Music
News: Tangents continue to explore beyond jazz and go double or quits with new album ‘Timeslips & Chimeras’; hear the propulsive electronica fusion of ‘Lilliputian’
WITH their last album release, last year’s Timeslips, finding itself somewhat hobbled by – c’mon, you know, it made us all stay in for months on end – the enigmatic Australian quartet Tangents have decided to go double or quits and are set to rerelease that most recent set in tandem with a new set …
See: The spectacular, cellular-level abstractions accompanying the slow beauty of amiina’s ‘Beacon’
WITH music this beautiful, it’s so very good to see them back: the Icelandic quartet amiina, who’ve been away for half a decade, have returned to the fray with the musically beautiful and visually spectacular new single, “Beacon”, which you can watch herein. The song is taken from the forthcoming Pharology EP, which the band …
See: Laura Masotto and Roger Goula – ‘Refugees’: highlighting the daily tragedies playing out in the Mediterranean in modern compositional evocation
AT THE beginning of last year, the supremely talented Italian violinist and composer Laura Masotto had just began a residency at the former textile mill turned centre for the arts Fabra I Coats, in Barcelona, where she was planning on beginning the process which would lead to her new album, WE, which is due out …
Track: Dope Lemon sinks its teeth into sweet soul on new single ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’
Following on from recent single Kids Fallin In Love and Every Day Is A Holiday (with Winston Surfshirt) come more cruisy coastal sounds from Dope Lemon, in the form of new track Rose Pink Cadillac. Sounding like a sunny 60s soul standard, the song invokes a retro vibe but makes it modern, with sassy guitar …
News: Derbyshire’s lovely Haiku Salut announce a spectrally concerned new album for August; watch a short making-of doc
MOVING away from their recent investigations of the film score, which includes their last full album proper, 2019’s The General, a score for Buster Keaton’s 1926 early slapstick comedy classic, and two short film commissions last year, Derbyshire’s completely gorgeous (fan? Moi?) post-folk trio Haiku Salut have announced they’re releasing their fifth album in August …
See: The home studio video for the acoustic warmth of Yuma Abe’s ‘Omeamo’
WE’VE thrilled to the stream of Japanese psych bands that have been melting our heads over the past few decades – Acid Mothers Temple, Ghost, Bo Ningen, Kikagaku Moyo; embraced fully and irrevocably Japanese ambient formalism, in the shape of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chihei Hatekeyama, et al. Perhaps it’s time we drew back from the exploratory …
See: Loraine James – ‘Running Like That’ feat. Eden Samara: future beats, inner turmoil and a forest fire
GROWING up on the North London-Hertfordshire borders of Enfield, producer Loraine James was up on the escarpment, able to gaze down across London in the bowl of the Thames valley below. That skyline, the city so near, silhouetted, morphing as new towers grew from reinforced steel skeletons, informed and continues to inform her enthralling future …
News: EGOISM release new single and video, catch their tour with Odette now
Dream-pop duo EGOISM are supporting Odette on their East Coast tour this month, following the release of new single Lonely But Not Alone. The tour re-commenced last night with a hometown show at Sydney’s The Factory Theatre, before moving on to Newcastle and Canberra. This follows already successful shows in Queensland and Byron Bay. EGOISM is …
ME REX announce debut album ‘Megabear’ and share single ‘Galena’
Relatively speaking, it hasn’t been too long since we last heard from Brighton band ME REX, the solo-project-turned-full-band spearheaded by Myles McCabe and filled out by Kathryn Woods, Phoebe Cross and Rich Mandel – all current or former members of Fresh, Cheerbleederz and Happy Accidents (seriously, those three are in so many bands) – as …
News: The Gun Club’s 1981 debut ‘Fire Of Love’ is next for the deluxe, expanded reissue treatment; watch a teaser
FOLLOWING on from last autumn’s majorly expanded reissue of Miami – read our piece on that, here – Blixa Sounds have now turned their fine archival attention to The Gun Club’s album from the year before – 40 years on now, their punk-blues debut Fire Of Love is getting the deluxe treatment and will be …