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NEWS: Spirit of the Beehive announce debut Saddle Creek set; see the video for ‘There’s Nothing You Can’t Do’
PHILLY’S ever-evolving band Spirit of the Beehive have announced they’ve signed to Saddle Creek, for whom they’re coming in angular, fractured psych delirium a-blazin with an April album, Entertainment, Death; and they’ve twitched back the curtain with the video for the dream-haze cut-up of “There’s Nothing You Can Do”, in which an almost sophisticated and …
SEE: Juanita Stein – ‘Lucky’: a timeless, folksy number tells of her time in grief
NUDE’S lovely singer-songwriter Juanita Stein has released a video for her new single, “Lucky”, which visuals which we gladly present for you here today. It’s taken from her latest album, last October’s Snapshot, and it’s a timeless, folksy strum, propelling along on a canter of acoustic chords, Juanita simmering with a feeling of perhaps not quite being so …
SEE: Low Hummer – ‘Never Enough’: majestic guitar tune from Hull quartet
PROVING that bdrmm are no crazy one-off for the East Yorkshire music scene, and that it just might be a nascent hotbed of BIG and swoonsome and just knock-the-stuffing guitar tunesmithery, Hull’s Low Hummer have shared the deeply midwinter video for their new single “Never Enough”. And what a tune it is; one foot in …
SEE: Andy Bell releases a trippy, solarised video for the lovely ‘Skywalker’
YOU KNOW him so well, of course, as one of the creative forces behind shoegazing legends Ride; and when Andy Bell stepped out from the boys from OX4 last autumn for The View From Halfway Down, you knew it would be a cracker. And your instincts were right. We reviewed it here and said, for …
SEE: Raine Hamilton – ‘Brave Land’: gorgeous chamber bluegrass tune launches new album; live-streamed show tonight
RAINE HAMILTON, the chamber-folk artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in musical family and learned her chops early; in fact, her parents met in a rock band in the 1970s – music runs that deep for her. Her particular brand of folk pushes the boundaries of the trad form, borrowing from the counterpoint principles of …
NEWS: The Armed announce new album ‘ULTRAPOP’, share live video for new track ‘ALL FUTURES’ and October tour dates
Opening a new chapter in their 12-year career, Detroit hardcore collective The Armed – who signed to Sargent House in 2019 – make their return today with revelations aplenty. In addition to unveiling their new lineup, there’s also new music, tour dates & news on their label debut and overall fourth album, ‘ULTRAPOP’, which arrives …
SEE: Gary, Indiana game break with Alien 3
Manchester electronic post-punk outfit Gary, Indiana seem very much attuned to the habits of many bored-at-home UK residents, with the release of “Alien 3“, out now through Fire Talk Records. Bringing together clips from, among other things, hallowed video game Red Dead Redemption II (from what we spy… it could easily be an earlier instalment) …
See: Charlie Clark releases hilarious and charming video for the jangling single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man’.
Charlie Clark‘s brilliant single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man’ (reviewed by me here) still resonates strongly after numerous listens – I described it as ‘a pulse quickening bell that rings out with jangling guitars, lush choruses and a sense of strength and rebirth’. Clark has followed this up with an utterly charming and hilarious video …
News: Sony launches XXIM progressive instrumental imprint: see Eydís Evensen’s ‘Brotin’
SONY has decided to get itself a little of the modern compositional pie and to that end, has set up a new progressive instrumental label, XXIM Records; which has opened its catalogue by introducing its first signing, Icelandic pianist and composer Eydís Evensen. To mark the label’s launch, she’s released her debut single, “Brotin”, the …
ALBUM REVIEW: Tele Novella – ‘Merlynn Belle’: a quirky country-psych-folk charmer
Tele Novella’s humble country-psych-folk sincerity is magic. They have, quite simply, a belief in the power of song. Timeless, quirky and utterly charming.