art-rock
Track & Video: Naarm/Melbourne Artist Kramas Releases Alluring Art Rock Single ‘Give Me Your Money’
In an age inundated with extremely fleeting content, it’s rare to stumble upon something genuinely captivating enough to pull you away from endless scrolling from just a brief 10-second glimpse. Yet, that’s precisely what happened when Naarm/Melbourne artist Kramas teased their latest single, ‘Give Me Your Money’, on Instagram. Immediately drawn in by the enigmatic …
Live Review & Gallery: Puscifer – 3Olympia, Dublin 10.06.2023
Photos and words David McEneaney I’ve been a fan of Maynard James Keenan’s vocal style and lyrics since a classmate gave me a cassette with ‘Undertow’ and ‘AEnima‘ copied onto it in 1995. I remember being in college in Dublin in 2000 and using my bus ticket money for the week to buy the ‘Mer de Noms’ CD, …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles – Huddersfield
Snapped Ankles’ first gig at Huddersfield’s Parish not only brought the group’s viscerally energetic heat to the cold West Yorkshire streets, but also featured literal usage of their environment in homage to their latest album (the sublimely melodic ‘Forest of Your Problems’); an enthralling audience-enveloped sermon during the title track of said album; as well …
Track: Pom Poko release new single, ‘Andrew’
The Norwegian punk-pop extraordinaires’ creative wizardry, very much cemented with their astounding debut LP Birthday, continues with new single Andrew. The single allows a welcome sense of familiarity with it’s fusion of dulcified vocal and guitar melodies, combined with their unique rhythmic sensibilities and galvanic ruptures. However, Andrew also signals a massively creative leap into …
Track: MOHiT – Infinite Decay
With their debut album ‘Preface’ out at the end of the month – 24th July to be exact, London experimntal art-rockers MOHiT have just released a new single, Infinate Decay. Infinite Decay came about after a strange and rather mystical encounter in Wales, said drummer Danny Brooks: “We pondered on the thought of an endless state of …
Track: Mush – Fear Index
Not ones to sit around sitting on their hands after the release of their Lauded debut album 3D Routine, Leeds art rockers Mush have jumped back in the studio to record a new 5 track 7” EP “Great Artisanal Formats” which is coming out to coincide with Record Store Day on June 20th via Memphis …
Track: Ice Baths – Clusters
Ahead of tomorrow’s (31st May) release of their Decadent Sprinter EP via Blank Editions, London post-punks Ice Baths have revealed the last single to be taken from it, Clusters, following on from previous singles, Auster and Simulation. It’s a taught slice of post-punk/art rock, with these shards guitar shattering over the accompaniment in the verse …
Track: Horror In Clay – Heck Cattle Grazing
“Heck Cattle Grazing” is the first work to be released by Auckland art-folk/experimental group Horror In Clay. The group, featuring former members of popular group Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing, recorded the work with local engineer Rohan Evans and revealed the track last week with little-to-no warning except for a post on their label MUZAI Records‘ …
Track: Mush – Operation Vaken, plus EP news
Leeds quartet Mush have announced their debut EP Induction Party is due out on May 31st via Memphis Industries. From it, the band have shared a new single, Operation Vaken. In this day an age of the bland, and a reticence to cause a scene or possibly alienate some potential listeners, it’s nice to see …
ALBUM REVIEW: Django Django “Marble Skies”
Django Django return with their third studio album “Marble Skies” which sees the Scottish-formed, London-based art/maths rock quartet honing their particular brand of quirky guitar-driven synth pop to reach new levels of success. Album opener and title track “Marble Skies” begins as a minimal Kraftwerk-esque piece of uptempo electronica and soon brings in the band’s …