Track: Skullcrusher – Don’t Show
You must be thinking is it thrash, doom or drone? None of these – Skullcrusher is the project of LA based songwriter Helen Ballentine who makes rich acoustic sounds that…
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John Parry
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Lifelong listener and occasional commentator- further adventures can be found on instagram, tumblr and sound selection/mixtapes on: mixcloud.com/HouseAtTheFootOfTheMountain/
Track: Local Nomad – ‘Young Vampires’
If you go for Animal Collective synth swathes, the MGMT rhythmic bounce and an anthemic lift of A-ha proportions then ‘Local Nomad’ will be worth checking out. New York multi-instrumentalist…
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Track: Shirley Collins – Wondrous Love, plus album news.
Shirley Collins is living history. A pioneer who has been exploring the possibilities of folk music right from its second surging UK revival in the 1950’s. Along the way she…
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Track: Rival Consoles – Articulation, plus album news
Ryan Lee West aka ‘Rival Consoles’ and the esteemed Erased Tapes label go back a long way, the Leicester born musician was their first signing, and now thirteen years later…
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Track: Bo Ningen – Minimal
London based Japanese band Bo Ningen have been steadily evolving their cathartic noise rock statements into something more expansive and diverse over the last few years. In fact even at…
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See: Teddy Thompson – New tracks, New album, new tour
Amazingly it’s been 20 years since Teddy Thompson delivered his first album. Over the past two decades he’s been carefully honing his craft from folk tinged beginnings to his more…
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Track: Whitney – Country Roads/Rain
Whitney are a band whose music creeps up on you. The Chicago based group, led by guitarist Max Kakacek and vocalist/drummer Julien Ehrlrich, have always drawn lovingly from the ‘Windy…
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See: Cut Worms release new video for Castle in the Clouds
Max Clarke, alias Cut Worms, is a musician who needs to look back to move forwards. Not that the Brooklyn based singer songwriter is any sort of revivalist. He takes…
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Track: Oscar Jerome – Give Back What U Stole From Me
Oscar Jerome sure knows how to build up momentum. Hot on the heels of two recent singles, the glowing soulful ‘Sun for Someone’ and the politically charged ‘Your Saint’, comes…
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See: James Vincent McMorrow releases video for ‘Headlights’
After three years of hush, James Vincent McMorrow marks his return with a soul warming new track ‘Headlights’. It’s a song that builds carefully and purposefully to reach that point…
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