SEE: Otta’s ‘Sick Inside’ has a gorgeous, genre-busting fragility
SOUTH London-based, British-Finnish singer Otta is plotting an intriguing and sonically dazed course out on the creative fringes of singer-songwriter, lofi and soul. Her second EP, entitled Songbook, follows a critically tipped debut at the end of last year; and on the strength of lead track “Sick Inside” promises to be innovative, inventive, playful and …
TRACK: jazz legend Charles Tolliver returns with ‘Blue Soul’
NOO YOIK jazz trumpet legend Charles Tolliver is poised to release his first studio material in more than decade at the end of this month. The Gearbox imprint will be releasing Connect, on July 31st – the first time we will have heard Charles since his ensemble appearance on Keyon Harrold’s Introducing … in 2009. …
NEWS: Left Banke bassist and singer Tom Finn dead at 71
IT HAS been reported the founder member and bassist with seminal American baroque pop outfit The Left Banke, Tom Finn, has died at the age of 71. The Left Banke, perhaps unfairly known on British shores for authoring, but not their performance of, “Walk Away Renee” – as taken to the upper reaches of the …
ALBUM REVIEW: Aārp – ‘Propaganda’
MAKE no mistake, the debut album from classically trained experimentalist Aārp has serious conceptual intent. Entitled Propaganda, and out now on Paris-Lyon-Berlin imprint InFiné, it is pointedly political. The title is predicated on the media portrayal of death of Steve Canico, the French techno fan found drowned after an altercation with police at a festival …
TRACK: Home Counties’ ‘Dad Bod’ – fantastically Peel show awkward squad
IT WOULD seem the Bristol underground scene is in rude health. Last week we had a new download-only only round-up from Dorset boys moved uptown with a whole clutch of stoner psych goodness, Leeches. And now we have a second missive from Brizzle-based guitar shamblers Home Counties: and it’s a cracking, snotty-cuffed slice of John …
SEE: Dope Body’s vid for sleaze nugget “Home Body”; Spotify playlist
BALTIMORE’S answer to Royal Trux, newly rejuvenated sleaze rockers Dope Body, have released a video to accompany “Back in Back” from their May return set, Home Body. And you can watch it below. Maryland’s self-styled 21st-century Stooges, who returned with their new set of material since 2015’s Kunk just a few weeks ago, had this …
SEE: Jon Anderson reveals ‘WDMCF’ ahead of new LP
YES LEGEND Jon Anderson has debuted a single entitled “WDMCF” in advance of his forthcoming album, 1000 Hands; and you can watch the clip below. Of this latest single, Jon said: “[It] originates from me singing the first ideas that come to mind each morning. I start by creating vocal rhythmic sounds, very much like …
SEE: Oh Wonder’s ‘Don’t You Worry’ soothes lockdown blues
SWOONSOME London duo Oh Wonder have continued to create under the privations of lockdown, with the fifth song in their acclaimed Home Tapes project out now. “Don’t You Worry” completes a quintet of home-recorded tunes to be issued over the recent, distanced months. It’s an intimate love song “about the intimacy and connection still possible …
TRACK: In Earnest’s ‘Put Me Under’ swoons in out of the darkness
SOUTHEND trio In Earnest have taken their bow in the world with a delicate, emotive single, “Put Me Under”. The band say the single “is an honest, personal account of depression and loneliness, aiming to encourage conversation around mental health”. It has a transatlantic folk-rock delicacy, with the vocals of front-couple Sarah and Thomas tracing …
NEWS: Bjork to stream shows from Reykavik
HOT on the heels of Nick Cave’s live stream from Ally Pally, announced yesterday, comes news from Iceland: Björk is to stream three matinee performances from Reykjavík’s Harpa Hall, to take place on August 9th, 15th and 23rd. The event, which has been put together with Iceland Airwaves, intends to raise money for a domestic …