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MEET: Steven Lind of Freak Heat Waves
FROM their eponymous Krautrock debut album in 2012, right through to the futuristic punk of 2018’s Beyond XXXL, Canadian duo Freak Heat Waves have consistently churned out unpredictable, bold and wildly different albums. Originally formed more than a decade ago with bassist James Twiddy as the third member before merging into the current incarnation consisting …
SEE: Nadine Khouri – ‘To Sleep’ (live at The Crypt): beauty benefits the Beirut blast
BRITISH-LEBANESE singer-songwriter Nadine Khouri, herself born in Beirut, has today released a live version of “To Sleep” across all digital platforms in support of victims of the deadly blast in her birth city a month ago. All proceeds from the sale of the track on Bandcamp will be donated to Baytna Baytak, an independent, non-government …
SEE: James Alexander Bright’s ‘Go’: lambent acoustic soul bliss on !K7
AN ILLUSTRATOR based in the deep, verdant landscape of Hampshire by day, James Alexander Bright is also a soothing and sunbathed acoustic soul talent who juggles a design career in watercress country with another life with groovy European arbiters of taste !K7, home to the likes of the mighty Jazzanova. He’s released a digital EP …
SEE: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard: ‘Double Denim Hop’: a trash-glam cracker with its thumbs in its front pockets
OK, what you need to know about breaking Welsh quartet Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard is: they’re a lot of glam-trash fun, with a way with a solid, twelve gold bars boogie that sits right on your hips and sticks its thumbs in your johnny pockets. They’ve shared the video for “Double Denim Hop”, a neon-framed infomercial …
SEE: Tunng’s ‘A Million Colours’ as they look to the final curtain on new album and podcast
IT’S SOMETHING that comes to us all … hopefully later than rather sooner. Yes, death; something that’s been shoved into our purview a little harder than usual during 2020, what with all of it; but it isn’t necessarily a subject you’d expect a rather blissful and lauded folktronica act to get deeply involved in. But …
SEE: Tomberlin – ‘Wasted’: evocative rootsiness trails October Saddle Creek EP
SADDLE CREEK’S Tomberlin, who delighted the ears of those who found her on her seductive 2018 debut LP At Weddings, has announced a new EP for late October. And in a come-hither for the forthcoming Projections EP, which Alex G produced, she’s released the video for one of the five tracks, “Wasted”: watch with us, …
ALBUM REVIEW: Skinshape – ‘Umoja’: a fine interweaving of Afro-Anglo guitar pop
DORSET-born Will Dorey is a man with a far-reaching, eclectic musical vision, which he gives to the world via the medium of his recording alias Skinshape. He’s a fellow traveller alongside artists such as Ninja’s Romare and Albert’s Favourites’ Huw Marc Bennett (whose debut album comes next month) in that Skinshape actively embraces the beauties …
The Green Child – ‘Low Desk: High Shelf’: seductive synth-psych trails the new LP – maybe avoid the picnic
THE GREEN CHILD is the musical avatar of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met, hung out and started to spark when their previous respective bands – Mikey’s Australian synth outfit Total Control, and Raven’s Grass Widow, played a show together in Oakland, California; Raven’s home state. Formerly collaborating long-distance, they released their self-titled debut …
SEE: Dennis Ferrer – ‘Sunny Days’: bringing the togetherness groove for Defected
THE PRODIGAL son returns; after an absence of more than four years – since the release of “Right Thing”, back in June 2016 – intelligent house music legend Dennis Ferrer has come back to Defected in tandem with Dawn Tellman for “Sunny Days”, a call for uplift, positivity and togetherness in undeniably troubled times. It’s …
See the lyric video for PELA’s ‘In The Young’: blissful summer ambient pop
PELA, the duo of Olly Shelton and Hannah Coombes who delight in a line of stoned immaculate, blissful chillout, have just dropped their latest single, “In The Young” – you can watch the lyric video below. We’ve covered the singles they’ve been dropping right through the summer: we found “South Of” “set us adrift on …