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TRACK: Field Works – ‘Ḥalaqah ’Azaliyyah’: a beyond-pretty exploration of Americana and Arabic poetry
FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient. It’s all helmed by Indianapolis producer Stuart Hyatt, who began the series – the forthcoming album is the …
SEE: Karate, Guns & Tanning – ‘Graffiti Children’: deliciously hazy dreampop with sharp edges
THE VIRAL world we’re all slowly swimming through, occasionally dashed on the rocks of what the fuck? means we’ve all made adjustments, remote learning, collaborating, working – which, as luck would have it, has made not a jot of difference to the creative practice of Valerie Green and Paige Shedletsky, the twin minds (or not, …
Track: Korpiklaani – Tuuleton
Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani’s new album Jylhä! has been released and in celebration, the band have produced another gorgeous music video for the song Tuuleton. Frontman Jonne said about Jylhä: “This is the most versatile Korpiklaani album we have done. We have some of our hardest, heaviest and fastest songs ever, and we have happy and melancholic ones. It …
NEWS: Belgian shoegazers Slow Crush reissue ‘Aurora’; see the new video for ‘Aid And Abet’
IF YOU’RE the kinda person who likes shoegazing to be actual, y’know, shoegazing – that deep, complex bleed of guitars and thicketed, soundscapes, the one which Slowdive do in an unparalleled way – then maybe you need to become acquainted with Slow Crush, the darker perfumed Belgian band fronted by Mancunian Isa Holliday. The band’s …
Track: Sturle Dagsland shares surreal and intriguing single – Blot
Norwegian Sturle Dagsland, is the self titled project of the experimental-pop/Avant-rock singer Sturle Dagsland together with his brother Sjur. Ahead of the release of his self titled debut album, due 5th February, Dagsland has shared the single ‘Blot’. “Blot was/is a blood sacrifice ritual in Norse Paganism to honour the Norse gods,” explains Sturle. “The sacrifice would often …
News: Napalm Records Releases Bodom After Midnight’s EP ‘Paint The Sky With Blood’
The newly formed supergroup Bodom After Midnight led by Alexi Laiho, were set to share their EP release in the spring followed by a full-length album, but had the plans cut short by the sad passing of Laiho at the end of last year. That EP, ‘Paint The Sky With Blood’ is set for release on April 23 via …
TRACK: Simon Provencher – ‘Choix multiples’: iterative experimenta for clarinet and guitar
KNOWN primarily for contributing a particularly jagged and jittery way with a riff to the work of Montréalais dance-punk outfit VICTIME, Simon Provencher is spreading his wings and revealing a more post-classical, intricate side to his musical aesthetic with a debut solo EP, Mesures, due out on Michel Records on March 26th; from which he’s …
NEWS: Fruit Bats announce lush new album for Merge; see the video for The Balcony
CHICAGO’S pristine and lovely Fruit Bats, who’ve been providing us with excellent folk-rock that completely illustrates the wondrous magic of music when they’re flying high (and they mostly are, let’s be fair), have a new album, The Pet Parade, out through Merge come March 5th; by way of introducing you to the delights of which …
Track: Madi Diaz – Man in Me
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Madi Diaz has just been signed to ANTI- and is straight out of the blocks with her first single – ‘Man in Me’, co-produced with Andrew Sarlo (Courtney Marie Andrews, Big Thief, Bon Iver) and if this is the shape of things to come then we are definitely going to be hearing a …
NEWS: Kill Rock Stars announce debut album from Japanese garage-psych wonderkids TEKE::TEKE; see the video for ‘Meikyu’
JAPANESE psych-rock septet TEKE::TEKE, who these days call not only Montreal but Kill Rock Stars home, are pleased as punch to reveal their debut set for the label, Shirushi, will be released on May 7th. And so are we, so are we: pleased as punch, that is. The band formed in 2018, initially just for …