DIY
Album Review: Être Ensemble – CLOSE / SPACE: more montage music and cinematic vision from the inspired Joni Void network.
Experimental musician and sound artist Joni Void’s astounding tapestry of musical connectivity continues. The three albums released via Constellation, ‘Selfless’, ‘Mise En Abyme’ and this year’s ‘Everyday is the Song’, may be the most visible markers of the emergence of Jean Néant (he/them) as sonic collagist Joni Void but there’s an eco-system of other projects …
TRACK: MEMES – Monday I Looked Like Death
Glasgow’s MEMES have had one heck of a year, performing at festivals from SXSW in the US, to The Great Escape and Wide Days, earning a reputation for their sensory blitzing shows. They have released their new single ‘Monday I Looked like Death’ which sees them continue to create their own style of frenetic furiously …
News: Charged GBH – Grievous Battery Harm – Lords Of The Flies
The Battery Farm are a gutter punk band from Manchester. They are one of, it not the most hard working band on the North West scene over the last couple of years. Even a Global Pandemic has done little to hinder their progress. Now with Lockdown a distant memory and the live music handbrake fully …
Album Review: Affiliate Links – Enough Light : poetic, powerful indie song-craft.
They may be best known for their excavation of long lost classics but, in their noble pursuit of ‘changing the world one record at a time’, Canadian label ‘We Are Busy Bodies’ also champion the new and undiscovered. Cue ‘Enough Light’ by Affiliate Links available from WABB, September 9th onwards. The album marks Bradley Davis …
TRACK: LIFE release new single ‘The Drug’ with accompanying video filmed in artists community in Hull
Hull band LIFE have released new single ‘The Drug‘ which is from their forthcoming third album North Eat Coastal Town set for release on 19 August via The Liquid Label. The track was premiered on Steve Lamacq’s BBC Radio6Music show and follows previous singles ‘Friends Without Names‘ and ‘Big Moon Life‘. Vocalist Mez Green expands …
TRACK: YINYANG – Happy Money
YINYANG is the moniker of Irish artist Lauren Hannan who has released her latest single ‘Happy Money‘. YINYANG evolved during lockdown in 2020 when Lauren taught herself how to produce music and cultivated her writing by working on it every day. Technology was a blessing during this enforced period of isolation and Lauren looked to …
Track: Drew Danburry releases indie folk-pop gem ‘Song To Long’
Legendary American D.I.Y. folk-pop singer-songwriter (and barber shop owner) Drew Danburry has just released his latest single – “Song To Long” – a revived and re-recorded version of a song written and recorded in 2006 with collaborator Ian Aiello. It’s an interesting thought experiment. How many artists have partially written and half recorded songs that …
Track: Parallel Lights – Better off this way
Parallel Lights are a powerful pop punk outfit who bring their own unique take on to what is essentially a genre that has its biggest routes in the good old U.S of A, a quartet that consist of, Jamie Morrow (Vocals, Guitar) Paul Newling (Vocals, Bass) and Shane Steven (Drums). The trio formed in the Summer …
TRACK: PORRIDGE RADIO – CIRCLING
Brighton three piece Porridge Radio have announced another single from their upcoming new album “Every Bad”, released 13th March via Secretly Canadian. Titled “Circling”, the record is an urgent pleading waltz. “I was thinking on the idea of willing things to be okay by repeating that they are, because I need them to be” lead …
Track: Batteries – The Fall-In-Love Club
If you remember the day-glow dork punk (I just thought of that, and I quite likes it) of Bis, Steven Clark will be a vaguely familiar figure in his guise as Sci-Fi Steven. Fast forward to the now, and he’s back in his Batteries guise with a new single, The Fall-in-love club, a warning sign …