Damien Jurado – “Over Rainbows and Rainier” from “The Horizon Just Laughed”, out May 4th, 2018 on Secretly Canadian Directed by Jordan Halland Cinematography by Jordan Halland, Trevor Groth Like previous albums, “The Horizon Just Laughed” started with a dream – though that’s where things change, as they often do. It is Damien Jurado’s first…
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[video of the week] Connected View – Dark Dogs
“Dark Dogs” is the brooding first single taken from Connected View’s forthcoming album Chun Pop. The album will see release on the 21st of March 2018. The track is accompanied by a wonderful music video by Australian video artist and Hidden Shoal honcho Cam Merton The on-the-fly yet incredibly dreamy nature of Chun Pop’s magic…
[video of the week] I Am Oak – Will I Wake
“Will I Wake” is the first new single by the Dutch band based around singer/songwriter Thijs Kuijken. The song diverts from their recognizable guitar sound. All previous material was written with guitar at its core, but lately I Am Oak have been experimenting with the addition of piano for their upcoming releases. Because of this…
[video of the week] Twilight Fields – When I Saw You
This is a song from “Our Time Is Now”, released Feb. 2018. “Our Time Is Now” is the third album of original music by Twilight Fields of North Bay, Ontario, Canada. This is the song-based project of Allister Thompson (known in ambient music circles as The Gateless Gate). Twilight Fields’ music is very much a…
[video of the week] Six Organs of Admittance – Things As They Are
Burn the threshold of light, burn the threshold of time! Anytime is a good time to release a Six Organs of Admittance video, album release cycles be damned! Burning the Threshold brings a wealth of Six Organs-styled lightness into one of his sweetest musical meditations yet and that should be reminded every day. The residual…
[video of the week] Grand Veymont – Bois Barbu
Both born in the shadow of the Vercors Mountains (France) deep inside the Drôme, Béatrice Morel Journel and Josselin Varengo have shared many musical adventures together over the years. Besides playing solo under the pseudonym Baby B, Beatrice has shared the stage with Josselin in Gloria and Tara King Th. Josselin has played drums for…
[video of the week] Benjamin Poole – Unlove
Taken from the new album “Madrugada”, out January 19th on Hickory Lane Records. Benjamin Poole is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Philadelphia, PA. Having received most of his musical training from a childhood spent singing in choirs, he makes music filled with lush layers of harmony and a careful ear for detail. Benjamin takes…
[video of the week] The New Spring – There Is No Life On Other Planets
On February 2nd The New Spring releases the album “Wholly Wholly” via Tambourhinoceros Records. A new song from it is out – and it is accompanied by a video made by the Danish artist Nanna Rosenfeldt-Olsen. The song is the sixth track on Bastian Kallesøe’s fourth album as The New Spring. An album where Bastian…
[video of the week] Zed Penguin – The Source Of My Dreams
“The Ghost is the idea, the beautiful spark that gleams inside you for a moment and appears as a song. The Beast is the flesh and mechanics, the wood and steel your muscles wrestle with until The Ghost appears again and sings in clarity through them all.” Matthew Winter, the architect of Edinburgh’s Zed Penguin,…
[video of the week] Bruno Sanfilippo – DOLL
Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained musician and composer who has been creating music for more then 20 years. His focus alternates between the exploration of minimalist piano concepts and electro-acoustic music. He is obsessed with the search for new and unique qualities in music – the amazing, the magical and the deep. In dreams, there’s…
[video of the week] The Yearning – Do You Remember?
The Yearning, the most well-known project by Joe Moore, is going to releases a new 10″ Ep in early 2018. As an advance, we are bringing you one of the six songs that will be included on that 10”, numbered, limited-edition vinyl – the Digital Single “Do You Remember?”. The song is flooded with samba,…
[video of the week] Pale Lights – Jean, Bring The Flowers
Taken from the album “The Stars Seemed Brighter”, released on December 15th by Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten. Pale Lights are fronted by Phil Sutton on vocals & guitar(ex-Comet Gain/Velocette/Kicker)with Andy Adler on lead guitar(Crystal Stilts),Lisa Goldstein on drums(Knight School),Maria Pace on bass guitar & Suzanne Nienaber on vocals(Great Lakes) The band released two records in 2014, a…
[video of the week] Jung Body – ASLDTLJLM
Taken from the 10″ vinyl “Real Eternal Bliss”, out December 16th via Oscarson Label. “This album was made between 2013 and 2017. All of the songs are written about people that were a part of my life. And the sadness of loss. Something left a room once and didn’t come back. I picked up Jackie…
[video of the week] Loma – Black Willow
While touring together, Texans Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski (Cross Record) became chummy enough with Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater) to start a band; and so it was that Loma (which happens to mean ‘holiday’ in Finnish) came to be. If lead single ‘Black Willow’ represents the entire self-titled debut, we’re in for a fair whack of…
[video of the week] Poppy Ackroyd – Trains
Poppy Ackroyd – a trailblazing and beguiling post-classical instrumentalist and composer, has shared the award winning short-film for brand new track “Trains”, taken from her brand new, self-produced full length record “Resolve”, set to be released via One Little Indian Records on February 2nd. Premiered on Nowness, the accompanying time-lapse video perfectly encapsulates the mood…
[video of the week] Marlon Williams – Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore
Marlon Williams – Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore (with Aldous Harding) (Official Video) Taken from “Make Way For Love”, available February 16th, 2018 on Dead Oceans Director – Ben Kitnick Cinematographer – Jon Jenkins New Zealand’s Marlon Williams has quite simply got one of the most extraordinary, effortlessly distinctive voices of his generation—a fact…
[video of the week] The Magic Lantern – Holding Hands
Official music video for ‘Holding Hands’ by The Magic Lantern released 30 October 2017 on Hectic Eclectic Records. A film by Adam Greves and Adam Lawson. Shot over two very surreal days in London and Kent, it was directed by my good friend (and Russian speaking diplomat) Adam Greves and shot by Adam Lawson. It…
[video of the week] Kramies – I Wish I Missed You
In the spring of 2017, Kramies travelled to Ireland where he started writing new songs for an upcoming album. Along with his critically acclaimed EP “The Wooden Heart”, produced by Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) & Todd Tobias (Guided by Voices), Kramies has worked and performed with known artists such as Grandaddy, Calexico, and Spiritualized. In Ireland,…
[video of the week] Calming River – Anniversary
Alternative, melodic and beautiful are just some of the words used to describe the music of Calming River, the pseudonym of British born songwriter, Joshua Malcolm. The name may conjure tranquillity but there has always been a latent, opposing flow of tension and strife to be found—a fragility that emanates within darkened confines. Calming River’s…
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