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TRACK: Fjord boy Kristian Grostad debuts with widescreen ‘Feels Lighter’
KRISTIAN GROSTAD is a fjordgutten – a “fjord boy”. Hailing from Steinkjer on the craggy Norwegian west coast, an eight-hour drive from Oslo, Kristian grew up in a musical household and began writing music when he received a guitar as a gift. A move to Oslo not long afterwards inspired a wave of creativity as …
NEWS: Margo Price’s third gets July date: watch a taster
JULY 10th will finally see Margo Price’s hotly anticipated third studio album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, hit the shelves. With its original release date of May 8th trashed by the escalating disease crisis – and indeed, the album is still showing with that release date at some places online – the 27-year-old Illinoisan admits …
News: OSSUARY ANEX – 1st single, cover art and tracklist revealed
Russian Brutal Death Metallers OSSUARY ANEX, have just revealed details of what will be their 3rd album to be entitled “Obscurantism Apogee”, which will be released in September 22nd, 2020 through Xtreem Music on CD format. OSSUARY ANEX were formed in 2008 and released two albums: “Awakening” (2012) and “Mutilation Through Prayer” (2016) before joining …
See: PRYSM release new video for Watchers
Newcastle alt-rock/psych band have been making waves since their formation in 2015, and they have released a new single ‘Watchers’, recorded in Garage Studios in South Shields. Concernied with manipulation and corruption of the soul, Watchers is this bustling, anthemic slice of indie rock, with winding psychedelic guitar riffs, while the spoken/quasi-rapped vocal line in …
TRACK: Internet Death’s ‘NOT YOUR DOG’ is industrial gabba fury
CHARTING the times we are in, with all the fear, anger, hostility and frustration inherent, is something of a mission for Finlay Anderson – the man behind those purveyors of sonic terror, Internet Death. Still a teenager, the Christchurch, New Zealand producer has distilled down the dark matter of our times into a sandstorm of …
SEE: The Close Lobsters have still got the guitar shimmer nailed – ‘Godless’
STRAIGHT outta Paisley on the back of the C86 guitar pop wave, Close Lobsters were a little unfortunate to fly under the radar compared to some of their contemporaries. The pristine jangle shimmer of singles such as “ Never Seen Before” and “Going To Heaven To See If It Rains” led to a brace of …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Reggae Icon Buju Banton Shares New Single – Listen
Reggae and Dancehall icon Buju Banton has shared a new song from his forthcoming album, Upside Down, his first, full-length studio album in ten years. The single, “Blessed,” is the fourth song from the album to drop. According to the press release accompanying news of the new album, Banton says we “must find the light, …
SEE: Sally Anne Morgan spins fine Appalachian Thread for Thrill Jockey
STEPPING out on her own after underpinning the work of acclaimed fellow travellers such as Appalachian purists The Black Twig Pickers, it’s time for Sally Anne Morgan to take a little of the limelight. She has released “Thread Song” ahead of her debut full-length set, Thread, for Chicago’s eclectic and rather cool Thrill Jockey imprint, …
SEE: unsettling Aberdeenshire folk noir from Fair Mothers
A TREMULOUS, held guitar note, fed through fuzz and vibrato, with the raw quality of a wire fence shuddering in the wind; a darkly delicate piano arpeggio, as if remembered from the end of sleep. The tune has the quality of a haunted fairground under brooding skies. And so we’re into the dark world of …
SEE: Turin’s Cijan set out their postrock manifesto with “Homecoming”
HAILING from the northern Italian city of Turin, Cijan are quickly making a name for their themselves on the domestic scene. Their debut longform set, REA-0919, was released last year; and they were on the bill at Milan’s destination fest for all things shoegaze and post-rock, A State of Flux. New single “Homecoming” tickles all …