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NEWS: Chad Vangaalen announces a March album for Sub Pop; see the properly brilliant animation for ‘Samurai Sword’
HE’S SO much fun, right? Sub Pop’s favourite Albertan singer-songwriter, Chad VanGaalen – he’s made his whimsical home at the Seattle imprint since 2006’s Skelliconnection – has revealed that actually, horticulturally speaking, he’s the World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener; well, actually that would be musically too, since that’s also how his new album will be …
Track: Yonaka release new single, ‘Sieze the Power’
Brighton-based rockers YONAKA have announced their brand new era with their new single ‘Seize The Power.’ The empowering and unifying single was produced by the four-piece themselves and is out now through Creature Records, via Believe Music. You can watch the official music video for ‘Seize The Power’ below and follow the band on Instagram, …
Droppin’ Knowledge: For Niagara Falls Rapper Jamal Gasol, All The World Is Piff
It started like this… It was 2008, or 2009. The rap artist Jamal Gasol has a brother, and his brother had a ring tone. It wasn’t exactly a ring tone, it was more like a voice. A disembodied voice. An annoying voice, on an annoying ringtone. “All the dude would say at the beginning was …
Track: Dave Manington – ‘Strike The Harp’
A reimagining of something old into something new is one thing, but a completely original re-invention is another.. One thing I’ve learned whilst talking to musicians is that, being a musician myself, it’s never easy to describe your own music. Luckily, when speaking to Dave Manington, one of London’s staple jazz bassists and composers, I …
News: Squid announce debut album with new track, ‘Narrator’
BRIGHTON quintet Squid have shed light on their massively anticipated debut album, Bright Green Field: due to be released on May 7th. It’ll boast production from Dan Carey and boast entirely new material from this continually, creatively ploughing band. They’ve just released “Narrator”, accompanied by stunning visuals from Felix Green. “Narrator”, perhaps the band’s most …
Track: Cousin Betty pays tribute to the glories of the mixtape in the romping single ‘Tape Hiss’
There is a very specific audience which will recognise the many obscure references to names like Peter Russell Clark, TDK cassette advertisements and Countdown in the new single, ‘Tape Hiss’ from Australian band Cousin Betty. Namely, Australians growing up in the eighties when the music show Countdown ruled the airwaves and provided a musical education …
SEE: Monsieur Minimal – ‘Easteria’: the new sound of Greek psych
WELL, wow. If you haven’t fallen into the world of Monsieur Minimal, that’s quite the place to go for a sun-kissed visit. He’s outta Greece with a really pretty entrancing take on psych-pop; there’s a little bit of summer easy listening in there, powerpoppery à la say, Todd Rundgren; a whole whack of Khruangbinesque Eastern …
SEE: Art & Spencer – ‘Caravan’: guitar soli steps into ambient atmospheres
ART & SPENCER is a newly forged collaboration between Juan Martínez Pérez, aka Elson Complex, a fingerstyle acoustic guitarist of Andalusian and Catalonian heritage who loves soundscapes with acres of space – it’s the space between the notes that interest him just as much; in which he’s fusing a new direction with Belgian multi-instrumentalist Marc …
Track: Buddy Glass paints a poignant tale of family and loss in ‘The Spirit of a Small Town’
In my review of Buddy Glass’s album ‘Wow and Flutter’ last year, I said the album was absolute delight: an immersive journey into the poetic and expressive world of Buddy Glass. Glass has just released a poignant video for the track ‘The Spirit of a Small Town’ – a song dealing with memories of his …