While (I Blame) Society, the first track from Titus Andronicus’ upcoming new album An Obelisk (order here) was a thunderous reminder of their hardcore credentials, the album-closing Tumult Around the World serves as an uplifting anthem of unity and compassion for an increasingly divided world. It is a buoyant blast of Patrick Stickles and co. at the height of their cathartic powers.
Watch the excellent video for it below.
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Canadian foursome Dumb deliver catchy post-punk songs in two-minute blasts of wiry riffs and full of indignant social critiques. They have shared their new single Beef Hits from their upcoming album Club Nites – out on the 7th June via Mint Records (order here).
Coming in at just over two minutes, there is a snarl and boisterousness that is happily reminiscent of the likes of Bodgea and Parquet Courts.
Have a listen.
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Green & Blue will be released by up and coming Irish band The Murder Capital as a limited 12″ single on June 14th via Human Season Records.
We’ve already shared their brilliant Feeling Fades single, and this is another wonderfully foreboding record – all sinewy, coiled tenseness that barely lets up its stranglehold over six minutes of taut guitar rumble and brooding vocals.
It’s great stuff! Watch the menacing video below and pre-order the single here.
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The excellently titled Fentanyl Freddy is the third single off singer-songwriter A.A. Bondy’s upcoming album Enderness, his first LP in eight long years. The much anticipated album will be out on the 10th May via Fat Possum Records.
Watch the video for it here.
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BEAK> are back with some brand new music in the form of Life Goes On – the first track to be lifted from a forthcoming EP.
The track is inspired directly from a recent trip to Mexico City for a festival when the band awoke to the sound of a distorted young girls’ voice bellowing across the city. Further investigation revealed the source as a recording used by scrap-collecting carts urging people to bring out old beds and washing machines. Returning to the UK filled with inspiration, the resultant track features the young girl’s voice in the intro before Life Goes On.
The song comes on like the strange hybrid lovechild of Santana and Sonic Youth.
Have a listen.
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Experimental art-rock group Deliluh have shared a new single taken from their forthcoming new mini LP (out on 3rd May) called Oath of Intent.
Twisting drone, stoner rock and post-punk into a fierce sonic identity, Rabbit is a visceral and gritty warning about the corruption that is present everywhere.
Stream it below. Pre-order the album from Bandcamp here.
See them live in May
6 – Coventry – The Tin
7 – London – Windmill Brixton
8 – London – Shacklewell Arms
9 – Brighton – Bad Vibrations showcase at The Great Escape
10 – Margate – Elsewhere
11 – Nottingham – Cameleon
12 – Manchester – Peer Hat
13 – Leeds – Wharf Chambers
14 – Manchester – BBC 6 Music session
Although we’ve had Mother’s Day here in the UK, it is not so in the States (May 12th if you were wondering) and Lucy Dacus is marking the occasion with a new song titled My Mother & I.
Following her Valentine’s Day cover of La Vie En Rose, this is the first original composition of her ongoing 2019 holiday song series, which will also include singles tied to Independence Day, Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s.
Stream it here.
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We previously shared the outstanding the bottle’s my lover, she’s just my friend from Field Medic’s new album fade into the dawn.
The record is out now and can be got for just $5 via Bandcamp, with vinyl and cassette versions also available. It is Field Medic’s (aka Kevin Sullivan’s) first proper full-length release for Run For Cover Records and his first since making the leap to full-time musician.
A collection of darkly sparse and melancholic folk, it really is a cracking album, which calls to mind some previous MM faves such as Benjamin Shaw, Matthew Sawyer, and Damon Moon & The Whsipering Drifters, and we have a couple more tracks from it should you need any more convincing.
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She Drew The Gun today have shared the video for their latest single Paradise.
The striking visual to accompany the track sees the song’s powerful lyrics juxtaposed with imagery tied to the song’s themes of capitalism and privilege. It is the third single to be taken from the Wirral band’s sophomore album Revolution Of Mind and is well worth a watch.
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