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SEE: The Stockholm video for James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra’s ‘Ella Mary Leather’
AS THE year takes it final bows – mostly, you’d have to say, free from the tossing of bouquets, unless they’re dead black roses or somesuch – we at least have the joy of a soon-coming new album from Fife’s always warming James Yorkston, this time in tandem with The Second Hand Orchestra. The album’s …
SEE: Jon Hopkins covers Thom Yorke’s ‘Dawn Chorus’
AS THIS most hellishly viral year’s eyelids droop and it prepares to exit stage left, the masterful Jon Hopkins has brought some beautiful piano catharsis and grace for our troubled brains as he drops a cover of Thom Yorke’s “Dawn Chorus”. The track features on Thom’s most recent solo outing, Anima. It was recorded in one …
NEWS: Mouse On Mars announce February album; hear ‘The Latent Space’
BERLIN’S Mouse on Mars, the playful and textural duo who have been seducing us for many a year with their particular brand of off-kilter sonic wobble, have announced a new album, AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence), which will be out on Thrill Jockey on February 26th. Jan St Werner and Andi Toma’s new album promises to be their …
SEE: Real Estate perform ‘Gone’ live from the fridge; download and create your own footage!
NEW JERSEY’S gorgeous jangly guitar outfit Real Estate have just released a video for the sunlit harmonic breeze of “Gone”, taken from this year’s lovely album The Main Thing – which sees Martin Courtney and the boys performing … from inside a fridge. You can see them jingle-jangle out some beauty among the groceries below. …
TRACK: John Cale unveils a new song, ‘Lazy Day’
WELSH music legend John Cale has returned with a new single and video for Domino, “Lazy Day”; his first outing since his recent collaboration on Kelly Lee Owens’ “Corner of My Sky”. Watch the video with us, below. “Lazy Day” is a gradual unfolding, with droning organs, skipping interjections, little guitar flurries, an off-kilter melodic drift; over which …
TRACK: DIRTY PROJECTORS -SEARCH FOR LIFE AND NEW EP NEWS
After teasing us with the release of track “Overlord” featuring the voice of Maia Friedman, Dave Longstreth and his project Dirty Projectors have announced a new EP due for release on March 27th via Domino called Windows Open. The EP also marks the first bit of work from the band he put together for the Lamp …
TRACK: STEPHEN MALKMUS – SHADOWBANNED
The main man of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, has just released his third single from his third solo album “Traditional Techniques” due out March 6th on Domino. Shadowbanned is an eastern flavoured sea shanty with a hint of an early T rex. The use of call and response between the strings and woodwind create a hypnotic mash …
Blu-ray Review: Domino
During the second half of the twentieth century, there were very few American film makers who could hold a torch to Brian De Palma. With the likes of Carrie, Scarface, Carlito’s Way, Blow Out, The Untouchables and Body Double he produced a mixture of muscular box office smashes and stylistic cult favourites. Over the last …
See: Dirty Projectors release video for Break-Thru, plus album news and tour dates
Dirty Projectors have released a video for a new track ahead of their forthcoming seventh album. The track “Break-Thru” features cheery guitar hooks, upbeat vocals, and birds in the video – The video tells the story of an ever increasing number of birds, apparently attracted by the feel good tune, and the Talking Heads hanging …
Album Review : Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Always Ascending’
The early 2000s. It was a magical time for music, wasn’t it? We were overwhelmed with a wave of new and exciting bands mining post-punk and new wave artists past that maybe never got the love and respect they deserved in their moment of awakening. Bands like The Strokes, Interpol, Art Brut, The Killers, Yeah …