Simple music done well, with fire and passion, great production, hooks and attitude. German group Pabst have it in spades on their recently released single ‘Hell’, taken from their brand new album Deuce Ex Machina. The song has a glam stomp that bristles and surges impressively. Alt rock that sounds like it belongs on radio and in sweat-soaked dive bars. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Pabst – Hell
Super catchy summer vibes on this recently released track from Drens, who hail from Dortmund, Germany – apparently Europe’s capital of moustache style! ‘All My Friends Got Time’ is a bouncy, slacker surf track which comes from their new Pet Peeves EP. I can hear bands like Girls and Black Lips in their sound and they pull it off well, never forgetting the simple joy … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Drens – All My Friends Got Time
IDLES are back with a new album called Ultra Mono that will be released on September 25th, 2020. Accompanying today’s announcement, the band have shared album highlight and thunderous call-to-action ‘Grounds’ alongside a music video (dir. by Rob French). Recorded in Paris and produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire) and Adam ‘Atom’ Greenspan (Anna Calvi, Cut Copy), with Kenny Beats (FKA Twigs, … Continue reading NEWS: IDLES announce new LP Ultra Mono
Hailing from Chicago Illinois, Koalra cut some fine indie rock shapes on this single ‘Dear Daylight’. There’s the rough and tumbling guitars – part jangle, part visceral screes – post-punk rhythms and a voice that hollers and sings with a beautiful melancholic angst. It all fits together just right on the single, one of many great tracks on their EP Surprise Lights. Koalra call themselves … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Koalra – Dear Daylight
Australian band Bollard have released a video clip for their new single ‘Ziggurat’. It’s another distinctive piece of post-punk rock, where rhythm is king and the guitars fire off on tangents of noise and avant dissonance. They allow space to flow through the track as it ebbs and flows across nearly five minutes. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Bollard – Ziggurat
Future Museums has released ‘Leaving The Vessel‘, a five minute long piece of sparkling, glistening kosmiche electronica that sounds like a robot stepping, blinking into the warm sunlight of a new day. The track from Austin TX-based multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord pulses with an analog new age Krautrock quality, the combined results of Lord’s experimentation with guitar, synths and drum machines. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Future Museums – Leaving The Vessel
Fontaines D.C., who released one of our favourite albums of 2019, are back with a new single ahead of the release of their second album A Hero’s Death on July 31st. The album title-track is a great first single too – with that trademark energy and verve of the band and some added texture and melody thrown into the mix. Singer Grian Chatten has this … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Fontaines D.C. Release New Single and Announce New Album ‘A Hero’s Death’
There are some serious sci-fi dark sonic forces at work on this new track from Berlin-based German musician André Uhl, who holds a master’s degree in futures studies and works as a futures researcher during the day. He dials into an ominous and forbidding sound that pulses, throbs and pushes and pulls against the speaker cones. Everything is rhythmic, like the heartbeat of a city, the bass … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: André Uhl – I Care About You, Just Not Right Now
Protomartyr announced their forthcoming new LP Ultimate Success Today with its first single ‘Processed By The Boys‘ . Now they’ve got a new track for you to wrap your ears and eyes around in ‘Worm In Heaven’. A slow burner that gradually swells into a warm wave of distortion with singer Joe Casey chanting repeatedly. You’ll need to wait a bit longer to hear the … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Protomartyr Release New Single/Video And Push Back New Album
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
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)
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