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Track: Leeds art rockers Mush release new single Dead Beat
After creating a stir with their debut album ‘3D Routine’, Leeds art rockers Mush have returned with a new single ‘Dead Beat’, taken from their upcoming 5 track 7” EP ‘Great Artisanal Formats’, out on 29th August (Record Store Day) on Memphis Industries. The bands Dan Hyndman describes the track “Dead beat is one of …
FEATURE: Soundtracks of our Lives: Liela Moss
BEGINNING back in 2005 with the fine English psych-swamp rock charge of The Duke Spirit, Liela Moss has grown into being one of the UK’s most forthright and potent voices, never afraid to stand up and sing life as she sees it. A quintet of albums with Toby Butler et al preluded a move to …
Track: Glasvegas return with new album news and single ‘Keep Me A Space’
Glasgow bred rockers Glasvegas have announced their brand new album Godspeed, which will be released in April 2021 on the band’s own label Go Wow Records. Along with this hugely awaited announcement, the band have also released the first single from said release, Keep Me A Space. Written for a grieving relative, when speaking about …
Track: Anohni shares Bob Dylan / Nina Simone covers for new 7” single
For her first new music since last years charity single KARMA, Anohni has released a couple of cover versions – ‘It’s All over Now, Baby Blue’ by Bob Dylan and ‘Be My Husband’ by Nina Simone, for a new 7” release on Secretly Canadian, out on October 2nd. On the Dylan, Anohni says “I recorded …
ALBUM REVIEW: Keys – ‘Home Schooling’: lo-fi Welsh powerpop gems
COMING at you out of the Welsh capital Cardiff, Keys are a quintet who, we can glean from their photograph, love a pair of shades. A listen to their new digital-only release Home Schooling, which is out on August 21st, will also show that behind those tinted lenses there are ten eyes with an absolute …
TRACK: Magick Mountain – ‘Infinity X2’: a garage-punk rush outta Leeds
LEEDS’ psychedelic scuzz-rock power trio Magick Mountain have been around the block a bit to get to a place of infinity times two. Singer Lins Wilson has found the ideal three-piece environment in which to let that red hair flail and make that garage guitar fuzz and howl. She’s served her time on the Leeds …
Meet: We chat to Salarymen plus review their sparkling single ‘Runaway’
Out of the depths of a Sydney winter (a rather benign concept, I admit), Salarymen have released an absolutely delightful ray of sunshine in the form of the single ‘Runaway’. Infused with a dappled sunlight aura and recalling the kind of hedonistic joie de vivre epitomised by the swinging sixties in the form of Serge …
See: Mines Falls release video for single ‘Hey Mother’
L.A. duo Mines Falls at a pair of brothers who work in film and design during the day, and make moody electro heavy pop music by night. Ahead of their self-titled debut album out on September 18th, they’ve released a new single/video, Hey Mother. On the song, singer Carson Lund says, ‘“Hey Mother” is the earliest …
Track: Callum Easter releases new song – Tell em Boy
Scottish singer-songwriter Callum Easter has followed up news of his new album – Green Door Sessions, out on 21st August on Moshi Moshi, with a new track taken from it ‘Tell em Boy’. Of the process the album took, Easter says “The premise was to record the versions of the songs I’d been performing live …
ALBUM REVIEW: Paul Molloy – ‘The Fifth Dandelion’: psych-pop sunshine beamed forward from ’68
SOMEONE put music journalist and band connections-mapper Pete Frame on speed dial, because the various groovy psych-pop iterations spiralling off from The Wirral’s The Coral are like a Mandelbrot set these days and more than worthy, surely, of one of his fantastic Rock Family Trees. Besides the sprawling, sea-shanty psych majesty of The Coral themselves, …