The name Phenomenal Handclap Band may suggest a novelty act, but this Brooklyn-based outfit challenges no conventions. Instead it combines disco, dance and rock elements with varying levels of success, on second album Form & Control at least. When they nail it they really nail it. Opening number ‘Following’ is funky and addictive, the sort […]
Phenomenal Handclap Band return with their second album for Tummy Touch – Form & Control – an ambitious work which takes their fusion of international psych, soul, and cosmic disco a step forward. The band – or self-styled collective – broke through in 2009 with their debut single 15 To 20, a club hit both […]
On the heels of their US tour opening for the legendary Bryan Ferry, The Phenomenal Handclap Band will release “Following” – the first single off their forthcoming new album, Form & Control, out January 31st via Tummy Touch Records. The track finds the group taking the next step forward from the cosmic disco-funk and international, […]
Some music defies description. Imagine listening to ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ when it was released in June 1967! Imagine being in Vienna’s Kärntnertortheater on 7 May 1824 for the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by the Maestro himself! Imagine a 1943 night flight over a glowing Dresden in a fully laden Lancaster with […]
GIG GUIDE
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ALBUM REVIEW: TY SEGALL - HELLO HI
ALBUM REVIEW: HOWL IN THE TYPEWRITER – THE SOUND OF MUSICK AND THE RED ALBUM
AUGUST 2022
ALBUM REVIEW: THE BURNING HELL - GARBAGE ISLAND
ALBUM REVIEW – MUSH: DOWN TOOLS
ALBUM REVIEW – THE WOLFHOUNDS: BRIGHT AND GUILTY
LIVE: LAURA VEIRS – 19/06/2022
LIVE: TIRZAH – 22/06/2022
ALBUM REVIEW – HARKIN: HONEYMOON SUITE
LIVE: PEACHES – 14/06/2022
