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Live Review: Boston Manor +Jools – o2 Academy, Birmingham 17.02.2022 plus gallery
Up & coming band Jools certainly know how to get a party started. Their vibes are incredible and the fast filling 2nd room of the Birmingham o2 Academy is edging closer to the stage to take in everything this 7 piece have to offer. It’s clear to see why every single member is there as …
Album Review: God is God – Metamorphoses: shape shifting electronic music and song.
Put two forward thinking musicians together like guitarist producer Etkin Cekin and multi-instrumental chanteuse Galina Ozeran and your unlikely to get stuck in reverse. Meeting in Berlin in 2015, the pair grew a musical relationship through long improvisational sessions, letting their combined narrative lead the way. Cekin’s imaginings, rooted in Istanbul’s indie-experimental scene then swelled …
Track: Hate World Hero – The Beast Has Awoken
Finnish Rovaniemi-based melodic metal band Hate World Hero released a new single ‘The Beast Has Awoken’ via Inverse Records. The band comments: “The Beast Has Awoken is about the awakening or waking up of The Beast. The Beast itself can signify anyone or anything, even an object or an experience. In life we face setbacks, doubts and …
PREMIERE: LUMBEROB serves up some ‘FRIEDLEGGINGS’ as he releases his debut album
No idea what Rob Erickson is doing in that press photo up there but we’d be doing the same thing if we had an album out today. Speaking of, New Yorker Erickson—otherwise known as the caps-lock key-destroying LUMBEROB—has an album out today! It’s called LANGUAGE LEARNER and it’s a hell of a trip, a 22-track …
TRACK: Baba Ali release new single ‘Black & Blue’ via Yard Act’s Zen F.C. label, the first non-Yard Act release.
Baba Ali have released new single ‘Black & Blue‘ via Yard Act‘s Zen F.C. label. This is from their double A-side ‘Living It Up’ / Black & Blue‘. It is a synth-laden track of heavy electronica, full of beats and with a slightly distorted vocal creating a dancefloor friendly clanking industrial soundscape. Baba Ali are …
Track: Fontaines D.C. release new single ‘I Love You’, the second from forthcoming album Skinty Fia due out on 22 April
Fontaines D.C. have released ‘I Love You‘, the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album Skinty Fia which will be released on 22 April via Partisan Records. The band continue to follow their own path. Rather than return to the frantic energy of debut album Dogrel, here we have a track full of …
Tracks: Opus Kink Announce Debut EP & Share Lead Single ‘I Love You, Baby’
Brightons own Opus Kink have shared their new single ‘I Love You, Baby’, taken from the collective’s debut EP arriving this summer via Nice Swan Records. Speaking about the single release, the band explained: “‘I Love You, Baby’ is a sweet, tender love song charting one careless heart’s adventure through purgatory. Signed with a sticky kiss from Opus Kink to you”. …
Live Review: DON BROCO – Pryzm/Banquet Records, Kingston 17.02.2022 By Matt Chapman
Bedford beasts Don Broco return once again to Banquet Records in Kingston for another run of album release shows, this time armed with a number one album. The bands latest album ‘Amazing Things’ was released digitally back in October of 2021, but due to delays and misprints, the physical copies were only released at the …
Track: Bishopskin – I Was Born On An Island
Starting out as a lockdown project between vocalist Tiger Nicholson and guitarist James Donovan (elsewhere seen playing for HMLTD), Bishopskin have become so much more than that: there isn’t quite another band, nor possibly has there ever been, that sounds like they do, or that tried to do what they’re bent on achieving. Anyone who …
Track: Global beat fusionists The Bongo Hop drop ‘The Red Hill’, prime Latin hip hop vibes to announce soon come mini album.
French musician/producer Etienne Sevet (aka. The Bongo Hop), traveller, sound selector, trumpeter has his finger on so many pulses. Funk, soul, jazz, afro-grooves all pumped up with that racy Latin heartbeat from his one time home Colombia. It’s a blend that makes for a distinct Bongo Hop sound, rhythmically slick, smartly arranged songs for head, …