After a long absence, Widowspeak have shared a new song, and video. Breadwinner is the first we’ve heard from the duo since 2017’s Expect the Best album and is a lovely excursion into shimmering reverbed guitars and mellow, layered vocals. Despite the song’s breathy, lush poignancy, there is a stark message in there about the dreary monotony of unfulfilling work, with Molly Hamilton’s vocals making … Continue reading Widowspeak – Breadwinner
After nearly a decade apart, ex Pity Party members, and long standing partners in musical crime Julie Edwards (aka ‘Heisenflei’) and Marc Smollin (aka “M”) have reunited under the moniker Heads are Heavy – returning with a mysterious video for an equally uncanny song, That Sounds Okay. Shot in Puglia, Italy, the dreamlike, dystopian scenes of fields ablaze, abandoned homes, and industrial devastation provide a … Continue reading Try Some ‘Downer Pop’ from Heads are Heavy
Formed in a summer haze back in 2016, pysch-trio LEECHES meld infectious garage rock with pop hooks and fuzzy alt-rock. Watch the video for meandering hypnotiser All Of The People, the track crawls along on a tightly wound groove, its light guitars and dual vocals drifting in and out of focus as the bass drags the track along. With a wave of fuzz and splashing drums exploding … Continue reading New Video: LEECHES – All Of The People
Hailing from Bromley in Kent, Desmerelda have just released an excellent new single titled Welcome to the Establishment (which could not really be a more topical title given the astonishing arrogance and contempt for the public displayed by the country’s real PM Dominic Cummings.) Anyway, at least we have this furious, fizzing slab of raw, unbridled punk rock to jump around to – it sits … Continue reading Introducing >>> Desmerelda
IDLES have shared a brilliant, battering ram of a new track Mr. Motivator – the first preview of their highly anticipated third LP due out later this year. The song doubles down on the (self-admitted) sloganeering and social commentary that’s become the band’s signature, yet here more than ever they’re able to take clichés and turn them into music that’s deeply complex and brutally relevant. … Continue reading IDLES – Mr. Motivator
Four-piece Like A Motorcycle hail from Halifax, Nova Scotia and have a new album, Dead Broke, out soon. Wide Awake is the fizzing, urgent second single from it, about waking up between a past stained with unhealthy choices and a future of bleak dystopian uncertainty. It follows the sub-two minute blast of lead single Idols, a savage, old school punk anthem critiquing those we blindly … Continue reading Like A Motorcycle – Wide Awake & Idols
JEUCE are a garage punk two-piece and their debut album introJEUCEing is out with Sheffield DIY label, Delicious Clam on 29th May. Check out the 90 second drill and smash of Hangover, a frenetic introduction to their machine gun lyrics and clattering drum and vocal style. Order the album here. Continue reading Introducing >>> JEUCE
Venus Furs, the moniker of Montreal’s Paul Kasner, has announced the release of his upcoming self-titled LP out 10th July via Silk Screaming Records. With this announcement comes this blazing new single, Page Before, a seven minute plus epic of garage-psych glory driven on a bass driven riff that builds and builds to a crescendo, with delayed noise solos matched in performance with panning, for … Continue reading Venus Furs – Page Before
Eddy Current Suppression Ring have shared a new animated video for single, Vicariously Living, which is taken from their LP, All In Good Time, released in December of last year (buy here). The album was their first for almost ten years and is full of jerky, propulsive post-punk anthems; songs that writhe, twist, double back and explode whilst never losing their rhythmic groove. Watch it here. … Continue reading New Video: Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Vicariously Living
Dream Wife have shared the latest song, the title track, from upcoming album So When You Gonna… together with new 2021 tour dates (see below). Brash and pumped-up, it is another slab of adrenaline filled, hooky punk rock that the trio are so good at delivering. 2021 UK Tour Dates Wed 14 Apr: Oxford @ The Bullingdon Thu 15 Apr: Birmingham @ O2 Institute … Continue reading Dream Wife – So When You Gonna…
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