Category: New Music

Electronica, Experimental, Indie Pop, New Music, Pop, Psych, Video

NEW MUSIC: Novelty Island – The End Of The Whirl

Here’s some lush and immersive psychedelia courtesy of London-based musician Tom McConnell who records as Novelty Island. Recorded at the Abbey Road Institute’s studio, ‘The End Of The Whirl’ is an infectious cosmic trip that draws on the pop heavy explorations of The Beatles and more obscure English psych acts. The winning ticket is in the way he blends the hooks with a glam stomp … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Novelty Island – The End Of The Whirl

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Album Covers, Ambient, Audio Stream, Electronica, Experimental, New Music, New Release, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Daniel McCagh – Altered States

Australian composer and sound designer Daniel McCagh has just released his debut album Altered States, an immersive and sonically detailed collection of compositions that range from visceral sheets of digital rain to delicate filigrees and textures. He manipulates acoustic instruments to place them in evocative settings where the organic and synthetic sounds become one. It sounds futuristic yet connected to human spirit, blood flow and … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Daniel McCagh – Altered States

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Album Covers, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, shoegaze, Stream

NEW MUSIC: bdrmm – Happy

With a bass-line straight out of The Cure and Joy Division handbook, this track from bdrmm is undeniably the sum of its influences, but they’re great ones and they approach the music with reverence and respect, keeping all the elements of mood and texture in check. The result is a wistful, melancholically propulsive and free-flowing track that draws from shoegaze, post-punk and dark pop. ‘Happy’ is the … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: bdrmm – Happy

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Garage Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Punk, Stream

NEW MUSIC: The Klubs – Pastors Dance

We featured a track by The Klubs a while back on DS and ‘Pastors Dance’ is another single from their EP Cult Party, Part 2: Bow Down. The South African trio are an amalgam of loose limbed death-disco funk and flailing post-punk, where the rhythm section is the accelerant and the vocal is a wired narrator hanging on for dear life, imploring the masses to … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Klubs – Pastors Dance

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Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, shoegaze, Video

NEW MUSIC: Unwed Sailor – Camino Wheel

Find a riff, nail it down and wear it out. That’s the approach from the best psych-rock and shoegaze bands and the central guitar chords and bass in Unwed Sailor’s track ‘Camino Wheel’ is a perfect example. They know how long to stretch it out for, peppering with adjacent sounds before opening up the music with a sweeping gesture of held electric notes akin to … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Unwed Sailor – Camino Wheel

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NEW MUSIC: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Announce New Album and Single/Video

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have announced their second album Sideways To New Italy will be released on June 5th and to mark the news they’ve released the video clip for their new single ‘She’s There’. It’s jam-packed with their now trademark busy rhythms, heady strums and jangly guitars. Wistfully melancholic, it’s a great precursor to the new full-length album. PRE-ORDER Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Announce New Album and Single/Video

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Ambient, Electronica, Experimental, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Jacaszek – November Late

Polish composer Michal Jacaszek has just released his new album Music For Film on the Ghostly International label and it’s a wonderfully immersive and contemplative collection of compositions that showcase his amalgamation of ambient, classical, and musique concrete styles. He deploys field recordings, acoustic samples, poetry, and baroque instrumentation to paint pictures, oftentimes melancholic, nostalgic, tragic. ‘November Late’ begins tentatively before slowly morphing, swelling and rising into … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Jacaszek – November Late

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New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Video

NEW MUSIC: Pinball – Skies

Post-rock is a genre that in its finest moments has boundless possibilities, multiple genres instrumentally intertwined to create moods and atmospheres that range from the intimate to the widescreen. Pinball are a France-based group comprised of Australian expats Melissa Cox (violin) and Alex Stuart (guitar), and French musicians Benjamin Body (bass) and Simon Clavel (drums). ‘Skies’ is a track that builds evocatively over four minutes, Cox’s … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Pinball – Skies

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Ambient, Electronica, Experimental, New Music

NEW MUSIC: Akkor – Durma

Akkor is Turkish electronic composer Üstün Lütfi Yıldırım who has just released his new album Durma, an electroacoustic narrative in a progressive cinematic sound universe through piano, synthesizers, soundscapes and recorded/found noises from Istanbul. The title track is an immersive track that starts shrouded in atmospheric and ominous sonic mist, eventually gaining clarity with micro-percussive elements that give the piece structure and forward motion. Piano … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Akkor – Durma

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Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Video

NEW MUSIC: Suzie Stapleton – Blood On The Windscreen

Australian expat Suzie Stapleton has been based over in the UK for a few years now, continuing to build her career and working with a number of respected musicians. Her latest single ‘Blood On The Windscreen’, is a churning and surging piece of dark majestic rock that features drummer Jim Macaulay (The Stranglers) and Gavin Jay (Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind) on bass. You … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Suzie Stapleton – Blood On The Windscreen

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NEW MUSIC: Talk Show – Stress

Talk Show are another of the current wave of post-punk bands coming out of the UK. From Idles to Fontaines DC, Squid to Black Country, New Road and The Murder Capital. They’re all putting their own stamp and flavour on the sound and Talk Show have a knack for thrilling and hummable melodies as evidenced on this track, ‘Stress’. The song follows their other 2020 … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Talk Show – Stress

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Garage Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, News, Post-Punk, Video

NEWS: Protomartyr Announce New Single/Video And Album

Protomartyr, one of our favourite bands of the last decade, have today announced that their new LP Ultimate Success Today will be released by Domino Records on May 29th. It follows the re-release of their debut album All Passion No Technique last year and their 2017 record Relatives In Descent. They’re one of those bands that keeps developing and evolving and from the sound of the first single ‘Processed By … Continue reading NEWS: Protomartyr Announce New Single/Video And Album

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