Purity Ring is excited to reveal their video for their song ‘Fineshrine’. Directed by Young Replicant (www.youngreplicant.com), the video is available for your viewing pleasure below. ‘Fineshrine’ is the lead single from the band’s forthcoming debut album Shrines (reviewed here), which will be released by 4AD on July 24th. Pitchfork recently awarded the song ‘Best […]
Searching for Purity Ring‘s discography seemed a logical idea at the time, as I kicked myself for letting their back-catalogue pass me by… before discovering that ‘Shrines’ is in fact a debut album. 4AD guarantee quality with a roster full of forward thinking artists who seem to have something in common, and yet all produce their […]
David Byrne & St. Vincent have confirmed the September 10 release of their album, ‘Love This Giant’, to be released worldwide by 4AD under exclusive license from Byrne’s label Todo Mundo. Recorded over two years largely at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ, the album is a collaboration in the truest sense of the word, with […]
Blood Diamonds, aka Michael Tucker, is a Los Angeles-based pop artist best known for his luxurious dreamscapes and infectious, sun-dipped production. What will be his debut 4AD record, the much-talked about ‘Phone Sex’ track is finally getting released on July 16th. Featuring close friend Grimes (Claire Boucher), ‘Phone Sex’ is a track they made together […]
The first single from the forthcoming album ‘(RED) Hot + FELA’ has debuted with a remake of Fela Kuti‘s ‘Lady’ available to buy now. The track also appears as part of a launch for a ten day AIDS awareness initiative, (RED) RUSH TO ZERO, hoping to raise funding and awareness to help deliver an AIDS […]
Twin Shadow, the creative moniker of George Lewis Jr., will release his second album, ‘Confess’, on July 9th. Self-produced and with mixing duties handled by Michael H. Brauer (Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney), the follow-up to 2010’s ‘Forget’ finds Lewis Jr. doing what he does best; remembering and reinventing, and fashioning a soundtrack which sounds refreshingly […]
Set for release on July 23rd 2012, ‘Shrines’ is the debut album by Purity Ring, a Halifax/Montreal-based duo comprised of Corin Roddick and Megan James. Purity Ring make lullabies for the club, drawing equally from airy 90s R&B, lush dream pop, and the powerful bone-rattling immediacy of modern hip hop. Megan’s voice is at once […]
With the release of her new album, Visions, scheduled for March 12th on Arbutus / 4AD (full album details here), Grimes is heading over to Europe this May for almost a month of touring. Starting at the Simple Things Festival in Bristol on the 6th, she then plays UK headline shows at the Berkeley Suite in Glasgow (7th), Brudenell Social Club in Leeds (8th), XOYO in […]
Coinciding with today’s release of The Big Pink’s second album ‘Future This’, the eleventh instalment of the 4AD Sessions is now available. Directed by long-term 4AD collaborators Iain and Jane, Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell are joined by live band members, Victoria Smith and Zan Lyons to help bring to life the immersive feel of […]
Refined via demo sessions at an old distillery grain store in the Scottish Highlands, Let Me Come Home has a sound that evokes its gestation – expansive, isolated, desolate and beautiful. Broken Records themselves have the sound of a folk band that gradually augmented into something louder and wider, and indeed these songs began acoustically, written in […]
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ALBUM REVIEW - PULP: MORE
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 6 JUNE 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - KATATONIA: ON NIGHTMARES AS EXTENSIONS OF THE WAKING STATE
ALBUM REVIEW - MCLUSKY: THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE
ALBUM REVIEW – PIPPA BLUNDELL: COMMON THREAD
GIG GUIDE - JUNE 2025
LIVE REVIEW: WET LEG - VICTORIA WAREHOUSE: 29/05/2025
ALBUM REVIEW - CAROLINE: CAROLINE 2
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 30 MAY 2025
FEATURE - ECUADORIAN MUSIC - PART 1
