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Track: Cameron Knowler – ‘Lena’s Spanish Fandango’: a tender and plaintive Americana air
TEXAN solo guitar practitioner and melodicist Cameron Knowler – whose lovely, exploratory album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, we fully embraced in early March – has announced he’s to unveil his first solo album on American Dreams, Places Of Consequence, in mid-July. To tempt you further into his world and to pique your curiosity – and …
See: LIP TALK takes a dayglo synthpop brush to endless consumerism on ‘Bargain Day’
SARAH K. PEDINOTTI, the Brooklyn experimental popster who guises as LIP TALK, and who we last saw see-sawing twixt sin and virtue on the psychedelic synthpop of “More”, has dropped another single flirting with the concepts of the vices, the thrumming dayglo silk of “Bargain Day”, coming at pop askew with a little ESG and …
Track: Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg – ‘Watch What Happens’: a good old-fashioned swap and cover two-tracker is out now
WITH their long-awaited third joining together in song, Superwolves, the direct descendent of 2005’s Superwolf, out digitally just a couple of months back, you might think Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy could rest easy, take a breather; but not a bit of it, they’ve been up to so much. For a start, Drag City are pleased as …
Track: The Rumjacks – Rhythm Of Her Name
The Rumjacks have shared the video for ‘Rhythm Of Her Name.’ The track is taken from their new album ‘Hestia,’ which was released in March (read our review here), and follows the announcement of an extensive UK and Ireland tour in 2022. Vocalist Mike Rivkees (who also directed and edited the clip) says, “Rhythm of Her Name is …
See: The lyric animation for All The Luck In The World’s ‘Waves (Poem)’ ahead of their third album
IRISH folk-pop trio All the Luck In The World have just announced that, nearly three years in the making, their third album will be with us very soon; and they’ve dropped a first single, “Waves (Poem)”, the line-drawn lyric animation for which you can watch below. The album’s entitled How The Ash Felt and encompasses …
Track: Enslaved – Sacred Horse (live)
Norway’s Enslaved have shared another live video taken from their Cinematic Tour 2020 releases due 25th June via By Norseand Nuclear Blast. ‘Sacred Horse’ (live) is taken from the The Rise of Ymir (Verftet Online Festival 2020) recording. Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson commented, “Sacred Horse is probably one of our proudest moments in our now three-decade long career, and that song …
Track: Chapter And Verse – Something In The Water
A defiantly optimistic Chapter and Verse, have shared their new single ‘Something in the Water’. Recorded almost entirely from their bedrooms, the track is the result of the band trying to push their artistic boundaries and doubling down on their explorative side. The band comments: “We’re so well connected nowadays that it can sometimes feel …
News: George Harrison’s classic solo set ‘All Things Must Pass’ gets a suite of 50th anniversary editions; hear the previously unreleased ‘Run Of The Mill (Take 36)’
UNIVERSALLY regarded, without too much contention from the Lennon and McCartney camps, as the best Beatles’ solo album, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, home to such classics as “My Sweet Lord” and “Isn’t It A Pity”, as covered so beautifully by Galaxie 500, is to receive a whole series of deluxe expansions to mark …
Track: TOMÁ – ‘Blind War (feat. Ben LaMar Gay)’: eclectic future soul breaks herald a rising talent sans frontières
ATOM is the forthcoming and wholly anagrammatical album of the Austrian-based, Bulgarian-born leftfield beats investigator Tomá Ivanov, known for the purposes of music as TOMÁ. His particular thing, he tells us, is “avant-garde lo-fi-jazz-psychedelic-pop”, which sounds appetisingly eclectic; and which eclecticism your ears will be pleased to confirm after taking a dip into his debut …
Track: Good Lekker give strong pop, rock and indie nods on newly unveiled single ’Something Better’
Wollongong indie-dance six-piece Good Lekker released their vibrant, high-spirited new track Something Better today. The group have received widespread support from acclaimed music tastemakers Pilerats and recently played support for Brisbane’s Mallrat in front of a massive audience. They have also just announced the exciting news of an accompanying East-Coast tour, which will include dates in …