video
SEE: Ólafur Arnalds returns with the beautiful noir of ‘Back To The Sky’
IF YOU like your music to come with an architecture of gorgeously constructed post-classicism, an experimental and conceptual edge, yet still have enough presence in the world of contemporary pop that you can at least make the shapes of humming along to it, then Ólafur Arnalds is absolutely your man. The Icelandic composer, who found …
SEE: Paul Molloy – ‘My Madonna’: ’68 psych-pop finery
THEY get absolutely bloody everywhere, these Coral boys. Turn your back for so much as a second and another one of them has stepped out from beneath the psychedelic skirts of the main band to bring you their own personal set of finely crafted tunes. Drummer Ian Skelly brought us his second, Drifter’s Skyline, just …
SEE: Mountain Goats – ‘As Many Candles As Possible’: monochrome prophecies from their second of the year
PRODIGIOUS and fiercely loved East Coaster indie-folk outfit The Mountain Goats have announced their second album of 2020, Getting Into Knives, an album which they describe as “ … perfect … for the millions of us who have spent many idle hours contemplating whether we ought to be honest with ourselves and just get massively …
SEE: the glamorous and glittery new video for Erasure’s ‘Nerves Of Steel’
VINCE CLARKE and Andy Bell, better known to all and sundry as electropop legends Erasure, have just released the video for their latest single, “Nerves of Steel”: watch with us, below. The none-more-glamorous video clip features more than 20 LGBTQIA+ stars, including several best known for their appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Andy said: “This is …
NEWS: Andy Bell unveils solo LP – watch the video for the 12-string psych-pop monster ‘Love Comes In Waves’
NOT content to sit back with the recent release of his GLOK remix project, Dissident Remixed (read our review here), Andy Bell, blonde-locked Ride singer-guitarist, has chosen the day of his half-century on the planet in order to announce the release of his debut solo album, The View From Halfway Down, which will be released on …
SEE: Matt Costa – ‘Slow’: songwriting swoon full of doowop classicism
MATT COSTA is of that stripe of really gifted songwriters, like Liam Hayes (aka Plush), Andy Shauf, Patrick Watson, Eric Matthews, who quietly whittle away at some very classic songcraft and seduce those who come into their particular clearing in the songwriting forest. He’s following up 2018’s semi-conceptual set Santa Rosa Fangs – an album …
SEE: A Certain Ratio – ‘Yo Yo Gi’: fantastic funk futurism sees ACR in fine form; album and live stream
A CERTAIN RATIO have shared a new track, “Yo Yo Gi”, from their eagerly anticipated new album, ACR Loco – and it comes with a dazzling video; watch below. Culled and edited with visual distortion and colour casting from rapid transit systems, railway interchanges, road junctions, flickering at speed through timelapse, it’s a dizzyingly urban …
SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: Pennine baggy-psychesters waylay us again; album news
MOSSLEY – pronounced Mozzley – high up where the Pennines lurch high and wild, right out on the north-eastern fringes of Greater Manchester, has spawned a looming, mist-blurred collective known in whispers, from Delph to Dobcross, to beset weary travellers with hard and chaotic, baggy funk, lyrics chomped and spat, guitars sprawling, the better to …
SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Back From the Dead’: Ziggyesque glam-psych call to live here, now
IT COMES grooving in on an early glam kinda riff, that hook-laden chug you got in Bowie’s “Suffragette City”, bluesy and low-slung, propelling along on a fuzz guitar. Jeremy himself – for tis him; Jeremy Tuplin, suave psych-folkster who’s come up to town the better to ready himself for the launch of his new album, …
SEE: Sing Leaf’s ‘Easy On You’: wrap y’self inside indie-folk bliss
“THIS is the best song I’ve written, I think; real simple and clean,” says Sing Leaf’s David Como of the single he’s just released, “Easy On You”. “I wrote it while still living in the city [Toronto], an apartment in the trees near High Park. “People below us would howl and rage at each other …