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See: Tristan Welch – ‘I Live In Filth’: Washington guitarist presents icy dronescapes
WASHINGTON’S dark ambient guitarchitect Tristan Welch has announced a new album for the end of April, Temporary Preservation; and has released a first taster single in the twilit soundscapes of “I Live In Filth”. Take a listen herein. Tristan follows on from last year’s Capitalist Teeth and Ambient Distress and continues his sonic exploration of …
Throwing Snow – ‘Lithics’: an organic, midtempo call to euphoric IDM prayer
ROSS TONES, the Northern Englishman who’s made his way to a rural retreat in the South West via the capital, is regarded as something of a mainstay over at Houndstooth, the label that’s spiralled out of London’s fabric club. He’s just followed up last year’s The Folly of Pangloss EP, which he released under the …
Track: Berlin Post-Punks Kamoos release new single, Orang-Utans
Berlin-based post-punks Kamoos have returned, with a new line up, indcluding members of the Three Marias and Voodoo Beach, but still fronted and led by London-born front woman, Juliette Wallace. They’ve just released their new single – Orang-Utans, and with it comes a video shot by Juliette in lockdown. Dark and moody, Orang-Utans creeps and …
Track: Matt Robertson – ‘Kalimba’: a grand, chattering, acid sweep
GROWING up listening to a mixture of Jean-Michel Jarre and Jimmy Smith, Matt Robertson certainly had a good early primer in the weirder beauties of music; big-screen synthesiser worlds, the grooviest, cinematic organ jazz (you mean you haven’ heard Jimmy Smith’s The Cat?) After university, Matt matriculated into the world of the recording studio. He’s worked …
Track: Aetherian release an environmental friendly track ‘Primordial Woods’
Melodic death metallers Aetherian released a new single, ‘Primordial Woods’ featuring the distinctive vocals of Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ. The band states of the song: “These past few years our planet is experiencing a rapid change of the global climate. The extent of fires in Australia, the Amazon rainforest and the Siberian boreal forest, …
Track: Harker – The Beast Must Die
Brighton, UK punk rock band Harker have shared a new single ‘The Beast Must Die’. The track is taken off the band’s upcoming LP ‘Axiom’ out April 23rd on Wiretap Records, Disconnect Disconnect Records, Shield Recordings, Fixing A Whole Records. “The Beast Must Die’ is based on the idea of ‘Mono-consciousness’ by English writer Colin Wilson – as a philosopher, Wilsons writing …
Track: Evil Drive – We Are One
Finish melodic metal band Evil Drive have shared a new track ‘We Are One’, taken from the upcoming album ‘Demons Within’ due 2nd April via Reaper Entertainment. Announcing the track with clattering cymbals and a wall of sound from the guitars. The melodic lead playing for the chorus sounds great underneath Viktoria Viren’s death growl …
See: Eydís Evensen – ‘Wandering II’: gliding pastoralism from Icelandic composer
SONY is venturing into the world of modern composition and has set up a new imprint, XXIM Records, to issue musics from that liminal space where classical abuts ambient and experimental; its first signing is the Icelandic composer and pianist Eydís Evensen. Eydís hails from the remote town of Blönduós in the north of Iceland. …
See: Tristan Kasten-Krause – ‘Dawn Looming’: delicious dronescapes for a new day
NEW YORK-based bassist and composer Tristan Kasten-Krause likes to mix it up, see a little of the creative world. As well as being active on the Big Apple’s DIY and experimental scenes, he’s also played in Oklahoma!, in a production running on Broadway, which gives you any idea of his breadth and scope culturally. He …
Track: Total Massacre release the blistering hardcore punk of ‘Pro-Life Death Cult’
In the past few years, Los Angeles’ Total Massacre have been waving the flag of socio-political lyrical infiltration for the punk rock paradigm. With two albums at their fans’ retrieval, the latest being The System Works… from 2019, they have taken in part of releasing a slew of singles since then. While there is no hint to …