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See: Half Waif reveals new video for Orange Blossoms
Half Waif (aka Nandi Rose) may have released an album only last year, but she is back with a new track and video “Orange Blossoms”. The A-side of a new 7″ which the prolific artist promises is the start of a new chapter of work for 2021. The synths are dialled back, the vocals are …
ALBUM REVIEW: M. Ward – Migration Stories
‘Migration Stories’ is the latest album from prolific writer, producer and performer M. Ward. It is out on Anti Records on 3rd April. The world is currently living through an unprecedented period of travel restrictions with many countries in lockdown and ‘Migration Stories’ feels like a meditation on the exact opposite of that reality. It’s …
Track: Half Waif – In August
Taken from her new album ‘The Caretaker’, out this Friday (March 27th) via ANTI- Records, In August is the new track from Nandi Rose, aka Half Wait. Of the song, Rose says: “‘In August’ tracks the dissolution of a friendship over the course of a year, throughout every season. There’s a particular kind of sadness to …
News: Anti- to re-release Tom Waits’ 1970s Elektra albums, plus RSD exclusive and curated 76 song playlist
Tom Waits’ first seven albums, originally released through Elektra Asylum Records in the 1970’s are now available digitally and are available on CD HERE. All seven titles – many of which have been long out of print – are to be re-released on hi quality 180-gram vinyl throughout 2018. The time-honoured and critically acclaimed debut …
Track: Girlpool – Picturesong
Los Angeles Girlpool – Harmony Trividad and Cleo Tucker, have just released a new track, Picturesong, featuring Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes contributing keys, guitars, backing vocals and mixing. Its this slow burner, the girls voices perfectly matched as they lay smooth melodies and harmonies down over gently picked guitars and keyboards, a la Lambchop, before …
Wilco : Schmilco
I can only imagine that at some point in an artist’s life taking yourself and your art so seriously can get pretty heavy. Eventually real life will start to outdo you in the drama department and what you once took so serious doesn’t seem all that important anymore. Health crisis, getting older, losing loved ones …
Track: Beth Orton – Kidsticks
One of my favourite ways of discovering music is with no prior knowledge of the artist and all the usual promo bumf that comes with it. I first fell in love with Beth Orton’s music when I picked up ‘Trailer Park on CD for a pound from a Notting Hill record shop as it had …
Live: Broken Twin at St John on Bethnal Green
Broken Twin’s music demands this church setting; somewhere deeply sonorous and solemn, redolent with the deliciously evocative smell of candle wax. On this windswept Wednesday evening, Majke Voss Romme and band are intense and focused, with barely a word spoken outside of song. They arrive on stage without fanfare, settle into position and off they set, beginning …