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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 …
Album Review: Pluto Jonze releases a multicoloured universe of pop in his vibrant album ‘Awe’
The new album ‘Awe’ by esteemed Sydney-based artist Pluto Jonze (Hey Geronimo) is ten dollops of sweet ethereal goodness, filled with indelible melodies and dreamy, cloudy and hypnotic soundscapes. Jonze displays an ear for melody brushed with a degree of theatricality which makes for a thoroughly enjoyable listen. This is an ambitious album presented in widescreen with …
Premiere: Simon Robert Gibson pays tribute to his musical heroes in his own eloquent and erudite way in single ‘Salvation’.
Simon Robert Gibson may well sing salvation is found in songs from a list of his musical heroes, but his hope to be listed amongst the few is boosted by his new single ‘Salvation’, which we are honoured to premiere today. Lush instrumentation and an indelible melody serve this song well, as does the direct …
EP: Teenage Dads release a magnificent dosage of ‘Club Echo’ and announce launch tour
Teenage Dads are a familiar indie quartet from the Morning Peninsula. Their glittery indie music has been winning over fans and listeners throughout the country, and rightfully so when every song they write radiates charisma and peculiarity. Their new eight-track EP ‘Club Echo’ is an idiosyncratic take on the concepts of transformation and perception; poignant …
Track: Chris Liebing unveils the vocal techno euphoria of ‘Circles’, feat. Tom Adams
HIS CAREER behind the decks and in the studio, fostering the techno scene in his home city of Frankfurt, spanning its third decade now, Chris Liebing shows no signs of either losing his edge nor his acuity at a creating a banger. His new opus, Another Day, is out on Mute just a day more …