Taken from the album “Solo Piano”, released on the 14th of February 2020 via Snowstar Records. Ella van der Woude is a Swiss-Dutch, Amsterdam-based musician, songwriter and composer. A versatile artist who scores movies, performs in bands and immerses herself in a number of projects. In 2016, Van der Woude produced a dream pop/triphop EP…
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[streaming] Northwest – The Day
Taken from the second Northwest album, out now and available as free/name your price download via https://thisisnorthwest.bandcamp.com/album/ii. Northwest are an experimental-pop duo based in London, formed by spanish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Ignacio Simón and visual artist, producer and singer Mariuca García-Lomas. Their music explores different genres, from contemporary classical music and avant-garde electronica to…
[streaming] Wednesday – Fate Is…
Taken from “I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone”, releases February 7th 2020 via Orindal Records. “I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone” is Wednesday’s second full-length album & first as a full band. The Asheville, NC quintet (guitarist/vocalist Karly Hartzman, lead guitarist Daniel Gorham, pedal steel guitarist Xandy Chelmis, bassist Margo Schultz…
[streaming] Jim Wallis – Return Train
Taken from “Europa”, Jim Wallis’ (Modern Nature/Still Corners) debut album, out on Tip Top Recordings, January 31st 2020. A newcomer to the post-classical and ambient worlds, yet fully formed as he arrives, Jim Wallis is no stranger to embracing musical crossover. A drummer in critically lauded indie bands Modern Nature (members of Ultimate Painting /…
[streaming] Dropkick – Feeling Never Goes Away
Taken from “The Scenic Route”, releases February 7 2020 via Bobo Integral. Dropkick are a power-jangle-pop group from Edinburgh, Scotland. I dare to say that they are one of the most reliable bands in the United Kingdom: they have an impeccable track record full of accurate and precious 2 or 3 minute songs that belong…
[streaming] Squirrel Flower – Headlights
Squirrel Flower – the moniker of Ella O’Connor Williams – announces I Was Born Swimming, her debut album, out January 31st on Full Time Hobby (Polyvinyl in the US). The album’s title was inspired by Williams’ birth on August 11th 1996 – the hottest day of the year – born still inside a translucent caul…
[streaming] Fassine – Limbs
New single by Fassine, just out on Trapped Animal Records & Cargo Records. Cinematic pop creators Fassine return with ‘Limbs’, a typically dramatic and chaotic single that sees the London trio chart heavier, more aggressive waters. With previous acclaim and support from the likes of The Guardian, The Independent, Giles Peterson, Clashand more, Fassine bring…
[streaming] Lists – In The Breeze
Taken from “EP 2”, out December 13th. Lists is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Edinburgh. https://listsmusic.com/
[streaming] Rebecca Foon – Dreams To Be Born
Taken from “Waxing Moon”, out 21 February 2020 on Constellation Records. Rebecca Foon, the composer and musician behind Saltland and Esmerine (and former longstanding member of Silver Mt. Zion) presents a new album entitled Waxing Moon. While best known as an incomparable cellist crafting textural soundscapes and instrumental chamber-rock in the aforementioned projects (and more…
[streaming] Hanya – Dream Wife
New track from Hanya, in anticipation of their E.P. “Lobotany”, out 7 February 2020 via Alcopop! Records. Hanya is an indie-pop shoegazing four piece from Brighton, fronted by Heather Sheret powerful vocals. https://www.facebook.com/hanyauk
[streaming] Laura Masotto – Our House Is On Fire
An urgency, an intimate explosion. The new single by Laura Masotto – out digitally November 29th via Lady Blunt Records – was inspired by the recent climatic situation giving voice to one of the most direct, essential truths: “Our House is on Fire”. Our house burns, like our certainties. Her violin translates both the human…
[streaming] Fair Mothers – Rainfall, Canada
Taken from “Separate Lives”, releases February 14th 2020 via Song, By Toad. Fair Mothers: “We got the core of all those songs in just the one afternoon on my accoustic, but it was cold that Spring and I kept gravitating over to this squeaky old black piano next to the stove, which relaxed me and…
[streaming] American Grandma – Playboy
Taken from “Superdog”, out December 6th via Obsolete Media Objects. Denver trio American Grandma returns with a full-length collection of stately and forlorn slowcore songs that encapsulate an exciting and exhausting transition for the band. Formed by guitarist and vocalist Jensen Keller while in College, American Grandma are cut from the same cloth as bands…
[streaming] Math and Physics Club – Indian Ocean
Taken from the 2-track ‘Indian Ocean’ 7″ single, out December 12th via Matinée Recordings. The final single from Math and Physics Club is a bittersweet but fitting coda for a band that has always worn its heart on its sleeve. It’s also a posthumous tribute to guitarist and co-founder James Werle, who passed away last…
[streaming] Cody Noon – Amethyst Reign
“Amethyst Reign” is the opening track of “Ace of Wands”, out November 23rd 2019 via Oscarson. Cody Noon are an instrumental duo from Reading, UK. They sit at the crossroads emo, slowcore, classical quite/LOUD post rock and atmospheric electronic music (like Mogwai, Slint or Yo La Tengo). On ‘Ace of Wands’, the band have broadened…
[streaming] The New Mourning – Who’d Stop The Sun
The New Mourning is a new band project by the austrian musician & producer Thomas Pronai. “Who’d Stop The Sun” is the A side and title track of an Indie-/Psych Pop 7″ recorded in London with James Hoare (Ultimate Painting/The Proper Ornaments/Veronica Falls) and Pete Astor (The Loft/The Weather Prophets) on slide guitar. Out now…
[streaming] Good Good Blood – Say Goodbye
Taken from “At Your Mercy” by Good Good Blood, to be released January 24th 2020 via Team Love Records. Good Good Blood is James Smith: husband, father, singer, songwriter, and founder of Fox Food Records, who’s been releasing music by himself and others on his label Fox Food Records. His gift for delicate songwriting is…
[streaming] Withered Hand – No Cigarettes
Taken from “Ten Years” E.P., out December 20, 2019. Dan Willson, aka Withered Hand, releases four string-backed re-recordings of tunes from his first album, Good News, on London labels wiaiwya and Fika Recordings The Springsteen of self-deprecation celebrates the tenth anniversary of his debut long player by re-working four of the album’s finest tunes. They…
[streaming] Hamerkop – We Can Wing
Hamerkop is a pair of Baltimore-based sound nerds: Annabel Alpers, the composer, singer and instrumentalist formerly of New Zealand’s Bachelorette, and Adam Cooke, a Baltimorean drummer/ audio engineer with credits that include Beach House, Wye Oak and Future Islands. Together, they have created a song-cycle that contrasts the often-mundane (yet often satisfying) everyday world with…
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