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Animal Collective reveal new video for ‘Sand that Moves’, taken from Crestone movie soundtrack
Out right now is the debut feature film Crestone, written and directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler in partnership with Memory. Hertzler enlisted the services of experimental indie act Animal Collective to provide the score to the movie, which will be out physically on April 23. From it the band have revealed a new video for the …
Rising: Christoffer Holm tells us all about his new metal band Vengeant
Swedish metal band Vengeant finally released their first single last month to the joy of 13,000+ fans. The female fronted band promise to bring power metal and operatic vocals, orchestral arrangements, heavy riffs, lightning fast guitar solos and progressive, symphonic metal inspired by Magic: the Gathering, strategy card game. Read our review of their first …
Track: Jess And The Ancient Ones – Summer Tripping Man
The Savonian occult rock behemoth Jess and the Ancient Ones are set to release a new album – Vertigo due 21st May via Svart Records. The band have shared the first single – Summer Tripping Man Regarding the album songwriter and guitarist Thomas Corpse comments, “To me this album sounds like a dark horse – a brother to the previous …
Track: Juliet Ruin – Fake Stigmata
Leading up to the release of their new EP ‘Dark Water’ on March 26th, Canada’s metalcore band Juliet Ruin is sharing their new lyric video for the third single ‘Fake Stigmata’. The band comments: “Fake Stigmata is our third and heaviest track from our Dark Water EP, it explores darker lyrical themes and grittier vocals and instrumentals.” Opening with a …
News: Daptone to release an album from Morocco’s Innov Gnawa; hear ‘Chorfa’
DAPTONE, the home of soul and funk, is one of those labels whose judgement you can trust; when they’re onto something you just know it’s going to deliver. News that they will be releasing Innov Gnawa’s new album, LILA, on April 30th may seem a bit leftfield given that the band are dedicated explorers of …
Track: Ryley Walker’s ‘Axis Bent’ is a baroque and complex glory; his new album’s out soon
TROUBADOUR genius touched by the hand of the Tim Buckley, collaborator on some very fine albums, sole architect of yet other records that fall very much in that same category, and one of the funniest tweeters in music, Ryley Walker has just dropped a new track, “Axis Bent”, from his early April album Course In …
Boston MC Billy Dean Thomas Reminds Us That “Hope Is A Song In A Weary Throat”
Last year seemed like the year that Billy Dean Thomas would finally break through. The Boston-based hip hop artist, poet and writer had accumulated a steady list of accomplishments. Thomas had performed on The View, was nominated for a number of music awards, including a Grammy, and had won grants that enabled Thomas to worry …
SEE: Toulouse post-rockers BRUIT ≤ announce April album; see the video for ‘Renaissance’
ITS MEMBERS having been through the major label wringer, Toulousain post-rock outfit BRUIT ≤ had no desire to make the same mistakes again; and its members decided to strip back to that initial spark: the creative act. The initial trio of bassist and violinist Clément Libes, drummer Damien Gouzou and guitarist Théophile Antolinos didn’t even …
NEWS: GoGo Penguin announce Blue Note remix album with a stellar cast; hear the MachineDrum remix of ‘Atomised’
THE LEFTFIELD, inventive Mancunian piano trio GoGo Penguin, who work out in the truly creative zones where dancefloor and intelligence and a jazzy feel bump into each other, decided they could be lifelong friends, have announced a remix album for Blue Note, to be entitled GGP/RMX; and boy have they lined up a mighty cast …
Track: Roddy Woomble to release a new solo album in May; hear a first single, ‘Lo Soul’; there’s tour dates, too
FORMER Idlewild man turned solo songcrafter of considerable talent, Roddy Woomble has finally turned his hand to a follow-up to 2017’s The Deluder; he’ll be releasing his new album, Lo! Soul, in May, by way of previewing which he’s just dropped a lead single, the (almost) title track “Lo Soul”. Take a listen and read …