Music
Track: London DIY-Indie band Buggs release new glittering single – ‘Flaws’
From London-based four piece Buggs, comes their newest single: “Flaws.” Chief among a fresh wave of lockdown-inspired music, the song tries to capture the nightmare of overthinking when in isolation. Produced, recorded and mixed by the band members themselves, it’s a true to life DIY piece that balances the heaviness of its themes with the …
Premiere: Alan McGee signing Cat SFX release new video for Upside Down
That Alan McGee knows a thing or two about signing bands, so it’s always worth keeping an eye on whats happening in his world. Signed to his Creation Baby label is Cat SFX, aka Caterina Speranza (Vox) alongside Giancarlo Mariani (guitar), Jacob Morris (bass), and Gordon Mills (drums). They make this filthy sounding punk/post-punk noise, …
Track: Brighton’s Ditz decry the low-paid, daily grind on the howlin’ ‘Ded Würst’
SICK to the back teeth of your arse of a job, bare minimum on the table for you to break your back for? Jesus, ain’t it the way. We’ve all been there, all dug out the hell of that kinda job; and here’s the latest single from ragin’ Sussex quintet Ditz, themselves sick of the …
See: ginla bring the reflective dreampop of ‘Bloodstream’ to warm your autumn
GINLA, the creative space in which Adrianne Lenker’s super-creative musicians Joe Nellen and Joe Manzoli – sidemen? Do me a favour, these two are so much more than that – are bursting with future pop ideas; as evidenced by the rather lovely “Bloodstream”, the single they’ve just unveiled. With a digital debut album under their …
Premiere: Wade Jackson releases the electronic dreamy fugue of ‘Sensationalized’
Wade Jackson is a multi talented songwriter, musician and film director whose new track ‘Sensationalized’, which we are proud to premiere today, is a mesmerising soundscape that bubbles and flows along with an electronic thrum. Wild synth sounds ebb and flow over the circular undercurrent, before launching into an exuberant flange half way through the …
News: Christopher Coleman & The Great Escape announce debut album ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ and release the achingly beautiful single ‘Paloona’
There’s something of the beautiful untamed wilderness of Tasmania, perched isolated on the edge of the world with a deep dark history, deeply infused in the new track from Christopher Coleman & The Great Escape ‘Paloona’. Its scope is cinematic, its delivery anthemic and the instrumentation unbound. The song, featuring a semi-autobiographical character, captures a …
See: Shoegaze maestros EEP release video for track ‘No Inbetween’ ahead of their new album ‘Winter Skin’
El Paso shoegaze exponents extraordinaire EEP will be releasing their much anticipated new album ‘Winter Skin’ on Friday, 5 November 2021, and have today released a video for the track ‘No Inbetween’, shot by Subharmonic City Productions and edited by their own multi talented singer Rosie Varela (who released her own debut single ‘Low’ earlier …
Track: Brisbane troubadour Aren’t releases the gorgeous ‘For Love (featuring Georgia Harvey)’ ahead of EP release and announces launch gig.
Brisbane artist Aren’t‘s new single ‘For Love’ is exquisitely beautiful – a poised and reflective piece of indie folk that is delicate and mesmerising. I was lucky enough to witness to this being played live at the recent 4000 Records Birthday Party (where the hauntingly glacial Amber Ramsay from Cloud Tangle took on the backing …
Track: Charlie Clark continues his world domination of jangly indie pop with the glittering ‘Blink Of An Eye’, out through No Big Deal Music, plus news of new material from his band Astrid
Charlie Clark has been lasciviously fluttering his eyelashes at us ahead of his debut album release with a stream of jangly anthemic indie pop gems over the last year (see my reviews for the magnificent tracks ‘Don’t Have A Cow‘, ‘Late Night Drinking‘, ‘No Big Deal‘ and ‘A Bridge To Your Idol‘). While the album …
See: Richard Dawson/Circle reveal ‘Methuselah’, an epic rush of folk /metal story telling.
Ever tried keeping up with Richard Dawson? It’s a challenge that always pays off. Over the past couple of years we’ve been gifted his reflective and resonant song craft on ‘2020’, the poptastic quirkiness of Hen Ogledd’s ‘Free Humans’ and the woozy, lockdown ambience of ‘Bulbils’. Now comes more news of Dawson’s restless musicality shooting …