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See: The layered monochrome stylings of MICROCORPS’ ‘UVU’: a dark electronic language for a dark age
MICROCORPS, the new project of Alex Tucker, lurches us forward into a near-future dystopia part-flesh, part-microprocessor, and achieves eerie beauty; as you can hear below with the second track to be revealed from next week’s XMIT album, “UVU”, the steel grey visuals for which you can see below. The album takes us out deep and …
Track: Tomas Nordmark feat. Waterbaby – ‘Ghosts’: eerie, amniotic, ink-black choral electronica preludes his May album
LIVING these days in London, but hailing originally from the small Swedish coastal town of Västervik, some 280km further down the coast from Stockholm, Tomas Nordmark is a electronica producer and soundscaper with a very complex and organic musical vision. His interest in the sonic avant-garde was brooked by the 1960s’ art scene in New …
See: Neil Cowley – ‘I Choose The Mountain’: solo compositional delicacy with love to Wim Wenders
BRITISH pianist Neil Cowley, who released a septet of albums sitting astride the point where jazz begins to shade into modern composition and ‘tronica over a period of ten years from 2006, has been on something of a musical journey. Having dissolved his previous combo, the Neil Cowley Trio, he’d seemingly fallen out of love …
Track: Nightshadow – Ripper
Nightshadow returns in 2021 with their forthcoming album ‘Strike Them Dead’ which follows up from their 2017 self-titled debut EP. The album is due out May 7th and in lead up to its release, the band is sharing their first single ‘Ripper’. The track is a story from the point of view of the malice mind of Jack …
News: Matador to give a quarter-century repress to Bardo Pond’s classic ‘Amanita’; hear the previously unreleased ‘Shadow Puppet’
AS PART of its continuing sifting of absolute gems already in the catalogue, Matador has announced its marking the quarter-century of Bardo Pond’s none-more-hallucinogenic debut for the label (and the band’s sixth overall, by a Discogs reckoning), Amanita, will be getting an empurpled and deluxe anniversary edition pressing, out October 8th. Good news for major …
Track: Laura Masotto – ‘Blue Marble’: the pain and the bite of the pandemic lockdown for layered solo violin
LAURA MASOTTO is an Italian composer and violinist and composer who loves to create and architecture of sound by looping up her violin to strengthen, harmonise, lend support and bite and drama to the thrust and core of her work. She’s set to release her second album on 7K! near to midsummer – 7K! of …
Track: Domkraft – Seeds
Swedish psychedelic doom-riffers Domkraft release the blistering and surprisingly sinister title track ‘Seeds’ as the second single from their highly-anticipated third full-length set for release on April 30. Domkraft comment: “Every new beginning has to start somewhere, usually by abandoning the old”, tells guitarist Martin Widholm. “It’s a notion that can be sentimental and empowering at the same time, and we wanted ‘Seed’ …
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: Ruoska Return With New Single ‘Runno’
Legendary Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska has broke the 13 years of silence with a new single ‘Runno’ Vocalist Patrik Mennander backgrounds the song: “Ruoska’s new single Runno goes deep into Finnish mythology and culture. On it’s twisted lyrics Ruoska interpret the Finnish-like determined mindscape: Sisu! Theme of the song is familiar from band’s early days, bowing to old …
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 …