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Track: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Mainland
Inspired by a trip to his grandparent’s birthplace of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever guitarist Tom Russo describes their new single, Mainland’s genesis as “I was reading about a refugee crisis unfolding not far away in the Mediterranean Sea. The song is about longing, disillusionment, privilege and holding on to love …
See: Wolf Parade release new video for ‘You’re Dreaming’, plus European/US tour dates.
Taken from their much admired Cry Cry Cry album, which came out in October last year on the mighty Sub Pop label, Wolf Parade have released a Raymond Knight directed video for You’re Dreaming. Filmed live and in the studio, it has this late night TV vibe, and showcases the alt/indie bands incisive songwriting, as …
See: Moaning release new video for Artificial
Taken from the forthcoming self-titled debut album from Los Angeles post-punk three piece Moaning, due out on March 2nd via the legendary Sub Pop label, Artificial is a staccato, angular song, driven by the drums and given this sense of anxiety by the sourness of the guitar chords at the beginning, before the chorus -soaked …
Album Review : Metz’ ‘Strange Peace’
I will admit that I have a bit of a dude crush on the Canadian rock band METZ. There’s just something about their intense brand of noise rock/post-punk gumbo that gets me in the gut. It’s a kind of rush that comes with a special sort of experience. Maybe like jumping out of a plane, …
Track: Bully – Running
Bully send us hurtling towards the release of their second album with breathtaking new track ‘Running’. Listening to a new track from Bully always gets my heart pumping that little bit faster. So, it’s appropriate that the second single from their second album ‘Losing’ (to be released on 20 October via Sub Pop Records) is …
Album Review: GOAT – Requiem
Listening to GOAT’s new epic album Requiem one gets the feeling of coming across some strange, acid-drenched dance party in the Shire. Big-footed hobbits drinking goblets of homemade rastleberry wine as they succumb to the psilocybin-fueled hallucinations as the sounds of GOAT echo through Middle Earth. Requiem could also pass for the soundtrack to a …
Album Review: Morgan Delt – Phase Zero
The first thing that hits you on Morgan Delt’s excellent Sub Pop debut Phase Zero is the breezy, island sway of “I Don’t Wanna See What’s Happening Outside”. Vocals just shy of a whisper cascade along a mellow, shuffling rhythm with wobbling guitars, synths, and a prominent proper meaty bass line holding it all together. …
Say Psych: Album Review, Heron Oblivion by Heron Oblivion
Most of the albums that I post on here are of the variety that could be filed under the general term ‘difficult’. Not as in ‘difficult second album’, but as in ‘a difficult and challenging listen’. Nothing wrong with that, if a band have put in a lot of effort to come up with part …
Album Review: Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars
While I consider Beach House to be a special sort of band, I’d never consider then to be particularly prolific. This is a band that takes a good couple years in between albums in order to cultivate and organically grow a Beach House record. That sort of melancholy and malaise doesn’t just grow on trees(unless …
Album Review: Beach House – Depression Cherry
Did you ever hear an album that feels like an emotional punch in the gut? Something that squeezes your innards until you want to collapse into a puddle of overwrought, bawling mess on the floor? Sure you have. Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, and The Zombies have all done it to me in the …