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TRACK: Come for a dip with Snow Coats’ ‘Pool Girl’
BURGEONING Oxford indie imprint Alcopop! Records – having recently secured the services of angular Bristol geniuses Home Counties – has brought another very fine little band into the fold in the shape of the Netherlands’ Snow Coats. The Dutch four-piece, who released their debut LP Take the Weight off Your Shoulders in 2018, will release …
See: Pallbearer Release Video For ‘Forgotten Days’ In Celebration Of New Album News.
Progressive doom band Pallbearer have announced news of their fourth album, ‘Forgotten Days’, due to arrive on October 23rd via Nuclear Blast. In celebration the band have released the video for the album’s title track and first single – ‘Forgotten Days’ “I’m extremely stoked to finally share this song with everyone,” says singer/guitar player Brett Campbell. Commenting on the Ben Meredith directed …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Rap Icon Jeru The Damaja Shares New Song – “Power”
Legendary artist Jeru The Damaja has released a new song, “Power,” the first single from his forthcoming album, Home Cookin‘. The stark video, which Jeru shot himself, from his home in Berlin, is a conscious assessment of the current state of affairs in the United States. In the song, Jeru urges people of all races …
SEE: Fenne Lily -‘To Be A Woman Pt. 2’: whispered caution, guitars fizzing
BRISTOL is a city that has really pulled its weight in modern musical culture; there’s no need to list all those paradigm-shifters that have come from the Avon Valley. One of the rising stars of the Bristol scene, 2020 vintage, is the Dorset-born singer-songwriter Fenne Lily, who has shared the video for “To Be A …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Cudi & Shady Share New Song – “The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady”
Kid Cudi and Eminem have released a new single, “The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady (feat. Eminem.” The just over four minute song is accompanied by an animated video, complete with lyrics. In the video, animated superheroes Cudi and Shady save the world from a variety of ills, and they offer their insights …
Album Review: Mr Ben & The Bens – Life Drawing
In a recent interview we did with Ben Hall, aka Mr. Ben and the Bens, he told us about new album Life Drawing, saying “I came up with the idea of calling a record ‘Life Drawing’ and having the lyrical content of the songs be semi-lucid sketches of events happening in an imagined town. Vignettes …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Armand Hammer Drop New Video – “Solarium/The Eucharist”
Armand Hammer, the rap duo featuring the loquacious billy woods and ELUCID, has released a new video, “Solarium” / “The Eucharist.” The animated video combines two songs from the pair’s latest release, Shrines. On the album, “Solarium” is produced by fellow wordsmith Navy Blue, and “The Eucharist” is produced by Messiah Musik. The video contains …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Standing On The Corner Releases New Single
Standing On The Corner Art Ensemble has released a new, multi-track single, “G-E-T-O-U-T!! The Ghetto,” with a promise of more music on the way. The Brooklyn music and art collective, which dropped the powerful song “Angel,” in May, has released two previous long players, 2016’s eponymous Standing On The Corner, and Red Burns, the following …
SEE: The Illness – ‘Phrases Redacted’: Silver Jews’ Bob lets the free association flow
THE ILLNESS are a collective of musicians who have been seeping towards our consciousness for a while. The band is drawn from musicians from the stable of York’s Sea Music label. Based at various location along that English longitudinal arc, down the years they have played with psych-pop cultist Kelley Stoltz, among many others. We …
TRACK: Jimi Tenor – ‘Sugar and Spice’: you’re shimmying in its pocket
PHILOPHON, the Berlin label with a deep and abiding mission to bring forth all things with a deep groove, has today released a “haptic” 7” by Finnish multi-dimensional artist Jimi Tenor. The A, “Sugar and Spice” is big, fly, funk: brass stabs, polyrhythms from Ghanaian drummer Ekow Alabi, jazz horn clusters. It’s heading across 110th …