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News: elkyn announces his debut album and accompanying tour; hear a first single, the intimate whisper of ‘everything looks darker now’
WHERE his EP from last year, beech, got aficionados of a certain stripe of nocturnal, confessional singer-songwriters talking about great potential and one to watch, it looks like Joey Donnelly, the artist in his early twenties who appears with a guitar, a hushed voice and a bag of beautiful tunesmithery as elkyn, is set to …
See: Milan’s The Backlash unleash the guitar power of the chameleonic ‘Rise’
THE GUITARS swirl and chime, roar with suppressed passion, the bass and drums kick in with massive propulsion; this song is heading places and you’re aboard, among noir guitars. Your protagonist? Alone, perhaps, but purposeful, exultant even’ living. Moving. Escaping. “Rolling down the road at night / Singing on your own feels right, ” he …
Track: Can’s live series continues with ‘Live In Brighton 1975’ hitting the racks in a fortnight; hear an excerpt from the jam ‘Brighton 75 Vier’
WITH the Can Live In Stuttgart 1975 set out in the racks now and being eagerly devoured and analysed by fans, Mute and Spoon Records already have the next live set from the actually legendary Can ready on the runway. We’re just two weeks away from the release of the second, sprawling, transporting and wholly …
Track: With her British tour kicking off today, Frazey Ford drops the honeyed, spectral folk of ‘Saul’
WITH an eleven-date UK tour beginning this evening in Milton Keynes, former Be Good Tanya and ethereally transporting talent in her own right Frazey Ford has released a track recorded for sessions for U Kin B the Sun but whose omittance from the final running order will surely surprise you as much as it does …
Track: Ireland’s Just Mustard release the epic and chilling track ‘I Am You’, and announce tours news.
Irish band Just Mustard have just released a visualiser for a new track ‘I Am You’, accompanying news that they will be supporting the marvelous Fontaines D.C.’s 2022 EU tour as well as releasing their new album in the new year through Partisan Records. The track perfectly captures Just Mustard’s brooding, stylistic music: serpentine rhythms, …
Premiere: Lewis Goldmark exclusively unveils his new track, the celestial and shimmering ‘Wild Night’.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Wild Night’ from Blue Mountains resident Lewis Goldmark, the second single from his forthcoming debut album due early in 2022 via Broken Stone Records/Remote Control Records. Lewis Goldmark is the project of Liam Judson from Belles Will Ring (and Magnetic Heads) and producer of many eminent bands, some of whom have graced …
Track: Annie Hamilton’s crackling new track ‘Electric Night’ sparkles with verve, intensity and a dreamy shoegaze edge
Multi-talented Australian musician, visual artist and fashion designer Annie Hamilton has just unveiled her sparkling new single ‘Electric Night’, and it is a brilliant and immersive slice of dream pop shoegaze that seems to embed the soul of Siouxsie and the Banshees deep inside its genes. The electric electronica in the instrumentation encompasses the drama …
PREMIERE: Experimental Baltimore pair The Furniture announce debut album with ‘Strom’
Leaning on the gradual mutation of blissful soundscapes, yet with something darker lurking underneath, Baltimore duo The Furniture today announce their debut album with an assist from us at Backseat Mafia. The self-titled record is due early next year, and we’re offering you a first look at the video for lead track ‘Strom’, a meditative …
News: Roedelius and Tim Story will enter into a four-handed piano conversation for Erased Tapes in January; hear ‘Spirit Clock’
A GENUINE, gilt-edged musical legend, German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into his eighth decade with us, is to enter into a two-way piano conversation with American composer and friend of 40 years Tim Story for Erased Tapes in January. The 11-track album, entitled 4 Hands, allows the pair to explore an …
Track: Former Zun Zun Egui sonic traveller Yama Warashi steps up and out with the space-jazz chant of ‘Dividual Individual’
BASED in Bristol for a decade and more, since she, Kushal Gaya, Matthew Jones and Luke Mosse first fell upon the complex high-life meets psych meets Deerhoof grooves sound of Zun Zun Egui, and with that band precipitously in the rear-view mirror, Yoshino Shigihara has, for a while now, needed to ring the changes. Come …