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Track: Maarja Nuut -‘Kutse tantsule / A Call For Dance’: fluid, bewitching and seductively free Estonian folktronica – it’s genius
BORN in Rakvere, a small town in the very north of Estonia, a handful of miles from the Baltic Sea, the experimental musician Maarja Nuut was first introduced to music by her mother, a choir conductor, which opened up a world which would become her métier. Aged 7 she began taking violin lessons, studying at the Tallinn …
See: Slow Down Molasses share the 62-second rush of ‘Son Of Titanic’: don’t delay, get involved
·FOR THOSE of you out in the noise hinterlands who are yearning for the recently departed Yuck, wipe the tears from thine eye and don’t despair; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s Slow Down Molasses have got a short, sharp pick-me-up that’ll see you right. With a new album, Minor Deaths, their first in five years, slated for an …
See: Half Moon Run scour your emotions with the autumnal monochrome of ‘It’s True’; their ‘Inwards & Onwards’ EP is out now
“I’M PROUD of the fact that, as we live and grow, we’re able to continue to make music that evolves andchanges and seems to be meaningful,” Conner Molander observes as his band, Half Moon Run, enter their twelfth year of existence. “It’s not like we found a trick and had a successful album because of …
See: Pie Eye Collective feat. Hector Plimmer – ‘Flibbers’: gloriously subaquatic, rollin’ breaks for a dancefloor in Atlantis
PIE EYE COLLECTIVE is the solo project of Bristol-born, London-based sound scientist Matthew Gordon, who melds elements of ambient, broken beat, dub-techno and hip hop, all refracted and discoloured via a spectrum of tape-saturated synthesis. His influences are many and stylistically diverse, and include Sun Ra, Morton Feldman and Madlib; but he’s also heavily influenced …
Track: Cerberon – Outpost 31
Scottish heavy metallers Cerberon have shared the track ‘Outpost 31’, taken from their upcoming EP. Creepy industrial metal that hits in the right places with its traditional heavy beat and deep growling vocals. Rumbling drums and a chugging riff lend a sense of paranoia and isolation that matches the video. Cerberon are creating something slightly different …
Track: Shaman’s Harvest Reveal First New Song in 4 Years ‘Bird Dog’
Missouri rocker’s Shaman’s Harvest, have returned with their first new song in four years with ‘Bird Dog’, ahead of the band’s upcoming new studio album via Mascot Records. Folk tinged rock with strings and piano with almost chant like vocals. Those deep and hypnotic vocal lines, the pounding of drums, the twang of a mouth harp all set …
News: Australia’s ASHEN set release date for BITTER LOSS debut EP.
Today, Bitter Loss Records announces August 6th as the international release date for the striking debut EP of Australia’s Ashen, Godless Oath, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. Formed in 2019, Ashen is a four-piece death metal band based in Perth, Western Australia. While Ashen may be new in name, its members culminate decades of experience, coming together to make their own brand of …
Track: Artemis – New Waves
Four-piece, all-women, alt-rock/post-punk band Artemis have shared their new single New Waves. Guitarist Frankie explains about the track: “New waves is about a generational up-rising and standing against the system’s mistakes. Defying the stigma that is based around the “younger generation” and how a lot of issues are blamed towards the millennial generation” “Protesting against …
Track: Motherland – Back To You
Northeast alt-rockers Motherland release their new track ‘Back To You’ just in time for musical venues to open their doors and allow live music to be heard once again. The band comments: “We are all seasoned musicians, sharpening our tools through years of hard work, commitment and touring. We feel that all of this has …
Track: The Allergies – ‘Move On Baby’: Let the Bristol sunshine in with this Latin-inflected banger
HIGH SUMMER, nearly solstice time already – and bringing the necessary hip swing to the longest days are The Allergies, the ever-dependable Brizzle groovers, who today drop two phials of bottled rays from the golden orb: on the A you gots “Move On Baby”, fashioned in Latin brass, swingin’, tough breaks and whistles. Yes, there’s …