News
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. …
News: Yo La Tengo live dates
Don’t be sad because Yo La Tengo have played their last gigs in the UK for this year, as they are back next year on a European tour! Ahead of their US and Japan gigs in 2019, Europe can experience more Yo La Tengo headline shows in support of the most recent album “There’s A …
News: Mott the Hoople to release Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71) six CD box set
The Mental Train’s a rollin’… It’s probably fair to say that Mott the Hoople had a career of two halves. While it took the Bowie-penned to catapult them to commercial success, it is notable that despite the meagre sales of their previous four albums Mott the Hoople had recorded for Island Records, they had earned …
Track: Mabel – One Shot
Mabel is back with her new single “One Shot”, a taster of her forthcoming album. It’s an impossibly slickly produced slice of upbeat dance pop; Positive and individual, Mabel’s voice and character cuts through the production and leaves a lasting impression. The album will certainly be one to look out for. And, Mabel is on …