BC CAMPLIGHT SHARES TITLE TRACK TO NEW ALBUM ‘SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF’

With his much-anticipated new album Shortly After Takeoff due for release 24th April via Bella Union, BC Camplight has shared the title track from the album. Of the track BC Camplight comments: “I feel at home being down. I spend a lot of time there. Your toast can only land butter-side to the floor so […]
Amyl & The Sniffers: Amyl & The Sniffers With an absolutely snarling beast of an album, wrapped in melodic yet ferocious overtones, Amyl and The Sniffers are Australia’s brightest punk rock band to emerge in years. The self-titled debut album from this Melbourne lot is laden with melodically charged guitar riffs, feisty vocals from frontwoman […]

ALBUM REVIEWS ROUND UP – THE REST OF THE BEST NEW RELEASES FROM THE LAST MONTH

ALBUM: PAVO PAVO – MYSTERY HOUR

Being in a band with your other half can often be hard work, but then keeping the band together after a split takes some doing, and that’s the scenario Brooklyn’s Pavo Pavo found themselves in before the recording of their second album ‘Mystery Hour’. Pavo Pavo’s two members, Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg, have done […]
Apparently this was going to be the last album Jason Pierce (J Spaceman) was ever going to make as Spiritualized, such was the sheer effort involved, both mentally and physically. Six long years in the making, ‘And Nothing Hurt’ is the sound of the spaceman coming to terms with life as a middle aged family […]

ALBUM: SPIRITUALIZED – AND NOTHING HURT

WATCH FATHER JOHN MISTY’S BONKERS VIDEO FOR ‘DATE NIGHT’

In the new video for Father John Misty’s ‘Date Night’, one of the standout tracks from God’s Favorite Customer, Sub Pop labelmate/visual artist Chad VanGaalen, takes the uptempo rocker and creates a wonderfully absurd and psychedelic visual for the track. Father John Misty Official | Facebook | Twitter  
Brooklyn experimental pop band Pavo Pavo share their striking video for track ‘No Mind’, taken from their their debut album Young Narrator in the Breakers that was released in November of 2016 on Bella Union. The band comment on the video: “‘No Mind’ started as a concept by our own Eliza Bagg, a take on the classic performance music video – one with […]

‘NO MIND’ FOR PAVO PAVO’S NEW VIDEO – WATCH NOW

BEACH HOUSE TO RELEASE ‘B-SIDES AND RARITIES’ ALBUM IN JUNE – LISTEN TO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACK ‘CHARIOT’ HERE

On Friday 30th June 2017, Beach House will release their B-Sides and Rarities album via Bella Union; a 14-track compilation of songs from their career so far. The album features two previously unreleased tracks ‘Chariot’ and ‘Baseball Diamond’, which were recorded during the Depression Cherry, and Thank Your Lucky Stars sessions, both albums of which […]
I don’t need to tell you about Father John Misty (FJM for brevity’s sake) if you’re here, because I’m taking it you know about him. If not, you can just scroll through any half decent music news website’s newsfeed, as they report literally everything he says or tweets as a bone fide news story. This […]

ALBUM: FATHER JOHN MISTY – PURE COMEDY

INTERVIEW: MARISSA NADLER

Despite wide critical acclaim and praise from friends, I was definitely a ‘johnny-come-lately’ to Marissa Nadler and found myself stunned by the quality of her most recent record ‘Strangers’. The album, for me, confirmed Marissa’s position as a classic story teller as I became obsessed with finding the answers to each question prompted by her […]
Bella Union announce their newest recruits The Beat Escape, an electronic duo hailing from Montreal. Their debut single ‘Seeing Is Forgetting’, will be released on 12″ vinyl via Bella Union on October 21st and is available to order now here on vinyl. You can hear the ‘Seeing Is Forgetting’ below.   Here are some words from the […]

INTRODUCING: THE BEAT ESCAPE