post-punk
SEE: Winter Gardens’ ‘Zigzanny’ is a Bladerunner post-punk fuzzbomb
WINTER GARDENS, the Sussex quartet beloved of a big guitar and unafraid of a grandiose statement, even this early in their career – they covered the Cocteaus’ Pearly Dewdrops-Drops on their first, hard-to-find, 7″ – have dropped a lyric video for a second track from their forthcoming Tapestry EP, which is out next month; you …
EP review: Dusker release exceptional ‘EP 2’.
Post punk Quartet Dusker have followed up their first EP with a second, titled simply EP 2. It carries on their DIY work ethic, Ep titles and superb sound. The band have shared the first track ‘Leo’ as a teaser. An EP to take you right back to the late 90s and for me many …
SEE: Ganser – ‘Projector’: a post-punk despatch from our dystopia
IT CHARGES at you on wiry guitar and rumbling tom-toms, a shadowy simmer. We’re in a lecture theatre, with vocalist and keyboard player Nadia Garafalo demure in a sweater: our college lecturer on hand to guide us through the lyric video for “Projector”, the latest slice of portent-filled post-punk from Chicago’s Ganser. It serves notice …
NEWS: cult legends Folk Devils return with limited 10″
NOTTING HILL post-punk legends Folk Devils are back with a strictly limited 10″ for Preston’s rather lovely Optic Nerve Recordings – their first new music in 35 years. The 1980s’ ragers, whose music has been described as “walking a fine line between a patchwork of brilliant musicianship and violence” are to release the Forever EP …
SEE: Ganser’s ‘Emergency Equipment & Exits’ explores just walking away
ILLINOIS quartet Ganser have just released their second single of 2020, “Emergency Equipment & Exits”, an exploration of that universal human experience, the sudden, instinctual urge to just up and leave; and what would happen if you gave into that urge? The video to the song, beautifully self-directed by the band, finds the quartet in …
TRACK: GANG OF FOUR – ‘Day Turns to Night’: in tribute to Andy
LOOKING back, perhaps the first real portent of the way this year would unfold more sourly than most was our loss of that architect of the scratchy, jagged riff and leader of the Gang of Four, Andy Gill, early in February. At midsummer, casting our eyes over the first half of a year turned upside …
Album review: Wire – 10:20
Wire have been producing scratchy abrasive arty intelligent pop/punk since the late 70s, and have therefore an impressive and formidable back-catalogue. With that inevitably comes an equally impressive cutting-room floor, where songs that didn’t make it to the disc in question languish, and in the wrong hands could’ve been lost forever. No so with Wire, …
Album Review – Jehnny Beth – To Love Is To Live
Former Savages member Jehnny Beth is set to release her debut album To ‘Love Is To Live’ 12th June via Caroline International. This is no Savages though, this is all Beth. Her album and her music. A mash up of classical, Jazz, industrial, post punk and spoken word that span the world of sex, violence, …
Track: City Rose new single – Sextons Call and announce news of debut EP.
Australian punk band City Rose are set to release their new single ’Sextons Call’ on June 5th via Third Coming Records. Along with this news the band have also announced the release of their self titled debut EP due June 19th via Third Coming Records ‘Sextons Call’ kicks off loud and proud with fuzzed up wall …
Gang of Four announce new EP “Anti-Hero” and lead single “Forever Starts Now”
As the figurehead of Leeds hailing post-punk icons Gang of Four, Andy Gill sowed musical seeds across an array of artists with his four-decade spanning song writing reign: from the likes of St. Vincent, who declares Gill as her favourite guitarist, to the Red-Hot Chilli Peppers (whose debut album was produced by Gill). It is therefore the …