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SEE: Bearcraft – ‘Outside In The Morning Snow’: Modish synthwave burrowing into your dreams
A two-finger synth melody is picked out, melodically precise, in that way Depeche Mode wrought so many classic hooks from as they shifted through Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward, striding out of the pure pop of the Vince Clarke era and heading for the proto-goth sampling of Black Celebration. It’s a pop melody …
SEE: Fenne Lily -‘To Be A Woman Pt. 2’: whispered caution, guitars fizzing
BRISTOL is a city that has really pulled its weight in modern musical culture; there’s no need to list all those paradigm-shifters that have come from the Avon Valley. One of the rising stars of the Bristol scene, 2020 vintage, is the Dorset-born singer-songwriter Fenne Lily, who has shared the video for “To Be A …
TRACK: Pinch feat. Killa P – ‘Party’ – bringin’ the Bristol bass
ROB ELLIS works deep in that Bristolian sonic tradition which has mutated British music’s DNA so often down the past three decades. He’s conversant across dub, dubstep, grime, and global traditions: check “Qawwali”, his 12” for Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu, built on harmoniums and samples of the Pakistani devotional singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. And …
Track: Idles – Grounds, plus album news
The brutal and eminently vital IDLES have just released a video for a new song – ‘Grounds’ – and announced details of the release of their third album – ‘Ultra Mono’ – out on 25 September 2020 through Partisan Records. ‘Grounds’ is pure IDLES – swiftly moving, aggressive and sharp yet leavened by a poetic …
See: Woahnows frontman Immy reveals new video for Anyone, Anywhere
Sometime lead singer / writer of Woahnows, Immy, has released new video of his track ‘Anyone, Anywhere’. The Bristol musician had first donated the track to his label Breakfast Records compilation record which was to raise money for his hometown charity Caring In Bristol, but now he’s made a video with housemate Jonathan Minto of …
Track: The James Dean Driving Experience – Sean Connery
Optic Nerve Recordings have been carefully curating a reissue series of 7″ records from late last year, and come May 15th are set to release the next in this pantheon of late ’80s alternative music. “Sean Connery” was originally released in 1990 by The James Dean Driving Experience and would be the 4th and final …
Say Psych: Interview: Meet the Label – Stolen Body Records
Neo-Psychedelia has become the fastest growing musical trend, and the genre that everyone who wants to be associated with. With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that it is people who make all of this possible and get the music out into the public domain in the first place. Say Psych plans to address …
Say Psych: Preview: Astral Festival, Bristol
Astral Festival (FKA Bristol Psych Fest), presented by Stolen Body Records, is back for it’s 6th year on 6th July 2019. Over the past six years the festival has grown from a 50 capacity room to a day long event over three of Bristol’s best venues, SWX, The Lanes and Rough Trade. After last year’s …
See: Adjua releases new video for O.L.V.
Bristol based vocalist Adjua has recently released a single, ‘O.L.V.’, or One Little Voice and now there’s some accompanying visuals to go with it. Mixing up bass music with a blend of jungle, drum and bass and a little whiff of dubstep, she’s made something that’s rather lovely. “O.L.V is a push and pull between strength …
Say Psych: EP Review: Captain Süün – Beach Burrito
Formed via the spirit of adolescent excitement in Bristol at the tail end of 2016, Captain Süün are a band well and truly beyond their tender years. Following a handful of gigs in 2017 including a raucous set at Bristol Psych Fest’s opening event in July, they caught the attention of Stolen Body Records who …