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SEE: Sing Leaf’s ‘Easy On You’: wrap y’self inside indie-folk bliss
“THIS is the best song I’ve written, I think; real simple and clean,” says Sing Leaf’s David Como of the single he’s just released, “Easy On You”. “I wrote it while still living in the city [Toronto], an apartment in the trees near High Park. “People below us would howl and rage at each other …
SEE: Cian Ciaran feat Jehst and Wibidi – ‘Are You Down With Me?’: hazy breaks’ call for collective strength
AFTER yesterday’s powerful live stream in solidarity, remembrance, rage and consciousness-raising marking the 75th anniversary of the devastating nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, politically acute Super Furry Animal Cian Ciarán today releases the single-cut version of the track from that six-hour stream, “Are You Down With Me”, in which wordsmiths Jehst and Wibidi use speech as …
See: Phoebe Bridgers releases new video for ‘I Know The End’
TAKEN from last months brilliant Punisher album, which we frankly eulogised about in our review, Phoebe Bridgers has released a new video for the albums closing track “I Know The End”. Reflective and hazy, “I Know The End” is baked in gently sizzling synths and an electronic hue, latterly joined by sweeping strings, brushes of …
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 …