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SEE: Gim Kordon – ‘Betoni kukkii’: embrace the Finnish noise
COMING out of Helsinki with a name that’s … suspiciously familiar, somehow? and a whole firestorm of howlin’ guitar, Gim Kordon have jut released their second (and presumably final) single of 2020, “Betoni kukkii”, the stylishly beautiful monochrome video for which you can lose yourself in below. The title of the song translates as “Concrete …
SEE: The Stockholm video for James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra’s ‘Ella Mary Leather’
AS THE year takes it final bows – mostly, you’d have to say, free from the tossing of bouquets, unless they’re dead black roses or somesuch – we at least have the joy of a soon-coming new album from Fife’s always warming James Yorkston, this time in tandem with The Second Hand Orchestra. The album’s …
SEE: Kid Cudi – ‘Heaven On Earth’: rapper drops visuals, announces expanded Man On The Moon set
KID CUDI, the Cleveland, Ohio-born lyricist who’s been straddling the Billboard charts for a decade plus, has finally unveiled the final part of his Man On The Moon trilogy, Man On The Moon III: The Chosen, which emerged three weeks ago. And as that album finally hit the racks – drawing together a triptych that …
SEE: slowthai – ‘Thoughts’: a raw, surprise lyrical drop
FOLLOWING his recent reveal that he’s got a new album, TYRON, primed and ready for February 5th, slowthai has surprise-released a new track which won’t be included on the album, the freestylin’ lyricism of “Thoughts”; watch the video below. It’s a stream of consciousness, heavy on the raw beatz, the “fucked-up shit in my cranium”, …
SEE: Modern Studies – ‘The Failing Light’: Scottish chamber folk outfit release new EP for Fire
WITH the afterglow of their May album The Weight Of The Sun still warming us, Scottish progressive chamber folk quartet Modern Light are still intent on riding the melodic winds further in pursuit of their craft; and they’ve taken what they call some leftover seeds from the album sessions to nurture into tender-stemmed new tunes, …
SEE: Hot Chip’s spin on Django Django’s ‘Glowing In The Dark’ comes with trippy animation
WITH a brand spanking new album, Glowing in the Dark, announced for a February release, Django Django have unveiled a Hot Chip rerub of the title track, sprinkling some of that ever-uplifting Taylor ‘n’ Goddard sweetness over the pulse. Take a listen below. Django Django say: “We’ve been huge fans of Hot Chip from the beginning and …
SEE: Table Scraps – ‘Doom Generation’: garage-punkers surgin’ as it all falls apart
YOU’VE already been directed to take a dive into Brum garage-punkers Table Scraps by no less than IDLES’ Joe Talbot, who counts himself a fan; now’s your chance to climb aboard and feast on some crumbs as the band – Scott, TJ and Poppy – shake their collectively animated ass with “Doom Generation”, the South …
SEE: John Carpenter – ‘The Dead Walk’; album follows for Sacred Bones in February
LEGENDARY film music writer John Carpenter still has so much to say; so many eerie atmospheres to evoke. The composer of such industry-standard soundtracks as the Halloween series, The Fog and Christine is back early in the new year with a new album for Sacred Bones; and he’s released a single to both prickle the …
NOT FORGOTTEN: Snub TV: when British telly had a decent indie strand
JANUARY 9, 1989. Perhaps not the most auspicious date in world history, though there would be more epochal happenings later in the year, of course. The day dawned with the sad news of the plane crash at Kegworth, Leicestershire, the day before, when British Midland Flight 92 attempted an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport; …
SEE: Robert Glasper feat. Denzel Curry – ‘This Changes Everything’: Grammy nominee’s future rhymes
HOT OFF the back of his recent, Grammy-nominated Fuck Yo Feelings mixtape (it was in the running for Best Progressive R&B Album), genre-spanning Houston writer and producer Robert Glasper has dropped the video for the tune “This Changes Everything”, featuring the lyrical flow of Denzel Curry. The video was filmed at Harun Cafe, in LA’s Leimert …