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