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SEE: Arlo Parks – ‘Caroline’: extra UK dates for next summer
MAY WE talk of one of the artists to properly keep an eye on in ’21? We may? Excellent. Arlo Parks grew up in South-West London, a self-confessed tomboy, super-sensitive, who sums her teenage self up as “a black kid who can’t dance for shit, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on …
Track: Marika Hackman releases album of Covers and shares first track Grimes’s ‘Realiti
Marika Hackman returns with ‘Covers’, a darkly beautiful, self-produced new album which showcases a more vulnerable side, out 13th November via Transgressive in World-ex America and on Sub Pop in North and South America. The album features interpretations of songs by Air, Alvvays, Beyonce, Edith Frost, Grimes, Elliott Smith, Muna, Radiohead, The Shins, and Sharon Van Etten Accompanying the …
See: Julia Jacklin reveals Live Video for Comfort, plus tour news
Julia Jacklin has shared a live video ‘Comfort’, filmed backstage on tour in the US with First Aid Kit. Having completed a run of dates in her native Australia – Julia Jacklin has hit the UK and Europe to continue her world tour in support of critically acclaimed sophomore record, Crushing. The second full-length album from …
Album Review: Poliça and s t a r g a z e – Music for the Long Emergency
Released on Transgressive Records, Music for the Long Emergency sees Poliça collaborate with s t a r g a z e, a group of orchestral musicians based in Berlin. First glimpses of these blend of forces was in February 2016 in Berlin during the Liquid Music project hosted by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, linking …
Track: Cosmo Sheldrake – Wriggle, plus European tour dates
London singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake has released the latest track, Wriggle, to be taken from his much-anticipated debut album, The Much Much How How and I, which drops on Friday 6th April via Transgressive Records. Speaking of the track, Cosmo says “Wriggle is the last song I wrote for the album. It emerged …
Track: Let’s Eat Grandma – Hot Pink
Let’s Eat Grandma, aka teenage vocalists, multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth have returned with a new single – Hot Pink, out now via Transgressive Records / [PIAS]. Talking of the single the girls say “Hot Pink is about the misconceptions of femininity and masculinity and the power of embracing both of them. …
See: Julia Jacklin releases video to track Leadlight
Talking about the self-directed video for Leadlight, Sydney singer songwriter Julia Jacklin says “I filmed this in my old High school hall in the Blue Mountains. A lot of the shots focus on the stage where I performed in the chorus for ‘Grease’ and ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and the unfortunate time I chose to …
Track: Blaenavon – Destiny’s Mild, plus UK tour dates
Taken from their forthcoming Miss World EP, out on Transgressive on October 30th, comes a new track Destiny’s Mild from south coast trio Blaenavon. Having recently announced support shows with the likes of The Districts, Songhoy Blues and Palace, the band still have youth on their side with an average age of 19, and recording …
See: The Antlers release video for Palace, plus new album news
Is been three years since The Antlers much admired long player Burst Apart showed that the band could produce some of the most sparkling and beautiful alt-indie music around. Originally a solo project for Peter Silberman in 2006, which spawned a couple of bedroom produced albums before enlisting Darby Cicci and Michael Lerner, and recording …