TRACK: Little Kid’s ‘All Night (Golden Ring)’ is a dark roots duet
TORONTO’S Little Kid are in the process of making the step up from Ontarian word-of-mouth cult act to the modern roots first team. The project of Kenny Boothby, Little Kid have shared the video for “All Night (Golden Ring)” as a taster for their LP Transfiguration Highway, which is out on July 3rd via Solitaire …
ALBUM REVIEW: bdrmm – ‘Bedroom’
A DEMO recorded on a smartphone, and a paucity of vowels: from such humble seeds Yorkshire’s bdrmm have flowered into probably the most hotly tipped band on the rejuvenated shoegaze scene. So how did it all begin for bdrmm? Frontman Ryan Smith details the moment. “I remember being in my bedroom before a 12-hour shift …
SEE: Ellie Bleach brings the baroque to ‘He Bought Me Nikes’
LONDON singer-songwriter Ellie Bleach taps into the spirit of baroque pop on her latest and very fine self-released single, “He Bought Me Nikes”. With a voice like the finest smokey chocolate, she drapes contralto lyrics that bite over a churchy organ strain, which summons The Dixie Cups’ girl-group classic “Chapel of Love”; mellotrons, and harpsichords. …
EP REVIEW: Trunky Juno – ‘Too Many Teeth’
TRUNKY JUNO has been called ‘lo-fi’ in an attempt to slot him nicely into an ever more complicated musical map. And while some of the trademarks of that sub- (micro- ?) genre are definitely there, I would – to groans, necessarily – propose herewith that actually our dear Mr. Juno be referred to as ‘wide-fi’. …
NEWS: Andy Shauf announces benefit live streams
THE EXCELLENT Canadian baroque pop auteur Andy Shauf has announced a brace of live-streaming events for next Tuesday, June 30th. The shows, which will stream live from his home in Toronto, are ticketed; Andy aims to raise money for a number of beneficiaries, including the Parkdale Community Food Bank, in his adopted home city; the …
SEE: Imogen Clark’s ‘My Own Worst Enemy’ is country-rock empowerment
OUTTA the mountains of New South Wales, Imogen Clark has released a video for “My Own Worst Enemy”, the second track to be culled from her upcoming six-tracker The Making of Me, which is set for an August 21st release. Written with Australian indie star Alex Lahey, “My Own Worst Enemy” is a country-inflected, widescreen, …
TRACK: Grizzly Coast invites you to her ‘Party of One’
FOR so many of us, music not only a delight but an escape, a world in which we can live freely and joyously; and this is just as true of the people making it as us fans listening, as Toronto’s Alannah Kavanagh, who records as Grizzly Coast, imparts of her latest single, “End of the …
SEE: Toxic Avenger’s ‘Mandala’ has the Gallic groove
SIMON DELACROIX, aka French producer Toxic Avenger, is a man with many strings to his bow. He DJs worldwide, won awards for his computer game soundtracks, and plies a nice line in that particular strain of floorfiller that the French do so well – that insouciant cut-up of funk, disco, analogue house and indie touches. …
Track: McHifi – ‘Bunker to Bunker’: McAlmont’s return
DAVID MCALMONT is back! He’s back! Owner of one of the most effortlessly great, yet most underappreciated British voices of the last quarter-century, David has released his first new material since limited clear-vinyl 7” “Transparent” in 2018, which he recorded in cahoots with Hifi Sean; and it’s only his second musical outing in more years …
TRACK: Liam Mour’s ‘Ode To Youth’ weaves and Warps
AN ANALOGUE synth figure comes chattering in; it morphs and builds and flexes with echoey overtones. It’s joined by a haunting melodic figure, swathed in distance and haunting half-remembrance. The track breaks down into anthemic synth washes, and then a sweetly old-skool rhythm programme kicks in and knits it all together. Yum. So goes “Ode …