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NEWS: Telex announce ‘This Is Telex’ comp for Mute; see ‘Moskow Diskow’
BELGIAN synthpop originators ‘n’ pranksters Telex have announced they’re going into partnership with Mute, the very first realisation of which is a career retrospective in This is Telex, a new 14-track compilation, featuring new mixes of 12 classics from the oeuvre and a brace of previously unreleased tracks. This is Telex will be released on limited …
See: Hiss Golden Messenger share video for ‘Sanctuary’
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER are back with new material, after a busy 2020 including two live albums for the benefit of public schools, but “Sanctuary” is the first new studio track since 2019’s Terms Of Surrender. With its lush sound and theme of staying safe and hoping for reconciliation, it’s certainly a hopeful song for 2021 …
SEE: The Lottery Winners feat. Frank Turner – ‘Start Again’: begs to be sung with a can aloft
JANUARY – I mean you could paraphrase Malcolm Middleton, at the time formerly of Arab Strap here, who had some choice and entirely memorable words to say of autumn in a vein which seems to capture the grind and the dark admirably. And this year’s opening month; well, bit of a shocker in most senses, …
SEE: The lyric video for Drive-By Truckers’ ‘Tough To Let Go’
IT’S AN album that came out of nowhere; Drive-By Truckers’ The New OK grew from a lockdown EP, something to occupy crack musicians after their last album, The Unraveling, collecting together some pretty powerful odds and ends from those Memphis sessions, including a fiery ‘n’ fun run-through Ramones’ “The KKK Took My Baby Away” as …
SEE: New Bums – ‘Tuned To Graffiti’: insouciant, folksy beauty trails for March album
NEW BUMS is the freewheelin’ two-hander of two very fine songwriters in their own right: Ben Chasny, aka psychotropic voyaging genius Six Organs of Admittance; and Donovan Quinn, formerly of the truly lovely and cultist Jagjaguwar baroque-psych-folk outfit Skygreen Leopards. They’ve got together before, almost seven years back, for the loose ‘n’ lovely Voices In …
ALBUM REVIEW: Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West – ‘Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West’
Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West is like a finely reduced sauce; it packs an awful lot of psychedelic flavour and fun into a fat half-hour. Afrobeat, surf rock, funk, straight psych, country psych, jazz, shoegaze, are all seep through a lovely record with three of four moments of proper excellence and a lot of red-eyed, 1am lava lamp big-grinned fun besides. It’s good to see him back.
SEE: Swansea Sound – ‘I Sold My Soul On eBay’: railing against the royalty rate with pop concept
INDIEPOP with the most resonant of political points for an industry beleaguered by the pandemic and one in which anyway, let’s be frank, artists are being screwed all ends by the dominant digital business ‘models’. Now that kind of indie is a wholly good thing. Step forward Swansea Sound: Amelia Fletcher of Heavenly, Talulah Gosh, …
SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Paper Crown’: The Great American Songbook remade in absolute sweetness
WITH their wholly seductive new album Merlynn Belle just around the corner now – eeep! exciting, it’ll be out on Kill Rock Stars on February 5th – Texas psych-European-retro-country duo Tele Novella have decided to lift the tasteful drapes on the record one final time and reveal “Paper Crown”. (And a very lovely long player it is …
SEE: Corey Taylor shares video for ‘Samantha’s Gone’
TAKEN from his debut solo album CMFT, Corey Taylor has shared a brand new visual for “Samantha’s Gone”. The video features many a famous face, including Tom Sandoval of Bravo TV’s Vanderpump Rules, Dean Cameron (Summer School, Ski School, Straight Outta Compton), Steel Panther, plus Greg Grunberg, Ace Von Johnson, Travis Miguel and Jonah Nimoy. Corey spoke to The Daily Dish and …
SEE: The animated video for Samuel Sharp’s ‘Dawn Rises’; the English dawn captured in solo sax
HE’S QUITE the scion of British solo saxophone, is Samuel Sharp; not, perhaps, on the face of it, an easy thing to comprehend, but what he’s offering over what’s now a triad of single drops and next month’s album, Patterns Various, is experimental, pretty, dubby, evocative; pastoralist, impressionist, and I think an album which will …