Premiere: Olec Mün – ‘Paloma’: locked down in Barcelona, the Argentinian pianist finds beauty taking flight
BORN in Argentina in 1985, Marcelo Schnock aka, for the purposes of the world of composition, Olec Mün, has been playing the piano since the age of 6. For him, the piano has been his first and lifelong affair; a fluid symbiosis of expression in sound that a non-player such as me can only wonder …
See: SadGirl lament a broken love with ‘Goodbye Queenie’ and announce a west coast tour
WITH their debut album, Water, out now on Suicide Squeeze, Los Angeles’ SadGirl are inviting you to come join them in a world of intimate, no-messin’, old-school country, like it used to be; you just need an acoustic guitar, a microphone, plenty, plenty of reverb and a way with a tune. Maybe a broken heart, …
Bristol’s post-punk-rave scorchers Scalping drop ‘Empty Cascade’, announce a June EP and dates, including Squarepusher shows
BRISTOL’S groove-heavy post-rave, post-punk sound system scorchers Scalping are celebrating signing to Houndstooth with a first full EP drop next month; from which they wish to whisk you deep into their eternally strobe-lit 2am tent with a first reveal, “Empty Cascade”. Melt your mind below. The track, we’re told, is a mission statement, mixing the …
News: Bastien Keb’s excellent faux-soundtrack odyssey, ‘The Killing Of Eugene Peeps’, gets a Japanese-style pressing; see the video for ‘Lucky (Oldest Grave)’
IF YOU didn’t get chance to catch up with Bastien Keb’s excellent and off-kilter, genre boundary-dispensing, musical novel of a record The Killing Of Eugene Peeps last autumn – and trust me on this: this album, (his canon) is likely to be talked about in years to come in the same breath as In An …
Album review: Sven Wunder – ‘Natura Morta’: Swedish maestro jet sets for the retro Italian film score sound and delivers beautifully
THERE’S not actually a lot we can reveal about the wonder that is Sweden’s Sven Wunder, except to say: he’s got this. He understands this, the music; he knows it from the inside, moves beyond tribute and mimicry to the very heart of what makes records beloved by the real sonic addict, the compulsive crate-digger, …
See: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Under The Waves’: returning Cambridge folk-rockers add some feedback fire to the blend
HAILING from Cambridge with a potent elixir of acid/post-folk, Fuzzy Lights are moving towards the release of their first full-length set in more than eight years with the full-on drone-psych pastoralism of their new single, “Under The Waves”; the video for which we have right here. It’s the second teaser the fenlands five-piece have revealed …
Premiere: Alex Fasso drops ‘Northside’: watching Melbourne goings-on in lo-fi quietude
BASED these days in Melbourne, born and raised over in Hong Kong, Alex Fasso has been quietly migrating his seductive and blissful tunesmithery away from the brittle acoustic introspection of his earlier work – check the lockdown lovely “Happy 4 U”, for instance, committed to tape during that first, weird, weird period when we all …
News: Daniel O’Sullivan, Richard Youngs and Alexander Tucker take over Dalston’s Cafe OTO for a three-night leftfield residency in August
WITH the first stirrings of regular gig-going just beginning to make itself felt, a welcome return of one of the things that really makes life bearable, lovers of the leftfield in and around the capital, take note that sui generis musician Daniel O’Sullivan – whose career to date has taken in everything from the deep …
Premiere: Typical Sisters – ‘Recurring Memory’: a fraternal, jazzy post-rock groove teases for their third album
DESPITE being scattered across the globe, when the trio of musicians who comprise Typical Sisters get together, whether fraternally to catch up and spitball ideas, in the studio, or collaborating across the wires, they get a really intriguing jazzy post-rock thing going; crisply percussive, vamping with guitar, seeking and melodic, and still that important touch …
Track: Vintage Fiction – ‘Alright, Okay’: a little nugget of sundazed LA psych-pop bliss
YOU CAN so hear it their sound, if you ask me: the sun. The West Coast gleams through those burnished guitars, those dusky vocals, fair glows from the song as a whole in the way the first Avi Buffalo album does; early House of Love does. Languor, sleepy eyes, coastal bliss. Formerly trading as DIAZ, …