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Track: Inhaler – Falling In
Out now is the new single Falling In from Dublin quartet Inhaler. It’s a follow up to their recent singles Ice Cream Sundae and We have to move on. The band – Elijah Hewson, Robert Keating, Ryan McMahon and Josh Jenkinson, formed at school and their likeable indie rock has racked up 25 million streams …
Track: Mike Polizze – Revelation
Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya has announced that his debut solo album ‘Long Lost Solace Find’ is out on July 31st via Paradise of Bachelors, and from it he’s released the lead single ‘Revelation’. Performed entirely with longtime friend Kurt Vile and recorded by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, it’s …
Track: Venus Furs – Page Before
Venus Furs is the moniker of Montreal’s Paul Kasner, and ahead of the release of his upcoming self-titled album, out on July 10th on his own Silk Screaming Records he’s released a new single ‘Page Before’. Of the track, Kasner says “This song is meaningful to me because it’s been closing my live sets for …
Track: Highschool Jacob – Stacey
Highschool Jacob is actually former Wesleyan music student Jacob Masters, who’s been trading in funky, feel-good songs since 2017. He’s released a new singer ‘Stacey’, and announced “HSJ 2020,” a collection of music and corresponding video games (yes video games) the press elevate claims is ‘highlighting his continued growth as an artist’, but we all know that it’s …
Track: Fall Of Messiah – Contreforts
French post-hardcore quintet FALL OF MESSIAH have streamed ‘Contreforts’, the first single from their much-awaited fourth LP, ‘Senicarne’, released 31st July via Holy Roar Records. Jarring guitars lend some calm in all the chaos of screams and drums to open this track. A math-rock style guitar duet then takes over and the band show off their knack for some …
Droppin’ Knowledge: On Dre Island’s Debut Album, Now I Rise, All Praises Go To The Most High
Seven years is an eternity in popular music. Trends, styles, tastes, and popularity divide, replicate and morph at an exhausting pace and even the greatest pop artists struggle to keep up. Social media enhances the difficulty of staying atop the pop culture firmament and, before you know it, an artist who was up today, tomorrow …
Track: The Suncharms – 3 Billion Heartbeats
There’s always something comforting about a new track from The Suncharms, the reactivated 90s Sheffield shoegaze band that deal in messy, enveloping guitars and that little bit of melancholy, and thats no different with their new one, 3 Billion Heartbeats. Taken from Indonesian micro-label / Fanzine Shiny Happy’s ‘PLease Rain Fall’ compilation album that all …
Track: Key Out – Stray
The warm fuzzy shoegaze sound of Sydney band Key Out is at the fore in their new single ‘Stray’ – a delightful shimmering piece that seems soaked in nostalgia and an air of satisfying wistfulness. Mixed and mastered by the legendary Wayne Connolly (Underground Lovers, Youth Group, You am I and Died Pretty amongst others) …
Track: 2Squared/Mark Gardener (Ride) – Chained
Ride‘s Mark Gardener has collaborated with 2Squared (Stephan Haeri of France’s Télépopmusik) in the depths of isolation in his new purpose-built OX4 Sound studio to produce a very nice slice of chilled, reflective electronica – ‘Chained’. The lyrics reflect a very difficult time for Gardener following the break up of Ride. Gardener explains: I wrote …
See: DMA’s release video for The Glow
We were highly impressed by the title track off DMA’s forthcoming album ‘The Glow’, describing it as having hallmark euphoric stadium-perfected choruses, anthemic and pulsating yet underpinned by an air of melancholia. What we have come to expect, in other words, from one of Australia’s most impressive musical exports. The band has just released an …