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Track: The legendary John Power (The Las, Cast) releases the beautiful and atmospheric one off single ‘Grounded Truth’ through Alan McGee’s It’s Creation Baby label
John Power has achieved an iconic position in the indie music scene through his role in the legendary The La’s and the fantastic follow up Cast as well as his solo work. Encouraged to return to the famous Abbey Road Recording Studio, Power has released a beautiful and atmospheric single ‘Grounded Truth’. There is just …
Track: Tom Lumley and the Brave Liaison serve up the exciting ‘Fake Friends’ in anticipation of their album ‘Everything’s Affected’, and announce launch gigs.
Cambridge’s Tom Lumley and the Brave Liaison today release a scything and anthemic track, ‘Fake Friends’, that is a scintillating post punk bash filled with energy and attitude. The guitar attack is sparkling and crunchy, the rhythm section insistent and thunderous and the vocals and melodies urgent and indelible. The track is off the band’s …
PREMIERE: Field Guide wants to ‘Make Peace With That’, shares loved-up new song ‘Me & You’
Sometimes you uproot your life right before a global pandemic, which is to say that it was incredibly unfortunate timing for Canadian Dylan MacDonald when he did that early last year, moving to Toronto where it rapidly became clear that his only option was to focus on writing music – it was a fraught but …
NEWS: Boy Scouts announces new album ‘Wayfinder’ with tragicomic lead single ‘That’s Life Honey’
In what is very welcome news for a Tuesday afternoon – or indeed, any other part of your week – the Oakland, CA-based Taylor Vick is back at it. Following the release of Free Company in 2019, she released a standalone single called ‘Wish’ in March of last year, with a high-profile SXSW slot lined …
NEWS: Low are ‘Disappearing’ on their speaker-bothering new single off album 13 ‘HEY WHAT’, out in September
You know we like a bit of Low around these parts. The Duluth, MN-based duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker are on a hot streak at the moment, with their last two albums Ones & Sixes and Double Negative regarded as career highlights. Incidentally the pair worked with BJ Burton for those, and it’s …
PREMIERE: Rubber Band Gun puts it all on black in video for freewheeling new track ‘My Time’, announces new album for November
If you know New Jersey workhorse Kevin Basko, then you know he doesn’t do things by halves. He’s spent much of the previous decade as the main creative force behind Rubber Band Gun, and put out a fully-fledged album pretty much fortnightly under this name in 2019. All 25 of those records are on his …
News: It’s the collab you need to hear – Tycho x Benjamin Gibbard on new single ‘Only Love’
Grammy Award-nominated artists Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service) have released a landmark, anthemic new collaboration Only Love, available now via Mom + Pop Music/Ninja Tune. The track powerfully and meticulously fuses Tycho’s transcendent production and signature arrangements with Gibbard’s cathartic, deeply humanist lyricism. This is the first major electronic …
Album review: Merpire’s debut album ‘Simulation Ride’ is beautifully crafted rock serving to soothe the lost and lonely
Purveyor of sensitively insightful indie, Melbourne’s Merpire has just released her long-awaited debut album Simulation Ride via Warner’s ADA. The record is a heartening and satisfying culmination of the artist’s favourite songs, taken from the ‘video store of her mind’ and written over the course of the past few years. Merpire also co-produced with partner …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Sun Atoms – Don’t Take Me To Your Leader
Sun Atoms is the debut solo effort from Portland, Oregon’s Jsun Atoms – produced by The Dandy Warhols’ guitar pedal maestro Peter Holmström and mixed by London’s legendary Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths, The Cranberries). With such a pedigree, BSM is honoured to bring you the video premiere of ‘Don’t Take Me to Your Leader’, …
Track: Drott – The Marauders
Hailing all the way from Bergen, Norway. Drott (Old norse term for war band) is comprised of Arve Isdal (Enslaved), Ivar Thormodsæter (Ulver) and Matias Monsen. After releasing their self-titled EP in March 2021, the band are set to share their first full-length album ‘Orcus’ due 24th September via By Norse music. They share the …