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Album Review: Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth: Tell Me Yours (20th Year Collectors Edition)
I remember moving to London during the peak of the Brit Pop years in the midst of the Blur versus Oasis hyperbole. But the albums from that era that really struck me were Pulp’s “Different Class”, The Verve’s “Urban Hymns” and most of all, “This is My Truth Tell Me Yours” from The Manic Street …
News: Bowling For Soup To Bring Early Festive Cheer To The UK!
It’s coming up to the festive period and what better way to get your Christmas bells jingling than an evening with Pop Punk legends Bowling For Soup?! After the success of the ‘Get Happy’ tour at the start of the year, BFS are bringing their unique brand of pop punk back to the UK for …
Say Psych: News: TAU announce new album and first single ‘It’s Already Written’
Berlin based TAU are back, with a new track. ‘It’s Already Written’ is the first single lifted from forthcoming second album TAU and the Drones of Praise, set for release in Februrary. It’s a one chord scorcher full of mantras inspired by the cosmic serpent and its relation to DNA theory. The song is powered …
Say Psych: News: Bauhaus to release The Bela Session
Leaving Records, in partnership with Stones Throw Records have announced that they will release The Bela Session by Bauhaus on 23rd November on vinyl and digital platforms. The Bela Session captures the first time Bauhaus recorded together, just six weeks after forming as a band, on 26th January 1979. This is the first release of …
News: Celtic Connections Launch 2019 Festival Programme
Celtic Connections Festival delivers another exciting line-up of over 300 events featuring musicians from across the globe. After last year’s impressive 25th festival celebrations, when Celtic Connections welcomed over 2,300 artists from over 30 countries and recorded an exceptional 130,000 attendances, the largest winter music festival of its kind continues to grow and diversify. The …
News: Super Furry Animals to release ‘At The BBC’
In recent weeks Super Furry Animals kept posting images of styled hair on their social media feeds without. Over the course of days certain sections of their fandom got more and more hyped for the inevitable pre-release announcement, while others raged at the repetitiveness of the posts, perhaps not spotting that there were a number …
Track: San Mei – Heaven
Following up on her debut single “Wonder” earlier this year, Emily Hamilton, working under the name San Mei, has just released a fitting follow-up in “Heaven”. This is a somewhat more poppy and less abrasive San Mei, yet it still has a spine of fuzz and understated distortion below the surface of synths. “Heaven” is …
EP/Track: The Nature Strip – Past Pacific
Pure power pop harmonies leavened by a self deprecating sense of humour encapsulates the many layered charms of Sydney’s The Nature Strip. Their new EP, Past Pacific maintains an impeccable standard they have set since forming in 2013 and over four previous releases (Stars Turn Inside Out, 2013, EP Plainclothes, 2014, Presents, 2016, and Beetle …
Track: Celestial North – The Land, The Sea, The Human Race
The Land, The Sea, The Human Race is the latest addition to Celestial North’s clutch of tunes. Adding a bit of brooding oomph to its predecessors’ more delicate charms, it’s a nifty bit of pastoral goth. Something get those of us who properly remember the 80s digging out a paisley shirt and indulging in a …
News: Farewell Bastard Song, By Toad – a celebration
A few days back Matthew Young who runs Song, By Toad Records let slip that he was calling it a day. While a decade of doing anything is a lot and it’s often better for everyone that people move on and do new stuff, Song, By Toad will be missed – not least by me. …