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News: Low attempt to make sense of ‘Days Like These’ as they announce new album HEY WHAT, schedule 2022 UK and EU tour
HEY WHAT? A NEW LOW ALBUM IS ON THE WAY? There’s some news worth shouting about. The Duluth, Minnesota-based duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker are set to follow up the excellent Double Negative just shy of its 3-year anniversary, with their 13th studio album due in a few months. It’s called HEY WHAT, …
Meet: Land Trance talk of their debut album, the places that informed it, and more
ALTHOUGH their debut album, First Séance, was only released via Rocket Recordings last week, and originally through Forest Swords’ Dense Truth label in May 2020, the duo behind the Land Trance name have developed their musical selves in close proximity and in tandem with each other for more than a decade. Land Trance are comprised …
Premiere: Cold Weather Company announce new album ‘Coalescence’ and unveil ‘Golden Hour’ video
Last heard from in 2019 with the release of their third album Find Light, New Jersey indie trio Cold Weather Company return today with ‘Golden Hour’. We’re premiering the video for the lead track from their Coalescence, Pt. 1 EP, which is due out tomorrow. You can have a look and listen to that below. …
Premiere: Ashlynn Malia’s head and heart are at war on new single ‘Temporary’
Relationships are tricky, whether interpersonal or romantic. You don’t need us to tell you that. They say all’s fair in love and war, but when head and heart are at war over love, which side wins? Would you rather be alone? On her imminent debut EP, Ashlynn Malia—who has been active in the music industry …
News: Erland Cooper signs for Mercury KX, buries his latest album in the soil of Orkney as a three-year time capsule with a treasure hunt ensuing; watch a short film
SIGNING today with one of the leading modern compositional imprints, Decca/Mercury KX, Orcadian composer Erland Cooper has marked the occasion in a fascinating if not entirely expected way. He already has his first album recorded; it’s entitled Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence, and is a new work written and recorded for solo …
Premiere: Perth’s Chuditch unveils an exclusive look at the evocative new video for the glorious track ‘Cue The Violins’
Western Australian native Leigh Gardiner – working under the name Chuditch – has an exquisite ear for shimmering and dramatic melodies that form perfect danceable pop songs with a gritty edge. His magnificent track ‘Cue The Violins’ has an insistent driving roll that tip-toes its way forward with a delicate step yet at a monstrous …
See: Melbourne’s Blackbirds FC unveil the cinematic and entrancing video for the shimmering track ‘Island of the Dogs’
Backseat Mafia premiered the fabulous single ‘Island of the Dogs’ for the brilliant Backbirds FC earlier this year, and the band has followed up with an absolute rich and immersive video for the track. Filmed in an atmospheric monochrome, the video switches from flying high over open expansive landscapes to close up shots of the …
Premiere: The legendary Even As We Speak provide us with an exclusive look at the stunning and exquisite video for their moving new single ‘Child’
Even As We Speak‘s glorious and incandescent album ‘Adelphi’ (released through Shelflife Records) made it to my list of the best albums of 2020 from Australia and New Zealand. It has, to quote myself, a fragile and elegant beauty that is hypnotic and immersive. It therefore comes as an immense honour to premiere a spectacular …
Track: Astari Nite releases the gloriously gothic track ‘Pocketful of Posies’ along with a lush, enigmatic and playful video.
Astari Nite have perfected a deep dark gothic songwriting craft that is deliciously enjoyable, poised and full of swagger. The new single, ‘Pocketful of Posies’ does not deviate: it is another elegantly crafted slice of gothic heaven – lead singer Mychael’s voice sonorous and powerful, the instrumentation insistent and driving. Mychael enigmatically says of the …
See: Melbourne’s Anatomy Class reveal furry, cute new animated video for their brilliant track ‘Welcome to the Ages’
Backseat Mafia premiered the brilliant single ‘Welcome to the Ages’ from Melbourne’s Anatomy Class last month, and the band has just released a strangely comforting video for the track. Directed & Animated by Eleanor & Giovanni, the video follows a knitted ingénue as he falls into a surreal wormhole of psychedelic backgrounds, floating on streams …