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SEE: Sigma’s ‘High On You’: it’s a summer club earworm
SIGMA, who garnered a Brit Awards nomination in 2015 for their chart-topping “Nobody To Love” are back with another, windows-down, sultry summer city evening earworm in the shape of “High On You”, featuring the vocal talents of fellow Brits nominee and chart-topper John Newman. Sitting on the foundations of a classic piano house intro, the …
Track: Winter – Endless Space (Between You & I)
Winter is essentially the work of Samira Winter – a Brazilian native relocated to the US and now based in Echo Park. Her new single ‘Endless Space (Between You & I)’ is a lush, sparkling track that delivers shoegaze/dream pop perfection in just over three delightfully immersive minutes. Winter’s voice is fragile and emotive – …
See: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cameo (Video)
Following the release of their impressive second album, ‘Sideways to the New Italy’ (reviewed by me here) , one of Australia’s greatest musical exports, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (RBCF) have released a video for one of the tracks, ‘Cameo’. ‘Cameo’ is a delightful jangly track that encapsulates the definitive indie sound of number of their …
See: A. Swayze and the Ghosts – Cancer, plus album news
Tasmanian stars A. Swayze and the Ghosts have highly impressed us earlier this year with their post punky single ‘Mess of Me‘ released in February. With a US tour unfortunately cancelled as a result of the COBID 19 crisis, the band has just released a fantastically bizarre and creative video for their new theatrical glam …
SEE: Toxic Avenger’s ‘Mandala’ has the Gallic groove
SIMON DELACROIX, aka French producer Toxic Avenger, is a man with many strings to his bow. He DJs worldwide, won awards for his computer game soundtracks, and plies a nice line in that particular strain of floorfiller that the French do so well – that insouciant cut-up of funk, disco, analogue house and indie touches. …
SEE: Siv Jakobsen’s ‘Anywhere Else’ is a fragile folk arrow to your chest
RISING Norwegian folk artist Siv Jakobsen has a voice that is at once sibilant and honeyed, yet so, so fragile. And in a recent Instagram post, she confessed that her current single, “Anywhere Else”, the video for which you can watch below, has a real fragility of experience at its core. She said: “I wasn’t …
SEE: Ane Brun releases ‘Honey’ ahead of autumn album, UK tour
NORWEGIAN songstress Ane Brun has released the fifth in a series of monthly tracks ahead of an as-yet-untitled eighth studio set. The album is due to be in the racks in time for winter, and will be her first set of original material since 2015’s When I’m Free, and her first longform outing in the …
TRACK: Red River Dialect frontman shares ‘Ballad of Ross Wyld’
DAVID MORRIS, proud Falmothian and singer with Red River Dialect – the six-piece who’ve brought us some of the most vital of British folk-rock over the past decade – has shared a solo sketch. Described by David as “a lockdown love letter to my housemates”, “The Ballad of Ross Wyld” strips back the layered instrumentation …
NEWS: Margo Price’s third gets July date: watch a taster
JULY 10th will finally see Margo Price’s hotly anticipated third studio album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, hit the shelves. With its original release date of May 8th trashed by the escalating disease crisis – and indeed, the album is still showing with that release date at some places online – the 27-year-old Illinoisan admits …
SEE: The Close Lobsters have still got the guitar shimmer nailed – ‘Godless’
STRAIGHT outta Paisley on the back of the C86 guitar pop wave, Close Lobsters were a little unfortunate to fly under the radar compared to some of their contemporaries. The pristine jangle shimmer of singles such as “ Never Seen Before” and “Going To Heaven To See If It Rains” led to a brace of …