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Tracks: Shannon And The Clams – Corvette
Corvette is the first single from the forthcoming Shannon And The Clams album Gone By The Dawn, due for release on 11 September. This is a song that begins sweetly with Shannon Shaw’s vocals a deep purr. As the lyrics turn sour she starts to growl and you realise that this one will have a …
Track: Hyde & Beast – Hard Times Good Times
With a new EP due for release on 24 June, Hyde & Beast bring us more of their psychedelic pop with title track Hard Times Good Times. Dave Hyde (The Futureheads) and Neil Bassett (The Golden Virgins) have continued in a similar vein as last year’s album, Keep Moving, on this single with its fuzzy …
See: We Came as Strangers release video for ‘Still Life’
Experimental rockers We Came as Strangers have released a new video for the track Still Life, taken from their forthcoming third album, Eyedom, out on August 31st. Originally formed as a side project for the four-piece, with Guitarist Justin Sandercoe explaining “I wanted to do a proper band where we all write the songs and …
See: Broken Hands release video for “Meteor”
Brooding behind their luscious long hair, Canterbury’s psychedelic space rockers Broken Hands step up to fill an unfortunate gap within music at the moment. Broken Hands are blessed with both great riffs and great hair. If Black Sabbath had been into science fiction and space exploration, they might have sounded like Broken Hands’ new …
Track: TAU – ‘Wirikuta’ EP
TAU is the collective brainchild of Dubliner, Shaun Mulrooney. Shaun is perhaps best known for his involvement with the Dead Skeletons and as the “Invisible Man” with Camera. TAU’s ‘Medicine Music’ was envisioned during a Mulrooney sojourn in Mexico with the Wixárikas, an ancient shamanic tribe whose culture and mythology is immersed in peyote lore. This …
Meet: Boxed In’s Oli Bayston
Boxed In is the vehicle respected producer Oli Bayston has chosen to fuse his vision of indie, funk and electronica. He’s put together a crack band who are getting on the road for some UK dates before jetting to the States for a short tour. He also knocks out tunes for other artists, and rumour …
Premiere: Sundays and Cybele – Almost Heaven
Named after the 1962 French film directed by Serge Bourguignon, Sunday’s and Cybele are the brainchild of Tokyo multi-instrumentalist Kazuo Tsubouchi. Taken from the band’s forthcoming album Heaven, out on July 31st via Beyond Beyond is Beyond, we are very pleased to be able to premiere a new track from the cinematic four piece, Almost …
News: Susumu Yokota dead at 54
Prolific Japanese composer/producer Susumu Yokata passed away earlier in the year, his family have announced. Yokota, who also released albums under aliases such as Ebi and Prism as well as his own name, came to prominence with releases on Germany’s Harthouse label, before moving onto the likes of Lo Recordings and Leaf, where his path …
See: N. Lannon releases new video for “Endless Night”
Sometime Film School guitarist N. Lannon aka Nyles Lannon has recently released his third solo album, Falling Inside, and eclectic mix of electro-folk onto which Lannon has added samples from old Persian records and his guitar recorded backwards, as well as a liberal smattering of 808 kick bass. From it, the San Francisco based singer-songwriter …
See: Sun Drug release new video for “Wildman”
Taken from their recent Sun Drug EP, the LA four piece of the same name are releasing a new single taken from that EP, Wildman, out on August 7th. From the outset it manages to mix up a range of styles, with the bass prominent and elements of electro and shards of this almost post-punk …