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News: Post Punk Pioneers Xmal Deutschland Release Album ‘Early Singles (1981-1982)’ And Front Woman Anja Huwe Releases Debut Solo Album ‘Codes’ Both Out 8th March Via Sacred Bones
“Gothics”—a time before the word goth had even taken shape—believed in the do-it-yourself punk ethos that anyone could pick up an instrument. This, alongside the bric-a-brac fashion of Adam Ant and the long-winded atmospheric malaise of Bauhaus’ 1979 single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” gray clouds were starting to form. And in the unlikely city of Hamburg, a brazen …
Track: Spellling & The Mystery School – Hard To Please (Reprise)
Following the release of her double lead singles ‘Cherry‘ and ‘Under the Sun‘, Spellling (the performing name of Chrystia Cabral) has shared a lush orchestral version of the minimal synth based favourite ‘Hard to Please (Reprise)’ featured on Spellling’s album Mazy Fly’s. The new version is taken from her forthcoming new album due the 25th of August via Sacred Bones. A collection of …
News: Spellling & the Mystery School Share Double Single ‘Cherry’ and ‘Under The Sun’
Today Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Spellling (the performing name of Chrystia Cabral) announces ‘Spellling & the Mystery School’, her new collection due the 25th August on Sacred Bones. The collection of richly envisioned new versions of songs are taken from throughout Cabral’s critically-acclaimed discography. From her 2017 breakthrough debut ‘Pantheon Of Me’, to 2018’s multidimensional synth-based project ‘Mazy Fly’, and her expansive third album, 2021’s ‘The Turning Wheel’. …
Track Review: Alan Vega – Invasion b/w Murder One
Following the initial Vega Vault release of the lost Mutator LP last year, the Vault has announced double A side ‘Invasion’ and ‘Murder One’, out now on Sacred Bones Records. One of Alan Vega’s greatest talents was his ability to bring the past and the future together into a suspended place of timelessness. His groundbreaking duo Suicide was often seen as …
Album Review: Boris – W
In July 2020, Tokyo experimental metal trio Boris released ‘NO’, their fastest, loudest, heaviest album for several years, one that eschewed the drone metal elements of much of their recent material and re-embraced the hardcore punk influences of their early work. The album was hard, fast, and unsubtle, made for rip-roaring countryside driving music, and …
Track: Anika reveals first new music in eight years – new single Finger Pies
Berlin based Anika, British ex-pat and former political journalist, Tricky and BEAK> collaborator collaborated with BEAK>,has announced her first new music in eight years – a single called Finger Pies, along with an accompanying video. Of the track, Anika says A song that never had a name, like an artist that never had a face. …
Say Psych: News: Sacred Bones to release lost Alan Vega LP, Mutator & Share Video to ‘Nike Soldier’
Sacred Bones Records will release the lost album from Alan Vega, Mutator, on 23 April. Vega’s name is synonymous with unfettered creativity, from the late 1950s, through his years playing in Suicide, and all the way up until his death in 2016, Vega was constantly creating. This process naturally led to a wealth of material that didn’t see the light of day immediately when it …
ALBUM REVIEW: Indigo Sparke – ‘echo’: a jaw-dropping country-folk debut
You can hear Indigo’s very essence shot right through echo. It’s never less, at any point, than extremely lovely; at many points its genuinely bloody stunning. You know when someone has that alchemical it, and boy: Indigo incontrovertibly does.
It’s not an album to have on in the background, because it’s far too arresting and enveloping, commanding. She’s royalty in waiting on the leftfield folk scene. Astonishing; buy
See: The video for Luca Yupanqui’s ‘V4.3 pt.2’, genuine womb music
MAKING history as the “first album created by a person while they were still inside the womb”, the creation of Luca Yupanqui’s music was aided by her parents – her mother the bassist of psych-rock band Psychic Ills, and her father a Lee Scratch Perry collaborator – using biosonic MIDI technology to translate the vibrations …
SEE: Indigo Sparke – ‘Everything Everything’: astonishing spectral folk
IF MARISSA NADLER, Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan light up your world with otherworldly folk fire – and if they don’t, then maybe we can’t be friends after all – then you really need to take a seat right this minute, and be astonished by Australian folk artist Indigo Sparke, who’s recently inked on …