Premiere: Portland collective Family Worship Center let the good times roll on ‘Snake Dance’
‘So we just do whatever, right?’ is how we imagine the photo shoot went, but Portland nine-piece Family Worship Center are much more focused on record. Five of the eight songs on their debut album hover around the 5-minute mark at minimum. Their new video features aliens getting down to ‘Snake Dance’, one of the …
Premiere: Stream ‘Army Ants in Your Pants’ from Bruce Haack’s reissued LP Captain Entropy, out tomorrow
2023 marks 35 years since the loss of Canadian experimental musician Bruce Haack, so he’s being commemorated in the latest release from the archives of Shimmy-Disc with a reissue of 1974’s weird, whimsical and wonderful Captain Entropy – to sum up, it’s music aimed at children which can be enjoyed by anyone, originally composed by …
Premiere: Stream New Yorkers FORAGER’s essential debut album Pipedream Firewood
We’ve been lucky enough to live with this album for a little bit. If there’s one thing you need with New York trio FORAGER, it’s time – there’s an immediacy to their music that’s quite refreshing, but the added layers of complexity will take more than one listen to begin to reveal themselves. It also …
Premiere: salamander share ‘xylem’, announce debut album for October
We’ll have what they’re having because we’re very excited about this band. Say hello to New York trio salamander, which took shape when PJ Hunter and Leo Frampton were asked to play a last-minute experimental pop show at college in 2019. They took a thread and ran with it, bringing drummer Ben Verde along for …
Premiere: Ben Hazlewood risks it all in a game of ‘Chemical Roulette’
Earlier this year, Melbourne-based Ben Hazlewood (born in New Zealand, lived in London for a few years – he’s been places) kicked off a series of single releases with ‘Fumes’, the first of five standalone tracks he’s put out this year. No word on a follow-up to 2020’s debut album Bloodlines yet, but that may …
Premiere: Macedo return with the effortlessly cool ‘Block of Ice’
If it seems like the eponymous Los Angeles duo Macedo have been away for a while, that’s because they have. The pair of Michelle and Melissa Macedo last released an EP called Paradise in 2021, with plans to release further new music remaining up in the air as a knock-on effect of the pandemic. Until …
Premiere: OSEES let loose in a warehouse in video for ‘Stunner’, new album next month
You didn’t think they’d be away for long, did you? The John Dwyer-led OSEES/Oh Sees/Orange County Sound etc. haven’t taken a year off since they released their debut album 1 in 2003, so it stands to reason we’d be hearing about a new record this year. Announced back in May with the title track ‘Intercepted …
Premiere: maeve & quinn dream of a better life in new video for ‘Stuck Inside’
The debut album from maeve & quinn – the Chicago/Alaska duo of twin sisters Maris & Bryce O’Tierney – is seriously good and an absolute must for any folk-pop fans, especially since it tips its hat to the likes of Sharon Van Etten, Snail Mail, Maggie Rogers and Big Thief; you know the vibes – …
Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez look inward on new single ‘The Strange Things That Happen to People’
Last month, Boston band Eldridge Rodriguez returned with news of a new album and a lead single from said new album, both of which reaffirm why Slightest of Treason was one of 2020’s most slept-on indie rock records. It didn’t catch fire for Obvious Reasons, but the follow-up deserves to, and the band’s latest offering …
Premiere: Careful explores painful intimacy on bare-bones new single ‘I had a secret’
Last month, the San Francisco-based Eric Lindley resumed activity as Careful after a hiatus of nearly a decade, announcing his intention to release a new EP in September. Today, Lindley shares the collection’s stripped-back second single. If ‘I had a secret’ sounds like a forgotten relic of another time, smothered in cassette artefacts and lo-fi …