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Album Review: Warm Digits – Flight of Ideas
Warm Digits, aka Newcastle multi-instrumentalist/producers Warm Digits have released a album that neatly squares their own adventures in synth-rock/house/psychedelic music with a host of collaborations including The Orielles, Paul Smith, The Lovely Eggs, Rozi Plain and Emma Pollock. Titled, appropriately enough, Flight of Ideas, it’s sees the band and their co-pilots blast of into this …
See: Warm Digits reveal new video for Better Friction, plus live dates
Warm Digits, aka Newcastle electronica duo Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis, have revealed the new video for Better Friction, taken from their recently released third album Wireless world, which dropped through the ever brilliant Memphis Industries. Of the track, Jefferis says “Better Friction” argues that no form of power or technology is without its own mythology. …
See: Eat Fast release new video for Immortal Kombat
Newcastle quartet recently released their new EP ‘Immortal Kombat’ via the Cannibal Hymns label, and on the back of their recently announced headline show at Sebright Arms on October 2nd, they’ve released some seriously psychedelic imagery to accompany the title track. Given that the track is a trippy, edgy, noisey take on garage-psych, its perhaps …
Track: Warm Digits Share “End Times” (Featuring Field Music)
Fans of Metronomy, Les Rhythm Digitales, Les Rythmes Digitales and Hot Chip will want to know that Warm Digits have shared new track “End Times” (Featuring Field Music). Warm Digits are Newcastle-based Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis). Now signed to a delighted Memphis Industries, their first emission is the track “End Times” incorporating neighbouring partnership …
Track: Little Comets – Common Things
Common things is the first track by Newcastle’s Little Comets to be taken from their forthcoming fourth album Worhead, which drops on 3rd February via The Smallest Label. On it, singer Rob Coles says “I suppose it is semi-autobiographical up to a point as I am quite a simple person and take more from the …
Say Psych: Album Review, New Cruiser by Blown Out
I finally saw Blown Out live earlier this year. Fuck they were heavy. The bass was so deep that not only was it slamming tsunamis of air against my chest, but causing drinks on the shelf around the venue to throw themselves onto the ground in a lemming-like frenzy as if trying escape what must …
Say Psych: Album Review, Failures by Khünnt
If you’re going to call yourself Khünnt then you are going to need to have a sound that somehow backs that up. In this case the band’s moniker acts as something of a gatekeeper for the Khünnt sonic experience. Basically if you are put off or offended by something called Khünnt, then you probably haven’t missed anything. If, …
Say Psych: Album Review, Supernormal 2015 Live Transmissions III by Blown Out
It’s not that long ago that I first became aware of Blown Out. I had been sent an email with a promo of last year’s ‘Jet Black Hallucinations’ album on it, and because it was the first release from Golden Mantra, the label run by Adam from Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs; I decided that …
Say Psych: Album Review, Temporary Infinity by Haikai No Ku
If you were to do a word cloud of my album reviews so far this year the words ‘dark’, ‘dense’, ‘intense’ and ‘dystopian’ would surely be writ large across it. With releases by such as Henge, Cavalier Song. The Oscillation and Pop. 1280 I am not sure whether there is a something in the air that is triggering such …
Track: Lanterns on the Lake – Faultlines
I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling that slight twinge of trepidation when one of your favourite bands releases new material – will it meet expectations or be a let down. Happily, I can report that it’s a definite case of the former from Newcastle quintet Lanterns On The Lake. I’ve been a fan since …