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Track: Pierce Brothers release single Dentist and announce news of European tour
The Pierce Brothers have a history of writing affecting and passionate indie/folk songs that somehow manage to capture an essence of Australiana: the remote outback, the desert sand and the dappled searing hot sunshine. Their new single ‘Dentist’ somehow manages to add a sense of uneasiness borne out of the era of isolation, using the …
SEE: Still Corners’ ‘The Last Exit’: Joshua Tree mystery preludes January album
STILL CORNERS have released the first song from their forthcoming fifth studio album, due for release on January 22nd, 2021. The title track “The Last Exit”, for which we’ve embedded the video below, is available now on all platforms. The musical project of Greg Hughes and Tessa Murphy, the group formed after a chance meeting …
SEE: XIXA – ‘Genesis Of Gaea’: desert rock groove with superstition announces Tucsonians’ second
TOTING a very fine line in dusty, Latin American/goth/soundtrack-informed desert rock and coming atcha out of Tucson, Arizona, men in black XIXA are ready to roll out the follow-up to their fine 2016 LP, Bloodline. It’s called Genesis, it’s suited and booted and ready for release on February 19th next year; but shield your eyes …
NEWS: Cabbage announce 13-date UK tour for May
CABBAGE, Mossley’s marauding Mondaysesque gang of sprawling tunesters, have announced a tour, necessarily and unfortunately ‘rona-delayed, in support of their forthcoming album, Amanita Pantherina. The album’s out on Friday week, September 25th; but it’ll be almost a full year by the time the lads are unleashed from their Pennine fastness to run riot on stages …
News: U.K. Extreme Metal Drummer Nick Barker Teams Up With Knuckleduster’s Pierre Mendivil In A Brand New UKHC Band Borstal.
Originally conceived in late 2019 by Barker and his long time friends/wrong ‘uns of London’s infamous Dripbgack, The Toxic Twins Wez4 and Lee Kitchener (son of “Oi” legend Arthur Kitchener of The Last Resort) and later Pierre Mendivil (Knuckledust/Bun Dem Out) added to the fold. Bringing together an uncompromising blend of punishing NYHC-meets-U.K. HC/Punk/Oi, adding a little …
TRACK: Steph Richards – ‘Underbelly’: marvellous free jazz trails LP – with accompanying scents …
STEPH RICHARDS – the composer, free jazz trumpeter and bandleader who’s worked with artists as diverse as St Vincent, Yoko Ono and Anthony Braxton, knows a thing or two about how to envelop the senses. But for her new album, Supersense, she’s taking a step further into the multi-sensory, even the synaesthesic – working alongside …
SEE: Neil Cowley’s ‘Eureka Pulse’: solo piano grace from new triptych of EPs
NEIL COWLEY is someone who has lived and breathed music his whole life. He took on a Shostakovich piano concerto at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall at the age of 10; not so many years later he developed a reputation as a go-to pianist and keyboardist in British funk, working with Zero 7, Gabrielle and The …
NEWS: Quest Ensemble’s ‘The Other Side’ finally gets vinyl release
QUEST ENSEMBLE, the British trio comprised of pianist Filipe Sousa, cellist Tara Franks and violinist Preetha Narayanan, are finally releasing their warmly evocative LP The Other Side on vinyl this Friday, September 18th. With bottlenecks in vinyl pressing yet another of the many-headed hydra of consequences of the corona virus, the vinyl arrives for purchase …
TRACK: Blue States’ latest slice of cinematic chill, ‘Archival’; 20th anniversary issue of ‘Nothing Changes …’
BLUE STATES, the gorgeous, cultish, chilled electronica pop project of Andy Dregazis, has dropped some new widescreen vibes in the shape of “Archival” – listen with us. It’s actually culled from an EP entitled Trinity Tapes, which will be an accompanying expansion of the forthcoming reissue of his acclaimed breakthrough album Nothing Changes Under The …
SEE: the bliss of Lost Horizons’ ‘I Woke Up With An Open Heart’; new LP dropping in two parts
LOST HORIZONS, the guest artist-featuring, blissful musical project of Cocteau Twins bassist and Bella Union supremo Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, have announced their second LP, In Quiet Moments, which will be released in two instalments, with the physical release included with the final instalment early next year. Both Simon and Richie had been away from …