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
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
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
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
One of the shining lights of the current crop of post-punk bands coming out of the UK, The Murder Capital have recorded this live-in-studio video for Tapetown Sessions. ‘For Everything’ captures the dynamics and drama, melody and melancholy of the Dublin band who have made waves with their 2019 LP When I Have Fears. Continue reading VIDEO: The Murder Capital – For Everything (Tapetown Sessions)
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
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
Taken from his recent album Free, Iggy Pop has paid tribute to his good friend Lou Reed, on what would have been his 78th birthday, with a reading of Reed’s 1970 poem ‘We Are The People’, backed by a beautifully forlorn keys and trumpet of Leron Thomas. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Iggy Pop – We Are The People
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
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
New sounds from New Zealand band Salad Boys. ‘This Issue’ is a fine blend of hypnotic rhythms and guitars that tease and twist themselves into fascinating melodic shapes. At times the guitars reminded me of the warped brilliance of the 3Ds but the rest of the song is on a different trip. Heavy-lidded mantra-like vocals. It’s all wrapped up in a caustic and brittle lo-fi kinda … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Salad Boys – This Issue
Doubtful Sounds 