Track / Video
Track: Quelle Chris & Chris Keys – Sacred Safe
Following on from their 2015 album, Detroit hip-hop veteran and multi-instrumentalist Chris Keys have renewed their partnership for Innocent Country 2, and from it have released Sacred Safe, which features guests Homeboy Sandman, Cavalier and Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards. It’s out on April 24th via Mello Music Group. There’s a feeling of 70s funk jazz …
Track: Deep City – Joyride
Out right now is Joyride, the new single form Cambridgeshire Indie / Electronic / Alt-Pop band Deep City. Written in their home studio and self-produced by the bands Alex – they say of it “We wanted to go for a clean, choppy sound that was Prince-esqe.. Joyride is a more guitar driven track, and astep …
See: Bebel Gilberto reveals new video for Deixa
Taken from her first album in six years, Agora, recently rescheduled for release on August 21st on [PIAS] recordings, iconic Brazilian artist Bebel Gilberto has released a new video for the track Deixa. The track has this instantly enthralling Brazilian shuffle, the melodies and the arrangement of it as enthralling as Bebel’s sultry vocal. But, …
Track: Mush – Fear Index
Not ones to sit around sitting on their hands after the release of their Lauded debut album 3D Routine, Leeds art rockers Mush have jumped back in the studio to record a new 5 track 7” EP “Great Artisanal Formats” which is coming out to coincide with Record Store Day on June 20th via Memphis …
Track: Michael Mayer – Belle De Lune
Despite running the famed German Kompakt label, Michael Mayer hasn’t released anything on it for the last eight years. That’s not to say he hasn’t been busy – anything but. He DJs around the world, has released a DJ Kicks, the collaborative full length album ‘&’, plus remixed for the likes of Metronomy, Weval, Arthur …
Album Review: Impulsive Hearts – Cry All The Time
‘Cry All The Time’, the new album from Chicago band romantically named Impulsive Hearts is an instantly adorable release that captures an indie low fi dynamic adorned by brilliantly exotic instrumental flourishes. The album is exemplified by singer Danielle Sines’s gorgeous expressive voice – loaded with yearning and melancholia, melodic and evocative that pours over …
Track – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – She’s There plus album news
Currently one of the most exciting contemporary acts coming out of Australia, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (RBCF) have just released a video for their new single ‘She’s There’ in anticipation of a newly announced sophomore album, ‘Sideways to New Italy’ due on 5 June 2020. RBCF preserves a long line of important and influential Australian …
Say Psych: Track: Blanketman – Taking You With Me
Blanketman are a new band who sweat and toil in a city called Manchester. Over the last year or two the band have been spearheading a burgeoning scene locally and have gigged extensively throughout the town performing their original brand of restless-legged post-punk, served with a sharper, more sardonic pop edge than many of their more po-faced peers. So sharp in …
TRACK: SPARKS – ONE FOR THE AGES
Legendary pop-pioneers Sparks who are releasing their 24th studio album ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’ on May 15th Via BMG have just dropped the video for their 4th tease of what is to come from the new album. Titled One For The Ages is keyboard heavy as expected from this duo with the trademark falsetto from …
Say Psych: Track: Psychic Ills – Never Learn Not To Love/Cease to Exist
Recently the music world mourned the loss of Psychic Ills founder, front man and songwriter Tres Warren. At the time of his death, Warren was overflowing with creativity, actively writing new songs, and excited about the next phase of the band. He was preparing to go into the studio alongside longtime collaborator Elizabeth Hart and their band mates to record …