Polydor Records
Track: Emir Taha – Astigmat
Brixton based Turkish artist Emir Taha has shared his new single ‘Astigmat’, out now on Polydor Records. Taken from an upcoming project due this spring, ‘Astigmat’ continues his knack for combining Anatolian psychedelia with the bump and grind of South London. The verses are sung in his mother tongue and the choruses in English. ‘Astigmat’ is a song about inner conflict, …
Track: Emir Taha – Uzak Dur
Brixton based Turkish artist Emir Taha had shared his new single ‘Uzak Dur’, out now on Polydor Records. The song’s title translates to ‘stay away’, and in Taha’s words is about “feeling fully consumed by your surroundings”. Taha explains: “not having a single drop of energy to find out what exactly is making you feel bad so you can start acting …
News: Crawlers release new track ‘Hang Me Like Jesus’
Hotly tipped rockers CRAWLERS today share new track ‘Hang Me Like Jesus’ via Polydor Records. It is the latest track to be revealed from the Merseyside natives debut mixtape “Loud Without Noise” which is set for release on November 4th. ‘Hang Me Like Jesus’ sees CRAWLERS singer Holly Minto exploring the grief she felt at the end of a relationship while struggling with her own …
Album Review: YELLO – Point
Swiss duo Yello are a hive of contradictions and conundrums. Before starting the band in the late seventies, singer Dieter Meier was already a millionaire, Boris Blank had no formal musical training and was a truck driver. They consistently deliver nothing short of sonic excellence, yet are never mentioned in the same breath as Kraftwerk. …
Track: James Blake – Are you even real?
With co-writes from Starrah, Ali Tamposi alongside himself, Are you even real?, the new track from Grammy award winning singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer James Blake certainly has the buzz. Written as part of Apple’s global ‘Behind the Mac’ campaign it comes off the back of Blakes recent fourth album ‘Assume Form’, which has currently clocked …
Track: Paul Weller – The Village
Paul Weller’s discography of the past decade has glided across new territories, from the synth-laden, Amorphous Androgenous-enlisting experimentation of “Saturn’s Patterns”(2015), to the primal heartbeat of acoustic record “True Meanings” (2018). 2020’s “On Sunset” looks to be a continuation of this, but with Weller sourcing as much from the past as the future, with new release “The Village” presenting a hazy wall of joy. Even more recently, Weller has invited fans …
Track: HAIM – I Know Alone
Californian sisters HAIM are gearing up for the release of their forthcoming album ‘Woman In Music Pt.III’, out on June 26th via Polydor Records. From it the band have released a new single ‘I know alone’. “’I Know Alone’ was always going to be the next song we released, but it feels eerily appropriate given …
See: Glass Animals release new video for ‘Dreamland’
Despite being, as we all are pretty much, confined indoors, Glass Animals have revealed their third studio album ‘Dreamland’ is out on July 10th via Polydor Records. From it they’ve released a new video for the title track, the follow up for much lauded recent single Your Love (Deja Vu), showing that this promises to …
Classic Compilation: The Wonder Stuff – If the Beatles Had Read Hunter… The Singles
It can’t have been easy to have been a former member of The Wonder Stuff in the mid to late 90s, witnessing much watered down variations of their patented guitar-pop sound take an iron-grip on the album and singles charts. If only they could have hung for twelve more months, one more album, one interview …