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Premiere: Mr. Bewlay releases new live video for Lovelife.
Coming off the back of a handful of releases in 2019, including a collaboration with the South Wales band Fussie, artist Mr. Bewlay is back with a double single ‘Fake Yourself’ containing the tracks ‘Fake Yourself’, ’Lovelife’ and bonus instrumental ‘Stentorian’, and he’s recorded versions of these at Yellowshark studios. We’re delighted to premiere the …
Feature: The 50 best albums of 2020
Well, it’s been a bit of a year, hasn’t it? Global pandemics, George Floyd, environmental issues, terrorism, dissatisfaction with those in charge, not least in the ongoing (it seems) fallout from the American Presidential election. None of that has stopped artists from all persuasions and genres making some fantastic music over the last 12 months. …
TRACKS: Erland Cooper wraps up the year with a gorgeous choral EP, ‘Eynhallow’
ERLAND COOPER wraps up a year in which he’s brought us much light, creativity and joy with one final aural missive, the choral EP, Eynhallow, out today on Phases. Hether Blether, the concluding chapter of the Orkney Trilogy, seduced everyone who came into its welcoming arms in June, with its delicacy, its history, its cultural …
SEE: David Lewis Gedge – ‘All The Time In The World’ – Weddoes-related Bond covers album!
WEDDING PRESENT frontman David Gedge has dropped a video for his cover of “We Have All The Time In The World”, which crowns the album the Not From Where I’m Standing, a collection of Bond themes and songs covered by current and former members of The Wedding Present. The Wedding Present have never been shy of …
Track: Dumb Whales release another great indie pop single ‘Communication’
Proving that their chiming single ‘The Great Divide’ (premiered by Backseat Mafia last month) was no fluke, Melbourne based indie pop maestros Dumb Whales are back in town with their new blistering single ‘Communication’. Blasting open with a Pixies-blast of guitars and a driving infective beat, this is magnificent indie fare: melodic, sparkling with a …
EP: McCookerybook and Rotifer – Equal Parts
Those familiar with either of the protagonists involved in this release, an EP of rather lovely indie pop, with a nod towards folk and Motown along the way, will know what to expect. And, they’ll be glad to hear, won’t be disappointed either. Helen McCookerybook has a formidable cannon behind her as a member of …
Say Psych: Album Review: Flying Moon in Space – Ardor
Flying Moon In Space are a seven-piece band from Leipzig, Germany borne out of live improvisations which are known to last for hours at a time. Having clocked-up nearly fifty shows in their home-city alone, as well as support slots with The Holydrug Couple, Elephant Stone and The Sweet Release of Death and a couple …
ALBUM REVIEW: Anna Järvinen – ‘Vestigia Terrent’
A dazzling collaboration with Dungen for Swedish chamber-pop diva
Rising: We meet Spang Sisters; see the vid for the post-modern soul of ‘Eddie Murphy’
AFTER first being seduced by the name (I mean: isn’t Spang Sisters a thing of beauty?), we were further seduced by the musical chops of the said sisters, in actual fact duo Rachid and Jules. Not just those cool Hall & Oates meets Unknown Mortal Orchestra vibes; but also these keenly observed, skewed views of …
EP REVIEW: Quiet Marauder – ‘Tiny Men Parts’: a critique of the male condition in bounce-along indiepop
Tiny Men Parts nails masculine creepiness and ineptitude with insouciance and tons of guitar pop like they used to make