Music
Album Review: LA Priest – Inji
There are two ways an artist can go when breaking free from the shadows of a former group and going it alone. They can either adopt the style of their band and continue with a well practiced formular, or go completely rogue and try something totally new. Rising from the ashes of nu-rave band Late …
See: Paper Kites release new visuals for Electric Indigo
In anticipation of their forthcoming album twelvefour, due out on 28 August, Melbourne indie-folk outfit, Paper Kites, have released a video of the song ‘Electric Indigo’. The song itself is a luscious, sleepy, melancholic song, fitting perfectly into the theme of the album based around the creativity felt after the hours of midnight. The video …
Track: Miles Brown – Apparition
We enthusiastically reviewed a release from Melbourne band Night Terrors late last year – describing it as beautiful, haunting and gothic. Now, one of their members, Miles Brown, has released a solo single entitled ‘Apparition’ and it is a joy to experience. There’s a cold front moving through south eastern Australia, and you can wear …
Track: Morly – And Sooner Than We Know It…
On August 14th, In Defence of My Muse the debut EP from Morly (aka Katy Morley) drops via Cascine. Its a collection of records inspired by her time (reputedly Autumn 2013 till this past spring) locked away in a studio (presumably not all the time) with a box of old instruments and borrowed headphones, after …
Meet: Drawing Blood, A Talk With Table Scraps
Every once in a while you come across a band that legitimately rocks. There’s no posing or jumping on the bandwagon. There’s something honest and visceral about the music. Something genuinely scary, too. Scott Vincent Abbot and Poppy Twist of Birmingham’s Table Scraps can be very scary. And they rock. Table Scraps take that boy/girl rock …
Track: Copywrite – Philophobia
Australian alt-indie four piece Copywrite are preparing for the release of their debut single, Philophobia. The band started to record when they were just 16 at high school, and it was completed a year later. They describe Philophobia saying (it is) “a taboo but common fear of love. I found it interesting that it was …
Backseat Mafia Podcast 006: Ilia Rogatchevski
DeXter Bentley’s Hello Goodbye Show has been a regular feature on London’s Resonance 104.4fm, ever since the station’s inception thirteen years ago. The programme gives a platform to key voices from the underground music scene, prioritising quality over Facebook likes or gig attendance figures. Each band is invited to play a fifteen minute set, live …
See: Public Service Broadcasting — UK and European Tour Dates
The art rock electronica instrumental duo Public Service Broadcasting is bringing their multimedia performance to the UK and Europe starting this week. One-half of the band, J. Wilgoose, Esq. (the other being Wrigglesworth), described their Nottingham gig earlier this year as “the musical equivalent of palliative care.” If you’ve ever spent time blissing out with their …
Album review: Years & Years – Communion
2015 has been an amazing year so far for London based three piece Years & Years. They took the title of BBC Sound of 2015, scored their first number one hit with ‘King’, and performed triumphantly on the John Peel stage at this year’s Glastonbury. But the crowning of a great band always comes with …
EP: DKA – Anneessens
10 years in the game working on various projects DKA returns with a new EP ‘Anneessens’, a three track release that has a nice blend of techno and house, each track stands on its own while complimenting each other on this E. The title track ‘Anneessens’ is a techy affair that drives along with sparse melodies, …