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TRACK: Western Column – ‘Hear Not Say’: spiralling shoegaze sunshine
CHRISTOPHER DEVINE has been a-shakin’ and a-movin’ on the Glasgow music scene for a fair old while now, as part of Dutch Wine and Stock Manager; but he’s changed costumes once more over in a Sauchiehall Street phone box to re-emerge as Western Column, with a very fine diffusion line in proper shoegaze pop like …
SEE: Bad Colours – ‘Feelin’ Like’: future breaks drop teases for debut album
IBE SOLIMAN, the London-born, Maryland-raised, and now Brooklyn-based DJ and producer, likes to guise up for the world of music he produces as Bad Colours; and he’s set to release his first full-lengther, PINK, on Bastard Jazz at the end of this month. The album sees him drawing on influences from across the beats and …
Track: Sadness And Complete Disappointment bring a gothic twist with their new track – Survivors Guilt
Adding a touch of grunge to the UK scene, Sadness & Complete Disappointment have released another single from their forthcoming debut EP – ‘Fun’ ‘Survivor’s Guilt’ is, in fact, a love song of sorts but lead vocalist and drummer Esme admits that: “it’s more about the desperation to not be alone, regardless of the cost to …
Track: Fire Follows Share Explosive Track – Glass Grenade
American metal rockers Fire Follows, have released a new track ‘Glass Grenade’ via TLG Entertainment/In Grooves The band comments: “The ‘Glass Grenade’ represents a fragile heart that is on the verge of breaking, and the catastrophic damage that can be done if it does…. an insightful message wrapped in a powerful instrumental makes this one …
Track: Lowlives – I Don’t Like You
West Coast based raucous rockers ‘Lowlives’, formed by former members of The Defiled, Amen, No Devotion and the Ataris, have released a new track entitled ‘I Don’t Like You’ “This song is my favourite track off our record. The day we wrote it I sat back and ripped it on repeat for hours.” Declares drummer Luke Johnson “The writing …
Track: Thrillhouse release another dazzling piece of funky indie brilliance in the track ‘Flawed Design’
Brighton’s most enigmatic and, in my humble opinion, underrated band, Thrillhouse have launched the new year with another superb single – ‘Flawed Design’. Over the past few years, Thrillhouse have released some of the most exciting and innovative music – exhibiting both a strong songwriting craft, dazzling levels of musicanship and above all a creativity …
See: Death From Above 1979 reveal new video for One + One
With news of their fourth album ‘4Lovers’ fresh in our minds, Death From Above 1979 have released a new single, One + One, out now via Universal Music Canada / Spinefarm. It’ll be the band, aka Sebastian Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler’s first new music since 2017’s ‘Outrage! Is Now’. Of the track, Sebastian Grainger …
SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Pale Horse Rider’: the album’s delayed, but it’s so worth the wait
AS HIS second solo album for Drag City approaches, LA’s Cory Hanson – Wand frontman and on his own clock, potent (and a little dark) psych-country explorer, has released a third single, to follow the deep grace of “Paper Fog” and the dark-hearted brilliance of “Angeles”; waiting, we’re told, placidly for end of days, a …
NEWS: World of Echo to release Mosquitoes 10″ – come bathe in the no wave dub of ‘Strobeluck’
LONDON label World of Echo, the fledgling imprint which has emerged from the rather excellent record emporium of that name on Columbia Road, E2, has announced the second release in its nascent catalogue; with the prize of being 002 going to Mosquitoes’ Mosquitoes EP, a rather glorious, skeletal, no wave dub excursion on 10″, if …
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 …