Electro
Track: Tora – Empyrean
Australian quartet Tora have set heads turning ahead of the release of their debut album Take a Rest on June 9th, with this insistent, driving electro-indie. New track Empyrean – telling the tale of a homeless man in Montreal, fearing the worst upon the onset of winter, follows the pattern to the letter, layered with …
Meet: London based singer-songwriter Lots Holloway
We were enamoured by ‘World’s on Fire’, the debut single from Cornwall-born/London-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lots Holloway. It’s a brilliant piece of electro-pop, with subject matter with a political edge. Check out the video, here We spoke to Lots to find out a little more. Hi Lots, thanks for talking to us – busy week? …
Track: Private Life – Lost Boy
Melbourne, Australia two piece electro-pop outfit Private Life, aka Renee Anderson and Jamie Barlow have just released a new single ‘Lost Boy’. Its the follow up to acclaimed release Dragon, a self-titled debut EP in 2013 and singles Run Run and Follow The Sun. It’s got this almost haunting, spacious quality about it, draped in …
Track: Fujiya & Miyagi – Solitaire
Taken from their forthcoming self-titled album, due out on 7th April via Impossible Objects of Desire, Brighton electro-genre hoppers Fujiya & Miyagi have released a new single, Solitaire. It’s the bands sixth album, but actually it’s the culmination of a year-long project that sees the release of three EP’s which traverse disco, electro, pop, and …
Live Review: André Brasseur – Reflektor Club, Liège 12.2.17
Belgian organist André Brasseur should be mentioned in the same hushed reverential tones as Giorgio Moroder or Jean Jacques Perrey, but alas such cult status evaded him. Maybe because he invested the proceeds from his 1965 hit ‘Early Bird’ (which sold a staggering six million copies) into two (not one but two!) dance clubs in …
Track: Depeche Mode – ‘Where’s The Revolution’ & Album News
Very few bands have survived the decades like Depeche Mode – barely at points, but survived they have. From their early electro-pop beginnings with tracks like 80’s classic ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ to the 90’s grunge re-encarnation of ‘Song of Faith & Devotion’. No matter why they do, they continue to stay relevant, whilst sticking …
Meet: Bayonet interview
I sit down to interview Bayonet ahead of their sold out headline gig at Sheffield’s The Leadmill and spend an honest and often hilarious hour and a half chatting with the four local friends who are going from strength to another in terms of their profile and most importantly, their output. Latest single “Heart Attack” …
Track: Von Sell – Miss Me
Miss Me is the new single from New York electro-pop artist Von Sell, taken from his self-titled EP, which is out this month, and follows on from the much lauded ‘names’, which hit #1 in the Hype Machine charts. The son of Israeli singer Esther Ofarim and German filmmaker Philipp von Sell, his destiny was …
Track: Alyss – T S I E R
Taken from her forthcoming ‘Motherland’ EPm out via PMR on October 28th, T S I E R (an abbreviation of This Shit Isn’t Even Real) is the new single from Brighton singer-songwriter/producer Alyss. Following on from her debut EP Answers which caught the attention of many of the country’s tastemakers including Toddla T and Mistajam, …
See: Raf Rundell (The 2 Bears) releases new video for ‘Right Time’
Raf Rundell, he of The 2 Bears has been making busy in the studios recording his Debut album ‘The Adventures of Selfie Boy Part 1’ which drops via 1965 Records on 9th December 2016. Claiming that the studio’s door banged as ‘queens, kings, crazies, painted ladies, ravers, rockers and ragamuffins partied night after night, each …