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Track: Berlin post-punks KAMOOS release two singles, Metronumb and Mighty Mighty
From a currently moody, cold, grey, but always sultry, Berlin, we welcome not one but two tracks this week from post-punk outfit Kamoos. First up is Metronumb – released Wednesday the 8th on Cabbage records. The track sets off on what appears to be a familiar journey, keeping within the boundaries of the Kamoos way. But as we get moving it strays away …
See: Midlake drop a live performance video for ‘Meanwhile …’ – they’re back with tour dates and an album for Bella Union in March
IT WAS a real boon for lovers of expansive, harmonic, suede-jacketed Americana back in October when Denton, Texas’s Midlake announced they were reconvening for their first album in jeez, nine years, For the Sake of Bethel Woods. Too long, guys, too long. And it seems like the coming back together stems at least partly from …
Track: Rosie Alena releases beguiling new single, Adore Me
Emerging from the depths of south London comes one of the most promising new artists Rosie Alena, who’s unleashed her newest offering, an emotive piece of art-pop that is ‘Adore Me’; available now via untitled recs. Rosie Alena apparently has a boundless capacity to spawn celestial, grandiose cinematic stunners and ‘Adore Me’ is another piece …
See: IDLES unveil brooding atmospheric video for the track ‘When The Lights Come On’ from their album ‘Crawler’ on eve of world tour.
The bulldozer onslaught of the fabulous IDLES continues with vigour in their new single ‘When The Lights Come On’. And as per form, it is not all noise: a lot of light shines from the output of this ferocious band steeped in a sense of intelligence and compassion, heated by a shed load of intelligence. …
Track: Kill The Lights – Voices
Hot on the heels of the sold out UK tour as special guests to Bleed From Within and their sold-out, debut headline show, Kill The Lights share a previously unreleased track ‘Voices’. The band elaborate, “Voices is a song about believing in yourself even when everyone else doubts you. The song is a huge F-you to the …
Track: Immolation – Apostle
Metal giants Immolation are set to release their 11th studio album, ‘Acts Of God’, due 18th February 2022. With 5 long years passed since Atonement, Acts Of God vigorously showcases Immolation’s ability to consistently create fascinating sounds, while still keeping their feet firmly rooted in the old school, New York death metal for which they are renowned. The band have shared …
See: Krautjazz quintet Fazer offer an ode to a weird year ending in the whimsical but classy ‘Dezember’
WITH the recent album by Spiritczualic Enhancement Center (which, not to blow our own trumpet, we reviewed here) and others, it very much looks like one of the current leftfield trends to be ear to the ground for as 2021 melts inexorably into 2022 is krautjazz; that scene fermenting in city basements and performance spaces …
News: Blue Lab Beats will release their debut album for Blue Note in February: hear the sunbright Afro grooves of ‘Motherland Journey’ feat. Fela Kuti and KillBeatz
IT’S A meeting of musical values as well being a perfect colour match: the none-more-esteemed Blue Note Records, 82 years in the game, has announced that the latest addition to its proud roster, the bright Afrojazz textures of London’s Blue Lab Beats, will release their first album for the label, Motherland Journey, on February 25th. …
Track: The Rumjacks – Bloodsoaked in Chorus
The Rumjacks continue with more brilliance as they share the second single “Bloodsoaked in Chorus,” taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Brass For Gold’ EP, due 11th February. While ‘Hestia’ (read our review here) had the band conquering a global pandemic in order to record, ‘Brass for Gold’ saw the boys united in person for the first time. Producing a sound that …
See: Memory Pearl takes a New York Met painting and explores it in sound on ‘Red And Brown Scene, 1961’
WITH his album exploring a septet of paintings hanging in American galleries in sound out on Altin Village and Mine this Friday, Toronto’s Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg, has dropped one final video single, “Red And Brown Scene, 1961”. Moshe is by day, as it were, a member of experimental group Absolutely Free and collaborator with fine indie popsters Alvvays, …