SEE: Dope Body – ‘Known Unknown’: gloriously messy highlight from ‘Crack A Light’ gets visuals
NEED a big, dirty, cathartic winter lift? No need to dial. Doctor Dope Body has just the prescription for you. They’ve pulled what’s arguably the standout track from their most recent album, Crack A Light, “Known Unknown” – and given it some righteous visuals. The track? It’s the album closer, a brilliant distorted space-disco-punk-noise rattle: …
NEWS: Hanya announce tour dates; hear ‘Monochrome’
BRIGHTON’S gorgeous rising dreampop outfit Hanya, who we last heard of back in July, when they declared hometown label Austerity Records’ Cassette Club open with their very fine Sea Shoes EP (read our review), have dropped a new single, “Monochrome”; take a listen below. “Monochrome” is an effortless glide of sweet indie pop with a …
TRACKS: Erland Cooper – ‘Landform’: a digital companion to the Orkney trilogy
ORCADIAN soundscaper and composer Erland Cooper has today released one final digitally streamed companion piece to accompany his beautiful Orkney Triptych. Take a listen below. Its a seven-track, 35-minute ambient accompaniment to his most recent album, Hether Blether with the tracks entitled “Cairn I” to “Cairn VII”, for which he collaborated with artist, producer and …
TRACK: Late Night Final – ‘Thank You’: J. Willgoose steps out from his broadcasting role
YOU ALMOST certainly know J. Willgoose as one of the bespectacled whizzkids behind the ever brilliant Public Service Broadcasting. But now he’s decided to invest in a little extra-curricular activity away from his six-string anchorman role in the nation’s favourite broadcaster, and has announced a solo album for Play It Again Sam in the guise …
TRACK: Claude Cooper’s ‘Tangerine Dreams’ 7″ launches Friendly Recordings
OK, OK. Two things. Firstly, do you like a little jazziness to your grooves? Nah, scrub that. Do you like a lot? Do you like a double bass line so up and atcha and tight and taut it could cut a man in half at 60 paces? That kinda thing. Do you miss Fingathing, more …
NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’
ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New records made. And you can bet your bottom dollar that David Gedge’s The Wedding Present wouldn’t sit back and let it wash it over them. …
TRACK: The Native – ‘Frontline’: airy third from Plymothian risers
THEY’RE barely into their twenties; with the ‘rona gobbling up all the live fun, they’ve yet to do any scale of national tour at all; yet with just a brace of singles under their belts, Plymothian indie rock quintet The Native seem to be on the fast track, building up a really devoted following via …
NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics
BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for their hometown football club, Wigan Athletic, and its community trust: they were gonna record a cover of Al Wilson’s legendary northern soul classic, “The Snake”; …
TRACK: Rival Consoles – ‘Articulation (Midori Hano remix)’ preludes Erased Tapes EPs CD
RYAN LEE WEST, who creates beautiful and properly, actually intelligent dance music that folds softly across to pulsing ambience, isn’t someone to tarnish the bright beauty of his creations by overworking, scumbling away the freshness that he captures in the moment. He exalts in creating quickly. He puts these works out as mini-albums, or EPs, …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Cheshire – ‘Fractal Future Plays’: a sweeping psych pop set
Fractal Future Plays sits in a fine line of albums which admit psych to their blend, admire its cosmic clear sight rather than its sensual flood; the romance, the seduction, the perfume of the other just behind the flimsiest curtain