Music
Track: Cosmic Crooner’s ‘Popsicle Place’ comes highly recommended as a slice of doowop space pop
AMSTERDAM-based singer-songwriter Cosmic Crooner is back in his own Willy Wonka-esque dreamworld of sleazy cool with his new single, “Popsicle Place”. Following the release of his debut, Nouvelle Vague-inspired single “Deep Down In Jazz”, Cosmic Crooner hits all the notes when it comes to bringing the quirks and charm of 70s’ psychedelic lounge music. I …
Track: Paper Birch – ‘Love For The Things Yr Not’: Fergus from Urusei Yatsura’s new duo drop a deliciously Velvetsy lo-fi noise-country outing
PAPER BIRCH is the new experimental lo-fi brainchild of Fergus Lawrie, founder member of cult Glaswegian indie rock scourers Urusei Yatsura (check the low-slung brilliance of “Fake Fur”), and Dee Sada, elsewhere of London experimentalists NEUMES and An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump. The two seekers found each other as everything kinda …
See: LARRY THE PINK THE HUMAN drop a video for the wistful skitter of ‘NO WRONG NO RIGHT’ and announce a brace of UK dates
THE self-styled and fully capitalised music, art and video project LARRY PINK THE HUMAN have dropped a new single ahead of a brace of upcoming live dates. “No Wrong No Right” is a spacious skitter of psych-lite guitar, spoken word stream, bass thrum and chanted, wistful yearn to a significant other to recognise what they …
Track: Happy Axe spins gossamer chamber-folk delight with ‘One Morning’ – there’s even a musical saw
HAPPY AXE is the gossamer-delicate, intimately confessional dream-folk project of Canberra-born, Melbourne-based Emma Kelly, who’ll be releasing her second album, Maybe It’ll Be Beautiful, early in July. And she’s been kind enough to share a delicate gem from that, her second album; “One Morning” is whispery with reverb, processes through the secret garden on fragile …
Track: Enslaved – Fenris (live)
Enslaved have revealed the video to be taken from their forthcoming Cinematic Tour 2020 live releases as part of their 30th anniversary revelries, the band has today premiered a live video for their single ‘Fenris’. A classic track from their early days. Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson commented, “Fenris was perhaps the first song we wrote that got a massive encore demand, and before we actually had a …
Track: Nahaya – Vital Alchemy
Texan based band Nahaya (ft. members of Oceans of Slumber, Vesperian Sorrow, ex-Kingdom Collapse, Painting The Massacre, Cerebral Desecration) have shared their latest video for the title track from their new album, entitled ‘Vital Alchemy’, available now via Rockshots Records. The track features guest vocals from Aeternam’s Achraf Loudiy. The band adds: “Vital Alchemy is inspired by books like the Kybalion …
Remixed – Yelfris Valdés: For The Ones
Cuban artist, composer and trumpet player Yelfris Valdés once again joins forces with Jazz FM Resident TimGarcia’s label Música Macondo, inviting an impressive roster of producers to remix and reinterpret a selection ofthe LP’s standout tracks. His 2019 debut LP ‘For The One’s’ saw Yelfris delving deep into his Yoruba religion and its shamanic chants, …
Premiere: Monnone Alone reveal new video for single ‘Time is on the run’
Former Lucksmiths bassist Mark Monnone returns with a follow up to recent Feel It Disappearing single, with another – Time is on the run. It’s under his Monnone Alone moniker and is taken from his forthcoming album Stay Foggy, out on September 3rd. We’re absolutely delighted to be able to premiere the accompanying video right …
Track: The Still Brothers feat. Kim Foxen – ‘When Will I See U?’: smooth Brooklyn retro-soul couches the lockdown loneliness
HOXTON’S Lewis Recordings know a little about a mighty fine groove when they hear one. Let that be a matter of record. We’ve covered the doings of the Still Brothers in this pages before, when they dropped the “The Deep”/”Wake Up” on 7″ in the heights of last summer, a cracker inspired by and incorporating …
See: The Bridget Rileyesque animation accompanying Solar Eyes’ debut baggy-psych double drops, ‘Acid Test’ and ‘Nothing’s For Free’
FROM times of privation, creativity may arise as a channelling of the anxieties, the energies, of the moments of crisis, Such is the pandemic beginnings of the baggy-psych voyage of upcoming Brit trio Solar Eyes, whose debut offering, “Acid Test”, is with us right here, right now. Solar Eyes is the psychedelic venture of Glenn Smyth, on …