Track: The Limiñanas – Calentita (feat. Nuria)
The Limiñanas‘ new single Calentita is replete with all the components which make their music so euphoric: tantalising serenades through the French lyrics, immaculate production, as well as layers of acoustic, lead and a splendorous addition of wah-wah affected guitars here. The heights of the band are lifted even higher by the tones of vocalist …
Track: Matt Berry – Take a Bow
The latest track to feature upon upcoming album Phantom Birds alongside previous single Something In My Eye, is a brilliantly jovial ode to Berry’s greatest loves. A brisk and vibrant rhythm guitar buoys the track along, while Berry recites his myriad passions, the titular “Take a Bow” following each one as a delightfully warming refrain. …
See: Video for Asylums’ ‘Who Writes Tomorrow’s Headlines?’
Asylums recently released the video for Who Writes Tomorrow’s Headlines?, taken from their recent album Genetic Cabaret. The lyrics revolve around “the puppet masters, those ominous figures that are pulling the strings and manipulating our narrative in the surveillance capitalism age“, according to frontman Luke Branch. The video’s ‘night-vision’-style visuals accentuate, to an incredible extent, …
See: Video for beabadoobee’s ‘Care’, from forthcoming album
The 20-year-old bedroom pop sensation beabadoobee, who only began recording music in 2017, has gone from strength to strength lately. From releasing the astoundingly well-received Space Cadet EP last year, to being awarded the NME Radar Award this past February, Bea’s trajectory shows no signs of slowing. New single Care is also accompanied by the …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Blinders – ‘Fantasies of a Stay at Home Psychopath’
BOTH the title and motive behind The Blinders’ new album seems remarkably timely. The album explores numerous internal struggles across its eleven tracks, whether through the tortured sense of self in the vocal catharsis of “Forty Days & Forty Nights” or the cataclysmic depiction of an introvert’s breaking point on “Black Glass”, who refuses to …
Track: The Coral’s Paul Molloy releases debut solo single ‘Dungaree Day’
Dungaree Day marks The Coral guitarist’s first foray into solo song-writing, after being a major pinion in legendary Liverpool bands such as The Zutons and The Stands. The previous two years have been a creative journey for the songwriter; besides masses of heavy touring, Molloy has gone through the losses of both his mother and …
Track: The Blinders- ‘Black Glass’
THE BLINDERS’ latest track, “Black Glass”, is a seamlessly evolving, six-minute behemoth, is the final single to be featured from their upcoming album. The track begins tantalisingly slowly, before lead vocalist Thomas Haywood’s commanding “Black Glass” cry is subsequently offset by a parry of jolting lead guitar. The pace then catapults into a violent and …
See: Sparks’ ‘The Existential Threat’ video
The video for Sparks’ The Existential Threat, a highlight from their stellar 2020 album, was released the same day as physical copies of A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip were made available. The video’s congruously surreal, absurdist conception was masterminded by Cyriak, an animator famous for a magnificently made Run the Jewels video amongst many other …
Track: Matt Berry- Something In My Eye
The theatrical actor/musician wunderkind recently released a new single, Something In My Eye. The track’s bouncy, staccato rhythm guitar is immediately Shadows-esque, while the lead guitar is doubly reminiscent of the Shadows’ Hank Marvin. This lead guitar line alone, with it’s simple but moving plaintiveness across the track’s seam, guarantees at least another dozen or …
Track: The Psychedelic Furs- Come All Ye Faithful
The Psychedelic Furs recently released the fourth single from their upcoming album Made of Rain. Come All Ye Faithful follows previous singles No-One, Don’t Believe and You’ll Be Mine. Like the previous singles, Come O Ye Faithful salivates with the same eerie and ominous pomp of Furs’ hits like Sister Europe, Love My Way and …