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SEE: Death By Unga Bunga – ‘Egocentric’: don’t be a dick, say Norway’s power punkers
WITH a new album, Heavy Male Insecurity, just around the corner, Norwegian power-pop punkers Death By Unga Bunga have released a video for another come-hither, “Egocentric”, which you can watch below. It’s a bit of a banger, with that trademark DBUB attention to fuzz and melody, all wrapped up in basketball court shenanigans. And there’s intelligence …
TRACK: Valley Maker – ‘No One Is Missing’
AUSTIN CRANE sounds like a name that folk scene followers have heard for ages, so it’s quite surprising to know that he is just past 30, moving back East after pursuing a PhD in human geography in Seattle. He was born musically at the time of Fleet Foxes’ major success and in a way it’s …
TRACK: Panteon – ‘Waking Waiting’: lighter-than-air alt.folk explores the void at the end of the affair
YVONNE AMBRÉE is an artist currently based in Berlin who writes, records and produces music under the nom-de-musique Panteon. She has a particular way with an airy, fragile folk melody and a voice to match, delicate and honeyed, just a touch of the Marissa Nadlers in her velvet swoop. Which is not something to be …
Hannah Peel announces March album: see the video for ‘Emergence In Nature’
HANNAH PEEL is a true renaissance woman and arguably the most musically multifaceted artist at work in the UK at the present time. She’s recently been curating and presenting BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks; her catalogue, stemming from folky roots back a decade ago, has grown to take in the solo electronic and pop work of Awake But …
See: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever release playful video for ‘The Only One’ and announce tour news
With the magnificent album ‘Sideways to the New Italy‘ making Backseat Mafia’s top 50 albums for 2020 and my favourite 2020 music list from Australia and New Zealand, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (RBCF) continue to sparkle with the release of a video from a track off the album and an announcement of a further gig …
PREMIERE: Ted Barnes and Sarah Johns Music Party – ‘Arrangements’: theatrical delicacy from returning Clayhill prodigal
YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the music press alongside the likes of Lowgold and Kings of Convenience, which definition did them a massive disservice. Seek ye their albums; for further evidence …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Mueller – ‘Family Secret’: an immersive drone palimpsest
Family Secret is a journey of deep interiority: it’s implicit that it be served fresh, after dark, suitably lit with no distractions. Clever, eerie and beautiful, it’s an album that will continue to reward you
SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Angeles’: mellow LA country-psych with the darkest heart
BY DAY Cory Hanson is singer-guitarist with LA psych quintet Wand, but he also pursues a rather seductive solo vision: a very LA blur of blissful, rootsy psych, part-Laurel Canyon, part-peyote in the deserts out past city limits. He’s got only his second full-length solo outing, Pale Horse Rider, due for release on Drag City …
SEE: Visionist preludes his March album for Mute with ‘The Fold’
LONDON’S musical scryer Visionist has announced details of a new album, A Call To Arms which, after his 2017 LP Value for Big Dada, will be his debut for Mute. The album, which will be released come March 5th, sees a departure in aesthetic methods as for the first time he brings his own voice to …
SEE: The video for Ben Harper’s ‘Black Beauty’: a proud, gospel soul rush
“IT WAS an honor to have been asked to write a song for this culturally vital documentary,” says singer-songwriting legend Ben Harper of “Black Beauty”, the song he’s dropped the video for today. “After watching Black Boys and discussing it in-depth with [director] Sonia Lowman, I went immediately to work on composing ‘Black Beauty.’ “I’m old-school …