With comparisons to the likes of Fleet Foxes, Bombay Bicycle Club and Villagers, Devon-based outfit folk outfit Tors have announced latest EP Merry Go Round. Fronted by Matt and Theo Weedon, grandsons of the legendary guitarist Bert Weedon, the new release features their harmony-rich singles Now We Fall and Hold Me as well as the title track which you can stream below. Continue reading MM Shorts 931: Tors
With influences ranging from modernist poet Basil Bunting to The Cure, Newcastle four piece Eat Fast mix sugar-drenched harmonies with dark lyrical content. We’ve already shared the excellently raucous single Public Display of Affection, and now we have another, equally good track for you with Scrambled Egg. It is taken from upcoming EP Immortal Kombat – six tracks of squirming guitar riffs, thunderous drumming, taut vocals and razor witted … Continue reading New Single From Eat Fast
The Black Angels have shared the second track from their upcoming album Death Song, out April 21st on Partisan Records. I’d Kill For Her is a typically brilliant slab of hypnotic, heavyweight psych – one of the best things we’ve heard from them. And that’s high praise indeed. Watch the video below. Continue reading More From The Black Angels
“There are times”, remarked Chris T Popper, at the end of the Idles gig last night, “when you know you’ve seen a band at exactly the right time”. Touring on the back of the release of their savage, embittered and brilliant debut Brutalism, this was one of those times. Idles are rapidly cementing their place in an already overcrowded genre that stretches from Slaves and … Continue reading Live Review: Idles (Bullingdon, Oxford)
Shadow Mode is the latest track to be shared from Annie Hardy’s upcoming album Rules. It is another song that is shot through with all the emotional grief and raw pain that comes from suffering some truly heartbreaking losses. With a spooky piano melody and buzzing synths Shadow Mode is discomforting and affecting, managing to be both equally harrowing and poignant. It is a compelling listen. … Continue reading Annie Hardy – Shadow Mode
We’ve already posted three singles from Belgian garage punks Mind Rays and here is the fourth (and final) track shared from upcoming debut album Nerve Endings. Follow Suit is the best yet – another snarling, pulsating slab of sleaze-riddled proto-punk that gleefully runs the gamut from primetime Stooges to Ty Segall. Wig out to it below. Continue reading More From Mind Rays
San Francisco five piece No Vacation combine the novel sounds of college nostalgia and surf-tinged bedroom indie to create wistful, yet buoyant dream-pop. New single Mind Fields is out in June via Topshelf Records. Heavily influenced by the band’s previous break-up, year-long hiatus, and subsequent reunion the song is a gem – tinged with a touch of shoegaze, and sounding like it has just been re-discovered … Continue reading No Vacation – Mind Fields
The excellently named Dolly Spartans new EP Time Sides With No One, was written in the wake of their guitarists’ sudden death of a drug overdose at age 22 and details frontman Michael Eliran’s struggle to cope with the tragedy of losing his best friend. With echoes of Wavves or Fidlar, Hanging Out is a prime slice of thrumming, garage pop that documents the turmoil … Continue reading MM Shorts 930: Dolly Spartans
Listen to the lovely, melancholy sweetness of Halo by Swedish singer-songwriter, Mount Song, that takes its inspiration from the likes of Elliott Smith, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Jose Gonzalez. The track is about the sadness that accompanies dealing with life’s demons. I stepped into the dark Because my eyes are filling up with empty things Stream it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 929: Mount Song
Progress is taken from Public Service Broadcasting’s upcoming third album (the subject of which remains a closely-guarded secret). Guest vocals from Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura adds a new dimension to the music. Her keening, affecting and decidedly human performance combines and contrasts with samples hinting at a world of mechanisation and automation, as Kraftwerk-like vocoders, driving guitars, propulsive drums and melodic synths all fight for … Continue reading Public Service Broadcasting – Progress
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