Music
Track: SOM – Moment
With their album due 21st January via Pelagic Records and their European tour opening for Katatonia and Sólstafir, SOM have shared their Alex Pace directed video for epic new single ‘Moment’. The band comments: “We wanted The Shape of Everything to open with something heavy and dark, but also offer some tangible hopefulness as well. So pretty early …
Track: Sydney’s Hawker Announce Debut Double A-side Single Bot Noxious / Chaka
Hailing from Sydney’s northern beaches, the four-piece – Jefferson Grainger on guitar/vocals, Ish Karunanayake on lead guitar, Chris Grainger on bass and Jason Robertson on drums – conjure the spirit of grunge for the 2020s, its searing music invoking the likes of grunge-era royalty like Nirvana, Mudhoney, Helmet, Hole and Tool. To celebrate the release …
Track: Breacher – Hollowed Out
New alternative hardcore band Breacher have shared their first official music video for their track ‘Hollowed Out’. A torrential down pour of heavy drums, and raging guitars with the roughest of vocals that are just perfect. The guys manage to pack some raw emotion that sits within the noise. The energetic rock guitar adds a …
Track: GGGOLDDD – Notes On How To Trust
Dutch alternative pop innovators GGGOLDDD (previously known as GOLD) have announced details on their fifth studio album, ‘This Shame Should Not Be Mine’ which is set for release on 1st April via Artoffact Records.They have also shared the powerful new video for, ‘Notes on How to Trust’ In the silence of 2020’s lockdown, Milena Eva …
Say Psych: Album Review: The KVB – Unity
The KVB are back with a new album, Unity, which was released recently via Invada Records. Movement – and lack of movement – is a crucial backdrop to the latest album from the audio-visual duo of Wood and Kat Day. The seeds of the album were sown in demo form in Spain, shortly followed by …
Meet: Shane Embury The Creative Mind Behind Dark Sky Burial
With the release of the fourth instalment of his Dark Sky Burial project, album ‘Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret’ (read our review here). We caught up with Shane Embury to find out who, what and why. First off. How are you doing now that we are hopefully seeing the end of the current …
Album Review: Dark Sky Burial – Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret
“Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret” is the 4th album from Dark Sky Burial, the new musical venture from Napalm Death’s Shane Embury. The album’s title translates as, “Life is one long struggle in the Dark.” The dark ambient soundscapes and unsettling industrial noise textures, with disorientating, electronic moments were composed by Shane Embury …
Premiere: Stump’s whispering foil Kev Hopper returns for Dimple Discs – hear the rubbery baroque pop excellence of ‘The Dog Walker’
STUMP were one of those ultra-Peel bands, like The Noseflutes, Bogshed, The Fire Engines, who sorta belonged to the (no doubt press-confected) ‘shambling’ movement of the Eighties – Beefheartian, collapsed, askance, freakishly fun, revealing truths about the world from an oblique perch above it all. They had an all-too-brief moment of notoriety in the public …
Tracks: Psymon Spine double drop the psychedelic electro doses, ‘Mr Metronome’ and ‘Drums Valentino’
NEW YORK sonic collective Psymon Spine, who push out past the amazing cosmic glitter of Tame Impala and take current indie-psychedelic-disco thinking to other realms, have double dropped two new neon flavours to bring extra sparkle and glow to your Christmas season: a digital double A, “Mr. Metronome” and “Drums Valentino”, both of which are …
See: The Delines sleep all day to escape in delicate country-soul togetherness ‘Past The Shadows’
PORTLAND’S lovely The Delines have a first full album in three years coming to us in February, in which they cross country to the Gulf Coast, from there to bring you 11 beautifully wrought tales of lives lived, unremarkable and yet also wholly remarkable, all couched in empathetic retro-soul, lush horns and strings. The album’s …