Cold Wave
Album Review: God is God – Metamorphoses: shape shifting electronic music and song.
Put two forward thinking musicians together like guitarist producer Etkin Cekin and multi-instrumental chanteuse Galina Ozeran and your unlikely to get stuck in reverse. Meeting in Berlin in 2015, the pair grew a musical relationship through long improvisational sessions, letting their combined narrative lead the way. Cekin’s imaginings, rooted in Istanbul’s indie-experimental scene then swelled …
News: Black Marble announces new album ‘Fast Idol’ out 22 October – hear first single ‘Somewhere’ and catch live tour dates
Black Marble (aka Chris Stewart) has announced his new album titled Fast Idol, which is due out October 22 via Sacred Bones Records. He’s also sharing the first single and video for Somewhere, alongside the announcement of UK/US tour dates this October and November. On the track itself, Chris Stewart shares: “‘Somewhere’ describes a place …
Say Psych: Album Review: Rhys Bloodjoy – Human.Pattern. Repeat
Rhys Bloodjoy last week released his long awaited debut LP Human.Pattern.Repeat on Sister9 Recordings in the form of a free download and a full length video that accompanies the album, making it a visual as well as aural offering. Dubbed as a one-man noise machine, using sophisticated loops, echo drenched harmonies and reverb-soaked melodies to …
Say Psych: Premiere: Rhys Bloodjoy – Run From the Hunter/Celebration
Rhys Bloodjoy is a one-man noise machine, using sophisticated loops, echo drenched harmonies and reverb-soaked melodies to create a truly unique blend of Cold Wave and Psychedelia. He has been suspiciously quiet for a while following a move from Manchester’s cobblestones to the mountainous climbs of Southern Spain. But one should always know, when someone …
Track: Tyburn Blossom – Counterpoint
Amid all the chaos and confusion of our current public health meltdown and the equally frightening economic fallout being caused by it, it feels apt to recall the pre-Glasnost, pre-Gorbachev early 1980s, a time when the Cold War was at its hottest and the public were understandably terrified. Enter Tyburn Blossom, a rising star on …
Say Psych: Premiere: Rhys Bloodjoy – Polly Brown
Rhys Bloodjoy has been a long standing favourite here at BSM, but since his retreat to the Spanish mountains his absence has been notable. It is therefore with great pleasure that we bring you the premiere of his latest offering, ‘Polly Brown’. Rhys Bloodjoy is a one man noise machine, using sophisticated loops, echo drenched …
Say Psych: Album Review: NONN – NONN
Rating: 7/10 Sweden has recently become a hot bed of psychedelic activity, with Goat being projected to global acclaim and Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation garnering ever increasing publicity. The latest act to join the ranks is NONN, AKA Christian Eldefors who presents his take on brooding post-punk and cold wave. After spending the winter …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Gluts – Estasi
The Gluts have emerged from the depths of Milan to release their second LP Estasi on Fuzz Club Records. The album released on 5th May is the follow up to their debut album Warsaw which was released in 2014 and the quartet have already released a number of piercing teasers including first single ‘Squirrel’, a …
LP Review: Future – ‘Horizons’
Photograph by Arthur Weed Future were one of the many bands on ‘The Reverb Conspiracy Vol. 3‘ that captivated and left me wanting to hear more. Their track ‘Side Effects’, I described as, “an exquisite existential exercise in “sharp guitar riffs, cold melodies and fractured drums”” – as befits their “Cold Wave” self-classification. Thankfully the wait has …