Hull
Track: God is 7 – 7 INC (Creeping Death Version)
Hull-based minimal electronic music producer Dom Sith is the master of immersion. His latest release ‘7 INC (Creeping Death Version)’ is a bold step in a new sonic direction cloaked beneath the guise of God is 7. It’s inky and insidious, casting a shadow which looms all the larger for its unmistakable grime influences. “I …
TRACK: BLOODHOUND – FRSTRTD (FT. BROODERS)
Hull grunge trio Bloodhound unite forces with the nightmarish psychedelia of Brooders to bring us their latest single ‘FRSTRTD’. Expansive and menacing, ‘FRSTRTD’ immerses itself in a sludge of bone-grinding guitar riffs and tortured vocals; the result is commanding and visceral. The collaborators climb from a deep-set ennui, drumming up momentum, before unleashing a hellfire …
See: My Pleasure releases new video for ‘Fluorescent Jacket’, plus tour dates
MY PLEASURE is from Hull, UK and describes his music as “almost pop”. Mostly Happy is the title of his second album, out Friday 1st June. My Pleasure says of the single: “Fluorescent Jacket is a ode to the feeling you get when you put on any kind of uniform, and instantly become part of …
Track: La Bête Blooms – Take Arms
Hull’s inimitable La Bête Blooms are back with a blistering new single and video ‘Take Arms’. This is a rousing punky shouty call for action in the muscular power pop/punk style of that exemplifies the band – fuzzy. slightly anarchic and full of wry humour: Blasting aside stereotypes, commiserating with the general state of the …
See: Shipping Forecast reveal new video for ‘Weight (0520)’
Shipping Forecast is the solo project of John Copley, the guitarist in Hull’s aggressive post-punks La Bete Blooms. But don’t get blown off course (you see what I did there, right) in thinking this will follow a similar voyage (I know, sorry), as Copley flexes his R&B chops, trading instead in altered soulful vocals, over …
PREMIERE: Let Man Loose – Shotgun Good Fun
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in for a treat. Let me introduce to you Let Man Loose: this four-piece rock band hailing from Hull have the City of Culture surging in their veins, and they’re about to prove it with the release of their latest single ‘Shotgun Good Fun’. The rough, unpolished edge to …
Track: My Pleasure – Namedropper
Hull’s My Pleasure, aka Lewis Young recently released his debut album ‘Domestic Bliss’ via the Adult Teeth label, and it includes tales of namedroppers, beauty contests, plagiarism, facial tattoos, identity, waking up, strawberries, the alphabet, internet trolls and domesticity, all wrapped up in his style which he describes as ‘almost pop’. He’s just released the …
TRACK: LUMER – HOMICIDE
Torn straight from The City of Culture, post-punk band LUMER introduce to us their latest single, ‘Homicide’. Ripped at every edge, with a white-knuckle freneticism and lyrics spat through gritted teeth, ‘Homicide’ has the post-punk attitude, but has twisted it into a much leaner, much wilder beast. The single was produced at The Nave in …
TRACK: ‘SHOEBOXES’-YSABELLE WOMBWELL
If you like your music good, and your artists championing women in music, then listen close and look no further: I introduce to you, dear reader, Ysabelle Wombwell and her latest release, ‘Shoeboxes’. Ysabelle Wombwell has become something of a local legend in The City of Culture, working closely with The PRS Foundation, as well …
VIDEO: FIRE(THE UNSTOPPABLE FORCE) – MAMA JAGUAR
There’s a reason they’re called FIRE (The Unstoppable Force), you know. What name would better reflect the apoplectic, incensed sound they project; the rough, unrefined grit; the way their music seems to set your ears ablaze? The flames of Warren Records’ Hull-hailing five-piece have been reaching new heights, what with the release of their eponymous …