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Premiere: We provide an exclusive listen to the new self titled album from Welsh indie giants Sock: a shimmeringly perfect fit.
We are very honoured to be able to bring you an exclusive first listen to the new album self-titled from Welsh indie giants Sock, released through Bubblewrap Collective. Hailing from Cardiff, Sock are adept at infusing their music with a psychedelic hue, filtering tracks with melody and anthems that have a bright and sparkling shimmer. …
Track: Ritual Cloak envelopes us in a delicious psychedelic fugue with their new track ‘Left Behind’ as new EP ‘Vanished in Transition’ is announced.
Welsh duo Ritual Cloak have just announced a new EP entitled ‘Vanished In Transition’ through Bubblewrap Collective Records, and to whet the appetite have released the track ‘Left Behind’. ‘Left Behind’ is an absorbing, mesmerising fugue of jangling guitars that circulate and flow below the distant vocals. The effect is hypnotic and enchanting, with an …
Track: Little Arrow – ‘Poetically Diseased’ (Live at Four Bars, Cardiff, 2014): potent live take heralds the tenth anniversary rerelease of ‘Music, Masks & Poems’
HAILING from far out west in deepest Pembrokeshire, Little Arrow began making waves on the Welsh scene a decade back with a fully musically and emotionally realised debut album, Music, Masks & Poems. Tragically, Little Arrow’s frontman William Hughes died of cancer in December 2018, cutting short the career of a band with real depth …
Track: My Name Is Ian – ‘For Love’; Welsh collective bring the baggy
MY NAME IS IAN, the lo-fi trio outta Cardiff with a fantastic line in song titles (“If I Was A Gentoo Penguin, I’d Find You The Smoothest Pebble”, anyone?) and who self-describe as a “a bipolar, odd rock, anti-folk loser super group” have dropped quite a fiery little dancefloor-friendly number this week, with more than …
Track: Ritual Cloak – ‘White Noise’: an elegy for a friend in cooltempo electronica
CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling, post-rock cinemascapes. They’ve followed up the massive, brooding soundscapes of their previous single, “Opaque Crater”, with a new drop, “White Noise”, which sees them push …
TRACK: Ritual Cloak – ‘Opaque Crater’: brooding post-rock soundscapes from Cardiff
CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling, post-rock cinemascapes. The pair first crossed paths in the fertile Welsh underground music scene in 2013, when Daniel answered an ad for a guitarist to …
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