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Album Review: Christopher Coleman and the Great Escape releases the statuesque and breathtakingly beautiful album ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’, and announces launch date in March.
‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ can proudly take its place amongst the great Australian albums and songs that beautifully capture the landscapes, skies and very heart of the land. Albums from The Triffids’ ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ capturing the Western Australian coastlines and the sense of isolation, to The Go-Betweens’ ’16 Lovers Lane’ reflecting the urban ennuis …
News: Dream Wife embarking on UK tour
London-based trio Dream Wife – vocalist Rakel Mjöll, guitarist Alice Go, bassist Bella Podpadec – will be hitting the UK live circuit again this Spring. The tour follows the release of the band’s explosive second album So When You Gonna…, which earned both a monumental #18 UK Album Chart debut and a #1 placing in the Official Record Store Chart of Independent Retailers. The record, which was the only album in the …
PREMIERE: Blonde Diamond dazzle on brilliant new single ‘Strange Times’, prep debut album
It would be fair to say that Vancouver quartet Blonde Diamond have been in album mode for a while now. It’s the reason they all but vanished for two years before resurfacing a few months ago with the intense ‘Red Flags’. As the first we heard from them since 2018, it was the sound of …
Track: Sydney’s Flowertruck blossom brightly in their return with the effervescent, hyperactive ‘Crying Shame’, complete with album and tour news.
There seems to be a strange black hole in everyone’s calendar between 2020 and 2021 where nothing seemed to happen, and we all existed in a kind of void. Musically, while many bands lurked in studios and proliferated, some seemed to hibernate. However, like the light at the end of the tunnel signaling the end …
News: Australian institution Screamfeeder announces new album ‘Five Rooms’, tour and unveils the delicious pop fuzz single ‘Don’t Get Me Started’
Screamfeeder have been a veritable indie institution in Australia for more than a remarkable thirty years, and following a return to the live scene recently, they have announced the release of their new album ‘Five Rooms’ on 6 May 2022, along with a tour of the East Coast capitals with fellow legend Adalita (Magic Dirt). …
News: Lianne La Havas Announces A Residency At KOKO 9TH, 10TH & 11TH MAY
Lianne La Havas announces a residency at KOKO. She will perform three shows at the newly restored and redeveloped iconic London venue on Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th May. Lianne’s eponymous, self-produced third album was released in 2020 to widespread critical acclaim. It won her the prestigious Ivor Novello award for best album, was nominated for 3 Mobo …
News: Midlands four-piece Big Image (Previously Ivory Wave) release Chaney Remix of single Crazier
BIG IMAGE are going large on the cinematic CHANEY REMIX of their euphoric indie dance banger CRAZIER. Making a bigger giant out of an already huge tune, singer George Johnson says of the remix: “We’re massive fans of Chaney’s music, so when he reached out to remix Crazier, we knew it would be a match …
News: Teenage Fanclub announce UK and Ireland Tour Dates for 2022 with support from Frøedal and Familien
(Photo Credit: Donald Milne) Following the release of their critically acclaimed 10th album, Endless Arcade last year, TEENAGE FANCLUB will be hitting the road for a string of shows across the UK + Ireland. Full dates can be found below. Support will come from Norway’s Frøkedal & Familien. Endless Arcade is the long-awaited follow-up to the band’s album Here released in 2016 …
News: Still Corners announce UK/Europe/US tour and release the shimmering and cinematic single ‘Far Rider’.
The sound of Still Corners has an ethereal majesty: jangling, reverberated distant guitars carving swathes in the cloudless skies and velvet soft vocals gliding across the endless horizon carrying yearning, melancholic melodies. Their new track ‘Far Rider’ is a cinematic experience – over seven minutes of frictionless gliding and soaring with crystalline guitars. It is …
See: Bandicoot parade their songwriting prowess with the epically beautiful ballad ‘Early In The Morning’, off their forthcoming debut album ‘Black After Dark’.
We are used to a frenetic hyperactive Bandicoot that romps at a breakneck speed teetering on the brink of a chaotic convulsion, barely restrained and utterly wild. Their new track ‘Early Morning’ completely subverts this trope and shows this is a band with many arrows in their quiver. This is a statuesque and breathtakingly beautiful …