Track: Yr Eira – Middle of Nowhere
Yr Eira have just released a delightful, thoughtful and dreamy single in the form of ‘Middle of Nowhere’ off their forthcoming album ‘Map Meddwl’ out on 15 May 2020 through I KA CHING. Beneath the hazy shimmering feel is a message where freedom from romantic entanglements is interweaved with a subtext of Welsh independence. Do …
See: Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles in Allem
In anticipation of their forthcoming album, ‘Alles in Allem’ (All in All) on 15 May 2020, legendary Berlin industrial band Enstürzende Neubauten have released an imperial and highly elegant video for the title track. Featuring the eminently theatrical and enigmatic front person Blixa Bargeld with spectacular eye make-up on organ, and black and white vignettes, …
Track: Prudence – Heart Sways
If you caught Australian act DMA’s brilliant live performance live at the Brixton Academy in the UK, streamed twice over the past few days, you might have noted bass player Tom Crandles modestly driving the rhythm at the back of stage. Crandles is in fact a talented multi-instrumentalist and songwriter in his own right and …
EP: Destrends – Wastelands
Destrends have produced an explosive post-punk EP that recalls an eighties Australian post-punk mentality epitomised by bands like Midnight Oil and Spy Vs Spy: vibrant, passionate and intelligent, danceable and thrashy. Added to this is a level of theatricality and attitude leavened by an inherent larrikin sense of humour. Opening track, ‘Missing People’ sets out …
Album Review: Lunar Twin – Ghost Moon Ritual
For a duo with members in Hawaii and Utah, Lunar Twin have perfectly captured a glacial Arctic chill with deep dark gothic trimmings in their glorious album ‘Ghost Moon Ritual’. With a mix of The Mission-like thunder, a Leonard Cohen/Nick Cave delivery and a Massive Attack trip-hop bedrock, this is a divine collision of the …
Video: The Brave Faces – In The Dark
We were highly impressed by The Brave Faces single ‘In the Dark’ which we were honoured to premiere recently, and it great to be able to see the new video for the track. It is fittingly haunting, psychedelic and evocative video and a perfect accompaniment to the dream pop/shoegaze timbre of the song: You can …
Album Review: RVG – Feral
Melbourne band RVG (Romy Vager Group), in their second album ‘Feral’, have somehow managed to coalesce all that is great in the Australian indie scene – past and present – to produce what is in my opinion one of the best global releases in recent years. Hyperbole? Have a listen. You can detect all that …
Track: Eskobar – When Your Heroes Fall
There is no doubt that Sweden’s Eskobar have a genetic code that can be clinically traced back to the sounds of Manchester in the nineties – The Stone Roses, The Charlatans and even the rave culture. And with other bands like DMA’s forging the way in a completely original Mancunian-esque baggy revival, this is no …
Track: Jónsi – Exhale
There is a heartbreakingly beautiful element to anything Iceland’s Jónsi (Jón Þór Birgisson) creates, whether it be through Sigur Rós or collaborations with partner Alex Somers. Jónsi has just released a stunning video for a new solo piece of work – ‘Exhale’ – and, again, there is such an ephemeral, breathtakingly impossible ache to the …
Track: Fingerless – Sympathetic Love
You just don’t know where you are with Fingerless. One minute they are producing psychedelic shoegaze slacker rock with the odd Gregorian chant thrown in, the next thing they produce ‘Sympathetic Love’ which is unlike anything I’ve heard before. And I’ve heard a lot. But the thing is, they are brilliant enough to pull it …