Music
SEE: Jon Hopkins covers Thom Yorke’s ‘Dawn Chorus’
AS THIS most hellishly viral year’s eyelids droop and it prepares to exit stage left, the masterful Jon Hopkins has brought some beautiful piano catharsis and grace for our troubled brains as he drops a cover of Thom Yorke’s “Dawn Chorus”. The track features on Thom’s most recent solo outing, Anima. It was recorded in one …
NEWS: Evanescence announce release date for their new album, ‘The Bitter Truth’
EVANESCENCE’S first album of original music in a decade, The Bitter Truth, will be released on March 26th next year Sony Music, and pre-orders are now live. The band’s latest single, “Yeah Right”, is also out now to whet our appetites for what’s to come. Listen to it below! You can pre-order The Bitter Truth …
SEE: The animation for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s ‘If Not Now, When?’
TWO THINGS about New Zealand’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: one. They’re immense, ass ‘n’ tousled locks-shaking fun. Two. Christ, they’re prolific. Their cup of creativity runneth o’er. Twenty-three albums in eight years, if you follow the Discogs tally of these things – a mere three this year, slackers – but that’s only if …
TRACK: Porridge Radio feel the darker Yuletide vibe with ‘The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas)’
PORRIDGE RADIO are drawing down the curtain on 2020 with one final, fine salutation: their own contribution to the vein of alternative Christmas songs which Low kicked off back in ’99 with that mini-album that made Yule songs cool again. It’s entitled “The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas)”, it’s out via Secretly Canadian, and …
SEE: Arctic Monkeys release live track video for ‘Arabella’ in aid of War Child UK
IN PROMOTION of the release of Arctic Monkeys – Live At The Royal Albert Hall on December 4th, the band have revealed the video for AM’s “Arabella”. The proceeds raised from Arctic Monkeys – Live At The Royal Albert Hall will go to War Child UK to help fill what could be up to a £2 million deficit the …
SEE: The video for Bill Callahan’s ‘Breakfast’: a visual nugget sifted from ‘Gold Record’
OUR DEEPEST Americana poet Bill Callahan put together his latest album, Gold Record, really quickly, and previewed it over those long, lazy lockdown summer days with the neat idea of dropping a track every Monday afternoon leading up to its eventual September release. Loose and freewheeling it may have been, but that doesn’t take anything …
Feature: The 50 best albums of 2020
Well, it’s been a bit of a year, hasn’t it? Global pandemics, George Floyd, environmental issues, terrorism, dissatisfaction with those in charge, not least in the ongoing (it seems) fallout from the American Presidential election. None of that has stopped artists from all persuasions and genres making some fantastic music over the last 12 months. …
WATCH: IDLES share new video for ‘Kill Them With Kindness’
IDLES have shared a new animated video for album highlight “Kill Them With Kindness”. The video, which was directed and designed by James Carbutt and animated by Pip Williamson, is taken from the band’s critically-acclaimed UK number one album Ultra Mono, which was released in September via Partisan Records. Watch below: Looking ahead to 2021, IDLES are preparing …
TRACKS: Erland Cooper wraps up the year with a gorgeous choral EP, ‘Eynhallow’
ERLAND COOPER wraps up a year in which he’s brought us much light, creativity and joy with one final aural missive, the choral EP, Eynhallow, out today on Phases. Hether Blether, the concluding chapter of the Orkney Trilogy, seduced everyone who came into its welcoming arms in June, with its delicacy, its history, its cultural …
News: Larkin Poe bring us some festive cheer with Christmas live streaming event
2020 has put the brakes on for so many artists, but Larkin Poe haven’t slowed down at all. In June the Atlanta-born Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist sister duo Rebecca and Megan Lovell released their fifth studio album, Self Made Man, which combined their full-throttle roots-rock with a refreshing positivity. Barely pausing for breath, last month they released …