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Track: Tindersticks – Always A Stranger
Tindersticks have released their new song and accompanying video ‘Always A Stranger’, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Soft Tissue,’ which will be released on the 13th of September via City Slang. Of the new single, frontman Stuart Staples explains: “Some of the songs I write, I understand their reference points. For ‘New World’ and ‘Don’t Walk, Run,’ I probably understood their reference points. But some …
Track: Efterklang – To A New Day (ft. Sønderjysk Pigekor)
Efterklang have shared ‘To A New Day’, the fourth single from their forthcoming album, ‘Things We Have In Common’, which will be released on September 27, via City Slang. The track is dedicated to new life and new beginnings and, like most of the songs on the new album, was written in collaboration with Rune Mølgaard. In addition to Sønderjysk Pigekor, …
Track: Efterklang – Plant
After releasing the stand-alone single ‘Getting Reminders‘ featuring Beirut’s Zach Condon on trumpet, Efdeterkland has announced their new album, ‘Things We Have In Common’, which is due for release on September 27th via City Slang. The album will be accompanied by live dates, including a show at London’s Barbican on October 5th. Along with the announcement, the band …
Track: Sinkane – Everything is Everything (Feat Tru Osborne)
Sudanese-American musician Sinkane has shared his new single ‘Everything is Everything’ via City Slang. This will be his first new track since the release of his album ‘Dépaysé’ back in 2019. Written and composed by bandleader Ahmed Gallab, and featuring Harlem-based multi-disciplinary artist Tru Osborne, “Everything is Everything” is an acute reflection of life as a Black person in America. Sinkane opens the jazzy ballad …
News: Sprints released new single ”Adore Adore Adore” and announce Dublin headline show
Sprints today shared new single Adore Adore Adore, out now on City Slang. The band also confirm details of their biggest headline shows to date, including an Autumn show at London’s Scala. Sprints are set to dominate the festival landscape this Summer, bringing their own brand of charisma-laden punk to stages around Europe. Despite being pre-debut album, Sprints have received …
Album review: The dark delights of Boy Harsher’s new album ‘The Runner (Original Soundtrack)’ dropping tomorrow via Nude Club/City Slang
From fetish clubs to catwalks, Boy Harsher have amassed a cult-like following for their broody, atmospheric beats. Stepping up the cinematics, in addition to Friday’s album release they’ve just premiered their own short film, via streaming platform Shudder. Entirely written, produced and directed by the duo, the film is a horror-style “documentary” about their recording …
See: Krautjazz quintet Fazer offer an ode to a weird year ending in the whimsical but classy ‘Dezember’
WITH the recent album by Spiritczualic Enhancement Center (which, not to blow our own trumpet, we reviewed here) and others, it very much looks like one of the current leftfield trends to be ear to the ground for as 2021 melts inexorably into 2022 is krautjazz; that scene fermenting in city basements and performance spaces …
Meet: We talk to Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks on new album ‘Distractions’, lockdown and more
TINDERSTICKS are in danger of becoming a national treasure. After all they’ve (or more pertinently lead figure Stuart A Staples has) since 1991, largely making thought-provoking dark pop and emotive vignettes, always concerned with mood as well as just melody and structure. To that end, they have always turned ears and drew people towards them. …
Album Review: Anna B Savage – ‘A Common Turn’
If, for Anna B Savage fans, it has felt like a long wait for this, her debut album, that’s because it has been. The question is, has it been worth that wait? It’s nearly six years since the release of ‘EP’, with its tracks, ‘I’, ‘II’, ‘III’ and IV’. On the undoubted, shining strength of …
See: Tindersticks release new video for Man Alone (can’t stop the fadin’)
Tindersticks have released a new video for their track Man Alone (Can’t Stop the Fadin’), taken from their forthcoming album ‘Distractions’, out via City Slang on February 19th. It’s the opening track of the record and the longest track the band have ever made. Stuart A. Staples from the band comments on the track saying: “This song …