In the lead up to the release of their new W – O – E single, intelligent indie rockers Little Comets have released a special, stripped back recording of Woman Woman from their second album, Life Is Elsewhere.
Watch the video for it and then have a listen to the new single.
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Another Tale From Another English Town heralds the return of the dreamy, haunting folk of Lanterns On The Lake and is taken from their forthcoming new album Until The Colours Run, that will see a release via Bella Union.
It is typically beautiful, cinematic and orchestral, with strings and vocals that rise and fall as though they were swelling waves, but the lyrics are sharper than previously, with more bite, and reflect the hard times with a nod to harder ones still to come. It is majestic stuff.
“Its getting hard to breathe round here, to think round here,
and we’ve been sold a thousand lies this year”
Have a listen. Watch the video. Immerse yourself.
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It seems to us that The Blood Arm are one of those bands who simply never quite get the kudos and appreciation that they deserve. The most cursory listen to their back catalogue reveals some real gems of glam inspired indie, art-rock cool and new wave swagger. Heck they even followed Bowie’s and Iggy’s footsteps and decamped to Berlin for a while.
Hopefully that may change with the release of their fourth long player Infinite Nights, which is out now via RIP Ben Lee Records. The album retains the influences of before, but if first taste Bubblegum is anything to go by, it also showcases a more mature sound with a wonderfully weary, almost resigned feel to the glam undercurrent – imagine Roxy Music on downers…
Download it below. Buy the album here.
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Viewed the press release about new ‘hotly tipped trio’ Sisters and their debut single Clearhead with some scepticism.
“Dreamgrunge” – pah!
We were wrong.
Totally wrong.
This one more than lives up to the hype. A wonderfully fuzzy, breezy up-tempo summer jam that proves (when it is done well) that there is still a place for classic indie-pop made up of jangly guitars, sweet harmonies and sugar-rush rhythms.
One listen can’t help but put a great big stupid smile on your face – sceptical or not.
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Videos this morning from Low for Plastic Cup (one of our favourite songs of the year so far), and from ‘slowcore’ to the sonic mayhem of Destruction Unit and their video for Sonic Pearl. We also have intelligent, sophisticated indie-pop from Big Scary and their video for Luck Now.
Finally in Guanajuato, Mexico, nine girls bail out of two 4x4s and immediately start their freaky dancing – what starts off as debauched, playful film soon descends into something a lot darker and sinister offset by the gleeful paranoia of Hooded Fang’s Bye Bye Land.
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Here are eight of the very best tracks to reach out to us from our inbox and the internet over the past few days.
First up we have a new track from the forthcoming album Soft Will from Smith Westerns, which distills the spirit of Big Star into a delicately reverential tribute to classic 70s radio rock. We have the superbly maudlin, gloom-pop of Franklin the Flirt by Porches and possibly even trumping that we have Coma Cinema’s third single from forthcoming album Posthumous Release. The spare, haunting Virgin Veins talks of quiet suffering, loneliness, ugliness and confusion, “The heart is a monument / to a childhood of abuse.“
Next comes the energetic, scrappy indie rock of Potty Mouth and their new single The Spins. We have the enervated, laconic acoustics of Modern Hut and the excellent track History that makes Bill Callahan look like a childrens’ entertainer. Sixth is La Luz’s jangly, surf-tinged harmonies and sweet garage pop of new single Brainwash.
The sub 90 seconds of Bad Boys by White Fang is a triumph of catchy, deliberately dumb rock’n'roll and a cracking track to boot. Finally via the excellent Yankee Calling blog we have a repost of their fine recommendation for Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and their new 7″ release Look It Here that sounds as joyous a slab of classic 60s soul as you’re likely to hear.
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Enjoy a dreamworld populated with magical jellyfish from Dungeonesse in their video for Nightlight, a no frills live performance from Young Aviators and their anthemic Forward Thinking and lastly watch everything go wrong for an inappropriate Mickey Mouse in the Naive New Beaters film for the rocking Shit Happens..
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Videos to enjoy from Wax Fang’s glam-psych pop to the soothing folk of Fauntella Crow and the surreal Americana of Royal Forest. Finally, the post-punk of BNLX and their video for 1929.
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With a name like Lipstick Lumberjack, it could only really be folk-pop in the vein of Rilo Kiley or the Fleet Foxes. And so it proves with the release of Desert Balloons, apparently the May release from their Year of Lumberjackery project. Every month of this year they will write, record, and self-produce a new single.
Cascading white balloons rained on me
While in the air you threw and caught me
On polo fields of grass and sand
Rolling and dancing to the band
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We first featured the country-surf sounds of London’s Men’s Adventures back in February and now we have a new track from the duo that is taken from their debut four song EP Solitary Trip (out June 24th on Dirty Bingo Records).
B.B Vulture gallops along on the back of a hypnotically groovy country-twang that would have the mighty Johnny Cash tapping his toe in approval.
This beauty comes recommended. Have a listen below. Pre-order the EP here.
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