New York
Track: Frankie Cosmos – Jesse
Out via legendary Sub Pop label on March 30th is Vessels, the new album from NYC quartet Frankie Cosmos. From it, the band have released a single, Jessie, in which bandleader Greta Kline works through feelings of worth, being out of place and trying to be more in touch with herself. The track aches and …
See: Cults reveal visuals for Right Words and Natural State.
New York duo Cults have released new videos for two tracks from their recent album Offering – Right Words and Natural State. Shot in LA, the video is a crossover of mediums, directed by Elliott Sellers with animations by Lucy Dyson. The video develops from natural to surreal scenes, following Cults frontwoman Madeline Follin through …
Track: Acid Dad – 2Ci
NYC psych freaks Acid Dad have followed up 2016’s Let’s Plan A Robbery EP and last month’s Die Hard 7″ with their debut self titled album, which drops on March 9th via Greenway Records. From it, the band have released lead single 2Ci, and although granted its only the 10th January, I reckon it might …
Elkhorn Release ‘The Black River’ on Debacle Records.
I first heard Elkhorn, the New York City based, long term friends, Jesse Shepard and Drew Gardner, whilst searching out new and interesting sounds to balance my equilibrium. The duelling duo had just digitally released the name your price ‘LIVE at Rhizome’. An album featuring tracks from their eponymous debut release ‘Elkhorn’ on fellow NYC …
Album Review: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Returning with more collective style indie-pop are sometime Pitchfork darlings of the noughties “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah”. Alec Ounsworth and associates are back, with their fifth album “The Tourist”. Initial impressions being that it’s a touch funkier than before, “Am I The pilot or Am I the Tourist?” is a particularly strong opener, …
See: Blonde Redhead release video for Golden Light
New York trio Blonde Redhead already have an impressive cannon of work, and they’re about to add to it with the release of their latest EP, 3 O’Clock, the bands first new music since 2014’s Barragán. From it the band have released a new video from it, for the EP’s single ‘Golden Light’. The track …
Track: Boss Hog – Formula X
It’s been a good old while since we had new material from New York garage noise band Boss Hog – aka Christina Martinez and her husband Jon Spencer, but they’re back with Brood X, their first new album for 17 years, out on March 24th via Bronze Rat Records. AS Christina explains “There are different …
Track: A Tree Grows – Wau Wau Water
New York’s A Tree Grows have streamed Wau Wau Water, the first single from the bands debut self-titled EP. An album, through Rufftone records, is also on the way sometime next year. Blending together elements of afrobeat, rock and experimental music, while retaining at its core Jazz, the band features some of the most talented …
Track: Von Sell – Miss Me
Miss Me is the new single from New York electro-pop artist Von Sell, taken from his self-titled EP, which is out this month, and follows on from the much lauded ‘names’, which hit #1 in the Hype Machine charts. The son of Israeli singer Esther Ofarim and German filmmaker Philipp von Sell, his destiny was …
Say Psych: Album Review, Drakkar Nowhere.
One of the most instant tracks that I have heard this year has been Drakkar Nowhere’s ‘Higher Now’. I instantly put it on one of my playlists, and hoped that it would be representative of the album as a whole. That was nearly two months ago and the fear, of course, was that something that …