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Feature: Supreme Joy give us an exclusive track by track run down of their new album, Joy
If you’re a fan of Cool Ghouls, one of the bands mainstays, Ryan Wong, has today released an album ‘Joy’ of his own, under the moniker Supreme Joy. Based partly on Japanese art magazines, Joy is filled with echoey, attractive indie/post-punk pop – packed with tunes, with nods towards psych, noise and shoegaze along the …
See: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘Wasting Time’: LA trio wreathe in a fog of classic Seventies’ rock glamour
“Castaway was a record born out of frustration.” Tashaki Miyaki singer Paige Stark says; “I felt stuck in every single aspect of life, and writing was my way of venting.” The trio’s aforementioned second album, Castaway, will be with us come July 2nd – you’ll find pre-order details below; but let us turn to the matter in hand, …
News: Noughties shoegaze revivalists Sennen’s debut album gets a vinyl issue from Sonic Cathedral; see the video for their new single, ‘Forty Years’
WHEN shoegaze was so cruelly traduced by the inkies, dazzle-eyed by their enthralment with the twin coming of grunge and early Britpop, us aficionados shed a quiet tear for a lovely sound, a gorgeous aesthetic seemingly consigned to the history books; but you can’t, as we can see in retrospect, keep a great idea down. …
Track: Hauskey shares blissfully bittersweet new single ‘Cream Shirt’
Musician and producer Hauskey has released new single Cream Shirt via slowplay/Republic Records/Polydor Records. The track follows the insanely talented all-rounder’s 2020 debut EP Slow and his breakout singles, Slow and Somewhere, which racked up an incredible two million Spotify streams each and received widespread airplay from the likes of triple j and BBC Radio …
Premiere: Olec Mün – ‘Paloma’: locked down in Barcelona, the Argentinian pianist finds beauty taking flight
BORN in Argentina in 1985, Marcelo Schnock aka, for the purposes of the world of composition, Olec Mün, has been playing the piano since the age of 6. For him, the piano has been his first and lifelong affair; a fluid symbiosis of expression in sound that a non-player such as me can only wonder …
Track: Brisbane artist Edith Thomas Furey unleashes the evocative post punk slasher ‘Evenings in the Park With Charles (Part 3).
Like some dark demonic apparition, Edith Thomas Furey‘s new track ‘Evenings in the Park with Charles (Part 3)’ looms in the darkness of the night with a brooding, foreboding prowl, close to the ground with teeth bared. It is an absolutely delicious piece of post punk gloom – a roaming throbbing bass, crystal-cut guitars that …
Album Review: Allday’s ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ is an atmospheric masterclass in dreamy, melancholic indie pop
Adelaide born but now Melbourne resident Allday (the moniker of Tom Gaynor) magnificent album ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ has been anticipated by a series of stunning singles that have indicated the presence of a special artist. Known more for rap, this album is a new turn – melodic dream pop that is sparkling. Opening track ‘Void’ is …
See: SadGirl lament a broken love with ‘Goodbye Queenie’ and announce a west coast tour
WITH their debut album, Water, out now on Suicide Squeeze, Los Angeles’ SadGirl are inviting you to come join them in a world of intimate, no-messin’, old-school country, like it used to be; you just need an acoustic guitar, a microphone, plenty, plenty of reverb and a way with a tune. Maybe a broken heart, …
Bristol’s post-punk-rave scorchers Scalping drop ‘Empty Cascade’, announce a June EP and dates, including Squarepusher shows
BRISTOL’S groove-heavy post-rave, post-punk sound system scorchers Scalping are celebrating signing to Houndstooth with a first full EP drop next month; from which they wish to whisk you deep into their eternally strobe-lit 2am tent with a first reveal, “Empty Cascade”. Melt your mind below. The track, we’re told, is a mission statement, mixing the …
lilo surface with the restrained elegance of debut single ‘Change’
London-based duo lilo may only now be getting started in earnest, but the creative partnership between Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon stretches back a decade. You may even have heard some of their music – the lilo’s singles club EP arrived in February, collecting the batch of songs the pair released last year on a …