EFÉ - 2000SEVEN
Some of the most unimaginative music of recent times has been made by "genreless" "pop-punk"/"shoegaze revival" "bedroom pop" artists, so one might well see that Dublin-based Anita Ikharo has supported both JPEGMAFIA and DIIV, observe the none more Borrowed Nostalgia For The Unremembered Nineties guitar tone and run for their lives. Luckily EFÉ is far more than that, lurching from chiming tentative emotional scene setting into fuzzy power chords without losing the essential hopeful apprehension.
Fat Dog - Wither
There's only nine tracks on Woof, out September 6th, are they going to release all of them in advance? The fifth single is pretty much what you've already come to expect, this one, in terms of electro-punk, industrial techno, gnomic shouting and explosiveness made for the circle pit.
Jopy - Graveyard Romance
The Brighton trio's second single from debut EP Planet Zombie, out September 20th, fits that title all too well. Anyone who remembers the B-movie goth garage of the lost mid-00s band Zombina & the Skeletones would be well advised to give it a go, leader Jo Parnell transcribing "accepting one's own trans-identity as a story about ghosts finding true happiness" through hooky horror-camp with a guitar riff straight out of Ricky Wilson of the B-52s' playbook.
Kim Deal - Coast
Her first fully available solo single, recorded by Steve Albini with Kelley backing, dotted with mariachi brass and the melody of Sunday Girl filtered through her band (either of them)'s more becalmed surf-adjacent moments.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Ode To Clio
This moment's big new Windmill thing - Fat Dog were the last moment, keep up - the pocket orchestra have signed to Fat Possum for an EP, Eazy Peazy, in the far-off space year of November 8th. Black Country, New Road comparisons are there if you want them in their build and expansiveness but they still feel like their own thing, as witnessed in the way this is for the first half all heart-holding-on silky vocals and contemplative strings and piano before the nasty stuff bursts right through the middle two minutes in and the strings are there to provide some balance to the furious rush.
Maria Uzor - What U Need
A standalone single by the Norwich electro-avant-pop auteurette containing and about containing multitudes, beats pumping and fading back where required.
New Starts - A Little Stone
He likely wouldn't thank us for this but this is the most like Hefner that Darren Hayman has sounded... well, the temptation to say "since Hefner" is strong given its bottom line of that band's Jonathan Richman slacker jangle, if one dipped in power-pop and Joely Smith (Fresh, adults) playing against type.
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