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Track: The Men – Maybe I’m Crazy
As they enter their tenth year, Brooklyn four-piece The Men have announced their new, seventh album Drift is due out on March 2nd via long time label Sacred Bones. The first track to be taken from the record, Maybe I’m Crazy, is available right now. Maybe I’m Crazy mixes up the psych and experimentalism with …
Track: Franz Ferdinand – ‘Feel The Love Go’
Franz Ferdinand take us dancing into 2018 with synth-driven new single ‘Feel The Love Go’. It’s been a busy few days for Franz Ferdinand. If outperforming politicians on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday – when they appeared as the musical guests – wasn’t enough, they have now shared the latest track to be taken …
Track: Ezra Furman – Suck the blood from my wound, plus UK tour dates
His new album ‘Transangelic Exodus’ is still a month away from its 9th February release on Bella Union, and already Ezra Furman has released a couple of singles from it in the shape of ‘Driving Down To L.A.’ and ‘Love You So Bad’. Add to that a third now with ‘Suck the blood from my …
See: Teenage Wrist share video for ‘Swallow’
New Epitaph signing Teenage Wrist share the colourful video for latest single ‘Swallow’. Formed in 2015, the L.A.-based trio of Kamtin Mohager (bass, vocals), Marshall Gallagher (guitar, vocals), and Anthony Salazar (drums) made their debut with EP ‘Dazed’ in the same year. Not a band to rest on their laurels, they’ve signed to Epitaph and …
See: Prism Tats releases new video for Dagger
Prism Tats is the moniker for South African native Garett van der Spek, now based in LA. Today, in anticipation of his album “Mambo”, due out on 2 March, Prism Tats has released a video for the song “Daggers”. It’s a slightly unhinged and menacing video but it cannot undermine the indie-pop power of the …
Track: Ty – Eyes Open
Out on March 2nd 2018 via the increasingly important Jazz:Refreshed label is the fifth album from UK hip-hop royalty Ty. With his usual subtlety and humour Ty tackles subject matter ranging from Brixton, depression, poverty, racism, family, hip hop and the creative process, to philosophical musings on life and even imagined film soundtracks over the …
Track: Superchunk – Erasure, plus new album news and UK/European tour dates
Out on February 16th on the ever brilliant Merge Records, What a time to be alive is the new album from legendary alt rockers Superchunk. It features a host of guest backing vocalists including Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog, Sweet Spirit), Skylar Gudasz, and David Bazan “Part of that was wanting a feeling of community,” …
Track: Drum Thing: Warp Skin
Warp Skin is the title track taken from the new EP by East London producer Drum Thing, which drops on 26th January via emerging club collective Super Kitchen. On the five track EP, Drum Thing set out to ‘explore the percussive dark side of dance music’, and the track is a cool, stripped back slice …
See: White Knife Study release new video for Ghosts
Out of the ashes of Divides and The Hoons, both Alaskan bands that had moved to Portland, comes a new project, White Knife Study. Whereas, certinly in the case of Divides, the music was guitar driven and heavy before, now its dark, synth-led indie rock, reminiscent of The National and CHVRCHES, and they drafted in …
See: Lowpines reveal new video for ‘We Come Right’
Lowpines, aka West London singer and producer Oli Deakin is preparing to release his first full-length Lowpines record In Silver Halides will be released on Adventure Club Records on Feb 9th 2018. Written in rural England throughout the winter and recorded in a greenhouse the following spring in unseasonably hot weather, songs that started out …