SEE: Flux Amuck – ‘Caterpillar’: ragin’ into ’21
AS 2021 draws back the curtains, stretches, yawns – looks for a better world ahead – it’s hit full on in the face by a sudden, piercing shaft of light in the form of Nebraska’s Flux Amuck, and “The Caterpillar”, their first new blast since 2019’s album, The Alternate. If you like your guitars full …
SEE: Gim Kordon – ‘Betoni kukkii’: embrace the Finnish noise
COMING out of Helsinki with a name that’s … suspiciously familiar, somehow? and a whole firestorm of howlin’ guitar, Gim Kordon have jut released their second (and presumably final) single of 2020, “Betoni kukkii”, the stylishly beautiful monochrome video for which you can lose yourself in below. The title of the song translates as “Concrete …
SEE: The lyric video for Counterpunch’s ‘Handbook For The Recently Debriefed’
ILLINOIS skatepunks Counterpunch are ready to acid drop into the new year with a new single – yay! It’s coming out on 7″, so that’s a proper single in my book – entitled “Handbook For The Recently Debriefed.” Even better? They’ve put together a little lyric video for the track, which we’re more than a …
SEE: The Stockholm video for James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra’s ‘Ella Mary Leather’
AS THE year takes it final bows – mostly, you’d have to say, free from the tossing of bouquets, unless they’re dead black roses or somesuch – we at least have the joy of a soon-coming new album from Fife’s always warming James Yorkston, this time in tandem with The Second Hand Orchestra. The album’s …
SEE: Kid Cudi – ‘Heaven On Earth’: rapper drops visuals, announces expanded Man On The Moon set
KID CUDI, the Cleveland, Ohio-born lyricist who’s been straddling the Billboard charts for a decade plus, has finally unveiled the final part of his Man On The Moon trilogy, Man On The Moon III: The Chosen, which emerged three weeks ago. And as that album finally hit the racks – drawing together a triptych that …
SEE: slowthai – ‘Thoughts’: a raw, surprise lyrical drop
FOLLOWING his recent reveal that he’s got a new album, TYRON, primed and ready for February 5th, slowthai has surprise-released a new track which won’t be included on the album, the freestylin’ lyricism of “Thoughts”; watch the video below. It’s a stream of consciousness, heavy on the raw beatz, the “fucked-up shit in my cranium”, …
SEE: Modern Studies – ‘The Failing Light’: Scottish chamber folk outfit release new EP for Fire
WITH the afterglow of their May album The Weight Of The Sun still warming us, Scottish progressive chamber folk quartet Modern Light are still intent on riding the melodic winds further in pursuit of their craft; and they’ve taken what they call some leftover seeds from the album sessions to nurture into tender-stemmed new tunes, …
SEE: Hot Chip’s spin on Django Django’s ‘Glowing In The Dark’ comes with trippy animation
WITH a brand spanking new album, Glowing in the Dark, announced for a February release, Django Django have unveiled a Hot Chip rerub of the title track, sprinkling some of that ever-uplifting Taylor ‘n’ Goddard sweetness over the pulse. Take a listen below. Django Django say: “We’ve been huge fans of Hot Chip from the beginning and …
TRACK: Strictly Elizabeth announces her Full Moon series with a versioning of ‘Dogs And Traps’
STRICTLY ELIZABETH has announced a new series of calendrical song drops to take us all the way through 2021 in lunar company, as she launches her Full Moon Series with a new, stripped down take on her own “Dogs And Traps”, to begin the welcoming back of the sun in tiny increments after the darkest …
SEE: Table Scraps – ‘Doom Generation’: garage-punkers surgin’ as it all falls apart
YOU’VE already been directed to take a dive into Brum garage-punkers Table Scraps by no less than IDLES’ Joe Talbot, who counts himself a fan; now’s your chance to climb aboard and feast on some crumbs as the band – Scott, TJ and Poppy – shake their collectively animated ass with “Doom Generation”, the South …