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Album Review: Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You really Feel
Courtney Barnett is swiftly developing global adulation for her low-fi, heartfelt vignettes of life which capture with great honesty her trials and tribulations and insecurities. Like Jonathan Richman, there is a brutal honesty in her lyrics that reveal a bruised innocence, backed with an increasingly muscular instrumentation that creeps up and surprises. Themes reflect her …
Say Psych: News: Fuzz Club announce further additions to festival in Eindhoven
Last month London-based label and record store Fuzz Club announced thwy will be hosting a two day festival over 24th-25th August in Eindhoven, in partnership with the prestigious Effenaar venue – the line-up already boasting the likes of The Black Angels, Holy Wave, The Underground Youth and Ron Gallo. As Fuzz Club Eindhoven 2018 draws …
News: Flatbush Zombies announce European tour dates
Following their genre-transcending, future forward debut 3001: A Laced Odyssey, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES have returned to cement their position as hip-hop’s most exciting asset. The Brooklyn trio have announced a European headline tour throughout October 2018, tickets on sale here. Meechy Darko, Erik Arc Elliott and Zombie Juice prove themselves with every release; consciously separating themselves …
News: The Psych Weekender Manchester Reveal Full Line Up
With Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia announcing that it was taking a break this year, there has been left a gaping hole in most people’s calender. Manchester’s Astral Elevator however have stepped up and announced that they are hosting a one-off, two day event at Night People, famous for its history as the The Twisted …
News: Chromatics announce new album & video for ‘Black Walls’
Portland-based four piece Chromatics this week confirmed that they will have a new album out in the Autumn on Italians Do It Better. The four piece made up of Ruth Radelet, Johnny Jewel, Adam Miller & Nat Walker have shared a new track and video, ‘Black Walls’, taken from the forthcoming album which will be their fifth …
See: My Pleasure releases new video for ‘Fluorescent Jacket’, plus tour dates
MY PLEASURE is from Hull, UK and describes his music as “almost pop”. Mostly Happy is the title of his second album, out Friday 1st June. My Pleasure says of the single: “Fluorescent Jacket is a ode to the feeling you get when you put on any kind of uniform, and instantly become part of …
Track: Braids share two new tracks and start US tour
BRAIDS are a Montreal-based, three-piece band composed of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Taylor Smith and Austin Tufts. Formed in 2007, BRAIDS have solidified a decade-long reputation for their musical ingenuity and established themselves as one of Canada’s most acclaimed art rock bands, releasing three albums: Deep In The Iris (2015), Flourish // Perish (2013), Native Speaker (2011), …
Track: Magic Wands – DNA, plus European tour dates
The latest single from Magic Wands ‘DNA’ has been released. Taken from upcoming album ‘Abrakadabra’ which will be out on May 15th. Magic Wands are a dream pop duo from Los Angeles, California. They are know for their melodic, catchy songs ‘Black Magic’ and ‘Teenage Love’ and have been remixed by The XX and Crystal …
See: Evil Blizzard Return with new video ‘Hello’, plus UK tour dates
Evil Blizzard have announced the release of their third, album ‘The Worst Show On Earth’. Returning with a new video for the album’s opening track ‘Hello’, bassist Filthydirty explains “we’ve been away for a couple of years, and we know you have missed us, so this is just us kicking in your back door, eating …
See: Dirty Projectors release video for Break-Thru, plus album news and tour dates
Dirty Projectors have released a video for a new track ahead of their forthcoming seventh album. The track “Break-Thru” features cheery guitar hooks, upbeat vocals, and birds in the video – The video tells the story of an ever increasing number of birds, apparently attracted by the feel good tune, and the Talking Heads hanging …