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TRACK: Martha Fffion – ‘Nights To Forget’: intelligent pop about those evenings you wished you hadn’t
GLASGOW-based, Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay, better known to acoustic pop aficionados as Martha Ffion and whose 2018 LP Sunday Best was packed to the rafters with sparkling and confessional songwriting, all draped in her clear, sweet tones, has announced a new album – her first for the label that gave her first single release, Lost …
SEE: U.S. Girls – ‘IOU’: classic pop craft caught in the studio
THE NAME may have originated in a casual joke all those years ago, but Meghan Remy’s U.S. Girls project fashions a very true and lovely music, bringing those classic vocal tones she has to intelligent pop music – and by pop, we of course mean pop as in Carole King, as in St Vincent. Pop …
SEE: The Allergies – ‘I Just Got That Feeling’: fightin’ the 3am blues with crisp Brizzle beatz
HELL, we’ve all been there. The bleary bemusement of the digital clock reading 3.29am. Jeez; and you have this weird intuition, something is off-balance somewhere. In a rare, more introspective moment, Bristol’s crisp party beatz outfit The Allergies have released a video for “I Just Got That Feeling”, making a groove out of the 3am …
TRACK: 0171 – ‘Photograph’: yearning Hackney synthpop
COMING at you out of Hackney – that dialling-code epithet giving away their inner London roots- synth-pop duo Joe Bedell-Brill and Georgie Hoare, who record as 0171, have shared their vision for a retro-future pop form with “Photograph”, the fast-cut video montage for which you can watch below. “Photograph” has this pure pop yearn, set …
SEE: Jorja Smith – ‘By Any Means’: passionate civil rights Britsoul
UK singer-songwriter Jorja Smith has shared the lyric video for a slow, heartfelt tale of empowerment,“By Any Means”, in which she brings her graceful, smokey soul tones to a stripped-back groove that gives her voice – and her message – absolute centre stage. It’s the lead single to be taken from Roc Nation’s upcoming Reprise …
SEE: Daniel Blumberg – ‘On & On & On & On & On’: pushing songcraft into new shapes
THERE’S really no point in gathering together fancy wordsmithery here: if you like your music tending towards to the acoustic auteur with a personal vision, an artist who’s not necessarily content to take a finely wrought and heartfelt tale and sit inside it, not try to stress-test it, push the further boundaries of the song …
SEE: Siv Jakobsen – ‘A Feeling Felt Or A Feeling Made’: folk as delicate as a bee’s wing
NORWEGIAN folk auteur Siv Jakobsen is possessed of this tremendous, fragile voice which also has astonishing power. Today she has released a video for the beautiful, lamenting delicacy of “A Feeling Felt Or A Feeling Made”, in which she explores the way we react emotionally; are we true with our feelings, or do we sometimes …
SEE: El Goodo – ‘Things Turn Around’: how to turn a rubbish day into 6/8 beauty
IT’S a lovely little thing, the world of West Wales’ El Goodo. Things might well be a bit pants, they really might, but they have the tools to fashion the fag end of being into a little slice of Alex Chiltonesque, piano-led, post-psych brilliance. The lyrics are downcast and bleak, but that melody and boy, …
SEE: Ganser – ‘Projector’: a post-punk despatch from our dystopia
IT CHARGES at you on wiry guitar and rumbling tom-toms, a shadowy simmer. We’re in a lecture theatre, with vocalist and keyboard player Nadia Garafalo demure in a sweater: our college lecturer on hand to guide us through the lyric video for “Projector”, the latest slice of portent-filled post-punk from Chicago’s Ganser. It serves notice …
See: Aberdeen quartet Cold Years reveal new video for ‘Too Far Gone’
Aberdeen rock quartet Cold Yeahs have released a new single and video ahead of their anticipated debut album Paradise, out in September and available on cd, streaming and lovely rose and clear vinyl. Of the track, the bands frontman Ross Gordon says Too Far Gone came from being in a pretty bad place, not knowing …