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Track: FEET get all bookish with the sweetly ragged guitars of ‘Library’ ahead of their August EP
NOW WHOLLY ensconced in what they call a ‘hive mind’ situation in North London, and with their new EP, Walking Machine, poised to be set free on a guitar-lovin’ public on August 6th, FEET today release the summery Noo Yoik fuzz melodies of “Library”, which we’ve got for you below. And a one-two-three-four … “”Library …
Track: Ailsa Tully announces an August EP for Dalliance and reveals tour dates; hear the lead single, ‘Greedy’
AILSA TULLY, the rising Welsh singer-songwriter who’s no stranger to these pages, has announced her new EP, Holy Isle, will be out mid-August on Dalliance Recordings, and has dropped the lead single, the complex, impressionistic indie rock of “Greedy”. Take a listen below. Holy Isle is, in essence, a break-up musically diarised with a difference; …
News: Yann Tiersen announces worldwide tour dates, including London’s legendary Roundhouse; watch the video for ‘Poull Boujer’ from August’s ‘Kerber’
BRETON composer Yann Tiersen has shared the mesmerising new video for “Poull Boujer”, the latest track he’s divulged from his August album for Mute, Kerber – you can watch that below; and announced details of a massive worldwide tour, beginning later this year in North America and coming to Europe in 2022. The dates include …
News: The Lathums release their full set from last month’s Sefton Park gig – hear the version of ‘Fight On’ from that day; there’s plenty of dates to come, too
IT MUST’VE been pretty full-on cathartic and emotional to have been at the UK Government’s Covid-relaxation test gig in the green surrounds of Liverpool’s Sefton Park on the first Sunday in May. Real, actual, open-air live music. And on that bill was Wigan’s absolute cutest, The Lathums, who got to play a ten-song set to …
News: Max Cooper to bring his stunning audio-visual experience to the Acropolis, and drops ‘Leaving This Place’ from his forthcoming ‘Maps’ EP
WITH what looks to be another absolutely essential, cartographically-inclined Maps EP out at midsummer, Max Cooper has today dropped a typically jaw-dropping short film – to call it a video is somehow to demean the scale and art of the piece, I feel – for one of that EP’s most outstanding tracks, “Leaving The Place” …
News: J. Zunz announces EU/UK tour dates for the winter
J. ZUNZ, the solo alias of Lorelle and The Obsolete’s Lorena Quintanilla, released her highly-praised second album Hibiscus on Rocket Recordings last year (also appearing on our list of 2020’s greatest albums) – utilising ominously stirring drone, interspersed with poetically and sparsely articulated, but incalculably cathartic vocals; with Krautrocky cycles of mellifluous synth adding bountiful miles …
See: SadGirl lament a broken love with ‘Goodbye Queenie’ and announce a west coast tour
WITH their debut album, Water, out now on Suicide Squeeze, Los Angeles’ SadGirl are inviting you to come join them in a world of intimate, no-messin’, old-school country, like it used to be; you just need an acoustic guitar, a microphone, plenty, plenty of reverb and a way with a tune. Maybe a broken heart, …
Bristol’s post-punk-rave scorchers Scalping drop ‘Empty Cascade’, announce a June EP and dates, including Squarepusher shows
BRISTOL’S groove-heavy post-rave, post-punk sound system scorchers Scalping are celebrating signing to Houndstooth with a first full EP drop next month; from which they wish to whisk you deep into their eternally strobe-lit 2am tent with a first reveal, “Empty Cascade”. Melt your mind below. The track, we’re told, is a mission statement, mixing the …
News: Daniel O’Sullivan, Richard Youngs and Alexander Tucker take over Dalston’s Cafe OTO for a three-night leftfield residency in August
WITH the first stirrings of regular gig-going just beginning to make itself felt, a welcome return of one of the things that really makes life bearable, lovers of the leftfield in and around the capital, take note that sui generis musician Daniel O’Sullivan – whose career to date has taken in everything from the deep …
Track: BC Camplight – ‘I’m Alright In The World’: Brian returns with a melodic mantra to guard against the dark and announces an extensive UK tour
HE’S BACK, with new melodies to entice, following last year’s Manchester trilogy-concluding album Shortly After Takeoff – an album embraced and drawn close by British music lovers; BC Camplight has opened his account for 2021 with the bright, loose, and melody-packed “I’m Alright In The World”, which you can watch the lyric video for, below. …