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Track: Pom Poko – ‘My Candidacy’
THE ART-PUNK outfit Pom Poko, who returned earlier this year following their 2019 debu, have released a second single from their upcoming album in the shape of “My Candidacy”. The track features the stuttering, untamed shards of noise from guitarist Martin Tonne, and an equally hectic but hypnotic, diverse rhythmic display from drummer Ola Djupvik. …
Track: Pierce Brothers release single Dentist and announce news of European tour
The Pierce Brothers have a history of writing affecting and passionate indie/folk songs that somehow manage to capture an essence of Australiana: the remote outback, the desert sand and the dappled searing hot sunshine. Their new single ‘Dentist’ somehow manages to add a sense of uneasiness borne out of the era of isolation, using the …
News: Embrace Get Their First Vinyl Reissues For Albums ‘Out Of Nothing’ And ‘This New Day’
Embrace, one of the most successful UK bands of the ’90s and ’00s, are set to reissue their chart-topping albums Out of Nothing and This New Day for the first time on 180-gram vinyl this October 30th on Craft Recordings. This New Day will be available worldwide and Out of Nothing will be available worldwide excluding North America. The long-sought-after reissues were cut at London’s Metropolis …
TRACK: Strange Bones feat. Bob Vylan – ‘Menace’
BLACKPOOL punk legends Strange Bones have released a brand new cracker of a single, ‘Menace’. ‘Menace’ is the result of the anger and frustration resulting from lockdown. The night before release, September 24th, the band teased details about the new track on their Facebook page:“‘MENACE’ is a cathartic release in response to the world being …
TRACK: A Lily – ‘Slept Through The Storm’: complex minimalism for a dark time
JAMES VELLA is, like the rest of us, concerned with the horrifically dark period we’re living through right now: the anxiety, the mental privations. The storm. We all need to find a way through: on October 16th, under his recording pen-name A Lily, he releases an album advocating his complex and seductive musical approach to …
TRACK: Kid Acne – ‘Stand Tall’ / ‘Stay Golden’ (Hashfinger remix) – crisp lyricism from limited ‘Fresh To Death’ mixtape
SHEFFIELD’S Kid Acne is up in your (Ford Orion) grille with a fantastic new mixtape, featuring seven remixes from last year’s excellent Have A Word album for Lex. Fresh To Death is out digitally, sho’; but why settle for that when you can have the full dayglo pink TDK mixtape experience? He brings the fantastic …
SEE: Le Volume Courbe – ‘Fourteen Years’: Charlotte returns with brilliant quirkiness
WENDING my way through a particular tributary of my record collection the other day, I came across a lovely, lofi 7″, characterised by the mint and cream swirl artwork of Alan McGee’s post-Creation imprint, Poptones; it was Le Volume Courbe’s quirky folk tune, “Papillon De Nuit”, an idiosyncratic and alluring essay in pigeon coos, downhome …
TRACK: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: an eerie, dream-state blues
ADAM STAFFORD, Song, By Toad’s rather excellent Falkirk folk guitarist, has just released the title track of his forthcoming LP Diamonds of a Horse Famine for your delectation. And a very fine and atmospheric, dreamstate rattlin’ blues it is. Cop a listen below. It’s another track culled from a notebook of half-finished ideas that Adam …