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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 …
PREMIERE: See the video for Urlaub in Polen’s ‘Impulse Response’: Cologne duo reunite, LP to follow
COLOGNE’S Urlaub in Polen – the new wave-tronica duo of singer George Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen – have been away from our turntables for almost a decade now. In fact it’s nine years since they released album no.5, Boldstriker, and promptly announced it was all over. But the giddy wheel of time shifteth …
SEE: Red Rum Club – ‘Ballerino’: some proper shapes thrown, tour news
YEAH, you think you’ve got moves, Christopher Walken? The star of Deerhunter and so many other Hollywood classics, who revealed he had an absolute line on owning the dancefloor in the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice“, has got some serious Liverpudlian landlord competition coming at him thanks to Red Rum Club. The Merseyside …
SEE: bdrmm’s ‘Gush’ gets a short film; tour news; album on red vinyl
SONIC CATHEDRAL’S excellent young shoegazers bdrmmm have released a “Gush” as a single today from their debut LP – and there’s a limited red-vinyl pressing of the album available now at selected independents. “Gush” is a rather gorgeous autumnal yearn of a ‘gaze tune, Ryan’s vocals a dreamy call blending with the guitars. And it …