TRACK: Fortíð announce new album; hear ‘Controlled Patterned Mental Process’
FORTÍÐ have released a new single, “Controlled Patterned Mental Process”, taken from the pagan metal duo’s forthcoming sixth full-length, World Serpent. Fortíð’s Einar Eldur Thorberg says of the track: “As the title ‘Controlled Patterned Mental Process’ suggests, this song deals with the way in which the mass of humans is herded around by those few who …
TRACK: The Antlers – ‘Wheels Roll Home’
IT COMES as a surprise that The Antlers are possibly on track to a new album, more than six years after the last one. Especially after the frontman, Peter Silberman, had successfully started a solo career with the beautiful Impermanence. In fact, they have recently released a video for a new single, “Wheels Roll Home”, …
EP: Tomberlin – Projections
Saddle Creek presents an intermediate release from the emerging songwriter, showcasing a broader expressive palette and more colorful arrangements After her lo-fi debut, At Weddings, Sara Beth Tomberlin takes a more polished path in her new EP, Projections, a collection of 4 new tracks and one cover from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Surely, Sara …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Bitter Springs – ‘Hope Springs Eternal’: lost British indiepop classic, expanded
Nineteen years after its initial release, The Bitter Springs are hoping this hidden gem of an album will finally get the recognition it deserves with a vinyl re-release featuring additional bonus tracks
EP Review: Bring Me the Horizon – ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’
Post Human: Survival Horror documents this wild, depressing, crazy period of history we’re living through, whilst also embracing fun, ingenuity and creativity
SEE: Black Country, New Road – ‘Science Fair’: a potent experimental tale
AFTER an agonisingly lengthy wait, South London experimental rock group Black Country, New Road have finally released a new single, bearing word of a debut album set to be released next February. Having burst onto the scene in January last year with debut single “Athens, France”, released on acclaimed label Speedy Wunderground, and following it …
ALBUM REVIEW: Keep Dancing Inc – ‘Embrace’ – new wave synthpop is worth the wait
This euphoric, if occasionally generic debut album from Keep Dancing Inc comes after a five-year wait, a wait that has evidently been worth it. With bouncing synths, fuzzy guitars and endless 80s nostalgia, Embrace will get you shaking those shoulder pads in no time
Feature: The rise of the reaction video – and anyone can do it
YouTube. What would we do without it, right now? One of the few ways that remain of accessing ‘live gigs’ for starters – the ones you attended at least, whether they were filmed professionally or shakily on a ‘phone – or your favourite ones that you didn’t attend. A trip down Memory Lane in the …
EP REVIEW: Fever 333 – ‘Wrong Generation’
FOLLOWING last year’s highly revered album Strength in Numb333rs, it was inevitable that that would not be the last we’d hear from Fever 333. Unfortunately, their new EP, Wrong Generation (released on October 23rd via Roadrunner Records) was born from a situation which should never be happening in our day and age. It comes following …
NEWS: Alan McGee announces Creation Day festival for May ’21; tickets on sale tomorrow
A NEW festival has been announced for 2021 with a blast from the past … Creation Day, featuring Editors, Friendly Fires, Happy Mondays, Echo & The Bunnymen, Sleeper, Glasvegas and many more. The festival is the vision of Creation Records founder Alan McGee, and will take place at Wolverhampton West Park over the weekend of …