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News: Red Rum Club launch an acoustic album with a bright, brassy retread of ‘Eleanor’ – there’s a marathon tour run, too
LIVERPOOL’S bright, summery popsters Red Rum Club are following hot on the heels of last autumn’s The Hollow Of Humdrum by taking those well-sculpted tunes and unplugging them for an acoustic retread of album length, The Hollow Sessions, which’ll be out on Modern Sky on April 30th. And it’s one of their biggest and brightest …
Track: Hiatus Kaiyote shine with ‘Get Sun’ feat Arthur Verocai ahead of album ‘Mood Valiant’.
We’ve all been waiting for a new Hiatus Kaiyote album to drop. Well, at least those who saw them perform whilst they were on the road to jazz fame at the Love Supreme Festival of 2016 . The band , fronted by Singer-Guitarist Nai Palm brings a fresh new and wonderfully mature sound to it’s …
See: Slow Dance Records signs Aga Ujma, releasing new visuals for ‘In The Ocean’
Polish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Aga Ujma has signed to Slow Dance Records, the first single for which was released today. Ujma uses seemingly disparate influences and instruments – her incredibly singular sound traces a lineage between fellow explorers Bjork, Múm, Eivør, CocoRosie and Current 93, blending traditional folk with minimal avant-garde production and Eastern instrumentation …
Track: ‘End Song’ is only the beginning for feeo
The neo-jazz scene in the UK is spawning several exciting artists in the world of indie fusion, and feeo’s announcement of a debut EP promises to be another lively offering from the movement. From a feature on Loraine James’ “Sensual” to live slots with Nilufer Yanya, Westerman and soul legends Shalamar, and a co-sign by …
Say Psych: Track Review: Alan Vega – Fist
Iconic musician, poet and visual artist Alan Vega was an uncompromising visionary. His work proved informative in the invention of industrial, synth/post punk and his rousing lyrics were always a mirror of the times over the course of his six active decades. ‘Fist’ is taken from his forthcoming lost album Mutator, out 23 April via Sacred Bones Records. It …
Premiere: See the video for the DM-bouncealong indie anthem of Gunke’s ‘Football’
IF, in these long Covidian days, you find you could actually do with a decent slab of DM-bouncing indie-rock with a nod to Pavement and Bill Ryder-Jones, crunchy guitars, chantalong vocals and a little gentle shade cast on the so-called beautiful game, then get your GP to prescribe you the latest single from Gunke, to …
Track: Tarragon – ‘Follow The Sign’: Coventry songwriter calls on a host of greats for his shimmering debut
YOU’VE got a musical vision, a wish to create, that keeps you going through the grind of the everyday but which you can’t ever quite shift off the back burner? Focus on it, bend your will to it, make it happen: that’s a lesson we can all take from Coventry’s Callum Pickard, the man behind …
SEE: The fairytale stop-motion video for Renée Reed’s graceful, mysterious ‘I Saw A Ghost’
WITH her stunning, graceful, mysterious debut album out tomorrow on Keeled Scales, Louisianan folk riser musician Renée Reed has dropped a fourth and final single to usher you into the scented finery of her world; watch the video for “I Saw A Ghost” below. “I Saw A Ghost” rings true with the four-track ambience which pervades her home-recorded …
See: The Apartments release sun-soaked evocative video for the glorious track ‘Where You Used to Be’
The Apartments‘ magnificent album ‘In And Out Of The Light’ was one of the brief rays of light last year – one of my favourite albums of the year – and the track ‘Where You used to be’ is a wistful gem in a basket of many shining jewels. With one of Brisbane’s greatest singer/songwriters, …