wales
Track: Kidsmoke – The Bluest You
With a spectral guitar intro and the yearning vocals, Kidsmoke’s new single ‘The Bluest You’ is a dreamy smooth pleasure of the highest degree. There is a celestial shimmer to the song – it shines and sparkles while simultaneously creating an air of pastoral melancholia. An air that clearly reflects its lyrical themes, of which …
Track: Yr Eira – Middle of Nowhere
Yr Eira have just released a delightful, thoughtful and dreamy single in the form of ‘Middle of Nowhere’ off their forthcoming album ‘Map Meddwl’ out on 15 May 2020 through I KA CHING. Beneath the hazy shimmering feel is a message where freedom from romantic entanglements is interweaved with a subtext of Welsh independence. Do …
Track: Carw – Lanterns
Forged where land meets estuary waters and the city screams just a stone’s throw from nature, plugged-in Cardiff-based singer-songwriter Carw foretells the majesty of his summer debut album with the single, LANTERNS, released on BLINC Records on Friday 25 May 2018. Carw, Welsh for ‘deer’, opens the door on a determinedly focused, self-initiated and largely …
Track: The Mu-Tones – Slab City Records
North West trio The Mu-Tones are to release their debut single ‘Slab City Records’ on June 30th through Ugly Man Records and is an ode to a forgotten area of the US “Its an area in America not even on the map, run by solar power, apparently they have gigs on there, it’s something I’d …
Album Review: Wylderness – Wylderness
Today sees the release of the debut self-titled by Welsh band, Wylderness. Riding the new wave of shoegaze (see what I did there?), there is no doubting the debt to Ride, but this is no carbon copy or pale pastiche. Veering away from dream pop tendencies, ‘Wylderness’ represents a more muscular guitar-driven variety, not afraid …
See: Bryde releases new video for Desire, plus UK tour dates
The human need for instant gratification is the notion that Welsh singer-songwriter Bryde was focusing in on when she wrote her latest single Desire, which drops ahead of her debut album later in the spring. It a jagged melody at the starts that darts and swoons over the accompanyment until its bursts into the chorus, …
Track: Vince James – The Man I Want to Be
Welsh singer songwriter Vince James has a new single out today, The Man I want to be, and it has a real significance personally for James. As he explains “I wrote the song for my Grandad, it was to celebrate his 80th Birthday. I was listening to a lot of Jake Bugg’s first album at …
Track: Serol Serol – Cadeyni
Out today on IKACHING records, is the debut single from North Wales ‘space pop’ band (the inverted commas come courtesy of the very brief press release, so I’m using them) Serol Serol. Called Cadwyni, which, according to my rudimentary research (that will clearly be proved to be embarrassingly wrong, but hey, I gave it a …
Track: MRGD – Lover Go
Lover Go is the debut single from Welsh electronic artist MRGD, aka London based Marged Sion. Described as “the distance between the emotional entanglement within a controlling relationship and the strength and empowerment of being able to move on”, the track features production from SAKIMA, who’s previously worked with Ryan Hemsworth and Cyril Hahn. Lover …
Track: Gwenno – Chwyldro (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
On his remix of Gwenno’s album opener Chwyldro, Andrew Weatherall adds his lightest magic touch to an already spellbinding track. Chwyldro is the first track on Gwenno Saunders’ debut solo album Y Dydd Olaf (named for Welsh author Owain Owain’s 1976 sci-fi novel). Sung almost entirely in her native Welsh tongue (one song is sung …