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Gallery + Set Lists: Sinéad O’Brien / Pretty Happy – Whelan’s, Dublin 27.10.2022
Poet / Spoken Word mistress Sinéad O’Brian played to a 300 strong crowd in Dublin’s Whelan’s with support coming from Corks art punk outfit Pretty Happy.The openers played a fantastic 30 minute set of intensity and then the main played a 45 minute set of fuzzed up noise poetry. Pretty Happy. Sinéad O’Brien, Gallery & …
Album Review: Tanya-Lee Davies is in ‘Dreamland’: a wonderful realm of slow burning vignettes that simmer with a melodic intensity.
The music of Melbourne’s Tanya-Lee Davies has a sixties beehive velvet blush about it – a sort of Dusty Springfield/Nancy Sinatra slow waltz to something powered by Burt Bacharach or Jimmy Webb, with a touch of self-deprecating antipodean humour. Her album ‘Dreamland’ is a wonderful collection of wry, bittersweet tunes that are infused with a …
Album Review: Oval – Ovidono (Edition Dur)
Edition Dur is a series of limited vinyl releases that Sven Hasenjäger and Daniel Meteo are making in collaboration with Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann, available exclusively at the Dussmann store in Berlin. Ovidono is an auditory art project by Markus Popp (aka Oval) and Vlatka Alec, a fascinating scenario for a new kind of musical storytelling. Sensual, dazzling and multi-layered, the project …
Premiere: Melbourne’s Blackbirds FC unveil the shimmering atmospheric ‘Magiclands’, title track for their new album, ahead of gig news.
We are honoured to premiere the new single from the brilliant Blackbirds FC, which is the title track for their upcoming album ‘Magiclands’, due out on 18 November 2022. The single is a gorgeous shimmering track: with celestial choruses and an aching, melancholy feel and guitars that jangle like chiming bells. The band has an …
News: Holly Humberstone releases new single ‘Can You Afford To Lose Me?’ ahead of Winter UK tour
Closing the beginning chapter on one of music’s most exciting stories in recent memory, Holly Humberstone has released Can You Afford To Lose Me? today: the title track from an extended collection of songs tracing her sensational musical journey to-date, out on 28th October. The project is led by the brand new title track – a devastating slowburn carried …
Track: Naarm/Melbourne trio Summer Flake wonder who the ‘Stranger’ in the mirror is – an easy slow burning track with a delicate pop sensibility.
‘Stranger’ is a slow burning fuse of a song that floats in the ether with a gorgeous slide guitar motif and layers of glorious harmonies. Summer Flake have that laid back low-fi burnish that brings to mind bands like Mazzy Star or Cowboy Junkies – soft velvet vocals and shimmering guitars that create an evocative …
Premiere: The irrepressible Charlie Needs Braces bounces back with new track ‘Yanoo’ and news of debut album and launch dates.
Charlie Needs Braces has a very fresh, effervescent and quite unique sound and we are ever so delighted to premiere her new track ‘Yanoo’, due out on Thursday, 27 October 2022. This delight is further compounded by news that she will be releasing her debut album, ‘Saltwater People’ in the new year. Charlie Needs Braces …
EP Review: Loome – We’re All Fvcked
Suffolk alt-pop up and comer Loome, the brainchild of Tomas Frankson, has today released the brilliant new EP ‘We’re All Fvcked’, a 5 track release showing brilliant, melancholic and infectiously catchy songwriting over tight, sonically rich soundscapes as the solo artist treads through the pitfalls of being a young adult in 2022. Opening with the …