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News: As their debut EP, ‘M?’ hits the racks, Hampshire guitar ragers Mystic Peach announce tour dates
SOUTHAMPTON’S roaring guitar power trio Mystic Peach release their debut EP, the evocation of the dark side of the heart in loud, loud guitars that is M?, out today; and what’s more, they’re hitting the road, too, so you’ll be able bury your head in the bass bins to your heart’s delight. That EP is …
Track: With her British tour kicking off today, Frazey Ford drops the honeyed, spectral folk of ‘Saul’
WITH an eleven-date UK tour beginning this evening in Milton Keynes, former Be Good Tanya and ethereally transporting talent in her own right Frazey Ford has released a track recorded for sessions for U Kin B the Sun but whose omittance from the final running order will surely surprise you as much as it does …
News: Cambridge psych-folk explorers Fuzzy Lights announce UK dates for February
WITH their album Burials having been in out in the world a while now and receiving deserved praise for its exploratory shifts out of the genre from all quarters – we noted it as being “Way beyond folk and folk in essence all at once” (and you can read our full review here), Cambridge’s wyrd-folk …
See: Austin ‘gazers Letting Up Despite Great Faults drop the easy glide of ‘Corners Pressed’ – come see the lyric video
HAILING from Austin, that Texas city which is the home of SXSW, shoegaze four-piece Letting Up Despite Great Faults have stretched, arisen and are back in the game with gusto after long years away. The collective of vocalists and guitarists Mike Lee and Annah Fisette, bassist Kent Zambrana and drummer Daniel Schmidt, whose last album …
Track: Cousin Kula bring the chillwave jazz of ‘Something So Sweet’ from the banks of the Avon, with a debut album and dates soon
BRISTOL quintet Cousin Kula ply a line in woozy, chillwave jazz to bliss you out with sophistication, talent and a lazy groove – doubt them not and check out “Something So Sweet”, the first single they’ve dropped today from their debut album, Double Dinners, which is out in a fortnight. Vocalist and guitarist Elliott …
Track: Shilpa Ray drops the scathing and righteous ‘Bootlickers Of The Patriarchy’ – it comes with a Ministry cover on 7″
THE BRETT KAVANAUGH hearings, in which the Trump-nominated associate justice of the Supreme Court faced allegations of sexual misconduct from a trio of women, sent shockwaves across the nation; there was corruption, there were cover-ups, there were bad actors. Now, and within 24 hours, two American musicians concerned with the fallout and the implication for …
News: Hugar announce a new album, ‘Rift’, for January; come explore the delicate, glacial pulsing of ‘volt’
HUGAR, the Icelandic modern compositional duo of childhood friends Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson, who we last examined in these pages in regard to their arthouse film soundtrack The Vasulka Effect (read about that, here), are set to return in the first, budding days of 2022 with an album entitled Rift: an album written with …
News: Blues guitar legend Earl Slick falls ill, postpones UK dates
LEGENDARY guitarist Earl Slick, a man born to the guitar and the blues, who was due to embark on a dozen date tour of the UK at London’s Water Rats today, has made the difficult decision to cancel that tour in support of his recent album, Fist Full Of Devils, after being diagnosed with Lyme disease. …
Track: The Mother Hips bring country-rock warmth to the gas station discovery, ‘I Don’t Want To Drive You Away’ and announce tour dates
NIGH on thirty years now into their recording career – yep, Back To The Grotto came out waay back now, in ’92 – California’s country rockers The Mother Hips have just released their first cover in that entire ten, soon-to-be 11-album canon. It’s here for you now; it also features on the new set, Glowing …
See: With their album out today, Cali shoegazers The Acharis announce a French and UK tour; see the video for the whispery fuzz gem, ‘False Positive’
HAILING from California’s Bay Area, and more specifically Oakland for the precision buffs amongst you, The Acharis may just have made one of the darker shoegaze gems of the year with their new album, Blue Sky / Grey Heaven, dropping today The way Shaun Wagner and Mila Puccini combine vocally on recent single “False Positive” …