Scottish dream pop/lo-fi artist Swiss Portrait has revealed his new single "Hideout".
The song is out today (August 30) and follow-on from his latest EP ‘Safe House’, released back in April. Grab it here.
Stream it below.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Swiss Portrait Drops New Single "Hideout"
Scottish dream pop/lo-fi artist Swiss Portrait has revealed his new single "Hideout".
Gloin Announce Debut LP 'We Found This', Stream "Shoot to Kill"
Toronto noise rock/psych four-piece Gloin have announced the release of their debut full-length album 'We Found This'.
The 10-track album was recorded with Dylan Frankland of Tallies and will be out on October 21st, 2022 via boutique Montreal label Mothland. Pre-order your copy here.
They offer a first glimpse of the loud and furious album on August 30th when they drop “Shoot to Kill” (accompanied by a music video), a discotheque-friendly post-punkish scorcher about breaking the monotonous working life cycle.
Drawing inspiration from Sonic Youth’s nonchalant verve and Lightning Bolt’s aggressive sonic constructs, Gloin’s new opus, We Found This, is flush with patented pop melodies and beautifully noisy arrangements, supported by a distorted rhythm section that offers plenty of urgency, but also soothing grooves. Lyrically, the long-player is as subversive as it is inspiring, challenging the routine, embracing the occult, celebrating individuality.
For fans of Sonic Youth, Pixies and Battles.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for “Shoot to Kill”, below.
We Found This Tracklisting:
1. Pitchfork
2. FZero
3. Winter Abroad
4. OCT
5. Dark Moto
6. The Maw
7. Positivland II
8. Shoot to Kill
9. Work Patrol
10. Brique Chaude
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Fuzzy Sun Release New Single "Money"
Stockport psych pop-rock band Fuzzy Sun have released their new single "Money".
‘Money’, is a powerful, eclectic and upbeat alternative indie track with exciting vocals and a daring soundscape and is taken from their upcoming EP ‘I’m Insane and Everybody Else Is Too’. It displays a glam-tinged alternative rock vibe filled with raw emotion.
On the single frontman Kyle Ross lays into capitalism and the pains he feels it causes, “We all seem to be chasing money and material things. And I think it leaves us empty and unfulfilled. Despite that, it’s just so ingrained in us as a society and it prevails.”
Stream it below.
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Soft Set Announce Debut LP 'Still Life'
Canadian dream pop/indie rock/shoegaze duo Soft Set have announced the release of their highly-anticipated debut album 'Still Life'.
The 8-track record was written, performed and produced by Soft Set at e5 Studios, Toronto and mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive), it will be out on September 16 featuring their previous tracks "Diamond" and "More More More" (featuring Mark Crozer of The Jesus and Mary Chain on bass). Pre-order your copy here.
Check out the album's tracklist and revisit the video for "Diamond", below.
Still Life Tracklisting:
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Lloyd's House Reveal New Single "Heather"
Glasgow based lo-fi pop aficionado Lloyd's House has revealed his new single single "Heather".
'Heather ‘finds Lloyd's House embracing his best flamboyant pop self with a breathy, hooky track that builds to a crescendo through dreamy harmonies and poignant "oh's" as the singer pines over a lost love.
Recorded by Chris McCrory (Catholic Action) and mastered by Sam Smith (Green Door), ‘Heather’ hits a transition point for Lloyd's House, as he maintains those lo-fi aspects of his shimmering self-titled debut, while introducing more polished pop methods to his process, executing an exuberant track that has the power to entrance as it does have you bopping along.
Lloyd's House is the eccentric pop brainchild of Lloyd Ledingham. After releasing his debut EP We Could Be Friends and self-titled album on Corkscrew Records to critical acclaim, Lloyd’s House continues to develop their sound demonstrating an experimental pop prowess built on melodic bass guitar, soulful drums, heart wrenching synth and lilted yet bittersweet vocals.
Taking influence from artists like Perfume Genius, Alex G and Porches, Lloyd's House has found their niche in Scotland's alt-pop scene, and 'Heather' sees the him pushing further afield with a fully formed live band set to tour the UK in September 2022.
"I've always been into catchy melodies and hooks, but sonically ‘Heather’’s a bit more weird, a bit more crunchy. a lot more impactful. A big part of that is having recorded it with a live band.
"It's probably the most cliche emo thing to write about, but a lot of the themes in the song are wanting someone but knowing that you can't have them. But trying anyway, because it's the only option you have. It's a lot of self pity, trying to find comfort in discomfort. Feeling like it's easier to want someone that you can't have than move on, process it and deal with it.”
Grab it here and stream it below.
Leatherette Announce Debut LP 'Fiesta', Stream "So Long"
Italian post-punk band Leatherette have announced the release of their debut full-length album 'Fiesta'.
The 10-track record will be out on 14th October via Bronson Recordings. The songs on Fiesta precede the Covid era, though the group spent the pandemic rewriting and overhauling their maiden batch of songs at leisure. Pre-order your copy here.
The result is an astonishing and remarkable debut: poetic, caterwauling, broken and beautiful. The album title is “a reference to the bullfights in Pamplona,” the group say. It’s no empty metaphor. “Bullfight is a strange ritual,” they elaborate. “And we’re against bullfights, but they’re fascinating in an iconographic way. And also metaphorically, violence flows on both sides, but in a feastful way. It’s similar to a concert, really – you’re expressing violent things, in a physical way. And people react to that, which is wonderful, which is fantastic.”
The band have also shared the video for "So Long", their recently released single, an extravagant and catchy slice of modern post-punk, full of rugged noise and crushing melodies. The video was directed by the band and Maicol Guidetti (Common Wild Pigs).
Leatherette explain: "We usually have a laugh and talk about this song as our dad-rock(est) work. That is why we decided to make a video visually inspired by Guitar Hero. Even though the song talks about suicide, it does so in an optimistic, light at the end of the tunnel kind of way". In their self-made video "Andrea, our (real) guitar hero, represents the music, the hope and energy that comes out of the creative process. The other 4 members instead, dressed in black and emotionless, represent the song's lyrics, at times sad and nihilistic. As the video progresses, the 4 birds of ill omen slowly disappear, leaving the guitarist standing and playing until the end. Life is a game worth playing, isn't it?"
Leatherette are, by their own description, “five shy guys who sometimes get off the stage and punch people,” a quintet whose car-crash of jagged noise, twisted love and dark, anguished melody has delivered a remarkable – and eminently combustible – debut album.
The group are based in Bologna, but all hail from different towns in Italy. These five young men – singer/guitarist Michele, bassist Marco, drummer Francesco, guitarist Andrea and saxophonist Jacopo – are united by a profound need to make music, to express themselves naturally and honestly.
The band bonded over wildly differing influences – everything from midwestern emo gods American Football, to Berlin-era Bowie, to James Chance & The Contortions, to rap and electronic music – to create a dense, passionate, articulate sound of their own.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "So Long", below.
Fiesta Tracklisting:
1. Come Clean
2. So Long
3. Dead Well
4. Fiesta
5. Cut
6. Fly Solo
7. No Way
8. Thin Ice
9. Play
10. Sunbathing
A Shoreline Dream Unleash New Single/Video "Loveblind"
Denver,Colorado post-punk-gaze trio A Shoreline Dream have unleashed the video for their latest single "Loveblind".
The song serves as the title track of their upcoming sixth full length album 'Loveblind', set to be released September 23 via Latenight Weeknight Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The album dives into the recollections and desires of the past while gazing in a wash of sound waves pointed towards a blinding future.
“The title track is a true representation of the observation and realization that so many of us are lost in a sea of past visions of love. Waiting for it to return, forgetting it’s gone in some cases, and searching for it within ourselves. With so much self-reflection happening these days, it’s difficult to realize that the ones we’ve cared for need “love” now more than ever to successfully find their way out of personal storms,” says frontman Ryan Policky.
“The production is indeed much darker than many previous A Shoreline Dream tracks, but also one heavily influenced by some of my biggest influences from the early years of goth and gaze-inspired music. An orchestra of deeper tones, with an emphasis on traditional composition and symphonic execution. Extreme highs, and hidden lows centered around a pop focused tempo.”
Watch/listen below.
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China Steps Unveil Debut Single/Video "American Life"
Leeds indie band China Steps have unveiled their debut single "American Life", and its accompanying music video.
The track was produced by Chris Mulligan of W.H. Lung. Formed in early 2021, China Steps bring together five well-versed musicians of Leeds’ bustling music scene, with shared members in Eades, Drahla, Genie Genie and Van Houten. The group came together over their shared love of nineties and early noughties American bands like Heatmiser, Red House Painters, Duster, Deerhunter and Women, and channeling this musical inspiration helped the five-piece beat back against the uncontrollable monotony and uncertainty of lockdown life, all while honing in on their songwriting skills to create an infectious guitar-driven sound. 'American Life' features a driving bassline, layered guitars and atmospheric flourishes that sit as a bed for observational lyrics that dig into the darker sides of human nature.
The band say of the track: "The theme behind 'American Life' is ‘Schadenfreude,’ the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. This felt very apt for the time we wrote it correlating to the time we were living in at that point with Covid ongoing and Trump in power in the States."
Other influences on the lyrics come from American humorist David Sedaris’s When you Are Engulfed in Flames, which touches on the absurdity just below the surface of everyday life, John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, and the black and white photography guitarist/vocalist Thomas Barr was taking at the time: “picture the film / a person, black and white / a path, a doorway to light / perspective of the mind”.
Watch/listen below.
The Church Return With New Single/Video "The Hypnogogue"
Australian psychedelic/alt-rock band The Church have returned with their new single "The Hypnogogue" and its accompanying music video.
Speaking about it, frontman Steve Kilbey says: "I don’t think this song has any predecessor in our history at all. The Hypnogogue is set in 2054, a dystopian and broken down future. Invented by Sun Kim Jong, a North Korean scientist and occult dabbler. It is a machine and a process that pulls music straight of the dreams."
"The song is about Eros Zeta, the biggest rock star of 2054 who has travelled from his home in Antarctica (against his manager's advice) to use the Hypnogogue to help him revive his flagging fortunes," he also falls in love with Sun Kim and it all ends tragically (of course...as these thing often do)."
Watch/listen below.
Arctic Monkeys Drop New Single/Video "There’d Better Be A Mirrorball"
British indie rockers Arctic Monkeys have dropped the video for their new single “There’d Better Be A Mirrorball”.
The song is taken from their seventh studio album 'The Car', which will hit the stores on Ocotober 21 via Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch/listen below.