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Album Review: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Returning with more collective style indie-pop are sometime Pitchfork darlings of the noughties “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah”. Alec Ounsworth and associates are back, with their fifth album “The Tourist”. Initial impressions being that it’s a touch funkier than before, “Am I The pilot or Am I the Tourist?” is a particularly strong opener, …
See: Blonde Redhead release video for Golden Light
New York trio Blonde Redhead already have an impressive cannon of work, and they’re about to add to it with the release of their latest EP, 3 O’Clock, the bands first new music since 2014’s Barragán. From it the band have released a new video from it, for the EP’s single ‘Golden Light’. The track …
Track: Boss Hog – Formula X
It’s been a good old while since we had new material from New York garage noise band Boss Hog – aka Christina Martinez and her husband Jon Spencer, but they’re back with Brood X, their first new album for 17 years, out on March 24th via Bronze Rat Records. AS Christina explains “There are different …
Track: A Tree Grows – Wau Wau Water
New York’s A Tree Grows have streamed Wau Wau Water, the first single from the bands debut self-titled EP. An album, through Rufftone records, is also on the way sometime next year. Blending together elements of afrobeat, rock and experimental music, while retaining at its core Jazz, the band features some of the most talented …
Track: Von Sell – Miss Me
Miss Me is the new single from New York electro-pop artist Von Sell, taken from his self-titled EP, which is out this month, and follows on from the much lauded ‘names’, which hit #1 in the Hype Machine charts. The son of Israeli singer Esther Ofarim and German filmmaker Philipp von Sell, his destiny was …
Say Psych: Album Review, Drakkar Nowhere.
One of the most instant tracks that I have heard this year has been Drakkar Nowhere’s ‘Higher Now’. I instantly put it on one of my playlists, and hoped that it would be representative of the album as a whole. That was nearly two months ago and the fear, of course, was that something that …
Track: Cymbals Eat Guitars – 4th of July, Philadelphia (Sandy)
Taken from their forthcoming new album, Pretty Years, due out in September, is the new single – ‘4th of July, Philadelphia (Sandy)’ from New York quartet Cymbals Eat Guitars. Preceeded by the lead single from the record ‘Wish’, the album is the follow up to 2014’s Lose, and was produced by John Congleton. 4th of …
Say Psych: Album Review, Inner Journey Out by Psychic Ills
This is Psychic Ills first release since ‘One More Time’, one of my favourite albums of its time and one that helped me cement my love of all things ‘psych’. It was an album that had a beautifully lugubrious approach, so laid back yet with some real bite too it. ‘FBI’, in particular is a …
Trackc: Lucian – Forever (feat. Remmi)
New York producer Lucian has just released the title track from his upcoming EP, Forever. He’s turned once again to Nashville singer Remmi to collaborate on the track, and it’s a real synth-dance-pop winner. Right from the off, Lucian drops these huge synth chords, often off-kilter and off-beat, and almost always embellished with little tumbling …
See: As Days Fade release lyric video for “I don’t want you”
Talking of their new track, I don’t want you – New York metallers As Days Fade say “The main message behind [the track] is knowing you’re in a bad relationship and having the strength and courage to step out of your comfort zone and say “you aren’t the one for me, you are hurting me …