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SEE: Ailsa Tully – ‘Parasite’: a bass-led tune with masked lyrical steel
HAILING from Welsh border country, Ailsa Tully is a singer-songwriter whose instrument of choice, the bass, brings a new slant to the crowded sphere of singer-songwriting. We fell pretty hard for her first single for Dalliance Recordings, “Drive”, back around Hallowe’en, noting that bass-led thing it possesses evoked “… a sweeter Breeders … her bass …
See: Tindersticks release new video for Man Alone (can’t stop the fadin’)
Tindersticks have released a new video for their track Man Alone (Can’t Stop the Fadin’), taken from their forthcoming album ‘Distractions’, out via City Slang on February 19th. It’s the opening track of the record and the longest track the band have ever made. Stuart A. Staples from the band comments on the track saying: “This song …
News: Enforcer To Release Live Album and shares first single ‘From Beyond (Live)’
Swedish heavy metal band Enforcer are proud to present their second live album, Live By Fire II, due 19th March via Nuclear Blast Records. The band have also released a live video for the first single ‘From Beyond’. Olof Wikstrand comments: “‘From Beyond’ has, since the release of that album, become a live favourite both for the band and the …
Track: Thunder – Going To Sin City
British rockers Thunder have released the brand new single ‘Going To Sin City’, the second taste of their upcoming 13th studio album ‘All The Right Noises’ out March 12th 2021 on BMG. On the song, guitarist and songwriter Luke Morley says: “It’s based on the first time Danny (Thunder vocalist Danny Bowes) and I went to LA in the …
Track: Mouse On Mars – Artificial Authentic
Mouse On Mars, the visionary electronic duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, have shared their new single ‘Artificial Authentic’, taken from their forthcoming album AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence), out Feb. 26th via Thrill Jockey Created through the development of new technologies that warp the text and voices of Chude-Sokei and DJ/producer and programmer Yağmur Uçkunkaya into playable instruments. The Duo have …
See: Bradford reveal new video for My Wet Face
You’ll know if you follow Backseat Mafia with any great regularity that we go weak at the knees for anything by underrated, undiscovered in many ways, indie rock band Bradford. The latest little gem to be taken from ‘Bright Hours’, the bands first album in over 30 years (out on February 19th), is My Wet …
ALBUM REVIEW: Yung – ‘Ongoing Dispute’
Ongoing Dispute is is an album of maturity and fittingly, a grower with each listen
NEWS: Telex announce ‘This Is Telex’ comp for Mute; see ‘Moskow Diskow’
BELGIAN synthpop originators ‘n’ pranksters Telex have announced they’re going into partnership with Mute, the very first realisation of which is a career retrospective in This is Telex, a new 14-track compilation, featuring new mixes of 12 classics from the oeuvre and a brace of previously unreleased tracks. This is Telex will be released on limited …
TRACK: Azita – ‘Online Life’: Drag City songstress returns
YOU WILL probably remember Azita as a quiet singer-songwriter, but nine years have passed since her last release, so a new, rockier style in Lou Reed’s guise is not too surprising in the end. To be honest, her last album, Year, had already started to drift away from her initial chamber-folk style. The Iranian-American songwriter …
TRACK: Mint Julep – ‘Black Maps’
Announced less than a year after their last album release, Stray Fantasies, which came out in January 2020, Mint Julep return in March with a new album entitled In A Deep And Dreamless Sleep, via Western Vinyl. That album was a kaleidoscopic and dreamy concoction of shoegaze wonder, from album opener “Blinded” to the disco-tinged …