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Track: The Grogans surf the choppy rock’n’roll waves with the exuberant ‘Just A Kid’ and announce tour
Melbourne trio The Grogans are having a lot of fun with their collective tongues planted firmly in their cheeks. Evidence for the prosecution: their new single ‘Just a Kid’ is just over two minutes of swampy fun with shouty choruses, reverb drenched surf-inflected guitars and a pounding rhythm section. It careens along like a cartoon …
News: As their debut EP, ‘M?’ hits the racks, Hampshire guitar ragers Mystic Peach announce tour dates
SOUTHAMPTON’S roaring guitar power trio Mystic Peach release their debut EP, the evocation of the dark side of the heart in loud, loud guitars that is M?, out today; and what’s more, they’re hitting the road, too, so you’ll be able bury your head in the bass bins to your heart’s delight. That EP is …
News: elkyn announces his debut album and accompanying tour; hear a first single, the intimate whisper of ‘everything looks darker now’
WHERE his EP from last year, beech, got aficionados of a certain stripe of nocturnal, confessional singer-songwriters talking about great potential and one to watch, it looks like Joey Donnelly, the artist in his early twenties who appears with a guitar, a hushed voice and a bag of beautiful tunesmithery as elkyn, is set to …
Track: Can’s live series continues with ‘Live In Brighton 1975’ hitting the racks in a fortnight; hear an excerpt from the jam ‘Brighton 75 Vier’
WITH the Can Live In Stuttgart 1975 set out in the racks now and being eagerly devoured and analysed by fans, Mute and Spoon Records already have the next live set from the actually legendary Can ready on the runway. We’re just two weeks away from the release of the second, sprawling, transporting and wholly …
Track: With her British tour kicking off today, Frazey Ford drops the honeyed, spectral folk of ‘Saul’
WITH an eleven-date UK tour beginning this evening in Milton Keynes, former Be Good Tanya and ethereally transporting talent in her own right Frazey Ford has released a track recorded for sessions for U Kin B the Sun but whose omittance from the final running order will surely surprise you as much as it does …
Track: Ireland’s Just Mustard release the epic and chilling track ‘I Am You’, and announce tours news.
Irish band Just Mustard have just released a visualiser for a new track ‘I Am You’, accompanying news that they will be supporting the marvelous Fontaines D.C.’s 2022 EU tour as well as releasing their new album in the new year through Partisan Records. The track perfectly captures Just Mustard’s brooding, stylistic music: serpentine rhythms, …
News: Roedelius and Tim Story will enter into a four-handed piano conversation for Erased Tapes in January; hear ‘Spirit Clock’
A GENUINE, gilt-edged musical legend, German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into his eighth decade with us, is to enter into a two-way piano conversation with American composer and friend of 40 years Tim Story for Erased Tapes in January. The 11-track album, entitled 4 Hands, allows the pair to explore an …
Premiere: Iain T. McKelvey and the Midnight Tangos release lush, evocative video for the slow burning track ‘Who I Was’, and announce launch gig.
We are honoured to premiere the new video from Sydney band Ian T. McKelvey and the Midnight Tangos, created for the languid and slow burning track that is ‘Who I Was’. ‘Who I Was’ simmers with a deep intensity – crisp guitars feature and a distant haunting saxophone refrain adds an indelible atmosphere while singer …
News: William Basinski to bring his magisterial ‘Disintegration Loops’ to The Barbican next June
INCREDIBLE news for lovers of the drone and the textural; New York sound artist and composer William Basinski is to bring his masterful degrading tape-loop work The Disintegration Loops and last year’s set for Temporary Residence, Lamentations, to the awesome brutalist architecture and superb acoustics of London’s Barbican next summer. The concert will celebrate the …
News: Cambridge psych-folk explorers Fuzzy Lights announce UK dates for February
WITH their album Burials having been in out in the world a while now and receiving deserved praise for its exploratory shifts out of the genre from all quarters – we noted it as being “Way beyond folk and folk in essence all at once” (and you can read our full review here), Cambridge’s wyrd-folk …