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NEWS: Penelope Isles announce dates for 2021; watch the final episode of Penny Isles TV
THE LOVELY, lovely Penelope Isles, who released their debut album Until The Tide Creeps In to acclaim last year, and played more than 100 shows, have announced a string of dates for the new year. They’ve also released the final episode in their Penny Isles TV series, which sees them touring in the US with Wallows. As …
SEE: Winter Gardens’ ‘Zigzanny’ is a Bladerunner post-punk fuzzbomb
WINTER GARDENS, the Sussex quartet beloved of a big guitar and unafraid of a grandiose statement, even this early in their career – they covered the Cocteaus’ Pearly Dewdrops-Drops on their first, hard-to-find, 7″ – have dropped a lyric video for a second track from their forthcoming Tapestry EP, which is out next month; you …
SEE: Laura Veirs – ‘Turquoise Walls’: the late-night blue (-green)s rendered Americana heartbreak
PORTLAND songstress Laura Veirs, who has been delighting our ears for a full 21 years now with her beautifully judged and melodious Americana, is readying herself for the release of her eleventh studio set for Bella Union, My Echo, which is due in the shops on October 23rd. Having shared a video for “Burn Too …
PREMIERE: Babe, Terror – ‘Salina Lumen’: Caretaker-style eerieness from a locked-down São Paulo
BABE, TERROR, the nom-de-musique of São Paulo’s Claudio Szynkier, is a serious sort of name. That juxtaposition: your babe, your loved one, terror. Oh. … but then these are serious times, and if you think we’ve got it bad in the UK currently, then try the Brazil of the Brazil of an emergent populist, Covid-denying …
SEE: The Dawdler – ‘Lava Lamps’: a study in beautiful acoustic sadness
THE DAWDLER is the low-key musical alias of Tyneside singer-songwriter John Edgar, who describes himself on his Twitter profile as “Ambient pop. Sad.” He’s just signed to London indie Akira Records and by way of marking that partnership has just released a lovely (and admittedly, sad) little tune entitled “Lava Lamps” in tribute to his …
SEE: Wax Machine’s ‘Truth’: Brighton deep psych travellers announce tour dates
WAX MACHINE are a name you really ought to scribe on your albums wants list if you like your guitars, pyrotechnic; your spectrum, fully rainbow; your flutes, trilling. They released their debut LP, Earthsong of Silence on Beyond Beyond is Beyond in March, and it swirls with the psych colours and neckerchiefs of a London welcoming Hendrix to …
SEE: Eels drop surprise new cut, ‘Baby Let’s Make It Real’
FULL of surprises, Mark Everitt’s Eels have just dropped an unexpected new single entitled “Baby Let’s Make It Real”, the result of recent sessions at the band’s studio in Los Feliz, California. It’s the first new music to emerge by the band since the release of their most recent album, The Deconstruction, two years ago. …
SEE: Beth Hirsch – ‘All I Need’ (ELIOT’s Cosmic Remix): Moon Safari classic stripped back and still gorgeous
IT’S entirely conceivable, I suppose, that you won’t know Beth Hirsch by name, but if you were at any kind of laidback all-back-to-mine or small hours session or summer blissout from summer 1998 on, it’s certain you know her glorious, honeyed tones. Why so? Twas Beth that gave her vocal grace to that absolute peak …
See: Yves Tumor releases new lyric video for ‘Strawberry Privilege’ and accompanying merchandise
Taken from his critically acclaimed Warp Records album from earlier in the year, Yves Tumor has released a new lyric video for Strawberry Privilege. Directly by Jordan Hemingway and Collin Fletcher, it stars Yves Tumor and Julia Cumming and has been released alongside some exclusive merchandise inspired by the video. The track is this bubbling, …
TRACK: Garcia Peoples – ‘One At A Time’: cool, bluesy East Coast rock: new album in October
RUTHERFORD, New Jersey’s autumnal rock outfit Garcia Peoples are following up their live cassette from earlier in the year with a new album, Nightcap At Wits’ End, on October 9th; and they’re teasing that release with the brilliantly trippy little animation for lead track “One At A Time”. Have a watch of it with us, …