Tuesday, January 18, 2022

New Entry: deep tan Unleash New Single "beginners' krav maga"

Hackney-based post punk/atmospheric pop trio deep tan have unleashed new single "beginners' krav maga".

From the band: “‘beginners’ krav maga’ is a response to the idea that womxn should take self defense classes in order to feel safe on the street at night. womxn shouldn’t have to. yet it seems like every day there’s a new sarah everard, sabina nessa or aisling murphy. educate your sons, brothers, guy friends. male violence against womxn is an epidemic and it needs to stop, so we made a pop song to talk about it.”

The song is out now through Practise Music, get it here and stream it below.



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New Entry: Yard Act Unveil New Single "Pour Another"

Leeds indie rock/punk band Yard Act have revealed the video for their new single "Pour Another".

The song is taken from their highly anticipated debut studio album 'The Overload', which will be out this Friday, January 21 through Zen F.C./ Island. Pre-order your copy here.

The band’s James Smith says. “‘Pour Another’ zooms in on the post-party conversations many hedonists will be all too familiar with, it leaves the impending doom of daily life in a world on fire at the door, at that point in the night when you don’t want to let go of the moment you’re in, when everything is perfect and everyone is your new best friend. Those moments fade, because nothing stays as it was. You’re woken with a bang and you have to face the truth.”

Take a listen below.



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VR SEX Announce New LP 'Rough Dimension', Stream "Victim or Vixen"

Los Angeles synth punk/death rock/post punk outfit VR SEX (lead by Andrew Clinco) have announced the release of their sophomore album 'Rough Dimension'.

Set to be released on March 25 via Dais Records, the album takes its title from an architectural phrase but more importantly refers to the warped, wicked underworld the songs both chronicle and condemn. Pre-order your copy here.

Donning the moniker Noel Skum – an acerbic anagram of Elon Musk – Clinco vents his scorn for and fascination with the seedy, surreal margins of low-life Los Angeles, doomed to dead ends of vanity, lust, and technology. Although initially launched as an outlet for “heavier sounds” beyond Clinco’s duties in new wave fantasists Drab Majesty, the project has ripened into a compelling exercise in world building, weaving themes of gritty city neo-futurist sleaze within a framework of driving, distorted guitars and cathode-blasted synths. Echoes of Chrome, Wire, Minimal Man, and Sisters Of Mercy ripple through the collection but ultimately "Rough Dimension" charts its own twisted vision of “our unforgiving reality.”

Written and demoed across two weeks alone in a Marseille flat using his prized 1980’s Gibson “Invader” and a laptop, Clinco then took the tracks to Strange Weather studios in Brooklyn to record with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men) who helmed 2019’s debut, Human Traffic Jam. The results are notably ripping, refined, and riveting. Riffs in alternate tunings chug and churn over mid-tempo drums punctuated by spikes of sci-fi electronics while the vocals swagger and spit venom (“where we walk is also where we shit / but if we bark at our reflections are we hypocrites? / impulses bleed right into our seed / where hate culminates the apple rotted on the tree”). It’s a bristling mix of the melodic and the macabre, absurdist observations of fast living and desperate measures, the clock of youth ticking towards midnight as dreams unravel in Babylon.

VR SEX’s specialty is making these cautionary tales of psychic decay and tainted love a thrill rather than a drag. There’s a sunglasses at night glamor to Clinco’s choruses and solos, a wit to his black leather judgements (“what is the answer / to cancerous people / walking in my line of sight?”). The music’s milieu tends towards parasites and predators but its mood skews refreshingly accelerated and amused, cruising the strip with a cigarette, watching goths and limousines crawl in gridlock beneath digital billboards. The Rough Dimension may be a cesspool, but it’s home. 

Check out the album's tracklist and the video for lead single "Victim or Vixen", below.

Rough Dimension Tracklist:
01. Victim or Vixen
02. Glutton for Love
03. Cyber Crimes
04. Live (In a Dream)
05. Walk of Fame
06. Crisis Stage
07. Taste of Hate
08. Snake Water
09. End Vision

Watch: Black Doldrums Share New Single/Video "Into Blue"

North London-based post punk/darkwave/psych band Black Doldrums have shared the video for their new single "Into Blue".

The song is taken from their forthcoming debut album 'Dead Awake', set to be released on March 11th 2022 through Fuzz Club Records. Pre-order your copy here.

‘Into Blue’ is a euphoric and slow-burning cut written for all of the wall-of-sound-loving romantics out there. Acting as a follow-up to an unreleased song he wrote when he was younger, Kevin says of ‘Into Blue’: “It’s an honest retrospective look at a certain period of time for me that’s brought right into the now with lyrics such as ‘And all the while as if to make me smile she was there'. That line refers to a twist of fate as it’s about a chance meeting between myself and Sophie after living and growing up right down the road from each other the whole time. The imagery of ‘Into Blue’ I think means to follow someone and be with someone into an afterlife or eternity.”

Watch/listen below.



New Entry: Lime Garden Release New Single "Marbles"

Brighton indie rock/pop/psych band Lime Garden have released their new single "Marbles".

The song is out today (January 18) through So Young Records, it follows previous single ‘Clockwork’ and finds the band turning up the distorted-disco dial to the max, and in the process creating a bouncing (disco) ball of infectious nervous energy. Get it here.

Singer Chloe Howard explains: “‘Marbles’ is about the realisation that you're not sharing the same lifestyle as those around you. It's about overthinking that comparison to the point where you question your own sanity or direction in life. It tells the story of an individual on a journey of self-discovery that the listener is witnessing from afar but with access to their internal monologue.”

Take a listen below.



Watch: A Place To Bury Strangers Air New Single/Video "I'm Hurt"

Brooklyn NY, post punk/psych band A Place To Bury Strangers have aired the video for their new single "I'm Hurt".

The song is taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album 'See Through You', which will be out February 4, 2022 on the band’s newly former label, Dedstrange. Pre-order your copy here.

The band dive headfirst into suffering on the dark and explosive “I’m Hurt.” Its accompanying video is the first in a series of notable horror movie directors the band reached out to collaborate on videos for See Through You.  First up is Chad Crawford Kinkle who directed last year’s critically acclaimed “Dementer” and the folk horror classic “Jug Face”..  

Under Kinkle’s frantic and hallucinatory direction, Oliver Ackermann’s expression of relentless liminal terror is transubstantiated into a brutal backwater blood feast. While the flickering, kinetic visuals will be familiar to anyone who has seen the band live, the psychological horror at the heart of “I’m Hurt” is raw.
 
Together, Chad Crawford Kinkle and APTBS scramble our collective unconsciousness with scenes of grotesque public freakouts from the outskirts of the subliminal that are tied to a scorned woman’s black magic ritual which conjures up teenage demons on the hunt for revenge.

Watch/listen below.



Priestgate Premiere New Single/Video "Eyes Closed For The Winter"

East Yorkshire dream-punk quintet Priestgate have premiered their new single "Eyes Closed For The Winter".

Produced by Nick Hodgson (Alfie Templeman) and mixed by Caesar Edmunds (Foals, The Killers, PJ Harvey) the EP is a formidable statement straight out the gates - and a window into the world of one of Britain’s most thrilling young bands. It will be out on March 25th via Lucky Number & Mirror Music Group. Pre-order it here.

Formed as a battle-cry against the restlessness and mundanity of rural life, Priestgate began as a reaction to the sparse local music scene around them, which in turn has allowed them to craft and develop their own unique sound without the added pressure of conformity.

Drawing comparisons to The Cure and The Maccabees, Priestgate have combined bright guitar-pop hooks with darker lyrical sensibilities, concocting their own angst-laden blend of the hypnotic and euphoric.

Watch/listen below.


Eyes Closed For The Winter EP Tracklsit:
02. Eyes Closed For The Winter 
03. Credits
04. By The Door