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Track/Video : Scott Lavene releases new single ‘Waitrose Has Run Out Of Lobsters’ – a people’s pop anthem.
That seasoned purveyor of the short burst, lo-fi pop song Scott Lavene has just announced a new single ‘Waitrose Has Run Out Of Lobsters’, out on 7th March via London’s Nothing Fancy. The follow up to last year’s fine family homage ‘Prettiest Peach’, this supermarket name dropper once again crackles with Lavene’s sardonic wit and …
News: Paolo Nutini announced to play State Theatre, Sydney in April 2023.
Bluesfest Touring have announced the return of Paolo Nutini to Australian shores after an absence of eight long years, with the singer-songwriter often referred to as a superstar in waiting, to play at the State Theatre, Sydney this coming April. Touring his 2022 album Last Night In the Bittersweet, Paolo Nutini’s fans were brought to tears …
Album Review: Affiliate Links – Enough Light : poetic, powerful indie song-craft.
They may be best known for their excavation of long lost classics but, in their noble pursuit of ‘changing the world one record at a time’, Canadian label ‘We Are Busy Bodies’ also champion the new and undiscovered. Cue ‘Enough Light’ by Affiliate Links available from WABB, September 9th onwards. The album marks Bradley Davis …
Premiere – Affiliate Links reveals ‘Walk on Water’ from debut album ‘Enough Light’ – punchy power pop from a fresh perspective.
You may have already caught ‘Baby’s Changing Stations’ the first trailer to Affiliate Links’ debut solo album ‘Enough Light’ (available via We Are Busy Bodies from 9th September). A yearning lo-fi jangle with a Go-Betweens flourish that captured the memorabilia of indie-kid days gone by, it was a song that looked back but carried you …
Rachel Sermanni – ‘Travelled’: Scottish folk troubadour bares all and announces winter tour
WITH her new EP, Swallow Me, due out in the first days of June – an EP which lays bare with delicacy and courage her living through the arrival of her firstborn in a hugely uncertain world, with all the forethought and adaptations that brings – Rachel Sermanni has revealed the video for “Travelled”, the …
See: Rachel Sermanni – ‘Swallow Me’: graceful, spiritual and lighter than air, it’s the title track from her June EP
BRINGING new life into the world and fresh hope for a budding spring, Strathspey folkie Rachel Sermanni is all set to drop her first EP in what feels like too long, actually, too long; and she’s throwing up the windows on that forthcoming release with the bell-clear offering to the fates of “Swallow Me”, which …
Album review: Ryley Walker – ‘Course In Fable’: Chicago baroque-folk genius brings the prog to his latest dazzler
TROUBADOUR genius touched by the hand of the Tim Buckley, collaborator on some very fine albums, sole architect of yet other records that fall very much in that same category, and one of the funniest and most candid tweeters in music: Ryley Walker is all of these. He’s set to release his new solo album, …
News: Skullcrusher announces new EP ‘Storm in Summer’ and releases title track and video
If you were one of those who, like me, was totally mesmerised and enraptured by Helen Ballentine’s (aka Skullcrusher) gorgeous eponymous debut EP of last summer, then you will have been yearning for more ever since. Well, good news then, that the singer-songwriter has announced her next EP, entitled “Storm in Summer” and released its …
Track: Jordan Merrick – ‘This Rainy Day’: sweet Americana to curl up inside
BRISBANE folkie Jordan Merrick has capturing hearts a while now; and it’s a dead cert he’ll capture a few more with the warming campfire Americana of “This Rainy Day”, which is just a bit of a tune, actuellement, and which you can hear below. His After releasing his debut album Night Music in 2019, Jordan released a clutch …
Track: Ryley Walker’s ‘Axis Bent’ is a baroque and complex glory; his new album’s out soon
TROUBADOUR genius touched by the hand of the Tim Buckley, collaborator on some very fine albums, sole architect of yet other records that fall very much in that same category, and one of the funniest tweeters in music, Ryley Walker has just dropped a new track, “Axis Bent”, from his early April album Course In …