Music
Album Review: Venus Grrrls – Potions EP
Venus Grrrls have released their new EP, ‘Potions’ on November 5th 2021 via Monomyth Records. The EP is a collection of songs that digress into integral parts of human emotion and consciousness. Exploring themes such as friendship, body image, and love, the band showcase their most intimate body of work yet. The band are also …
Say Psych: Live Review: Avalanche Party @ YES Pink Room, Manchester 03.11.2021
Tonight in Manchester’s YES Pink Room, there is a special line up that people have braved to cold for. Opening are SPLINT, a new band from Manchester who are shrouded in mystery, this being only their third gig. With a sound that ranges from raw, unadulterated garage rock to some psychedelic undertones, they’re a very …
Premiere: Private Agenda Share Video For Track ‘Neo-Nostalgia’
Private Agenda’s have created a brilliant new video for their track ‘Neo-Nostalgia’, the lead track from their forthcoming sophomore album ‘A Mannequin’ due next year via Lo Recordings. The video is a collaboration with Kat Kemsley and J. R. Dawson (a.k.a Tough Honey) with whom the pair previously created a series of stunning mixed-media visuals for their debut album, Île …
Track: i Helvete – Sairaan Mielen Sinfonia
Finnish extreme metal band, i Helvete have released the second single “Sairaan Mielen Sinfonia” from their upcoming debut album ‘Sinisten Puiden Niitty’ Singer-guitarist Aleksi Mäkelä tells about the song: “The song was written for a long time before the lyrics were completed. We had to choose between this and another track, which one will be the second single. …
Track: Venom Prison – Judges Of The Underworld
Five-piece Venom Prison have shared ‘Judges Of The Underworld’, the first song and video taken from their upcoming album ‘Erebos’, due 4th February, 2022 via Century Media Records. The band comment, “’Judges Of The Underworld’ deals with the crippling reality of people who face incarceration, who oftentimes are followed by violence over a lifetime. This violence can …
New Music: Cie – Adventures EP
Label Overview: Cie has been on an exciting musical journey since the foundation of the Form & Terra Records label and the first record “Auf Los“ and now delivers further highlights with “Adventures“. Along with a remix by Oliver Hess, the record has four driving tracks that will be released exclusively on vinyl. The “Löwenburg” …
News: Erland Cooper unveils a new collaborative EP with vocal ensemble Shards, ‘Egilsay’; hear a first track, the stunning ‘Glimro’
ORCADIAN genius Erland Cooper has today revealed that his next musical project will be a collaboration with the vocal ensemble Shards, on an EP again an evocation and a love letter to his home archipelago. It’s to be a digital release of four tracks entitled Egilsay, and follows thus in the conceptual footsteps of his …
See: With their album out today, Cali shoegazers The Acharis announce a French and UK tour; see the video for the whispery fuzz gem, ‘False Positive’
HAILING from California’s Bay Area, and more specifically Oakland for the precision buffs amongst you, The Acharis may just have made one of the darker shoegaze gems of the year with their new album, Blue Sky / Grey Heaven, dropping today The way Shaun Wagner and Mila Puccini combine vocally on recent single “False Positive” …
Track: Sam Redmore splashes with the sunny Latin jazz of ‘Nagu’ from his debut Jalapeno 7″
EVER a label with an eye out for new funk talent, Jalapeno has hit the man vein yet again with the signing of Birmingham’s Sam Redmore to the dotted line. A good move. In mid-September Sam released “On The One”, an insistent, waay upbeat slice of Latin brass and conscious lyricism brewed up with New …
Album Review: JESSICA’s ‘With Reverie’ has a gorgeous ghostly presence filled with longing and loss.
With a delicate piano filigree dusting a series of gorgeously quiet and reflective songs, the new album from Sydney artist JESSICA has the elegance and enigma of an Eric Satie piece fronted by Dusty Springfield. ‘With Reverie’ is essentially a series of haunting vignettes deliciously encapsulated into (mostly) three minute interludes, filled with emotion and …