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TRACK: Allison Lorenzen feat. Midwife – ‘VALE’: dark Denver fuzz atmospheres
EXACTLY half of Denver’s percussive synth outfit School Dance, Allison Lorenzen has refined the art of bringing vocal colour and life to stripped back tunes; an aesthetic we can now experience in full as she steps into a more analogue world for her debut outing under her own name, in which project she’s enlisted Midwife, …
Track: Charlie Clark releases the glorious and chiming single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man!’ and announces solo album for 2021
With an impressive CV behind him, Scottish musician Charlie Clark has struck out on his own with the most brilliant, chiming single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man!’. This is a pulse quickening bell that rings out with jangling guitars, lush choruses and a sense of strength and rebirth. With mastering from Ride’s Mark Gardener and …
Track: Ro Bergman releases the single ‘Animal’ – a beautiful anthem with a serious message.
There is a huge and vast distance between the Australian bushfires of early 2019 and the icy mountain tops of Austria, but Ro Bergman has produced the most elegant link in the themes of his new song ‘Animal’ and in the aching beauty of the accompanying video. The lyrics were inspired by the undeniable linkage …
See: Bryan Estepa releases poignant and dreamy video for single Trick of the Light
I was highly impressed by Bryan Estepa‘s recent single ‘Trick of the Light’ – a track that blossoms with every listen – and he has followed this up with a very visually arresting and poignant video. The video, directed by Nicholas Banicevic, perfectly captures the dreamy nostalgic elements of the track with hazy colours and …
Track: Apollo Junction release the stomping single On the Ropes and announce live shows
Leeds five-piece Apollo Junction may be new on the horizon (to me at least) but their new single ‘On The Ropes’ has all the hallmarks of a seasoned and experienced indie band with attitude and poise. The single slams along at a heady pace with a glam stomp, electronic-spined throb and sky-high choruses – really …
Say Psych: Video: Nero Kane – Mechthild
Nero Kane has recently released a video for ‘Mechthild’, the second episode of the short film directed by Samantha Stella that launched the album Tales of Faith and Lunacy, released last October. The first episode was ‘Lord Won’t Come’; Kane and Stella were the protagonists of the short film that, following the cinematic concept of …
Say Psych: Track Review: Shame – Nigel Hitter
Shame have recently shared their new single ‘Nigel Hitter’, a track taken from their long-anticipated new album Drunk Tank Pink. Alongside, the band have shared a Maxim Kelly directed video which repurposes archival footage from old research centres on the development of children. Using deepfake technology, the babies start to lip sync along with the song, while the …
TRACKS: Clémentine March – ‘Into The Distance’/’Éternité’
AN ECLECTIC, alt.folk(ish) singer-songwriter with a lovely, raggedy edge to her song fashioning, French-born but London based Clémentine March is close to a perfect match for Johnny Lynch’s Lost Map imprint, homespun and vital, operating from the fastnesses of the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg (current pop: 47). She debuted for Lost Map last year …