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TRACK: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Blessings’: where acoustic postrock meets Tibetan chant
2020, eh? As it wearies on, the need for music, the need for the good things, for stillness, to find our own thread to follow through it all, becomes ever more necessary. An album, then, as much 2020 as it perhaps 1968 is the forthcoming album on Drag City from Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim …
TRACK: Paradise Cinema – ‘Possible Futures’: exhilarating Afro-ambience
JACK WYLLIE, the musician best known to those of us with a deep and abiding penchant for the leftfield, the beautiful and the widescreen as a member of The Portico Quartet, has announced a new solo project under the nom-de-musique Paradise Cinema, a full album under which alias will be out on October 9th. Paradise …
SEE: Still Corners’ ‘The Last Exit’: Joshua Tree mystery preludes January album
STILL CORNERS have released the first song from their forthcoming fifth studio album, due for release on January 22nd, 2021. The title track “The Last Exit”, for which we’ve embedded the video below, is available now on all platforms. The musical project of Greg Hughes and Tessa Murphy, the group formed after a chance meeting …
SEE: XIXA – ‘Genesis Of Gaea’: desert rock groove with superstition announces Tucsonians’ second
TOTING a very fine line in dusty, Latin American/goth/soundtrack-informed desert rock and coming atcha out of Tucson, Arizona, men in black XIXA are ready to roll out the follow-up to their fine 2016 LP, Bloodline. It’s called Genesis, it’s suited and booted and ready for release on February 19th next year; but shield your eyes …
Premiere: The Finalists – ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)’
We are proud to premiere the debut single ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone’ from yet another talented bunch of Sydney musicians, The Finalists. Sydney is fertile ground indeed at the moment for a particular style of extraordinarily talented inner city bands of, shall we say, a more mature vintage. Whether it be bands …
TRACK: Hear Vaughan’s ‘BitCrushed’: downtempo electropop concerning the pains of love
THOMAS HARVEY is a young English singer-songwriter bringing alt.pop grace and intelligence to his songwriting as a voice for the young UK queer community. He’s not afraid of a downtempo melodic pop number shot through with piercing lyrical precision, as demonstrated by his latest single, the empowered but regretful lament of “BitCrushed”. Take a listen …
TRACK: Leron Thomas’s ‘Endicott’: outrageously leftfield P-funk
LERON THOMAS – the man who oversaw last year’s LP Free for a certain James Newell Osterberg (OK, OK … Iggy Pop to me and thee) has come out from behind the faders to carve some pretty immaculate leftfield funk grooves. He’s dropped a new and seductive quirky thang for Lewis Recordings, “Endicott”, on which …
SEE: Slow Pulp – ‘At It Again’: a Chicago fuzzpop cracker
SLOW PULP are a band who’ve been around the block – in a really, dreadfully short space of time. Don’t wish for the kinda year singer Emily Massey’s had. No, really: don’t. Things were very much on the upward curve for the young band, outta Wisconsin and Chicago-based – on tour with Alex G, gaining …
TRACK: Steph Richards – ‘Underbelly’: marvellous free jazz trails LP – with accompanying scents …
STEPH RICHARDS – the composer, free jazz trumpeter and bandleader who’s worked with artists as diverse as St Vincent, Yoko Ono and Anthony Braxton, knows a thing or two about how to envelop the senses. But for her new album, Supersense, she’s taking a step further into the multi-sensory, even the synaesthesic – working alongside …
See: Marveline release video for single ‘Turpentine’
Give your aural and ocular entry points a thorough cleansing with the fabulous new single ‘Turpentine’ from Sydney’s marvelous Marveline. This is a song so infectious you will need to self isolate a lot more than the mandatory fourteen days. This is off Marveline’s tremendous album ‘Savoury-toothed Tiger’ reviewed by me earlier this year, describing …