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TRACK: Cardiacs release previously unheard track, ‘Vermin Mangle’
CARDIACS have shared a poignant farewell in the form of a previously unreleased song. “Vermin Mangle” was shared to mark the funeral of bandleader Tim Smith, who died in July aged 59. Along with the new song, the band shared a touching tribute: “Of stars and planets,of darkness and light,of all universal energies issues forththe …
Track: beabadoobee reveals details of debut album, plus new single ‘Sorry’
After releasing massive single Care, which subsequently gathered upwards of a million streams, beabadoobee has released new track Sorry. This new single is as contemplative and provocative as her last, and her rich discography, but also wholly and refreshingly different. Beginning with a subdued section of Bea’s confessional words accompanied only by her guitar and …
Track: Kid Dad – What You Call A Dream
German four piece Kid Dad have released a new track titled ‘What You Call A Dream. The new track features on the band’s debut album ‘In A Box’ which is set for release 21st August via Long Branch Records. ‘What You Call A Dream’ was a spontaneous jam that came naturally to the band and …
Track: Joshua Burnside Returns With A Hypnotic Single ‘And You Evade Him/Born in the Blood’
Three years after the release of his award-winning debut album ‘Ephrata’, Joshua Burnside has returned to announce the release of his follow up album ‘Into The Depths Of Hell’ due 4th of September. An absurdist examination at the suffering humans inflicts on each other every day and the innate human condition that demands we find …
Track: Aidan Knight – Rolodex
Singer songwriter Aidan Knight is sharing his second single ‘Rolodex’, taken from his forthcoming self-titled album, due 28 August via Full Time Hobby. Aidan explains, “It’s a song exploring my intrusive thoughts about relationships and divorce and having kids. What a dark thing to worry about and wonder about and write a song about. I find it’s …
Track: Jaz Coleman’s New Project Black & Red – On The Day The Earth Went Mad
Jaz Coleman’s new project Black & Red, a collaboration with Ondrej Smeykal have just shared their debut single ‘On The Day The Earth Went Mad’ the single is also available as a limited edition numbered red vinyl 10” via Cadiz Music. Available here “The Black and Red project was born in Australia in 2010 when I set out …
Track: sir Was x Casper Clausen – Flyder
‘Flyder’, is the new single from the Gothenburg-based artist/producer, sir Was – real name, Joel Wästberg – and Casper Clausen, the singer of experimental Danish post-rockers, Efterklang. ‘Flyder’ started as a small sketch around the time when Joel went to join the Efterklang recordings in Copenhagen last year. After bouncing the song back and forth, between Gothenberg and Casper’s studio in Almada (looking across the …
Track: Lonely The Brave – Distant Light
Back in April, Lonely the Brave released their first material with new singer Jack Bennett: the single, “Bound”. Check out our review of that here. Now they return with another track, “Distant Light”, on Easy Life Records. The band say: “We find ourselves in trying times at present. As you may know, some of us are NHS key …
Track: Kestrels – Vanishing Point
Nova Scotia shoegazers the Kestrels are sharing their second single, ‘Vanishing Point’, from their upcoming album Dream or Don’t Dream, out on Darla Records on July 10th. Guitarist and vocalist Chad Peck explained: “I liked the idea of the record opening with the band kicking in with this intense and hypnotic riff as opposed to a synth …
Track: Japanese Television – Beecage
On September 4th space surf rockers Japanese Television will release their brand new 5 track EP ‘EP III’ out September 4th via Tip Top Recordings Preferring to work in a cold, dusty, village hall somewhere deep in the wilds of the east British countryside, Japanese Television once again recorded live to an old 8 track machine with …