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Premiere: ‘JFC’, this new Day Joy song is good; new album this year
Succinctly capturing the national mood with the title of their new single and the album it’s taken from, Austin-based band Day Joy (led by Michael Serrin) make it two singles in not even a month with ‘JFC’, which pairs up with last month’s ‘Parking Lot Astronautical’ as the first brace of singles from the band’s …
PREMIERE: Parris Mitchell embraces his flaws on rollicking new single ‘i never said i’m perfect’
Oh boy, this is good. Say hello to Parris Mitchell; he’s from New York, and he’s got form. Not only did he release a self-titled debut EP last year, he opened his 2022 account with the vibrant ‘Super Power’ in February. At the time, he hinted there was more where that came from, and while …
See: Austin ‘gazers Letting Up Despite Great Faults drop the easy glide of ‘Corners Pressed’ – come see the lyric video
HAILING from Austin, that Texas city which is the home of SXSW, shoegaze four-piece Letting Up Despite Great Faults have stretched, arisen and are back in the game with gusto after long years away. The collective of vocalists and guitarists Mike Lee and Annah Fisette, bassist Kent Zambrana and drummer Daniel Schmidt, whose last album …
See: The lyric animation for All The Luck In The World’s ‘Waves (Poem)’ ahead of their third album
IRISH folk-pop trio All the Luck In The World have just announced that, nearly three years in the making, their third album will be with us very soon; and they’ve dropped a first single, “Waves (Poem)”, the line-drawn lyric animation for which you can watch below. The album’s entitled How The Ash Felt and encompasses …
See: Lightning Bug bring the ‘gazey languor on ‘Song Of The Bell’ and its spacey lyric video
LATE in August 2019 – more innocent days, hey? – Lightning bug singer Audrey Kang could be found hiking along the windy coastline of Washington state. The trip marked a bit of an escape, a reset, following a cyclical conclusion: the end of an affair, and of a job. Time to get away and resdiscover. …
Track: Eädyth – ‘Inhale & Exhale’: Valleys soul talent arrives on Libertino with words of wisdom
COMING down valley from Merthyr to sign for Cardiff’s Libertino Records, Welsh-English electro-soul singer Eädyth has just dropped her first single for her new label, the languorous, conscious groove of “Inhale & Exhale”; a song that lets us know for we should sit up and pay attention on two fronts. Firstly, that a new British …
See: The Holy Family explore the ergot journey of ‘St Anthony’s Fire’ in a pastoral drone-folk incantation
THE HOLY FAMILY – the smoke-draped, deeply psychedelic collaborative outfit on Rocket Recordings, helmed by David J. Smith of Guapo and Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, abetted in the journey furthur by fine crew members such as Cardiacs, Gong, Knifeworld and The Utopia Strong man Kavus Torabi; Emmett Elvin and Sam Warren, also of Guapo, …
See: The Spanish lyric video for the otherly beauty of Oneohtrix Point Never & ROSALÍA’s drifting ‘Nothing’s Special’
IT ALL began with a few casually posted photos on socials, showing Barcelonian cantante ROSALÍA in the studio with first posted casual studio photos with Daniel Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never. That cranked the rumour mill into action, even Rolling Stone getting involved in what might be coming from the pair in fusion. …
See: The lyric video for the flute-punk rush of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Barbara’
WE LOVE them, you know; TEKE::TEKE, the Montrealais-Japanese septet who formed initially for a one-off tribute show to Japanese king of the surf guitar Takeshi Terauchi, and who have since delighted us en route to their debut album for Kill Rock Stars with the cinematic panache of “Kala Kala”, the heavy chaos and psych propulsion of …
See: The lyric video for psych-pop songwriter Barnaby Keen’s ‘Lay Our Cards’
LET’S welcome to the grand pantheon of recorded music a debuting (at least solo) songwriter and a new label: firstly Barnaby Keen, who has, on the evidence of “Lay Our Cards”, a nicely whimsical take on the psych-pop troubadour form, taking some of the quirky delirium of the post-Carnaby Street comedown vibe and giving a …