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Track: Restless Leg releases a glorious indie pop anthem ‘The Wheel It Turns’ filled with sparkle and verve
Sydney indie outfit Restless Leg has just released a sparkling and effervescent new track, ‘The Wheel It Turns’, which draws in an indelible pop heritage from legendary antipodean bands such as The Go-Betweens and The Bats as well as the UK C86 movement. With such an heritage, the song still forges a vibrant new path …
Track: Hear Koma Saxo’s ‘Fiskeskärsmelodin’, leading for their new live album
FINLAND – the happiest country in the world, apparently … well that’s not really a surprise when they’ve got We Jazz records, the Helsinki-based label, dedicated to keeping pulses racing and minds open. Now comes news of their latest contribution to our wellbeing, a live recording of the potent five piece Koma Saxo captured in …
See: The video for claire rousay’s ‘Peak Chroma’: Texas improviser’s hazy, wonk-pop collage heralds an April album for American Dreams
LAUDED San Antonio improviser of deep, moving complexity claire rousay has announced she has a new album out in early April for American Dreams, a softer focus, which news will certainly be firing up and down the bush telegraph for those of us who like our music weird and delightful and interrogative; and by way …
See: TDA drops the dark wilderness-industrial textures of ‘Présence’; his album follows in April
PREVIOUSLY going under the name Trafic des airs, TDA is the newly compressed to initials only, dark industrial mask of Samuel Gougoux, elsewhere a member of Montreal’s no-wave dance-punk band VICTIME. Samuel released a cassette-only EP, titled for the name he’s now adopted, back in August 2019; the drums are so much to the fore …
Track: MF Tomlinson – ‘A Long Day’: London psych-folkster brings the flute-filled wonder to a tale of early mornings
MICHAEL TOMLINSON is the main man in the sorta-solo project MF Tomlinson, in which he plys a very neat line in indie folk/roots songcraft with a grainy bearhug of a voice. Australian by birth but based in London, Michael is about to release a six-track album, the rather lovely Strange Time. Quickly following his debut EP, Last …
News: Stephen Malkmus’ cover of Can’s ‘Ege Bamyasi’ released online
CAN’S psychedelic-krautrock classic Ege Bamyasi – the record which seismically shifted the current and future musical landscape many times over, and which further cemented the band’s status in the Krautrock canon with it’s experimental rock dynamism, following the experimental zenith of Tago Mago – is now approaching it’s 50th anniversary; back in 2012 though, the …
See: The video for Naoko Sakata’s ‘Improvisation 2’: another fluid, free-flying expression at the solo piano from next week’s album
NAOKO SAKATA, the free improvisational piano talent who Anna von Hausswolff just knew she had to sign to her Pomperirossa Records imprint, has released another flowing, epic, impressionistic improvisation from her forthcoming debt album for the label, “Improvisation 2”, which you can hear right here. Based in Gothenburg, Sakata is a good fir for Pomperipossa, …
See: A live video for French post-rockers BRUIT ≤’s ‘The Machine Is Burning’: the fire and the fury in the Église du Gésu
BLENDING the longform, addictive unfolding blueprints of postrock with a more pastoral chamber quartet aesthetic and thus very much bringing to mind the lately little-visited territories established by the gorgeous Rachel’s, BRUIT ≤ have released a video of them performing the title track of their forthcoming album, The Machine Is Burning, in the hallowed acoustics …
Track: KYL!E’s debut single ‘Sorry’ makes a flamboyant claim for future electropop stardom.
Singer-songwriter KYL!E released her debut single, “Sorry” on February 22nd, 2021. The track, produced by RYNS, is a synth-driven electropop anthem of uncertainty and acrimony. Detailing the cracks of a relationship nearing its end, KYL!E gives listeners a relatable view into the self-doubt that manifests during the process. The instrumental reflects the nuance of her …
News: Marisa Anderson and William Tyler announce an album together for Thrill Jockey; hear the title track, ‘Lost Futures’
TAKE two of the best instrumental guitarists currently working in instrumental Americana, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler; put them together in a studo; press record. It’s a simple idea, but an idea as brilliant as the results. In some ways it’s a surprise the two haven’t married their winding, mesmerising aesthetics before. In fact they …