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Premiere: Gefahrgeist Share The Two Part Track ‘Orbit’ (Feat Rapper Conscious Route); We Get First Listen
Gefahrgeist are a Scottish electronic pop duo that combines the differing musical expertise of singer songwriter Fiona Liddell (Glasgow) and producer and bassist Niall Rae (Aberdeen). Orbit is their fourth single and features rapper, MC, poet and singer songwriter, Conscious Route. Born and raised in London, who moved to Edinburgh over a decade ago. The track …
Track: El Ten Eleven share the grand alien (post-)funk of ‘New Year’s Eve’ and detail a massive tour
WITH our ears still ringing and our souls still swooning while getting our heads round last year’s conceptual triple album, Tautology, (No! come back this instant! For it (post) rocks so hard and so delicately, by turns – hey, read our review and have a listen if you don’t believe us) El Ten Eleven, the Southern …
Track: Leo Abrahams pushes six strings into a pyroclastic flow of glitch on ‘Spiral Trem’
GRADUATE of the esteemed Royal Academy of Music, and a man who’s collaborated musically with a host of the truly great and good – that CV including, since you ask, Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Regina Spektor, Jon Hopkins and Paul Simon, and that’s just a précis; on that CV Leo Abrahams also has also …
See: Rival Consoles drops the darkly pulsing choreography of ‘Monster’ ahead of tomorrow’s album
WITH a sooo hotly anticipated album, Overflow, out in the racks tomorrow, December 3rd, for Erased Tapes – the label originally set up specifically to bring Ryan Lee West’s musical vision to the world – Rival Consoles have released one final teaser, and that’s a ten-minute, monochrome filmed dance piece for the album track, “Monster”. …
EP: The delicately beautiful ‘Creatures of Habit’ from Brisbane artist Aren’t is an exquisite triumph. Plus news of launch date.
On aesthetics alone, the artwork for Aren’t‘s new EP ‘Creatures Of Habit’ (illustrated by Grace Taylor) is extraordinarily beautiful. Fittingly, the illustrations have a joyous emotional warmth and fragility that is a palimpsest for the shimmering songs within, reflecting the stunning music within. Aren’t is Fionn Richards – last seen in Brisbane band Requin which burned brightly …
See: Carapace drop new single ‘Celadon Fives’ and the accompanying DIY video is a psychedelic joy
‘Celadon Fives’ is the new single released by Carapace through their own label Replica Recordings. Carapace starting producing music during lockdown boredom and his DIY approach extends to the videos. Previous single ‘Blorenj’ is a euphoric rave dance track and ‘Celadon Fives‘ follows in a similar vein, if a little gentler. The video is very …
See: Witch Fever release visually striking new video for ‘Bully Boy’
Manchester’s Witch Fever have released a video for ‘Bully Boy‘. The inspiration came from The Witch Trials but seen through the lens of drag queens and CBeebies. Uncompromising and violent in parts but presented in a cartoonish style. Bold and completely over the top, no-one was harmed in the making of this video as it …
News: New Mute songsmith Quinquis drops the noir electro of ‘Adkrog’, reveals 37-date European tour
DANIEL MILLER’S independent mainstay Mute have revealed the latest addition to an already diverse and dazzling stable; and that signing comes in the shape of Quinquis, the new project of Yann Tiersen’s wife and former Tiny Feet chanteuse Émilie Tiersen. As Tiny Feet, Émilie released a brace of albums of rather gorgeous, complex Francophone pop …
Track: Jacana People – ‘And The Lake Was …’: a masterful lope of electronica atmospheres with Neil Cowley at the keys
IF YOU’RE a fan of the leftfield musics, ambient and textural and nuanced, whatever its provenance, be it modern compositional or electronic or anywhere through the ultraviolets and infrareds along the spectrum between them both, then one of the artists involved in this new single you’ll likely be au fait with; the other, perhaps less …
See: The short monochrome film for the dreamy Saint Etienne festive single, ‘Winter Coat’
CAST your mind to a far-off time, if you will: the 1980s and before. And then: the Christmas music you’d hear. Back then, before t’interweb and swipe-right, there wasn’t really a great deal on offer for the discerning music fan come the festive season. There was the glam band having another go at boozy, seasonal …