Category: Alternative

Alternative, Music, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Rock

Gong Gong Gong – Some Kind Of Demon & Notes Underground

Beijing-based art punks Gong Gong Gong (who we got quite excited about last year) have shared their brilliant new single Some Kind of Demon 某一種惡魔. This new track is a meditative slow-burner with lyrics and a vocal melody that creates a flowing framework for internal reflection. It is the second single from the duo’s debut LP Phantom Rhythm, and follows on from the shimmering and hypnotic Notes … Continue reading Gong Gong Gong – Some Kind Of Demon & Notes Underground

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Whyte Horses Cover Plastic Bertrand

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s METZ cover of Gary Numan! Today it is a foot-stomping cover of Plastic Bertrand’s 1970’s classic Ça Plane Pour Moi, by psych-pop Mancunians Whyte Horses. It is a song which always puts a huge smile on my face whenever I hear the original or any of the many cover versions and adaptations of it. This one is no different. Enjoy…   … Continue reading Whyte Horses Cover Plastic Bertrand

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Alternative, Electronic, Industrial, Music, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Rock

Humanist – English Ghosts

Humanist is the music of multi-instrumentalist Rob Marshall. An album is due via Ignition Records and features a number of guest vocalists including Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, Mark Lanegan and RIDE’s Mark Gardener, amongst others. English Ghosts is the first official single from the album and has a stirring vocal performance by iconic post-punk front man, John Robb of The Membranes. The nine minute track unapologetically … Continue reading Humanist – English Ghosts

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Alternative, Music, Post Punk, Rock

METZ Cover Sparklehorse, The Urinals and Gary Numan

Last month, on July 12th, Sub Pop released Automat, a collection of METZ non-album singles, B-sides, and rarities dating back to 2009, available on LP for the first time, and including the band’s long out-of-print early (pre-Sub Pop) recordings. It’s a chronological trip through the lesser-known material of METZ, the delightfully noisy 3-piece punk band from Toronto. The vinyl LP format of Automat also included … Continue reading METZ Cover Sparklehorse, The Urinals and Gary Numan

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Alternative, Garage, Indie, Music, Rock

The Growlers – Foghorn Town

With their 80s-infused take on raw, rumbling garage rock, Los Angeles-based band The Growlers have shared their sultry new single Foghorn Town. It is the second release from their upcoming LP Natural Affair. With an intro and verse that recall the band’s early singles – muggy, sprawling, slightly sinister – Foghorn Town quickly shifts to a bright, optimistic chorus, finished off with a razor-wire lead guitar … Continue reading The Growlers – Foghorn Town

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Alternative, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Lightning Dust – Led Astray

Amber Webber and Josh Wells who make up the Vancouver based duo Lightning Dust have shared their video for new single Led Astray, the second from their forthcoming new album, Spectre. Of the song and video, Amber says, “When the goblin inside our brain leads us on a trip though all the ugly sides of reality – steering us away from all our 500-thread count, … Continue reading Lightning Dust – Led Astray

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Allah Las – Polar Onion

The rain continues to come and go, Boris Johnson is still PM, we’re now planning for food shortages post Brexit… life in summer in the UK is pretty bloody grim sometimes. Then along come the Allah Las – new single Polar Onion fits the downbeat theme (“the creeping paranoia that comes along with creating something that is inevitably valued based on the opinions of others.“, they … Continue reading Allah Las – Polar Onion

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Martian Subculture – All Emotions Are Equal

Ireland’s Martian Subculture creates leftfield, lo-fi psych rock. An eerie, restrained vocal is surrounded by kooky, comatose guitars on tracks that oscillate between themes of love, loneliness and interplanetary exploration. Recorded alone in a bedroom studio, latest single All Emotions Are Equal is an irresistible invitation into a new sonic universe.   Continue reading Martian Subculture – All Emotions Are Equal

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Alternative, Electronic, Garage, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Rock

Oh Sees – Face Stabber

[Extract] Heavy funk Dystopia-punk canons Lonnnnng jams Bloated solos dribbling down your caved-in chest. Human cattle like a beef avalanche, right on your burned out face hole. Spider legs fuzz crawling in your brain. Face Stabber, the latest long player from the Oh Sees is released on Friday. This is a very good thing.             Continue reading Oh Sees – Face Stabber

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