WHITE KITE MAKE A ‘DEVIL’S PACT’ – WATCH HERE
Past mistakes have been playing on Louis Shadwick’s mind. Part-confession, part-catharsis, new single ‘Devil’s Pact’ sees the White Kite frontman confront the damage done at the end of a long relationship with brutal honesty. Shadwick describes how the track is one of his most personal: “It came out of a very dark time,” he says. “In lots of ways it’s about learning to live without somebody, but it’s also about the lessons you learn and the hope that everything... Read More
JOSEPH SHARE THEIR SELF-DIRECTED ‘LIFTED AWAY’ VIDEO TAKEN FROM THEIR NEWLY RELEASED ‘STAY AWAKE EP’
‘Lifted Away’ – the new video from Joseph – is from the band’s new ‘Stay Awake EP’ (ATO Records). The video is essentially a journal entry, documenting the two-day period in August 2017 that Joseph spent recording their ‘Stay Awake EP’ with long-time collaborator Andrew Stonestreet. Natalie Schepman, who founded Joseph with her two sisters, Allison Closner and Meegan Closner, directed the ‘Lifted Away’ video. She says:... Read More
LIVE: IBEYI – 20/10/2017
Ibeyi -BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER- Ibeyi’s reputation seems to have a habit of preceding itself on account of some key, critic-friendly factors. It’s typically of interest that their father was an esteemed percussionist with a number of Cuban acts, notably Buena Vista Social Club, though they have noted that they declined his offers of music lessons. Their heritage, too – that they centre elements of both Cuban and Yoruban culture in the music, the two being versed... Read More
LIVE: ST. VINCENT – 18/10/2017
St. Vincent -APOLLO, MANCHESTER- Annie Clark (stage name St. Vincent) told Pitchfork earlier this month: “All human beings create their own mythologies, and I’m in the somewhat bizarre circumstance of creating a big mythology that gets shared with a lot of people. In some ways, doing the work that I do is about reinventing a value system. More or less, there’s a ubiquitous value system in America, these markers that signify your rite of passage into adulthood or into validity:... Read More
GREAT NEWS FROM NORWEGIAN DAZE POPPERS AS THEY SAY YOU’LL ‘NEVER GET MY LOVE’
Norwegian daze poppers Great News fire out their biting new single ‘Never Get My Love’. This is the second offering from their forthcoming debut LP Wonderfault on Bergen-based Eget Selskap. About the song’s lyrics, Great News’ Even elaborates: “When you’re feeling down and isolated, there’s this voice, like the Devil on your shoulder, telling you to go out and get numb. I am telling him that, sure, we can play around and waste away, but... Read More
LIVE: HUNDRED WATERS – 23/10/2017
Hundred Waters -DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Hundred Waters are a hard band to pin down, genre wise. Made up of vocalist Nicole Miglis, electronics whizz Trayer Tyron and percussionist Zach Tetreault, they can twist from lo-fi electronic folk loveliness to full electro-pop banger to all consuming noise, sometimes within the same song, and often punctured by sections of incredibly beautiful piano balladeering. They are variously described as electro-folk, art rock, indie rock, all... Read More
LIVE: OTHERKIN / KASHMERE – 22/10/2017
Kashmere – live at Deaf Institute -DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- As our charge towards the future shows no signs of slowing down, I expect more stories to begin this way, but as it is, tonight is the first time I’m going to see a band having been introduced to them by Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist. Back then there were two EPs available, but in the time since, Otherkin have released their debut album, OK. Support for the show tonight comes from Kashmere, a... Read More
DEAD NAKED HIPPIES RELEASE DEBUT EP & NEW VIDEO FOR ‘I WANNA KNOW YA’
Leeds’ post punk trio Dead Naked Hippies present ‘I Wanna Know Ya’ their new single which is taken from their debut EP which is out now on Dance To The Radio. ‘I Wanna Know Ya’ is a punk pop-tinged love letter to fleeting desire as front-woman Lucy Jowett muses: “It’s about being momentarily obsessed with someone or something, but abruptly becoming disinterested and disposing of it.” The video is a tip of hat to some of cinema’s greats with Tarantino esque... Read More
LIVE: THE PIGEON DETECTIVES – 19/10/2017
The Pigeon Detectives -ACADEMY 1, MANCHESTER- I remember my first Wait For Me album encounter. It was in a pound shop. Kerching! In a time when my sixteen-year-old-self just wanted 2007 indie tunes banging in my lobes constantly, not the rants from my driving instructor, nor the career advice from my sixth form tutors. Just give me a bit of something from the Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging soundtrack. The kind of ‘beige,’ ‘landfill indie’ that pleases crowds but boils... Read More
OCS (FKA OH SEES) ANNOUNCE 20TH ALBUM FOR THE 20TH YEAR OF THE BAND’S EXISTENCE ‘MEMORY OF A CUT OFF HEAD’ OUT NOVEMBER
OCS Just as you begin to get comfortable with something, the rug is pulled from under you. Recently, John Dwyer and his band Oh Sees released their newest record, the monolithic psych opus Orc. This release represents the 19th album under some amalgam of the name Oh Sees/Thee Oh Sees/The Oh Sees, OCS, etc. Wasting no time, John Dwyer presents the 20th album (in the 20th year of the band’s existence), Memory of a Cut Off Head (out 17/11 on Castle Face), returning to his roots... Read More
