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Track: Chris Liebing unveils the vocal techno euphoria of ‘Circles’, feat. Tom Adams
HIS CAREER behind the decks and in the studio, fostering the techno scene in his home city of Frankfurt, spanning its third decade now, Chris Liebing shows no signs of either losing his edge nor his acuity at a creating a banger. His new opus, Another Day, is out on Mute just a day more …
News: Spiritualized return with a new album and a tour for ’22; hear ‘Always Together With You’
ONE of the best bands you’ll ever commune with live should you get the chance, Spiritualized, are set to return in 2022 with a new album, Everything Was Beautiful, due for release in February on Bella Union. It’ll be their first in nearly four years (since 2018’s And Nothing Hurt). They’ve also dropped a first …
News: Penelope Isles’ second glorious album for Bella Union arrives this week – there’s an extensive UK tour, too
PENELOPE ISLES, the gorgeous Brighton via Cornwall and Isle of Man combo led by brother and sister Jack and Lily Wolter, have some rather excellent news for lovers of bright, nuanced shoegazey guitar pop; their second album, Which Way To Happy is out digitally this Friday, November 5th, with CD and cassette formats also up …
Premiere: The Burning Hell invite you to dishevelled folk-punk-funk party offshore with the ‘Bird Queen Of Garbage Island’
CRIKEY, it’s actually been 13 whole years now since the singular, wholly erudite, wonderfully articulate vision of Mathias Kom arrived in the wider world with that split 7″ with Jenny Omnichord – just one song to puzzle over and swoon for a little, “Grave Situation Part One” – a first cracking open of the door …
Track: Nova Scotia’s Century Egg pick themselves up and dust themselves down with the cutesy-punk thrash of ‘Moving On’
COMIN’ atcha out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, garage punksters Century Egg would have absolutely no qualms about leaving you for dead if you so much as cross ’em on the strength of this latest fizzin’ nugget, which they’ve dropped today. Boy/girl vocals, dirty devil-may-care guitars and a ‘Yep, I definitely so will survive’ lyrical self-pride …
See: Portland’s The Delines return with the sweet country-soul styles of ‘Little Earl’ from next spring’s album, announce European dates
PORTLAND’S The Delines, the combo based way up there in the north-east but who definitely have a little of the Memphis thing in their bloodstream, are all set to return with their third studio album in February next year. Today, with an easy, pretty fanfare, they’re pulling back the veil on what to expect with …
Track: With their remixes album, ‘Loco Remezclada’, just days away, A Certain Ratio reveal the electro finery of LoneLady’s rerub of ‘Bouncy Bouncy’
THE BAND which Andrew Weatherall once described as “one of this country’s most underrated”, but which, since last year’s triumphant ACR Loco are the very definition of vivacious, restless, supremely creative – in full renaissance – are but days away now from the release of Loco Remezclada, their long-awaited remixes album. They’ve revealed one last …
Track: Brighton’s Ditz decry the low-paid, daily grind on the howlin’ ‘Ded Würst’
SICK to the back teeth of your arse of a job, bare minimum on the table for you to break your back for? Jesus, ain’t it the way. We’ve all been there, all dug out the hell of that kinda job; and here’s the latest single from ragin’ Sussex quintet Ditz, themselves sick of the …
See: Cornish guitarsmiths Mildred Maude drop the video for the sweet noise arrow of ‘Chemo Brain’ – catch ’em on tour
CORNISH post-rock/shoegaze/post-rock trio Mildred Maude really are the coming men, with their first album for the excellent Sonic Cathedral out tomorrow and a tour to follow. The intersection of guitarist Matt, drummer Louie and bassist Lee is a bloody beautiful noise in the live arena and, it transpires, fully over the four tracks of their …
See: A Certain Ratio tease for their November remixes set with a Dan Carey take on ‘Down & Dirty’
THERE’S to be no rest for the wickedly, insistently, incisively funky: A Certain Ratio, with the deservedly acclaimed ACR: Loco (our review, here) and a slew of excellent postscriptual EPs under their belts this past year, paying tribute to Denise Johnson, Andrew Weatherall and just generally deep and insistent, exploratory funk listening – and a …