LA duo Gum Country’s self-described “harsh twee” project began back in Vancouver as a series of lo-fi four track recordings made in an apartment, very quietly. After relocating, the pair recorded their debut full-length album Somewhere, which draws on influences from Sterelolab and The Replacements to The Magnetic Fields and Yo La Tengo. The record is out on the 19th June and the second single from … Continue reading Gum Country – Tennis (I Feel OK)
Singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has released a new standalone single The Wine of Lebanon, which has been done in partnership with Universal Audio and their new recording system LUNA. According to McCombs, “The Wine of Lebanon is a song that centers around the line: ‘what can I offer you?‘, it is about ritual offerings to the departed and wine as allegory for life.” Stream it below and watch … Continue reading Cass McCombs – The Wine of Lebanon
Hot on the heels of news of a new release from Fontaines D.C. comes this from our other favourite Dublin band, The Murder Capital. Their new Live From BBC Maida Vale EP, features their full March live session for Annie Mac at Radio 1, one of the last put down to tape at Maida Vale before the pandemic. Leading with the band’s spectral cover of … Continue reading The Murder Capital Release Live From BBC Maida Vale EP
Fontaine’s D.C. are back! Our favourite band from 2019, the Dubliners have announced a follow-up to last year’s brilliant Dogrel. It will be called A Hero’s Death and be out on 31st July via Partisan Records. Hear the album’s title track now, already one of the best songs we’ve heard this year, and watch the accompanying music video starring Aidan Gillen (of Game of Thrones, … Continue reading Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
Just five months after the release of their excellent Mind Hive album, WIRE return with a new one titled 10:20. 10:20 features songs the band refers to as ‘strays’. These are recordings of pieces that couldn’t be accommodated on regular albums, as well as compositions that – following their original studio recording – evolved substantially through live performance, and so deserved a new life on record. Originally scheduled … Continue reading New Video: WIRE – The Art Of Persistence
We recently posted Chemtrails’ excellent Suck My Mind from their upcoming long player The Peculiar Smell Of The Inevitable and they are following it up with the equally good Blurred Vision. It is another sledge hammer heavy slam-dunk of raw guitar and synth noise. Having relocated to Manchester from London in late 2019, romantic partners Mia Lust and Laura Orlova recruited a whole new line-up. … Continue reading Chemtrails – Blurred Visions
We loved Bee Bee Sea’s This Dog Is The King Of Losers back in January 2018 – a full on riffola of psych infused garage rock stomp. The Italian band are back with a new long player Day Ripper, out on 9th October, and have shared the first single Daily Jobs which is another excellent track chock full of frenzied riffs, sharp tempo shifts, melodic … Continue reading New Single From Bee Bee Sea
Influenced just as much by 80s New Wave acts such as Talking Heads and The Associates, as they are by the queer modern art-pop sensibilities of St Vincent, Glasgow based Walt Disco’s new single Cut Your Hair is an anthem for a new generation of misfits exemplifying everything the band are about. The single is lifted from the band’s debut EP due later this year, the track … Continue reading Walt Disco – Cut Your Hair
Loving this track from Thee MVPs, taken from upcoming debut album Science Fiction, which is out via Eeasy Records on the 29th May. Full of pent-up throbbing aggression, A Song For Councillor bursts at the seams with the band’s deceptively infectious riff-driven motorik grooves and delivers a full-on, unstoppable, beat heavy, high energy blowout. Something for the weekend sir? This’ll do nicely! Stream it (loudly) … Continue reading Thee MVPS share A Song For Councillor
Here is an excellent animated video for left-field post-punk band Percy’s frenzied, vitriolic governmental anti-anthem Will Of The People. The track comes from their new album Seaside Donkeys, which drops on 8th May. The album is an in-your-face scream that represents the gritty realism of the 2020s and the slow, inexorable decay of the UK. Watch it below, and you can also stream the first single … Continue reading New Video: Percy – Will Of The People
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