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SEE: Martha’s Vineyard Ferries – ‘Jail Material’: deliciously dirty US underground trio return
THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD FERRIES, the loud and deliciously, abrasively proud trio brought together by Shellac’s mighty Bob Weston, Chris Brokaw, of Come and Codeine, and Elisha Wiesner, otherwise of Kahoots, have dropped the video for a lip-curlingly LOUD and guitar heavy new song, “Jail Material” – you can take a dive down the bottom there. It’s …
NEWS: Dark Tea announce new album, out April 30th on Fire Talk
FOR THOSE who don’t know the project, Dark Tea is Gary Canino’s solo project, taking advantage of a large group of collaborators in the New York scene. Spanning across mostly 80s-inspired songwriting styles, the project is quite characteristic but also classic-sounding, in its own way. Gary is now announcing a new record, out April 30th …
NEWS: Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley announce avant-garde folk album; hear ‘This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14’
THEY may at first somewhat unlikely bedfellows: Matthew E. White, who arrived back in 2011 with his debut album The Big Inner, seemingly a fully formed gentleman of classic Southern Americana; and Lonnie Holley, the scrap sculptor who released his debut set of free-flowing outsider funk, Just Before Music, at the age of 62 in 2012. …
NEWS: Chad Vangaalen announces a March album for Sub Pop; see the properly brilliant animation for ‘Samurai Sword’
HE’S SO much fun, right? Sub Pop’s favourite Albertan singer-songwriter, Chad VanGaalen – he’s made his whimsical home at the Seattle imprint since 2006’s Skelliconnection – has revealed that actually, horticulturally speaking, he’s the World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener; well, actually that would be musically too, since that’s also how his new album will be …
TRACK: Pino Palladino, Blake Mills – ‘Just Wrong’ – joint album for Impulse! in March
WHEN it was initially sketched out as project, Notes With Attachments, Welsh bass legend Pino Palladino and Californian songwriter and producer Blake Mills’ forthcoming album for New Deal/Impulse!, was all set to be a Pino solo affair; but, in the way of these things, especially when these things feature two wholly open-minded creatives, it grew, …
SEE: Chaz Knapp – ‘My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess’: all hail the warm organ drune
DALLAS’S Chaz Knapp has a very particular way with an organ drone – or a drune, as he styles it – as you can hear on his forthcoming album, Organ Drunes. He brings a singular texture to his way with a vibey drone, and one not without a wayward sense of humour, as you can …
NEWS: The Coral announce album no.10, ‘Coral Island’; see ‘Faceless Angel’
ROLLOCKIN’ back in from their fastness on The Wirral, the inestimable The Coral, who’ve brought us so much off-kilter psych-pop joy in our lonely rooms since buccaneering into our world what? Jeez, nearly 21 years ago now – have just announced that they’re back, back, with studio album number ten, Coral Island, which will be …
NEWS: Cabaret Voltaire announce ‘Shadow Of Funk’ EP and longform drone sets; hear ‘Billion Dollar’
SHEFFIELD’S deep proto-industrialists Cabaret Voltaire still have so much to say, some 48 years on from first beginnings. Shadow Of Fear, released November gone, was the Cabs’ first new album in more than two decades; but in a world this darkly dystopian, how can the time not be absolutely ripe for Richard H Kirk and …
NEWS: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles announce April album; see the brilliant instrumental bluegrass of ‘Joy Ride’
BILL MACKAY, the Chicago-based guitarist, improviser of note and all-round scion of six strings, sure loves to enter into a two-way conversation with other artists with reliably beautiful results; witness the brace of albums he’s recorded with the freewheelin’ Ryley Walker, Land Of Plenty and Spiderbeetlebee. There was 2019’s darker two-hander with cellist Katinka Klein, …
NEWS: Clark returns with March album for Deutsche Grammophon: hear ‘Small’
CLARK, the electronica voyager who came hurtling into our lives for Warp at the turn of the century and quickly decided his mission was to empty the bones of you – an offer in equal parts thrilling and worrying – is returning at the end of March with his ninth studio album, Playground In A …