Aldous Harding has announced her new LP Designer and shared the first single/video from it – ‘The Barrel’. The new record follows her critically acclaimed 2017 album Party and was again produced by John Parish. It hits stores and online on April 26th via 4AD and Remote Control Records. Aldous Harding – Designer 1. Fixture Picture 2. Designer 3. Zoo Eyes 4. Treasure 5. The … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Aldous Harding – The Barrel
Previously Kera & The Lesbians, KERA have joined up with folk musician Devendra Banhart for this beautiful slice of cosmic folk music that encourages and touts the joy and importance of communal support and resilience. It’s dreamy, heartfelt and gently soul-stirring stuff. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: KERA – Bright Future Ahead (ft. Devendra Banhart)
Blissed out hypo-indie sounds from New York drummer Alex Beckmann who records under the name MMBLR. ‘That Breeze’ is a nice mix of studio nous and songwriting. There’s a warm, bucolic mood to the song which possesses a stylistic blend of folky/trip-hop influences. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: MMBLR – That Breeze
Cass McCombs Tip Of The Sphere Anti- / Cooking Vinyl Australia For a number of years, across seven albums, Cass McCombs flew under the radar for the most part. He was recognised for his work but it wasn’t until the critical acclaim and success of Mangy Love in 2016 that he went overground and found himself the talk of the indie world. That album was … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Cass McCombs – Tip Of The Sphere
Hey, we’re putting on a gig! Yep, we go to so many gigs and we know a good lineup when we see one so we’re putting on a Sydney show with three great acts. There’s a personal disclaimer with this in that I play bass in The Finalists. Head to The Petersham Bowling Club on Sunday March 10th and you can catch the cosmic country, … Continue reading Doubtful Sounds Presents: The Ramalamas, Darren Cross, The Finalists @ The PBC
Bristol-based Kayla Painter has released a new EP called Cannibals At Sea. Taking influence from her mixed British and Fijian heritage, Painter creates a hypnotic and mystical piece of experimental music that takes in tonal explorations, drone, ethereal vocal layers and electronic and traditional instrumentation. The result is mesmerising, haunting and alluring. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Kayla Painter – Sacrificial Magic
Here’s a new tune from Ben Serna-Grey (Mother Anxiety), someone I haven’t come across before. ‘Father Time’ has a really interesting mix of drone and otherworldly folk music yet it’s placed in a compositional, electronic realm where the different sonic mediums are mixed and twisted, layered and densely woven together, to the point of static decay and fractal implosion. The result is quite mesmerising. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Mother Anxiety – Father Time
WINKING AT POP MUSIC Matt Corby has come a long way from his solo folk beginnings. Here he takes us into the creative process behind his colourful new second album, Rainbow Valley. by Chris Familton The album title suggests some kind of idealised nature-based community where everything exists in harmony and for Corby and his family, that’s why they’ve settled in the area of the … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Matt Corby
The idea of loneliness is explored beautifully on this track from Aaron Taos. He places the vocals right in the middle of the mix while drum machine, atmospheric guitars and other effects swirl and drift around the central vortex of the song. Taos says of the song… ‘Loneliness’ is a song I wrote when I was going through a really rough patch. I was in the … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Aaron Taos – Loneliness
Plenty of cosmic twists and turns in this track, the second taste of the solo work of Portuguese musician Niki Moss, who previously has worked with the band Savanna. ‘There Must Be Something In The Water’ drips with psychedelia and a kaleidoscopic quality that sound like a futuristic Doors if they were on different drugs. Moss’ debut album Gooey is slated for release early 2019. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Niki Moss – There Must Be Something In The Water
THE OVERWHELMING SENSATION OF BEING ALIVE Three years on the road with her band Big Thief has been a life changing experience for Adrianne Lenker and as she explains to Chris Familton, she wanted to document and archive her thoughts and emotions through that period on her new solo album abyskiss. I made my first solo record when I was 21 and I was so … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Adrianne Lenker
Known predominantly as the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the band Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker is one of those artists who writes constantly, documenting daily life and existential thoughts as she travels the world with her band. abysskiss is her second solo album and it finds her expanding the raw folk of her debut into a freer and more subtly textured set of songs. Acoustic … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss
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