tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123409832024-03-18T09:00:34.939+00:00Sweeping The NationUK-originating new music-slanted hullabaloo. Est. 2005Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-88185480768161166242024-03-18T09:00:00.001+00:002024-03-18T09:00:00.192+00:00New sounds: 18/3/24<font size="+1"><b>Campfire Social - Swim Swam Swum</b><br></font>
North Wales and border's Campfire Social have been around for quite a while, 2017 to be exact, and are only now approaching their debut album, due in the summer. Its first taste synthesises their emo-leant infectiously forceful harmonic folk-pop into bigger shapes that could fit next to the New Pornographers or City & Colour as much as Death Cab For Cutie.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Fast Blood - Sexual Healing</b><br></font>
A good scream in the first two seconds, that's the way. Newcastle punks Fast Blood, another band who've been about for years but only just up to an album (Sunny Blunts, out 3rd May) race out of the traps with Amyl & the Sniffers/Descendents level of undeniable forward thrust and a similar attitude to sexual mores ("we wanted to reimagine Black Flag's Slip It In from a woman's perspective" say they), tripping over themselves to establish a huge hook amid the rush.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Mammoth Penguins - Everything That I Write</b><br></font>
Ah, Ms Kupa again. Everything she melodically touches is gold, as you should well know by now, and there's still no reason to believe fourth album Here won't add to the pile come 3rd May, once again knowing when to hold back and when to kick into the sharpened riffs.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Mouse Teeth - Rituals</b><br></font>
Nancy Dawkins was nearly a teenage singer-songwriting sensation but took time away, then was forced to take tiem away by long chronic illness. She's come out the other side with the bit, possibly a sword, between her teeth, a cathartically poetic semi-howl on grief, pain and the search for meaning through the weight of routine amid a churning, similarly raging backing by members of Maybeshewill. It leads Ten Of Swords EP, out May 3rd.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Vampire Weekend - Classical</b><br></font>
This might be here solely because Ezra's guitar part sounds like it should be from a mid-80s Children's BBC theme.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Walt Disco - You Make Me Feel So Dumb</b><br></font>
Glasgow's most flamboyant amateur dramatists sort of slipped beneath the waves of the hype ocean over the time it took them to get an album, which was a shame for a band with so many idiosyncratic ideas. The burnt out vulnerabilties draped in clipped Nileish disco licks of the single from second album The Warping, out June 14th, might tell their own intrinsic story but they set the dancefloor lights and hands aloft going anyway and, in the best move of all, it only succumbs to the saxophone at the very, very end.<br><br>
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Starting with a name we hadn't heard for a while and one you may never have heard of at all. Leeds' Crumbs are long standers on the northern DIY circuit, releasing an album in 2017, but went quiet as so many did post-Covid. But now they're back - well, back properly on May 10th with second LP You're Just Jealous via Skep Wax, and more directly with this track which sets off at a scrappy lick heading into a call and response chorus and jolting post-punk guitar as she used to be writ.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Dumbo Tracks - Daughter Of Flood (feat. Rubee Fegan)</b><br></font>
We're afraid they've picked one up from Release Radar again. Dumbo Tracks is Cologne-based producer and former Stephen Malkmus and Owen Pallett drummer Jan Philipp Janzen. His first album in 2022 was dub-inspired electro with a hint towards collaborators The Notwist; this new track utilises Fegan, dark conversationalist from SMiLE who as we keep telling you to no avail released a superb album last year and here sounds absoutely at home amid Janzen's laser electro-motorik.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Holiday Ghosts - Big Congratulations</b><br></font>
We already covered Falmouth's finest's previous single, Sublime Disconnect, from Coat Of Arms, out 29th March; the second single brings the clipped surf-rock exuberance and peppy earworm double chorus to existential worry about growing materialism.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>King Hannah - Big Swimmer</b><br></font>
The Liverpool duo's 2022 debut album I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me was an underrated sparkle of cinematic dustbowl smokiness; their second Big Swimmer, released 31st May, stays transatlantic now they've actually visited the expanses that record synthesised by starting off as an acoustic country lament and then halfway through allowing Mazzy Star-esque electric guitar to blow it open, lifted by a harmony counter-vocal from admirer Sharon Van Etten.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>La Luz - Strange World</b><br></font>
Until they re-emerge with a new record you're never quite sure whether the psych-surf wiredness of La Luz is still active given leader Shana Cleveland's parallel solo career. Yet here they are back with fifth album News Of The Universe come May 24th, newly signed to Sub Pop and riding a classic 1960s raw garage riff into spectral harmonies underpinned with organ drone and some unexpectedly arpeggiating synths at the end.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>nathy sg - Soft Rains (Things Fall Apart)</b><br></font>
It's ya boy Nathan Stephens-Griffin from the back of Martha (and Onsind, and Fortitude Valley), who with Daniel on paternity, Naomi with Get Wrong and JC... probably driving people around released a handful of tracks towards the end of 2023 followed now with all of 87 seconds of meaningful power-pop lyrically inspired by Rat Bradbury short story about the apocalypse, leaning vaguely towards the Cheap Trick in its riff.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God</b></font><br>
...I mean, you know who he and they are.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>O. - Green Shirt</b><br></font>
Not the Elvis Costello song. There was a whole thing a good few years back about jazz-punk, centred around London bands like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqr1W-4-Wo">Acoustic Ladyland</A>, and that's where the duo O. pick up with a noisy, circuit bending only just over two minutes of metal riffing bassline, seek-and-destroy synths and belting drums ready to soundtrack runaway drag racers. Debut album WeirdOs is out 21st June; Dan Carey produced it, but when does he ever not.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Slow Fiction - Monday</b><br></font>
As before, someone we covered just a couple of posts ago with the first track taken from an records returns already. In Slow Fiction's case it's an EP, Crush out May 24th, being trailed by a rush of anguished thoughts, dead-eyed determination and cresting shoegazey guitars.<br><br>
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Yeah, let's get the Spanish language one away first.
Actually, between the song title, the band name (Spanish for August) and their entire biography reading "maría y nacho" we can tell you the square root of bugger all about them or this even with translator use, so let's instead luxuriate in the intricately insistent guitar that drives it on, the pleasingly buzzy keyboards that push it on further and the central vocal harmonies combining to give the impression you've heard something like all this before, maybe in the late 00s, but can't quite place it.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>The Baby Seals - Vibrator</b><br></font>
Ah, now this is firmer ground, if in theory only. The Baby Seals are a trio from Cambridgeshire who we hadn't heard from since a 2017 EP of big fuzzy hooks and songs called things like My Labia Is Lopsided But I Don't Mind. That's a very long time to disappear with nothing else to show for it but there's an album finally due on April 19th, entitled Chaos, and a crunchily shouty, trashily punk-fizz single that as you can likely tell already is as free from personal lyrical taboo as before.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Dana Gavanski - Ears Were Growing</b><br>
<b>Dancer - Bluetooth Hell</b></font><br>
While they don't really fit together musically we make no apologies for returning yet again to these two having already written about their upcoming albums - Gavanski's move towards Cate Le Bon-esque quirkiness invading atmospherically twisted indie-folk, Dancer's adventure playground of entangled Life Without Buildings-indebted post-punk angularity - many a time and oft as they seem like they're really going to be something. Gavanski's LATE SLAP is out April 5th, Dancer's 10 Songs I Hate About You 15th March.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Maruja - The Invisible Man</b><br></font>
There's been a lot of this Windmill-adjacent experimental indie meets jazz improv inspiration recently and Manchester's Maruja seem intent on breaking out of the underground through sheer force of personality, Harry Wilkinson's poetic intensity examining personal experiences of the mental health crisis as all around shift and try to keep up, wavering all around the melodic line.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>M(h)aol - Pursuit</b><br></font>
Some - hi! - say nothing good comes out of a band changing frontperson once established. Well, here comes new challenger. No sooner had Dublin's ferociously uncompromised feminist punks M(h)aol released a well received debut album and their 'Ghost A Post-Punk Boy Today' tote bags become a festival staple than singer Róisín Nic Ghearailt, already establishing herself as one of the great onstage talkers to boot, <a href="https://www.hotpress.com/opinion/roisin-nic-ghearailt-although-it-was-painful-it-was-also-an-act-of-kindness-being-asked-to-leave-mhaol-22990667">left</a>. Their first track without her has drummer Constance Keane taking over vocals and lyrics, narrating a walk home while being followed ramping up through lyrical repetition and a creeping big noise undertow, bassist Jamie Hyland's work with Gilla Band sounding to the forefront.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>mui zyu - the mould</b><br></font>
The solo project of Eva Liu, singer from art-garage trio Dama Scout, the spectacularly titled album Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century received a good amount of praise on release pretty much exactly a year ago for its skewed pastoral electropop drawing chief inspiration from her Hong Kong roots. Its successor nothing or something to die for, out May 24th, tries to work out the world and existence around her, this track playing with the several meanings of the title, lyrically anchoring the existential debt amid playful electro beats and found noises.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Vanishing Twin - Life Drummer</b><br></font>
The now-trio have quietly racked up an enviable experimental catalogue over the last near-decade which continues with a new Sub Pop Singles Club 7" lyrically adapted from a chapter from The Listening Book by W.A. Mathieu, Cathy Lucas declaiming an inventory of engineering invention over pumping electro-kosmiche insistently driven by percussive MVP Valentina Magaletti (an avant-garde composer in their own right and also member of noise-post-punks Moin)<br><br>
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<b>YEAH, OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE JUST AS GREAT BUT YOU KNOW WHO THESE ARE ALREADY:</B><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSdl9UGQy2k">Arab Strap - Allatonceness</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNuEV9PzQMA">Julia Holter - Evening Mood</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJxPg6quL4">St Vincent - Broken Man</a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-55071915639361631622024-02-23T17:00:00.001+00:002024-02-23T17:00:00.134+00:00New sounds: 23/2/24<font size="+1"><b>Another Sky - Swirling Smoke</b><br></font>
Fascinating band, Another Sky. Coming towards a second album (Beach Day, 1st March) they never became as big as some thought they would be on arrival or that their skyscraping sonics suggested. The good thing is, they don't care, they're just going to plough their own furrow driven by Catrin Vincent's distinctively haunted, androgynous vocals. Driven by a ticking electronic loop that almost turns into a breakbeat, dreampop soar and delicate Sundays-reminiscent guitar part it breaks through its own malaise onto the other side of something.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Girl And Girl - Hello</b><br></font>
There's almost a Gilla Band thing going on with Brisbane's Girl And Girl's name, in that they do have one female member but she's the drummer. Also she's the singer's aunt, which puts them in the same interpersonal band relationship category as the New Pornographers, Tubeway Army and LMFAO. It's the first of those that's closest to their too jittery for power-pop, too classically melodic for post-punk sounds that seems closest to the more direct elements of mid-00s blog-rock. Debut album Call A Doctor is out on Sub Pop in May. And yes, that's absolutely a great name for the first single on a new label.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Isobel Campbell - 4316</b><br></font>
Campbell has over this last quarter-century quietly amassed an interesting, varied catalogue across three collaborations with Mark Lanegan, one with Bill Wells and now a sixth solo album, Bow To Love out May 17th, which in its lightly psychedelic, strummy and whispery way harks back to her Gentle Waves records.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Kim Gordon - I'm A Man</b><br></font>
Let it never be said that Kim Gordon, 71 in April, settles down. 2019's No Home Record was practically avant-trap at times, continued on to BYE BYE, the first track from The Collective, out March 8th. In that context I'm A Man takes that idea and runs further into industrial noise with a beat, while still sounding like the same person who drawled through Kool Thing now taking the character of toxic masculinity.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Magana - Paul</b><br></font>
LA-based Jeni Magana is an old favourite of ours, turning up in our 2016 tracks of the year list. In more recent times she's found a decent gig playing bass for Mitski, between which being-screamed-at-by-proxy times she's made a second solo album, Teeth out March 25th on the once again active Audio Antihero. Paul is built on frail acoustic guitar and a vocal weighed down by the melancholia of grief, accompanied by strings, woodwind and wheezing synth that push the emotions forward rather than the overpowerment they could easily have become.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>mary in the junkyard - Ghost</b><br></font>
mary in the junkyard are one of those Brixton Windmill affiliated bands. No, come back. Produced by Richard Russell, not the last time that will feature in this post, theirs is a spidery, spindly world, Clari Freeman-Taylor one of those vocalists who commands both grit and otherworldliness against an intricate, surging or holding back interplay in a way Big Thief fans will find much to spiritually recognise.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Murder Club - Shots?!</b><br></font>
A proper live favourite from Newport's bubblepunks from the upcoming concept EP Night Out, a song about new friendship set entirely in a nightclub women's toilet. Because why not? Hey, they're playing our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/9950566265015344/">Leicester Indiepop Alldayer</a> next Saturday! It sold out in October. Soz.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>SAM MORTON - Cry Without End</b><br></font>
Yes, SAM MORTON are named after Samantha Morton. That's because it <i>is</i> Samantha Morton, collaborating with XL's Richard Russell and on this track idiosyncratic saxophonist Alabaster dePlume. Morton actually starts this, the pair's first full-scale release after two 2023 vinyl-only releases, acapella before her sighing, gossamer delivery is accompanied by a ghostly circling emerges that might have qualified as ambient were it not allowing strange frequencies and interjections to butt in.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>sunnbrella - have your say</b><br></font>
One of our ongoing themes in recent times has been the quality of TikTok-attracting modern dreampop, as in there is very little. The number of times we've heard Souvlaki mined in increasingly lazy ways makes us start to agree with Nicky Wire. Despite having released a slowed down version of his most streamed previous track which usually has us warming up the attack drones, Prague-born, London-based David Zbirka drives a breakbeat coach and horses right through all that on a track that sets itself up as melancholy on loneliness and then assaults it with rushing jungle and electronics as if chillwave had gone glitch or Future Sound Of London were trying to address hyperpop going on word of mouth alone.<br><br>
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<b>GREAT, BUT YOU KNOW ABOUT HER ALREADY EVEN THOUGH SHE'S BEEN AWAY FOR FIVE YEARS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMO6HHfsdM">Bat For Lashes - The Dream Of Delphi</a><br>
GREAT, BUT WE WRITE ABOUT HER AND HER BAND OFTEN ENOUGH: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yoJH_rmy8c">Adrianne Lenker - Fool</a><br>
GREAT, BUT IT'S A RE-RECORDING OF A 2021 SINGLE: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I7zefEoqGE">English Teacher - R&B</a><br>
GREAT, BUT WE JUST WROTE ABOUT THEM IN THE LAST POST: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0oAWtHmylI">Lip Critic - Milky Max</a><br></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-19941298017385275222024-02-14T09:00:00.002+00:002024-02-14T09:00:00.135+00:00New sounds: 14/2/24<font size="+1"><b>Dancer - Change</b><br></font>
It's this lot again! Etc etc Glasgow etc <a href="https://meritoriorec.bandcamp.com/album/10-songs-i-hate-about-you">10 Songs I Hate About You</A> on March 15th etc a superior slice of askew post-punk that keeps deliberately tripping up over and reordering the constituent parts of itself before getting to its indelible chorus at 1:38, which it obviously doesn't repeat.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Gurriers - Des Goblin</b><br></font>
Talking of undeniable post-punk, which this update is full of, Dublin'srecent Slowdive support go to the disco, forcibly tear down the decor and replace it with spiked psychedelic patterns, all with a bassline you could build a tenement upon.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>John Glacier & Eartheater - Money Shows</b><br></font>
So here's two of the kinds of names that people in the know have been throwing around over the last couple of years that being white suburbanites we'd missed until now. John Glacier is a stream of consciousness rapper from Hackney whose Like A Ribbon EP, out on February 23rd on Young Records (The xx, FKA twigs, Sampha), is led by a track featuring the experimental electronic producer Eartheater and produced by Kwes Darko who did the Slowthai albums, on which her flow dips almost into spoken word over darkly intensive, foreboding beats smartly produced by what sounds like a guitar loop.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Les Savy Fav - Legendary Tippers</b><br></font>
Bring forth the hulking mightily bearded either overclothed or barely clothed frame, usually hanging off the girders and/or covered in other people's pints, of Tim Harrington. They're back in the country next weekend and curating a Spring Bank Holiday alldayer at Leeds' saintly Brudenell Social with an album to follow at some time, but before that their first new song in FOURTEEN years piles Seth Jabour's signature firing off at acute angles guitar parts onto their muscular post-punk scaffolding amid Harrington being all gnomic.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Lip Critic - The Heart</b><br></font>
Oh, "electropunk". So much of a tendency to fall into shouty abrasiveness just for the sake of shouty abrasiveness that when someone works out what it should be and bends its parameters to their own will you need to pay attention. Such is the case with New York's dual drummered, recently signed to Partisan Records Lip Critic, whose by all accounts spectacular live show has seen them play with rappers and hardcore bands alike. Oft compared to Death Grips, The Heart sounds interestingly like Fat Dog's command of squelching, intense electro and primal, pummelling post-punk as a singular entity, by way of any number of mid-00s bands playing like the pedals are lava. They're playing End Of The Road, marvellously.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Lo Seal - El Pomodor</b><br></font>
We became aware of Cologne's Lo Seal as their new EP Blok features a co-vocal from Rubee of SMILE, who you might recall from our end of 2023 list made possibly the best album you didn't know about last year. Its first track doesn't but is an existentially threatening take on dark, jittery noise-pop.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Mammoth Penguins - Species</b><br></font>
Hey, they're round ours soon! The Cambridge-based trio's Leicester Indiepop Alldayer slot will be followed on 3rd May by fourth album Here, which itself is preceded by a rattling supercharged jangle with menaces and Emma Kupa's signature smart self-examining.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Parsnip - The Light</b><br></font>
Less than two minutes of playfully off-kilter pop that sounds like it might have comb prongs being "played" in the background and in its effervescence really, with the possible exception of Sarah Records' catalogue, could only come from Australia. Melbourne, to be precise. Their second album Behold is out on the mighty Upset The Rhythm on April 26th.<br><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Punchlove - Screwdriver</b><br></font>
New Yorker shoegaze revival that understands what the best shoegaze actually sounded like for once - bendy guitar tone, subsumed vocals, pedal abuse, heroic attempts at solos, a noisy soundworld that lends itself to a video in which paint is thrown around in tinted negative, and a bit where it pretends to tune out completely. Their debut album Channels is out on 1st March.<br><br>
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<b>ALSO-RANS</b> (or: these are all just as great but we can't be arsed to write any more and you already know whose these people are)<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldrx0eSqV-E">Beth Gibbons – Floating On A Moment</A></b><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuP0kgY2UfE">Iron & Wine - You Never Know</A></b><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhvTt_FOQ4">Laetitia Sadier - Who + What</A></b><br>
<b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/littlesimz/mood-swings">Little Simz - Mood Swings</a></b><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFUUhgnclNo">Yard Act feat. Katy J Pearson - When The Laughter Stops</a></b><br><br>
<b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jYpVqyhHh5246HgrC5Dos">THE BIG PLAYLIST THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE NOW ADDED TO</a></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-54107910118221720662024-02-01T09:00:00.001+00:002024-02-01T09:00:00.138+00:00New sounds: 1/2/24<b>Hurray For The Riff Raff - Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)</b><br>
A new album from the exploratory itinerant expansive sunlight-exposed folk-indie singer-songwriter known to their familiars as Alynda Segarra is always a very good prospect, The Past Is Still Alive out February 23rd being their ninth. The sort of title track strings together a series of desert road trip images into a tale of escape into the yonder land, working up to a personal reckoning.<br><br>
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<b>pencil - The Window</b><br>
We first came across pencil in demo form when they were the most quietly interesting of the bands put forward for the Green Man Rising contest last year, winning their way through to playing the festival's Rising stage (we missed them. It was pissing down. You would have stopped under canvas for a bit too.) Led by Kamran Khan, who you might vaguely remember as late 10s lo-fi singer-songwriter Fake Laugh, with former members of Swim Deep, Cagoule and the Philharmonic Orchestra, and signed to the storied Moshi Moshi label, their second single exudes a confidence in its regretful acoustic strum before Coco Inman's violin drives it into cinematic territory.
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<b>Katherine Priddy - Anyway, Always</b><br>
Birmingham's Priddy has been the toast of the crossover folk scene over the last few years and keeps things lively with second album The Pendulum Swing, out 16th February, and a liltingly poetic single of lingering regret.<br><br>
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<i>Passing mention for Dana Gavanski's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36SB3DQZEg">Let Them Row</A>, a second excellent taster of her forthcoming LATE SLAP, but we just wrote about the first one)</i><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-17230854118585356282024-01-24T09:00:00.003+00:002024-01-24T09:00:00.158+00:00New sounds: 24/1/24<b>English Teacher - Albert Road</b><br>
At last, an album is on the way, This Could Be Texas due April 12th. Heralded by Lily Fontaine's magnificent quote "I want this album to feel like you’ve gone to space and it turns out it's almost identical to Doncaster", this single is them in contemplative mode narrating small town life slowly building in intensity towards something beatific. This band might just be becoming the best of us all.<br><br>
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<b>Bolis Pupul - Spicy Crab</b><br>
We were hopelessly late to the Belgian musician and Soulwax protege's 2022 collaboration with Charlotte Adigery, like they could care what a bedroom blogger with double figure readership thinks given how critically successful it was and how successfully they carried off its live energy. Now on his own for the first time Letter To You, due 8th March, has already been trailed by the superior synthpop of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfCWB-TOrg">Completely Half</A>, now followed by a driving instrumental of part-Moroder part-Glass shifting electronic loops and glissando keyboard patterns towards an acid breakdown.<br><br>
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<b>Tomato Flower - Saint</b><br>
The Baltimore band supported Animal Collective on tour off the back of two 2022 EP's and while not that oblique themselves the influence of Stereolab's more pop-facing moments shines through amid lightly jangling guitars and the kind of oblique tripping-itself-up clatter we've heard in the past from English Teacher, especially at the end when the rhythm section fall down the stairs behind Austyn Wohlers' reaching for the stars vocals. Album No is also out 8th March.<br><br>
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<b>Arab Strap - Bliss</b><br>
Their second "reformation" album, out May 10th, is called 'I'm totally fine with it 👍 don't give a fuck anymore 👍'. They may finally have reached their final form. As for the song it's Arab Strap, electro-beats version, Aidan reversing on some of his previous implied attitude in exploring the world of machismo and misogyny.<br><br>
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<b>Slow Fiction - Apollo</b><br>
Brooklyn's Slow Fiction have been around for a couple of years and look set to be fast-tracked by new label So Young Records (Lime Garden, Folly Group, Gently Tender) into a space they belong in, one of explosiveness and quiet-loud crunchiness like a Wolf Alice who can afford to let go more readily, almost anthemic without pandering to festival crowds or anything so craven.<br><br>
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Big Thief are taking a calendar year off, so obviously Buck Meek immediately released a solo album and Adrianne has one, Bright Future, out on March 22nd. Just to make it more confusing the band have been playing this live since April 2022. (They do this - there's an Adrianne's Version of Vampire Empire on the album and indeed when we saw them on last April's tour they opened with a song called Bright Future that doesn't appear to be on the album) Whatever, it's a heartaching beautiful countrified lament that alongside Ruined bodes excellently.<br><br>
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<b>Lutalo & Claud – Running</b><br>
Meanwhile Adrianne's cousin Lutalo Jones, whose 2023 album Again showcased a superior form of kinetic politicised bedroom indie, has teamed up with someone else who has a left of bedroom-indie-centrist approach and a celebrity lifter (Phoebe Bridgers signed Claud for Saddest Factory) for a synth-layered insistent story of strained interpersonal relationships with a hint of summer. Yeah, we know.<br><br>
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<b>Jane Weaver - Perfect Storm</b><br>
It feels a little like Weaver's trademark twisted take on electro-psych-pop is leaning more towards the last element on this from another newly announced album, Love In Constant Spectacle out April 5th being her twelfth, with its big direct pop song structure and lush major key chorus embedded within her usual dreamy, intrinsically melancholic in a spaced-out way approach. How much of this is the pushing of producer John Parish wouldn't be fair on Weaver to speculate as between the retro-futurist flourishes, motorik rhythm and arpeggiating synths this is very much her vision.<br><br>
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<b>Holiday Ghosts - Sublime Disconnect</b><br>
Falmouth's Holiday Ghosts have been ploughing their garage-surf furrow for a while now, Coat Of Arms due March 29th being their fifth album. They've definitely streamlined what they do in that time, the first single sporting a thrusting chorus, play-dumb insistent riff, Kat Rackin's staccato venting on place and identity and ba-ba-bas in its only just over two minutes second length. And most importantly: singing drummer!<br><br>
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You may have seen that the Newport 'sugarpunks' are coming round ours in just under seven weeks' time for the Leicester Indiepop Alldayer (tickets long since sold out, soz); what we haven't had from them is any new music since their Sour Candy EP in February 2022. That's changing soon with a second EP, a concept one at that, Night Out describing the titular event starting with the preparation phase, delivered in the kind of melodically classic indiepop, twee as they used to call it if they were particularly brave, that has the kind of semi-buried edge that Peaness fans will recognise. Heavenly do-do-do's too.<br><br>
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<b>Dancer - Passionate Sunday</b><br>
For a group made up of members of several longer established Glasgow bands Dancer are hella productive, two EPs in quick succession last year being followed on March 15th by an album, <a href="https://meritoriorec.bandcamp.com/album/10-songs-i-hate-about-you">10 Songs I Hate About You</A>. The first cut starts pensively before striking out with an angular, strident bassline, Gemma Fleet actually singing this time around and a yo-yoing synth line that presumably comes from that synthpad contraption those who've seen them live knows the guitarist straps onto his instrument. Splendid.<br><br>
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<b>Julia Holter - Spinning</b><br>
Holter's sixth album Something In The Room She Moves, out 22nd March, has already been heralded by the shards of light in Sun Girl; now she finds a weird circularity, a looping percussive glitch around which winds plenty of intricate detail between synths to colour in the corners, woodwind flourishes, cymbal splashes, odd little noises seemingly from the mental image woodlands and Holter's elliptical appeals.<br><br>
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<b>Chemtrails - Bang Bang</b><br>
We've been writing about Mia, Laura and friends' psych-garage doomscroll rush, and put them on twice, that we fully expect you to be fully across everything they do by now. But just in case... the last single from The Joy of Sects, released 19th January, might actually be the most approachable thing they've done by their own terms an authentically grimy glam stomper with sinister motives aforefront, described by themselves as "from the point of view of a bragging crypto bro".<br><br>
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<b>Enabling Behaviour - Stressor</b><br>
"Overtly pretentious and emotionally sterile, Enabling Behaviour are probably the most overrated band you've heard all year... their sound has been described as "unbearable noise" by their neighbours - but don't let that put you off, because they need the ticket sales to afford their extravagant and hedonistic lifestyles." Oh, cheers, guys. Yes, the Cardiff ace band factory has whirred its cogs once more and deposited... well, a band who formed in Falmouth, actually, but after a handful of singles in the last two years their emergence to our ears finds them brooding like nobody's business before taking off with the kind of vaulting guitar sounds that both skewer and threaten to make the notion of dreampop worthwhile once more around Liz Allison's part-whispery, part-Rachel Goswell-y vocals.<br><br>
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<b>Stuart Pearce - Nuclear Football</b><br>
Not that one. We mean, obviously not that one. The possibility of him putting out high quality music in 2024 is remote. No, this is Stuart Pearce the agit-post-punk band from Nottingham, with more than a little early Fall about them but who hasn't these days - actually the Nightingales might be a more accurate comparison, with added radar detection synth and a frantic hair trigger about their politicised compactness.<br><br>
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<b>Dana Gavanski - How To Feel Uncomfortable</b><br>
We've long admired Gavanski's expansive take on indie-folk so news third album LATE SLAP, out April 5th, was produced by Tunng/LUMP's Mike Lindsay promises much. The first track... well, it sounds quite a lot like Cate Le Bon, which might be as much in the sax parps as the phrasing.<br><br>
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<b>They Hate Change - Wallabies & Weejuns</b><br>
If anything helped serve to demonstrate End Of The Road's edge away from the alt-Americana that made its name it was the spectacular, energetic for an early afternoon packed Big Top set by the Floridian experimental rap/production duo, swapping hard-edged rhymes over Miami bass by way of British club sounds. The advance track from their Wish You Were Here... EP, out 26th January and with a blurb that both explains its inspiration from their transatlantic travels and a shout-out to Greggs breakfasts, is produced by Sheffield/Manchester experimentalist 96 Back and traverses the beats through a d'n'b breakdown and out onto the R&B floor.<br><br>
<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1298986373/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=4237276719/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://theyhatechange.bandcamp.com/album/wish-you-were-here-2">Wish You Were Here... by They Hate Change</a></iframe><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-86399673637770221262024-01-08T09:00:00.001+00:002024-01-08T09:00:00.156+00:00New sounds 8/1/24<b>My Best Unbeaten Brother - Slayer On A Sunny Day</b><br>
Remember how we wanged on for years about Superman Revenge Squad, Ben Parker's wry and far too close to the bone at times solo project? And then when their album posthumously came out Nosferatu D2, Ben Parker's dynamic preceding duo with remarkable drummer brother Adam? Well, Ben's back recording for the first time since 2015 and the pair have got together with a third member in Ben Fry to deal in not dissimilar and therefore excellent waters, propulsive, heartfelt and philosophical in its awkward charge.<br><br>
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<b>James Jonathan Clancy - I Want You</b><br>
And another old favourite - we've been long-time supporters of a lot of the music Canadian born but for as long as we've known about him Bologna based Clancy has released in various forms. His first record under his birth name, inspired by the "apocalyptic pastoralism" of comic artist Michelangelo Setola, slips between retro-futurist detuning VHS synths, bucolic ambient folk, Scott Walker avant-garde and on this track a skyscrapingq quasi-spiritual psych-folk reminiscent of John Martyn circa Solid Air getting stranded in space.<br><br>
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<b>Lilith Ai - Burner Phone</b><br>
One of the stars of this year's Leicester Indiepop Alldayer returns by reframing her intensely personal songs into scrappy garage rock, swiping most of the Hate To Say I Told You So riff for something that could have come out of a mid-west basement in the early 90s as a means of singing about resilience, or as she puts it "conquering fear of showing up as yourself". <a href="https://lilithai.bandcamp.com/merch/secret-unreleased-album">Oh, what's this?</A><br><br>
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<b>Buck Meek - Beauty Opens Doors</b><br>
No sooner have Big Thief announced a year-long hiatus then both their main songwriters head straight out solo, with Adrianne Lenker's album rumoured for early spring and Meek releasing a fluttering prairie country offcut from August's Haunted Mountain album that's better than most of what made it onto the tracklisting.<br><br>
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<b>Ricardo Autobahn - The Hands Of Porsche</b><br>
It's now a good quarter of a century since Autobahn started mining the intersection of sampling, Eurodance beats and unashamed strain of novelty with the Cuban Boys, then being the power behind Daz Sampson's throne, being half of synth-pop post-ironists Spray, taking the synths in Helen Love, joining up with normal man Phil Fletcher to form TV theme cover duo the Pound Shop Boys and in all likelihood a thousand other things we've missed. This time around, from a forthcoming concept album (obviously), 1960s corporate fast car speak gets the cut-up treatment.<br><br>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pyY8j_RhnqE?si=1IhDWcYV6W9Obi4U" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-26177852404923640352024-01-04T09:00:00.003+00:002024-01-04T09:00:00.133+00:00Trailing in late from 2023<b><a href="https://projectoverload.bandcamp.com/track/second-chances">Project Overload - Second Chances</A></b><br>
<b><a href="https://projectoverload.bandcamp.com/track/moving-mayhem-2">Project Overload - Moving Mayhem</a></b><br>
See, this Coventry five-piece who release their debut album New Beginnings on the 19th is the kind of thing people should really have flocked to tip us off at the time (er, November) about given they deal in the kind of bright janglepop with sharp elbows that feels very redolent of post-C86 or the Blonde Movement bands while surely too young to know what exactly those mean.<br><br>
<b><a href="https://jimnothing.bandcamp.com/track/raleigh-arena-2">Jim Nothing - Raleigh Arena</b></a><br>
Well, why not make a record about the joy of cycling in this day and age? Especially one that like the Auckland singer-songwriter flirts with psych-rock in several of its forms, switching seamlessly between stratospheric guitar pyro and synth-motorik.<br><br>
<b><a href="https://thorndells.bandcamp.com/track/surface">Thorn Dells - Surface</b></a><br>
Staying in New Zealand - Dunedin, in fact - for more synths and steady rhythms but of a very different type, layering on the threatening electro that slowly closes its iron claw around you. Those who follow the Sink Ya Teeth diaspora or Shelf Lives may find much to fascinate.<br><br>
<b><a href="https://blanketapproval.bandcamp.com/track/you-think-its-funny">Blanket Approval - You Think It's Funny</b></a><br>
They're from New York, and in a funny not-too-cool-for-you way it shows. They have things to say to the wrong people and a synth-lifted, strident quasi-Throwing Muses nerviness where the vocals come in at strange angles helping take it from stomping to jangling to cresting.<br><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbMtmSmQu0">VIAL - ur dad</b></a><br>
103 seconds of hooky, spiky, brattiness overload punk-pop, a genre that we're fully awareness is almost as debased as a genre term as dreampop these days but this is as they would have understood it in its original form. And yes, the Minneapolis trio want *your* dad.<br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-25702910090906865592023-12-20T10:00:00.001+00:002023-12-22T09:20:17.234+00:00STN's top 40 albums of 202340 <b><a href="https://thenational.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-track">The National - Laugh Track</b></a><br>
Very comfortably the superior of their two albums this year, partly because there's audible actual drums on it, partly for eschewing its ennui for moments of catharsis<br><br>
39 <b><a href="https://marlody.bandcamp.com/album/im-not-sure-at-all">Marlody - I'M NOT SURE AT ALL</b></a><br>
Sparse, poignant keys-led hymnality of intentional mystery that at times recalls a claustrophobic early Kate Bush<br><br>
38 <b><a href="https://crosslegged.bandcamp.com/album/another-blue-2">Crosslegged - Another Blue</b></a><br>
Keba Robinson's chiming, open-hearted take on expansive indie-folk seems keen not to take the easy route with meditative breakdowns, complex rhythmic moments and the odd Bjork-ish flourish<br><br>
37 <b><a href="https://slugband.bandcamp.com/album/thy-socialite">SLUG - Thy Socialite!</b></a><br>
Field Music sideman Ian Black continues their old attempt to unite every era of XTC in one but this time trying to turn arena rock guitars into glammy, awry art-pop<br><br>
36 <b><a href="https://annahillburg.bandcamp.com/album/tired-girls">Anna Hillburg - Tired Girls</b></a><br>
Self-determination and judging a woman's place in the world wrapped up in widescreen Americana and chamber pop like a lower budget Weyes Blood with hints of Calexico<br><br>
35 <b><a href="https://shop.blur.co.uk/gb/blur/music/">Blur - The Ballad Of Darren</b></a><br>
The middle-aged spread of inertia leads to contemplation of what's been lost and what they still have, namely (on the musical side at least) melodic sure-footedness, belief in the unit, the odd Graham explosion<br><br>
34 <b><a href="https://deathandvanillamusic.bandcamp.com/album/flicker">Death & Vanilla - Flicker</b></a><br>
Refining their meld of Broadcastable retro-futurist electronic waves and unknowable hazy dream-pop into an ambient sphere just out of actual grasp<br><br>
33 <b><a href="https://panicpocket.bandcamp.com/album/mad-half-hour">Panic Pocket - Mad Half Hour</b></a><br>
Slightly ragged and absolutely singularly determined in the way of the best DIY indiepop, jangles and synth underlines decorated with indelible hooks<br><br>
32 <b><a href="https://neev1.bandcamp.com/album/katherine">Neev - Katherine</b></a><br>
Intimate acoustic (with considerate augmentations) late night singer-songwriter storytelling telling of trapped emotions, moments of realisation and the odd unreliable narrator<br><br>
31 <b><a href="https://baritalia.bandcamp.com/album/tracey-denim">bar italia - Tracey Denim</b></a><br>
Three untutored voices, a multitude of angles on modern socialising and a series of skeletal constructions owing a debt to the shuffling, fuzz pedalled lo-fi early 90s sound<br><br>
30 <b><a href="https://blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-the-water-the-sky">Black Belt Eagle Scout - The Land, The Water, The Sky</b></a><br>
Katherine Paul's return to her tribal community inspired a reclamation through-line to a landscape where lush, vulnerable melodies and atmospheric passages grind up against metallic squalls<br><br>
29 <b><a href="https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/this-candle-is-for-you">Spearmint - This Candle Is For You</b></a><br>
Their best album in a while, scanning across the styles of their career in examining the pushes and pulls of mystery and actuality, creativity and domestication, nostalgia and onwardness, self-criticism and fantasy<br><br>
28 <b><a href="https://hhawkline.bandcamp.com/album/milk-for-flowers">H Hawkline - Milk For Flowers</b></a><br>
Lushly arranged Nilsson/McCartney classicist writing allied to the whimsical slow burning Americana/psych-pop wheelhouse of producer Cate Le Bon as a treatise on personal grief and what comes next<br><br>
27 <b><a href="https://dreamwife.bandcamp.com/album/social-lubrication">Dream Wife - Social Lubrication</b></a><br>
The album we knew they had in them all along, big riffs and post-Riot Grrrl anger leavened with aware humour aiming for the dancing feet and state of society brain simultaneously<br><br>
26 <b><a href="https://witchingwaves.bandcamp.com/album/streams-and-waterways">Witching Waves - Streams And Waterways</b></a><br>
Concentrated thrusting fuzzbomb energy affixed to indelible melodies and strident eyes-on-the-prize Martha-adjacent choruses<br><br>
25 <b><a href="https://bandofsmiles.bandcamp.com/album/price-of-progress">SMILE - Price Of Progress</b></a><br>
The best talky post-punk album you didn't hear this year comes from a Cologne based with an American "singer" whose anxiety driven angularity updates Throwing Muses or Kim Gordon's Sonic Youth moments<br><br>
24 <b><a href="https://hamishhawk.bandcamp.com/album/angel-numbers">Hamish Hawk - Angel Numbers</b></a><br>
A flamboyant presence filled with lyrical wordplay acuity against a big music that spans windswept heartland rock to a broadly filled out intimacy<br><br>
23 <b><a href="https://islet.bandcamp.com/album/soft-fascination">Islet - Soft Fascination</b></a><br>
Wales' most inscrutable return by finding a path through their dual musical identites, half uneasy and spikily arrythmic, half ambient and almost ritualistic<br><br>
22 <b><a href="https://merex.bandcamp.com/album/giant-elk">ME REX - Giant Elk</b></a><br>
The ideal encapsulation of Myles' soul-baring pop-punk on the emo side, sometimes sounding as enormous as the beasts the songs are named after<br><br>
21 <b><a href="https://angelodeaugustine.bandcamp.com/album/toil-and-trouble">Angelo De Augustine - Toil And Trouble</b></a><br>
The Sufjan collaborator's voice and augmented guitar style may bear a resemblance but his miniature worlds are more concerned with the fantasy in and of little things, trying to find a place in hopelessness<br><br>
20 <b><a href="https://baxterdury.bandcamp.com/album/i-thought-i-was-better-than-you">Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You</b></a><br>
Wherein the "budget nepo baby" wrestles with his upbringing, borrows some modish hip-hop production tricks to augment his familiar chanson/East End poet combination and comes to no conclusion except his own untrustworthiness<br><br>
19 <b><a href="https://cmat.terrible.group/collections/all">CMAT - Crazymad, For Me</b></a><br>
Scathingly witty, pop culturally overaware, knowingly melodramatic, able to reshape pop moves in her own image - Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson is ever more a Rebecca Lucy Taylor with a country lilt<br><br>
18 <b><a href="https://youthlagoon.bandcamp.com/album/heaven-is-a-junkyard">Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard</b></a><br>
One of the surprises of the year as Trevor Powers relaunches his old identity for a collection of close-miked, vulnerable explorations of the dirty underside of suburban Americana to stately piano and electronic beats<br><br>
17 <b><a href="https://jencloher.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-the-river-the-river-is-me">Jen Cloher - I Am The River, The River Is Me</b></a><br>
Inspired by Cloher's Maori heritage, a layered warmth expands their distorted indie-folk horizons into haka chants, soul and electro and similarly lyrically, not just ancestrally but politically but sexually<br><br>
16 <b><a href="https://thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/dead-meat">The Tubs - Dead Meat</b></a><br>
Felt meets Richard Thompson meets Sugar meets the Smiths meets the Feelies... you could go on like this for some time but the ex-Joanna Gruesome-driven power-pop merchants sound fully formed already<br><br>
15 <b><a href="https://grianchatten.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-for-the-fly">Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly</b></a><br>
Isn't it embarrassing when a band frontman's solo project turns out to be stronger - enveloping, swooning, capable of sounding both down and out and amid the rainbows, richly poetic in detail - than the parent?<br><br>
14 <b><a href="https://xboygeniusx.bandcamp.com/album/the-record">boygenius - the record</b></a><br>
DISCOURSE DISCOURSE DISCOURSE. But ultimately it's just a coming together of three self-assured harmonising singer-songwriters beloved of their own union, upliftingly rich in detail musically and lyrically<br><br>
13 <b><a href="https://murielcardiff.bandcamp.com/album/muriel">Muriel - Muriel</b></a><br>
Zak Thomas' songs expand the moments where bruised narrative singer-songwriting blossoms into evocatively abundant coastal-reminiscent soundscapes, painting out to the edges in resonant colours<br><br>
12 <b><a href="https://mitski.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-is-inhospitable-and-so-are-we">Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We</b></a><br>
A step back, as much as someone with those kind of fans can take, into a spectral country-pop setting open to arid plains, epic showstealer mode in its biggest arrangements and small-room intimate at others<br><br>
11 <b><a href="https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/shook">Algiers - Shook</b></a><br>
Having started as righteously furious and not found much to let up about since, their industrial gospel hires a collection of like-minded collaborators to come on like a modern radical R&B take on the Bomb Squad<br><br>
10 <b><a href="https://annabsavage.bandcamp.com/album/in-flux">Anna B Savage - in|FLUX</b></a><br>
Rich in voice, lyrical detail and shifting backing colour, Savage harbours a continued refusal to give in, dissecting and compartmentalising emotional toxicity<br><br>
9 <b><a href="https://alcopop.bandcamp.com/album/ask-for-angela">CHROMA - Ask For Angela</b></a><br>
Rhondda Cynon Taf's finest, propulsive post-punk moves laced within thunderous rolling intensity about mental health, harassment, feminist infighting and so forth through the enormous voice of Katie Hall<br><br>
8 <b><a href="https://thewaeve.ochre.store/">The WAEVE - The WAEVE</b></a><br>
The best album Graham Coxon was involved in this year, bringing a cinematic drama and glue to Rose Elinor Dougall's Broadcast-pastoralisms and Coxon's antsy prog-punk breakdowns<br><br>
7 <b><a href="https://karajackson.bandcamp.com/album/why-does-the-earth-give-us-people-to-love">Kara Jackson - Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?</b></a><br>
The year's best debut album, elegantly poetic treatises on love and loss in an uncaring world, delivered with equal unerringness and humour, lifted by its subtle surroundings without losing the central threads.
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6 <b><a href="https://corinnebaileyrae.com/blackrainbows">Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows</b></a><br>
The year's biggest surprise by some distance, inspired by archives of Black art into raw treatises mining psychedelic soul, Afrojazz, electronics, torch song and Riot Grrl as if alike<br><br>
5 <b><a href="https://wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/album/rat-saw-god">Wednesday - Rat Saw God</b></a><br>
Small town USA in its no-hoper, grimy fine detail, expressed in a fretful place where pedal steel laden Americana, revivalist college rock of a Soccer Mommy stripe and noisy explosions co-habit<br><br>
4 <b><a href="https://anohni.bandcamp.com/album/my-back-was-a-bridge-for-you-to-cross-2">ANONHI & the Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross</b></a><br>
Styled after What's Going On?, ANONHI gets the band back together for a blue-eyed soul and gospel examination of the self, of what death leaves behind and her continuing anguish at climate change inaction<br><br>
3 <b><a href="https://pjharvey.bandcamp.com/album/i-inside-the-old-year-dying">PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying</b></a><br>
Adapted from last year's Dorset dialect poetry book Orlam, this one finds Harvey in the spectral clifftop falsetto mode of White Chalk adapted into a drifting near-dreamscape to absolutely lose yourself in<br><br>
2 <b><a href="https://youngfathersofficial.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-heavy">Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy</b></a><br>
The year's most intense live experience was born from an act of joyful resistance and liberation, funnelling looped gospel spirituals, primal blues-rock and electronically aided breakdowns into overwhelming communality<br><br>
1 <b><a href="https://javelin.sufjan.com/">Sufjan Stevens - Javelin</b></a><br>
A second attempt by Sufjan to come to musical terms with grief, need for deliverance and picking over the detail (and this is all before his being struck down by Guillain-Barré syndrome) by blossoming intimate, intricate songs into kaleidoscopic life that take from his remarkable previous range of styles and still find themselves as a singular, remarkable whole<br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-77992197796887879622023-12-18T11:00:00.002+00:002023-12-18T11:00:00.172+00:00STN's 60 tracks of 2023IT'S LIIIIIISTMAAAAAS! Our top forty albums of the year will follow on Wednesday, but in the meantime here's our sixty best songs of the year, not ordered like some do because that would be madness, and all having to be on Spotify means we can't acknowledge <a href="https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/album/unpopular-parts-of-a-pig-the-digger-you-deep">Mclusky</A> but such is life.<br><br>
<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/1MUun8vk7xnL6ZLc7PWoJT?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-55510571220215740282023-12-15T09:00:00.003+00:002023-12-15T15:01:58.778+00:00One last list for the year<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypx43W_YRg">Adrianne Lenker - Ruined</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfCWB-TOrg">Bolis Pupul - Completely Half</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4uZOr6G7ho">Chemtrails - Join Our Death Cult</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZLt0rwxP98">El Perro Del Mar - Kiss Of Death</a><br>
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/felicette-sc/palpitations">Felicette - Palpitations</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJFF4km8ZVo">Finnoguns Wake - Lovers All</a><br>
<a href="https://getwrong.bandcamp.com/track/something-to-tell-you">Get Wrong - Something To Tell You</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2DsBxNL6M0">Grandaddy - Cabin In My Mind</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ATNZoTuPM0">Ladytron - All Over By Xmas</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1FOQkHZrI">Twat Union - UTI</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bfw0FM6jhc">Wishy - Spinning</a><br><br>
Albums of the year list next week!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-65704429696711491302023-11-30T17:00:00.001+00:002023-11-30T17:00:00.141+00:00November spawned some monsters<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUsv9CugoA">Another Sky - Aimee Caught A Moth</a><br>
<a href="https://adoseofchemtrails.bandcamp.com/track/detritus-andronicus">Chemtrails - Detritus Andronicus</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7fBfU4Swpc">Gruff Rhys - Silver Lining Lead Balloons</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzzR4J4RMU">Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3_NOCiRbII">Jesus & Mary Chain - jamcod</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsmBrWiC_94">Julia Holter - Sun Girl</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htobw_glMJg">ladylike - Southbound</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWzAt3dgk4">Laetitia Sadier – Une Autre Attente</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJZVTEEUvo">Lala Lala - Armida</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-aaINZl42c">Lynks - (WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM) SEX WITH A STRANGER</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVc1-S3D7g">Marika Hackman - Slime</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNiOFxw42JY">The Menstraul Cramps - Body Politics</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS8Olk21SCs">Nadine Shah - Twenty Things</a><br>
<a href="https://peanessband.bandcamp.com/album/kiss-me-sweet-pea">Peaness - Kiss Me Sweet Pea</a><br>
<a href="https://whenistheprivateparty.bandcamp.com/track/bahama-mama">Private Party - bahama mama</a><br>
<a href="https://sarahwalk.bandcamp.com/track/my-body">Sarah Walk - My Body</a><br>
<a href="https://t-v-a-m.bandcamp.com/track/ephemerol">TVAM - Ephemerol</a><br>
<a href="https://willsheff.bandcamp.com/track/tommy-mchugh">Will Sheff – Tommy McHugh</a><br>
<a href="https://witchingwaves.bandcamp.com/track/the-valley">Witching Waves - The Valley</A>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-71352213005555770332023-11-07T10:30:00.001+00:002023-11-07T10:30:00.136+00:0030 golden greats (released over the last month)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VxR_RKaIWY">Anna Hillburg - How Do You Make Believe</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdaGUiRuFdg">Antonymes feat. Sarah Nixey - Coming Out Of Silence</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9TNNIYEqmE">bar italia – worlds greatest emoter</a><br>
<a href="https://billbotting.bandcamp.com/track/cecily">Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums - Cecily</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VkE3wqDbp4">Cheekface - Largest Muscle</a><br>
<a href="https://cityparking.bandcamp.com/track/carl">City Parking - Carl</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nYgNGDJjQ">Cloud Nothings - Final Summer</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZaPoj-PjU">Dancer - Cordon Bleu</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URZQ5XjtpnE">deep tan - xenomorph queen</a><br>
<a href="https://emmaanderson.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-miles-away">Emma Anderson - I Was Miles Away</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xKTRZm3vI">English Teacher - Nearly Daffodils</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l81HZfkLwpk">Everything Everything - Cold Reactor</a><br>
<a href="https://felicette.bandcamp.com/track/go-to-hell-2">Felicette - Go To Hell</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rckJeA5SJX0">Get Wrong - Too Late To Hide</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZxvjMPZeZE">Grandaddy - Watercooler</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdh11P_HmgI">Kaeto - No Body</a><br>
<a href="https://livingbodylife.bandcamp.com/track/no-debt">Living Body - NO DEBT</a><br>
<a href="https://lonelytourist.bandcamp.com/track/this-place-takes-a-lot-of-beating">Lonely Tourist - This Place Takes A Lot Of Beating</a><br>
<a href="https://manwomanchainsaw.bandcamp.com/album/what-lucy-found-there">Man/Woman/Chainsaw - What Lucy Found There</a><br>
<a href="https://mayshe-mayshe.bandcamp.com/album/shadowbloom">Mayshe-Mayshe - Shadowbloom</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RgQFHQGbpM">Nadine Shah - Topless Mother</a><br>
<a href="https://nathysg.bandcamp.com/track/corporate-lawyer">nathy sg - corporate lawyer</a><br>
<a href="https://paganwandererlu.bandcamp.com/track/1984-is-not-a-manual">Pagan Wanderer Lu - 1984 (Is Not A Manual)</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7s25g4aTwY">Sharon Van Etten - Close To You</a><br>
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7BULCIBMF91UBK4dM16UqI?si=13c55739d3594215">Shelf Lives - KIDS</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCuCYV6h_w">Spearmint - Let It Go</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka0xVZaglJM">Tapir! - My God </a><br>
<a href="https://trustfund.bandcamp.com/track/our-american-tour">Trust Fund - our american tour</a><br>
<a href="https://lostmap.bandcamp.com/track/city-streets-2">Two White Cranes - City Streets</a><br>
<a href="https://witchingwaves.bandcamp.com/track/vessel">Witching Waves - Vessel </a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-78013273184773921362023-10-05T09:00:00.007+01:002023-10-05T09:00:00.192+01:00Another week of new songsWe do want to start putting descriptions on these so we aren't just throwing context-free names at you, but nobody's reading this blog any more so why put extra effort in.<br><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT1W_7ZpMxM">Atka - Lenny</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jQf0g7i1jo">Flip Top Head - Alfred Street</a><br>
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/theyisgrove/milf-magnet">Grove - MILF MAGNET</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv5jwu_RdQw">Gruff Rhys - Celestial Candyfloss</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE0-sgbAnoQ">HONESTY - TUNE IN TUNE OUT</a><br>
<a href="https://joyzine.bandcamp.com/track/do-it-yourself">I, Doris - Do It Yourself</a><br>
<a href="https://joyzine.bandcamp.com/track/hoping-for-a-miracle">Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something - Hoping For a Miracle</A><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr81T8-mhjk">Keg - Quip Quash</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqL4OvMU4lQ">ME REX - Infinity Worm</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82sm6baB-s">The Mountain Goats - Murder At The 18th St. Garage</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6xJ2FEMiRU">O. - Slice</a><br>
<a href="https://thepopguns.bandcamp.com/track/caesar">The Popguns - Caesar</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnAW2xbSI38">Popular Music - Sad Songs</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP9kh_F3F54">TORRES - Collect</a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-83120547187812574902023-09-26T09:00:00.001+01:002023-09-26T09:00:00.251+01:00Dancer - LoveWe came across Glasgow sort-of-supergroup Dancer <a href="https://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2023/02/dancer-arch-nemesis.html">back in February</A> when we were highly impressed by their awkward groove take on sprechgesang norms, since when we've seen them live - and so can you in October as they're playing London, Southend, Nottingham and Oxford with math instrumentalists Theresa Kelly and Dry Cleaning busman's holidaying fingerpicker TD - and accepted that they have magnetically on-point art-post-punkish expressiveness up the wazoo. And so it further seems with news of a second EP, <b><a href="https://goldmoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/as-well">As Well</a></b>, on 13th October. The Life Without Buildings comparisons have been more than done already but it's most apparent in the way the constituent parts of Love play off each other and almost sprawl outwards in their own adroit while still nervy pace. Good to hear Gemma Fleet is still carefully pre-announcing the tracks too.<br><br>
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<b>ALSO WORTH YOUR ATTENTION:</b><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsmFncUAPeM">Fazerdaze - Bigger</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBPtWwr-fs">Lynks - NEW BOYFRIEND</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQZmR62rjY">Office Dog - Big Air</a><br>
<a href="https://theserfsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/electric-like-an-eel">The Serfs - Electric Like An Eel</a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-46801762366271411302023-09-22T09:00:00.002+01:002023-09-22T11:31:33.499+01:00Get Wrong - It's So EasyYeah, funnily enough the Martha/Spook School collaboration has been fast-tracked into full blog honours, why do you ask? Yes, Adam Todd has returned from the moon in advance of the rest of the band's upcoming tenth anniversary dates, landed in Durham and united with four stringer Naomi Griffin for a <b><a href="https://getwrong.bandcamp.com/">self-titled EP</A></b> to be released on 1st December through reliable old Alcopop! in the UK. Just to make sure we'd really love it it's produced, recorded, and mixed by Field Music's Peter Brewis, with David on mastering duty. And after all that... actually it's not what you may expect, as the pair decided to swerve their well known backgrounds and embrace their love of 80s synthpop (yeah, we know that's not exactly breaking new ground, but keep going) and current pop tropes, producing in its lead track something infectious that pulses and drones like dreampop while finding a new speck of space on the crowded neon dancefloor, while lyrically touching on areas both bands have approached, expressing love and affection through the joy, nostalgia and opportunity in the everyday. It's the most likeable retro-futurist electro track we've heard in a good while, and also features the lyric "you eat crisps louder than anyone I've ever encountered".<br><br>
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<b>ALSO WORTH YOUR ATTENTION:</b><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cne81F3fxDo">bar italia - my little tony</a><br>
<a href="https://crumbtheband.bandcamp.com/track/le-temple-volant">Crumb & Melody's Echo Chamber - Le Temple Volant</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4C1fjm-LU">The David Tattersall Group - Bright Moon</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgbNTYFOGUA">Emma Anderson - Clusters</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqvp9gbR9fQ">Spearmint - Prince And Joni</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLeCIRC4taY">Sufjan Stevens – Will Anybody Ever Love Me?</a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-45638853201236664162023-09-15T12:00:00.001+01:002023-09-15T12:00:00.156+01:00Mclusky - unpopular parts of a pig/the digger you deepFeels like this bit is unnecessary, but here goes. Having reformed, after a fashion given two thirds of them were serving in Future Of The Left in between, in 2014 this is the first new Mclusky material in nineteen years, <b><a href="https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/album/unpopular-parts-of-a-pig-the-digger-you-deep">a four track double A-side/EP/something</A></b> released to fund a US tour with a full album promised for next year. And... it sounds like Mclusky. Which is to say it thunders like a bastard thrashing its way to the centre of the earth and Falco's lyrics are still far clear of everyone else's in their blast range.<br><br>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-56835937187538845552023-09-13T09:00:00.007+01:002023-09-13T09:00:00.142+01:00Chemtrails - Business Class War PaintConcentrating readers and STN Presents... supporters will know how much everything Mia, Laura and the rest do has excited us across two albums of full-on hook-laden acid-psych-garage. Having made their first two albums in their living room and since the last moved to Manchester the third, due early in 2024, was entrusted to Margo Broom, whose credits include both Big Joanie albums and Fat White Family's Songs For Our Mothers among a general selection of cussed noisemongers. It's a good sideways shift too, toned down maybe half a notch as they find a peppy groove to complement the askew melody and ever present creeping existential dread, throwing in a girl group vocal breakdown to complement the harmonies because they can. If you're in or near Manchester, Nottingham, Worcester, London or Sheffield they're <a href="https://twitter.com/chemtrails_band/status/1688525863174668288">on their way to you</A> in the first half of next month.<br><br>
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<b>ALSO WORTH YOUR ATTENTION:</b><br>
<a href="https://t-v-a-m.bandcamp.com/album/costasol-single">TVAM - Costasol</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nki2Vq6dnyk">Slate - St Agatha</a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-53849038502584836652023-09-12T09:00:00.002+01:002023-09-12T09:00:00.145+01:00ME REX - Giant Giant GiantAfter seven EPs and that one album they did comprising 52 song snippets that could be played in any order (Megabear), indie-post-emo titans and headliners of this year's Leicester Indiepop Alldayer* ME REX are finally becoming an album band as of October 20th, which is when Giant Elk is released. Its second single typically sets Myles McCabe's tumbling fountain of ideas and self-examination against similarly post-Los Campesinos! anxious build and release into an impassioned chorus.<br><br>
(* <b><a href="https://www.wegottickets.com/event/590788">tickets available for 2024 now! Now! Now!</A></b> Lineup to follow in a few weeks, and if all goes well with putting it together we're surer than ever it'll sell out double quick)<br><br>
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<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3130722031/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3595172612/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://merex.bandcamp.com/album/giant-elk">Giant Elk by ME REX</a></iframe><br><br><br>
<b>ALSO WORTH YOUR ATTENTION:</b><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbE3-oXO1ns">Grrrl Gang - Better Than Life</a><br>
<a href="https://graveface.bandcamp.com/track/walk-among-the-dead">HALEY - Walk Among The Dead</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKoYz9YKoWk">HMS Morris - Balls</a><br>
<a href="https://laelneale.bandcamp.com/track/ill-be-your-star">Lael Neale - I'll Be Your Star</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzRurdUUwKI">Laurence-Anne - Vitesse</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWixZHlYROY">Melin Melyn - I Paint Dogs</a><br>
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/muriel-sc/lavender-by-the-frames">Muriel - Lavender By The Frames</a><br>
<a href="https://problempatterns.bandcamp.com/track/poverty-tourist">Problem Patterns - Poverty Tourist </a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRqoq3gcOo">Swansea Sound - Twentieth Century</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfXD4BoGrn8">University - Notre Dame Made Out Of Flesh</a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-42660755052890757002023-08-29T17:00:00.006+01:002023-08-29T17:00:00.144+01:00Away for the summer?Yeah, we've let things lapse a little. As an apology of musical sorts, here's a 40-strong playlist of (probably) everything we'd have featured since our last post on July 3rd:<br><br>
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(While we've got Spotify open, the <a href="https://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2023/06/unglamorous-sampler-velvet-crisis.html">Unglamorous Sampler</A> is <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/74WOYQqWj4ZYlCeRbPRDma?si=lx6vl6Z9SciZw-KqkWLdDw">on there now</A>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-85983893388108801592023-07-03T09:00:00.005+01:002023-07-03T09:00:00.145+01:00Corinne Bailey Rae - New York Transit QueenSo we were casually looking at Spotify's punk playlist the other day and noticed it included a new track by Corinne Bailey Rae, the Leeds neo-soul singer who nearly became about as big as any British soul talent could. Weird algorithm glitch, right? Well... before falling into the local soul scene and being spotted she was in a band called Helen, which she has said was inspired by Veruca Salt and L7 and nearly got signed to Roadrunner Records, and covered Belly's Low Red Moon on her 2011 covers EP The Love. Her forthcoming fourth album, Black Rainbows, her first in seven years (out September 15th), is inspired by the archive of the Chicago installation artist and Black urban communities specialist Theaster Gates and seems like it will be a genre hopping exercise using her usual sound as a springboard. New York Transit Queen, taking after Thelma Potter, who in 1947 became the first African-American to win the Miss Subways competition in NYC, is sub-two minutes of handclaps, vocal cadence like a schoolyard chant and a big hook riff, all like something that might have been heard in a subterranean dive in Portland or Olympia, Washington around 1990, or indeed the Highbury Garage around 1997 (see posts passim). I
f this ends up as a one-off stylistically it's a spectacular one.<br><br>
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<b>ALSO WORTH YOUR ATTENTION:</b><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwReCTWEotU">Blur - St Charles Square</a><br>
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/furrowedbrow/outdoors-man">Furrowed Brow - Outdoors Man</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-hRc51pvPc">Das Koolies - A Ride</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mnpozymMM">Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam - Apocalypse</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZdGb2YnWUw">LYR - Paradise Lost</a><br>
<a href="https://goodnewssheffield.bandcamp.com/track/kishki-2">Good News - Kishki</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoFvxEAHZDo">DAAY – Top Heavy</a><br>
<a href="https://rachaellavelle.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-unlock-your-full-potential">Rachael Lavelle - Let Me Unlock Your Full Potential</a><br>
<a href="https://tripsandfalls.bandcamp.com/track/wandering-thoughts">Trips And Falls - Wandering Thoughts</a><br>
<a href="https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/skewed-view">The Hazmats - Skewed View</a><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0