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EP REVIEW: Blanketman’s ‘National Trust’ – A Northern state of mind
MANCHESTER indie-pop and post-punk outfit Blanketman have come a long way since their early years. A band that has created a hard-earned and well-deserved name for themselves after performing extensively in their hometown, it’s no surprise that their debut EP, the brilliantly titled National Trust, is very much about their own story and identity. Arguably …
Track and EP News: Tommy Ashby and Lydia Clowes – Happy Just to Know
Scottish singer-songwriter, Tommy Ashby has released his duet with Lydia Clowes, ‘Happy Just To Know’. It’s out via Wow & Flutter Records and is the first single from his new EP, ‘Lay Low’, which is out on 14th May. It’s an absolutely brilliant slice of life-affirming joy from start to finish and is that song …
Track: Sam Genovese – ‘Signals For Signs’: ambience with a ceremonial concept ahead of April’s album
“SIGNALS FOR SIGNS” is a hard cut to horns heralding and welcoming the euphoria of the new. “The music invokes the sound of a union, not unlike a marriage ceremony. It unabashedly reaches toward the beautiful while grounding and holding us in a low-end hug.” So says Sam Genovese of his new and deeply wrapping ambient single …
Track: Hainbach -‘Funktionsverlust’: Cold War-era technology sings its dying drone song
BERLIN’S Hainbach, the avatar for the world of the sonic and the aural which Stefan Goetsch comes out to invent under, is all set to release a new investigation of sound for London-based SA Recordings come April 9th; and a very inventive, avant-garde excursion it is too. For on Landfill Totems, Stefan’s irrepressible wonder in …
Track: duendita reveals the incredible Open Eyes as part of Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass series
Released as part of Mexican Summer’s ongoing Looking Glass series, which focuses on the human condition and is bathed in collaboration, discovery and diversity, Open Eyes is the new single from singer/producer duendita. Of the single she says “Open Eyes celebrates my mission to grow and change despite trauma. It’s a reflection on faith, trust …
See: The Catenary Wires reveal new video to accompany single, Mirrorball; get an early peek here
We’ve covered the track earlier, here, so let’s cover the facts, just to be clear. Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey, aka The Catenary Wires, following a track record that features Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Tender Trap and Marine Research, are rightly revered as indie pop deitys. These days they’re still preaching the jangle pop word through …
Album review: Deniz Cuylan – ‘No Such Thing As Free Will’: a pastoral instrumental guitar gem
No Such Thing As Free Will is a much prettier and more enveloping record than words can convey; it has a really nice poise between the disciplines of the leftfield, the guitar soli and that of bright folk melody. In this regard if you’re a fan of early to mid-period James Blackshaw, but also very much the quartet of ‘free folk’ albums Stockholm’s Andreas Söderström released as ASS in the decade from 2006, you’ll find an awful lot to love. A bright, studious, harmonic, pastoral gem
Track: Nicky Elisabeth reveals new single, the gorgeous techno of Celeste
Despite the lack of dancefloor action, other than in our own kitchens, front rooms and gardens, there’s still some incredible music being released with a new track from Kompakt stable Nicky Elisabeth out now. For the uninitiated, Nicky Elisabeth resides in Amsterdam and is one of the resident DJs at De Marktkantine, and has been …
Track: Martin Gore reveals mesmerising ANNA remix of Howler
Speech Mode mainstay Martin Gore has recently released his new EP The Third Chimpanzee, on the ever brilliant Mute Records. Howler, taken from the release, has now been remixed by Brazilian DJ ANNA, who’s been busy recently remixing the likes of Grimes (on the Miss Anthropocene(Rave Edition) album and Jon Hopkins’ ‘Singularity’. All sweeping electronics and …
Track: Chaz Knapp – ’97F At 9PM’: The Texas heat captured in off-centre organ drune
CHAZ KNAPP, the Dallas-based lo-fi organ frontiersman whose previous single drop, the warm ‘n’ weird “My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess” and accompanying blood-soaked video we fell down the rabbit hole of at the back end of January, has just dropped another self-styled drune, “97F At 9PM”, full of the Texas heat. Come drench …