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SEE: the lyric video for Stats’ ‘Naturalise Me’; album news
STATS is the nom-de-musique of London-based, Welsh-raised Ed Seed, who’s paid his musical dues touring the world with Dua Lipa. Elsewhere, once safely installed inside his Stats persona, he’s released a lovely LP of verry funky synthpop in early 2019, Other People’s Lives, which picked up plaudits from none-huger names such as Elton John. That …
SEE: another marvellous shoegaze rush from Citrus Clouds with ‘Honey’
CITRUS CLOUDS, the excellent Arizonan shoegaze trio who are inspired by those big, big skies above their home city of Phoenix, have just released a second single from their forthcoming second album, Collider. We were delighted to premiere the first single from the sessions for the new album, “A Pastel Sky”, back in July. We …
TRACK: Landshapes – ‘The Ring’: first single teases November album
LANDSHAPES, the London four-piece with a nifty line in synth-driven indie psychedelia, have readied the third long-playing instalment of their recording career for your delectation after five years away. Following two fine and well-received albums for Bella Union in the shape of Rambutan and Heyoon, they’re set to explore loneliness, isolation, alienation, the need for …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Irie-1
And we back… California’s Irie-1 joins this week’s version of Behind The Boards to drop some science about producing and positivity. Irie-1 creates sample-based music that is good for both neck-snapping and chilling, with a versatility that runs from the dusty to the grimy, and every possible sound variation in between. Irie’s beats seep into …
See: Beach Riot Reveal 8-Bit Game Inspired Video For Single ‘Wrong Impression’
Brighton fuzz pop quartet Beach Riot are currently bunkered down in the studio working on a body of new material (their first since the 2018 Beach Riot EP), the band share the video for their new single ‘Wrong Impression’ Inspired by the 8-bit computer games of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the video for the single follows the band’s previously released Instagram …
NEWS: Arab Strap return: watch the lyric video for ‘The Turning Of Our Bones’
CRIKEY, eh? If ever a band there ever there was could reap the crop of a life in 2020 and use it as the richest, most fertile, dystopian source material, you’d maybe wish for Falkirk’s sharp studiers of the greyer side Arab Strap. If only, eh? Its actually 15 years they’ve been gone now. Malcolm? …
NEWS: Hot Chip announce ‘LateNightTales’ mix, release Velvets cover
HOT CHIP. I can’t think of any other British band since New Order who have so straddled the indie-dance divide so successfully; and with such love from us listeners. They have a way with a sweet melody that gets ya, even if synthiness isn’t really your thing. And they’ve announced they are curating the latest instalment …
See: Melt Yourself Down – new single and video – Born in the Manor
Melt Yourself Down are an important band. Revolving around saxophonist Pete Wareham (a key player in punk jazz pioneers Acoustic Ladyland) and Kushal Gaya (vocalist with the much missed genre busting experimentalists Zun Zun Egui) the collective have been crashing barriers since their foundation in 2012, laying the road wide open for the recent rush …
Track: Jeremy Gara shares new single L_06
Jeremy Gara, drummer of Arcade Fire, shares brand new single ‘L_06’. The track features on his second solo album Passerine Finale which will be released Friday 11th September on Invada Records. On the track Jeremy explains, “L_06 – the visual thing, like the song it accompanies, comes from trying to push really simple objects and figures to a place where they hopefully, somehow, …
Track: Crass reveal the unreleased ‘Sheep Farming In The Falklands 3’ as part of reissue series
As part of One Little Independents Crass reissue series – the Crassical Collection, the band have shared a never-before-heard track, ‘Sheep Farming in The Falklands 3’, about which the bands Penny Rimbaud comments “A previously unreleased version of ‘Sheep Farming in the Falklands’ written and produced sometime after hostilities had ceased. The first listener to …