Indie
NEWS: first of PJ Harvey’s Island vinyl reissues announced
UNAVAILABLE for years, bootlegged time and time again, and changing hands for feverish sums often well into the three figures, it’ll come as a relief to many a wax junkie that Island have announced a vinyl reissue programme for PJ Harvey’s catalogue with the label. And the programme, which is set to run into 2021, …
Track: Video Age reveal their forthcoming album title track, Pleasure Line
New Orleans duo Video age have announced that their new, third album, Pleasure line, is out on August 7th via Winspear and ahead of it they’ve released the title track from the record. Video Age say of the new track, “Pleasure Line is a song about discovery. A space where we can really start to see ourselves, and …
Track: Allegra Krieger – Welcome
Taken from her forthcoming ‘The Joys of Forgetting’ album, out on August 7th via Northern Spy Records is ‘Welcome’, the new single from Brooklyn singer-songwriter Allegra Kreiger. If the track, Krieger explains: “Welcome is about opening your life up to someone and letting defenses down. Learning to live with & love them through good & bad.” Rustic and …
Album Review: Phosphene – Lotus Eaters
Out now is the new album by Phosphene, a band who combine Shoegaze with a Post-Punk sound and nods to Alternative rock bands of old. ‘Lotus Eaters’ is available on July 7th over on the bands Bandcamp site. This album has an experimental feel which is reminiscent of Alt-Rock bands such as Sonic Youth, the …
See: Boy Pablo releases new video for ‘Hey Girl’
DIY pop star Boy Pablo, aka 21 year old singer-songwriter Nicolas Muñoz, has released the video for his new single ‘Hey Girl’. After racking up 500 million streams and selling out shows all over the place – including London’s Electric Ballroom and Brixton Electric in the last year, the track is taken from his forthcoming …
TRACK: Bill Callahan reveals ‘Pigeons’ from new album
IT TURNS out he wasn’t joking. Last week’s announcement of a new Bill Callahan record in September included a cryptic passage, chatty and hyperbolic, stating: “Ten Whole Weeks until Gold Record drops? Why, that sounds like an eternity! “Thankfully, the Gold Record rush begins much sooner than that – if you think of every weekend …
ALBUM REVIEW: King of the Slums – Our Favourite Trainers
THEY emerged from Hulme in 1986, breathing sour fire and an eagle eye for unfashionable detail. Second cousins of The Fall in the way they filtered and spat language to reach deeper, following the grimy thread of it back through 21st-century estates and the Industrial Revolution to a lost, almost medieval rural folk tongue, as …
Track: No Joy – Nothing Will Hurt and release lyric video
No Joy are back with Motherhood, their first full-length LP in five years. Here we bring you the second single off the record: a catchy, synthy, funky tune accompanied by a video that is as ready made for karaoke as it is a masterful display of 90’s clip art functionality. On first listen, “Nothing Will …
Album Review: Pottery – Welcome to Bobby’s Motel
If you asked a band what was the idea behind their new record and that record was called ‘Welcome to Bobby’s Motel’ and they told you that it was based on an ‘all encompassing alt-reality’ that they had built around themselves where the band is Bobby and the motel is wherever they are….you might think …
Track: Cloud Factory – Amnesia
Cloud Factory recently formed in Toulouse, France from members of other local bands such as Cathedrale and Noir City, with Alice Cyprine on vocals. Their debut EP “Cloud Factory # 1” will be released July 3rd on Howlin’ Banana Records, and the first single “Amnesia” is already out. Amnesia is a pleasantly bouncy, sparkly piece of motorik indie-pop …