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Track: T. G. Shand’s new single ‘The Ease’ is a glorious, woozy, shoegaze delight
‘The Ease’, the new single from T.G. Shand, is an immersive and dreamy soundscape with a shoegaze sheen and a dream pop glimmer. It is absolutely fantastic. T.G. Shand is actually the solo work of Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label). This …
NEWS: Alex Tucker announces new MICROCORPS project and album; hear ‘XEM’, feat. Gazelle Twin
MICROCORPS is the new project from Kent artist and sound venturer Alex Tucker, better known to those of us who venture experimentally in our music by the fuller, more formal version of this name; as a member of Grumbling Fur, of Imbogodom, &c – and it’s a project which intends to explore electronics, cello and voice. …
TRACK: Amava – ‘Just Fine’: from Oregon to Nashville with a clutch of pure pop
AMAVA found herself not quite part of the gang after a move to Oregon early in her teenage years, for a slower pace of familial life; try as she might, she just couldn’t fit in. Hiding behind an extrovert facade, she struggled to find true expression and turned to music – fashioning those anecdotes into …
Track: Aussie indie stalwarts Children Collide return with the psychedelic track Trampoline and announce tour and album
Melbourne’s Children Collide are a solid piece of the furniture in the house of indie rock in Australia, producing some of the most enjoyable indie rock/pop over the last ten or so years. They have just announced the welcome news of a new album, the return to the live circuit and the release of a …
TRACK: Pictish Trail – ‘Dream Wall’: hushed loveliness from the dream state
JOHNNY LYNCH who, besides running the dependably excellent Lost Map Records (which, being based, for most of us, up there on the Hebridean island of Eigg, isn’t lost from the map but rather merely quite close to the edge of it) fashions hushed musical atmospheres wearing his Pictish Trail hat, has got a new EP …
ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Stone – ‘Stone’: Maine psych-folk nugget sifted and reissued
Drag City dig deep, strike fortune: Bill Stone’s album rings down the decades and it’s really sweet. Sure it’s a little rough ’round the edges, but that’s absolutely part of the charm; you can hear these songs live and breathe, the actual moment of their realisation. Real and delightful
ALBUM REVIEW: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘New Fragility’: raging at the state we’re in
On New Fragility, Alec Ounsworth looks at the state we’re in and calls it like he sees it; rage and horror is articulated with poetry and precision and more often than not with you being able to sing along with abandon
Track: KAI CULT lights a fuse with ‘Cigarette Burns’
With a frenetic pace tilting along at full speed, Melbourne artist KAI CULT‘s new single ‘Cigarette Burns’ is energetic, unhinged and absolutely satisfying. Like a masked antagonist careering through the night with a chainsaw, the music slashes and burns under the band’s disturbed, yelping, laconic vocals. It’s controlled chaos, utterly cathartic with a genetic connection …
TRACK: Vetle Nærø – ‘Waves’: 7K! sign excellent young Norwegian solo pianist
BERLIN’S 7K! imprint, the ambient and modern compositional flipside to legendary dance label !K7, has signed a really rather gorgeous new pianist talent, Denmark’s Vetle Nærø – and he really is a cut above the studious solo masses, his music coming from the heart and full of nuance and absolute appreciation. You can hear that …
TRACK: Death By Unga Bunga – ‘White Lies’: one final power-punk blast before the album
COMING atcha from their roots as an actual, proper, garage punk band – they formed from auditions held in guitarist Sebastian Ulstad Olsen’s garage, what’s not to like? – Norway’s power punk five piece Death By Unga Bunga have shared one final, super-infectious nugget on the trail blazing towards their album, Heavy Male Insecurity, which will …