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Track: My Name Is Ian – ‘For Love’; Welsh collective bring the baggy
MY NAME IS IAN, the lo-fi trio outta Cardiff with a fantastic line in song titles (“If I Was A Gentoo Penguin, I’d Find You The Smoothest Pebble”, anyone?) and who self-describe as a “a bipolar, odd rock, anti-folk loser super group” have dropped quite a fiery little dancefloor-friendly number this week, with more than …
News: Osees come firing out with another Levitation Session live stream in April; see a taster, ‘Snickersee’
POSSIBLY the absolute best live band in the world right now and for quite a while, John Dwyer’s Osees are determined we don’t go through our second pandemic spring without a prescription of garage rock fire, to be taken aurally. They’ve announced another Levitation Session for April 10th – if you caught either their Christmas …
Track: Gizelle Smith – ‘King Of The Mountain’: Mighty Mocambos soul queen takes Kate Bush into orbit
GIZELLE SMITH, the glorious voice of deep funk freestylers The Mighty Mocambos, alumnus of WahWah 45s, Big Crown and other rather fine labels that should tell you everything you need to know as a trademark of quality, is all set to release her debut solo album for Brighton’s Jalapeno Records later on in the year. …
Premiere: The Pretty Visitors release video for the epic, soaring single Western Skies
We are very honoured to premiere the new video for ‘Western Skies’, the single from the glorious The Pretty Visitors. The track itself launches with a thrilling wall of guitars and shimmering vocal harmonies. It is epic and cinematic indie pop of the highest degree. The partly spoken verse has a lyrical poetry infused with …
Track: Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell collaborate with producer James Chapman (MAPS) in exquisite new single ‘Noyalain (Burn)’ and announce new album
Australian duo Dead Can Dance (consisting of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry) were an extraordinarily innovative band signed to the legendary 4AD label (becoming their highest selling artists), fusing medieval music with gothic undertones and ambient textures. The band has disbanded and reformed over the years since it began in 1981 – the most recent …
Track: Colectiva x Maria Grapsa release empowering debut single ‘Under The’
Here’s a reminder, if you needed one, that outside the nu-jazz hullabaloo the bedrock of the UK scene is thriving, still pushing those boundaries with vibrant, inventive music. Colectiva’s debut single ‘Under the’, available via Movimientos Records tears the envelope stamped Latin jazz wide open and fills it with some thrillingly different messages. Springing from …
Track: Gary Numan – I Am Screaming
With his new album due 21st May, Gary Numan has shared another single ‘I am Screaming’ from his 18th album ‘Intruder’ A mysterious start to this more laid back track from Numan. With a slightly softer vocal that mirrors a certain Billy Corgan. In fact the track itself has a Smashing Pumpkins vibe to it. …
News: The Orb’s Alex Paterson announces autobiography and new label; hear Sedibus’ ‘TOI 1338b’
DEEP space ambient techno overlord Alex Paterson, the good doctor of The Orb himself, has just announced a whole cluster of projects to take us into 2021. Fellow astral travellers: be delighted. Firstly, come May 28th, Alex will be publishing his autobiography, Babble On An’ Ting: Alex Paterson’s Incredible Journey Beyond The Ultraworld With The …
Track: SORBET feat. Maija Sofia – ‘I Heard His Scythe’: Irish producer conceives of the purgatory we’re in on ambitious new project
NEED a palate freshener? SORBET is the new guising and musical project of Irish producer Chris W Ryan, who can enumerate on his CV the scouring rock of Just Mustard; the dreamier, almost House of Love stylings of NewDad, and the Fugazi-meets-jazz melding of his own Robocobra Quartet. Chris is clearly a man of eclectic …
News: Nordic country singer Louien will release an EP in June; hear a first track, ‘Better Woman’
LOUIEN we touched base with just a matter of days back, in an ensemble sense, when she lined up alongside Siv Jakobsen and The Northern Belle for the Nordicana loveliness of “No Rush”, bringing three-part harmonies to a chiming beauty of a tune reminding us to take care of each other. Now Miranda Solberg (for …