West Londoner Freya Beer has released a new single ‘Siren’ to coincide with her rescheduled tour dates. Currently residing on the south coast, Beer’s latest addition to her canon, ‘Siren’ takes its title from the J.W. Waterhouse masterpiece The Siren. It sees Beer unearth new secrets in the channels of renaissance art and mythology, while […]
Glasgow-based MOY have shared their debut EP ‘Don’t Look Back’. The EP opens with the recent singles ‘At My Door’ and ‘No Talk’s The Best Chat’ before unveiling two brand new songs, ‘Hold On’ and the title track, which provides a dose of grunge-tinged psychedelia with its jittery rhythmic pulse swelling into imposing wall-of-sound to […]
A new single and accompanying video has been released by Slothrust called ‘Cranium’. It is the band’s first release since 2019. Slothrust consists of bandleader Leah Wellbaum with bandmates Will Gorin (drums) and Kyle Bann (bass/keyboards). “I think of ‘Cranium’ as an absurd mating ritual dance by one of those beautiful complex birds with iridescent […]
Flock of Dimes – aka Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner – has shared the second single from her forthcoming album ‘Head of Roses’, out April 2nd via Sub Pop. Following recent single ‘Two, ‘Price of Blue’ is another track from Wasner’s second solo LP. It comes accompanied by an unearthly new video filmed in black and […]
Berlin-based composer and musician Hainbach reveals his new album entitled ‘Landfill Totems’. Hainbach, whose real name is Stefan Goetsch, is an electronic music composer and performer. His latest album started as an installation and a one-off performance in Berlin, with the erection of three huge sculptures from obsolete, once high-end research equipment taken from nuclear […]
South Wales’s Mojo JNR has unveiled latest single ‘You Got It (or something like that)’. The musician behind the moniker, Josh David-Read, says about the song: “‘You Got It’ is about a feeling. The feeling you have when you lock eyes with someone for the first time, the song is based on an inner monologue […]
Tune-Yards fifth album, ‘sketchy’, will be released on 26th March. Last year’s single ‘nowhere, man’ will be on the album and a new song ‘hold yourself’ has now been unveiled to accompany this announcement. The new song comes with an animated video directed by Basa Studio. Merrill Garbus says of the new track: “This song […]
Norwegian artist and producer Lasse Lokøy has released his debut album ‘badminton’ via Propeller Recordings. Lokøy plays bass for Sløtface and claims he didn’t initially set out to make a solo album, his foray into production was just about “showing people what I was capable of doing”. The album features guest spots from Nils Bech, […]
Wand singer and guitarist Cory Hanson has unveiled a new video for song ‘Angeles’ and announced a his latest solo album ‘Pale Horse Rider’ will be released on March 12th via Drag City. The album is Hanson’s second solo effort after 2016’s ‘The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo’. He was also a member of Ty Segall’s […]
Glasgow band Baby Strange have released new single ‘More! More! More!’, their first music via Swedish label Icons Creating Evil Art. Baby Strange’s debut album ‘Want It Need It’ was released back in 2016 and they have toured tirelessly since, sharing stages with the likes of Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Slaves, Jamie T & […]
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