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Track: Jon + Larsen reveal new future rave banger, Lose My Faith
Out right now on Golden Chocolate Records is the ‘Lose My Faith’, the new future rave track from German Duo Jon + Larsen. Coming out of the EDM scene, its a follow up to much admired recent singles Something To Lose and Rush. Some tracks are often touted as bangers. Lose My Faith DEFINITELY is! …
See: Kate Nash reveals new video for first new music in 18 months, Misery
Returning with her first new music in 18 month, Singer-songwriter, actor and activist Kate Nash’s brand new single is the bittersweet ‘Misery’. Of the song, which focuses on the feelings of quarantine, Kate says “I definitely went through depression. For the most part of the year, I just didn’t have the energy and I was …
See: Curtis Harding reveals new video for ‘Hopeful’
Legendary Soul voice Curtis Harding returns with his first new music since 2018, with a single ‘Hopeful’, accompanied by a video directed by photojournalist Lynsey Weatherspoon. Right from the off, it’s a gospel soul banger, the sort which manages (somehow) to sound right now in the present, but could have been written and recorded any …
Track: Jesabel releases debut single ‘Gemini’ and it’s a spinning mirror ball of a gem
She’s spent the last 8 years DJing at massive festivals around Australia, South East Asia and New Zealand as well as playing alongside and supporting artists including Ed Sheeran, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, Bliss N Eso, Showtek, Timmy Trumpet, Will Sparks and Havana Brown. And now, EDM scene mainstayer, Jesabel is riding on the release of her electro-pop debut, Gemini. The track takes its …
News: The Limiñanas and Laurent Garnier unveil details of new album and share ‘Que Calor’
FRENCH psych purveyors The Limiñanas and producer and DJ Laurent Garnier are set to release a collaborative album entitled Pelicula, splicing the trio’s affections for psychedelia with their equal fondness for cinema. Anton Newcombe was also key in the cementing of their friendship and musical partnership. Laurent worked alongside the trio of musical forces that …
Track: Eädyth – ‘Inhale & Exhale’: Valleys soul talent arrives on Libertino with words of wisdom
COMING down valley from Merthyr to sign for Cardiff’s Libertino Records, Welsh-English electro-soul singer Eädyth has just dropped her first single for her new label, the languorous, conscious groove of “Inhale & Exhale”; a song that lets us know for we should sit up and pay attention on two fronts. Firstly, that a new British …
See: The enigmatic Second Idol unveils gritty video for the thumping single ‘Out of Time’
Second Idol‘s powerful EP ‘Defence Mechanism’, reviewed by me here, is a refreshing blast of indie rock, and the band has just released a video for the brilliant track ‘Out of Time’. It’s a simple performance piece that reinforces the fact that this is a band with an enormous presence and enigmatic style. Cool, louche …
Track: Make a montage release the evocative dreamy instrumental ‘Horizon Blur’.
There is an indelible feeling of euphoria emanating from the new instrumental track by Brisbane band Make a montage. The track surges and recedes and flows with a sparkle and vivacity: scaling guitars that sweep over the wash of percussion and strings: distance feedback squalls like seabirds in flight and there is a magnificent, pulse …
News: FatCat call time on the Split Series with a final 12″ from Ian William Craig and Kago; hear the latter’s ‘Tetermats 2’
I DON’T know about you, with the vinyl revival – I mean, really, it’s a re-arrival now, isn’t it, here again for the foreseeable – that maybe the 12″ is one thing that hasn’t really had the credit it’s due in the resurgence. For while the LP, double LP; hell even the loud-cut, 45rpm, 180gm, …
Track: Kevin Richard Martin shares the title track from his deeply eerie, forthcoming rescoring of the sci-fi classic, ‘Solaris’
KNOWN in the hallowed halls of dark electronica for his work as The Bug, King Midas Sound and others, when Kevin Richard Martin was offered a commission to write, record and perform a new score for a film of his choice by the Vooruit Arts Centre in Ghent, it’s perhaps not altogether a surprise that …