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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, …
See: Lonely Robot Release Video For New Track ‘Spiders’
Lonely Robot, the project masterminded by producer, guitarist and singer/songwriter John Mitchell (Kino, Frost, Arena, It Bites) have released the video for new single ‘Spiders’ which is taken from their fourth album ‘Feelings Are Good’ out on the 17th July 2020 via InsideOutMusic. John Mitchell has the following to say about this song: “’Spiders’ is a song about …
TRACKS: Hear Mattiel take on The Clash and the Beasties
HEAVENLY Recordings’ retro rock singer Mattiel has released a brace of lockdown covers, with both tracks contributing to the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) defence fund on June 19th (“Juneteenth”) every year at Bandcamp. Mattiel, whose position in a certain rock’n’roll lineage was underlined by last year’s cracking Satis Factory …
Track: Matt Berry- Something In My Eye
The theatrical actor/musician wunderkind recently released a new single, Something In My Eye. The track’s bouncy, staccato rhythm guitar is immediately Shadows-esque, while the lead guitar is doubly reminiscent of the Shadows’ Hank Marvin. This lead guitar line alone, with it’s simple but moving plaintiveness across the track’s seam, guarantees at least another dozen or …
See: Dead Naked Hippies reveal new video for Eyes Wide (Night Time Version)
Dead Naked Hippies are a trio who’ve been active on the Leeds DIY punk scene since 2016. During 2020 they’ve needed to find creative new ways to work due to the limitations of lockdown, and they’ve subsequently reworked one of their previous songs, with moody electronics replacing the previous live instrument parts. The resulting track “Eyes Wide …
TRACKS: The Shacks – ‘Smile Now, Cry Later’/Brainstory – ‘Runaway’: crate-diggin’ deliciousness
BROOKLYN-based crate-diggers’ delight Big Crown Records has been keeping searchers of the groove content since 2016. A couple of years back, it compiled and curated the music of Sunny & The Sunliners, a chicano soul act outta San Antonio, TX, who began charming the world with their ‘brown-eyed soul’ in 1964 under the aegis of …
Track: The Agency… – Defender
Leaving three dots at the end of a sentence (…) implies something that will continue ad infinitum, something that is yet to be completed, there is more to come or allows you to complete the end. The collective known as The Agency… perhaps suggests any or all of those possibilities, and that can only be …