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SEE: New Bums – ‘Tuned To Graffiti’: insouciant, folksy beauty trails for March album
NEW BUMS is the freewheelin’ two-hander of two very fine songwriters in their own right: Ben Chasny, aka psychotropic voyaging genius Six Organs of Admittance; and Donovan Quinn, formerly of the truly lovely and cultist Jagjaguwar baroque-psych-folk outfit Skygreen Leopards. They’ve got together before, almost seven years back, for the loose ‘n’ lovely Voices In …
ALBUM REVIEW: Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West – ‘Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West’
Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West is like a finely reduced sauce; it packs an awful lot of psychedelic flavour and fun into a fat half-hour. Afrobeat, surf rock, funk, straight psych, country psych, jazz, shoegaze, are all seep through a lovely record with three of four moments of proper excellence and a lot of red-eyed, 1am lava lamp big-grinned fun besides. It’s good to see him back.
Track: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets release new single, Pukebox
The latest offering from their upcoming fourth album, the Porn Crumpets’ concoct a barnstorming, guitar-heavy implosion with new single Pukebox. At just over 3 minutes, Pukebox has a similarly relentless momentum to their recent single Tally Ho, though featuring an altogether more off-kilter, affecting fret wizardry. The track’s succinct but elevated Porn Crumpets’ psych-serenade marks …
SEE: Tape Runs Out – ‘Hospital’: sheer indiepop brilliance on Austerity
AUSTERITY RECORDS down in Brighton is one of those grassroots labels with a nose for coming excellence – doing, to paraphrase the Creation compilation – god’s work. And boy oh boy, have they ever hit the ground running in 2021 with recent signings, Tape Runs Out. Tape Runs Out are a seven-piece who formed in …
See: Julien Baker shares video for new single Hardline taken from new album
Julien Baker has shared a new taste of her forthcoming album Little Oblivions by way of a new single ‘Hardline’. Little Oblivions will be released on February 26 via Matador Records. Regarding the video Julien says, “A few years ago I started collecting travel ephemera again with a loose idea of making a piece of art with it. …
SEE: Swansea Sound – ‘I Sold My Soul On eBay’: railing against the royalty rate with pop concept
INDIEPOP with the most resonant of political points for an industry beleaguered by the pandemic and one in which anyway, let’s be frank, artists are being screwed all ends by the dominant digital business ‘models’. Now that kind of indie is a wholly good thing. Step forward Swansea Sound: Amelia Fletcher of Heavenly, Talulah Gosh, …
Track: Symphonic death metal band Ephemerald releases their debut album in February – New single out now
Ephemerald are a Finnish symphonic death metal band and they are releasing their debut album on February 19th 2021. In preparation the band have shared a single – ‘All There Is’ The track opens as somewhat a surprise for a metal band. It fades in all menacing but becomes more alt-folk with acoustic guitars and …
SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Paper Crown’: The Great American Songbook remade in absolute sweetness
WITH their wholly seductive new album Merlynn Belle just around the corner now – eeep! exciting, it’ll be out on Kill Rock Stars on February 5th – Texas psych-European-retro-country duo Tele Novella have decided to lift the tasteful drapes on the record one final time and reveal “Paper Crown”. (And a very lovely long player it is …
TRACK: THE SWORD share new track from quarantine sessions
Texan hard rockers The Sword have unveiled a live performance of “The Warp Riders” as the newest instalment of their Conquest of Quarantine lockdown sessions which launched last summer to great excitement from their fans. The song is the title track from the critically acclaimed 2010 album Warp Riders, which saw the band transition into a hard rock-influenced sound. The …
SEE: Corey Taylor shares video for ‘Samantha’s Gone’
TAKEN from his debut solo album CMFT, Corey Taylor has shared a brand new visual for “Samantha’s Gone”. The video features many a famous face, including Tom Sandoval of Bravo TV’s Vanderpump Rules, Dean Cameron (Summer School, Ski School, Straight Outta Compton), Steel Panther, plus Greg Grunberg, Ace Von Johnson, Travis Miguel and Jonah Nimoy. Corey spoke to The Daily Dish and …