Brighton
See: Black Honey reveal new video for ‘I don’t ever wanna love’
Quirky indie darlings Black Honey return with ‘I Don’t Ever Wanna Love’ the first new recording since last year’s self titled debut album. The Brighton quartet who have support slots to Royal Blood and Slaves under their belts as well as a string of sold out headline tours are well know for blistering live sets …
See: Watercolours release new video for ‘Habits’
Bristol-based indie/rock outfit Watercolours have released their latest single ‘Habits’, a cover of Tove Lo. With high praise from BBC Introducing, including a live session on air, the band are gaining traction ahead of their debut EP, slated for release this summer. The trio is currently on a spring tour, including a date supporting Marillion. Sitting …
Say Psych: Album Review: Fumaça Preta – Pepas
Fumaça Preta are back with their long awaited third album, Pepas which has been released on Bristol’s Stolen Body Records. They bring together elements of tropicalia, psychedelics, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics and numerous African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. The band started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer …
Say Psych: Video: Strange Cages – Hypothalamus Blues
From the hotspot of psychedelic activity that is Brighton, comes the latest offering from Strange Cages; a band that have been attracting increasing amounts of attention due to their quirky live performances and intensely catchy tracks that penetrate deeply. Their latest offering ‘Hypothalamus Blues’ sets feet tapping from the offset with its expertly utilised repetition …
See: Battery Operated Orchestra – Perfect Wreck
Ahead of finishing a new album later in the year, classy Brighton-based vintage synthpoppers Battery Operated Orchestra have a new video out for Perfect Wreck. You can also pick it up as a virtual single over at Bandcamp.
Video: Harker release video for single ‘Plague your heart’ ahead of album release
Brighton power pop punks Harker are on the cusp of releasing their debut album ‘No Discordance’, on February 9th, via a host of labels including Disconnect, Disconnect & Future Void in the UK, Shield Recordings and Fond of Life in Europe, Wiretap in the USA and Fixing A Hole in Japan. Taken from it is …
See: The Go! Team release new video for Semicircle Song
Ahwad of Brighton indie funk outfit The Go! Teams new album Semicircle, out 19th January via Memphis Industries, they’ve released a new video for the albums first single ‘Semicircle Song’. For the album, the band apparently envisaged envisioned a marching band going rogue and chucking away their sheet music to blast out Northern soul stompers, …
Meet: David Best from Fujiya & Miyagi
Weaving between the lines of electronic music are Brighton’s Fujiya & Miyagi, who have released a series of genre-hopping records spanning almost 20 years. Now their back with a new self-titled LP, out on April 7th via Impossible Objects of Desire, and it sees the band embracing the positive, despite everything thats going on in …
Track: Fujiya & Miyagi – Solitaire
Taken from their forthcoming self-titled album, due out on 7th April via Impossible Objects of Desire, Brighton electro-genre hoppers Fujiya & Miyagi have released a new single, Solitaire. It’s the bands sixth album, but actually it’s the culmination of a year-long project that sees the release of three EP’s which traverse disco, electro, pop, and …
Track: Max Pope – The Operator
Operator is the new single from 20 year old Brighton singer-songwriter Max Pope, and is the follow up to his single Rollercoaster, that dropped earlier in the year. Pop says of the single ” The Operator is about the fear of being controlled by an evil despot. It started as a horror fantasy, but has …