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Track: Pigs x7’s ‘Hell’s Teeth’ receives J.Zunz remix
THE typically fervid instrumentation of the Pigs x7 track “Hell’s Teeth”, which featured on their rapturously received 2020 album Viscerals, has been given a reworking by fellow Rocket Recordings artist J.Zunz. The throbbing guitar lines and bombastic percussion, not to mention the stirring “Let’s Rock” yell (as an ode to the history of metal bands), …
TRACK: Hear Mort Garson’s ‘This Is My Beloved’: Sacred Bones to release quartet of albums
THE WORLD of 60s’ and early 70s’ electronica was full of fascinating, creative mavericks: scientists, polymaths, creatives, all deeply fascinated by the weird things that were happening with the pure and random sound of circuitry. Foremost among them was the Canadian Mort Garson, who began his career with the fantastic space age astrological trippiness of …
Say Psych: Video: The Dead Zoo – Mother
London’s The Dead Zoo have recently release their debut single ‘Mother’ on Rock Noir Recordings along with a fantastic video that captures the creativity coming out of the times we are living in. Recorded and mixed from the bandmembers’ homes under COVID-19 separation, ‘Mother’ became a favourite from their live set and is sung by …
TRACK: Such Small Hands release new single, ‘Do I Belong Here?’
WEDDING PRESENT bassist Melanie Howard, aka Such Small Hands, who blends dark pop with twinges of quirky folk and electronica, has released new single “Do I Belong Here?” The single precedes her new album Carousel, which is due to be released on September 18th via Such Small Records. Having initially released a series of lo-fi …
SEE: Cian Ciaran feat Jehst and Wibidi – ‘Are You Down With Me?’: hazy breaks’ call for collective strength
AFTER yesterday’s powerful live stream in solidarity, remembrance, rage and consciousness-raising marking the 75th anniversary of the devastating nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, politically acute Super Furry Animal Cian Ciarán today releases the single-cut version of the track from that six-hour stream, “Are You Down With Me”, in which wordsmiths Jehst and Wibidi use speech as …
See: Phoebe Bridgers releases new video for ‘I Know The End’
TAKEN from last months brilliant Punisher album, which we frankly eulogised about in our review, Phoebe Bridgers has released a new video for the albums closing track “I Know The End”. Reflective and hazy, “I Know The End” is baked in gently sizzling synths and an electronic hue, latterly joined by sweeping strings, brushes of …
SEE: Osees – ‘Dreary Threat’; album, tour dates
JOHN DWYER’S Osees – yep, that’s another letter gone – are the hardest working, most adrenaline-fuelled garage-punk guitar toters in the business. If you’e ever been blessed enough to see them live, you’ll know the guitars are scuzzy, fuzzy and murderous; the twin drums metronomic; the attack and power rapturous. And the ever nominally contracting …
Track: Robert Plant reveals the unreleased Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up – Part 1) from upcoming compilation
Out October 2nd on his own Es Paranza label is a new career-spanning 2cd retrospective of the career of the legendary Robert Plant, Digging Deep. It includes tracks from across his eleven solo albums, but also includes three unreleas3d numbers – ‘Nothing Takes the Place of You’, written by New Orleans musician Toussaint McCall and …
Track: Jyoti reveals the bubbling jazz of Mama, You Can Bet!
Georgia Anne Muldrow in her solo jazz Jyoti guise, has just released the title track to her forthcoming album, ‘Mama, You Can Bet!’, out on August 28th via eOne and Muldrow’s own SomeOthaShip Connect. The record is dedicated To her mother, who herself was a musician, part of the Pharoah Sanders Ensemble, Sir Roland Hanna’s …
TRACK: Martha Fffion – ‘Nights To Forget’: intelligent pop about those evenings you wished you hadn’t
GLASGOW-based, Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay, better known to acoustic pop aficionados as Martha Ffion and whose 2018 LP Sunday Best was packed to the rafters with sparkling and confessional songwriting, all draped in her clear, sweet tones, has announced a new album – her first for the label that gave her first single release, Lost …