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Track: Nephilim – Neoblasphemer
Nephilim is a German metal band from Düsseldorf. The band are currently finishing their next album ‘Ye Shoah’ and plan on releasing a single every month. The first single ‘Neoblasphemer’ is out now. A barrage of drums and bass with a heavy slice of guitar hit you softening you up for the vocal attack. This is …
See: Emma Houton – ‘Bow & Balance’: a Scots murder ballad reframed as soaring ambient folk
EMMA HOUTON, the ambient-folk artist based in New York who draws on the traditional songs we’re all surrounded by and those of her Irish ancestry, has released the video for a second track to be taken from her forthcoming debut album, The Bath. It’s her plaintive, bold reworking of the traditional murder ballad “Bow And …
News: Merpire announces debut album ‘Simulation Ride’ and shares resoundingly dreamy lead single ‘Village’
Melbourne’s Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt, aka Merpire announces debut album Simulation Ride will be released 23 July via Warner’s ADA. The album is all about looking for positivity and confidence in times of anxiety and uncertainty. “‘Simulation Ride’ is a musical diary entry into the workings and not-workings of my mind,” says Rhiannon. “It exists in hope of connecting …
See: Barnaby Keen – ‘Trust Me’: a little languorous neo-psych sunshine
LONDON singer-songwriter and producer Barnaby Keen brings a little languorous neo-psych sunshine into our lives with his second single as just himself, “Trust Me”, out now on all digital streaming platforms. The tune has a vitamin-D psych-soul bliss that puts him out in the same territory as maybe Lewis Recordings’ lovely Skinshape and !K7’s James …
Track: The enigmatic Douglas Von Irvin’s Carnival’s ‘Vampire Lovers’ is shimmering, haunting garage pop
Douglas Von Irvin’s Carnival (DVIC) (a Toronto/LA based collective) has released a shimmering and haunting new track – ‘Vampire Lovers’ – a melodic ballad infused with a melancholic delivery and a hint of gothic horror. ‘Vampire Lovers’ has elements that reflect fellow US artists like The National, Grandaddy and Band of Horses: impassioned intelligent lyrics …
See: Brisbane’s iconic The Goon Sax unveil video for track ‘In The Stone’ and announce new album ‘Mirrors II’ and Australian/UK tour
Steeped in the legendary vibes of Brisbane’s proud and influential indie history, The Goon Sax are exemplary standard bearers for the new generation. They have an arch sensibility, a fey and literate approach to their music and in doing so have shrugged off any comparisons to their predecessors and contemporaries: they have forged their own …
See: The monochrome patterning for Chris Liebing’s ‘Whispers And Wires’ (feat. Ladan): a drop of dancefloor abandon heralds a winter album
FRANKFURT techno scene founding father Chris Liebing has announced that he’ll be releasing his first album in more than three years for Mute this November, and has garlanded that announcement with a slice of airy dancefloor abandon, “Whispers And Wires”, the monochrome visual patternings accompanying which you can watch below. It simmers, surges and thrums …
Track: Alexa Rose – ‘Clearwater Park’: those endless childhood summers evoked in rootsy folk magic
WITH a third album of heartfelt, bell-clear folk songcraft due out in the autumn on Fat Possum’s Big Legal Mess imprint, Black Mountain, North Carolina-based Alexa Rose has released a sweet and ethereal evocation of those endless days of childhood summer, the sun hot and high, the evenings endless, the sense of expectancy and joy …
See: Bowling For Soup release brand new video for ‘Getting Old Sucks (But Everybody’s Doing It)’
Pop punk titans Bowling For Soup are back with their first single of 2021, Getting Old Sucks (But Everybody’s Doing It). Featuring adorable puppet versions of themselves going through the trials and tribulations of aging, the band are proving why they’ve remained an ever present force in the pop punk world over the years. Tongue …
Track: Myles Kennedy releases new single ‘Love Rain Down’
Myles Kennedy has unveiled another track from his upcoming album The Ides of March (out May 14, 2021 via Napalm Records). Most known for fronting rock juggernauts Alter Bridge, Myles Kennedy has certainly made waves as one of rock and metal’s most prolific vocalists. His latest solo effort follows his 2018 debut album Year Of The …