Senn hails from Dallas, Texas and trades in heavily emotive and visceral electronic compositions. This track, ‘Anew I : A Love Of Peace’ comes from the recently released album Anew and even though the artist says “This is one of the few serene movements of the album. A confrontation with peace within chaos’, it still contains a slow build of discomfort and crushing dissonance under … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Senn – Anew I : A Love Of Peace
Jarvis Cocker returns with his first album since Further Complications in 2009. JARV IS… is a band and the album is called Beyond the Pale, out on Rough Trade Records on May 1, 2020. JARV IS… features Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, percussion), Serafina Steer (harp, keyboards, vocals), Emma Smith (violin, guitar vocals), Andrew McKinney (bass, vocals), Jason Buckle(synthesiser & electronic treatments) & Adam Betts (drums, percussion, vocals). … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: JARV IS… – House Music All Night Long
Tan Cologne are the American duo of Lauren Green (formerly Mirror Travel) and interdisciplinary artist Marissa Macias who began collaborating in Taos, NM. Their debut album Cave Vaults On The Moon In New Mexico came out last week and ‘Alien’ is a shimmering, atmospheric and gently propulsive example of the cosmic psychedelia that the pair have created. You can hear the desert, the stars, the shimmering … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Tan Cologne – Alien
The spirit of Tom Waits is strong on this song from New York songwriter Dante Mazzetti. The skeletal jazz bones and intimate, smoky vocal delivery bring to mind Waits but as the song progresses you can also hear a bluesy Bad Seeds-styled rousing delivery gradually encroach on the pared back sound of the song. ‘Cold Rain’ comes from his recently released new EP Hotel Vol. … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Dante Mazzetti – Cold Rain
Melbourne trio Pure Moods released their new album Upward Spiral late last year and this is one of the feature tracks from it, ‘Backwards World’. The song has that familiar lackadaisical Australian indie jangle and strum while also drawing a line back to Trans-Tasman bands such as The Chills. The rest of the album operates in similarly pleasing territory, ambling along in its own mellow … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Pure Moods – Backwards World
We’ve dug everything we’ve heard from Quivers and this single, released toward the end of 2019 is no exception. That blend of jangly/chiming guitars, melancholy and effortless momentum. It’s like a road trip soundtracked by The Byrds and The Bats. Lovely stuff. Quivers is the lyric-driven guitar-pop project of Tasmanian Sam J Nicholson. Having moved to Melbourne, the band is rounded-out by Bella Quinlan (bass), Holly Thomas (drums) and … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Quivers – When It Breaks
Mazeppa are an Israeli psychedelic rock band who have recently released the video clip for their second single from their upcoming album. Michal Perez Noy, a Haifa musician and composer, initiated in 2017 a project to compose songs by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She was soon joined by Asaf Koren (guitar), Elad Bardes (bass) and Amir Noy (drums) and what started as the … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Mazeppa – The Way In
There are some really interesting new bands coming out of the UK at the moment. From Black Midi to Dry Cleaning, Shopping to Black Country, New Road. All of them are taking indie rock, post-punk and art pop and sifting in experimental elements of free-from expression. Talk Show combine post-punk rhythm and edge really nicely on this new track which comes from their forthcoming March … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Talk Show – Banshee
Mick Harvey will release his first soundtrack in ten years with Waves of ANZAC / The Journey via Mute / [PIAS]on 3 April 2020. The album features two recent soundtracks to powerful subject matters recorded by Mick Harvey. The first, Waves of Anzac looks at Sam Neill’s personal family history interwoven with the history of the First World War and the ANZACs through to the modern era while the … Continue reading NEWS: Mick Harvey Announces New Soundtrack
German songwriter Musketeer has released this haunting slice of melancholia – folk-like with a gothic twist. It unfurls beautifully with a strong poetic bent. Described as a howling testament to a pack of wolves returning to Denmark (after not being sighted there for 200 years), this version of ‘Wolves’ is built around acoustic guitar and a synth – a much starker version that the drums-assisted previous … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Musketeer – Wolves
Irish rock music has had a strong year – with albums from Fontaines D.C. and The Murder Capital particular standouts. The song ‘Sirens’ by Silverbacks also caught our ear with its Krautrock insistency, chanting vocal and guitars that splinter, chime and spark off into interesting dynamic directions. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Silverbacks – Sirens
Working at the junction of ambient, avant garde jazz and electronica, Ben Neill has just reissued his 1995 album Green Machine, an album that received widespread critical acclaim on its original release on the Astralwerks label. The music on the album is performed on his self designed, electro-acoustic Mutantrumpet, skilfully navigating a netherworld between organic and synthetic composition and playing. This track ‘Auricle’ is the perfect … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Ben Neill – Auricle
Doubtful Sounds 