29 August 2017

Evenin'

Little Barrie - Shoulders Up, Eyes Down
The 5th LP soaked in summery vibes, Death Express, from the London three-piece.

The Rhythm Method - Something For The Weekend
Cheeky. Heading for indie-pop stardom, probably.

Palm Honey - Hot Simian Weather
A new track from the Reading band.

Marble Gods - Going Nowhere And Thrilled About It
Glasgow indie-pop from the EP Songs.

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - Are You Better Than Me?
Brand spanking new LP from Childish and his band, the fifth in five years. Brand New Cage is out shortly.

Lectures - Peaches
Terrific song from the Kent band with an EP to follow in October.

A Shoreline Dream - Room For The Others
From Denver, these are releasing their new album digitally track-by-track before a physical release when they're done.

Adam & Elvis - Wasting Away
Brothers Patrick and Tom Malone are Adam & Elvis. The LP Through Snow And Small Talk is out on September 29.

Mind Enterprises - Idol
This is Italian producer Andrea Tirone with a very '80s throwback.

Ceiling Demons - Capture Karma
Show favourites with a new track which heralds the new album Nil that comes out on September 22.

Royce Wood jnr - Well Ran Dry
A new track from the Londoner following on from his debut album The Ashen Tang that came out 12 months ago.

Labyrinth Lounge - It's Just Water
Formed in the late 1990s and reformed in 2016, here's something from the new album Porgy.

Black Needle Noise - Neon Noir feat. Dr Strangefryer
This Mortal Coil founder John Fryer is Black Needle Noise and his new album Lost In Reflections features a whole variety of guest vocalists.

DAF - Als Wärs Das Letzte Mal (Boize Noize remix)
This remix of the 1981 track by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft appears on a retrospective compilation Das Ist DAF which is out on September 29 by way of marking their influence on German music and EDM in general.

AG Cook - Windowlicker
And here's a tremendous cover of the Aphex Twin classic that Cook unleashed on an unsuspecting Green Man festival because his set clashed with Richard James's and so he brought a bit of that to his audience.

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15 August 2017

Lowkey - Ghosts Of Grenfell feat Mai Khalil
A heartfelt and touching tribute to the victims of a disaster we're still nowhere near knowing the full extent of.

Dylan Cartlidge - Love Spoons
Bit of R'n'B from Middlesbrough. It's a grower, this one.

Duck - Monsters
Formerly a duo, now a trio, these are from Sheffield, continuing the synth-pop legacy. The album FaceAche is out later in the year.

The Vex - Education Kills
A tribute to Malala Yousafzai in the form of a punk single. Taken from their self-titled EP.

Nelson Can - Break Down Your Walls
Words cannot describe how much I adore these. Off the forthcoming EP EP3 which is out next month.

Parsons Rocket Project - Exit Launch
From Atlanta, another band with a self-titled EP. This one came out last week. All sorts of dreaminess lies within.

Molly Drag - Our Way To Fall
A cover of a Yo La Tengo record by the Montreal-based singer. I can't tell you how it stacks up as I have only just heard of Yo La Tengo.

James Leonard Hewitson - Sometimes
Formerly of Kingsley Chapman's band The Murder with his solo stuff. Off a new double-A side single.

Trust Fund - I'll Sail This Ship Alone feat Gareth Campesinos
Another cover, this time of a Beautiful South track. And I have heard of them before. This is out on Art Is Hard in December and sees Gareth from Los Campesinos! guesting on vocals.

DZ Deathrays - Shred For Summer
Their first release following a year off, the Brisbane pair are back.

The Young Hearts - Smoke
Kent emo rockers with a track from the new EP Honestly, I'm Just Thinking.

Arrows Of Love - Parts That Make The (W)hole
Londoners whose second LP Products is out next month.

Astrothrone - All Sun, No Summer
Off the LP Summoner.

Saint Cole - Fake Life (Vessels remix)
And to finish, an all-Yorkshire affair as Leeds electronicists Vessels breathe on a track from Nic Marsden's - aka Saint Cole - LP Simple Demonic Motion to create a thumping banger.

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I think it's football next week, but I'll see thee soon.

8 August 2017

Evenin'

Baker Boy - Cloud9 ft. Kian
Danzal Baker is the big thing in Australian hip hop. From the Northern Territory, the 20-year old has the world at his feet.

Courtney Barnett - How To Boil An Egg
A new one from the Melbourne chanteuse - well an old one, but recorded for the first time. This is out on Milk! Records split singles club.

Snapped Ankles - I Want My Minutes Back
This came out in March and is still very available as a pay what you like download.

Gary Numan - What God Intended
Off the new LP Savage: Songs From A Broken World which is out in September and has courted controversy with it's imagery. I'm inclined to believe Numan when he says he didn't realise that it could be interpreted badly, but that aside it's also bloody good.

Red Eye - Soho
A new one from Trevor Perfect's Red Eye project, this time about gentrification, not just of Soho, but that what is happening there can and does happen elsewhere.

Garbage - No Horses
An unexpected release from Garbage, but very welcome too. All proceeds are going to the International Red Cross.

Milk Teeth - Owning Your Okayness
From the new EP Be Nice, their first on new label Roadrunner.

Vukovar - The Clockwork Dance
Following on from the frankly brilliant Fornication comes the new album Puritan. Well, it does in October. Until then, this will do. Sounds a bit Echo and the Bunnymen-ish.

Zombies In Miami - The Legends Of The Hidden Temple
This curio cropped up on 4-track compilation EP Summer Riot VI from Futureboogie records.

Officer - Can We Talk?
Following up his debut LP comes a new track from DC Logan, this one taking on homelessness.

Lunar Twin - Cruel Water
Not new, this is from 2014. But it's good, so there. This is the closing track from the Hawaiian duo's self-titled EP.

White Kite - Past Life
Krautrockish stuff from the London trio with wonky melodies.

ORM & Kamelie - Tropic
Another one that's cropped up this week via the way-back machine. This is from 2013 and from the Czech Republic.

Secret Shine - Dirty Game
They've been doing shoegaze for as long as it's been a thing, and this is off their LP There Is Only Now which came out in March.

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1 August 2017

Happy Yorkshire Day!

Furr - Another Fable
And as it's Yorkshire Day, let's start in Yorkshire. Furr are from Leeds and this is on the Come Play With Me singles club.

La Forme - Birds In An Aviary
A new one from the South Wales trio inspired by the line in the Tennessee Williams’ play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ where Maggie says to Brick “I’m not living with you, we just occupy the same cage.”

The Cornshed Sisters - The Message
A four-piece from Tyneside who aren't sisters, this is off the LP Honey And Tar which is out in November.

Banditos - Fine, Fine Day
A sextet from Alabama/Tennessee with a track from their latest LP Visionland.

Los Blancos - Mae'n Anodd Deffro Un
Welsh language, as you may have guessed, this means 'it's difficult to wake one'. Slacker country punk, they call it.

Warm Digits - Growth Of Raindrops feat. Sarah Cracknell
A cracker from the Newcastle duo's new long player Wireless World. And with the fragrant Ms Cracknell as well for good measure. Marvellous.

Fold - Written In The Sky
A house favourite, the title track to their new EP which comes out in September.

I, Ludicrous - It's All Free
A new one from the veteran post-punkers off the new LP Songs From The Sides Of Lorries out two weeks on Friday.

Life Model - Skin And Bones
Based in Glasgow, but with roots in the North East, this came out as a single a while ago, but features on the EP Lucky, out last week.

Madonnatron - Tron
Labelmates of the Fat White Family and Meatraffle, who we love round here, this is off their self-titled debut LP.

Other States - My Beau
Brighton-based, this is the B-side to the debut single Make Amends.

Feral Five - Void
London-based electro-post-punk with a track that appears on the More In Common compilation put out by Hope Not Hate.

Orbital - Copenhagen
Requiring no introduction, a new one from the brothers Hartnoll.

Silicon Buddhas - Metal Legs
These have been together since 1985, but this is their debut single that came out in June. Rediscovering an old demo prompted them to get it released. Or it could be the Cuban Boys jacking with us all. Who knows?

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