The song is taken from his new album 'BACKROADS', which came out earlier this month (January 6). Get your copy here.
Watch/listen below.
Watch/listen below.
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Monday, January 31, 2022
Watch: Goiter Shares Music Video For "As It Is"
New Entry: Qyburn Releases New Single "Ruby Red"
The song is taken from his forthcoming new album 'GRAVE. LORD. SERVANT.' Get it here.
Take a listen below.
Take a listen below.
Watch: Savage Mansion Air New Single/Video "The Crucible"
The song is taken from their upcoming new album 'Golden Mountain, Here I Come', which will be available on February 25 through Lost Map Records. Pre-order your copy here.
With Golden Mountain, Here I Come, Savage Mansion have doubled down, solidifying their reputation as one of Scotland’s (and the UK’s) most prolific emerging guitar bands and as a hardworking collective drawing from a diverse palette of musical and literary influences. Re-emerging as a five-piece with Craig Angus (vocals, guitar), Andrew Macpherson (guitar), Beth Chalmers (keys), Jamie Dubber (bass) and Lewis Orr (drums), Golden Mountain, Here I Come is a record that’s hook-laden, poignant, and cryptic. It’s indie rock that’s both an instant feast for the senses and a rich tapestry of sounds and words to pore over and savour.
With Golden Mountain, Here I Come, Savage Mansion have doubled down, solidifying their reputation as one of Scotland’s (and the UK’s) most prolific emerging guitar bands and as a hardworking collective drawing from a diverse palette of musical and literary influences. Re-emerging as a five-piece with Craig Angus (vocals, guitar), Andrew Macpherson (guitar), Beth Chalmers (keys), Jamie Dubber (bass) and Lewis Orr (drums), Golden Mountain, Here I Come is a record that’s hook-laden, poignant, and cryptic. It’s indie rock that’s both an instant feast for the senses and a rich tapestry of sounds and words to pore over and savour.
Watch/listen below.
Friday, January 28, 2022
New Entry: Bugmen Reveal Debut Single "Anna"
The song is out today (January 28). Get copy here and take a listen below.
New Entry: Tidal Wave Premiere New Single "This Cost of Life"
The song is out now and is about the pain of a relationship ending, but to truly live you need to experience these lows. Get it here.
Tidal Wave evokes the melodic elements of indie rock bands like Arcade Fire, while creating compelling production-heavy ambient synth and guitar textures comparable to Godspeed!
Tidal Wave evokes the melodic elements of indie rock bands like Arcade Fire, while creating compelling production-heavy ambient synth and guitar textures comparable to Godspeed!
Take a listen below.
New Entry: Bachelor Drops New Single "Making, Breaking, Shaking, Quaking"
The song is out today (January 28), get it here and stream it below.
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Watch: ISOCULT Unleash New Single/Video "White Noise"
The song is taken from their upcoming EP. Get it here.
From the band: "The song was written in early 2021 when public life came to a halt due to lockdown regulations, a song about the feeling of consuming media all day while not being able to talk to others, loosing oneself in a mental state of "white noise"."
From the band: "The song was written in early 2021 when public life came to a halt due to lockdown regulations, a song about the feeling of consuming media all day while not being able to talk to others, loosing oneself in a mental state of "white noise"."
Watch/listen below.
New Entry: MCRAE Reveal New Single "Planetvplanet"
The song is out today (January 28). Get it here.
From the band: "We wrote this song about our mental health over the past year or so and put some kind words we received in the chorus. We found writing this song really cathartic so we hope it brightens your day."
Take a listen below.
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Watch: High Sunn Unveils New Single/Video "midnight walk"
The song is taken from his upcoming debut full-length album 'Flawless Recollections', out soon via Spirit Goth. Get it here.
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Watch: Same Eyes Premiere New Single/Video "Pavillion"
The song b/w "Seconds" is out today (Jan 28) and is taken from their upcoming new album 'Desperate Ones'. Grab it here.
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: Soft Set Share New Single/Video "More More More"
The song, was produced and performed by Set Set with Mark Crozer (The Jesus and Mary Chain) on bass and Madisyn Whajne on additional vocals!, mixed by Shae Brossard and mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive), it is taken from their upcoming LP set to be released summer 2022. Get it here.
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: Beta Waves Air Music Video For "French Touch"
The song is part of our current playlist and came out earlier this month (January 5). Grab it here.
Watch the video below.
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Watch: Cryptic Commands Release New Single/Video "Trickster"
The song is taken from their forthcoming eighth studio album 'Long Distance Call', out spring 2022 through Numavi Records.
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: Bloc Party Drop New Single/Video "The Girls Are Fighting"
The song is taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album 'Alpha Games', which will be out on April 29, 2022 via Infectious/BMG. Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about it, Kele Okereke says: “There was no specific incident that inspired this song – it was more a composite of lots of things I’ve seen over the years when being in clubs and seeing violence erupt with feuding love rivals. I’ve always had a slight obsession with those sorts of moments; like a fuse being lit, when actions turn from words into violence. You can learn a lot about who people really are in those moments. I think ‘The Girls Are Fighting’ is kind of self-explanatory – someone’s been selling dreams to someone they shouldn’t have and it’s caught up with them. I just wanted to capture that moment of going from naught to ten in an evening, in a sweaty nightclub. I’m really pleased with the arrangement for this track because it has this 1970s glam rock feel meets Adam Ant feel. I love what Louise is doing on the tom toms.”
Watch/listen below.
New Entry: Nina Hagen Reveals New Single "Shadrack"
Have you ever heard a song about "The Book of Daniel" with Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego & King Nebudhanezzer from the Bible?
A story about the biblical stories from ancient Babylon with Shadrack, Meshag + Abednigo, translated into German by Nina Hagen, inspired by many wonderful musicians, such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight. Is a song written by Robert MacGimsey in the 1930's, performed by Louis Armstrong, Brook Benton, The Ames Brothers, The Golden Gate Quartet, The Fairfield Four, The Larks , Benny Goodman, Grant Green, Bill Holman, Sonny Rollins, Bobby Scott, Phil Harris, Kay Starr, Louis Prima, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and many, many others.
The song is out now through Groenland Records, get it here and stream it below.
New Entry: Boy With Apple Unleash New Single "Strawberry Boy"
The song is out today (January 28) through VÅRØ. Get it here.
"Strawberry Boy" is musically really happy and bears a lot of classic pop but lyrically they still found themselves on darker spots. The opening bass is really hypnotizing and it rolls over to a huge world of sounds together with words about something close to a social apocalypse. The catchy chorus stays on your mind and the simple but ingenious guitar slowly takes everything forward towards something beyond restlessness.
Take a listen below.
Take a listen below.
Watch: Cliché Cult Unveil New Single/Video "Say It Like You Mean It"
The song, recorded and mixed by The Crib’s and New Model Army producer Jamie Lockhart, is out today (Jan 28) via Shoplifters Union. Get it here.
We've already heard their previous songs "Common Ground" and "Someone Like You".
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: Thyla Air New Single/Video "Kin"
The song is taken from their long-awaited self-titled debut album out today (January 28) via Easy Life Records. Get your copy here.
Speaking about it, lead singer Millie Duthie says: “‘Kin’ is about the feeling of pressure to prove yourself to friends and family. The amount of times each of us have gone home or out with old friends and the first question has been ‘Are you still working in the café?’ to which the answer still remains an awkward, ‘eh…yes.’ There are psychological benchmarks of success we all feel like we should hit, and we’re all guilty of mapping out our future timelines and expectations. The reality is that there really isn’t anything further from the truth. Life is unpredictable, it weaves and bobs, it meanders and sometimes sprints, but each path is unique and incomparable.”
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: COIN Share New Single/Video "Cutie"
The song is out today (January 28). Get your copy here.
Watch it below.
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New Entry: The Assist Release New Single "Television Kid"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their highly-anticipated debut album 'Council Pop', which will be out on April 8 2022 featuring their new single . Pre-order your copy here.
The track narrates the mischievous nature of a fictional socialite character who we will have all met at some point in our lives. The absorbent kind that becomes over enthused by the smallest of occasions, takes on the role of Andy Murray during Wimbledon and Tyson Fury when there’s a boxing pay-per-view.
“Ambition is an admirable trait and I’m a strong advocate for having dreams that we live and die by. However, it is important to ensure that whilst chasing our dreams we are aware of the bigger picture that is life. In order to grow and maintain a realistic outlook on life it is important to acknowledge that defeat is very much possible and as individuals we aren’t invincible." - Mikey
Watch the video below.
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Watch: The Empty Threats Drop Live video For "Sightseeing"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their self-titled EP released in November 2021. Grab it here.
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Loose Fit Announce New LP 'Social Graces', Stream Title Track
Set for release on April 26 through FatCat Records, the record features 11 tracks of rhythmically-taut, anxiety-driven post-punk featuring the distinctive vocal chants of singer/sax player Anna Langdon. Pre-order your copy here.
Building on the success of their self-titled EP, the album expands the Loose Fit sound-world to include a dub-influenced march through social media bleakness, ACR-style exercises in rhythm and tension, and an atmospheric coda featuring eerie trumpet from drummer Kaylene Milner. It also features a number of the band’s concise, propulsive bangers including the title track and previous single ‘Exhale
Social Graces is a journey through familiar deeply human themes as well as sharp observations of contemporary absurdity. Lyrics about love, hope, fear, loss, and pain are woven amongst visual depictions of acquisition culture, weather patterns, digital life, adventures in wild landscapes, deep introspection, parties and mundane daily experiences.
“I think the album is a truthful document of a weird time. Covid-era has sucked (of course), but did give us time to explore new sounds and ways of working. It was a shit time to be a band, but it was great to have a vessel to channel all our anxieties and pent-up energy into. I think the album has all that fucked-up 2020/2021 energy in it.”, Bassist Richard Martin says.
New single - also called ‘Social Graces’ - is a frantic 2’29” blast of nervy punk. The song was written in 2020 inspired by the nervous tension in the air after the initial months of covid-induced house arrest. People were finally allowed to meet in the federally sanctioned groups of 5, but found themselves too nervous to touch each other for fear of infection and felt awkward in communication. There was a sense of relearning how to be together.
It comes with a video, directed by Solomon Thomas, that riffs off the song’s themes of discomfort and social anxiety. Awkwardly miming in front of vintage painted stage backdrops, the band are transformed one-by-one into grotesquely-masked characters who try and fail to find the social “normal”.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Social Graces" below.
Social Graces Tracklist:
01. Social Graces
02. Cool Change
03. Stupid Drama
04. Cut Your Teeth
05. Exhale
06. Mosquito
07. Colours For The Walls
08. Best Face Forward
09. On Land
10. Enemies
11. Potential Things
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
Watch: lostboy Premiere New Single/Video "Weight"
The song, produced by Alex Quinn (SPINN, She Drew The Gun), is taken from their forthcoming EP 'Love Among Angry People', which will be available on May 6 . Get it here.
Speaking about it, Clutterbuck says: “We all have worries. Worry for the world and how we treat it, worry for our loved ones during a global pandemic, worry for over population, worry for what this year may hold and what of the year after that? I can only imagine that, for the young people trying to grow during this time, that weight must be immense. ‘Weight’ is about my wish to leave any weight I carry behind heading into this New Year.”
Speaking about it, Clutterbuck says: “We all have worries. Worry for the world and how we treat it, worry for our loved ones during a global pandemic, worry for over population, worry for what this year may hold and what of the year after that? I can only imagine that, for the young people trying to grow during this time, that weight must be immense. ‘Weight’ is about my wish to leave any weight I carry behind heading into this New Year.”
Watch/listen below.
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New Entry: Atlas Engine Reveal New Single "Secrets"
The song is taken from their upcoming new EP 'Part 2…There Can Be No Regrets', which will be available on April 13th through Favorite Friends.
Singer/songwriter Nick LaFalce explains, “Secrets explores that time where you’re each allowing yourselves to become vulnerable with each other. You’re staying up late in bed opening up and you’re excited to learn more and more about this person. But then every once in a while, you remember there’s still this little secret of sorts that you haven’t told them yet - just because the time still isn’t right - but that doesn’t stop you from, kind of hypocritically, wanting to know all of theirs.”
Singer/songwriter Nick LaFalce explains, “Secrets explores that time where you’re each allowing yourselves to become vulnerable with each other. You’re staying up late in bed opening up and you’re excited to learn more and more about this person. But then every once in a while, you remember there’s still this little secret of sorts that you haven’t told them yet - just because the time still isn’t right - but that doesn’t stop you from, kind of hypocritically, wanting to know all of theirs.”
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Watch: The Rills Unleash Music Video For "Do It Differently"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming debut EP of the same name, set to arrive on May 6th via Nice Swan Records. Get it here
From the band: "Do It Differently is such a special song to us - it really captures who we are & what our story has been over the past couple years! It’s silly & stupid but it also means something we really believe in. It’s an ode to all our tiktok fans but it’s also a big hard laugh in the mirror - we hope you love it as much as we do!"
Watch the video below.
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The Kooks Announce '10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark', Stream "Connection"
The follow-up to 2018’s Let's Go Sunshine will be released in 3 parts, with the full album set to arrive on July 22 via Lonely Cat / AWAL Recording, the first EP, ‘Connection – Echo in the Dark Part 1’ is out now. Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about writing and recording the LP in Berlin, frontman Luke Pritchard says, alluding to the city's rich musical history, that "A lot of songwriters have found refuge in Berlin. It's a free place, it's not so consumed by commercialism."
"I was looking for something a bit rawer, a little bit more minimal. Sometimes you just pick up these nuances somewhere. It's not necessarily the people, it's the place."
Some of the songs were written in the context of Pritchard getting married and becoming a father for the first time. "I really hope that sense of inner peace comes across," says Pritchard on the changes in his life.
"I really want to have fun with my life at this point. But also - it's kinda a reflection of what I was feeling in real-time in a pre-and-post COVID world. I was reading a lot of sci-fi – like Philip K. Dick, Azimov and surreal stuff like Boris Vian – which is obviously really distracting from what's going on in the world, but helped me be imaginative with the songs."
Check out the tracklist and the video for their new single "Connection", plus listen to "Modern Days" and "Jesse James", below.
10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark Tracklist:
01. Connection
02. Cold Heart
03. Jesse James
04. Closer
05. Sailing On A Dream
06. Beautiful World
07. Modern Days
08. Oasis
09. 25
10. Without A Doubt
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Watch: Idle Youth Unveil New Single/Video "Enter/Desire"
"Enter/Desire is a heartfelt, melancholy ode to both the past and future, exploring how hard relationships are to find, maintain, and put behind you in current times. It evokes this nostalgia and quiet optimism through dramatic, glimmering synthesizers on the top line, a meandering bass line and intimate vocals."
Buy it here and stream it below.
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Watch: ULTRA SUNN Share Visuals For "Two Snakes"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their 2021 EP 'Body Electric', out via Cold Transmission. Get it here.
Watch below.
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Watch: Teen Blush Premieres New Single/Video "Turning"
Grab it here and watch the clip below.
New Entry: Ducks Ltd. Release New Single "Sheets of Grey"
The song is out today, January 27 through Carpark Records. Get it here.
From the band: "We recorded Sheets of Grey when we were doing the Modern Fiction sessions and always liked it, but it didn't quite fit on that record. It's actually one of our earliest songs though and I'm very excited we get to release it! Come for the part at the beginning where I use my high school latin (thanks Mr. Bigger!) but stay for the bit in the middle where Evan plays two guitar solos layered on top of each other!"
Stream it below.
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New Entry: Baby Strange Air New Single "Under The Surface"
The song is out today (Jan 27) via Icons Creating Evil Art. Get it here.
Take a listen below.
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Watch: NNHMN Drop Music Video For "Perigee Syzygy"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their mini-album 'Tomorrow's Heroine' released in July 2021 via their own k-dreams records. Get it here.
Watch the video below.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Watch: Howless Drop New Single/Video "Rain and Ice"
The song is taken from their upcoming debut studio album 'To Repel Ghosts', which will be available on February 18th through Static Blooms Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch/listen below.
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: Ryan Bourne Shares New Single/Video "Black Hole"
The song is taken from their forthcoming new album 'Plant City'. Get it here.
“Black Hole” is a condensed satire sung from the perspective of a “kind of sexy non-binary spiritual illumination realizing itself in spite of the trouble we appear to be in.”
“Black Hole” is a condensed satire sung from the perspective of a “kind of sexy non-binary spiritual illumination realizing itself in spite of the trouble we appear to be in.”
Watch/listen below.
Rip Room Announce New LP 'Alight and Resound', Stream "Worth Repeating"
Recorded with engineer Tim Green (Nation of Ulysses, Melvins, Bikini Kill, Sebadoh), the 12-track album will be out on May 27 through Spartan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The record features pulsing songs that harken back to better musical times while somehow embracing the relevance of the moment. Think Unwound, Sleater-Kinney, and Fugazi. Propulsive rhythms and piercing lyrics, but with a sense of buoyancy. Brashness over banality. Wolves in sheep’s clothing.
“I wanted to be in a fun, high-energy band, but with a math-y, prog edge,” says vocalist/guitarist John Reed. “We’re always looking to capture our live sound, and with this record, we wanted that plus a little more to emphasize some ideas or sonic feelings,” adds bassist/vocalist Sarah McKinney. “The subject matter is pretty heavy, but the execution is sometimes a bit more lighthearted and dance-y which I think balances it out well. Our sound was once described as ‘dance music for people who don’t like to dance,’ which I don’t agree with — I’d say it’s ‘dance music for people who like to dance but are also bummed out’.”
Thematically, while instrumentally effervescent, 'Alight and Resound' delves into some more turbulent lyrical waters. Loneliness, chaos, despair, and struggle — yet somehow with a glimmer of hope. “The title of the record is a lyric from the song ‘Get On In The World,’ which is in part about frustration and not really fitting in,” says Reed. “Everyone’s focused or too wrapped up in their own shit and sadly this too often devolves into misunderstandings, at best, and violence, at worst. Alight and Resound is like a plea — move to a different plane of understanding and empathy or else we’re fucked.”
Alight and Resound is a testament to the power of seeking brashness over banality. There is perceptible life and light in the recordings that grow with each listen, and the authenticity of the experience is both palpable and revitalizing.
Check out the album's tracklist and the video for their new single "Worth Repeating", below.
Alight and Resound Track Listing:
01. Complication
02. Loose Ends
03. Worth Repeating
04. Dead When It Started
05. Aligned But Not Specific
06. The Timing's Never Right
07. Discover What Your Monsters Are
08. Second To None
09. Get On In The World
10. Flaw In The Logic
11. Not In Your Corner
12. Abandon Ship!
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New Entry: Home Counties Unleash New Single "Village Spirit"
The song is taken from their upcoming second EP 'In A Middle English Town', set to arrive on 11th February via Alcopop! Records.
Speaking about it, singer Will Harrison says: “The song is based on a book by historian Alain Corbin, Village of Cannibals, which is about the murder of a nobleman in late nineteenth century France. Based on rumours, the whole village was whipped up into a frenzy and ended up brutally torturing and murdering the nobleman. The lyrics focus on the contrast between positivity of place-based collectivism, and the meaning it can bring, and the often tragic consequences of it. It’s a really messed up story, and contrasts what is probably one of our most gentle and melodic songs.”
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Watch: Big Image Reveal New Single/Video "Crazier"
The song is out today (Jan 26) and is taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Human Touch Is Forever’, which will be released 27th April. Get it here.
Watch/listen below.
Watch/listen below.
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New Entry: Deserta Unveils New Single "Where Did You Go"
The song, featuring vocals from Mice Parade's Caroline Lufkin, is taken from his forthcoming second album 'Every Moment, Everything You Need', which will be available on February 25 through Felte Records. Pre-order your copy here.
When discussing the new single, Doty explains: "'Where Did You Go' marks the third time Caroline and I have worked together. Going back to 2008, Oliver Chapoy (who also appears on the new Deserta album) and I contributed a remix for her album, Murmurs. The following year Caroline sang on Saxon Shore's "This Place" (also produced/mixed by Dave Fridmann). We kept in touch over the years, always trying to connect on something new, but life happens and timing is often hard to get right. With the unpredictability of the last year, I think it was comforting to finally reconnect with some of my favorite collaborators, even from a distance."
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New Entry: Media Giant Premiere New Single "Guilt/Shame"
The song, written and produced by the trio, is out now through Brace Yourself Records, and is the follow up to their debut single 'Afraid of The Dark'. Get it here.
UPDATE 01/02/2022: "Guilt/Shame" is our new Single of the Week!
A statement from Media Giant HQ reads simply: At Media Giant, we know what you want. Since the successful launch of our debut product, we have been working tirelessly to bring you our second offering, which is titled “Guilt/Shame” - You may notice feelings of hostility or anger when listening to it, but do not be alarmed, this is entirely intentional."
Drawing on funk, disco and punk elements, their music is reminiscent of Bowie, Talking Heads and The Rapture, all while creating a deeply unique, daring sound of their own that separates them from their peers.
The crossover experimentations and hook-driven melodies of 'Guilt/Shame' make for a thrilling listening experience. Its philosophical lyrics are drenched in playful irony, further elevated by the cheery sound that contradicts its darker societal observations: "Is it guilt or is it shame, that keeps us from killing each other, that keeps us sane? / You'd rather die of a sun-tan, in a plastic wasteland, than admit you were wrong about anything."
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Watch: Echoberyl Air "On My Own (Night Walk demo)"
The song is taken from an extended, updated version of their first album 'Apparition', which came out last Week (Jan 20), including three bonus songs: a VHS remix of the title track "Apparition", a remastered forgotten demo, "On My Own", and the 2020 single "Listen to Oblivion". Get your copy here.
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: Spaceface Reveal New Single/Video "Millions & Memes"
The song is taken from their new album 'Anemoia', out this Friday, January 28 via Mothland. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch/listen below.
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New Entry: MNNQNS Unleash "Wire (Down To The) Brook Line Remix"
The song is taken from their debut album 'Body Negative', which came out in August 2019 via FatCat Records. Grab the remix here.
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Walt Disco Announce Debut LP 'Unlearning', Stream "How Cool Are You?"
The 12-track record will be out on April 1st through Lucky Number. Pre-order your copy here.
Walt Disco are a collection of misfits from Glasgow who look like they've just been turned away from the Blitz club by Steve Strange and are standing in the rain wondering what to do. Their music is dramatic synth pop that owes a lot to the likes of Sparks and The Associates and a little more to Gary Numan and Visage.
Unlearning is steeped in metamorphoses, a stage show in two acts. It covers flings and romances, identities and bodies and change, profound familial love, and - of course - Hollywood glamour. The album plays out like a musical, with an emotional arc and even an instrumental interlude, winkingly titled ‘The Costume Change’.
While the themes of the album are universally relatable, Walt Disco’s gift is in the unique experience of discovery and heartbreak between queer people - something that frontperson James explores in depth on songs such as ‘Weightless’, ‘Be An Actor’ and ‘Hold Yourself As High As Her’. In Walt Disco’s eyes, it’s never too late to become what you might have been and there are plenty of possibilities to explore on Unlearning.
Check out the album's tracklist and the video for their new single "How Cool Are You?", below.
Unlearning Track list:
01. Weightless
02. Selfish Lover
03. How Cool Are You?
04. Cut Your Hair
05. Timeline
06. Be An Actor
07. The Costume Change
08. Those Kept Close
09. Hold Yourself As High As Her
10. My Dear
11. Macilent
12. If I Had A Perfect Life
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Watch: Franz Ferdinand Unveil New Single/Video "Curious"
The song is taken from their forthcoming greatest hits collection 'Hits To The Head', which will be out 11 March 2022 via Domino Record Co. Pre-order your copy here.
Talking about the song, lead singer Alex Kapranos said: "What’s the meaning behind the song? A meet-cute on the first page as tension enters left on a dark stage, but as our stars collide I’m curious: will you want me when you’ve got me? I’m a future seeker. Are we the future? I’m curious. I had this idea for the lyric — kind of the reverse of one of those life-flashing-before-your mind as you die in a film scene, where the entire course of a relationship flashes before you the instant you fall in love with someone."
About the video, he added: "So, it's a dance song we said later on when thinking about a video. And 'we've always said we play dance music,' said Bob, 'so why don't we dance in the video?' So we gave Andy Knowles, our old pal - who was in Bob's class at Art School and played with Franz Ferdinand in 2005/6 - a shout and he was up for it. You can spot his cameo.... and, yes, that is us actually dancing."
Watch/listen below.
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Blossoms Announce New LP 'Ribbon Around The Bomb', Stream Title Track
The follow up to their 2018's album Cool Like You, was produced by James Skelly & Rich Turvey and will be released on 29th April on Virgin EMI. Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about the new album and single, Blossoms frontman Tom Ogden said: "While on tour in 2019 in Mexico, I visited Frida Kahlo’s house. Looking at her paintings on show, someone had described one of them as being like a ‘ribbon around a bomb’. I immediately thought that it was a great title for a song and album because of the imagery that it evoked in my mind. I thought about how lots of things in life could be described as being a ribbon around a bomb in the sense that as people we often dress things up which have a darkness lying beneath them".
“The more songs I wrote, the more I realised that the writer referenced in the songs was in fact me,” Ogden continues. “Having been so busy for the past eight years I and the band have never really had the chance to step back and reflect on what we’ve achieved. You’re so focused on the future; write the next album then tour. Your life is usually mapped out at least two years in advance.”
Check out the album's tracklist and listen to "Ribbon Around The Bomb" below.
Check out the album's tracklist and listen to "Ribbon Around The Bomb" below.
Blossoms tracklisting:
01. The Writer's Theme
02. Ode To NYC
03. Ribbon Around The Bomb
04. The Sulking Poet
05. Born Wild
06. The Writer
07. Everything About You
08. Care For
09. Cinerama Holy Days
10. Edith Machinist
11. Visions
12. The Last Chapter