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SEE: Dope Body – ‘Known Unknown’: gloriously messy highlight from ‘Crack A Light’ gets visuals
NEED a big, dirty, cathartic winter lift? No need to dial. Doctor Dope Body has just the prescription for you. They’ve pulled what’s arguably the standout track from their most recent album, Crack A Light, “Known Unknown” – and given it some righteous visuals. The track? It’s the album closer, a brilliant distorted space-disco-punk-noise rattle: …
NEWS: Hanya announce tour dates; hear ‘Monochrome’
BRIGHTON’S gorgeous rising dreampop outfit Hanya, who we last heard of back in July, when they declared hometown label Austerity Records’ Cassette Club open with their very fine Sea Shoes EP (read our review), have dropped a new single, “Monochrome”; take a listen below. “Monochrome” is an effortless glide of sweet indie pop with a …
TRACKS: Erland Cooper – ‘Landform’: a digital companion to the Orkney trilogy
ORCADIAN soundscaper and composer Erland Cooper has today released one final digitally streamed companion piece to accompany his beautiful Orkney Triptych. Take a listen below. Its a seven-track, 35-minute ambient accompaniment to his most recent album, Hether Blether with the tracks entitled “Cairn I” to “Cairn VII”, for which he collaborated with artist, producer and …
Track: We Are Scientists – Fault Lines
Following on from the lockdown smash ‘I Cut My Own Hair’, indie cult band We Are Scientists return with a huge new single, ‘Fault Lines’ via 100% Records. Singer and guitarist Keith Murray explains… “Look, I’m generally reluctant to get into song meanings and lyrical analysis, under the best of circumstances. With a song like Fault Lines, …
TRACK: Late Night Final – ‘Thank You’: J. Willgoose steps out from his broadcasting role
YOU ALMOST certainly know J. Willgoose as one of the bespectacled whizzkids behind the ever brilliant Public Service Broadcasting. But now he’s decided to invest in a little extra-curricular activity away from his six-string anchorman role in the nation’s favourite broadcaster, and has announced a solo album for Play It Again Sam in the guise …
Track: Spudge release new single, Quaaludes n Mash
Leicester psych-garage trio Spudge, aka Woody Vomit (bass, vocals, guitar), Elsa Von Krud (guitar) and Bulk Bogan (drums) – see, you love them already right, are gearing up to the release of their debut EP Pathetic Phallus, and from it they’ve released a new single, Quaaludes n Mash, which featured contribution from Ron Stevens of …
TRACK: Claude Cooper’s ‘Tangerine Dreams’ 7″ launches Friendly Recordings
OK, OK. Two things. Firstly, do you like a little jazziness to your grooves? Nah, scrub that. Do you like a lot? Do you like a double bass line so up and atcha and tight and taut it could cut a man in half at 60 paces? That kinda thing. Do you miss Fingathing, more …
NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’
ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New records made. And you can bet your bottom dollar that David Gedge’s The Wedding Present wouldn’t sit back and let it wash it over them. …
Track: Loyle Carner – Yesterday
Loyle Carner returns with his first single and video of 2020, ‘Yesterday’, out today via Republic Records. ‘Yesterday’ also features critically acclaimed producer, Madlib, providing the beats that sit under Loyle’s inimitable flow and uncompromising verses. Loyle comments: “It’s no secret Madlib is my musical hero. I wrote this almost 2 years ago, but at first had …
TRACK: The Native – ‘Frontline’: airy third from Plymothian risers
THEY’RE barely into their twenties; with the ‘rona gobbling up all the live fun, they’ve yet to do any scale of national tour at all; yet with just a brace of singles under their belts, Plymothian indie rock quintet The Native seem to be on the fast track, building up a really devoted following via …