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TRACK: Karima Francis – Orange Rose
Making a welcome return to the spotlight, the singer-songwriter from Blackpool delivers an atmospheric and elegiac single for the soul, that emerges as her first new material of 2020. Offering wistful rumination on how mental health can send shockwaves through even the most intimate and entwined of relationships, ‘Orange Rose’ sees Karima strike a masterful …
TRACK: FALLE NIOKE AND GHOST CULTURE SHARE NEW TRACK LONELINESS
Falle Nioke & Ghost Culture present new single ‘Loneliness’. Sang in Malinke and Coniagui this is the second track released from his forthcoming collaborative EP Youkounkoun released 10th July via PRAH Recordings. ‘Loneliness’ comes hot on the heels of debut single ‘Barké’ which we covered back in April here. “I wrote this song because I have felt loneliness,” states Falle Nioke. “It’s about a man …
SEE: Appendix back in: Alasdair Roberts revisits his roots
ACROSS a trio of albums for Drag City leading into the 21st century – The Rye Bears A Poison, Daylight SavIng and The Night Is Advancing, Callander’s Appendix Out made some of the gentlest, most spellbinding alt.folk you’ll ever have the pleasure of tipping into your ears. After the release of The Night Is Advancing …
SEE: Archers of Loaf shuffle forward a new 7″
THE BEST made plans of mice and men: this year has seen everyone’s diary go into the shredder. US alt.rock mainstays Archers of Loaf are no exception. With Record Store Day at first postponed, and then chopped into three, the planned RSD-only release of “Raleigh Days”/“Street Fighting Man” has been delayed and delayed and finally …
Track: Oracle Sisters – High Moon
It’s not a rarity to hear traces of the cultural past in a band’s music. In fact, the exception makes the rule here. Sometimes, however, it’s quite apparently reached for (which is never a good thing) and other times it flows naturally through the blood of the musicians. I’ve found that the latter is the …
See: Behemoth release new video for Evoe
Behemoth have released their new EP, ‘A Forest’ and released the video for brand new song, ‘Evoe’. The 4-track collection features the band’s cover of The Cure’s classic, featuring guest vocals from Shining’s Niklas Kvarforth. ” ‘Evoe’ and ‘Shadows Ov Ea Cast Upon Golgotha’ are two brand-new, unheard songs that continue on from where ‘I Loved You At Your Darkest’ left off. …
EP: Jade Imagine – You Remind Me of Something I Lost
Melbourne’s Jade Imagine continue to forge a cool and eclectic path with the release of their new EP ‘You Remind Me of Something I Lost’. Sitting somewhere between shoegaze/dream pop and something more sparse and muscular it is a fantastic and unique journey from beginning to end that defies a label. Opening track ‘Coastal Pines’ …
See: Fontaines D.C. – I Don’t Belong
Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have released a bleak and beautiful video for the opening track ‘I Don’t Belong to Anyone’, from their highly anticipated album ‘A Heroes Death’, due out on 31 July 2020 through Partisan Records. ‘I Don’t Believe In Anyone’ is a brooding, declarative track that has all the hallmarks of the unique sounds …
SEE: Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa returns with folksy gem ‘Nothing At All’
EMMA KUPA has been something of British indiepop’s best-kept secret this past decade. Starting out in North Derbyshire trio Standard Fare, who released two albums of cracking, bouncy guitar pop, coming on like Talulah Gosh’s knowing, insouciant, smokey voiced big sis. A solo mini-album in 2015 was followed by an album with the former front …
SEE: The Blinders up the darkness on ‘Mule Track’
MANCHESTER-based, Doncaster-bred goth-punk outfit The Blinders are back in the fray, with their second album in the can – and their latest single “Mule Track” is a dark thrust into the psyche. The track is named for the painting in the Imperial War Museum, which depicts a mule train making its way through a battlefield. …