Album Review: The Lemon Twigs – Songs For The General Public
Whether through the saccharine, nigh operatic heights of early track “Beautiful”, or the gruff bark of recent single “Moon”, The Lemon Twigs have frequently flung their vocal abilities to gratuitous lengths. With the first track of Songs For The General Public, this metamorphosis goes yet further still, with Brian D’addario letting out an Iggy Pop-type …
News: Fontaines D.C. announce further 2021 UK tour dates
The Dublin-based band, after receiving well-deserved praise for recently released A Hero’s Death, have announced another set of tour dates in Edinburgh, Nottingham, Bath and Liverpool. This follows the quintet’s immensely popular return to live gigs, albeit virtual ones, with an audience peaking at 4000. Their newly announced dates come after several previously announced sold …
Track: beabadoobee reveals details of debut album, plus new single ‘Sorry’
After releasing massive single Care, which subsequently gathered upwards of a million streams, beabadoobee has released new track Sorry. This new single is as contemplative and provocative as her last, and her rich discography, but also wholly and refreshingly different. Beginning with a subdued section of Bea’s confessional words accompanied only by her guitar and …
EP: Squid – Natural Resources
Squid, the Brighton based, noisome post-punk band who recently released their Sludge/Broadcaster single, have today shared an EP of covers entitled Natural Resources. The EP includes Squid‘s take on the brilliantly bizarre Pigs (In There) by Robert Wyatt, which they initially premiered at End of the Road Festival 2019. It also sees them cover Steve …
News: Goat’s Commune gets special ‘Silver Edition’ vinyl
After the Swedish psychedelia influenced group’s first album World Music was given a ‘Sunburst’ Psych Limited Edition vinyl, their second album Commune has been given similarly worthy treatment. The new edition, originally released on Bandcamp Friday (August 7th) as part of the ‘No Fee’ day to support artists, sees the album given new and exclusive …
See: Working Men’s Club release video for the bubbling indie dance of ‘Valleys’
Working Men’s Club have just released new single Valleys, which is set to be the opening from their self-titled debut album, following preceding singles A.A.A.A., White Rooms and People and Teeth. The new track is most similar to the major electronic and synth leanings of the latterly mentioned Teeth, with it’s highly intoxicating drum loop …
Track: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Mr. Prism
The restlessly creative, splendiferous Aussie psych-machine that is the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets recently released new single Mr.Prism. The track’s music and lyrics have a similar fanciful, spectral vision as the PPC‘s most electrifying tracks like Keen for Kick Ons or Buzz. The track’s cover and visual effects show similarly ‘wormhole’-type artistry, yet altogether more technological …
Track: Pigs x7’s ‘Hell’s Teeth’ receives J.Zunz remix
THE typically fervid instrumentation of the Pigs x7 track “Hell’s Teeth”, which featured on their rapturously received 2020 album Viscerals, has been given a reworking by fellow Rocket Recordings artist J.Zunz. The throbbing guitar lines and bombastic percussion, not to mention the stirring “Let’s Rock” yell (as an ode to the history of metal bands), …
Not Forgotten: ‘wrinkle’, the early EP from 2/3 of ‘The Cribs’
Prior to forming The Cribs with younger brother Ross, Jarman twins Gary and Ryan made a smattering of noisy goodness as wrinkle. The EP was recorded in 2001 at Springtime Studios in Huddersfield, through with Andy Briggs on drums. Gary Jarman recently discussed the band on 22 Grand Pod, a podcast celebrating seminal bands from …
EP: !!! (chk chk chk)- Certified Heavy Kats
The new EP by the leviathans of the dance-punk genre, arriving nearly two decades after their self-titled debut, vents as much creativity and unrelenting magnetism to dance (or nod the head), as their greatest releases. The majority refines and perfects the band’s energetic musical trademarks embraced upon the hugely popular 2013 LP Thriller. Lead single …