See: Conchúr White’s ‘Dreamers’ tackles that small town yearning for another life in rousing indie-folk
NORTHERN IRISH singer-songwriter Conchúr White has today doubled down on his single drop from early March, the lovely late-night tumble of “Vocation Vacation” with the just-add-water-and-stir absolute anthem, “Dreamers”, the video for which we’ve got below. If you liked the folk-Bunnymen stylings of that last single, you’ll likely fall hard for the widescreen fire …
Live review: Squid, Falmouth, May 18th: who finer to bring us back to the live experience?
FOUR hundred and forty-seven days. Yep, I counted; or rather some natty piece of online calculator software did. Fessin’ up: maths was never my strong point. Anyhow, that long since my last gig; 447 days. Maybe the longest time in my adult life. Yes, I recall the last time in great detail; do you? We …
See: Wyldest – ‘Heal’: a country-dream pop shimmer with an intelligent and universal lyrical arrow
WITH only days to go before the release of her new album, Monthly Friend, and her also venturing out on the road for a socially distanced series of dates across the UK, purveyor of intelligent and politically couched dream pop Wyldest has shared one final single, the sweet and chiming “Heal”, the video for which …
Premiere: Jack Prest – ‘Test Tone IV’ and ‘Test Tone VII’: deliciously amniotic ambient electronica from Sydney
JACK PREST, the Australian soundscaper, is perhaps best known for his work on the other side of the plexiglass as an engineer and producer at Sydney’s Studios 301, nine decades of recording absolutely according it legendary status. Best known, for now. That looks like it really could be about to change; lovers of the blissful, …
Track: Bronx Slang – ‘Happens A Lot’: examining the rise and fall of the rhymer with tough old-skool breakz
STILL rhyming with power, truth, rhythm; still living it in the Big (Rotten) Apple, Beeks and Miggs of Bronx Slang keep the gems coming from street-level observations as they shape up for their album later this year? When? When? Jeez, if only I could tell you – I don’t know myself; let’s at least be …
Track: Chloe Foy – ‘Work Of Art’: vulnerability and the joy of gig-going all expressed in a three-minute folk-rock nugget
Come gather round and hear this latest lovely; it’s a yearning folk-rocker, paced placidly, harmonies lofting with an ethereal glow – and it’s not afraid to kick out the guitars on that anthemic finish either. Chloe drops the single, which is very much about the joy and the communing of going to gigs and the …
Track: Hear Christina Vantzou’s spectral mash-up and remix of LEYA’s ‘ABBA’ and ‘Mary’
CHRISTINA VANTZOU, the Belgian-based vocalist, composer and film-maker who began her career with Stars of the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie in The Dead Texan and who’s gone to establish a powerful and eerie musical aesthetic over the course of four album for Kranky, has brought her otherworldly ambient skills to bear on a rerub and mash-up of …
See: Birds of Maya – ‘Please Come In’: Philadelphia’s returning fuzz-stoner prodigals return with a down ‘n’ dirty invitation
BIRDS OF MAYA have become one of those legendary lost power trios, so much more than the sum of their parts; superfuzzed, raw, ready to kick out the primal jamz, deliciously low-slung. I mean, really of course, that should read: had become, since they back with us, boy. Followers of the rock music at its …
Track: Loraine James – ‘Let’s Go’: Enfield producer’s latest drop skitters with Ballardian futurism
GROWING up on the North London-Hertfordshire borders of Enfield, producer Loraine James was up on the escarpment, able to gaze down across London in the bowl of the Thames valley below. That skyline, the city so near, silhouetted, morphing as new towers grew from reinforced steel skeletons, informed and continues to inform her enthralling future …
Track: Michael Cormier – ‘Empty Mugs’: A lovely lo-fi Americana drop about waking from a speedboat dream
CO-FOUNDER of the lovely Dear Life Records, home to rootsy talents such as Josh Halper and Wes Tirey, and also the musique concrète stylings of Bolomite Jr. (see our recent Dear Life coverage here); drummer in the indie four-piece Friendship, Philly’s Michael Cormier makes a potent contribution to the beating heart of the US underground …