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NEWS: RADIDAS’ ‘The Hits’ is next up for Austerity’s C60 Club: Balearic psych-synth cool
AUSTERITY Records of Brighton have announced the second release in their cute C60 Club – for all you lovers of the chromium oxide – and that accolade falls to the trippy Balearic pop bliss of RADIDAS. We took a look at the debut club release, Hanya’s Sea Shoes, here: orange cassette, four tracks with a …
SEE: The video for A Certain Ratio’s ‘Berlin’: UK dates for 2021
MANCHESTER legends A Certain Ratio, whose brilliant new album ACR Loco will be with us on Mute come September 25th, have just dropped the video for the none-more-Mancunian effortless pop of “Berlin” – we’ve embedded it, below. And it really is a great record: we’ve embraced its taut, breathtaking funk and its intelligent pop and …
News: Skip Marley Releases His Debut EP – Higher Place
Skip Marley, whose history-making global hit ‘Slow Down’ with Grammy© Award-winning artist H.E.R. reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Adult R&B chart in the spring – a first for a Jamaican-born artist – releases his hugely anticipated debut EP, ‘Higher Place’, via Tuff Gong/Island Records. The 7-track project was named Higher Place as a call to action to Skip’s generation, fans, and listeners to inspire …
NEWS: Floodlights to live stream a Rough Trade session tonight
MELBOURNE’S Floodlights, the next wave of great Australian indie guitar bands who’ve just released their debut album, From A View, via the joint offices of Woo Me! and Spunk Records, will be appearing in a live stream session for Rough Trade tonight, Wednesday, September 9th, at 6pm British Summer Time. If they’re a new name …
SEE: the lyric video for Stats’ ‘Naturalise Me’; album news
STATS is the nom-de-musique of London-based, Welsh-raised Ed Seed, who’s paid his musical dues touring the world with Dua Lipa. Elsewhere, once safely installed inside his Stats persona, he’s released a lovely LP of verry funky synthpop in early 2019, Other People’s Lives, which picked up plaudits from none-huger names such as Elton John. That …
TRACK: Landshapes – ‘The Ring’: first single teases November album
LANDSHAPES, the London four-piece with a nifty line in synth-driven indie psychedelia, have readied the third long-playing instalment of their recording career for your delectation after five years away. Following two fine and well-received albums for Bella Union in the shape of Rambutan and Heyoon, they’re set to explore loneliness, isolation, alienation, the need for …
NEWS: Arab Strap return: watch the lyric video for ‘The Turning Of Our Bones’
CRIKEY, eh? If ever a band there ever there was could reap the crop of a life in 2020 and use it as the richest, most fertile, dystopian source material, you’d maybe wish for Falkirk’s sharp studiers of the greyer side Arab Strap. If only, eh? Its actually 15 years they’ve been gone now. Malcolm? …
NEWS: Hot Chip announce ‘LateNightTales’ mix, release Velvets cover
HOT CHIP. I can’t think of any other British band since New Order who have so straddled the indie-dance divide so successfully; and with such love from us listeners. They have a way with a sweet melody that gets ya, even if synthiness isn’t really your thing. And they’ve announced they are curating the latest instalment …
News: Opeth announce Evolution XXX ‘By Request’ tour for their 30th anniversary
Sweden’s OPETH have come a long way in the past 30 years, having evolved from raw death metal to virtuosic and progressive vintage rock. Always forging their own path, the band have delivered 13 albums, each a fresh milestone within its genre and soon, the band centered around frontman and guitarist, Mikael Åkerfeldt, will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary. To …
NEWS: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah embark on digital reissue mission with extra goodies
ALEC OUNSWORTH, the Philadelphian indie minstrel with such a lovely line in pretty lo-fi, has embarked on a digital reissue campaign of his entire catalogue; he’s gonna be reissuing one album a week from now through to September 18th – each being bolstered by rare or previously unheard bonus tracks, demo takes, B-sides and more. …