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See: The beautiful animation for Cheval Sombre’s ‘Sunlight In My Room’ ahead of his second stunning LP of the year
HE REALLY is spoiling us, is Cheval Sombre, the transporting, ethereal folk-shoegaze guising of Chris Porpora; who, not content with the hushed emotional whirlwind of Time Waits For No One, his album from back in February, is shortly to drop his second album of the year, an album that works in lighter correspondence with the …
Track: GoGo Penguin celebrate the release of ‘GGP/RMX’ with a video for the lush Cornelius remix – and launch a beer
MANCHESTER instrumental trio GoGo Penguin have released an absolutely superb, eclectic remix album, GGP/RMX on Blue Note today, bringing together talents such as Squarepusher, Clark, 808 State, James Holden, Machinedrum and so many more to spiral their most recent, eponymous album out into delicious fractal directions. It really looks likely to be remixes set of …
Track: The Quilter’s The Long Weekend is an quirky, anthemic indie pop gem
Glasgow’s Stuart Dougan is The Quilter – a solo project that has a resulted in an anthemic indie pop gem entitled ‘The Long Weekend’. This is a euphoric track that fizzes with electricity and creates a certain joie de vivre, packed full of vaulting melodies and poetic lyrics. Through the snap, crackle and pop of …
Track: Ishmael Ensemble – ‘Morning Chorus’: Bristol collective sans frontières deliver intelligence and lushness
BRISTOL jazz explorers Ishmael Ensemble are flexing their embouchures and are ready to step on and out from their acclaimed debut set from two years back, A State of Flow, a love letter to jazz and the capital of the South West, pushing out into dub, the dancefloor, ambient and more. The new album is …
Track: Glassmasterer – ‘Turn On The Big Machines’: an old-skool acid banger from the eclectic Glaswegian
GLASSMASTERER, the obscure musical reproduction process adopted as the operational codename for eclectic Glaswegian musician Lewis Bigham, has today dropped just a teensy bit of a banger, “Turn On The Big Machines”; you can dive into the accompanying visuals below. Lewis has previously wended his way through folk, hiphop, jazz and funk; all’s fish to …
Say Psych: Premiere: Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapour – It’s Good to be Alive
‘It’s Good to be Alive’ is the second single from Detroit’s Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapour forthcoming LP Good Goddamn and Backseat Mafia is pleased to bring you the premiere. The song comes crashing in with pounding drums and fuzzy guitars reminiscent of the band’s hometown heroes, the Stooges. The song effortlessly swings from a …
Track: Charlie Clark releases the gloriously delicious buzzsaw grit of ‘No Big Deal’
You know when an artists is hitting the sweetest notes when you look forward to that moment just before you press play on a new track: the delicious tang of anticipation. And so it is with Charlie Clark. And what joy when expectations are exceeded. Clark’s newest track, ‘No Big Deal’ is just that – …
Track: Louien – ‘Fire’: a track of ethereal grace teases for next month’s EP
WITH her No Tomorrow EP due out a month from now, Norwegian indie-folkie Louien has one final come-hither single to share with us, after the bold country rock of “Better Woman” and the effortlessly heart-stealing “Deep Within”; that track’s called “Fire”, and you warm yourself at its flame below. She’s left behind the exploration of …
Track: The Sherlocks release the anthemic blast of ‘The End of the Earth’ ahead of huge summer tour schedule
‘The End of the Earth’ by Sheffield’s The Sherlocks is a blistering indie pop anthem with an indelible melody and a satisfying swagger. It combines a lyrical intelligence – a self-deprecating sense of humour – and a stadium-filling rock’n’roll attitude with scything guitars and a pounding, insistent rhythm. It is really quite a joy – …
See: The video for Alasdair Roberts og Völvur’s ‘The Green Chapel’: fine folk in Nordic collaboration heralds a new set for Drag City
HE’S GRACED us with a very Northern European and delicious take on introspective folk since that trio of lovely albums, The Rye Bears A Poison, Daylight Saving and The Night Is Advancing as Appendix Out, beginning back in ’97; and it should come as no surprise that a man whose music arguably sounds best with …