Music
Track: Curtis Jay – Calling Me
Sussex born producer and DJ Curtis Jay is releasing his new single ‘Calling Me’ officially on July 17th through the record label he runs with his Dad (former owner of R&B label Urbanstar) House label Xzooberant Records. Originally written and subsequently shelved by Curtis sometime last year, Calling Me is this warm, immediately lovable House Tune, with …
TRACK: Eyes Of A Child by Christine & The Queens
…written as a theme tune for the second series of hit Amazon Originals ‘Hanna’ takes Christine to another level through sheer force of its sensitivity, poise and delicious tenderness.
SEE: Esrevoinma by Lapalux
Stuart Howard’s moniker Lapalux is short for ‘lap of luxury:’ I’m not sure what that refers to – but the music certainly does have a velvety goodness about it, immersing and bathing us in a sensory overload of beats, bass and sci-fi invoked emotion, waxing with introspection and emotional fantasy. His latest offering of “post-apocalyptic …
SEE: Emma Swift’s gorgeous ‘Queen Jane Approximately’
AUSTRALIAN chanteuse, Nashville resident and partner of Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift has saddled up to ride into your hearts with the video for her cover of Dylan’s “Queen Jane Approximately.” Hell, it’s beautiful. She takes it for a deep spin towards Gene Clark country, and lays it down as a chiming weary tune, with 12-strings …
Track: Native Harrow release new single ‘Shake ahead of forthcoming ‘Closeness’ album
For over 20 years the Loose label has built its canny reputation on sifting out the best Americana and alt.country for your listening pleasure. The Felice Brothers, Sturgill Simpson, The Handsome Family, Hurray for the Riff-Raff have all passed through their doors and now it looks like Native Harrow, The Pennsylvania duo of Devin Tuel …
Track: Jyoti (Georgia Anne Muldrow) releases new track ‘Orgone’
Described as an ‘R&B and astral-funk polymath’, the singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Georgia Anne Muldrow is an artist in perpetual creative motion. She has co-founded her own label Someothaship Connect Records, been produced by Madlib and received a Grammy nomination for her 2018 futurist soul, Flying Lotus endorsed album ‘Overload’. Now Muldrow returns for …
EP Review: Moscow Apartment – Better Daughter
The delicate fragility of the music and the achingly beautiful melodies that permeate ‘Better Daughter’ by Toronto duo Moscow Apartment plays a fundamental part in why this EP is so good. It is not, however, all that there is. Lyrically and in attitude, the band, despite its youth, is far deeper and more complex than …
Track: The Nix – All is Well (Feat. Laetitia Sadier)
Out now on Moshi Moshi Records is ‘Until Now, All is Well’ by Nix, a collective of musicians, headed by Nick McCarthy, formerly of Franz Ferdinand. ‘All is Well’ is based around an original composition by Mal Waldron and features on vocals, Laetitia Sadier, founding member of Avant-Pop band, Stereolab. The track itself, has a dub-reggae edge, …
Track: Phantom Isle – MAR V
The new single from London-based band Phantom Isle, is pure explosive medication guaranteed to sort out those isolation blues. ‘MAR V’ opens up with an eighties euro-disco stomp with the most mind-blowing bass riff and a wall of funky, filthy noise – guitars, synths and pounding insistent drums. It is absolutely exhilarating, mixing an early …
NEWS: Horsemeat Disco get back on the floor with Kathy Sledge
GLITTERBOX, Defected’s boutique disco imprint inspired by the Ibiza club night of the same name, has released a second collaborative single by the Horse Meat Disco boys and Sister Sledge legend Kathy Sledge. Following on from last year’s “Falling Deep In Love”, “Jump Into The Light” has everything you need: choppy, funky Fender Strat hooks, …