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Say Psych: Track: The Gluts – E.The Real Punk Rocker
Milan-based noise-rockers The Gluts have just announced their highly-anticipated third full-length Dengue Fever Hypnotic Trip, due 12 April on London’s Fuzz Club Records, and shared the first taste of the album. Inspired by bassist Claudia Cesana’s recent encounter with two tropical diseases at once after a trip to Africa, it’s perhaps no surprise that the record …
New Track: The Raft – Xanadu plus album news
Xanadu, the new single from Liverpool’s highly talented The Raft is absolute shoegaze gold with a scouse glint that recalls all the pure pop glories of Ian Broudie’s The Lightning Seeds and an alumni of merseyside pop. The brainchild of Phil Wilson, The Raft has been an incredibly prolific source of shimmering glory – see …
New Tracks: Barrie – Clovers/Darjeeling plus album and tour news
Barrie produced, for me, one of the stand out singles of 2018, Tal Uno – a perfect slice of pop heaven from the EP ‘Singles’. They have now announced a much anticipated album – ‘Happy to be Here’ due for release on 3 May 2019 as well as a tour that will take them across …
New Track: The Double Happiness – There’s No Place Like Nundah
Cloaked with the faded robes of nostalgia, a peon to the glories of an old forgotten Brisbane, the new single from the quite frankly glorious The Double Happiness is a crystalline reverb-soaked wash of melancholia. It captures the remembrance of the past over a clickety-clack spine that echoes the trams so missed in the lyrics. …
Track: Sadly Dan – Savage
Sadly Dan are an energetic, inventive two piece from Sheffield who are surely destined for big things and “Savage” is their ferociously engaging debut single. It all begins with a flourish of latin trumpets and a dark, driving bassline and pounding drums like something from the White Stripes’ darkest dreams. Soon, both Dans in the …
Say Psych: EP Review: Damo Suzuki & Minami Deutsch – Live At Roadburn Festival
At the 2018 edition of Roadburn Festival – a congregation of all things obscure, heavy and experimental in Tilburg, the Netherlands – two generations of Japanese Krautrock genius’ took to the stage for a live collaboration that was just as hypnotic as it was inevitable. Those artists were Tokyo’s Minami Deutsch and the legendary ex-Can lead Damo Suzuki. With Minami …
New Track: Fontaines D.C. – Big, Plus Album and tour news
The stupendous Fontaines D.C. are back with a blistering new single, “Big”. It may clock in at a warp speed of 1 minute and forty-five seconds yet it is, no exaggeration, safeguarding the future of intelligent, dirty rock’n’roll. “Big” is swaggering punk poetry at its best, continuing a line of brilliant singles released by the …
Say Psych: Track Review: The Big Peach – All You Gotta Do Is Ask
The Big Peach are four rock n roll outlaws making Manchester there own 1960’s wild west frontier. First formed in May 2017 and still going strong. They have a self-titled debut album available on Spotify and have this week released new single ‘All You Gotta Do Is Ask’ which has an impossibly catchy countenance and …
Track: Ex Hex – Cosmic Cave
It just got real – Ex Hex are back with punchy new single ‘Cosmic Cave’. It’s a great start to the year when you hear that a band you love will be releasing new material. American trio Ex Hex are one of the bands I’ve been eagerly awaiting to hear from and not only have …
See: OK Button – Flesh & Blood
OK Button get to the heart of mental health issues on emotive new single ‘Flesh & Blood’. Dream-pop trio OK Button had a dreamy 2018, releasing a couple of breathtaking singles – ‘The Message’ and ‘Beds’ – and rightly garnering a heap of praise. 2019 is looking even better with the release of their stunning …