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See: Maxïmo Park return with new track ‘Child of the Flatlands’ and visual art piece
After a gap of four years, Maxïmo Park have returned with a new track, Child Of the Flatlands, and an accompanying visual art piece from experimental designer, visual artist, and recent Daniel Avery collaborator Greg Hodgson. Casting its lyrical net into the waters of urban life, surrounded, indeed often overtaken by the persistent grip of …
Track: Sally Anne Morgan releases ‘Polly On The Shore’
It’s getting mighty crowded in the psych-folk district right now. So to stand out you need that little something else … enter Sally Anne Morgan. A fiddler, banjo player and vocalist with a growing reputation as a member of the Black Twig Pickers and the duo House and Land, the time is so right for …
Track: PET SHIMMERS announce new album, share lead single ‘IMBER’
Indie Bristol-born outfit Pet Shimmers have announced their second album of 2020, Trash Earthers, also sharing the first single ‘Imber‘. The album will be released on 2nd October via their own PS Records. Speaking on the new record, vocalist Oliver Wilde states: “During this time, all we’ve been fed is what’s happening in the news, and it quite …
Track: Kasperi Sarikoski releases ‘Wide Lanes’ ahead of new album
The trombonist – always the bridesmaid, the ugly duckling – you sometimes wonder where jazz would be if Miles or Coltrane were trombone players. Sure the big band era had its fair share of t-bone wielding leaders, JJ Johnson showed the slider could rip up be-bop’s rule book and more recently Trombone Shorty has delivered …
Track: Melbourne psychedelic pop outfit Sunfruits share ‘Bonsoy’
There must be hallucinogens in the Australian waters as the newest wave of psychedelic acts coming from the land down under continues to sweep across the international shores. A whole kaleidoscopic cocktail of glorious acts have emerged over the recent year including the likes of Bananagun, Lazy Eyes, Dear Doonan, Leah Senior, Badgers, Kimono Drag Queens, Luke …
NEWS: Quest Ensemble’s ‘The Other Side’ finally gets vinyl release
QUEST ENSEMBLE, the British trio comprised of pianist Filipe Sousa, cellist Tara Franks and violinist Preetha Narayanan, are finally releasing their warmly evocative LP The Other Side on vinyl this Friday, September 18th. With bottlenecks in vinyl pressing yet another of the many-headed hydra of consequences of the corona virus, the vinyl arrives for purchase …
TRACK: Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’: a warm groove with a lyrical arrow
JOHN DARNIELLE’S evergreen and much-loved Mountain Goats are shaping up to release their second full-lengther of the year, Getting Into Knives; and today they’ve released a highlight from the forthcoming album in the shape of “Get Famous”. Take a listen on our embed below. You’ll find organ and brass-led warmth, a real kind of Memphis soul …
Meet: We catch up with Dave Hill of Slade with the release of Slade’s singles collection, Cum On Feel The Hitz
Slade are much more than that big Christmas hit and it only takes a quick glance at the track listing of the new release Cum On Feel The Hitz to see just how much more. With a run of 17 consecutive Top 20 singles between 1971 and 1976, no other act of the period experienced …
ALBUM REVIEW: Osees – ‘Protean Threat’: John Dwyer trips us further into prog-tinged fuzz garage
JOHN DWYER’S Osees. I mean, they’re an absolute force of nature; a vivacious, fiery, disciplined, fun, piledriving force. If you’ve never seen them, by jiminy you need to: kinda meh at Vampire Weekend on the main stage, I wandered into their second-stage headline set at End of the Road in 2018 and stopped dead. Absolutely …