Music
Track: Broken Hands – Who Sent You
Who Sent You, the new single from Canteburys Broken Hands is, according to frontman Dale Norton, a description of “the moment when paranoia takes over from fun experiences and the strange other worldly voice enters your thoughts. You start to question your own trajectory; even asking your friends “is everything okay here?” as if they …
See: Beau release new video for C’mon Please
Taken from their self titled EP, out now on influential Kitsuné imprint, New York City duo Beau have released some accompanying visuals to their track C’mon Please. The song has this rootsy swagger about it, with just enough Warpaint thrown in before it shows it’s more muscular side into the chorus as it shoots some …
Track: Careless Sons – Betty
Last year we enthused about North London ‘Pop and Roll’ outfit, Careless Sons. They are back better than ever with their new single ‘Betty’: a more mature, smooth sound yet still emotive and hook-laden: The production is clear and precise, driving the chiming guitars and excellent layered harmonies. I am reminded a little of the …
Say Psych: Album Review – Take A Lover by Early Mammal
If you like dirty low down psychedelic blues rock then I would suggest that you are going to love this third album by Early Mammal, on the ever reliable Riot Season Records. Early Mammal seem to have adopted that sort of no holds barred psychedelic blues rock aesthetic that at the same time puts a …
News: Nordic Giants announce 7 Depths of conciousness tour
Quite why Nordic Giants aren’t the biggest thing in music right now is a mystery to me. Situated somewhere between Mogwai and Sigur Ros, their recent debut album A Séance Of Dark Delusions, released earlier in the year through Kscope showed that the mysterious UK (not Nordic at all) band could make soundscapes and beguiling …
Track: Darkstar – Through the Motions, plus tour dates
Ahead of the release later in the month of their new album ‘Foam Island’, out on 25th September via Warp Records, Darkstar are back with a new song, Through the Motions. The duo, James Young and Aiden Whalley, have blended their electro/dance floor sound, as seen best on earlier releases such as Aidy’s Girl is …
New Music: David Ward – Mother
Vancouver singer songwriter David Ward is a rather special talent. He’s back with a new song, Mother, taken from his forthcoming album ‘Transitioning. Mother is an object lesson in new (nu) soul, as his voice, this instrument capable of overwhelming beauty, steers it’s course somewhere close to Stevie Wonder. Underneath all of that is some …
Say Psych: Album Review, Frid by Hills
Hills are one of my favourite bands, and the 2011 album ‘Master Sleeps’ is one of my most played. I love the coming together of dance rhythms with drone and a healthy dose of reverb, a heady mixture that I find myself lost in again and again. However, on first playing the new album ‘Frid’ …
Not Forgotten: Ray Davies – The Storyteller
The rock star’s autobiography is big business these days, but rarely are they as revelatory, or as informative as they could be and even rarer do they actually make for enlightening reading. There are, of course, honourable exceptions. Indeed, both volumes of Julian Cope’s autobiography are wildly entertaining (whether you are actually a fan of …
Not Forgotten: Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous
The live album was a right of passage for the majority of 70s rockers. By and large it was a great leveller, as it could find otherwise massively successful acts amplify their lesser qualities (Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same, Yes’s Yesshows, etc), on the other hand it could be a handy document of …