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News: The latest Late Night Tales comes from Ninja’s Jordan Rakei; hear his Jeff Buckley cover
LATE NIGHT TALES, the free-roaming mix series for mind-expanding chilling most recently brought to us by Khruangbin, has announced its next beguiling instalment, and its first for 2021; it’ll be out come April 9th, and it’ll come from the Antipodean artist Jordan Rakei, whose most recent brace of albums, Wallflower and Origin, came out on …
News: The legendary Ed Kuepper (The Saints, The Aints, Laughing Clowns) announces ‘The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper’ – a glorious vinyl collection to celebrate 45 years as an artist
Ed Kuepper has been a spine in the body of Australian indie music ever since forming The Saints in 1973 – releasing what is often argued as the first ever punk single ‘I’m Stranded’ – and a body of extraordinary work in the innovative The Laughing Clowns, The Aints and as a solo artist. To …
News: Alessandro Cortini announces new album for Mute, ‘SCURO CHIARO’, in June; hear the thrilling, scouring ‘Chiaroscuro’
ALESSANDRO CORTINI, otherwise, one would suspect, very much brought to your knowledge as a member of Nine Inch Nails, is to release an album for Mute in June entitled SCURO CHIARO; come gather round and hear the lead track, “Chiaroscuro”, herein. It’s deep electronica with a thrillingly scouring and distorted scope, laying beautiful waste to …
Track: Allday’s new single ‘Void’ is an enigmatic, yearning anthem and comes with album and touring news.
Adelaide born but now Melbourne resident Allday (the moniker of Tom Gaynor) has gained a sizeable reputation as a rapper and songwriter over the recent years and you can see there is incontrovertible evidence in his new single ‘Void’. Coming off his newly announced album ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’, set for release 28 May …
Track: The Chills unveil new track ‘Destiny’ ahead of May album release, and announce on-demand concert stream.
With news out already of the much anticipated new album ‘Scatterbrain’ from New Zealand giants The Chills (due out on 14 May 2021 out through Fire Records and Flying Nun Records), the band has set up their stall and displayed another valuable ware from the collection – the track ‘Destiny’. You know what to expect from this band …
News: Mdou Moctar set to release a new album for Matador; hear ‘Tala Tannam’
MDOU MOCTAR is at last gathering momentum. Still, it’s been an epic journey since 2008 when his raw, emotional guitar music first began to spread across West Africa via the DIY network of traded SIM cards. Picked up by Chris Kirkley of Sahel Sounds, who sent Mdou a much-needed left-handed Strat, and which label then …
News: Daptone to release an album from Morocco’s Innov Gnawa; hear ‘Chorfa’
DAPTONE, the home of soul and funk, is one of those labels whose judgement you can trust; when they’re onto something you just know it’s going to deliver. News that they will be releasing Innov Gnawa’s new album, LILA, on April 30th may seem a bit leftfield given that the band are dedicated explorers of …
Track: Ryley Walker’s ‘Axis Bent’ is a baroque and complex glory; his new album’s out soon
TROUBADOUR genius touched by the hand of the Tim Buckley, collaborator on some very fine albums, sole architect of yet other records that fall very much in that same category, and one of the funniest tweeters in music, Ryley Walker has just dropped a new track, “Axis Bent”, from his early April album Course In …
NEWS: GoGo Penguin announce Blue Note remix album with a stellar cast; hear the MachineDrum remix of ‘Atomised’
THE LEFTFIELD, inventive Mancunian piano trio GoGo Penguin, who work out in the truly creative zones where dancefloor and intelligence and a jazzy feel bump into each other, decided they could be lifelong friends, have announced a remix album for Blue Note, to be entitled GGP/RMX; and boy have they lined up a mighty cast …
Track: Roddy Woomble to release a new solo album in May; hear a first single, ‘Lo Soul’; there’s tour dates, too
FORMER Idlewild man turned solo songcrafter of considerable talent, Roddy Woomble has finally turned his hand to a follow-up to 2017’s The Deluder; he’ll be releasing his new album, Lo! Soul, in May, by way of previewing which he’s just dropped a lead single, the (almost) title track “Lo Soul”. Take a listen and read …