Track: Echo Collective – Pyramid Song
Echo Collective, the multi-faceted Belgian collective who have worked with some of the most important players in modern composition, have released their first album Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac on !K7 While this is a beautiful and fresh approach to Radiohead’s classic album, it’s hard to say how the die hard fans will react to it. …
Track: Transistor Girl – Weak as I am
Weak As I Am is described as a minimalist sound allowing for Chris Drew’s soft melancholic vocals to ring out fully. Although the instrumentation may be sparse, it is far from minimalist. Inhabiting a world somewhere between Chris Isaak and the world of Twin Peaks, this is a truly gorgeous song in every sense of …
Track: The Go! Team – The Only Thing New is U Finding Out About it, plus summer tour dates
The Go! Team have shared “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It”, a brand new single following on from their acclaimed new album SEMICIRCLE (out now on Memphis Industries). Band leader Ian Parton explains the influences behind the upbeat and mostly instrumental track: “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About …
See: Alexis Taylor releases new video for Oh Baby, plus live dates
Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Beautiful Thing’, out April 20th via Domino Records, Alexis Taylor’s has released a video for the track ‘Oh Baby’ taken from that fourth solo album. It is an album of electronic thrills, dark spaces, memories of dancefloors and heartfelt writing; it’s composed, it’s improvised, it’s accidental, it’s strange, but it’s …
Track: Sarah Louise – When Winter Turns
Taken from the new album ‘Deeper Woods’ out on May 11th., Sarah Louise’s new album conjures vivid images of the verdant forest that surrounds her North Carolina home. Steeped in Appalachian folk traditions, Louise’s influences are much broader with shades of psychedelia and experimentalism, pushing her beyond genre constraints. Louise is an avid naturalist and …
Track: Vital Idles – A Premise, plus album news and tour dates
For a conglomerate of art outsiders and aesthetes, Vital Idles are primitive, whimsically brutal. Sculpting a skeleton from a body already lean, there’s a thrilling minimalism that runs through every beat and strum, a sparseness that feeds Jessica Higgins’s surreal, oblique vocal delivery all the nourishment it needs. Along with the announcement of their debut …