN, Michigan, isn’t necessarily a name that trips off the tongue when you think of musical powerhouses; but this little satellite city of Detroit is a quiet mecca for fans of the more blissed-out, ambient end of the post-rock spectrum. It’s where you can find Stormy Records, the secondhand collectors’ vinyl joint run by husband …