NEWS: Kill Rock Stars announce debut album from Japanese garage-psych wonderkids TEKE::TEKE; see the video for ‘Meikyu’
JAPANESE psych-rock septet TEKE::TEKE, who these days call not only Montreal but Kill Rock Stars home, are pleased as punch to reveal their debut set for the label, Shirushi, will be released on May 7th. And so are we, so are we: pleased as punch, that is. The band formed in 2018, initially just for …
NEWS: Spirit of the Beehive announce debut Saddle Creek set; see the video for ‘There’s Nothing You Can’t Do’
PHILLY’S ever-evolving band Spirit of the Beehive have announced they’ve signed to Saddle Creek, for whom they’re coming in angular, fractured psych delirium a-blazin with an April album, Entertainment, Death; and they’ve twitched back the curtain with the video for the dream-haze cut-up of “There’s Nothing You Can Do”, in which an almost sophisticated and …
ALBUM REVIEW: Dale Berning – ‘Horse Stories’: spacious, minimal and delightful art soundtrack
Dale Berning’s The Horse Stories is humble, in the very best way; it delights in the tiny and the everyday with a surreal wonder. It has eagle-eyed focus; it’s absolutely beautiful. It’s often as close as music can get to absolute quietude while still retaining a sense of melody and spatial wizardry. If you loved the Clicks + Cuts series of compilations, Ryoji Ikeda, Colleen or Jan Jelinek; The Boats, Alva.Noto, any of these artists who travel deep into the magical, miniaturised web of pure sound, then this record is so, so top of your shopping list. Bravo, Flau, for making it available again.
SEE: Francis of Delirium – ‘Let It All Go’: casting fate to the wind with punk pop fizz
I MEAN, we knew straight away that Francis of Delirium, the Canadian-American duo happy to call Luxembourg home, were probably not going to be shrinking violets; that much was certainly out there for all to see when they came howling out of the sky on a raft of righteous guitars on their debut single, “Quit …
NEWS: Alex Tucker announces new MICROCORPS project and album; hear ‘XEM’, feat. Gazelle Twin
MICROCORPS is the new project from Kent artist and sound venturer Alex Tucker, better known to those of us who venture experimentally in our music by the fuller, more formal version of this name; as a member of Grumbling Fur, of Imbogodom, &c – and it’s a project which intends to explore electronics, cello and voice. …
TRACK: Hilma Nikolaisen -‘All In (Into The Outset)’: Sereena-Maneesh alumnus brings the psych sunshine
FORMERLY bassist with Oslo’s premiere psychedelic explorers Sereena-Maneesh, Hilma Nikolaisen has unveiled a carefree, summery tune, “All In (Into The Outset)”, as a teaser for her third solo album, Heritage, out February 12th on Fysisk Format. She’s certainly spreading her wings away from the cultish, shoegazey-psych roots of her former home with this one: it’s bright …
SEE: Kim Gordon -‘Hungry Baby’: kick out the jams with some proper noise
KIM GORDON really should need no introduction if you at all profess to be a music head; unless, of course, deep in the Amazon, Livingstone I presume, &c. She’s just dropped the video for “Hungry Baby”, a rip-roaring track taken from her solo debut, No Home Record, which came out on Matador in October 2019; …
TRACK: Amava – ‘Just Fine’: from Oregon to Nashville with a clutch of pure pop
AMAVA found herself not quite part of the gang after a move to Oregon early in her teenage years, for a slower pace of familial life; try as she might, she just couldn’t fit in. Hiding behind an extrovert facade, she struggled to find true expression and turned to music – fashioning those anecdotes into …
TRACK: Pictish Trail – ‘Dream Wall’: hushed loveliness from the dream state
JOHNNY LYNCH who, besides running the dependably excellent Lost Map Records (which, being based, for most of us, up there on the Hebridean island of Eigg, isn’t lost from the map but rather merely quite close to the edge of it) fashions hushed musical atmospheres wearing his Pictish Trail hat, has got a new EP …
ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Stone – ‘Stone’: Maine psych-folk nugget sifted and reissued
Drag City dig deep, strike fortune: Bill Stone’s album rings down the decades and it’s really sweet. Sure it’s a little rough ’round the edges, but that’s absolutely part of the charm; you can hear these songs live and breathe, the actual moment of their realisation. Real and delightful