Album Review – Emmy the Great: April /月音
Emmy the Great (Emma-Lee Moss) released her fourth album on October 9th. ‘April /月音’ (the Chinese script, which translates as ‘Moon Sound’ on Google Translate but is given as ‘Mid-Autumn’ on the first track signifies her origins in Hong Kong). It was a bit of a rushed job, the fastest she’s ever recorded, ironically as …
TRACK: Laura Groves – ‘Infinite Wisdom’: dreamy and glittering
NEWLY signed to Bella Union, Laura Groves has shared dreamy new track “Infinite Wisdom” and its accompanying video. The glittering track comes ahead of her new six-track EP A Private Road, which will be released on December 4th. Speaking on the upcoming EP, Groves explains: “This record, made mostly on my own, became both a channel for the expression of …
SEE: Teen Creeps release new single, ‘Seeing Shapes’, ahead of second album
“SEEING Shapes’ is the first single taken from Forever, the new album by Belgian indie rockers Teen Creeps, set for release on January 22nd, 2021 on [PIAS] Recordings. An ode to 90s’ fuzz-drenched bands such as Dinosaur Jr., Superchunk and Sonic Youth, the trio are sure to tick all the right buttons for those nostalgia …
TRACK: Firestations – ‘Small Island’: Lost Map alt-poppers return
ALT-POPPERS Firestations return with their new single “Small Island”, the first instalment of a new multi-EP project entitled Automatic Tendencies; and their first new music on Lost Map since their 2018 album The Year Dot. Over the last two years, Firestations have refined their brand of conceptual alt-pop, and their new songs are concerned with …
TRACK: Vera Hotsauce – ‘Ricochet’: railing against the wrongs
THE ARTIST’S name suggests that we’re in for a giggle to British ears, as it hints of something out of a 1960s’ Carry On film or a Frankie Howerd sketch. But all is not what it seems. Vera Hotsauce is deadly serious and “Ricochet”, (referred to as a ‘diss track’) and video take aim specifically …
Album Review: Horse Meat Disco – ‘Love And Dancing’
FROM their revered tenancy that began on New Year’s Day, 2004 at The Eagle in Vauxhall, DJs Luke Howard, Severino Panzetta, James Hillard and Jim Stanton – collectively known as Horse Meat Disco – have grown into disco titans loved across the globe. The inclusive attitude of their self-described “queer party for all” attracts an open-minded …
TRACK: Emma Miller releases new track ‘Sail Away’ ahead of debut EP
AHEAD of the hotly anticipated release of her debut EP coming this November, Scottish folk singer Emma Miller has released the a taster in the shape of second track “Sail Away”. Speaking of the track, she states: “I wanted to write the song from the perspective of what a friend might say to me, rather …
EP: Suuns – Fiction
One thing about all this quarantining and distancing is that we’re being forced to find creative ways to do the things we’ve always done, and this is something that music needed… I mean it was desperately needed. Suuns upcoming release Fiction is a great example of how bands can move forward. The roots of this …
Album Review: SAD13 – Haunted Painting
To contrast Sadie Dupuis’ work as SAD13 with her work with Speedy Ortiz feels unfair, yet inevitable as they are essentially two different distillations of her own personality. The former is more Dupuis as Dupuis, for sure ,but even the band work was sprung out of her own ideas and therefore could be reasonably approached …
See: Korpiklaani release video for Powerwolf cover, ‘Sudenmorsian’
AFTER celebrating the release of their unique spruce-flavoured vodka with a live stream held at the Pyynikin Brewery, in Tampere, Finland, Korpiklaani have released a very special cover. Their new single ‘”Sudenmorsian” is their take on Powerwolf’s “Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone”. The band said: “When we were approached by Powerwolf, we agreed immediately and wanted to do something a little different and special. …