Indie
EP: Eades Release Debut EP – ‘Microcosmic Things’
Leeds quintet Eades release debut EP debut ‘Microcosmic Things’ via their own label Bam Bam records. The band comments, “Making the EP was a massive learning curve for us. Deciding to do a small collection of songs as opposed to a run of singles meant that we had to do something somewhat coherent. This made …
NEWS: R.E.M. TO PREMIERE COMPLETE BBC BROADCAST OF LEGENDARY 1999 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL ON YOUTUBE NEXT THURSDAY (AUGUST 6)
Continuing celebrations around the 50th anniversary of Glastonbury Festival this year, R.E.M.’s historic headline set from the Pyramid Stage in 1999 will be released globally next Thursday (August 6). Fans can tune in for the YouTube premiere at 8:00pm BST / 3:00pm EST here. On June 25, 1999, shortly into their European Summer tour and at the …
See: I Break Horses release live video for ‘I Live At Night’
Fresh from the release of her new album Warning, which dropped in May 8th via the ever brilliant Bella Union label, I Break Horses, aka Stockholm’ Maria Lindén has released a new video for the track In live at night’ recorded in her back garden. Built around this slightly wonky synth line, that chimes and …
TRACK: Andy Shauf – ‘Judy’: low-key baroque folk brilliance
HE’S one of those gorgeous, nuanced, baroque-pop songwriters we could all do with spending a lot more time with, is Andy Shauf. Like fellow countryman Patrick Watson, he has this way with a beautiful pop arrangement that for me puts him firmly in a lineage that stretches back to The Left Banke and Emitt Rhodes: …
TRACK: Monzanto Sound – ’23’: off-kilter dub-punk grooves
THERE’S a real skeletal dub-funk groove, with this offbeat sway and disjuncture; on the one hand, it’s deep and smokin’, on the other, wiry and angular: very The Pop Group. The percussion underpins things, but has its own ideas; it’s busy with polyrhythms of its own, thank you very much. The real heart of the …
See: Dream Nails release single and video for ‘Vagina Police’
Dream Nails are back with another much needed fight back at a world of injustices against humanity that need to be challenged. Playing fast and furious Punk Rock that slams the message as hard and cleverly as it deserves, like their partners in truth The Menstrual Cramps, they are never gonna be gagged and will …
See: Ethan P. Flynn releases debut single ‘Everybody’s Dying To Meet You’
Fresh from working with FKA Twigs on her recent album Magdalene, songwriter, beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist Ethan P. Flynn has released his debut single ‘Everybody’s Dying To Meet You’. Flynn dropped out of Guidlhall school of music and began working with likeminded London artists such as Jeshi, TTY, Jockstrap, Vegyn, Slowthai, Celeste and Black County, New Road before taking his own bow. Everyone’s Dying …
See: Cults release new video for the cinematic dream-pop of ‘Trials ’
Cults, aka Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion, have announced their fourth solo album, Hosts, is to be released on September 18th via Sinderlyn. From it, the pair have released a second single, Trials, which follows on from the brilliant Spit you out Of the new single, the band say “Trials” focuses on the power that …
Premiere: Oxford’s Enjoyable Listens release new single ‘The Key of Innocence’
Oxford’s one man indie band Enjoyable Listens have been building a bit of a buzz in and around his home town of late – his last single, released on Oxford label All Will Be Well, sold out of both of its runs within a couple of days. Now he’ back with a new single ‘ …
ALBUM REVIEW: Box of Chocolates – ‘Fearful Symmetry’: early Brooklyn stirrings from Will Oldham, et al
EVERY era of music has those great, lost nuggets which slip out, are adored by the knowing few, lost to the many; are whispered about and traded for ever-inflating sums until they break cover once more. It’s a cycle that can sometimes take a generation, as the actual chaff falls away to leave little beauties …