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SEE: the rage of Stone’s ‘Stay Silent’, live from Liverpool
STONE: solid, unyielding, hard. It’s pretty much the perfect name for the Liverpudlian band that have picked up a dazzled DJ fan in the shape of Radio One’s Jack Saunders, who’s championed them all through the crawl-those-walls caging of the Covid lockdown. But they’re back or rather, they’re unleashed; they’re full-on and they’re ready to …
SEE: The video for A Certain Ratio’s ‘Berlin’: UK dates for 2021
MANCHESTER legends A Certain Ratio, whose brilliant new album ACR Loco will be with us on Mute come September 25th, have just dropped the video for the none-more-Mancunian effortless pop of “Berlin” – we’ve embedded it, below. And it really is a great record: we’ve embraced its taut, breathtaking funk and its intelligent pop and …
See: FKA Twigs Teams up with filmmaker Hiro Murai for visuals for ‘Sad Day’
FKA Twigs has teamed up with acclaimed filmmaker Hiro Murai to produce a seven minute fantasy film to accompany her track Sad Day, one of the stand out moments from her recent second album Magdalene. It’s Murai’s first music video since his rightly lauded visuals for Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’. As ever with FKA …
Track: Mint Field release new single ‘Delicadeza’ ahead of album release
Following on from their Neu! meets Spaceman 3 like psychedelic rock and krautrock cocktail ‘Contingencia, Mint Field have delivered us mere mortals another offering off their upcoming sophomore album ‘Sentimiento Mundial‘ on Felte Records due 25 September with ‘Delicadeza’.Produced by Syd Kemp and featuring Callum Brown of Ulrika Spacek on drum duties, ‘Delicadeza’ from the …
See: Yore drops new video for the grunge-tinted shoegaze of ‘Bon Mot’
A heady dose of lo-fi, grunge-tinted shoegaze, Yore have dropped the debut single ‘Bon Mot’ off of the self-titled debut album set for release December 4 via FLAT FIVE Records. The new exciting project from one of the busiest people in music today, being Hackney Wick based multi-instrumentalist Callum Brown (Ulrika Spacek, Mint Field, Josefin …
SEE: the animated video for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ ‘Hell’s Teeth’
NEWCASTLE’S excellent and nearly always abbreviated Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have just released a third single from their latest long-playing riff-fest Viscerals – and it comes accompanied with a brilliantly hard rock-referential papercut animation courtesy film-maker Lucy Dyson. The video for “Hell’s Teeth” features bats with metal guitars (is that a Charvel? …
SEE: Merseyside duo King Hannah debut with ‘Crème Brûlée’, sign for City Slang
SOMETIMES it’s just absolutely the right time for a band. Sometimes, that band exists as a fully formed notion; and it just needs to step out into the physical world. This is the case, I’d venture, with Liverpool duo King Hannah, who’ve announced their official arrival at the musical ball with their debut offering, the …
Track: Motionless In White cover The Killers’ ‘Somebody Told Me’
Motionless In White have shared a cover of The Killers’ ‘Somebody Told Me’ via Roadrunner Records. The band’s frontman, Chris Motionless explains: “During quarantine we wanted to continue to see what new projects we could push ourselves to create. “We’ve always wanted to take a shot at covering an iconic alternative song, and ‘Somebody Told Me’ …
SEE: the cute-as guitar pop of Fever’s ‘Honesty’; rescheduled dates confirmed
HULL’S Fever usher in the end of the summer with a guitar pop choon soaring for the sky in a simple plea for “Honesty”. It’s proper sweet. Have a listen below. The song’s out today via Very Clever Records, and it’s all direct to your heartstrings, doe-eyed pop. Sometimes the simple tunes really are the …
SEE: the pristine ‘tronica of Sam Prekop’s ‘Above Our Heads’
SAM PREKOP has been building beguiling melodies with the lightest of touches for decades now; firstly with Chicago’s The Sea and Cake, and then as a solo artist. If you don’t know his self-titled debut for Thrill Jockey, you really ought; it’s masterful, light, sun-drenched, jazzy. Of recent times he’s moved further and further into …