Birmingham
Track: The Silver Lines release blistering piece of blitzkrieg pop in their new single ‘Skin’
Hailing from Birmingham, The Silver Lines take no prisoners with their new single ‘Skin’, which pelts along at a cantering pace with a louche and insolent delivery. Snotty, brash and driven on sky-scraping riffs and melody, this is good cathartic fun, and just what the doctor ordered to get rid of those isolation blues: You …
SEE: Fuzzbox re-enter the fray with X-Ray Spex cover
BIRMINGHAM’S bubblegum punk legends We’ve Got a Fuzzbox And We’re Going To Use It are back – with a shiny reimagining of the X-Ray Spex classic “I Can’t Do Anything”. The seed to take on Poly Styrene’s first-wave punk number was sown at last year’s Polyfest: a celebration of the X-Ray Spex singer held each …
See: Broken Witt Rebels reveal new video for OK Hotel, plus tour dates
Birmingham rockers Broken Witt Rebels have released the video for the title track of their new album ‘OK Hotel‘. Featuring super-8mm style footage of the USA along with backstage and performance clips, it’s a dreamily evocative, semi-nostalgic vision of the great American road-trip. The band comment; “’OK Hotel’ was actually inspired by some of the places we have stayed in while touring in …
Track: Wray – Jogging/Neon Forming
‘Jogging/Neon Sway’ is an absolutely immersive and magic single from Birmingham band Wray – gentle bubbling dream pop with shimmering guitars and haunting melancholic vocals: it hits all the right buttons. And it subverts expectations – distorted voices echo in and out and a synth wash interpolates the structure. The band describes the song as …
EP: The Cosmics – The Cosmics
Out right now is the new self-titled debut EP from Birmingham scuzz pop band The Comics, collecting six of the tracks the band have been playing live and recording them with Test Icicles’ Rory Attwell whose production credits include the likes of Palma Violets, The Vaccines, Yuck, Mazes and Male Bonding among many other up-and-coming …
Track: The Cosmics – Drained
Ahead of the released of their debut Vinyl EP, riotous Birmingham girl fronted punks The Cosmics have released another track, Drained. The thing about The Cosmics is they’ve mastered sounding like they’re from the 60s girl band sound, strained through a messy, edgy garage punk filter. That’s because they have the melodies at heart that …
See: Swim Deep reveal new video for To Feel Good
Birmingham’s Swim Deep have returned now as a five piece, with the additions of ex-Childhood drummer Tomas Tomaski, and guitarist Robbie Wood, and have a new album, Emerald Classics, out on October 4th via Cooking Vinyl. From it they’ve released track, album opener To Feel Good, which also features Margate’s Social Singing Choir. It’s an …
Track: The Cosmics – Eyes
Birmingham scuzz/garage rock upstarts The Cosmics have heralded the release of their debut vinyl EP, due out on June 13th, with a single, Eyes. Think that sort of echoey hollow 60s sounding production, over this track that buzzes between swathes of buzzsaw, shoegaze guitars and these eerie rockabilly riffs. Over the top its got a …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: The Nightingales – It Is
It’s unusual for an act to hit its peak after four decades. Yet here it is. BSM brings you the latest video from The Nightingales a band who have climbed to fame and become one of Britain’s most dazzling live bands. Some of The Nightingales’ historic lack of acclaim stems from a density of ideas, which the …
Say Psych: Video & Tour News: Table Scraps – I’m A Failure
Birmingham’s Table Scraps have unleashed their hilarious video for the brilliant new single ‘I’m A Failure’ from debut LP Autonomy which came out on the 23rd February via Zen Ten. On the inspiration for the tongue-in-cheek visuals, TJ of Table Scraps has said: “Making videos without any budget is more fun. We took some cheap wood and …