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Album Review: Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Perform the compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann: weird and wonderful nu-jazz connections.
You know the crusty old adage ‘it’s a small world’, well tired as it might be it still has resonance for musicians. Take L.A. underground experimenters Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann, they go back a long way. Meeting as students at USC music school, bass playing, multi-instrumentalist Wilkes and keyboard-centric Mann have been crossing musical …
New Track/Video: Old friends/nu-jazz- Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann announce collab album ‘Compositions’ with synth funk bubbler ‘Dr T’
What is genre? Is it a help or a hindrance to the maker and listener? LA’s pioneering label Leaving Records have an answer, flying with the strapline pun ‘Genre All’ and nuturing a catalogue that swerves definition, wide ranging in tone but unified by the drive to experiment whatever the starting points. Now comes news …
Premiere – Affiliate Links reveals ‘Walk on Water’ from debut album ‘Enough Light’ – punchy power pop from a fresh perspective.
You may have already caught ‘Baby’s Changing Stations’ the first trailer to Affiliate Links’ debut solo album ‘Enough Light’ (available via We Are Busy Bodies from 9th September). A yearning lo-fi jangle with a Go-Betweens flourish that captured the memorabilia of indie-kid days gone by, it was a song that looked back but carried you …
Premiere – Affiliate Links previews debut album ‘Enough Light’ with ‘Baby’s Changing Stations’ – heartfelt indie memories revisited and revived.
After a decade with Toronto based post-rock noise-stretchers ‘Fresh Snow’, Bradley Davis a.k.a. Affiliate Links recognised the need to re-frame things. Looking back to this time last year he recalls feeling “…compelled to make music filled with words and free from the red tape that can go along with a band”. Taking advantage of the …
Track/Video: Patrick Watson unveils an exquisite video to welcome his ‘Better In The Shade’ album
Patrick Watson is an extraordinary musician – seven albums in and the Canadian singer-songwriter’s delicate melodic tapestries never wear thin. Following 2019’s ‘Wave’, an album of shimmering majestic orchestral pop balladry, comes the announcement of the follow up on Secret City Records ‘Better In The Shade’, available to the digital universe now and in tangible …
See: Empath’s ‘Diamond Eyelids’ is a dose of squally, knockabout, lo-fi fun
FRESH from a whole buncha dates criss-crossing the States in the company of Modest Mouse, Philadelphia’s cutely noisy foursome Empath have got all the feels extended for a new album. That album is entitled simply Visitor, and will be out just short of Valentine’s day next year on Fat Possum. Need more precision with your …
Track: Dominic Wolf brings a fine indie- electronica wonkiness out to play with ‘Fool’
HAILING from the buzzing East London scene, Dominic Woolf is on a mission to seduce with a kaleidoscopic approach to a hazy leftfield indiepop, as you can hear on his new single, “Fool”, which we’ve got for you below. Beginning in an up-close, confessional US alt.rock, all acoustic guitars and wayward vocal melodies, in which …
Track: Paper Birch – ‘Love For The Things Yr Not’: Fergus from Urusei Yatsura’s new duo drop a deliciously Velvetsy lo-fi noise-country outing
PAPER BIRCH is the new experimental lo-fi brainchild of Fergus Lawrie, founder member of cult Glaswegian indie rock scourers Urusei Yatsura (check the low-slung brilliance of “Fake Fur”), and Dee Sada, elsewhere of London experimentalists NEUMES and An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump. The two seekers found each other as everything kinda …
See: Werewolf Hair – ‘Snipe’: blasting outta VA with the righteously dirty lo-fi stoner garage blues
WELCOME aboard ship Andy Godwin, the player of both straight and pedal steel guitar, born in the collegiate city od Ann Arbor, Michigan, but these days based deeper into the hills of Virginia. His lycanthropic locks are ready and waiting to welcome you into his musical world, which door he’s opening today with the razor-sharp, …
SEE: California COMEDOWN by Geno Carrapetta
Full of reminiscence and nostalgia for an epic Californian road trip, making memories on the beach.