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See: Grammy-winning Swedish producer Olovson steps into the Satiesque with the airy ‘Paloma Blanca’
A MAN who’s made his name and his fortune behind the scenes as one half of the world-bestraddling production dup Jarami, Jacob Olofsson is a name to be reckoned with behind the faders; but he’s stepping out behind a slightly retooled surname these days, entering the placidity and the calm of the modern compositional solo …
See: Logan Lynn captures the high beauty and strength of simple togetherness with ‘Here’s To Us’
LOGAN LYNN, Portland, Oregon’s so-much-loved songwriter, producer, filmmaker, and activist, who – casting your mind back to the far-off days of high summer here, took Gossip’s “Standing In The Way Of Control” out for a delicious and valedictory spin into the cosmos in the company of Bitch, has today revealed a heart’s arrow-sweet new single, …
See: Slow Down Molasses share the 62-second rush of ‘Son Of Titanic’: don’t delay, get involved
·FOR THOSE of you out in the noise hinterlands who are yearning for the recently departed Yuck, wipe the tears from thine eye and don’t despair; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s Slow Down Molasses have got a short, sharp pick-me-up that’ll see you right. With a new album, Minor Deaths, their first in five years, slated for an …
See: Llyr stuns once more with ecologically cautionary visuals for the absolute banger, ‘The Hawthorne Effect’: music for your brain, your soul and your body
LLYR, the musical guising of Gareth Williams, who frankly will blow your mind with the ecologically concerned, sourced and refashioned IDM he’s presenting at the end of July with his album, Biome, has today released an actually properly stunning video for “The Hawthorne Effect”, the second track he’s revealed from what we’re tipping massively to …
See: A discarded bass string finds new life in the stop-motion tale of Peace Flag Ensemble’s ‘Hilma af Klint in Ab’
SASKATCHEWAN free jazz collective Peace Flag Ensemble, who like to free up a little while keeping it flowing and melodious, are set to release their first venture into long-playing recordings this very Friday, June 18th, on Toronto label We Are Busy Bodies. In the ensemble’s set-up it’s the piano that lends the starting point for …
See: The lyric animation for All The Luck In The World’s ‘Waves (Poem)’ ahead of their third album
IRISH folk-pop trio All the Luck In The World have just announced that, nearly three years in the making, their third album will be with us very soon; and they’ve dropped a first single, “Waves (Poem)”, the line-drawn lyric animation for which you can watch below. The album’s entitled How The Ash Felt and encompasses …
See: The astonishing audio-visual experience that is Llyr’s ‘Winged Chamber Music’: jaw-dropping creativity from what’s looking to be IDM album of the year
YOU KNOW that if no less a renaissance man than Max Cooper is taking enough of an interest in what you’re sculpting in sound to sign you up for his label, Mesh, then you must be doing something not only very right, but also very interesting; Max really these days being at the forefront of …
See: The Bridget Rileyesque animation accompanying Solar Eyes’ debut baggy-psych double drops, ‘Acid Test’ and ‘Nothing’s For Free’
FROM times of privation, creativity may arise as a channelling of the anxieties, the energies, of the moments of crisis, Such is the pandemic beginnings of the baggy-psych voyage of upcoming Brit trio Solar Eyes, whose debut offering, “Acid Test”, is with us right here, right now. Solar Eyes is the psychedelic venture of Glenn Smyth, on …
See: David Devant & His Spirit Wife – ‘Putting My Demons To Bed’: eccentric, theatrical Brighton popsters return with their fourth album in July
CASTING an eye back over the Britpop years, there was a little subset of bands which decided to forego the tracksuits, the bulldogs and the lager to explore the headier possibilities offered in the grand, beautiful, theatrical pop as framed by Pulp and The Divine Comedy, and who never quite garnered the recognition they deserved …
See: The beautiful animation for Cheval Sombre’s ‘Sunlight In My Room’ ahead of his second stunning LP of the year
HE REALLY is spoiling us, is Cheval Sombre, the transporting, ethereal folk-shoegaze guising of Chris Porpora; who, not content with the hushed emotional whirlwind of Time Waits For No One, his album from back in February, is shortly to drop his second album of the year, an album that works in lighter correspondence with the …