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Track: Clwb Fuzz – No Heaven
Cool and assured with just a hint of delicious malevolence, ‘No Heaven’, the new single from Welsh band Clwb Fuzz is an absolute sonic delight. If a reference is needed, there is a Bad Seeds insouciance to the music, a dash of Mazzy Star and Sonic Youth and a quiet/loud ethic that The Jesus and …
Track: Household Dogs – Ain’t No Heaven
Leeds post-punks Household Dogs are back with their first new music of the year in the shape of a single, ‘Ain’t no Heaven’. It’s a gorgeous slice of slowcore indie, somewhere between Bill Ryder-Jones at his most intimate and The Saxophones / Cigarettes after Sex sort of way. It has this hushed, close atmosphere about …
Track: Close Lobsters – Godless
Out on April 10th is the latest single from long standing indie pop band Close Lobsters, via Last Night from Glasgow Records. It’s the second single to be taken from their recent Post Neo Anti album. As has been the case throughout the Glasgow bands history (they formed way back in 1983), they make bittersweet, …
Track: Boy Azooga cover Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O.
While busy writing the follow up to 2018’s 1,2 Kung Fu!, Boy Azooga have still found time to release a stand alone single version of cult U.S. singer -songwriter Jim Sullivan’s ‘U.F.O.’. Of the track, the bands Davey Newington says, “I was introduced to Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O last year by Tom Friend in Friendly Records. …
See: Braids reveal new video for Snow Angel
Despite putting their album ‘Shadow Offering’ back to June 19th, Montreal based indie trio Braids continue to tease the release, this time with a new video for the track ‘Snow Angel’. Of the track the band explain, “Snow Angel’ was written in the immediate wake of the 2016 US election, as our collective conscience took …
See: Hanni El Khatib releases new video for Alive
Building up to the release of his fifth album ‘Flight’ on May 15th via Innovative Lesiure, Hanni El Khatib has released a new video for the track Alive taken from the release. It’s this sort of clever, ambitious psych-pop, all warm harmonies over these icy synth stabs in the verse, while the chorus is coloured …
TRACK: LOW HUMMER – THE REAL THING
Hull quintet Low Hummer have shared the video for their third single via Dance to the Radio records. “The Real Thing” sees the band pressing ahead with their desire to experiment and embrace more electronics as guitarist and singer Daniel Mawer explains: “The Real Thing was a bit of experimenting in the studio with our …
TRACK: SPECTOR – WHEN DID WE GET SO NORMAL?
London-based five piece Spector have shared their next single – “When Did We Get So Normal?”. This is the fourth and final track to be taken from their ‘Extended Play’ EP. It will be released physically as part of their ‘Non-Fiction’ compilation on 29 April via the band’s own Moth Noise Entertainment. It has a …
Track: Holy Hive – Broom
Ahead of the release of their album ‘Float Back To You’, Holy Hive – aka Homer Steinweiss, the Brooklyn based soul-funk drumming staple and sometime Daptone, Paul Spring, a young idealist folk singer traveling the country, and studio assistant named Joe Harrison oped in to join the band on bass, have released a new single …
News: Ty Segall & Mikel Cronin to re-release ‘Pop Song’ 7”
Two of the hardest working men in garage rock / psych, Ty Segall and Mikel Cronin, are to have one of their long out of date 7” records – ‘Pop Song’ b/w/ ’So I went to beach, melody’ and ‘Kit Carson’, re-released on Italy’s Goodbye Boozy imprint. All three tracks on the EP are short, …