Joyful Noise
See: The lyric video for the cosmic Americana pop drop of Lou Barlow’s ‘Love Intervene’
WITH a first solo album in nigh on six years just cusping the horizon – it’s called Reason to Live, it’ll be out at the end of the month on Joyful Noise Recordings, and you can find out where to snag yourself a copy down at the end there – and following the chiming, heartfelt loveliness of “Over …
See: Helvetia – ‘New Mess’: Duster and Built to Spill’s Jason Albertini makes a righteous fuzz racket with an album to follow
TIME to get dirty and righteously fuzz-rocky, with a Swiss angle; Helvetia is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jason Albertini, exactly one third of San Jose’s Duster and bassist for the lovely Built to Spill from 2012 to 2018. Helvetia are releasing their tenth album and fifth for Joyful Noise, Essential Aliens on June 25th; by way of bringing that news to …
News: Lou Barlow set for a solo album in late May; see the video for ‘Over You’
NOTHING less than absolute royalty of the US alt.rock scene, Lou Barlow, formerly of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and Sentridoh, The Folk Implosion, is set to grace our ears with his first solo album in six years – and you can watch the video for the first single drop herein. That album, Reason To Live, will …
ALBUM REVIEW: El Ten Eleven – ‘Tautology’: ambitious, thrilling post-rock triple set from LA duo
YOU have to admire the scope and ambition of Los Angeles postrock duo El Ten Eleven, who are about to release their eighth full-length LP, Tautology, on September 18th. You certainly get a lot of bang for your buck. They’ve been releasing it bit by bit in the digital world for months now: Tautology I …
TRACK: El Ten Eleven – ‘Shimmered’: yearning and dynamic postrock from their upcoming triple
EL TEN ELEVEN have really pushed the boat out on their soon-coming latest, Tautology: it’s a massive, conceptual triple set, predicated on a disc each representing youth, middle, and old age. In fact, they’ve been dropping the album in thirds right across the year, with the stunning energy of Tautology I reaching our ears on …
Track: No Joy – Nothing Will Hurt and release lyric video
No Joy are back with Motherhood, their first full-length LP in five years. Here we bring you the second single off the record: a catchy, synthy, funky tune accompanied by a video that is as ready made for karaoke as it is a masterful display of 90’s clip art functionality. On first listen, “Nothing Will …
Feature: Ohmme give us an exclusive track by track of their new album Fantasise your Ghost
Out last Friday via Joyful Noise was the new album from the Chicago based duo of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, aka Ohmme. Called Fantasize Your Ghost, the album was the result of the pair spending more time on the road than in Chicago, and looking at the concept of home, as well as ideas …
See: No Joy release new video for Birthmark
Jasamine White-Gluz in her No Joy guise has announced a first fill-length album in 5 years, Motherhood, is to be released on August 21st via Joyful Noise, and she’s heralded the return with a single ‘Birthmark’ along with its video, available for streaming right now. Of the track, Jasamine says “In the studio I wanted …
See: Ohmme reveal new video / Single ‘Ghost’
Ohmme, aka Chicago duo Sima and Cunningham have released a new single and accompanying video ‘Ghost’, from their forthcoming album Fantasize Your Ghost, out on June 5th via Joyful Noise. It’s a joyfully scruffy, messy indie pop, with these beautiful harmonies in the vocals backed by wobbly synths and insistent piano/electronics, with this buzzsaw guitar …
See: Kidbug release new video for Together
Fusing together members of Eerie Wanda, Dumb Numbers, Best Coast and Shearwater, Kidbug make this almost heavy Grunge/alt-rock. Buzzsaw guitar lines permeate the latest single to be taken from their upcoming Self-titled debut album, out on May 22 via Joyful Noise, as it moves sedately along. Over the top there’s these ethereal harmonised vocals that …