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Track: Har Mar Superstar – Where We Began
Creative wonder Har Mar Superstar, announces his new album and has shared the lead single ‘Where We Began’. The album ‘Roseville’ is out March 5th. ‘Where We Began’ is super slick with funky guitar and big horns that encase his silky smooth voice. The track buzzes with an infectious energy that just hits the spot. Its the perfect time …
SEE: The video for llawgne’s hazy psych-pop break-up nugget, ‘Golden Soul’
MATHIAS ENGWALL is no stranger to these pages, though a relative newcomer; based in Gothenburg, he’s enthralled, like so many of us, by the heady twin rushes of dreampop and shoegaze, his particular vision of which he introduced us to in November gone with “Reverie Neverending”, a lovely slice of ‘gazey pop with a little …
Track: David Gray announces new album and shares two new singles
David Gray is set to release his twelfth studio album, ‘Skellig’, due 19th February via Laugh a Minute Records / AWAL Recordings on with CD & vinyl to follow in May. With the album news Gray has also shared two singles off the album ‘Skellig’ and ‘Heart And Soul’. Regarding the album Gray comments: “The more I contemplated the idea …
Track: Cheap Trick Return With New Track ‘Light Up The Fire’ and announce 20th studio album
Original rockers Cheap Trick have announced their new single, ‘Light Up The Fire’. The track is taken from the bands eagerly anticipated 20th studio album, ‘In Another World’, due 9th April via BMG. “This band is held together by music,” says Robin Zander. “It’s the super glue that keeps us writing and putting records out. The reason we …
See: Valfreya – Warlords
Canada’s Valfreya have released a video for track ‘Warlords’ taken from their album Promised Land. With a mixture of cinematic drama, brutal heaviness and deathly dark vocals, this track sticks out of the crowd. Female and male duets and full band vocals give a huge sense of power from this group. There’s a chance to …
Track: Thunder Horse – Chosen One
San Antonio heavy metal band Thunder Horse have shared the title track taken from their upcoming new album ‘Chosen One’, due 12th March via Ripple Music. Regarding the track vocalist Stephen Bishop comments: “Chosen One was one of the first song ideas I came up with for this album. Lyrically speaking, it is no secret that the US has been …
Track: Ilja Alexander releases the emotive dream pop of Berlin
The latest single from Dreampop artist, IIja Alexander, ‘Berlin’ is out now on various listening platforms via Green Monk Records. With an atmospheric keys driven intro, distinctive vocals follow, Berlin builds to an Electronica-infused reveal. Combining memorable vocal hooks with a beat and synths/keyboard, the listener is put in the mind of Electronic music pioneers, …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Despite Life’s Ups & Downs, Virginia MC Chuck Dolo Is Doing “Aight”
Late last year, the rap artist Chuck Dolo released his first official music, the single “Late Nights,” and the EP Amnesia. Both are atmospheric slices of hip hop, with trauma and recovery as their abiding themes, the music cathartic and clear-eyed, with a story teller’s attention to the small details of every day life. Dolo’s …
See: Slowthai wets our appetites for Tyron with surreal ‘Cancelled’ visuals
Slowthai premiered the video for ‘Cancelled’ on Tuesday, a dark reminder to everyone watching about the darker side of cancel culture. It is a bold response to those who tried to tear him down last year. The video is directed by THE REST, drawing on a swathe of classic horror movie references from scary movie …
SEE: The video for Cheval Sombre’s ‘Curtain Grove’: a thrilling, delicate highlight from his new album; a song of the year?
WE’RE a way towards the release of Chris Porpora, aka Cheval Sombre’s, first album in eight years, Time Waits For No One; brighter days to come, seasonally and musically, for sure, come February 26th. It seems serendipitous that, with the ‘rona and the lockdown and all, the globe has wound down to Cheval Sombre’s pace just …