“La Joya” is the new single by Aukai, released in anticipation of his upcoming “Reminiscence” E.P. – a collection of 10 short cinematic pieces written parallel to his latest album “Branches Of Sun“. “Reminiscence” will drop January 18th 2019. Aukai was born of composer/instrumentalist Markus Sieber’s desire to create music that could work in tandem…
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[video of the week] James Yorkston – My Mouth Ain’t No Bible
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTyaBxYwUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTyaBxYwUw%5D James Yorkston will release his new album “The Route to the Harmonium” on Feb 22nd 2019; produced by Yorkston and David Wrench, it is James’ first solo record since 2014’s “Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society” and follows the two collaborative albums he made as one third of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan as well as the release…
[video of the week] Hammock – We Watched You Disappear
Third single from the upcoming album “Universalis”, out December 7th 2018 via Hammock Music. “Universalis” is the second installment of a planned three-album series that began last year with “Mysterium“. While “Mysterium” took listeners down a horizontal path that explored themes of death and grief, “Universalis” begins a vertical movement back toward the light. http://www.hammockmusic.com/
[video of the week] Seamus Fogarty – The Old Suit
“The Old Suit”, the title track of the new EP out now on Domino Record Co. Seamus Fogarty grew up in Co Mayo in the west of Ireland and spent his early years writing songs about mountains that steal t-shirts, women who look like dinosaurs and various other unfortunate incidents. Now based in London, he…
[video of the week] Neighborhood Of Make Believe – Track Names
Official Music Video For “Track Names” by Neighborhood of Make Believe. Taken from the debut album “Two Nighttimes”, out November 12th on Five Kill Records. “Two Nighttimes” is the sprawling debut album from Neighborhood of Make Believe, which features the songs of Alex Muro – head of the B3nson Recording Company, which is one of…
[video of the week] Jessica Pratt – This Time Around
Jessica Pratt is not a loud performer. She does not have to be. In a club of a few hundred, even the bar staff are known to go quiet while she’s on stage. Her third, forthcoming album, “Quiet Signs”, feels like a distillation of this power. The album leads off with “Opening Night,” a nod…
[video of the week] Illuminine – Fright (ft. Hannah Corinne)
Flemish composer Kevin Imbrechts, the artist at the helm of Illuminine, deftly blends neo-classical with post-rock influences. “Fright” is the fourth and last single release off the upcoming album “#3” (release: Nov 2nd) and features Hannah Corinne, an American singer living in Iceland, whose voice reminds of the young Hope Sandoval. The wonderful new music…
[video of the week] Aby Vulliamy – This Precious Time
Taken from the album “Spin Cycle”; video made by Yan Wang. “I find it tedious that, in music, we usually only see one type of love represented,” says Yorkshire composer, musician and music therapist Aby Vulliamy. “I’m not interested in writing about that.” Spin Cycle, Vulliamy’s debut album, is indeed an album about love: love…
[video of the week] Sara Forslund – Hard
Taken from Sara Forslund’s new album, “Summer is like a swallow”, out 9th of November on LP and digital platforms via Kaip Records. Sara Forslund (1981) was born in a small village called Borgvattnet in the northern part of Sweden. Borgvattnet is known for its haunted vicarage. At that time, Sara’s father Tore Forslund was…
[video of the week] J Mascis – See You At The Movies
Taken from “Elastic Days” (Release Date: November 9th 2018 via Sub Pop Records). Near the end of Reagan’s first term, the Western Massachusetts Hardcore scene coughed up an insanely shaped chunk called Dinosaur. Comprised of WMHC vets, the trio was a miasmic tornado of guitar noise, bad attitude and near-subliminal pop-based-shape-shifting. Through their existence, Dinosaur…
[video of the week] Endless Melancholy – You and Me (feat. BILYK)
New track by Endless Melancholy & BILYK. Video Directed by Roman Hense Endless Melancholy is a music project of Oleksiy Sakevych from Kyiv, Ukraine, started in November 2011. https://www.facebook.com/emelancholy https://www.facebook.com/BilykMusic/
[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,…
[video of the week] Botschaft – Sozialisiert in der BRD
“Botschaft” the name of the band has two meanings in the german language, it could be “the embassy” or just a “message”. Botschaft is a bandproject from Hamburg and Berlin with members of The Robocop Kraus, Station 17 and Tusq. Their 2nd 7″-Single A: “Sozialisiert in der BRD” B: “Daseinszweck” (KUS 017) is brilliant sophisticated…
[video of the week] We Are The Northern Lights – Where Your Heart Is
Official Music Video for “Where Your Heart Is” by We Are The Northern Lights. We Are The Northern Lights are an indie pop folk band from New York City comprised of songwriters Hadar Orshalimy and Sheldon Low. “They say lightning never strikes the same place twice…” unless, of course, you are We Are The Northern…
[video of the week] Juanita Stein – All The Way
Juanita Stein, the Howling Bells frontwoman turned solo artist, releases her brand new album, Until The Lights Fade, on Nude Records on 31st August. Stein, who has recently completed tour dates with The Killers and Bryan Ferry, as well as festival shows including Latitude and Green Man, has just announced a London headline show on…
[video of the week] Soap&Skin – Heal
“Heal” is taken from the new album by Soap&Skin, “From Gas to Solid / you are my friend”, out 26th October 2018. From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend is the third album from the woman known as Soap and Skin, and Anja’s first in six years. There are reasons for her retreat,…
[video of the week] Tiny Ruins – How Much
“How Much” is the first single from Tiny Ruins album No.3. Video credits: Director & Editor: Charlotte Evans Creative Producer: Evie Mackay DOP: Bill Bycroft Filmed on location: Titirangi, Auckland Tiny Ruins are a band based in Auckland, New Zealand. Conceived in 2009 by songwriter Hollie Fullbrook to describe her solo output, the group now…
[video of the week] G Y D A – Moonchild
The Icelandic solo musician and master collaborator Gyða Valtýsdóttir, whose album of reworked classical compositions ‘Epicycle’ met with great acclaim upon its formal release in 2017, has unveiled a video for “Moonchild,” directed by Rebekka Rafnsdottir. It’s her first original solo work to be released under the new project name G Y D A, and…
[video of the week] The Goon Sax – Make Time 4 Love
Taken from the fothcoming album, “We’re Not Talking” (out Sep 14 on LP, CD and digital) via Wichita Recordings and Chapter Music (Aus/NZ). “Make Time 4 Love” is the thrilling new single from Australian teen trio The Goon Sax, which is taken from their forthcoming album We’re Not Talking, due out on Wichita on 14…
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