Taken from thr second album by Girlatones, “Horn if You’re Honky”, out March 20 on Lost & Lonesome and Meritorio Records. Starting out as a songwriting vehicle for multi-instrumentalist Jesse Wiliams, Girlatones soon grew with the addition of folk singer-songwriter Leah Senior, followed by the rhythm section of Tam Matlakowski and Fabian Hunter Shaw whose…
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[video of the week] Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq – Safe Within Your Arms
Taken from “The Indestructibility Of The Already Felled”, out January 31st 2020 via Schole Records. A singer/guitarist Chris Hooson’s project Dakota Suite and a pianist/composer Quentin Sirjacq will be releasing their new collaboration album on January 31st. This album was recorded during their second ‘dakota suite & quentin sirjacq’ Japan tour in 2017. A well-balanced…
[video of the week] Løzninger + Kitowski – Blackhole
Voice/lyrics: Jessica Kitowski Music/production: Benjamin Løzninger Images from “UFO Target Earth” by Michael A. DeGaetano [1974] + “DEAD PEOPLE” by Willard Huyck [1973] Benjamin Løzninger likes to cover his tracks: Brooklyn-based, born in Toronto, he’s been adopted by France where his family brought him up in a artistic twirl. Løzninger was launched between France and…
[video of the week] KERA – Vitamin T (Demo)
LA’s KERA (fka Kera & The Lesbians) have signed with the purveyors of exceptional songcraft at Mama Bird Recording Co. Earlier this year, KERA released a single with Devendra Banhart, “Bright Future Ahead”, in support of TransLifeline, which was featured at Pitchfork and SPIN. They’ve returned today with the video for the spaced out, doo-wop…
[video of the week] Alex Chilltown – Carry On
“Carry On” is taken from Alex Chilltown’s debut album “Eulogies”, their fully realised debut album, via Fear of Missing Out Records (Tallies, Yohuna, Basement Revolver) on 24 January 2020. A pun on Bigstar’s Alex Chilton, Chilltown is the project of London’s Josh Esaw alongside friends and collaborators. The line-up of the band, which is often…
[video of the week] Sean Aston MacTaggart – Every Little Brunette
Takem from Sean Aston MacTaggart’s new record “Love You Always”. A fair-weather love – someone who’s come and gone through the years. For me, that person returned to my life four years ago, time began again, and my forthcoming new record was born. Love You Always is a collection of six acoustic tracks which I…
[video of the week] Grasscourt – Sense To Me
Taken from the final Grasscourt release, “Connect Part Three” – released digitally via Lost Map Records. Tom Percival and Matthew Lacey are Grasscourt, a Stroud based band formed in an attic. https://www.facebook.com/grasscourtband
[video of the week] Hanging Valleys – The Shining Mountain
Taken from “Behind The Backs Of Houses”, new album by Hanging Valleys out February 28th, 2020 via Pedro Y El Lobo. Directed by French photographer, Corentin Schieb, the idea for the video was to have a formless visual instead of a narrative. The result is a collage of images, textures and rhythms, put together in…
[video of the week] Paul Mosley and the Red Meat Orchestra – The 1970s
Taken form the album “You’re Going To Die!”, out on Red Crow Collective. Video shot and edited and directed by Alec Bowman. Riding high after his ground breaking folk opera ‘The Butcher’ Mosley’s plans for the follow up faltered when his personal life unexpectedly had to take priority for a year. Now he returns with…
[video of the week] Tindersticks – Pinky In The Daylight
Taken from the new album ’No Treasure But Hope’ released Nov 15th on City Slang. Directed by stuart A. staples Cinematography and colour grading by Paul Guilhaume Edited by Sandie Bompar Art direction by Suzanne Osborne hree years since their last album proper, singer Stuart Staples decided Tindersticks’ return called for something special and No…
[video of the week] Jessica Risker – The Waves
“The Waves is a sort of conversation with my self; more specifically, my inner state, of which I’ve long been at the mercy of high-highs and low-lows, but perhaps more recently leveled out, and recognizing the positive effects of this sort of inner stabilization.” – Jessica Risker Jessica Risker, a musician and sound designer since…
[video of the week] Aoife Nessa Frances – Blow Up
Taken from the album “Land of No Junction”, released January 2020 via Basin Rock. Video directed by Anna McCarthy On the eponymously titled final song of her debut album Land of No Junction, Irish songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances (pronounced Ee-fa) sings “Take me to the land of no junction/Before it fades away/Where the roads can…
[video of the week] Emily Jane White – Washed Away
Taken from the album “Immanent Fire”, out November 15th via Talitres. Filmed by Kristin Cofer, edited by Amber Beaton Written over a two year period, Emily Jane White‘s sixth album “Immanent Fire” recognizes our moment at the precipice of species annihilation, as she guides her listener through the feeling of life on a planet at…
[video of the week] Very Good – Falling Dreams
Track taken from the album “Adulthood”, out October 11th. Sean Cronin is hardly the first to find himself asking these questions in that oh-so treacherous period between adolescence and becoming an adult in more than just age alone. With Adulthood, the third album from his project Very Good, Cronin traces that progression from a startlingly…
[video of the week] Josienne Clarke – If I Didn’t Mind
Taken from Josienne Clarke’s forthcoming solo album “In All Weather”, out 8th November 2019 via Rough Trade. “In All Weather” is a new collection of songs, in which she goes it alone; musically, as this is her first solo record, and in her own life, laid bare and played out in the leave-it-all-behind-and-start-anew nature of…
[video of the week] Victoria Hume – Desert
Taken from the forthcoming PostMap Club postcard release: ‘Desert’ b/w ‘If I Had A Sword’, released 27th September 2019 via Lost Map Records. Continuing a run of stand-alone singles, Lost Map Records are delighted to announce more new music from English singer-songwriter Victoria Hume. ‘Desert’ and ‘If I Had A Sword’ will be released as…
[video of the week] Will Samson – Ochre Alps
Will Samson has announced details of his fifth album, “Paralanguage”, his first for Wichita Recordings, which will be released December 6th and is available to preorder here. Samson has shared a striking video for the album’s first single “Ochre Alps”, directed by Lily Marks and Eren Kaplan. “Paralanguage” was inspired by Samson’s first – and…
[video of the week] Lankum – The Wild Rover
Taken from Lankum’s new album ‘The Livelong Day’, out 25th October on Rough Trade Records. A very different interpretation to that which is well known, “this particular version of The Wild Rover was first heard from the singing of Dónal Maguire, who in turn got it from fellow Drogheda man Pat Usher, and the recording…
[video of the week] Michael A. Muller – Fixed Shadow
Balmorhea‘s Michael A. Muller announces debut solo album ‘Lower River’, shares track “Fixed Shadow” w/ video starring Marc Menchaca; ‘Lower River’, released on October 25th, 2019 by Beacon sound and 1631 Recordings. Conceptually, Lower River explores the place where time, space, and self are occluded — a field of pure energy and creation similar to…
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