Clot is the title of Wax Chattels’ upcoming new album, out via Captured Tracks on the 25th September. The New Zealand trio have shared No Ties from it, a sparse and bleak slab of melodic noise rock that expresses its yearning and frustration in equal, thrilling parts. You can pre-order via Bandcamp here. Continue reading Wax Chattels – No Ties
Young Knives (brothers Henry Dartnall and The House of Lords) are releasing a third track from their forthcoming album Barbarians. The outstanding Society for Cutting Up Men is named after Valerie Solanas’ feminist political pamphlet the SCUM Manifesto. Henry says: “I really just wanted to write a song from this position. The basic idea is that women should rise up and the man is obsolete. It … Continue reading New Video: Young Knives – Society For Cutting Up Men
For Brighton’s Chappaqua Wrestling, the arrival of new single Football is the product of both embracing change, and an unfortunately enforced break from touring. The band’s hiatus gleefully allowing them to side-step some of the nostalgic sounds of recent singles Plant Trees, Is She Happy Turning On Her Side? and Early, and instead leaning into a world of big-hearted, world-weary, understated anthemia. A thick, sprawling, … Continue reading Chappaqua Wrestling – Football
Not sure what is in the water there, but four-piece Sprints are our latest brilliant Dublin discovery joining the likes of Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital, Girl Band and Silverbacks. We missed early single Kissing Practice, but are loving this new track The Cheek, a raw, raucous and bass fuelled single with post-punk and alt-rock influences. Laced with sarcasm, the song tackles sexuality head on. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Sprints
We loved New Yorkers Peel Dream Magazine’s recent release Agitprop Alterna, an excellent album that draws from a wide set of post-punk, shoegaze and indiepop influences but still has an assured, unique sound. Now they’re following up with Moral Panics, a companion EP that features unreleased songs from the Agitprop Alterna sessions. The six tracks are, without exception, all top-notch tracks that stand strong on … Continue reading Peel Dream Magazine – Moral Panics EP
It seems an age since we saw duo Fear Of Men playing at SxSW in Austin, and that was before they took a four year hiatus after the release of their sophomore album Fall Forever. They are back with a new song, Into Strangeness, a sub-3 minute salvo tightly wound with a post-punk energy that recalls the likes of Section 25 and AR Kane. The … Continue reading Fear Of Men Return
Fontaines D.C. have shared a new song, Televised Mind, and accompanying music video. It is the third track shared from their forthcoming LP A Hero’s Death, which is out on the 31st July. The track heaves, drones, and churns – a faultless embodiment of the bruised and battered – perfect in its uneasy, resigned melancholy. All your laughter pissed awayAll your sadness pissed awayNow you … Continue reading Fontaines D.C. – Televised Mind
Dublin 5-piece Silverbacks have shared a video for new single Up The Nurses, the latest track to be taken from their much-anticipated debut album Fad. The band draw from influences covering classic punk, art-rock, slacker-indie and spindly post-punk, and the new track has a new wave vibe, brimming with exuberant energy, but as taut and tense as ever. Watch it here. Continue reading New Video: Silverbacks – Up The Nurses
L.A. Witch are back with details of a new album Play With Fire, which is out on the 21st August on Suicide Squeeze Records. First taste is with the lyric video for the amped up riffs and slashing fuzz lines of I Wanna Lose which the trio describe as “being about feeling free and feeling stronger because you’ve lost everything and now you’ve got everything to win. … Continue reading L.A. Witch – I Wanna Lose
We recently shared a couple of tracks from Permanent Collection’s upcoming long player Nothing Good Is Normal (out this Friday – and all June digital sales of the record are going to the Anti Police Terror Project). Now we have a new track from the record to share with you. Breakaway – two minutes of ferociously propulsive noise-rock that is foot to the floor stuff from about … Continue reading Permanent Collection – Breakaway
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