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Monday 26 March 2018

26 March 2018

Good evening. Some proper good stuff tonight.

Nosebleed - Scratching Circles
Noisy herberts from Leeds with a track from the new LP Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor, out April 6.

Christian Fitness - Kill The Bored
New one from Andy Falkous's side-project. New album imminent.

Straight Arrows - Out And Down
From Sydney, this came out early in February on a double-A single with Franchisee on the flip.

Mr Shiraz - Step Up
Noisy herberts from Huddersfield with a track off last year's EP Mountains Of Kong.

Teen Creeps - Sidenote
Noisy Ghent herberts with a track from the new album Birthmarks.

Actors - L'Appel Du Vide
'The call of the void' to you. These herberts are from Vancouver and this is the lead track off the album It Will Come To You which is out now.

Air Formation - A.M.
Shoegazey krautrock from Bristol off the EP Near Miss which came out at the start of March.

Ski Saigon - Moon Enemy
Part of a compilation put together by their label, Bowl Cut records, marking their first anniversary. Dead Trim came out in February.

Mansion Of Snakes - Mating Season
A new one via Come Play With Me, the Leeds label doing so much good work in the area. MoS are from Leeds. Avant-jazz they call it. There aren't many labels would put something like this out. More power to them for it.

Philippe Petit & Friends - Black Dog
I don't really know what I think about this, but it is certainly different. Frenchman Petit seems to be based in Japan nowadays and this is off the second LP in this guise, On Top, which is out in May.

Cup - Cosmic Brain
And on the same Aagoo label as Petit comes this from New York City artist Tim Wojcik, aka CUP.  Taken from the the album Jittervisions.

Brijs - Jasmine
A cover of a Jai Paul demo by London artist Brijs.

Spray - Anthologised By Cherry Red
Due out in May, this is the new single from Ricardo Autobahn and Jenny McLaren of The Cuban Boys. Very clever and knowing.

Laurence Made Me Cry - The Sickness
Jo Whitby is LMMC and this track, out last Friday, is a musical expression of her recent strugles with mental health. It's also bloody gorgeous.

Cobby & Litten - Live Above Lightening
The Hull super-producer and poet from the same city combine once more on the new album £ Shop Communism. No previews. Just pay your 99p.

Night Giants - Here For Me
And finally, northern club smashers with a new cut.

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Monday 19 March 2018

19 March 2017

Good evening

The Wave Pictures - Jim
The first track from the first of two albums to be released this year. Brushes With Happiness is out in June with Look Inside Your Heart due in October.

Olden Yolk - Cut To The Quick
From New York, this is off their self-titled debut LP which is out now.

Hookworms - Each Time We Pass
Another track from the third album Microshift.

Team Picture - (I Want Your) Life Hack
Off the mini-album from the Leeds six-piece, Recital.

Ennor - Farewell To Atlantis
Folk-rock from Cornwall now, their new single.

The Switching Yard - Get A Head
From Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, this is off their new 7" Johnny Hash.

Dose - Furniture
A debut track from the Newcastle band, recorded at Hookworms front man MJ's Suburban Home studio.

10 O'Clock Chemical - Babylon Is Fallen
Another debut single, this time from Stoke.

Soft Science - Undone
From California, this is off their upcoming double A single with a House Of Love cover on the reverse.

Coralcrown - Between The Lights
Luis Gotor is Coralcrown, and this is from his debut EP in the guise, Birth.

Missile Society - Armageddon
From the debut album The Walk Back Home, out last week. Recorded trans-Atlantically.

The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company
Back to Saskatchewan now for a bit of bluegrass. This originally appeared on the 2014 LP Good Company, but a re-release along with a quirky video late last year put them in the mainstream and the wider consciousness.

Evil Blizzard - Knock Knock Knock
Featured on a 10" single recently, but also making up part of the new album The Worst Show On Earth which is out in June.

Those Unfortunates - John Cronin Is Unwell
London chroniclers of the everyday with a track from the new 7" Two Songs About Buses out at the end of the month.

Bad Knaves - Times New Human
The title track from the EP by the Huddersfield band. Seen them live a couple of times and like them a lot.

Fontaines DC - Chequeless Reckless
A five-piece from Dublin this is off a double A single with Boys In The Better Land.

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Monday 12 March 2018

12 March 2018

35 years sinec Blue Monday...

Brooders - Lie
New on the Come Play With Me singles club, from Leeds.

The Men That Will Not Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Baby Farmer
London steampunk veterans with a new LP, Double Negative.

Petbrick - Crack Baby
A side-project from one of those noisy buggers from Big Lad (formerly Shitwife).

Youth Man - I Don't Know
Birmingham band recently signed to Alcopop! records this is off their forthcoming EP.

Ms Mohammed - Pandora
A new single taken from her September EP Alibi, a message of female empowerment.

Indoor Pets - So Soon
Formerly Get Inuit, this is their first track from the Kentish band under the new name.

Shame - Friction
Another one from the Leeds band's album Songs Of Praise which will be among the best of 2018.

The Big Pink - Blue Monday
Orkestra Obsolete - Blue Monday
Two covers of the New Order banger which is 35 years old. First, a slower, darker, gloomier version from London electro-rockers then something made entirely on 1930s instruments including autoharps and theremins recorded for BBC Arts a couple of years ago.

Autobahn - The World Around You Is Fractured Somehow
A new single from the Leeds krautrockers following on from the critically acclaimed LP The Moral Crossing.

George the Poet & Maverick Sabre - Follow The Leader
And also featuring the vocals of Jorja Smith, terrific stuff from them all.

Epic Beard Men - Two Different Worlds
B Dolan and Sage Francis are those Epic Beard Men and this is off the new LP Season 1 which was released along with a browser based beat-em-up game where you take one of the guys and punch tiki-torch wielding Nazis. Great fun.

Vessels - PantherTek
Back to Leeds for a new track from the electronica masters.

The Night Programme - We Are Chaos
And also new from friend of the show Paul Foster off his new album Electrodad.

Cuban Boys - Lost Battle Of Brook Green/Rational Dress Society
As it was International Women's Day last week, a track from the album Machines about womens involvement in the industrial revolution and engineering more generally.

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Monday 5 March 2018

5 March 2018

Good evening

Geowulf - Sunday
Australians in Europe - more of that later - Stark Kendrick and Toma Banjanin are old school friends from the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. Now they make music as Geowulf and their album Great Big Blue came out last month.

The Calls - Lost Art Of Romance
Leeds band kicking off their 2018 with this new single which came out a week and a bit ago.

IDestroy - Lemons
Bristol alt-punks with a track from their EP Pure Joy Of Life which is out this month.

I, Ludicrous - Ladytron
A tribute to Roxy Music who had a 45th anniversary recently.

Vandal Moon - Baby Sounds
Californian duo with the lead single from the new album Wild Insane which is due out soon.

Gang Of Four - Lucky
Leeds post-punk survivors - well, only one original member remains - this is off the EP Complicit which is out on April 13.

Gloria - Heavy feat. Arianna Monteverdi
New on Tjinder Singh's Ample Play label, these are from Lyon and is taken from the LP Oidophon Echorama which is out on Friday.

Dirty Laces - In Time
Mancunian 5-piece with a track from their debut EP The Modern Age which is out now.

The Creature Comfort - Alone By Your Side
A second single from another Manchester band. This is out a week on Friday.

Elegant Slims - Not Human
A debut record from New York City's finest new electro-pop outfit.

Nostalgist - Smoldering Amber
Adding to Seattle's pantheon come post-punkers Nostalgist. This is from the mini-LP Disaffection which is out on Good Friday.

Bonnacons Of Doom - Solus
Astonishing alternative stuff from Liverpool collective Bonnacons Of Doom. This is off their self-titled debut album which is out in May.

BBXO - Hard Road To Travel
Berlin producer Krisz Kreuzer and British-Ugandan poet Musa Okwonga - now based in Berlin - make up BBXO and this is their terrific debut single.

Sir Robert Orange Peel - Europeans In Australia
The enigmatic Sir Robert has a new LP coming soon. Snapchat is it and here's an early taster.

Night Giants - Don't Let It Happen
Brilliant debut single from new electronic dance act. More of this please. Lots more.

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