London post punk/noise rock/disco five-piece The Queen's Head have shared the video for their brand new single "Tonight I Saved A Life".
They make alternative pop about modern anxieties. Blending elements of post-punk, noise-rock, disco and modern dance music, wrapped in a familiar verse-chorus pop structure, the resulting sound is simultaneously enchanting and terrifying.
The song follows Dan Carey-produced singles 'Teach Me To Dance' and 'Your God Owes You Money', the latter of which came out as a 7" via Speedy Wunderground earlier this year. Get it here.
'Tonight I Saved a Life' is a fan-favourite staple of the band's raucous and unpredictable live shows, which have sold-out London's Sebright Arms, The Lexington, and The Social and earned them a summer residency at Windmill Brixton this year.
The band say of the track: "'More direct! more fist-clenching! more string stabs! we repeated together in a hot, drunk kitchen, an environment which forged 'Tonight I Saved A Life' into a glittering gold jewel. It is a song of revelry, hedonism and performativity in the face of grim surroundings. Powered by thumping indie-disco rhythms, it is both encouraging you and discouraging you to disappear inward, strike a pose and love yourself."
Berlin disco post-punk band She Lies have premiered their catchy new single "Everything".
The song is taken from the EP of the same name, out today (September 1st) via Exlove Records. Grab it here.
The band used to live together in an apartment for a while before starting to record their no wave inspired songs. Anni one of the two charismatic girls is on vocals while ele, her friend, is on Samplers together with Rework. Their rythms are maniac, proceeding into synth driven krautwave, adjusted with girl vocals and noise.
Los Angeles-based surf rock/lo-fi/indie duo Surf Curse (aka Nick Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck), have released their new single "Lost Honor".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming fourth album ‘Magic Hour’, set to be released on September 16 v. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Rattigan. Take a look below.
Miami-based electronic DJ/Producer Manuel Castaneda a.k.a. Rigopolar has shared his new single "Purple Drive".
The track is taken from his upcoming EP 'Inversus Totalis', set to arrive on April 30 via his new label Tour De Infinite. Pre-order your copy here.
Rigopolar mixes up Italo, disco, techno and wave music on labels like Duro, Aeon, Nazca and Tom Tom Disco. He is a mainstay of the dark disco scene and always takes dance floors on a trip through space and time with his rough-edged but majestically melodic sounds. His new label will be a place for his most comprehensive musical statements yet, and the first offering is an instant classic of the genre.
London-based dance/disco/punk artist Teenage Sequence (aka Dewan-Dean Soomary) has aired the video for his new single "The City Is Hungover".
The double A-side single 'All This Art/The City Is Hungover', is out now via Get Better Records. Buy it here.
‘The City Is Hungover’ is the first song Soomary finished for TEENAGE SEQUENCE that made him feel like the project finally made sense to him. “I wrote 'The City Is Hungover' one Saturday morning whilst out for a run. I was living in Hackney Wick and the streets were littered with NOS canisters and empty beer cans and I found it interesting that it felt like the whole place was hungover, even the inanimate stuff of the cityscape,” Soomary reflects. “Originally I wrote it from a pretty smug perspective and the lyrics came together quickly - too quickly in fact - which made me realise that in some way, shape or form I had been guilty of everything I mention in the song!”
French synth-wave/disco/electronic artist La Mverte has released his new track "Albedo".
The song is taken from his brand new EP 'Alchemy Calls', out today (October 29) via his new label Les Enfers. Buy it here.
With Alchemy Calls, La Mverte once again pushes the door of the club, closed for too long. The tracks of the EP are also offered 2 remixes. Javi Redondo, a regular on the Correspondant and Dischi Autunno labels, offers a fundamentally club and motoric re-reading of Nigredo, and Aggelos Baltas, alias Anatolian Weapons, delivers a version of Albedo tinged with slowed-down Trance.
London alt/disco/punk funk/pop band Stats have aired their new single "All I Wanna Do Is Please Please Please".
The song features on the Deluxe Edition of their latest album 'Powys 1999', including new songs, sessions, remixes and some special rarities, set to arrive on November 19 via Memphis Industries. Pre-order your copy here.
Los Angeles, CA electronic/disco artist Poolside have released the Satin Jackets Remix for his new single "Losing Control".
The song is taken from his upcoming new album 'High Season', which will be available on May 28 through Pacific Standard Records. Pre-order your copy here.
French synth-wave/disco/electronic artist La Mverte has revealed his new single "Succubus Whispers".
The song features on the Logical Records release 'LR072 - Meteors', set to arrive this Tuesday (November 26). Buy it here.
Headed by Mike Sacchetti and Ivan De La Rouch, Logical Records has been a sanctuary for quality dark hypnotics and cosmic disco since 2009. For their 72nd release the head honchos invited a selection of known faces in the electronic music contemporary scene such as, superb Mexican duo Zombies in Miami, the elegant Parisian artist La Mverte, Berlin-based music producers Local Suicide & Skelesys, label bosses Mike & Ivan and Lyon’s heroes Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï. Streaming with us today is La Mverte's thundering dance floor contribution.
London indie pop/disco/alt band Bamily have revealed their latest single "Dream Crusher".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their recent EP 'Oh Damn', released this month (Oct 16) through Sonic Blew/[PIAS]. Get your copy here.
Brighton electronic/synth/disco/punk duo AK/DK have announced the release of their third studio album 'Shared Particles'.
The follow-up to 2017's Patterns/Harmonics, "celebrates their undeniable connection as humans, all sharing the same particles from the beginning of time - still true during a moment when we can feel more separated than ever."
It will be out on November 27 via Little Miss Echo Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.
Shared Particles propels itself relentlessly forwards, thrusting onwards in pursuit of a finish point that may never come. The two-piece have always loved the motorik of the 70’s like Kraftwerk and Can, bands that revelled in the journey as much as the destination. They also describe themselves as “like a chunkier Devo” – and, yes, there’s a warmth to the textures of their music from the modular synths and other self-built pedals in their set up, while there’s a driving rhythmic constancy too.
“Really, though, our message is one of togetherness and unity,” the band says. “It’s always a strong political message in itself when people come together for music.”
Ultimately it’s that message that holds the band and their music together. As the name Shared Particles suggests, we are all as one living together, and this is music that could’ve found a home everywhere from rave and free party scene to the punk community. AK/DK’s initial ethos was to break down the invisible screen between stage and audience. They’ve always tried to capture that on record, and this is the closest they’ve come… so far.
Check out the album's tracklist and listen to the title track and their previous single "Feeds" below.
UPDATE 28/09/2020: "Shared Particles" is our new Single of the Week!
London alt/disco/punk funk/pop band Stats have announced the release of their sophomore album 'Powys 1999'.
The follow-up to last year's debut Other People's Lives, will be out on November 13th via Memphis Industries, featuring their new single "Naturalise Me". Pre-order your copy here.
About the new song, lead singer Ed Seed says: "Growing up I felt like I didn’t fit in or belong where I was born and raised. I’m sure a lot of people feel this way. When it comes to the countryside we often talk about the natural - and by implication the unnatural - as if we are talking about the real, and by implication the fake. I felt somehow fake in Powys as a born incomer, un-local, neither Welsh nor English. But by looking at the landscape I started to realise the construction and extraction behind it, and the myth of its naturalness."
On the album, he comments: "Powys 1999 was recorded at a residential studio near Powys. I knew we had to go back to Wales to make this album. I also knew I didn't want it to be sunny and meaninglessly pretty. It had to be October, when the weather's unpredictable. I wanted the band to be able to step outside and feel that."
"This record isn’t exactly about Powys or 1999, but I was reaching for that landscape and thinking about some of the people who I grew up with, and especially the different reasons people came from elsewhere to live there." He added.
Check out the tracklist and watch a lyric video for "Naturalise Me" below.
Portland, OR based electronic/dance duo Pleasure Curses have unleashed the video for their latest single "Sugar Coated".
The song is part of our current playlist and came out in March, it also features on the Volume 1 of For Home PDX, a benefit compilation with all proceeds going to the Portland Coronavirus Mutual Aid Fund. Buy it here.