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See: Frankie Cosmos reveal new video for Windows
Frankie Cosmos have announced their fourth studio album, ‘Close It Quietly’. Recording close to home — at Brooklyn’s Figure 8 Studios— grounded the band. ‘Close It Quietly’ is a continual reframing of the known, taking the band’s trademark micro-universe and upending it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that’s a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and …
See: Dead Slow Hoot release new video for ‘An Island Keen to Float’
Dead Slow Hoot have released their new video ‘An Island Keen To Float’. Hailing from Sheffield, the 4-piece released their debut album ‘No Reunions’ earlier this year – a post-punk influenced album, that strides between gripping melodies and ferocious bursts of discordant noise, whilst drawing on influences from electronica, shoegaze, and rock. ‘An Island Keen …
Album Review: Ardentjohn – Malin Head
Ardentjohn provide the perfect summer mix of sunshine and showers on their poignant new album Malin Head. Although the band was originally formed in Edinburgh, the members of Ardentjohn – Mark Abbott (lead guitar), Seth Marron (drums/percussion), Keiron Mason (vocals/guitar), Alan Shields (vocals/bass) and Linda Tym (cello/vocals) – now hail from all over. Maybe its …
Track: Spoon – ‘No Bullets Spent’
Austin’s rockers, Spoon, have released the band’s first new song since 2017’s acclaimed Hot Thoughts. ‘No Bullets Spent’ has Spoon’s signature sound stamped on the track immediately while silmultanesouly taking things in a new direction. It’s lazy, lounge-funk, full of warmth and almost that Beta Band fuzz that’s so attractive ‘No Bullets Spent’ is taken from …
Track: Goo Goo Dolls return with new single ‘Miracle Pill’
Multi-platinum, four-time GRAMMY-nominated rock band Goo Goo Dolls have unveiled their new single ‘Miracle Pill’ today via Warner Records. The track will be featured on the band’s brand new album of the same name set to be released this autumn. A definite new sound to the Goo Goo Dolls, a sinister yet powerful ballad of sorts and a welcome return …
Album Review: Sonic Youth – Battery Park, NYC July 4th 2008
It may not be a new release, but Sonic Youth’s show at Battery Park, NYC on July 4th 2008 is out now commercially and is a document of a band at their very height of its power. At one point, when trying to work out who starts one of the tracks, Thurston Moore echoes Lee …
Not Forgotten: The Duckworth Lewis Method – The Duckworth Lewis Method
While concept albums about cricket may not be the most obvious career move, The Duckworth Lewis Method seemed to be just the project that The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon and Pugwash’s Thomas Walsh needed at that point in their respective careers. While Divine Comedy had enjoyed their commercial heyday as the 20th Century closed, their …
See: Night Beats reveal
On the back of the release of Night Beats perform the Sonics’ ‘Boom’, their Record Store Day album that dropped digitally last week via Heavenly Recordings, the band have released a new video for ‘Let the good times roll’. Full of echo, and oozing with funk along with plenty of scratchy guitar lines, there’s enough …
Track: Friendly Fires – Silhouettes, Plus Album News
Friendly Fires have distilled the sounds of summer for new track ‘Silhouettes’ and now share details of their eagerly awaited third album. It’s been eight years since the release of their epic and glorious second album Pala and I had long ago come to terms with the fact that the band I had fallen in …
EP: Egyptian Blue – Collateral Damage
I had the pleasure of seeing Egyptian Blue for the first time at Portsmouth Psych Fest 2019 back in May, and they really made a great impression on me; tight as anything, passionate, and with a real sense of abrasive post punk urgency. This eagerly awaited EP continues to favour those first impressions, and with …