Bella Union
See: I Break Horses release live video for ‘I Live At Night’
Fresh from the release of her new album Warning, which dropped in May 8th via the ever brilliant Bella Union label, I Break Horses, aka Stockholm’ Maria Lindén has released a new video for the track In live at night’ recorded in her back garden. Built around this slightly wonky synth line, that chimes and …
TRACK: Emmy the Great’s ‘Dandelions/Liminal’ is intelligent and breezy
BELLA UNION’S Emmy the Great has had a major shift in consciousness and the place she calls home since her last album, Second Love, back in 2016. Born in Hong Kong, Emma Lee-Moss (for it is she) moved to London with her parents at the end of the city’s loaned colonial status; more recently she …
Album Review: Mr Ben & The Bens – Life Drawing
In a recent interview we did with Ben Hall, aka Mr. Ben and the Bens, he told us about new album Life Drawing, saying “I came up with the idea of calling a record ‘Life Drawing’ and having the lyrical content of the songs be semi-lucid sketches of events happening in an imagined town. Vignettes …
Meet: Ben Hall (Mr Ben & The Bens) ahead of their Life Drawing album release
We’ve been big fans of Mr. Ben & The Bens since we first caught them in Leeds a couple of years or so ago. Up recently we’ve been more than taken with singles Watering Can and Beast in the House, and with their album Life Drawing coming out on July 10th via the ever brilliant …
NEWS: tickets on sale Friday for rearranged Lanterns on the Lake tour
BELLA UNION’S premiere Geordie shoegazers Lanterns on the Lake, whose spring tour was pulled due to the covid-19 virus, have announced the rearranged dates for February and March 2021. And this has given the band a chance to expand the dates. The band said: “We have upgraded some of the venues that had sold out, …
Album Review: Modern Nature – Annual
JACK COOPER has had a mercurial musical decade. Cast your mind back ten years and you’d have found him in that harbour of all things leftfield, FatCat, plying his trade in garage-motorik band Mazes. A tour with indiepoppers Veronica Falls led to a brace of albums filled with sunshiney, Californian country psych as Ultimate Painting, …
See: Liela Moss releases new video for Atoms At Me
Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit has announced that her new solo album, Who The Power, will be released on August 7th via Bella Union, and to celebrate she’s released a new video for lead track Atoms At Me, directed and filmed by her neighbour and IYEARA singer Paul O’Keeffe. There’s a certain angst and …
Track: Psychic Markers – Baby It’s Time
Psychic Markers will release their self-titled, third full length album on 29 May via Bella Union. They have share a new track from the album, ‘Baby It’s Time.’ Speaking about the track, the band say: “This is the oldest of the tracks and was initially gonna go on Hardly Strangers but somehow it didn’t seem to …
Track: A.A. Williams – All I Asked For (Was To End It All) plus debut album news
London based singer/songwriter A.A Williams has announced the release of her debut album ‘Forever Blue’ on July 3rd via Bella Union. To mark the occasion Williams has shared a haunting animated video for immersive lead track ‘All I Asked For (Was To End It All)’ created by Craig Murray. Of the video Williams says: “I’m so …
Track: Mr. Ben and The Bens – Watering Can
We’ve already waxed lyrical aboutMr Ben and the Bens ‘Beast in the House’ video (and track), taken from their forthcoming album Life Drawing, out on July 10th via Bella Union, we aren’t going to let up with the release of follow up track Watering Can. Of the track bandleader Ben Hall says: “Watering can is a gently-swaying brassy …