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SEE: Real Estate perform ‘Gone’ live from the fridge; download and create your own footage!
NEW JERSEY’S gorgeous jangly guitar outfit Real Estate have just released a video for the sunlit harmonic breeze of “Gone”, taken from this year’s lovely album The Main Thing – which sees Martin Courtney and the boys performing … from inside a fridge. You can see them jingle-jangle out some beauty among the groceries below. …
SEE: Robbie & Mona ‘Wallpaper’: hazy Bristolian dreampop
FOLLOWING the announcement of another lockdown, the dreampop duo Robbie and Mona are happy to announce the delayed release of their debut album, EW, out on January 29th via Spinny Nights. And they’re teasing for it today with the video for the single drop, “Wallpaper”. The partnership of William Carkeet and Eleanor Gray, Robbie & …
SEE: Patrick Watson – ‘Lost With You’: piano grace from the brilliant Canadian
CANADIAN songsmith Patrick Watson, who leads the band of the same name, somewhat flies under the radar on UK shores – and that’s bordering on criminal once you dive into his world of beautifully arranged music. You may know him as the man behind (well, the man upfront, since he composed, sang and played piano …
SEE: Calexico to release seasonal album; watch the video for ‘Hear The Bells’
ARIZONA’S atmospheric Tex-Mex outfit Calexico have returned after last year’s collaborative album with Iron & Wine, and have announced a new album whose songs are very much concerned with this time of year in the shape of Seasonal Shift. The album is a celebration of the wider winter and festive season and will be released …
SEE: The stunning animation for A Certain Ratio’s ‘YoYoGrip’ – two ‘ACR Loco’ tracks meet in harmony
NOT CONTENT to rest on their laurels following the release of ACR Loco, that rich, irresistible return of an album from September, A Certain Ratio have just dropped the animated video for a new single, “YoYoGrip”: yes, that’s right, two of the highlight tracks from that album blended sweetly in a soundclash orchestrated by UK …
SEE: King Hannah’s ‘Meal Deal’; they announce first EP for City Slang
LIVERPOOL’S Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle who, after working as musicians separately for years, met in a bar job, and decided to make beautiful music together as King Hannah, have just dropped their second single after signing to City Slang, “Meal Deal”. Have a watch of the video, below. It comes after the stark, emotionally …
SEE: Caroline Polachek – ‘The Gate (Extended Mix) – ethereal bliss with stunning visuals
IN CELEBRATION of the first anniversary of her debut solo album, Pang, Caroline Polachek, former singer with the lovely Brooklyn lo-fi poppers Chairlift, has released a blissful extended mix of “The Gate”, one of that album’s standout tracks. Watch the blissfully ethereal video for the ten-minute new mix below. It unfolds at a blissful pace, …
SEE: Jarrel the Young – ‘Paris In The Fall’ – yearning modern R’n’B
YOU MAY not know him by name, but it’s pretty much a dead cert that you’ve heard Jarrel The Young’s work; the Toronto-based producer has been at the faders for everyone from David Guetta to Tory Lanez to Fall Out Boy. He’s stepped out to the public-facing side of things with his second EP, due …
SEE: The animation for the bright electro groove of Myd feat. Mac DeMarco’s ‘Moving Men’
QUENTIN LEPOUTRE, better known to us out there in the world of Gallic grooves as Myd, has made what seems on paper an unlikely alliance with Canadian indie rock star Mac DeMarco for his latest single “Moving Men”. Watch the cute animation for a smooth, sophisticated two-hander of a groove below. Actually they’ve had a …
SEE: Jim Ghedi – ‘Beneath The Willow’; new album in January
MODERN fingerpicking scion Jim Ghedi has announced he’s releasing a new album in January; and he’s just released a video and short film for the first single to be taken from it, “Beneath The Willow”. Have a watch, below. And with the times we live in ever darker, ever more strewn with polarisation, he’s coming …