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News: Mute to reissue Suicide’s self-titled debut as part of the Art of the Album series
Suicide, the highly influential art-noise project of Alan Vega and Marty Rev, is having Mute’s Art of the Album treatment in a reisue of their 1977 debut album, due out on July 12th. As with the other releases in the series, there are no extra tracks, it is just the album as it was, remastered …
Track: Horror In Clay – Heck Cattle Grazing
“Heck Cattle Grazing” is the first work to be released by Auckland art-folk/experimental group Horror In Clay. The group, featuring former members of popular group Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing, recorded the work with local engineer Rohan Evans and revealed the track last week with little-to-no warning except for a post on their label MUZAI Records‘ …
Track: SOULLINE – “Cool Breeze’ and Album News
SOULLINE has been active in the Swiss metal scene since 2001, cementing their status as a live band (more than 200 gigs) with major impact on their audience. The music they offer is melodic death metal with some hardcore influences. They have released 5 albums and did 8 European tour as supporting band of Moonspell, …
Track: Farai – Rebirth Remixed
“Bankers are gangsters” – that was the immortal line that beckoned listeners to the works of Farai late last year, as Big Dada released the producers work, Rebirth, to critical acclaim. “National Gangsters” happened to be one of the stand out tracks among the admittedly many great songs Farai and producer TONE dropped on their release, so it …
News: Cubanate set to release Kolosuss EP
Following on from the release of remastered collection ‘Brutalism’ in 2017 , industrial noise mongers Cubanate are set to drop their first new material in a long time, how long you might be thinking? Around 20 years. After gathering quite a following with their mash up of guitar riffs and techno stylised beats in the …
Track: Idles – Mercedes Marxist, plus US tour dates
Idles have released a new song taken from the sessions from their latest LP ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’, out physically on 7″ vinyl with another song ‘I Dream Guilloutine’ as it’s b-side, on August 2nd via Partisan Records. Pre-orders are available HERE. Built over this troubled punk vibe centred around this single repeated note, it …
Track: Ummagma – Caravan
Dreamy dream pop duo Ummagma take a surprising direction in their new single, ‘Caravan’. It’s a thumpingly percussive missile, tilted forward and racing like a sprinter in a 100m run. With a slight arabic air that is almost reminiscent of Remain in Light-era Talking Heads, there is a sparkling arpeggio with the intertwined vocals of …
Preview: Long Division 2019 (29th May – 2nd June)
It might not be number one on everyone’s visit list, but there’s more to Wakefield than the Wildcats and the Hepworth Gallery, as independent festival Long Division once is once again back spread around the city’s venues and with an enviable cast of players. They’re well sourced with musical acts, but the event is really a …
TRACK: Chris Orrick – Funny Things
“… spiteful chants for the permanently scarred, death letters for the forgotten, surly hymns for charcoal lungs” Mello Music explain with regards to Michigan rapper Chris Orrick, whose latest single “Funny Things” dropped this week – the latest from his forthcoming album Out To Sea. Akin to the socially conscious hip-hop that came out during the …
Track: Crumb – Ghostride plus tour dates
If you’re in the mood this evening for a leisurely, almost lounge-esque track to ease you into the upcoming weekend, Brooklyn collaborators Crumb is exactly the easy, relaxed group of artists for that. Their single, “Ghostride”, is laid-back, dreamy number taken from their forthcoming album Jinx, scheduled for release June 14th. A sanguine piece from the quartet, the …