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PREMIERE: The Sound of Kalima – ‘Destroy U’: straight outta Vancouver on a mission
COMIN straight atcha from Vancouver, in the Pacific Northwest, Sound of Kalima are buzzing up their hometown; and with their new single they’re hoping to take things a lot, lot further. They’ve just dropped a new single, “Destroy U”, full of guitar crunch, looming breaks, sassy lyrics . And we’re delighted to be premiering it …
SEE: Cheval Sombre returns with the hazy hush of ‘It’s Not Time’
HE’S BEEN away from our ears as a solo artist for what? Crikey it’s actually eight years now, how the egg-timer sands run; but Chris Porpora, who guises up for the world of music as Cheval Sombre, has come ambling in at the absolute final knockings of the year with a leaf-skeleton of absolute delicacy …
TRACK: Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke’s ‘Her Revolution’ is a psychedelic ‘tronica beauty
IF YOU’RE involved in deep vinyl Twitter, you may have noticed some shops offering a plain black 12″, plain black sleeve, strickly flesh customers only, these past few days, with some kind of whisper of Four Tet involvement about it; and indeed so, because the unmarked single is indeed a hugely limited two-track release by …
Track: Brave The Cold – Apparatus
Brave The Cold, is a Death-Grind duo featuring Napalm Death guitarist Mitch Harris and Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren, have released the video for their track ‘Apparatus’, taken from the bands debut album Scarcity via Mission Two Entertainment Harris further explains, “’Apparatus’ is about a socially repressive cabal whose sole agenda is maximising the transfer of wealth …
SEE: Jack Cheshire – ‘Miradors’: new visuals for a tale of capitalist alienation
JACK CHESHIRE, whose album Fractal Future Plays we were initiated into the mysteries of a few weeks back, has released the video for one of the standout tracks on an excellent set, “Miradors” – come watch. We said of the album just ahead of its late November release: “Imagine, if you will, say, MGMT if …
MEET: Louis Philippe
On the day London’s favourite adopted cult songwriter releases his excellent new album, Thunderclouds, we chat él, football songs, the state of the nation, Milton Nascimento and more
Track: Löv – Never Lose Light
Back in 2017 Highasakite, undoubtedly Norway’s biggest band of recent years, broke up amidst messy legal positioning which ultimately saw the nucleus of the original band, Ingrid Helene Håvik and Trond Bersu, sanctioned to carry on under that name. The other three members, guitarist/flugabone player Kristoffer Lo, and synth masters Øystein Skar and Marte Eberson, …
SEE: Juanita Stein – ‘Reckoning’; seven UK dates from May
TORCH-songtress Juanita Stein, who released her third album of rootsy songcraft for Nude, Snapshot, in late October, has released a video for the dark, rousing drama of “Reckoning” and announced a seven-date tour for May ’21. The video, embedded down below, follows Juanita on a bike ride through southern France. It was self-filmed in the …
TRACK: New Bums – ‘Billy, God Damn’: a freewheelin’ acoustic slide blues
ONE – and there are many more, but for now, this – one of the many reasons we over at Backseat Mafia love the good folks at Drag City, is that they have a huge roster of brilliant artists who mix and collaborate and create anew; and that DC fosters and releases such new breeds …
SEE: The Underground Youth – ‘A Sorrowful Race’; tenth album in March
BORN in the musical fires of Manchester, currently resident in Berlin, it’s fair to say that there’s a decent dose of proper musical heritage, maybe a little darkness, a willingness to party and explore the edges, in the DNA of The Underground Youth. The band, led by Craig Dyer and also comprised of his wife …