Take It Slow is the new single lifted from Fazerdaze’s (a.k.a. Amelia Murray’s) forthcoming debut album Morningside, due out on New Zealand’s esteemed Flying Nun label on 5th May. Languid and alluring, the song is bursting with dreamy, bedroom-pop charms, layered with just the right hint of melancholia. Stream it / watch it below. Continue reading MM Shorts 933: Fazerdaze
A couple of weeks ago, DUMB saw the proper release of their debut album Live Fast Die Dumb, which had previously been released on cassette only. Now the band have announced their new album Less will see the light of day on Friday 31st March through Axis Mundi Records (order here). The Austin, TX guitar trio create a pretty tasty and unique blend of rock’n’roll, … Continue reading MM Shorts 932: DUMB
From the depths of Melbourne’s rock pool, Shrimpwitch have emerged from the waves with their debut Eggs Eggs Eggs EP, a ferocious mix of high energy garage punk and rock’n’roll. The duo going under the monikers Georgi Goonsack and Kim Prawn, are the first release from the Hysterical Records label. Listen to Lust For A Kick below, a lustful, boozy, hedonistic tale of pleasure and pain. You can pre-order the EP … Continue reading Introducing >>> Shrimpwitch
Here is the title track from Left Lane Cruiser’s new full-length studio effort, Claw Machine Wizard. The duo are still putting out some of the gnarliest, primordial, gut-bucket blues-punk imaginable… Praise be for that! Stream it below. Continue reading Left Lane Cruiser – Claw Machine Wizard
Here is a second track from Portland folk-rockers the Builders & The Butchers upcoming long player The Spark. Singer Ryan Sollee describes it as “…a pretty simple call and response folk tune about desperation. On its face its a old story song, but a lot of the themes can be related to today. The inspiration for this came from my Leadbelly library of congress recordings” … Continue reading Another From The Builders & The Butchers
Julien Baker – Good News (Piano Version) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Hope The High Road BNQT – Unlikely Force Bonnie Prince Billy & Nathan Salsburg – Wallin Creek Girls Kevin Morby – Come To Me Now Diet Cig – Link In Bio The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions Marissa Nadler – Rosemary W.H. Lung – Nothing Is Soccer Mommy – Be Seeing … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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
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