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TRACK: Cian Ciaran feat She Drew The Gun – ‘Keep the Darkness Out’
HERE’S a cocktail recipe for a fine and refreshing musical draught. Take Louisa Roach, better known for her political-mod pop alter-ego She Drew The Gun, which she retired on the back of a final tour last year. Now mix her voice well through megaphone effects, and trickle in the squelchy electronic nous of a Super …
Track: Thrillhouse – Wild Child
It is with great delight we feature another single from that enigmatic and mysterious Brighton band Thrillhouse. This is the third in a set of highly impressive set of singles from a band that in terms of history is punching way above its weight. ‘Ready When You Are’ and ‘Lesser’ featured echoes of Talking Heads …
TRACK: Chappaqua Wrestling’s ‘Football’ shreds it like the Fannies
BORN into musical families, Brighton duo Chappaqua Wrestling – Charlie Woods and Jake Mac – knew exactly how to respond when the coronavirus swept a scheduled summer of festival appearances down the dumper: record, record, record. As appearances at fests such as The Great Escape and Truck Festival melted into infective impossibility, they cracked on …
DROPPIN’ KNOWLEDGE: TRACK: The Twilite Tone – ‘Do It Properly’
ANTHONY KHAN, the Chicago-based producer who has collaborated with Kanye and Gorillaz and produced longtime friend Common, is bringing his The Twilite Tone project to the world via the channels of the good people at Stones Throw. His latest single, “Do It Properly”, has been dropped by the label, and is available to stream and …
Track: San Cisco – Messages plus album news
Western Australia’s eternally stylistic San Cisco have just released another highly effervescent track – ‘Messages’ – and announced details of a new album entitled ‘Between You and Me’ due out on 4 September 2020. ‘Messages’ has a sixties Burt Bacharach vibe, and the sun-filtered bleached-out video matches the vibe with its yellow bright tones. It …
TRACK: Darkstar unveil remix 12″ with Loraine James cut
AIDEN WHALLEY and James Young, better known to IDM heads as Darkstar, have a proper work ethic. Not content to rest on the laurels of last month’s Civic Jams set, their fourth LP for Warp and fifth of their career, they’ve released a Loraine James’ mix of “Wolf” from the album as a teaser for …
TRACK: Magic Bronson are back and ‘Surfin’
LA’s scuzzed-up alt.pop duo Magic Bronson are back and “Surfin on your brainwaves” with the second single to be released ahead of their forthcoming LP. It’s a slice of West Coast psych goodness, coming at you in a wall of delay and bells and tremulous guitar, all MGMT’s leather-jacketed little bro. “It’s our time, it’s …
TRACK: Romare – ‘The River’: insistent, layered Ninja groove
A ROLLING broken beat steps forth, announces a swaying Afro groove. It’s joined by a stabbing piano figure that seems to pin the deep, oceangoing roll of the break, force it to take a new rhythmic shape; a little bassy snippet hints at 70s’ funk. The beat shifts again, gets more insistent. Layers of sourced …
Track: Vast Asteroid – Champagne Ambassadors
There has been an increasing number of references to the genre of spacegaze – a highly volatile concoction of shoegaze, psychedelia and dream pop. Vast Asteroid so describe themselves, and it is most appropriate. Their new single, ‘Champaign Ambassadors’, is a shimmering, glittering wall of noise – all reverb and chorus layered over guitars and …
TRACK: Come for a dip with Snow Coats’ ‘Pool Girl’
BURGEONING Oxford indie imprint Alcopop! Records – having recently secured the services of angular Bristol geniuses Home Counties – has brought another very fine little band into the fold in the shape of the Netherlands’ Snow Coats. The Dutch four-piece, who released their debut LP Take the Weight off Your Shoulders in 2018, will release …