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PREMIERE: JOYFULTALK release audiovisual odyssey ‘NEW BIOLOGY’ for Constellation
MONTREAL’S Constellation Records, home of such outrock greats as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make Say Think, have been running a neat little thing for a while now, whereby they commission a new audiovisual single from an artist from the roster, and release it every …
SEE: Le Volume Courbe take on Daniel Johnston’s ‘Mind Contorted’ with Terry Hall and Noel G
LE VOLUME COURBE, aka Charlotte Marionneau: if you love a certain cultish, Gallic erudition in your indie songwriting, you have to say it’s more than a little great to see her back. Following a brush with mortality last year, the urge to release music again for herself “became like a vital thing”. (She’s been a …
TRACK: Holy Drone – ‘Fibres’: a lovely Cheshire shoegaze drop
HOLY DRONE, Warrington’s lovely purveyors of shoegaze, are back with their first new material since last year’s blissful heathaze shimmer, “Northern Fire”. They’ve spent the past year working on new material and, like the rest of us, navigating the new weird we find ourselves in. The first fruits of those months of writing are with …
Track: Blue Statue share video for track ‘So To Speak’
London noise-rock band Blue Statue have just dropped the video for new track ‘So to speak’ from their new double A-side single – ‘V.F. / So to speak’. Dreamy distorted guitars and lazy infectious vocals give this track a shoe-gaze feel. Propelled along with a fuzzy melodic guitar lines the guys have created another fantastic track in their unique …
NEWS: Real Numbers announce new EP; share video for lead single, ‘Brighter Then’
MINNEAPOLIS’ Real Numbers are back with a brand new EP entitled Brighter Then. The EP will arrive on January 22nd next year via Meritorio Records and Slumberland Records. Following on from 2016’s Wordless Wonder LP and 2017’s single, “Frank Infatuation”, they have also teased the EP release with the video for their lead single, also …
TRACK: Louis-Étienne Santais – ‘Reflection 1’: a piano study for an old friend
QUEBECOIS composer Louis-Étienne Santais has only been releasing music as himself, for himself, for a matter of months now; but he’s already racked something like two million streams on Spotify for his wistful, warming modern solo piano composition. Also a member of the beautifully melancholic duo Ghostly Kisses alongside Margaux Sauvé, he’s about to release …
See: Eades reveal new video for ‘Forgive My Mind’
Out today via Bam Bam Records is the new tune from Leeds quintet Eades, ‘Forgive my mind’. It comes on the back of their much lauded debut EP ‘Microscopic Things’, with lead vocalist Harry Jordan saying of the track “I was reflecting on a time of my life where I was a bit all over …
NEWS: Leeds band Van Houten release ‘Home Alone’ EP this Friday – hear the title track
LEEDS psychedelic pop outfit Van Houten will release their new EP, Home Alone, via Clue Records this Friday, November 13th. Also out this Friday alongside the EP is beautifully personal single, “Not Me”, with the lyrics reflecting a sense of the reinvention within the band and marking an important and difficult process of separating yourself from your …
Track: Exit Kid – Working Stiff
Documenting the trials and tribulations of life on the road, London’s Exit Kid harness their trademark grunge, Britpop and slacker-pop influences with blistering new cut ‘Working Stiff’, taken from the band’s forthcoming ‘Garden EP’ out November 27th. “I wrote ‘Working Stiff’ a few years ago and it has always been one of our favourite songs to play live”, details frontman Emre Türkmen. …
Track: Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres reveals the beautifully poignant ‘Dance’
Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres has released “Dance”, the first single from her debut album 2 Years Stranger. The Bristol-based film composer spent two years in her family home while her father lay in a medically-induced coma, making recordings with her childhood piano. Hamilton-Ayres’ experience in capturing atmosphere is on full display with “Dance”: the rough and raw …