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Track: Belgian’s Whispering Sons issue forth scything double single ‘Santantango’/ ‘Surgery’ and announce new album ‘Several Others’
The raw and visceral ‘Santango’ from Belgian post punk outfit Whispering Sons has the same sort of ominous and threatening pace of anything by The Birthday Party, with a Rowland S Howard level of scything guitar. There is an anxiety, a restless energy that is unnerving and disturbing. It’s brilliant. According to the band, …the …
NEWS: A Certain Ratio announce EP for May, ‘ACR:EPA’; hear a first track, ‘Wonderland’: the Mancunian funk hot streak continues
THEY’RE on such a hot streak these days; Mancunian fun legends A Certain Ratio have been absolutely on fire, creatively so vivacious and so irresistibly taut, since ACR Loco dropped in the final days of last summer, an album of which we commented “effortless Mancunian pop and the tautest funk remade anew.” “Yo Yo Gi” …
See: The video for Matt Emery’s ‘Anxiety Mist’: a samurai waiting for battle as told by solo cello
BRITISH composer Matt Emery, who calls the lovely Injazero Records home, has launched a series of recordings focusing on one instrument at a time; and for his first EP in the series has chosen to shine a light on the cello, which is starting to find a bigger appreciation as a standalone instrument through the …
Penelope Trappes announces final album in her trilogy; hear the sultry electronic noir of ‘Nervous’
BRIGHTON-based, Australian-born mistress of noir electronica, Penelope Trappes, has announced that the concluding album of her Penelope trilogy will be out on her home of the past few years, Houndstooth, at the end of May; and she’s dropped the lush, draping velvet of “Nervous” to curl you like incense smoke into her world. There’s also …
Track: Tyne-James Organ’s mellifluous voice graces shimmering track ‘Sunday Suit’ off his newly announced debut album ‘Necessary Evil’
New single ‘Sunday Suit’ has a frenetic racing pace that is energising and buoyant, augmented by Tyne-James Organ‘s mellifluous tones that somehow combine a silk softness with after effects of gargling whiskey and pebbles. It’s a voice steeped in a weariness and a tenderness that is evocative and raw as it glides over a sparkling …
Track: HIRAKI – The Alarmist
As a music writer, I have to listen to a fair bit of music I don’t necessarily like. But I was genuinely excited to happen upon ‘The Alarmist’, the lead single from Danish progressive noise rock trio HIRAKI’s forthcoming second album, ‘Stumbling Through the Walls’. The guitars are furious and the vocals even more so …
News: Secrets of Elements announces April album; hear the grand electronic sweep of ‘Cassini’
THE GERMAN composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Johann Pätzold, who records as Secret of Elements, has announced the release of his first album since 2011’s Minds. It’s to be entitled Chronos, and it’ll be with us come the back end of April; but today he’s dropped as a welcome the track “Cassini”, which you can hear below. It fuses …
Track: Reigning Sound – ‘A Little More Time’: Greg Cartwright’s garage band get the seven-year itch
CAST your mind back now: did you fall for the hip-shimmying rush of Reigning Sounds’ “I’ll Cry”, hitting the sweet garage spot wherein the classic Memphis soul sound smashed straight into Hüsker Dü with abandon? The brittle, dusty run at The Byrds’ “Here Without You”, with which they debuted? Clutch long-playing bombs like Shattered and Home …
Track: The iconic James releases anthemic single ‘All The Colours of You’ and announces new album for June
Legendary British indie band James have announced a welcome return with the release of a new album ‘All the Colours of You’ due in June and the title track as a single. The track ‘All The Colours of You’ is peak James – coruscating and witty lyrics on the Trumpian era with celestial anthemic choruses …
News: Dinosaur Jr. announce April album for Jagjaguwar; see the animation for ‘I Ran Away’
YOUR favourite alt.rock shredder, J. Mascis – I mean are the guitar breaks in “Freak Scene” the best ever committed to tape? There’s a strong argument – has announced the excellent news that Dinosaur Jr. are all set to release their thirteenth studio album, Sweep It Into Space, on Jagjaguwar come April 23rd; which good …