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Live Review: Cud – Leadmill, Sheffield 22.10.2021
Words: Jim F / Pictures: Phil Kidd It’s almost like a select club as we talk to people ‘in the know’ at Sheffield’s Leadmill. Most of us ‘of a certain age’, we compare the first time we saw them (conjecture for me – Huddersfield Uni, Leeds Warehouse or an all-dayer in Bradford, probably about 1989? …
See: Bodega release new video for lead single ‘Doers’, from forthcoming album Broken Equipment
Brooklyn art-punks Bodega have revealed the follow up to their acclaimed debut album Endless Scroll with a new full length, Broken Equipment, out via What’s Your Rupture?, out on March 11th next year. Ahead of it’s release the band have released a new video for lead single track Doers, a track which pokes fun at …
Say Psych: Live Review: Girls In Synthesis @ Rough Trade, Nottingham 23.10.2021
Tonight at Rough Trade, non profit organisation Rock Against Racism Nottingham are hosting London’s Girls In Synthesis. Formed in 2016, they have acquired somewhat of a cult following, and with good reason. If you’re looking for a sound that’s somewhere between something you know really well, and something you’ve never heard before, you don’t have …
Track: Hatcham Social return with the new / old track ‘If you got down to the woods today (three cheers for our side)’
Our right now digitally via the ever wonderful Fierce Panda label is the new track from London band Hatcham Social, based around brothers Finn and Toby. Well technically, although its new as in its never been released, it was actually recorded more than ten years ago. It will feature on the bands forthcoming career-spanning compilation …
See: Tears For Fears release new video for forthcoming album title track, The Tipping Point
17 years in the making, comes the first new album from legendary synth-pop duo Tears for Fears. Out on February 25th via Concord Records the pair have just released the video for the title track of the record, The Tipping Point. Of the process of making The Tipping Point, Roland Orzabel says Before everything went …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles / Mermaid Chunky – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield 23.10.2021, plus gallery
Words: PeteMo / Pictures: Nick Lowe Hailing from the basement & underground party scene of the east end of London, Snapped Ankles materialised like a strange & mythical apparition in front of an eager and discerning capacity crowd in the steel city, on a dank Saturday night. The venue, a working man’s club, dimly lit and heated to …
Live review: Mildred Maude, Falmouth, October 23rd 2021
CUSPING exploratory instrumental trio Mildred Maude, newly signed to that reliable imprimatur Sonic Cathedral and with their second album, the incendiary, (mostly) longform stylings of Sleepover (our thoughts on that here) newly in the racks, decided to come home for their album launch do; and not just to Cornwall, but to the venue where they …
Album review: Spiritczualic Enhancement Center – ‘Carpet Album’: filmic, psychedelic and enveloping – travel deep, travel wisely
IT’S ONE of those sentences you hear periodically when chewing the fat about the music: “Ooh no, though, I really don’t like jazz”. Which, each to their own, live and let live, vive la difference without question; but, which, you imagine may be based on some particularly untethered, free-associating inversion of the style, say, Coltrane’s …
Track: Adelaide’s NO NO NO NO NO Releases the fuzzy, gritty ‘Sharksfin’
Adelaide pop core band NO NO NO NO NO, along with a brilliant name, have delivered a chockfull gritty new single titled ‘Sharksfin’. Arrayed with fuzz and polyphonous entities, its modern sensitivities embolden a new resolute energy with emphasis on emotional weight. NO NO NO NO NO, abbreviated as NX5, convey their inexorable strengths through …
News: Amigo The Devil Announces UK, Irish and mainland Europe Tour; Thats Not To Be Missed
Currently in the middle of a US tour to promote his 2021 album ‘Born Against’ (read our review here), Dark Americana star Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) has just announced a set of UK, Irish and mainland European dates for March/April 2022, with tickets available for sale from today (22nd October). It is the …