CROSS RECORD – Cross Record (Ba Da Bing!, 2019)* Estremamente interessante e per certi versi sorprendente è il percorso che ha condotto Emily Cross dall’introspettiva dimensione “da cameretta” al suo terzo album sotto l’alias Cross Record, attraverso la condivisione del precedente “Wabi-Sabi” (2017) e il progetto Loma, che la vede accanto a Jonathan Meiburg degli…
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memories: THE NOISE MADE BY PEOPLE
BROADCAST – The Noise Made By People (Warp, 2000) Quando i Broadcast si affacciarono per la prima volta a un pubblico indipendente più vasto rispetto a quello dei sotterranei club della loro Birmingham, la comparazione con gli Stereolab è stata praticamente inevitabile. Affini potevano infatti considerarsi il gusto per il modernariato analogico e per la…
[streaming] Carla dal Forno – Took A Long Time
Carla dal Forno‘s “Took a Long Time” taken from a forthcoming LP release ‘Look Up Sharp’ out October 4th on Kallista Records. Carla dal Forno announces her second full-length album, Look Up Sharp, on her own Kallista Records. The London-based artist enters a new era in her peerless output pushing her dub-damaged DIY dispatches to…
[streaming] Sparrows – Gold In The Tide (ft. Fazerdaze)
Opening track from “Gold In The Tide”, out today via Flau Records. With its propellant organic beat and light, galloping guitar strums, the kinetic ‘Gold In The Tide’ fits the theme of travel that so often underpins the work of Sparrows (aka Ryota Miyake, component of electro-meisters Crystal). vMinor key guitar melodies summon the mystery…
[streaming] Junkboy – Waiting Room
New single by Junkboy, in anticipation of the album “Trains Trees Topophilia”, released on Fretsore Records August 2nd 2019. Junkboy are brothers Rich and Mik Hanscomb, the group originated from Southend-on-Sea in the late nineties. Their music has encompassed different genres over time from space rock to post rock, and now a more song based…
[streaming] Madder Rose – I Lost The War
Madder Rose return after 20 years with their fifth studio album, “To Be Beautiful”, that will be released August 10th via Trome Records. Madder Rose are Billy Cote, Mary Lorson, Rick Kubic, Matt Verta-Ray and Chris Giammalvo. Formed in 1991 in Greenwich Village, New York, they quickly became a prominent addition to the vibrant 90’s…
[streaming] a. harlana – If I’m A Bird
New single by a. harlana. a. harlana, formerly know as Ada Belle, is the recording project of Juno Roome, creating music/film and various other artforms. “(party music for philosophers or philosopher-wannabes.)” https://aharlana.com/
[streaming] Soften – Iridescent
Taken from “Soften Forever” E.P., released June 14, 2019. The Cincinnati Shoegaze band returns with a collection of songs that roil and break like the sun through dense clouds. This sense of newfound purpose is encapsulated in the album title Soften Forever – which reads as a statement of commitment to one another after seeing…
LIVING HOUR – Softer Faces (Self Released, 2019) La raccolta di cover pubblicata lo scorso anno (“Lovely, Lonely: A Collection Of Covers For Hollow Hearts”) non era stata un mero esercizio stilistico, bensì un già significativo segnale di cambiamento, connesso a una prospettiva creativa più adulta e ponderata rispetto alla nostalgica e travolgente freschezza tra…
[video of the week] Donna Blue – Get Away
Dutch vintage pop band Donna Blue released brand new single ‘Get Away’, accompanied by a beautiful and hypnotizing video. After releasing their first 7 inch EP that included ‘Sunset Blvd’ which was played by none other than Elton John in his Rocket Hour radio show on Apple Music, and single ‘1 2 3’, it’s finally…
HIDDEN LAND – Perspectives (Volkoren, 2019) C’è stato un tempo, nemmeno troppo lontano, nel quale erano parecchio diffuse le ambientazioni vaporose e sognanti di canzoni dai contorni dal fascino indefinito, sulla scia di band quali Sigur Rós o The White Birch. Era la risposta, eterea e delicata, al vigore delle chitarre roboanti, di un “rock”…
[streaming] Shana Cleveland – Face of the Sun
“Face of the Sun” is the first single from “Night of the Worm Moo”n, the new solo full-length from La Luz singer/guitarist Shana Cleveland, out April 5th via Hardly Art. Shana Cleveland has been beguiling listeners for years in her role as the superlative frontwoman for elastic surf rockers La Luz. Now Cleveland is evolving…
CAOILFHIONN ROSE – Awaken (Gondwana, 2018) Visto che lei stessa lo esplicita in tutte le presentazioni che fa di sé in rete, non è probabilmente superfluo precisare in premessa che il suo nome Caoilfhionn si pronuncia “Keelin”. È originaria di Manchester, città della quale ha frequentato la poliedrica scena musicale, collaborando tra l’altro anche con…
DANIEL LAND – The Dream Of The Red Sails (Hinney Beast, 2019)* Il vissuto personale di Daniel Land e le ormai numerose stagioni artistiche da lui attraversate continuano a intrecciarsi nei dischi solisti della sua maturità, giunti al quarto capitolo dopo l’abbandono dei Modern Painters. Le canzoni di “The Dream Of The Red Sails” nascono…
[streaming] Hidden Land – Remind Me
Taken from Hidden Land’s debut album “Perspectives”, out January 2019 via Volkoren. Hidden Land is a California/Stockholm band formed in a Los Angeles garage in 2016 after years talking about collaborating on a musical project. “What is possibly the most striking thing about Hidden Land’s music is the conversation it achieves. Myles O’Mainnian from California…
[streaming] Living Hour – Bottom Step
“Bottom Step” is the first track out of the upcoming album “Softer Faces”, out March 1st, 2019 via Kanine Records. Everything about Winnipeg’s Living Hour has been expanding since their humble basement beginnings in 2015. What started with dreamy love songs inspired by the cinematic sky of their hometown has transformed into even more sprawling…
SAME WAVES – Algorithm Of Desire (Flau, 2018) Mutano la formula e la denominazione, non i protagonisti: a poche settimane dal vaporoso immaginario ambientale condensato nel loro debutto sotto la sigla Hibernis, John Hughes e Lindsay Anderson si ripresentano sotto le ben diverse vesti di Same Waves. Oltre alle loro variegate personalità artistiche, i punti…
THE WHIP HAND – Sometimes, We Are (Mia Cameretta / Lady Sometimes, 2018) Sotto i muri di suono e distorsioni, cova spesso una vena pop trasognata e sottilmente malinconia. A non smentire simile assunto, provvede da ultimo il quartetto pugliese The Whip Hand, che nel proprio terzo album “Sometimes, We Are” disvela compiutamente un’indole mai…
[video of the week] The Last Detail – Fun Fair
Here’s a preview from The Last Detail’s selft titled album, to be released in November. Erin Moran (A Girl Called Eddy) and Mehdi Zannad (Fugu) have made an album together, which is going to be released on Elefant Records. “Fun Fair” is a delicious song full of romanticism, that evokes the delicacy of Françoise Hardy,…
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