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Premiere: See the video for Dragon Welding’s ‘Lights Behind The Eyes’: The Wolfhounds’ Andy Golding steps into ambient guitar wonder
DRAGON WELDING; a great name, redolent of fire and the elements, of flicker and sulphur, things made and remade in heat. A great name. And once you learn it’s the solo project of The Wolfhounds’ foremost guitarchitect Andy Golding, the six-string sufi who led that band out from the early swamp blues of “Cut The …
See: The video for the riffin’ psych garage swirl of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Yoru Ni’
MONTREAL’S adopted TEKE:TEKE, the Japanese psych-prog-garage septet who are busy doing all the great things Japanese bands do to trippy guitar music, have released another little cracker ahead of their early May debut for Kill Rock Stars. It’s called “Yoru Ni” and it’s a delicious swirl of back-from-the-grave surf twang, trilling flutes, riffs, cooing vocals, …
See: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘Castaway’: yearning, leftfield LA guitar pop
THE LA dreampop trio Tashaki Miyaki have dropped a a single and accompanying video of the title song from their forthcoming second album, Castaway, which will be released on July 2nd; and you can watch that below. Singer, drummer and producer Paige Stark says the song “… is about the challenges of romantic love and how …
See: Jordan Klassen – ‘Golden Ladder’: hushed Canadian alt.folk songcraft
VANCOUVER’S self-styled fairy-folk singer-songwriter Jordan Klassen released an album, Tell Me What to Do, last May, which he hopes connects people organically, drawing upon their shared experiences lyrically and conceptually; and, he hope, making them feel less alone in a crazily paced, hyper-connected world. It explores what’s it’s like to be in a world where …
See: The Underground Youth – ‘Vergiss Mich Nicht’: the sweet obsession of love chronicled in folk noir
SEEDED in Manchester, reaching full, budding flower in Berlin, which seems an ideal dovetailing of cityscape and soundscape, The Underground Youth have dropped one final single from their forthcoming album, The Falling, which is out at the end of next week. “Vergiss Mich Nicht” – it translates as ‘Do not forget me’, is a scorched heart, minor …
Track: Reigning Sound – ‘A Little More Time’: Greg Cartwright’s garage band get the seven-year itch
CAST your mind back now: did you fall for the hip-shimmying rush of Reigning Sounds’ “I’ll Cry”, hitting the sweet garage spot wherein the classic Memphis soul sound smashed straight into Hüsker Dü with abandon? The brittle, dusty run at The Byrds’ “Here Without You”, with which they debuted? Clutch long-playing bombs like Shattered and Home …
News: Dinosaur Jr. announce April album for Jagjaguwar; see the animation for ‘I Ran Away’
YOUR favourite alt.rock shredder, J. Mascis – I mean are the guitar breaks in “Freak Scene” the best ever committed to tape? There’s a strong argument – has announced the excellent news that Dinosaur Jr. are all set to release their thirteenth studio album, Sweep It Into Space, on Jagjaguwar come April 23rd; which good …
Track: The Peacers – ‘Ghost Of A Motherfucker’: a lazyass garage nugget
WHAT’S set San Fran’s ace garage outfit The Peacers apart from other bands from that city’s scene they’re travelling alongside (and exchanging members with) is a more baroque, acoustic approach to their garage vision; maybe a little more Pearls Before Swine in that initial mix than say, Bubble Puppy, maybe more ’66 than ’69. Frankly, …
Track: The Coral’s Ian and James bring their grandad in to narrate ‘The Great Muriarty’
AFTER rolling back into our lives and fuzzing everything up at the end of last month like a particularly psych-pop coastal fog with the deliciously eerie “Faceless Angel” and the unveiling of album the tenth, coming towards the end of April, once more, dear friends, once more, The Coral are ringmasters of the unforeseen. And …
See: HighSchool – ‘De Facto’: Melbourne trio shoot a darkly danceable arrow at love’s fiction
HAVING signed for the British indie Dalliance last autumn – and you can really see why those particular talent-spotters, Rich and Matt, were so eager to get them under their wing – Melbourne’s HighSchool have just released their first single of the year, “De facto” which comes armed with a self-directed video; you can watch …