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Track: heka signs to Balloon Machine and drops the smokey noir of ‘(a) wall’
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY artist by trade and by vocation, comfortable in any number of mediums, Heka is the sonic alias of Francesca Brierley, who’s just signed to the excellent Manchester-based independent Balloon Machine, home already to the breathtaking folk stylings of Laura Fell. Her debut EP for the zine-turned-label is succinctly titled (a) and will be …
News: Tame Impala reveals short film on 10-Year Anniversary of ‘InnerSpeaker’
To mark the release of the InnerSpeaker 10 Year Anniversary Edition, Tame Impala, aka Kevin Parker reveals short film InnerSpeaker Memories. Wonderfully captured by director/photographer Matt Sav and edited by Alex Haygarth, it features never-before-seen footage from the recording of InnerSpeaker at the iconic Wave House Studio in Yallingup, Western Australia. Watch Innerspeaker Memories here …
News: Garbage announce new album ‘No Gods, No Masters’ and release eviscerating single ‘The Men Who Rule The World’
Legendary band Garbage have just announced news of a new album, ‘No Gods, No Masters’ – their seventh – for 11 June 2021 and, in anticipation, have released the single ‘The Men Who Rule The World’. The album will be available in a variety of formats including neon green vinyl, white vinyl, and deluxe CD …
Track: Swimsuit Issue announce news of album and release soaring anthemic single ‘The Feeling’
Sunshine Coast band Swimsuit Issue pinned back our collective ears earlier this year with the thundering and visceral track ‘Addict’ (reviewed by me here). Now they are back with the announcement of their debut album for release later in 2021 and a new single, ‘The Feeling’. ‘The Feeling’ considerably pumps on the brakes and shows …
Track: Melbourne’s Tim Ayre launches low-fi dream pop delight ‘Mexican Holiday’ and announces news of EP
The story behind the new single, ‘Mexican Holiday’, from Tim Ayre has all the hallmarks of a Hunter S Thompson fable involving unhinged characters, consumption of illicit substances, wild journeys and all manners of excess. Appropriate, then, that the song and accompanying video has a bright effervescent indie pop low-fi vibe that exudes a whiff …
News: Erland Cooper announces digital epilogue to his astonishing Orcadian trilogy; hear Bill-Ryder Jones’s rerub of ‘Haar Over Hamnavoe’
THE SUPERB ambient-psychogeographical triptych by Orcadian musician and composer Erland Cooper, Solan Goose, Sule Skerry, and Hether Blether – which themselves are receiving a gorgeous box set treatment, more of which below – is gaining an excellent addendum at the end of next month in Holm, a collection of variations, B-sides and reworkings by artists …
Track: Little Arrow – ‘Poetically Diseased’ (Live at Four Bars, Cardiff, 2014): potent live take heralds the tenth anniversary rerelease of ‘Music, Masks & Poems’
HAILING from far out west in deepest Pembrokeshire, Little Arrow began making waves on the Welsh scene a decade back with a fully musically and emotionally realised debut album, Music, Masks & Poems. Tragically, Little Arrow’s frontman William Hughes died of cancer in December 2018, cutting short the career of a band with real depth …
News: Kid Millions and Mouse On Mars’ Jan St. Werner announce exploratory album for Thrill Jockey; hear ‘Sorrows And Compensations’
IF YOU like your experimental tunes wholly exploratory and improvisational, then the news that Kid Millions, known elsewhere for his work with Man Forever and Oneida, and Mouse On Mars’ Jan St. Werner have got together to shake down some music caught in the moment is something to put a smile on your face. They’ve …
See: Dominic Breen releases evocative video for the glorious track ‘James Street Tonight’ plus announces live shows
Dominic Breens‘s track ‘James Street Tonight’, released at the beginning of March, was lauded by us for its chiming guitars and melancholia, lifted skywards by Breen’s gorgeous vocals. The song continues to haunt: a beautiful and enigmatic release that is growing in stature through time. Breen has also just announced a series of live gigs …
News: Cheval Sombre announces his second album of the year, following the deliciousness of ‘Time Waits For No One’; see the animation for ‘Well It’s Hard’
AFTER so many moons away from us Chris Porpora, aka Cheval Sombre, has delighted us, truly delighted us, with the gorgeous ambient shoegaze folk of Time Waits For No One just a month ago. If you haven’t caught up with that yet, then by crikey you must. We commented upon its release that: “Well, wow. Time …