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SEE: King Charles’ plea to ‘Feel These Heavy Times’
DANDYISH London troubadour King Charles has released the video for a new lockdown song, “Feel These Heavy Times”. It’s a sweet and hushed pleas for togetherness and love in straitened times: “I know you know life’s not fair / Maybe that’s why revolution’s in the air”. The video features self-filmed clips of fans at home …
SEE: Emma Swift’s gorgeous ‘Queen Jane Approximately’
AUSTRALIAN chanteuse, Nashville resident and partner of Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift has saddled up to ride into your hearts with the video for her cover of Dylan’s “Queen Jane Approximately.” Hell, it’s beautiful. She takes it for a deep spin towards Gene Clark country, and lays it down as a chiming weary tune, with 12-strings …
SEE: Black Marble’s take on Wire’s ‘In Manchester’; covers EP to follow
BLACK MARBLE, the recording alias of American east-coast Anglophile Chris Stewart, has released a video for his take on Wire’s “In Manchester”, ahead of a covers EP next month. The EP, entitled I Must Be Living Twice, will be released on August 14th by Sacred Bones Records; it’s also available for pre-order via Bandcamp. I …
SEE: Otta’s ‘Sick Inside’ has a gorgeous, genre-busting fragility
SOUTH London-based, British-Finnish singer Otta is plotting an intriguing and sonically dazed course out on the creative fringes of singer-songwriter, lofi and soul. Her second EP, entitled Songbook, follows a critically tipped debut at the end of last year; and on the strength of lead track “Sick Inside” promises to be innovative, inventive, playful and …
SEE: Dope Body’s vid for sleaze nugget “Home Body”; Spotify playlist
BALTIMORE’S answer to Royal Trux, newly rejuvenated sleaze rockers Dope Body, have released a video to accompany “Back in Back” from their May return set, Home Body. And you can watch it below. Maryland’s self-styled 21st-century Stooges, who returned with their new set of material since 2015’s Kunk just a few weeks ago, had this …
SEE: Jon Anderson reveals ‘WDMCF’ ahead of new LP
YES LEGEND Jon Anderson has debuted a single entitled “WDMCF” in advance of his forthcoming album, 1000 Hands; and you can watch the clip below. Of this latest single, Jon said: “[It] originates from me singing the first ideas that come to mind each morning. I start by creating vocal rhythmic sounds, very much like …
SEE: Oh Wonder’s ‘Don’t You Worry’ soothes lockdown blues
SWOONSOME London duo Oh Wonder have continued to create under the privations of lockdown, with the fifth song in their acclaimed Home Tapes project out now. “Don’t You Worry” completes a quintet of home-recorded tunes to be issued over the recent, distanced months. It’s an intimate love song “about the intimacy and connection still possible …
SEE: 5 Billion in Diamonds – ‘Divine Accidents’: widescreen psych-rocker
BUTCH VIG needs no real introduction in the world of rock: Nevermind, Garbage, massive production values that define an era. But he’s been somewhat quiet in recent times. That changed right this second with the latest single from his 5 Billion in Diamonds supergroup project, “Divine Accidents.” It’s the title track from the outfit’s upcoming …
SEE: The Illness’s ‘Descending’ gets Pavement on board
TIMES of no travel aren’t a restriction to collaborating on great music in this fibre-optic world of ours: as proved by The Illness’s crackingly worldly-wise slice of transatlantic indie-leaning guitarpop, “Descending”, out on 12” next week. And today the band have released the video for the track as a taster: you can watch below. The …
SEE: The Orielles’ ‘7th Dynamic Goo’ gets animated
HALIFAX’S finest, indie-funksters The Orielles, have released a brilliant animation to accompany “7th Dynamic Goo”, from their second LP, Disco Volador. The video was directed by Berlin-based Stacie Ant. The Orielles said: “We’ve always wanted to have an animated video … things worked out well during this weird moment in time! “We love Stacie’s work …