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Track: The Chills brighten our solar system with new track ‘Monolith’ and announcement of a new album
The sun shines that little brighter and warmer this morning – even here at the southern edge of the world – with news of a new album from New Zealand legends The Chills. Due out on 14 May 2021, ‘Scatterbrain’ is the band’s seventh studio album and will be highly anticipated by those enamoured of …
See: The Reds, Pinks and Purples reveal new video for ‘Don’t Ever Pray In The Church on My Street’
Here’s some news to help everyone countdown the days until spring time. The Reds, Pinks and Purples are due to deliver a new album ‘Uncommon Weather’ on April 9th via Slumberland Records. It will be the third full release from the ‘band’ after 2019’s ‘Anxiety Art’ first revealed itself, before the shimmering, reflective song collection …
TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series
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 …
Track: Able Raise The Cain share a sonically huge track – Baptism Of Fire
Indie rock band Able Raise The Cain are set to release their first track of the year with the huge sounding ‘Baptism Of Fire’ Regarding the release the band comments: “‘Baptism Of Fire’ is a dark brooding ascending tornado of a song, featuring the rambling musings of a madman (rather Apt for the current climate), it is taken from an interview with …
TRACK: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘CYHSY 2005’; he’s playing a live-stream show tonight
WITH a rousing, sometimes raging, tour-de-force of an album, New Fragility, out in a couple of weeks, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have one final come-hither to drop, the retrospection of the track “CYHSY, 2005”; take a dive below. All the best bands have the courage to be self-referential. Witness Felt’s “Ballad Of The Band” and The Fall’s “Win …
ALBUM REVIEW: Madlib – ‘Sound Ancestors’: beats genii’s wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey
Madlib’s Sound Ancestors, produced by Four Tet, is the beats genii’s wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey. Like a fractal pattern, the deeper you focus and the more you pull out, the more you see
SEE: Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler – ‘Marie’: honeyed sorrow from Bella Union
THE NEW album from Lost Horizons, the project of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, formerly of 4AD label mates Dif Juz, is a hugely ambitious affair. Not only does every track feature a guest vocalist – of the calibre of John Grant, Dana from Porridge Radio, both Jack and Lily from Penelope Isles, …
TRACK: Paris Youth Foundation – ‘The Back Seat’: reaching out for that old flame with stirring guitars
GEARING up for a 2020 round of the festivals in which their music is readymade for cans and arms aloft, Liverpool’s Paris Youth Foundation watched the whole circuit vanish in the viral onslaught; a tough time for every band just itching to play out and commune in the musical love. But they’ve picked themselves up, …
Track: Leddie MC – They Don’t Make ‘Em Like You (Ft Eve Conway)
To start the year off, North East artist Leddie MC has released a track from her EP ‘Made Of Stone’ which she released last year. (Read our review here) The track ‘They Don’t Make Em Like You’ features Eve Conway A sweet pop opening as Conway sings the chorus but then a more aggressive beat …
SEE: Chaz Knapp – ‘My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess’: all hail the warm organ drune
DALLAS’S Chaz Knapp has a very particular way with an organ drone – or a drune, as he styles it – as you can hear on his forthcoming album, Organ Drunes. He brings a singular texture to his way with a vibey drone, and one not without a wayward sense of humour, as you can …