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Track: MOAT – a collaboration between Marty Willson-Piper (ex The Church) and Niko Röhlcke – releases the brilliant single ‘Helpless You’.
Marty Willson-Piper was a founding member of the legendary Australian band The Church – an iconic and much loved figure with his rock star image, hooped earrings, paisley shirts and Rickenbackers. His was an integral part of the sixties jingle jangle guitar sound that heavily influenced an international movement with bands such as REM. While …
Track: Cynik Scald – City Nemesis
Cyprus based Cynik Scald are a metal band that blur the lines between Metal/Melodic Metal/PowerMetal/Metalcore. Their debut album ‘Aged Spirit’ was released at the end of 2019. The band have shared the latest track to be taken from the album – ‘City Nemesis’. A groovy intro riff becomes the backbone of the track joined with …
Track: The Rosie Varela Project debuts luscious shoegaze track ‘Low’
Rosie Varela is the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the brilliant Texan shoegaze outfit Eep (whose single ‘Hogar’ I raved about last year). She has now branched out as The Rosie Varela Project (RVP) and released the first of a slough of singles in anticipation of an album later this year. And ‘Low’ clearly puts …
See: Morcheeba return with first glimpse of their upcoming new album, the video for Sounds of Blue
Legendary trip-hop band Morcheeba have announced their new, tenth studio album is out on May 14th 2021. From it they’ve released the first glimpse of what we can expect from the duo Sky Edwards and Ross Godfrey, with a video for their new single, ‘Sounds of Blue’. As with most other artists, the lockdown stripped …
Track: Sister Wives release the brilliant new song ‘I Fyny Af / Rise’ from their forthcoming AA single
Sheffield’s Sister Wives are back with the follow up to last years acclaimed debut ‘Gweler Ein Gofid’ with a new track taken from their forthcoming 10” vinyl single – it’s the flip side from their other track ‘Crags’ – ‘I Fynwy Af / Rise’, and it’s out on 26th February on Delicious Clam Records. Of …
NEWS: Drag City announce new signing AND imprint – hear E.R. Jurken’s ‘Colonels Of The Morning’
DRAG CITY have been so moved by the psychedelic whimsies of new signing E.R. Jurken that they’ve decided the only right thing to do is to is set up a boutique imprint just for him to lead; so a double smashing of the champagne bottle upon the hull, then, as this quirksome talent premieres the …
See: Xiu Xiu return with a video for new single ‘A bottle of rum’, featuring Liz Harris
Out via Polyvinyl on March 26th is the new album Xiu Xiu, ‘Oh No’, a collection of duets. From it, the band have released a new video for lead single ‘A bottle of rum’, in which they reaquaint themselves with Liz Harris, who previously collaborated on 2007’s Creepshow. Of the track, Stewart from the band …
Track: DJINN release details of new album; hear ‘Love Divine’
AN AMALGAM of Goat and Hills members, two of the multitude of unique, almost fantastical Swedish psych bands, DJINN recently released a new track “Love Divine”, which features on upcoming album Transmission. This follows swift consecutive releases: their self-titled album in 2019 and the Avant de Servir cassette, released on Swedish label Zeon Recordings last …
SEE: Andy Bell releases a trippy, solarised video for the lovely ‘Skywalker’
YOU KNOW him so well, of course, as one of the creative forces behind shoegazing legends Ride; and when Andy Bell stepped out from the boys from OX4 last autumn for The View From Halfway Down, you knew it would be a cracker. And your instincts were right. We reviewed it here and said, for …
SEE: Conrad Clipper – ‘Say The Name’: enveloping piano textures pave way for April album
CONRAD CLIPPER is the pseudonymous venture of a Berlin composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a focus on prepared, programmed and played piano. He is, as the prepared and programmed element to his pianist practice would suggest, and there’s a run of plosives, a bit of a favourite on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction; presenters Verity …