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News: Vermilia has launched a pre order for the vinyl pressing of her debut album
Finnish pagan metaller Vermilia has launched pre-order campaign for the long-awaited vinyl press of her debut album ‘kätkyt’, originally self-released in June 29th 2018 CD/Digital/Cassette. The 30-day vinyl campaign has been made with cooperation with Bandcamp, and will run until April 3rd, 2021. The vinyl comes as double splatter vinyl with a gatefold jacket and there is an option to have your name …
Track: ROY – ‘Where Did My Mind Go’: Toronto psychester invites you to his garage with some hazy excellence
BROTHERS and sisters: the time hath come to make a little more room in your psychedelic pop heart for a Canadian songsmith sure to seduce your Carnaby Street-lovin’ synapses; please, if you would, put your hands together for ROY. ROY is how Toronto psych scenester Patrick Lefler likes to get dressed for a night on …
See: Cat and Calmell release evocative video for stripped back version of Dramatic and announce live debut.
With a debut late last year with single ‘Dumbshit’ followed up by ‘Dramatic’, Sydney-based duo Cat and Calmell have been establishing quite a bit of interest in Australia and beyond. On the announcement of their live debut in Sydney, the duo have released a video for the track ‘Dramatic’ – a stunning, shadowy feature that …
Track and EP News: Tommy Ashby and Lydia Clowes – Happy Just to Know
Scottish singer-songwriter, Tommy Ashby has released his duet with Lydia Clowes, ‘Happy Just To Know’. It’s out via Wow & Flutter Records and is the first single from his new EP, ‘Lay Low’, which is out on 14th May. It’s an absolutely brilliant slice of life-affirming joy from start to finish and is that song …
Track: Loney Dear – ‘Oppenheimer’; the atomic age examined delicately in falsetto and solo piano
LONEY DEAR is the wholly unusual solo vision of Emil Svanängen, part of the stable of talent over at Peter Gabriel’s Real World imprint, with a curiously timeless and very intelligent take on the solo singer-pianist auteur thing; at once wholly himself but seeming to draw on elements of the drama of early John Grant and equally …
News: Skullcrusher announces new EP ‘Storm in Summer’ and releases title track and video
If you were one of those who, like me, was totally mesmerised and enraptured by Helen Ballentine’s (aka Skullcrusher) gorgeous eponymous debut EP of last summer, then you will have been yearning for more ever since. Well, good news then, that the singer-songwriter has announced her next EP, entitled “Storm in Summer” and released its …
News: Ex-Creation Records band Hurricane #1 sign new deal; new music and live shows expected this year
In news that will see a shudder of excitement flow across the loins of indie music officianados of a certain age, ex-Creation Recrords indie rockers Hurricane #1 have signed a deal with Golden Boot Records with big plans expected for 2021. in their 90s heyday, the band scored a couple of top 20 albums and …
News: Osees come firing out with another Levitation Session live stream in April; see a taster, ‘Snickersee’
POSSIBLY the absolute best live band in the world right now and for quite a while, John Dwyer’s Osees are determined we don’t go through our second pandemic spring without a prescription of garage rock fire, to be taken aurally. They’ve announced another Levitation Session for April 10th – if you caught either their Christmas …
Track: Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell collaborate with producer James Chapman (MAPS) in exquisite new single ‘Noyalain (Burn)’ and announce new album
Australian duo Dead Can Dance (consisting of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry) were an extraordinarily innovative band signed to the legendary 4AD label (becoming their highest selling artists), fusing medieval music with gothic undertones and ambient textures. The band has disbanded and reformed over the years since it began in 1981 – the most recent …
News: Neil Cowley presents a live-streamed recital live from London upon the release of ‘Hall Of Mirrors’
IN CELEBRATION of the release of his rather excellent longform essay into piano and electronica, Hall Of Mirrors, Neil Cowley is presenting a live-streamed performance from London’s Lafayette. The performance, live-streamed for the first time last night, will be available to watch in full until March 18th. The contemporary composer who has moved from jazz …