Music
Track: Sonic Youth – Bull in the Heather, plus Battery Park NYC: July 4 2008 reissue news
Matador records have announced they are releasing Sonic Youth’s live album Battery Park NYC: July 4 2008 on June 7th. Initially sold as a bonus alongside the bands final album – The Eternal, this new version will be available on streaming services and as a stand-alone package for the first time ever. Taken from a …
Track: The Mooks – So Kind
Toronto trio The Mooks are preparing for the release of their EP ‘I Hope That You Feel The Same’, out this Summer, and ahead of that heave released a single So Kind thats out now. It’s shows the band off for what they are, a jangly power pop outfit that can handle melodies with ease …
Track: Plague Vendor – Let Me Get High/Low, plus UK tour news
Plague Vendor have released their new single ‘Let Me Get High\Low’, the latest from their forthcoming album ‘By Night’. ‘Let Me Get High\Low’ is an infinity mirror of echo, effects, illusion and delusion. A sinister and sprawling track, wandering from psychedelic prog rock to garage rock somehow, and capturing a perfect sound in the process. …
Album Review: Song, By Toad -Split 12″ Series Vol. 7
We’ve already lamented the announcement last year that Edinburgh-based Song, By Toad Records was calling it a day. If this is its last release then it’s appropriate that its one of its signature split 12″s. (Although don’t be fooled, it’s a 12-song album.) The idea is simple and speaks to the heart of the label. …
Say Psych: Album Review: Joe Ghatt – Banana Sludge
Australian label Third Eye Stimuli Records have this week ventured across the waters to release the debut LP from New Zealander Joe Ghatt, Banana Sludge. Originally from Nelson on South Island but now residing in Auckland, Ghatt has been performing and collaborating for the last few years with Kiwi psyhc rockers Arthur Ahbez and Kelvin …
Say Psych: News: Thee Oh Sees Announce Re-Issue of Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion
Thee Oh Sees have this week shared previously unavailable HD video of the entire Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion Film. The reissue of Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion will be out 24 May on Castle Face Records. John Dwyer also did an exclusive interview with All Music and the band have recently announced a run of Fall North American tour dates. “Thee …
Album Review: Scott Lavene – Broke
Back in 2016 I reviewed an album by an act called Big Top Heartbreak. Deadbeat Ballads was one of those albums where the personality of its creator truly shone through. It was a shame then that it languished in relative obscurity, with even being absent from some of the bigger music cataloguing websites. Its cult …
Not Forgotten: Travis – The Man Who
Good old Travis. Good old sensible Travis. For a while they had a reputation for doing exactly what you expected of them. So honest, so reliable, so steady, always taking the off-target accusations of being slightly dull in good humour. In the nicest possible sense, for a few years Travis were the Ned Flanders of …
Not Forgotten: David Byrne – David Byrne
Like most people, I had been aware of David Byrne via his work with the Talking Heads, however I’d also heard that his solo albums were generally a bit more arty and just a little bit pretentious, but a friend of mine advised that this was a good album to take a risk with and …
Album Review: Plastic Mermaids – Suddenly everything explodes
Isle of Wight five piece Plastic Mermaids have taken their time with their debut album Suddenly Everything Explodes, out on May 24th, mixing into their musical cauldron elements of woozy, psych-pop, insightful lyrics and pop culture references, a dollop of humour, fuzzy pop and a string of catchy melodies. What they’ve cooked up is as original …