Track: Niklas Paschburg pops the bubbly on a twin single drop: hear ‘Wing Rowing (K08)’
HAMBURG aesthete and composer Niklas Paschburg, who came into this year on the back of remixed single drops such as “Cyan” and “Little Orc”, in which the flow of his modern compositional piano styles were opened out in electronica by the likes of Mykah and Uele Lamore, is stepping out of AD 2021 in a …
Track: Century Egg push through the dark times with the smashingly twangy ‘Mirror’
NOVA SCOTIA’S mandopop-informed punk quartet Century Egg, whose thrashy, dust-yourself-down nugget “Moving On” we covered here pretty much exactly a month back, are back in the fray once more, dear friends, this time around with the smashingly twangy riff-roarer of “Mirror”. Dance those docs off to this raggedy ace punk pop tune. The track actually …
Track: Dazzling lyrical flow and taut, smoky bass combine on The Allergies and Andy Cooper’s ‘Utility Man’
AS ANYONE well acquainted with The Allergies’ party beatz will testify, former Ugly Duckling riddim and rhymer Andy Cooper is pretty much a permanent house guest round at their Brizzle gaff these days; and he’s the kinda guest you want around, when he drops lyrical skills that’ll leave you whirling of the stripe he does …
Track: Kent’s Mosa Wild offer a raw gospel plea on their latest single, ‘Expect Me’
KENT’S Mosa Wild are a band with big ambitions and a big sound to match, as you can hear on “Expect Me”, the first, big-hearted song to be lifted from next spring’s Zip Your Coat Up For English Weather EP. The four-piece are into the business of the anthemic , and they’ve got form: previous single …
See: Guitarist Duncan Marquiss ventures into folk motorik with the seductive ‘Drivenhalle’
ELSEWHERE a very fine guitarist with The Phantom Band, Duncan Marquiss is stepping out into the world of solo instrumental guitar in the spring with an album for folk imprint of high regard, Basin Rock. And he’s already held in such esteem in guitar soli circles that he’s picked up a support slot with the …
News: Constellation sign Kee Avil, who debuts with the burrowing, fracturing post-folk of ‘See my shadow’
MONTREAL’S Constellation, who’ve brought us so many great leftfield moments these past two decades from Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Fly Pan Am, Do Make Say Think and a host of others, have added another string to their bow with the signing of Kee Avil, the new project from hometown singer, guitarist and producer Vicky Mettler. …
Track: Lastigband observes the heavens in the sweet lo-fi ‘tronica of ‘Galaxy’
RECORDIAU CAE GWYN RECORDS is one of those labels doing the good work; like Come Play With Me way, way east across Offa’s Dyke in Leeds, it’s a label fiercely focussed on the musics arising from its immediate hinterland, in this case Snowdonia; panning the musical streams and sifting the nuggets of gold to bring …
Track: bdrmm’s ‘Port’ gets some loving electro remix action from Working Men’s Club – come trance out
IT’S AN excellent, mouthwatering battle of two very cred, very excellent Yorkshire bands, duking it out. In the left corner, grapple fans, we have Hull’s bdrmm, the premier next now generation shoegazers; and over there, representing Heavenly Records, it’s Working Men’s Club, who are in the arena ready with a remix of “Port”, the first …
Track: Josephine Sillars – ‘I’ll See You When I See You’: heartfelt songwriting from a rising Highlands talent
THE LATEST instalment in the singles club run by Leeds grassroots organisation Come Play With Me – the label, zine, promoter and all round caring body active on the West Yorkshire scene – comes from a fine female singer-songwriter, now resident in the capital of God’s Own Country, but who came south from the Highlands …
Track: El Ten Eleven share the grand alien (post-)funk of ‘New Year’s Eve’ and detail a massive tour
WITH our ears still ringing and our souls still swooning while getting our heads round last year’s conceptual triple album, Tautology, (No! come back this instant! For it (post) rocks so hard and so delicately, by turns – hey, read our review and have a listen if you don’t believe us) El Ten Eleven, the Southern …