SEE: Conrad Clipper – ‘Say The Name’: enveloping piano textures pave way for April album
CONRAD CLIPPER is the pseudonymous venture of a Berlin composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a focus on prepared, programmed and played piano. He is, as the prepared and programmed element to his pianist practice would suggest, and there’s a run of plosives, a bit of a favourite on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction; presenters Verity …
SEE: Departure Lounge – ‘Australia’: Peter Buck joins cult faves for a glorious, jangly nugget
CULT favourites from back when the Nineties became the Noughties, you can’t accuse Departure Lounge of not having ambition on their new single, “Australia” – if that wasn’t enough a span from poor old virus and Tory-spatchcocked Britain, craving some sun, they’ve also enlisted none other than R.E.M.’s king of the jangling guitar, Peter Buck, …
TRACK: Ritual Cloak – ‘Opaque Crater’: brooding post-rock soundscapes from Cardiff
CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling, post-rock cinemascapes. The pair first crossed paths in the fertile Welsh underground music scene in 2013, when Daniel answered an ad for a guitarist to …
SEE: Raine Hamilton – ‘Brave Land’: gorgeous chamber bluegrass tune launches new album; live-streamed show tonight
RAINE HAMILTON, the chamber-folk artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in musical family and learned her chops early; in fact, her parents met in a rock band in the 1970s – music runs that deep for her. Her particular brand of folk pushes the boundaries of the trad form, borrowing from the counterpoint principles of …
NEWS: Ty Segall and Cory Hanson issue ‘She Is A Beam’ 10″ on Drag City; hear the lead track
CAST your mind back to the good old days of 2015. Y’know, gigs, pints, going anywhere. Good times. We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Way back then, fuzzmeister Ty Segall and fellow psychester Cory Hanson were burning up a little creative time together, jamming out and totally in the zone, delighting in what they were …
EP REVIEW: Lizzie Reid – ‘Cubicle’: cathartic beauty from young Glaswegian
Lizzie Reid’s Cubicle is a properly excellent debut from the young Glaswegian, with moments of real cathartic beauty
SEE: Sophie Morgan – ‘Always’: a sweet song for the lonely
A SOLE trumpeter plays a lonely air on the riverside terrace, and is joined by a dashingly besuited fellow, stage left, maybe a little bit Gatsby; we glimpse Sophie in her party frock, sitting, where she joined by the dashing young buck – but only momentarily, as she steps away and into song. They dance …
NEWS: Dark Horse Records announce a career-spanning Joe Strummer comp featuring unreleased tracks
DARK HORSE RECORDS, the label founded by George Harrison in 1974, has announced that it is to issue a solo years-spanning best-of looking at Joe Strummer’s career after The Clash. It’s to be a 16-track compilation entitled Assembly, and will feature singles, favourites, and archive rarities, including a heretofore unheard acoustic take on “Junco Partner” …
SEE: Martha’s Vineyard Ferries – ‘Jail Material’: deliciously dirty US underground trio return
THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD FERRIES, the loud and deliciously, abrasively proud trio brought together by Shellac’s mighty Bob Weston, Chris Brokaw, of Come and Codeine, and Elisha Wiesner, otherwise of Kahoots, have dropped the video for a lip-curlingly LOUD and guitar heavy new song, “Jail Material” – you can take a dive down the bottom there. It’s …
SEE: Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans – ‘Bad Day’ cornering a brilliantly thrashy alt.pop nugget
FORMER Brilliant Corners singer Davey Woodward is fashioning rather lovely, lo-fi, alt.folk indiepop these days, along with The Winter Orphans – a quintet rescued from the chill winds atop Spaniorum Hill to help him in his lifelong pursuit of low-slung, perfectly drawled, South West pop. They’ve just dropped the video for “Bad Day” – plenty …