Indie
News: Julien Baker announces Autumn UK and European Headline Tour
Fresh from supporting Belle and Sebastian on their UK tour, Julien Baker has announced a much awaited headline return to the UK and Europe in September. The dates will see the Memphis, Tennessee songwriter play her biggest shows to date, including O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on September 29th, alongside stops in Manchester, Glasgow, …
Track: Transistor Girl – Weak as I am
Weak As I Am is described as a minimalist sound allowing for Chris Drew’s soft melancholic vocals to ring out fully. Although the instrumentation may be sparse, it is far from minimalist. Inhabiting a world somewhere between Chris Isaak and the world of Twin Peaks, this is a truly gorgeous song in every sense of …
Live Review: Belle & Sebastian / Julien Baker – York Grand Opera House 20.03.2018
It’s a difficult one to objectively review Belle and Sebastian’s performance at York’s Grand Opera House. You see, me and Belle and Sebastian have missed each other constantly over the last twenty years (to be fair, I think its possibly quite a one sided thing, but bear with me) and the level of excitement when …
Track: The Go! Team – The Only Thing New is U Finding Out About it, plus summer tour dates
The Go! Team have shared “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It”, a brand new single following on from their acclaimed new album SEMICIRCLE (out now on Memphis Industries). Band leader Ian Parton explains the influences behind the upbeat and mostly instrumental track: “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About …
Track: Vital Idles – A Premise, plus album news and tour dates
For a conglomerate of art outsiders and aesthetes, Vital Idles are primitive, whimsically brutal. Sculpting a skeleton from a body already lean, there’s a thrilling minimalism that runs through every beat and strum, a sparseness that feeds Jessica Higgins’s surreal, oblique vocal delivery all the nourishment it needs. Along with the announcement of their debut …
News: Miles Kane announces 16 date May-July UK tour
Known for his exhilarating live shows, Miles Kane is back where he belongs, on the road playing 16 unmissable headline shows this summer including two shows at The Moth Club May 28th and 29th. ‘It’s been too long since I’ve been on stage” Miles says. ‘I cannot wait to get up and perform a high energy set with a couple of new bangers thrown in! …
News: The Goon Sax announce signing to Wichita Recordings / European tour dates
Wichita Recordings are delighted to announce the signing of Australian band The Goon Sax. The teen trio marry sublime indiepop with brilliantly human and brutally honest vignettes of adolescent angst delivered with personality, charm and heart-wrenching wonder. They will be heading to Europe for shows at the end of May, including dates supporting Frankie Cosmos, …
Album Review: Buffalo Tom – Quiet and Peace
“For this record, I wanted to show Chris and Tom Dave’s Woolly Mammoth Studios in Waltham, MA,” says Janovitz. “Dave is a local legend – founding the beloved Neighborhoods when he was a teenager and going on to play in the Replacements and Paul Westerberg’s solo band – he is a tremendously kind and gifted …
Album Review: Isle of Dogs – Original Soundtrack
While Wes Anderson’s visual style have been the primary calling card of his impressive career, an important secondary element has been the utilisation of great soundtracks and scores on his films. The soundtrack to Anderson’s latest film, Isle of Dogs, once again sees Alexandre Desplat do the lions-share of soundtrack duty. Desplat has been contributing …
Track: Freak Power – Hear My Call
Yes, it is. That Freak Power – of Turn On, Turn In, Cop Out fame (amongst others) are back for their first new music since 1999. It comes in the form of a new EP, United State, out on HipKit Records, impacting (I hate that word, but i’ll run with it for now) on 27th …