See: The Elephant Trees – ‘Day 42’: counting the lockdown days with breezy indie funk
DOING the good and steadfast work, Leeds’ Come Play With Me is one of those organisations whose praises we should all sing; deeply involved in supporting the Leeds grassroots scene by way of its singles clubs, concert promotions and compilations (last year’s Come Stay With Me raised funds for musicians losing out in the pandemic, …
Track: SORBET – ‘Only For The Young’ feat. Arborist: Irish talents combine for a track of power and intelligence
CHRIS W RYAN, the restlessly creative, multidisciplinary producer who is guising as SORBET for his latest project, roaming freely and with taste sans frontières – selecting and blending as he sees just, taking electronica, modern composition and pop nous to make intelligent, thematic music. A refreshing palate cleanser. Following the album-announcing “I Heard His Scythe” …
See: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘I Feel Fine’: LA dream poppers’ smooth, vampiric caress sets us up for their July album
LOS ANGELINO trio Tashaki Miyaki really do put the dream into dreampop, with a deliciously languorous, hazy cast to their music, which seems to call on the Mary Chain, Lush, Hole, Mazzy Star, soothe them into a shoegazey drowse; and they’ve a new album, Castaway, out now on July 2nd – slightly delayed – on Metropolis Records. The new …
News: Squarepusher’s thrilling, insane ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ gets a silver jubilee reissue; revel in the deep acid of ‘Theme From Ernest Borgnine’
NOW THIS … this is sexy news for the lover of the weird and the wired and the warped (and, serendipitously, the Warp). Squarepusher’s hyperactive, insane, thrilling debut album for Warp, Feed Me Weird Things, is to get a 25th (what now?) anniversary reissue on June 4th. Stand back, light the touchpaper. Not only will …
See: Helvetia – ‘New Mess’: Duster and Built to Spill’s Jason Albertini makes a righteous fuzz racket with an album to follow
TIME to get dirty and righteously fuzz-rocky, with a Swiss angle; Helvetia is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jason Albertini, exactly one third of San Jose’s Duster and bassist for the lovely Built to Spill from 2012 to 2018. Helvetia are releasing their tenth album and fifth for Joyful Noise, Essential Aliens on June 25th; by way of bringing that news to …
KMRU – ‘Argon’: marrying Berlin ambience with Kenyan gleam in a masterful shimmer
DIVIDING his time between that crucible of leftfield musical innovation, Berlin, and Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, Joseph Kamaru has been self-releasing seductive music for a number of years now; his particular groove a textural electronica with wide vision that weaves together the expansive and delicate electronic musics issuing from the former, and field recordings …
See: Seefeel release a digital EP, ‘Reduct’, ahead of their May reissues; see the video for ‘Burned’
WITH their comprehensive (and wholly exciting for those of us who fell for their exploratory, dubby charms the first time round) reissue campaign for Warp under way and those later era albums and compilations due in expanded and remastered pressings mid-May, Seefeel have just dropped a digital-only EP of tracks from the archive, Reduct. The …
Track: Dave Keuning – ‘The Fountain’: The Killers’ guitarist readies to spread his wings with a second solo album – hear a cracking first track
SPREADING his creative wings for a second time following 2019’s surnamed-only outing Prismism, The Killers guitarist and founding member Dave Keuning is due to release a long-player, A Mild Case of Everything, via his own Pretty Faithful Records imprint come midsummer. due out 25th June on his label, Pretty Faithful Records. A Mild Case of Everything comprises 16 …
See: Sunglasses For Jaws – ‘What Does It Look Like?’: enter the swinging, funky world of Frank and disappear through his mirror
WHILST, in other, less trippy lives, being a perfectly tessellated and readymade rhythm section for acts including Sinead O’Brien, Geowulf, Nick Waterhouse et al, bassist David Bardon and drummer Oscar Robertson have also began dreaming up a more hallucinatory life as Sunglasses for Jaws, under which disguise they’ve been quietly active on the London psych scene …
Track: Catching Flies – ‘GLY’: a sunshiney slice of summer downbeatz
THE LONDON producer of chilled, intelligent summer downbeatz Catching Flies – known to friends and family as George King – has returned with a cool evening breeze of a new single in “GLY”, all expectancy and early evening uplift, the night young and pregnant with possibility, and all captured in a smooth swing hooking on …