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News: Glasgow’s Snack Villain Shares New Single ‘Coyote Super Genius’
Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist Adam Skirving, known by his producer alias Snack Villain, has just released his latest musical creation, ‘Coyote Super Genius’. The instrumental takes listeners on a mesmerising journey, blending elements of smooth jazz and lo-fi electronica/ chillout to create a nostalgic and breezy summer vibe. Drawing inspiration from ’90s jazz-hop and modern lo-fi, ‘Coyote …
News: SAL Shares Enchanting New Single ‘Issues’
Cork City-based singer-songwriter SAL shares captivating new single, ‘Issues,’ a dreamy and idyllic indie-pop anthem that takes listeners on a sonic journey through layers of Bon Iver-esque, vocal processing & glitching electronics, folk undertones with strummed guitar links and indie-rock tendencies. SAL’s stylistic vocal delivery shines brightly on ‘Issues,’ with her colourful and passionate delivery …
News: Blondes release new six track EP ”In Separation”
Capturing more of the warm, invigorating aesthetic they have been developing in recent times, the EPsees BLONDES pursue a rich and immersive atmosphere throughout, continuing their ascent as one ofthe more mesmerising and euphoric bands emerging right now. In Separation track list:Love in the AfternoonThe BasementBeautiful WorldBest FriendsDoes It Rain On You?Conversations Live dates in …
Track/Video : New age travelling band TENGGER preview new album with the lush electro melodics of ‘PANAPTU’.
Seoul based, Pan Asian new-age troubadours TENGGER gloriously float around the edges of the music world, beyond the usual concepts, processes and mechanics. Musical couple Itta and Marqido first performed as the duo ‘10’ but with the birth of their son RAAI in 2012 they became TENGGER. Meaning ‘unlimited expanse of sky’ in Mongolian the …
Track: Oscar The Wild are ‘Unafraid’ – a melodic and cathartic thunderstorm of a track. Launch date announced as well.
Kaurna/Adelaide indie quartet Oscar The Wild today have released their thunderous track ‘Unafraid’, an utterly anthemic blast of melodic punk pop filled with swagger and attitude. Singer Ruby says of the track: The lyrics in the first verse of ‘Unafraid’ is a mantra I use to calm my existential anxiety. I figured if I put …
Track: Ben Leece and Left of the Dial release a powerful paean to the redemptive power of music in ‘Swastika Kids’, ahead of tour news.
Inspired by the story of the legendary Hard-Ons – a trio of punks who are Sri Lankan, Korean and Croatian growing up in the challenging climes of western Sydney in the eighties, the news single from Ben Leece and Left of the Dial is a moving, intelligent observation of the redemptive power of music to …
Track: Mathilde Anne displays an effervescent swagger in the slow burning fuse of ‘Way Up There’.
There is nothing better to brighten up a dullard of a day than a little bit of effervescent pop that fizzes with more sparkle than a shaken bottle of Champagne. Naarm/Melbourne-based artists Mathilde Anne has just released a firecracker of a single ‘Way In There’, along with an explosive video, that has more zest than …
News: Spellling & the Mystery School Share Double Single ‘Cherry’ and ‘Under The Sun’
Today Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Spellling (the performing name of Chrystia Cabral) announces ‘Spellling & the Mystery School’, her new collection due the 25th August on Sacred Bones. The collection of richly envisioned new versions of songs are taken from throughout Cabral’s critically-acclaimed discography. From her 2017 breakthrough debut ‘Pantheon Of Me’, to 2018’s multidimensional synth-based project ‘Mazy Fly’, and her expansive third album, 2021’s ‘The Turning Wheel’. …
Premiere: MIDNIGHTCHOIR heralds new album release with emotive closing track ‘Rising Tide’
Back in May, New York’s MIDNIGHTCHOIR (the solo project of Brooklyn’s Patrick Bobilin, sometimes assisted by Sarah Simon) announced his first new record in 7 years, and those were indeed a pretty eventful 7 years, such that we wondered if he’d return to making music at all. Inspired by his time running for office in …
Track/Video : Saxophonist, composer and jazz chronicler Matana Roberts announces new album ‘In The Garden’, Chapter Five in the visionary Coin Coin series.
Many new releases are anticipated but few have the added importance of Matana Roberts fifth instalment in their Coin Coin series ‘In The Garden’, due via Constellation on 29th September. The jazz composer, saxophonist and multi-disciplinary artist’s significant song cycle began in 2011 with ‘Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres’. This staggeringly visceral …