Indie
Track: A.A. Williams Shares Cover Of The Smashing Pumpkin’s ‘Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans’
The stunning and gifted A.A. Williams is set to release Having last month announced the release an album of covers entitled ‘Songs From Isolation’, due February 12th via Bella Union. In the run up William’s has shared a track from the album in the form of a beguiling, piano and vocal cover of the Smashing Pumpkins classic “Porcelina Of The …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Cheshire – ‘Fractal Future Plays’: a sweeping psych pop set
Fractal Future Plays sits in a fine line of albums which admit psych to their blend, admire its cosmic clear sight rather than its sensual flood; the romance, the seduction, the perfume of the other just behind the flimsiest curtain
SEE: The brilliant papercut animation for Elvis Perkins’ ‘See Monkey’
ELVIS PERKINS has dropped a beautiful papercut video for “See Monkey”, a brilliantly wry, songwriting auteur cut from his latest album, Creation Myths, which you can watch below. “See Monkey” is a confection of mournful brass announcements, piano with the pacing of Father John Misty or just-solo Lennon, over which Elvis sets about with gnomic, …
See: Django Django release video for forthcoming album title track ‘Glowing in the Dark’
Indie royalty Django Django have announced their new album Glowing in the Dark, is out on February 12th 2021 on Because Music, and ahead of it they’ve released the title track as a single, with an accompanying video directed by NYC artist and illustrator Braulio Amadio. Built on this edgy synth line and dancefloor ready drum …
Track: The Notwist release ‘Where You Find Me’ from first album in seven years, ‘Vertigo Days’
There’s always some anticipation when one of the most iconic German indie bands announces new music, so we were excited to hear “‘Where You Find Me”, taken from their first album in seven years, Vertigo Days, out on January 29th via Morr Music. The band have been busy over that time with side projects (Spirit …
See: Pom Poko reveal new visuals for ‘Like a Lady’
Heavily promoted on 6Music over the last couple of years (and, not to mention, by this writer), Norway’s Pom Poko earned themselves well-deserved plaudits for last year’s debut album ‘Birthday’ and its controlled raucousness. They’ve been saying for a while that they wanted to “embrace their extremes a bit more”. If you’ve seen them live you’ll be …
NEWS: Martha Ffion to play live-streamed session this week – see “Rosalie”
LOST MAP’s smoothly sweet singer-songwriter Martha Ffion is pleased as punch to announce (as should we be) a live-streamed session this week. The live sesh has been commissioned by Lost Map as part of the label’s Postmap Club: a proper, old-fashioned club with real actual postcards, badges, first dibs on things, newsletters, remixes, exclusive tracks, …
TRACK: Phoebe Bridgers releases EP of orchestral reversions; hear ‘Kyoto’
LA’S lovely Phoebe Bridgers releases a new four-track EP, Copycat Killer, on Dead Oceans on December 4th; it features all-new recordings of songs from her critically acclaimed album Punisher from earlier this year. She’s given them a different spin from the Punisher versions, pulling them away from their adorable lo-fi roots and towards a cinematic, …
See: Magon releases new video for Aerodynamic
Following on from the much lauded ‘Change’ that came out in October, Magon has released a new single out – Aerodynamic, ahead of the the Paris based Israeli singer-songwriters forthcoming ‘Hour after Hour’ album, due out on January 29th, 2021. Mixing up psychedelia and garage, Magon floats through styles and time signatures, these deliciously gluey …