Oakland-based musician Jackson Phillips aka Day Wave has announced the release of his new studio album 'Pastlife'.
The 10-track record will be out on June 24th via [PIAS] Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.
On the single, Jackson shares, “I think of ‘Pastlife’ as the thesis statement for this record, because the overall theme is reminiscing on past chapters in my life. I have so many eras from my past that I miss, and so many friends left behind in those times. I wonder if they ever think of those times the way I do.”
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Pastlife" below.
Toronto indie pop band The Holiday Crowd have dropped the video for their new single "Party Favours".
The song is taken from the upcoming 'Party Favours / Bullet Train' single which will be available on April 15 via Shelflife Records. Grab your copy here.
Their seductive, groove-approved songs on this box-fresh 7 inch are as memorable as they are mesmeric, taking you from one world to the outer realm...
“Party Favours” stomps all over your floors and ceilings, yet the most worthwhile part to any music lover’s singles collection is, of course, the B-side - “Bullet Train” slaloms serenely through the hills and valleys of a striking rhythmic and melodic landscape. A soundtrack that could accompany any holiday slideshow, subversively making it feel like an Arthouse classic.
UK dream pop/indie/psych band Tourists have aired a previously unreleased track called "Remains" alongside an accompanying music video.
The song was originally intended for their debut album 'Another State', which came out in November last year. Get your copy here.
Tourists combine elements of shoegaze and synth-pop with deeper-rooted post-punk influences, crafting their own identifiable brand of dark, melodic dream-pop.
London indie rock band Sports Team have announced the release of their sophomore studio album 'GULP!'.
The follow-up to their 2020's debut album Deep Down Happy, will be released on Friday 22nd July 2022 via Island Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Signposting a bold and ambitious new era for the band, Sports Team explain that new single ‘R Entertainment’ explores “The packaging down of all human experience into entertainment, prompted by the infinite scroll through social feeds and the manic formlessness of the images we are hit with every day. Graphic news interrupted by ads for season 17 of The Bodyguard, news as a rubbernecking, passively waiting for the next drop of horror as we flick through recipes.”
From the band: Well, this is it. Another year, another dollar. We’re back with another album of pumped-up, market-ready indie rock (Plus Zinc!)! So, slip out of your Birkenstock clogs and into something a little less comfortable. An opening salvo for the apocalypse, ‘Gulp!’ Is Nostradamus with a fuzz pedal, Alex Joes doing slam poetry in the last wetherspoons standing after it all goes up in flames. It’s a trojan horse of happy, radio-ready indie rock, but don’t be fooled. The archangels come down from heaven to tell of the GOOD NEWS and are promptly baton-charged. The apocalypse begins and is largely lost in the background hum of instant-gratification, isotonic sports drinks and the weather. You can’t eat your NFTs in the nuclear winter, so grab your colleagues tight and join us in a song. All together now…"
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "R Entertainment" below.
Vienna indie/guitar pop band Vague have released the video for their b-side track "The Rain".
It is the b-side of their latest single 'Hole', taken from their upcoming new album 'Out Soon', which will be available on May 5th via Siluh Records. Pre-order your copyhere.
From the band: "The World can be overwhelming and anxiety issues are increasing permanently these days, we tried to put these feelings into sound. its very personal but the necessity of sharing how we feel, be it love or fear, becomes more important. Letting go of the past, seeing it slipping out of your hands, looking into an uncertain future. Lets try to stay positive, even if its hard to take control of it."
London-based post punk/synth pop artist Oliver Marson has returned with his new single "Manipulator", and its accompanying music video.
The song, recorded with Joshua Rumble (Black Country New Road, Clockworks) and mixed by Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pink, Kirin J Callinan), is out now. Grab it here.
Speaking about it, Marson says: Me and Josh had a lot of fun recording over the pandemic and now its finally time to throw these tracks out into the world. The track also features Christina Lopez (Empathy Test, Lava la Rue). Guitars, synths and vocals are played by myself. We recorded this in the pandemic alongside many other tracks, which will be released this year. When I made this I was very much inspired by the guitar sound of Drab Majesty, whose influences I am sure you will hear. Also mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering.
“The lyrics were very much inspired by what was going on at the time. It was clear during the pandemic we were being totally manipulated whether that was by politicians, the media or the corporate classes. The first line of the song and overarching message addresses this ''we're sleepwalking with the loonies at the wheel' - we're basically heading into a crisis. We tried to get across this in the video through me playing a dodgy Wall Street banker. Obvious influences being American Psycho, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Wall Street and A Shock to the System. I enjoyed very much performing as this campy character, it was fun and I loved the DIY approach we took to filming it. The video might come across as a joke, but that's exactly the point - it is a joke, because all of this is so unavoidable. I am making ludicrous music for ludicrous times.”
The video was filmed by me and my sister Chantal Marson around Canary Wharf and in an unused office. The first line of the song and overarching message is that ''we're sleepwalking with the loonies at the wheel' and we tried to get across this in the video through me playing a dodgy Wall Street banker. Obvious influences being American Psycho, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Wall Street and A Shock to the System. I enjoyed very much performing as this campy character, it was fun and I loved the DIY approach we took to filming it.
Brooklyn NY, post punk/psych band A Place To Bury Strangers have revealed the video for their latest single "Dragged In A Hole".
The song is taken from their new album 'See Through You', released last month (February 4) via Dedstrange. Grab your copy here.
Clanging found-object percussion and brutal, decimated guitar action percolate throughout a piercing, harsh industrial noisy punk ripper that scrapes the bottom of the barrel of human experience to only find there’s still a long way down.
"The original demo was so trashed and insane sounding that it shaped the lyrics into being about total obliteration,” says Ackermann. "When struggling with your belief in other human beings, you do feel totally destroyed. This song features percussion which is actually me banging on the pipes in my basement."
In the video, a woman endures a demonic possession at a local park. “'Dragged In a Hole' was inspired by the long snorri cam shots in Zulawski's Possession and the OTT horror of Evil Dead,” says director Tom Hughes.
“It was blocked and rehearsed by Isabelle Paige, who used her ballet and theatre experience to choreograph a routine to the song. It was filmed over one evening in a busy park in Cardiff; shooting two takes back-to-back with Isabelle wearing the camera rig, and me running alongside her, ducking and diving out of the camera's line of sight.
