NEWS: Erasure announce dates for 2021
THEY’VE just released their latest, glittering synth opus, The Neon, for Mute; and today Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, aka Erasure, have announced The Neon Tour for next autumn. Andy says: “We’re so excited to be able to – at last – announce dates for The Neon Tour! We’d hoped to have seen you sooner, …
See the lyric video for PELA’s ‘In The Young’: blissful summer ambient pop
PELA, the duo of Olly Shelton and Hannah Coombes who delight in a line of stoned immaculate, blissful chillout, have just dropped their latest single, “In The Young” – you can watch the lyric video below. We’ve covered the singles they’ve been dropping right through the summer: we found “South Of” “set us adrift on …
PREMIERE: See the video for Urlaub in Polen’s ‘Impulse Response’: Cologne duo reunite, LP to follow
COLOGNE’S Urlaub in Polen – the new wave-tronica duo of singer George Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen – have been away from our turntables for almost a decade now. In fact it’s nine years since they released album no.5, Boldstriker, and promptly announced it was all over. But the giddy wheel of time shifteth …
SEE: Red Rum Club – ‘Ballerino’: some proper shapes thrown, tour news
YEAH, you think you’ve got moves, Christopher Walken? The star of Deerhunter and so many other Hollywood classics, who revealed he had an absolute line on owning the dancefloor in the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice“, has got some serious Liverpudlian landlord competition coming at him thanks to Red Rum Club. The Merseyside …
SEE: bdrmm’s ‘Gush’ gets a short film; tour news; album on red vinyl
SONIC CATHEDRAL’S excellent young shoegazers bdrmmm have released a “Gush” as a single today from their debut LP – and there’s a limited red-vinyl pressing of the album available now at selected independents. “Gush” is a rather gorgeous autumnal yearn of a ‘gaze tune, Ryan’s vocals a dreamy call blending with the guitars. And it …
TRACK: Mt. Wolf and Solomon Grey – ‘Anna Maria’: adorable first fruits from their joint EP
MT. WOLF, the dreampop outfit who have only just been welcomed back to our ears after three years away, have released a new track in vocal collaboration with emotive duo Solomon Grey ahead of a new joint EP in the autumn. The track is entitled “Anna Maria” and it’s an acoustic-shoegaze swoon, wholly redolent of …
SEE: Ohio art-punks Fruit LoOops mash heads hard with ‘Pretty’
IF YOU like your music LOUD, conceptual, chaotic and confrontational, maybe it’s about you let yourself through the basement back door and into the world of Cincinnati’s Fruit LoOops. Melt-Banana the kinda band you like to kick back to of an evening? Boredoms? Ah yeah. Step this way. Fruit LoOops meld intensity and noise-percussion in …
NEWS: Penelope Isles announce dates for 2021; watch the final episode of Penny Isles TV
THE LOVELY, lovely Penelope Isles, who released their debut album Until The Tide Creeps In to acclaim last year, and played more than 100 shows, have announced a string of dates for the new year. They’ve also released the final episode in their Penny Isles TV series, which sees them touring in the US with Wallows. As …
SEE: Winter Gardens’ ‘Zigzanny’ is a Bladerunner post-punk fuzzbomb
WINTER GARDENS, the Sussex quartet beloved of a big guitar and unafraid of a grandiose statement, even this early in their career – they covered the Cocteaus’ Pearly Dewdrops-Drops on their first, hard-to-find, 7″ – have dropped a lyric video for a second track from their forthcoming Tapestry EP, which is out next month; you …
TRACK: Mary Lattimore – ‘Pine Trees’: otherwordly harp delicacy
MARY LATTIMORE, the Los Angeles-based harpist who charms all who enter her graceful, ambient world, has just released the beautiful and glimmering second single from her forthcoming album for Ghostly International, Silver Ladders, which will be out come October 9th. Take a listen with us. She recorded her new one down in Cornwall, adoptive home …