NEW MUSIC: Dark Tape – Passing By
Some nice gothic-tinged indie for you today. It comes from Dark Tapes, the project of a 19 year old American musician called Rohit Dutta and features some super catchy guitar lines that cascade and tumble out of the speaker like a melancholic summer rainstorm. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Dark Tape – Passing By
NEW MUSIC: Hark Madley – Empathy (single edit)
Hark Madley is the immersive exploration of genre-blending soundscapes realized by Los Angeles based producer and composer Mark Hadley. This track comes from his new album Stream, released last week. This single edit of ‘Empathy’ finds him using smeared, low pulsing sounds as the backdrop to some super minimalist piano playing. Those contrasts of beauty and sonic bruising make for a fascinating track that is … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Hark Madley – Empathy (single edit)
NEW MUSIC: Mother Anxiety – Father Time
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
NEW MUSIC: Only Me – Luvaby
Grandaddy meets Spiritualized and Mercury Rev on this slice of widescreen psychedelia fromLos Angeles quartet Only Me. This track caught our ear with it’s slow and graceful swell and build. It comes from their 2018 album The Brighter The Sun… Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Only Me – Luvaby
NEW MUSIC: Pardans – Hookers (with Hidden Depths) & Over The Moon And Beyond
Here are two live studio session tracks from the Danish jazz-punk quintet Pardans. They’ve been together since 2015 and draw equally from the jazz world of Ornette Coleman and the darker, knottier sounds of post-punk and Captain Beefheart. There’s a great intensity and drive in these songs – woozy, rambunctious and lurching, like Birthday Party falling down the stairs at a jazz joint. ‘Hookers (With … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Pardans – Hookers (with Hidden Depths) & Over The Moon And Beyond
NEW MUSIC: Marble Arch – I’m On My Way
More new shoegaze sounds today! This time it’s courtesy of Frenchman Yann Le Razavet who, as Marble Arch, records music that draws heavily on the likes of New Order and Ride. He makes it sound effortless with cascading melodies, obscured vocals and synths and guitars that blur into one billowing vapour of 80s indie pop. Marble Arch have a full album on the way in … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Marble Arch – I’m On My Way
NEW MUSIC: Sail Into Night – Glass
We get sent a ton of music submissions and there’s so much uninspiring music that when something of the quality and resonance of Sail Into Night hits your headphones it really stands out. This is the first music we’ve featured from Dubai, U.A.E. and the group is essentially the project of Pakistani duo Nabil Qizilbash and Zara Mahmood who have been writing together for three years. … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Sail Into Night – Glass
FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2018
Another year done and dusted in the world of music and as always there were some exceptional records released. These lists always do our head in so this time around we’ve shaken things up a bit. Instead of just doing a ranked top 50 list we’ve narrowed down our top ten and then listed the 40 other albums that we highly rate and recommend you … Continue reading FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2018
INTERVIEW: Matt Corby
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
NEW MUSIC: Mount Sinai – Weightless
Mount Sinai from the United Kingdom is the work of songwriter Mark S. Aaron, formally known as Rooster Cole and frontman and songwriter of Black Black Hills. Weightless is a really nice noir-textured song that lurches along on piano and brass while Aaron intones dramatic soliloquies over the top of the dark mood below. It really hits its straps in the final minute where guitars rise … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Mount Sinai – Weightless
NEW MUSIC: Joey Walker – On Top
This song caught my attention early with a vocal sound and feel that reminded me of Wild Beasts. Stick with it and it’ll take you on a journey. It builds into a turbulent cacophony like Josh T Pearson’s Lift To Experience before the clouds part momentarily and a more darkly euphoric swell spirals upward for the last two minutes. It’s epic and immersive, emotive post-rock … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Joey Walker – On Top
NEW MUSIC: Kills Birds – Worthy Girl
Starting off sounding like PJ Harvey, ‘Worthy Girl’, by Kills Birds then erupts into a staccato stop/start post punk dispatch, spat from the heart. Great energy and no-fucking-around dynamics that make swift work of two and a half minutes. Great stuff. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Kills Birds – Worthy Girl
Doubtful Sounds 