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See: Tristan Welch – ‘I Live In Filth’: Washington guitarist presents icy dronescapes
WASHINGTON’S dark ambient guitarchitect Tristan Welch has announced a new album for the end of April, Temporary Preservation; and has released a first taster single in the twilit soundscapes of “I Live In Filth”. Take a listen herein. Tristan follows on from last year’s Capitalist Teeth and Ambient Distress and continues his sonic exploration of …
Throwing Snow – ‘Lithics’: an organic, midtempo call to euphoric IDM prayer
ROSS TONES, the Northern Englishman who’s made his way to a rural retreat in the South West via the capital, is regarded as something of a mainstay over at Houndstooth, the label that’s spiralled out of London’s fabric club. He’s just followed up last year’s The Folly of Pangloss EP, which he released under the …
See: Aderyn releases new visuals for her single, Silver Screen
If you caught ‘Lucozade’, the debut single from singer-songwriter Aderyn, you’re interest would no doubt have been peeked by her rough at the edges, melodic indie pop, and that is set to increase further with the follow up Silver Screen, out right now. The South Wales artist , started out playing drums in grunge bands …
News: Bob Mould Announces Next Part of Solo Career Anthology
Not content with having released one of the best punk rock albums of last year, ‘Blue Hearts’, former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould has announced plans to release the third part of his ‘Distortion’ series of vinyl boxed sets covering his post-Hüsker Dü career between 1989 and 2019. This set will cover his solo work …
Track: Berlin Post-Punks Kamoos release new single, Orang-Utans
Berlin-based post-punks Kamoos have returned, with a new line up, indcluding members of the Three Marias and Voodoo Beach, but still fronted and led by London-born front woman, Juliette Wallace. They’ve just released their new single – Orang-Utans, and with it comes a video shot by Juliette in lockdown. Dark and moody, Orang-Utans creeps and …
Track: Matt Robertson – ‘Kalimba’: a grand, chattering, acid sweep
GROWING up listening to a mixture of Jean-Michel Jarre and Jimmy Smith, Matt Robertson certainly had a good early primer in the weirder beauties of music; big-screen synthesiser worlds, the grooviest, cinematic organ jazz (you mean you haven’ heard Jimmy Smith’s The Cat?) After university, Matt matriculated into the world of the recording studio. He’s worked …
Track: Aetherian release an environmental friendly track ‘Primordial Woods’
Melodic death metallers Aetherian released a new single, ‘Primordial Woods’ featuring the distinctive vocals of Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ. The band states of the song: “These past few years our planet is experiencing a rapid change of the global climate. The extent of fires in Australia, the Amazon rainforest and the Siberian boreal forest, …
Track: Harker – The Beast Must Die
Brighton, UK punk rock band Harker have shared a new single ‘The Beast Must Die’. The track is taken off the band’s upcoming LP ‘Axiom’ out April 23rd on Wiretap Records, Disconnect Disconnect Records, Shield Recordings, Fixing A Whole Records. “The Beast Must Die’ is based on the idea of ‘Mono-consciousness’ by English writer Colin Wilson – as a philosopher, Wilsons writing …
Track: Evil Drive – We Are One
Finish melodic metal band Evil Drive have shared a new track ‘We Are One’, taken from the upcoming album ‘Demons Within’ due 2nd April via Reaper Entertainment. Announcing the track with clattering cymbals and a wall of sound from the guitars. The melodic lead playing for the chorus sounds great underneath Viktoria Viren’s death growl …
See: Eydís Evensen – ‘Wandering II’: gliding pastoralism from Icelandic composer
SONY is venturing into the world of modern composition and has set up a new imprint, XXIM Records, to issue musics from that liminal space where classical abuts ambient and experimental; its first signing is the Icelandic composer and pianist Eydís Evensen. Eydís hails from the remote town of Blönduós in the north of Iceland. …