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SEE: Red Rum Club’s ‘The Elevation’: brassy pop for the blue-tick age
AS THE rain starts to wrap us in autumn, at least Liverpudlian sextet Red Rum Club are here to bring a little thoughtful pop sunshine. Today they’ve dropped a video for “The Elevation”, a sweet brass-led groove about a fractious relationship in the WhatsApp age: when you get no reply even after “the ticks go …
SEE: Tune-Yards’ ‘nowhere, man’: brilliantly freakish stop-motion and a rousing groove
MERRILL GARBUS and Nate Brenner’s excellent, genre-busting, rousing Tune-Yards have released a brilliantly freakish stop-motion animation for their new track, “nowhere, man”. It’s bright, groovy, offbeat, spacious, eccentrically paced, passionately sung: in short, everything you need a Tune-Yards’ tune to be. And that accompanying video … Merrill and Nate are caught giving it the Chaplin …
SEE: Lou Hayter – ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’: sophisticated electropop for Skint
YOU MAY know Lou Hayter better for her work with London electro collective New Young Pony Club before they contracted into acronym; but get people to shuffle up on the elegant, intelligent electropop sofa inside your brain, because it’s gonna be so rude of you not to offer Lou a seat once you wrap your …
See: The Finalists release video for ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)’
The simple, shimmering and reflective tone of the delightful single ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)’ from Sydney band The Finalists (premiered by Backseat Mafia last week) is now beautifully matched by a laid back, black and white video treatment showcasing the band, all shadowy and enigmatic: The old black and white movie footage …
SEE: Le Volume Courbe – ‘Fourteen Years’: Charlotte returns with brilliant quirkiness
WENDING my way through a particular tributary of my record collection the other day, I came across a lovely, lofi 7″, characterised by the mint and cream swirl artwork of Alan McGee’s post-Creation imprint, Poptones; it was Le Volume Courbe’s quirky folk tune, “Papillon De Nuit”, an idiosyncratic and alluring essay in pigeon coos, downhome …
SEE: HAAi’s ‘Bon Viveur’: an absolute banger from her new Mute EP
HAAI, the thrumming techno alias of Australian Teniel Throssell, has just dropped another video for a track from her excellent latest EP for Mute, Put Your Head Above The Parakeets. The video’s for “Bon Viveur”, which you can watch below, was created by Sensory Works uses elements of HAAi’s recently launched Instagram filter. She explains: “I worked …
See: The spectacular video for $hit & $hine’s ‘Devil’s Backbone’
CRAIG CLOUSE, the artist behind the $hit & $hine name, has partnered with Teeth of the Sea’s Mike Bourne to create an enthralling, pummeling visual miasma for his latest single, “Devil’s Backbone”: you can watch it, below. Witness the visual spectacle of a roughly hewn flood of distorted footage, all bathed in a violent and …
SEE: XIXA – ‘Genesis Of Gaea’: desert rock groove with superstition announces Tucsonians’ second
TOTING a very fine line in dusty, Latin American/goth/soundtrack-informed desert rock and coming atcha out of Tucson, Arizona, men in black XIXA are ready to roll out the follow-up to their fine 2016 LP, Bloodline. It’s called Genesis, it’s suited and booted and ready for release on February 19th next year; but shield your eyes …
SEE: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Release’: a stunning folktronic search for feeling
FIVE YEARS away from music – but Sophie Jamieson has lost not a jot of her musical acuity. A recording session all that time ago collapsed leaving Sophie uncertain after her lauded debut EP, Where; self-doubt built upon self-doubt and she retreated. But she’s dusted herself down, going on tour with Charlie Cunningham across Europe …
ALBUM REVIEW: Yves Jarvis – ‘Sundry Rock Song Stock’: a thrilling solo quirk-psych vision
WHEN historians of future days come to write up the glowering all-round evils of 2020, they will, hopefully, take note of one glimmering shaft of light through the fog-plague; how great the sphere of quirky Canadian music has been this year. There’s been another sonically luxuriant missive from Montreal’s Braids in the shape of Shadow …