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SEE: the glamorous and glittery new video for Erasure’s ‘Nerves Of Steel’
VINCE CLARKE and Andy Bell, better known to all and sundry as electropop legends Erasure, have just released the video for their latest single, “Nerves of Steel”: watch with us, below. The none-more-glamorous video clip features more than 20 LGBTQIA+ stars, including several best known for their appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Andy said: “This is …
Track: Alexia Avina – Fit Into Released Through Lost Map’s Postmap Club Subscription.
A brand-new signing to Lost Map Records, Alexia Avina is an American singer-songwriter previously based in Montreal, now living in rural Massachusetts, whose heavenly music is rooted in ambient, folk and dreampop traditions. Alexia’s new single ‘Fit Into’ (b/w ‘Swampy’) is released at the end of July as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service. Her new album Unearth will be released on CDR, …
Track: Susanna releases the beautiful interpretation of Baudelaire’s poetry in ‘Burial’
Burial is the second single to be taken from the new album from Susanna, Baudelaire & Piano, out on September 11th via her own SusannaSonata label, and it sees the Norwegian artist tackle the poems of Charles Baudelaire (1821-67). The poet, an literary enfant terrible who suffered from disease most of his life, was a man who …
EP: Tommy Ashby Has Released A Rather Lovely EP ‘Everywhere Is Home’
Scottish singer-songwriter, Tommy Ashby, has released his three track EP ‘Everywhere Is Home’ out now via Wow and Flutter Records. Produced by the artist and double Grammy Award winning producer Sam Okell, ‘Everywhere Is Home’ includes the title track of the same name and previous singles ‘Blood Wolf Moon’ and ‘One Word’. The title track ‘Everywhere Is …
Track: Katy J Pearson Shares New Track ‘Fix Me Up’ To Go Along With New Album News
After a good few years of hard work Katy J Pearson is pleased to announce the news of her debut album, ‘Return’, which will be released on November 13th, 2020 via Heavenly Recordings. In celebration Pearson has also shared the addictive new track ‘Fix Me Up’ and its accompanying video. Speaking about about the track Katy said: “Quite an old song now, but it’s …
Album Review: Alanis Morissette – Such Pretty Forks In The Road
We Alanis Morissette fans are a patient bunch. It’s been almost exactly eight years since the release of her last album Havoc & Bright Lights. But whilst I class myself as a an Alanis super Stan (do the kids still say Stan?) I haven’t loved everything she’s ever done. It seems like she’s at her best …
Track: Snake Eyes – Don’t Worry
‘Don’t Worry’ is Snake Eyes very first single via Failure By Design Records. It was actually the very first song that Brighton-based vocalist and guitarist Jim Heffy wrote for the band “amongst a bunch of naff ones that never made the cut,” he admits. “It was short and to the point, had energy and felt like a good way …
EP: Ben Hobbs – Better Weather
The new EP from South London producer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Hobbs provides a perfect platform and stepping stone to this new great sounding artist. Out from 31st July, Hobbs has concocted a four-track EP titled Better Weather that is part soul, part synth but wholly wonderous. The lead off track ‘Own Arms’ is a great …
SEE: Sofie – ‘Georgia Waves’: elegant piano songsmithery
VIENNA’S Sofie Fatourechi has moved from behind the scenes at California’s ice-cool Stone’s Throw imprint to hog a little of the spotlight, with a very finely crafted album of sophisticated, wholly European pop, Cult Survivor, released in June. We reviewed it here, found much to love in the autobiographical, nuanced songcraft; we said of it: …
News: The Chills’ classic albums to be re-issued through Fire Records
It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of the New Zealand indie music scene ever since the heady days of the eighties, with the Dunedin music scene, spearheaded by the legendary Flying Nun Records, the explosive ingredient. And, at the head of the vanguard was, of course, the delectable The Chills. Fire Records …