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PREMIERE: Field Guide announces full-album cover of Coldplay’s Parachutes, enlists Lizzy McAlpine for ‘Yellow’
We’ve got a lot of time for Field Guide. We’ve also got a lot of time for Lizzy McAlpine, so when we heard the former – AKA the Winnipeg-based Dylan McDonald – was covering Coldplay‘s seminal debut album Parachutes in full, we were intrigued. It strikes a sweet spot between faithful reproduction and giddy reinvention, …
Track: Struggles With Syntax – Jung Dreams
Ahead of the release of their debut album, ‘Petrichor’, next month, London noise punks Struggles With Syntax have released a new single taken from it, titled ‘Jung Dreams’. The track is considerably faster-paced than the band’s earlier single, ‘Monday Bluez’, featuring vocals from frontman Jo Llewellyn-Jones that recall Mclusky’s Andrew Falkous and tunic’s David Schellenberg. …
Track: Buckle before the onslaught of extreme new trio Corroded Spiral’s ‘Forgotten Ether’
PHANTOM LIMB, the label headed by James Vella which has, in recent times, released dark and supremely thrilling, challenging works by the likes of Kevin Richard Martin and Richard Skelton, could do no other than welcome the incoming super-triumvirate of Corroded Spiral to its hearthside, upon hearing that trio’s plans to make music together; especially …
Track: Wrap yourself up warm this autumn with the regal indie-synthpop of Endearments’ ‘Empress’
THE LEAVES are coming down in droves now, so wrapping y’self up against the incipient chill with the Anglophile dreampop stylings of Brooklyn’s Endearments is our self-care tip to keep the darkening year at bay. With an EP, Father Of Wands, due on November 5th, and which four-tracker is happily hunting out next to Brotherhood-era …
See: Breton psych explorers Djinn drop visuals for ‘The Void’
HARD psych explorers Djiin, the four-piece from Rennes in Brittany who are about to drop their third album, Meandering Soul, from which they’ve unveiled the slowburn, progressive jam of “The Void” – you can watch it below. The Rennais stoners have laid down six tracks for Meandering Soul, their first long-playing outing since 2019’s The …
Track: Julia Why? Releases the achingly beautiful and powerful track ‘My Grrrl’ and announces launch gig.
Following the release of the gorgeous track ‘Waiting For Time‘ earlier this year, Julia Wylie, under the moniker Julia Why? has just released another achingly beautiful track ‘My Grrrl’ which exudes a dreamy shoegaze fugue – a heady emission of celestial melodies and a wall of guitars and synths. The total package is like a …
Track: Sydney’s Jess Chalker unveils anthemic single ‘Cynical’ on eve of debut album release
Sydney’s Jess Chalker has an extensive musical history behind her as former frontwoman for Sydney-based new-wave duo We Are The Brave, and a host of production and songwriting experience on her considerable CV. One the eve of the release of her debut solo album ‘Hemispheres’ on 5 November 2021, Chalker has unveiled the enchanting single ‘Cynical’. …
See: Bodega release new video for lead single ‘Doers’, from forthcoming album Broken Equipment
Brooklyn art-punks Bodega have revealed the follow up to their acclaimed debut album Endless Scroll with a new full length, Broken Equipment, out via What’s Your Rupture?, out on March 11th next year. Ahead of it’s release the band have released a new video for lead single track Doers, a track which pokes fun at …
Track: Hatcham Social return with the new / old track ‘If you got down to the woods today (three cheers for our side)’
Our right now digitally via the ever wonderful Fierce Panda label is the new track from London band Hatcham Social, based around brothers Finn and Toby. Well technically, although its new as in its never been released, it was actually recorded more than ten years ago. It will feature on the bands forthcoming career-spanning compilation …
See: Tears For Fears release new video for forthcoming album title track, The Tipping Point
17 years in the making, comes the first new album from legendary synth-pop duo Tears for Fears. Out on February 25th via Concord Records the pair have just released the video for the title track of the record, The Tipping Point. Of the process of making The Tipping Point, Roland Orzabel says Before everything went …