Bella Union
Album Review: Promise and The Monster – Feed the Fire
As someone that written album reviews for over a decade, I’ve learned to accept that there are some reviews which just don’t come easy. Sometimes because it’s difficult to put into words just how mind-fryingly amazing some music is. Or sometimes it’s the flip of that, where there are no words strong enough for you …
Track: Emmy The Great – Dance w Me
Ahead of Second Love, the new album from Emmy the Great (aka Emma-Lee Moss) is a preview track Dance w Me. Following on from this year’s S EP with more warm Synths and soft vocals, this track feels like a particularly intense conversation. Chatter drifts over the verses, while Emmy challenges you to pay attention …
Album Review: MONEY – Suicide Songs
With Christmas just around the corner, the music on our radios is about joy, happiness and having a good time. But come January we are all fed up of the bells and the sparkle. The festive season behind us and the nights are dark and long. Nights out and Christmas parties turn to cheap nights …
See: Promise and the Monster reveal new video for Time of the Season
Taken from her forthcoming third album Feed the Fire, out January 22nd via the ever brilliant Bella Union label, Promise and the Monster – aka Stockholm’s Billie Lindahl, has released a new video for ‘Time of the Season’. It’s a complex and dark pop record, driven by this repetitive and bewitching backing, swirling around the …
See: Ezra Furman releases video for ‘Body was made’/announces November and February live dates
Following on from the release of his brilliant album Perpetual Motion People, Ezra Furman has released a new video for the single Body Was Made, about which Furman says “Body Was Made is a protest song against the people and forces that would make me ashamed of my body, my gender and my sexuality. Its …
Album Review: Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
Bella Union have been on a massive – and I mean massive – roll this year. In 2015 they’ve released the long overdue return albums by B.C. Camplight, Mercury Rev and John Grant and Ezra Furman’s breakthrough album. In among all these was Father John Misty’s second album, I Love You, Honeybear, which saw J. …
Album Review: John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
For me, like many people, John Grant first appeared on my radar following the release of Queen of Denmark, his gloriously heartbreaking collaboration with Midlake and simply one of the most astonishing debut albums for many years. Of course, he’d previously been vocalist with the Czars during the 90s and early part of this century, …
Album Review: Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People
He’s mixed up, Ezra Furman. His third album, and first for Bella Union, Perpetual Motion People mixes up genres as it sweeps through indie, rock and roll, blues, folk, musical theatre (well, almost) and a host of other things, and he shoots from the heart about his battles with mental illness, love and the lack …
Album review: Pins – Wild Nights
Sometimes having big money thrown at you can take the edge of off a band but with Pins it has made them stronger. Yes, the edges are smoother thanks to Dave Catching after they travelled to the Joshua Tree to work at his Rancho De La Luna, but that’s no bad thing. The vocals and …
See: Ezra Furman releases video to Restless Year
Ahead of his first album for Bella Union, singer songwriter Ezra Furman has released a new video for the track ‘Restless Year’. Its his first since the well received Day of the Dog, which showed Furman could mix up elements of doo wop, skiffle and garage into something that sounded decidedly modern. Restless Year follows …