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See: TeenCanteen drop a video for the unearthed indiepop loveliness of ‘How We Met (Cherry Pie)’
TO MARK the fifth (!? that long already?) anniversary of their delish debut album, Say It All With A Kiss, Glasgow indiepop fizzbombers TeenCanteen have decided to unleash This Is How It Starts, the collection of recordings that should have been their debut album four years earlier (and we’re promised there’s a story there). And …
Track: Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell unveil another sparkling single ‘Deshta (Forever)’ from their forthcoming album ‘Burn’
The unique and exotic sounds of Dead Can Dance, fusing medieval music with gothic undertones and ambient textures are detectable in the shimmering new track ‘Deshta (Forever)’ from Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell. This follows the release earlier this year of the single ‘Noyalain (Burn)’ reviewed here. With Indian and Middle …
See: Spring hath sprung with The Lathums’ ‘Oh My Love’: sweet indie daydreaming down at the chippy
FRESH from the unveiling of their massive rescheduled tour, which includes some of the biggest venues they’ve yet commanded – and from the eerie monochrome visions of “Foolish Parley”, their last single drop from back in January – Wigan’s cute indie risers have taken it back home for their new single, “Oh My Love”, on …
New music: Mt. Misery ‘In The Blink of an Eye’
Brand new single from Hartlepool based three-piece Mt. Misery Firmly entrenching themselves as the best thing to come out of the seaside town since Jeff Stelling, the trio who came together in 2019 are also proud to announce the release of their debut album ‘Once Home, No Longer’ on 25th June via Prefect Records. Initially …
See: The immersive and trippy video for Roddy Woomble’s bright, dreampoppy ‘Architecture In LA’
FORMER Idlewild guiding light and fine solo folk artist in his own right, Roddy Woomble is shaking it all up on his latest single, “Architecture in LA”, the second to be taken from his forthcoming album Lo! Soul. Leaving those deep folk textures behind, he instead dives into the lo-fi Moog soul sunshine for a …
Track: The Velvet Hands tear off the roof with their thundering single ‘Star’ and announce headlining gigs for November
There’s nothing like a piece of earth-quaking straight forward no frills rock’n’roll, and The Velvet Hands have nailed it with style in their new single ‘Star’. Lashings of grunty guitars, woop-woops, soaring backing vocals and a stabbing horn section are the perfect ingredients for some down to earth indie rock. Just add leather jackets, a …
See: The solarised dazzle of Dragon Welding’s ‘Scorched Sea’: a furnace extrusion of white-hot instrumental guitar
THE WOLFHOUNDS’ Andy Golding, one of the most potent wielders (welders?) of a guitar in operation in these tarnished isles today, is releasing only his second solo album under his anagrammatic Dragon Welding moniker in May, in which he sets sail into the possibilities of instrumental guitar. It’s gonna be an excellent journey, that album, …
Track: Reigning Sound – ‘Oh Christine’: a sweet Americana lament from returning Memphis cult heroes
RETURNING Memphis prodigals Reigning Sound have followed up the the classy garage-rock soul of “A Little More Time” from last month with another little cracker on the path to their first album in seven years. That’s called “Oh Christine”, it’s herein, and it comes with a quality assurance from the man himself, Greg Cartwright, who …