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Album Review: Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin down
Kurt Vile comes off as a bit of a mystery at first. You listen to the guy as he mumbles and shrugs his way through a song, surrounded by some really great music. You wonder is this guy for real? You listen some more and little details, shaded nuances, and sly phrases begin to make …
Track: Rebecca Everett releases the yearning torch song, Sting Of A Kiss
Rebecca Everett is set to unleash her new album ‘Seven Shades’ and she promises it will be “dark, moody, melodic”. Well, if “Sting of a Kiss” is any indication then she looks to make good on that promise. This is a classic torch song with shades of early James Bond and a southern twang.
News: Universal to release Sparks box set – The Island Years
Aside from being (approximately) half of pop supergroup F.F.S. it shouldn’t be forgotten that Sparks, aka Ron and Russell Meal, were a rather brilliant group before their latest collaboration. For in those halcyon days of the 1970s, Top of the Pops and other popular cultural establishments were, if not awash with then certainly not unfamiliar …
See: Victories At Sea release new visuals for Sirens
Some say that you become your surroundings. Surround yourself with simple, pleasant things and you’ll have a simple pleasant life. That’s the theory anyway. But what if your surroundings are a bit bleaker than that? What if all around you is urban sprawl and derelict industry? Victories At Sea come from such surroundings, and rather …
Track: Pleasure Beach – Go
Go is the debut single from Belfast five piece Pleasure Beach, and far from being something cheap and tacky, and a little passed its best like the name suggests (at least if you’ve been to Blackpool’s said venue) it’s actually a little slab of pulsating, twinkling dream pop. Go trips along, like The a killers …
Track: HeyRocco – Jake Millers House Party
South Carolina’s HeyRocco are headed back to the UK, in support of their Teenage Movie Soundtrack, which showed they were fine purveyors of messy grunge rock, filled with smart tunes and quirky tales. Cue a new single, Jake Miller’s House Party, out on October 30th via Vital Music (timed to coincided with the tour) that …
Peter Hook And The Light, Picturedrome, Holmfirth, 19.09.2015
Poised to commence his legal action against The Other Three, Peter Hook bestrides the legacies of two seminal bands like some kind of a COLOSSUS; Joy Division and New Order. Tonight, it’s “Imperial”-period New Order and he’s playing their mid eighties albums “Low-life” and “Brotherhood.” For reasons that I won’t bore you with, I missed …
Track: Gwenno – Chwyldro (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
On his remix of Gwenno’s album opener Chwyldro, Andrew Weatherall adds his lightest magic touch to an already spellbinding track. Chwyldro is the first track on Gwenno Saunders’ debut solo album Y Dydd Olaf (named for Welsh author Owain Owain’s 1976 sci-fi novel). Sung almost entirely in her native Welsh tongue (one song is sung …
Track: Fine, It’s Pink – Young Burns
I wonder how many successful bands have been formed in karaoke bars. I can’t believe it’s many. But that’s exactly where Fine, It’s Pink started life in Romania in 2013 and now they’re releasing their debut single Young Burns (out on 25 September). It’s hard to believe they’ve gone from being a covers band to …
Track: Maybug – Out to Sea
While the title of Maybug’s latest single conjures up feelings of being carried away from safety into a vast and alien environment, Out To Sea is actually the musical equivalent of getting into the comfort of a deep, warm bath. Bristol based singer-songwriter Joseph Dunn is Maybug and this is the first single from his …