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TRACK: Crawford Mack – ‘A Love I Can’t Live Up To’
CRAWFORD MACK is back with a new single, “A Love I Can’t Live Up To”, following his brace of recent single releases, “Depends On Where You Stand’ and “Firing Squad” Again mixing his influences across the musical spectrum from jazz to pristine pop to classical, he’s once more crafted a song which is both effortlessly …
SEE: Quantic – ‘Theme From Selva’: vinyl to follow, Selva label comp announced
WILL HOLLAND, the Brooklyn-based, British-born musician who dazzles us with his absolute nous in a array of deeply danceable styles, has announced a twin celebration for the first anniversary of his imprint, Selva Records. He’s releasing a compilation looking back at the eclectic grooves he’s been producing in his long-dreamt of, handcrafted studio this year, …
TRACK: A Lily – ‘Slept Through The Storm’: complex minimalism for a dark time
JAMES VELLA is, like the rest of us, concerned with the horrifically dark period we’re living through right now: the anxiety, the mental privations. The storm. We all need to find a way through: on October 16th, under his recording pen-name A Lily, he releases an album advocating his complex and seductive musical approach to …
TRACK: Kid Acne – ‘Stand Tall’ / ‘Stay Golden’ (Hashfinger remix) – crisp lyricism from limited ‘Fresh To Death’ mixtape
SHEFFIELD’S Kid Acne is up in your (Ford Orion) grille with a fantastic new mixtape, featuring seven remixes from last year’s excellent Have A Word album for Lex. Fresh To Death is out digitally, sho’; but why settle for that when you can have the full dayglo pink TDK mixtape experience? He brings the fantastic …
TRACK: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: an eerie, dream-state blues
ADAM STAFFORD, Song, By Toad’s rather excellent Falkirk folk guitarist, has just released the title track of his forthcoming LP Diamonds of a Horse Famine for your delectation. And a very fine and atmospheric, dreamstate rattlin’ blues it is. Cop a listen below. It’s another track culled from a notebook of half-finished ideas that Adam …
TRACK: Jesse Markin’s ‘Stars In Your Eyes’ is shimmering Finnish folk-soul
JESSE MARKIN is your new favourite artist. Liberian born, Jesse was raised in Finland and was the only black boy in the village; he found escapism in American hiphop and television – the English language clicked with him more than Finnish. He released his debut album, FOLK, in 2019, which garnered him Newcomer of the …
TRACK: The Dawdler – ‘Crocodile’: a pristine guitar-pop thrill
THE DAWDLER – the brilliant North-East singer-songwriter known to friends and family as John Edgar – has today released a second song from his forthcoming debut EP Sign of Growth for his new home, Akira Records. It follows the heartbreak of last month’s “Lava Lamps”, the elegy for a lost friend which, with T-shirt sales …
SEE: Scrimshire – ‘Lost In Space And Time’ feat. Bessie: a honeyed British souljazz charmer
ADAM SCRIMSHIRE, who you might know better as a recording artist by his surname only; now there’s a chap who knows a thing or two about the groove. Not only is he co-founder of the excellent South London curators of the cool Albert’s Favourites, who’ve put out a slew of fine tunes from the likes …
SEE: HAAi’s ‘Bon Viveur’: an absolute banger from her new Mute EP
HAAI, the thrumming techno alias of Australian Teniel Throssell, has just dropped another video for a track from her excellent latest EP for Mute, Put Your Head Above The Parakeets. The video’s for “Bon Viveur”, which you can watch below, was created by Sensory Works uses elements of HAAi’s recently launched Instagram filter. She explains: “I worked …
TRACK: Palace Winter feat. Jason Lytle – ‘The Deeper End’: ‘Think Kraftwerk playing country’
SINGER-guitarist Carl Coleman and pianist-producer Caspar Hesselager are the musicians behind Danish-Australian duo Palace Winter; they’ve been plying a line in grand, intelligent pop since Waiting For The World To Turn, their debut album, back in 2016. They’ve readied the more synthy textures of their third album, …Keep Dreaming, Buddy, which they’ll be unveiling come …