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Track: Einstürzende Neubauten return with haunting new track ‘La Guillotine de Magritte’ and news of more gigs in 2021
It’s been a busy and productive year for the eternally brilliant Einstürzende Neubauten, with a slew of singles from their shining album ‘Alles in Allem’ released during the darkest periods of the COVID crisis this year after a 13 year break. And now a new single, ‘La Guillotine De Magritte’. A fine way to celebrate …
Rising: Meet Gillie and hear her single, ‘Leaving Alone’
GILLIE is a young guitar pop talent. Originally hailing from Wales, she moved east to London to study and began plying a folky craft which began to take on more electronic elements before arriving at the pristine pop/indie groove you can hear on her latest single, “Leaving Alone” (you’ll find it down there at the …
EP REVIEW: Quiet Marauder – ‘Tiny Men Parts’: a critique of the male condition in bounce-along indiepop
Tiny Men Parts nails masculine creepiness and ineptitude with insouciance and tons of guitar pop like they used to make
ALBUM REVIEW: Dark Sparkler – ‘Are You With Me Or Against Me?’: fine modular retrotronica
If you’re a fan of a real exploration of retro synthesisers and the beauty they bring, like soundscapes with atmosphere and depth that stay edgy and have bags of ambience without, y’know, being ambient per se, Are You With Me Or Are You Against Me? could be just the album for you
PREMIERE: The Ricos – ‘What Comes Next?’: the big question posed as a righteous noise-pop surge
RISING Philadelphia indie outfit The Ricos, who we last touched base with on these pages when we took a look at and really, really liked their Spirit State EP back in high summer, are back with a cracker of a new single, “What Comes Next?” which they’re releasing this Bandcamp Friday. We’re delighted to be …
ALBUM REVIEW: Lee Fields & The Expressions – ‘Big Crown Vaults Vol.1 – Lee Fields & The Expressions’
BIG CROWN. Big. Crown. Roll that collocation of words around your mouth; if you’re a real music lover, you know these guys, Leon Michels and Danny Akalepse, are indeed proper royalty for the love, the care and the level of curation they bring to such a fine stable of artists: The Shacks, Lizette & Quevin, …
ALBUM REVIEW: Skinshape – ‘Arrogance Is The Death Of Men’: chilled guitar odysseys
Arrogance Is The Death Of Men is such a different creature to Skinshape’s last, Umoja. It’s got that guitar thing going that Will does so wonderfully; lyrically, you can hear the catharsis of this year, the trials and tribulations. It’s a lovely record full of emotion and guitar that helps usher in the end of this year. Win.
TRACK: Sturle Dagsland – ‘Harajuku’: the new prince of intense, avant-garde pop
DO YOU remember the first time you heard The Sugarcubes, Sigur Rós? How music seemed to have subtly recombined in weird and exciting new ways that spoke of another direction? Maybe, like me, you’ll have the that same kinda bright-rush when you hear the music put together by Sturle Dagsland. He’s just released a track …
TRACK: Bastian Benjamin – ‘Threshold’: bright, organic ‘tronica
EXPERIMENTAL audio-visual producer Bastian Benjamin, born and based in the small city of Deventer, in the Netherlands, some 100km east towards the German border, has just dropped the bright, organic, atmospheric sweep of “Threshold”, the final single he’s releasing ahead of his next album, Two Truths, which will be with us in the first week …
TRACK: Mandrake Handshake – ‘Gonkulator’: Oxford dectet debut the new acid
THEY may be one of the most populous bands you’ve seen this side of My Life Story and The Polyphonic Spree in their pomp – but Oxford psych dectet Mandrake Handshake breathe new and trippy life into that old adage: the more, the merrier. They’ve signed on the dotted for cult British indie imprint Nice …