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See: Braids reveal new video for Companion, plus Summer tour dates
Montreal three piece Braids return with a new EP – Companion , written during the sessions for their standout debut LP, Deep in the Iris. Out on May 20th via Arbutus Records, the band have released a new video for the title track, which features singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston performing the song, with a double. The …
Track: Japancakes – We’re in the city
Athens, Georgia improvisional post-rockers Japancakes are back with a new self-titled album they are self releasing on 6th May. They’ve also conceived a new sound, adding vocals to the mix, with the recruitment of former Call and Response front woman Carrie Clough. It’s full of anxious sounding synth lines, that bubble and shimmer between verses. …
Album Review: Galerie Stratique – Rêves de Béton
It is unclear whether Quebec’s Galerie Stratique (Charles-Émile Beullac) is presenting us with a vision of the future or his interpretation of the modern desensitized world. Either way the outlook is grim. Our emotional touchstones are removed, replaced by foreign textures and reference points. There are only two truly human sounds: a man speaking woodenly …
See: Wintergatan will blow your mind with Marble Machine
Swedish band Wintergatan are ready to blow your mind with their latest video dubbed Marble Machine. The video features Martin Molin playing a tune using the intricately crafted machine built over 14 months with help of a team. The machine incorporates a kick drum, bass and various other instruments powered via a handcrank and utilises …
Track: Hooded Fang – Tunnel Vision, plus new album news
Toronto four piece Hooded Fang have announced their new album ‘Venus On Furs’ is to be released on 13th May via Daps Records. To whet the appetite a little further the experimental indie rockers have released a slice of what we can expect in the shape of a track, Tunnel Vision. It begins with this …
Album Review: Sunn O))) – Kannon
How do you find yourself listening to Sunn O)))? What makes you decide to buy tickets to see Sunn O))), donning cloaks and floating in a sea of fog machine emissions in some small theater as the ceiling tiles shake and plaster cracks and crumbles from the sheer hellish volume they create? In the past …
Album Review: Parquet Courts – Monastic Living EP
Parquet Courts, the Indie Rock band hailing from New York City, have been trolling the musical community for about a year now since releasing their last album under the moniker ‘Parkay Quarts’. Before that, the band released two excellent albums, Light Up Gold and Sunbathing Animal, and one exciting EP, Tally All The Things That …
See: Lisa Busby releases new visuals for Hollow Blown Egg
Known to many in the London underground sound art scene as one half of Sleeps In Oysters and an active collaborator with Rutger Hauser, artist Lisa Busby works on the periphery of pop craftsmanship. Bold and reflective, her latest track, Hollow Blown Egg, utilises playback media improvisations to great effect. Generously building a progressively stark atmosphere over its three-and-a-half …
Track: Unalaska – Unalaska
What started of as a fictional band in the cult vampire film ‘Afflicted’ has now turned into a real EP releasing duo. Comprising of musicians Edo Van Breemen and Zachary Grayth the now real Unalaska join ‘Light Organ Records’ to bring us their first self-titled EP. Working through cross-continental correspondence from their separate studios in Brooklyn …
Album Review: Youth Lagoon – Savage Hills Ballroom
Trevor Powers has the kind of fragility in his voice that when you hear it you feel at any time during a song he may just disappear into thin air. A pin hole leak in a balloon that slowly releases air into the world. Any kind of pressure or pushing will cause a bevy of …