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Track: The Raveonettes – ‘Scout’
With digital downloads, crowd funding and DIY production it has become easier to break free from the constraints of a traditional album release. The Raveonettes are another band that has decided to do things differently with their new ‘anti-album’. ‘Scout’ is the fifth song from the ‘RAVE-SOUND-OF-THE-MONTH’ playlist where the Danish duo will continue to …
See: Gold Panda releases new video for “Chiba Nights”
Taken from his new album ‘Good Luck and do your best’, which dropped last week via City Slang, Gold Panda has released a new video for standout track ‘Chiba Nights’. It’s this Eastern inspired, glitchy piece of electronica that has this repeating melodic hook that speaks of solitude and wonder all at once. The visuals …
Meet: Second Still, Post-punk from L.A.
Another one of our occasional forays into the underbelly of the US post-punk scene, see’s us stumble into Second Still. A coldwave outfit originating from Brooklyn, Second Still deliver beautifully dark, enchanting tunes that lure you into the deepest recesses of the night. Definitely not for day time , drive time radio, (but then again …
Track: Ian William Craig – The Nearness
The Nearness is taken from the new album, ‘Centres’ from Vancouver-based vocalist / composer Ian William Craig, his first for FatCat’s pioneering 130701 imprint, which has in the past released music from the likes of Max Richter, Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran, Jóhann Jóhannsson and others, although it is in fact his ninth album. Most of those …
See: Red Sleeping Beauty release video for If you Want Affection
Ahead of their first album for 20 years – Kristina, due out on Labrador on June 17th, and their first ever UK show at Indietracks Festival in Derbyshire (29-31 July), Swedish C86/Indie-pop veterans Red Sleeping Beauty complete another first – their first video ever, for the single If you want Affection. The quartet first got …
Track: Brawlers – Day Job
Leeds punks Brawlers make a return with a new release, The Black EP out on July 1st, a follow up to last years much admired debut album Romantic Errors of our Youth. Decamped into a studio for a few weeks with producer Thomas Mitchener, the band have poured out their thoughts and ideas into five …
Track: Rattle – Stringer Bell, plus album news
If you haven’t heard Nottingham duo Rattle, aka Fists drummer Theresa Wrigley and Kogumaza sticks woman Katherine Eira Brown, then prepare to be confounded. The pair are making interesting and unlikely music based around (you guessed it) drumming and percussive noises, and their debut eponymous album comes out on August 5th via Upset the Rythm/I …
Track: NEEDTOBREATHE – No Excuses
So we know that Charleston, SC quartet NEEDTOBREATHE have a new album out on July 15th through Atlantic Records. We also know it’s called H A R D L O V E, (yeah, that gap thing going on again) and we know the band can turn their hands to, well, virtually anything following the previous …
See: Counting Days reveal new video for Prison of Misery
Taken from their Liberated Sounds album that dropped last August, counting days have just released a video for Prison of Misery. Its a track that begins with this circumspect, simple stripped back riff. You know right from the off though that its skirting the edge of things, and sure enough its soon explodes into life, …
Trackc: John Jefferson – The Voyeur
Taken from his forthcoming EP, Helmsman, The Voyeur is the new track from singer-songwriter John Jefferson. Taking elements of the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Blaze Foley and The Doors as an influence on his music, the nautical title of the EP comes from its writing and recording – written on a narrow-boat …