Track: Nova Scotia’s Century Egg pick themselves up and dust themselves down with the cutesy-punk thrash of ‘Moving On’
COMIN’ atcha out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, garage punksters Century Egg would have absolutely no qualms about leaving you for dead if you so much as cross ’em on the strength of this latest fizzin’ nugget, which they’ve dropped today. Boy/girl vocals, dirty devil-may-care guitars and a ‘Yep, I definitely so will survive’ lyrical self-pride …
Track: On the day his debut album lands, Strawberry Guy drops the autumnal genius of ‘I’ll Be There’
STRAWBERRY GUY should have an absolutely assured future ahead of him once his debut album, Sun Outside My Window, drops into the racks and arrives on doorsteps later today and the musical cognoscenti wrap their heads around it; it’s goood, I mean so gooood, in an early Lennon/Bill Fay way and yep, I’m on dying …
See: Portland’s The Delines return with the sweet country-soul styles of ‘Little Earl’ from next spring’s album, announce European dates
PORTLAND’S The Delines, the combo based way up there in the north-east but who definitely have a little of the Memphis thing in their bloodstream, are all set to return with their third studio album in February next year. Today, with an easy, pretty fanfare, they’re pulling back the veil on what to expect with …
Track: With their remixes album, ‘Loco Remezclada’, just days away, A Certain Ratio reveal the electro finery of LoneLady’s rerub of ‘Bouncy Bouncy’
THE BAND which Andrew Weatherall once described as “one of this country’s most underrated”, but which, since last year’s triumphant ACR Loco are the very definition of vivacious, restless, supremely creative – in full renaissance – are but days away now from the release of Loco Remezclada, their long-awaited remixes album. They’ve revealed one last …
See: Logan Lynn captures the high beauty and strength of simple togetherness with ‘Here’s To Us’
LOGAN LYNN, Portland, Oregon’s so-much-loved songwriter, producer, filmmaker, and activist, who – casting your mind back to the far-off days of high summer here, took Gossip’s “Standing In The Way Of Control” out for a delicious and valedictory spin into the cosmos in the company of Bitch, has today revealed a heart’s arrow-sweet new single, …
See: Gazelle Twin and NYX celebrate All Hallows’ Eve with a limited cassette, T-shirt and more; watch a new video for ‘Deep England’
GAZELLE TWIN and NYX, the artist and choir who have been working with a deep, dark vision of the country this year to fully deserved acclaim, awe, trepidation and immersion, are welcoming the coming of All Hallows’ Eve, the day the dead are remembered and, in folklore, the day when the veil between our world …
Track: Brighton’s Ditz decry the low-paid, daily grind on the howlin’ ‘Ded Würst’
SICK to the back teeth of your arse of a job, bare minimum on the table for you to break your back for? Jesus, ain’t it the way. We’ve all been there, all dug out the hell of that kinda job; and here’s the latest single from ragin’ Sussex quintet Ditz, themselves sick of the …
See: ginla bring the reflective dreampop of ‘Bloodstream’ to warm your autumn
GINLA, the creative space in which Adrianne Lenker’s super-creative musicians Joe Nellen and Joe Manzoli – sidemen? Do me a favour, these two are so much more than that – are bursting with future pop ideas; as evidenced by the rather lovely “Bloodstream”, the single they’ve just unveiled. With a digital debut album under their …
See: Ghost Woman drops some spectral, brooding garage in time for Hallowe’en with ‘Do You’
ALL HALLOWS’ EVE beckons, yer common or garden Hallowe’en: the evening when spirits roam abroad as the year tips towards dark and the good and wary and chaste huddle round the fire. Día de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, ain’t far off either – just a day or two away. The timing …
See: The enigmatic ANIQO drops the crisp darkwave of ‘Fear’ in time for the Hallowe’en shadows
ANIQO is the enticing, mist-wreathed musical incarnation of Berlin singer and poet Anita Goß, who’s slinking through the shadows in this most supernatural of months with the crisp darkwave of “Fear”, the video for which we’ve got just down there. Born and brought up in the former East German Baltic port city of Wismar but drawn …