Taken from the new Snow Palms album “Orgin & Echo”, out November 17th 2017 on Village Green. Video directed by Jonny Sanders. David Sheppard first conceived Snow Palms as a vehicle for music played on mallet instruments (metallophones, glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas, etc), devices that have featured intermittently across almost two decades-worth of the multi-instrumentalist’s miscellaneous…
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[video of the week] Matthew Kenneally – Would You Do It Again?
Matthew Kenneally is the frontman of Canary and “Would You Do It Again?” is his first solo release. “Would You Do It Again?” transcends storytelling. Kenneally paints an intricate picture that journeys love through the humble beginnings of picked guitars, through waves of romantic strings to choral lines. You can hear the influences of Elliot…
[video of the week] Courtney Barnett + Kurt Vile – Continental Breakfast
“Continental Breakfast” is taken from Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile’s upcoming album “Lotta Sea Lice”, out October 13th via Marathon Artists/Matador/Mom & Pop. “Lotta Sea Lice” is the result of 8 days in the studio spread over almost 15 months when Courtney and Kurt’s respective touring schedules allowed for them to be in the same…
[video of the week] Bibio – Phantom Brickworks III (Edit)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyp14lXevig] “I don’t believe in ghosts but I do believe places can be haunted by meaning. Places change, not always for the better and not always by natural, benevolent or politically sound means. A place can be charged with atmosphere because of what it has been through or what it has been. “Phantom Brickworks” is…
[video of the week] Oliver Cherer – Delicate Blooms
Taken from “The Myth Of Violet Meek” by Oliver Cherer, out end of September 2017 on Wayside & Woodland Recordings. “There is a true story, about the hounding of some travelling entertainers and their dancing bears and how the bears were killed by a mob in revenge for an invented attack on a local girl…
[video of the week] Courtney Farren – Nothing Like It
Singer/ songwriter Courtney Farren has announced her debut album “Nothing Like It”, which is being preceded by the title track of the same name. This six-track LP features guitar and piano songs recorded earlier in spring of this year. Born and primarily raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Farren has made New York City…
[video of the week] Tomo Nakayama – Fourth of Julivar’s
Taken from the new album “Pieces of Sky”, out September 8th on Ricebelly Music. Tomo Nakayama is an acclaimed singer/songwriter based in Seattle, Washington. Born in Kochi, Japan to a Vietnamese father and Japanese mother, Tomo’s work both as a solo artist and as frontman in his chamber-pop band Grand Hallway have been praised by…
[video of the week] Memory Drawings – The Nearest Exit
Taken from the album “The Nearest Exit” due on Zozaya/Signal September 22nd 2017. “The Nearest Exit” is the third album from Anglo/American collective Memory Drawings. Led by the hammered dulcimer of Minneapolis-raised, Casablanca-based Joel Hanson, the band also features Richard Adams (Hood/The Declining Winter), Sarah Kemp (Brave Timbers), Chris Cole (Movietone/Manyfingers) and Gareth S Brown…
[video of the week] Angèle David-Guillou – Desert Stilts
“Desert Stilts” is the first track from “En Mouvement”, the second album undr her own name by Angèle David-Guillou, formerly known as Klima, as well as long time Piano Magic member. “En Mouvement” will be released October 13th via Village Green Records. In Angèle’s own words: “I started working on Desert Stilts as I was…
[video of the week] Kirill Nikolai – I’ve Always Been a Coward
“I’ve Always Been A Coward” is the title track of the latest two-tracks digitali single by Kirill Nikolai, available via https://kirillnikolai.bandcamp.com/. Kirill Nikolai is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, now living in Seattle, Washington. He has recorded and produced music for Tonefloat (NL), Helmet Room Recordings (US), Reverb Worship (UK), and Apollolaan Recordings (UK). http://kirillnikolai.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Kirill-Nikolai/ https://soundcloud.com/ankaret
[video of the week] Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock – Small Ways And Slowly
“Small Ways and Slowly” is the first single taken from Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock‘s new album, “Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love”, to be released via One Little Indian on September 29th 2017. Featuring a plethora of notable instrumental collaborations with the likes of celebrated singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams, Romeo Stodart (The Magic Numbers),…
[video of the week] Rafael Anton Irisarri – RH Negative
Taken from the album “The Shameless Years”, out August 25th via Umor Rex. Video directed by Anders Weberg. Post-minimalist American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri makes his Umor Rex debut with bold new album, “The Shameless Years”. Inspired by a troubled socio-political climate, buried melodies punch their way through a bleak cover of noisy drones, periodically…
[video of the week] Balmorhea – Sky Could Undress
Film Nº1 in the “Clear Language” Film Trilogy by Claire Cottrell. “Clear Language”, the new album by Balmorhea will be released on September 22nd via Western Vinyl. “There are no clear borders, only merging invisible to the sight.” ― Dejan Stojanovic. Soon after Balmorhea finished the work on the music for “Clear Language” they began…
[video of the week] Seamus Fogarty – Short Ballad For A Long Man
Domino are pleased to announce their latest signing, Irish alt-folk and electronica alchemist Seamus Fogarty. To celebrate the occasion, Seamus has shared the video for brand new song ‘Short Ballad For A Long Man’. Originally from County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, Fogarty now resides in London. His previous releases include debut full-length…
[video of the week] Wand – Plum
Title track from Wand LP/CS/CD/Digital, released by Drag City on September 22, 2017. Los Angeles-based Wand announce the release of Plum, out September 22nd via Drag City Records, as well as lead single, “Plum,” and its accompanying video, and a tour that embarks on the heels of the album’s release. Plum is Wand’s fourth LP…
[video of the week] Loner Deluxe – Summer Song
Taken from the Loner Deluxe album “Songs I Taped Off The Radio” – released on Rusted Rail on July 12th 2017. Rusted Rail is pleased to announce the release of “Songs I Taped Off The Radio”, the second album by Galway-based Loner Deluxe. This cassette album lives up to its title in that it plays…
[video of the week] Julia Jacklin – Eastwick
New single from upcoming 7″ “Eastwick/Cold Caller”, out September 15th via Polyvinyl Records, Transgressive Records and Liberation Music. Julia Jacklin grew up in the Blue Mountains, NSW. As a kid, she sang. First classical music, then pop-punk tunes in a high-school covers band. By the time she moved to Sydney in her early 20s, she’d…
[video of the week] The Clientele – Lunar Days
The Clientele return in September with “Music for the Age of Miracles”, their first release of new music since 2010’s “Minotaur EP“. “Lunar Days” is the first track available out of it. The Clientele is a London-based British band with Alasdair MacLean on vocals and guitar, Mark Keen on drums, and James Hornsey on bass….
[video of the week] Mogwai – Coolverine
Taken from the new album “Every Country’s Sun” out 1 Sept 2017 on Rock Action Records (Temporary Residence in North America / Spunk Records in Australia). Video directed by Hand Held Cine Club (http://handheldcineclub.com) http://mogwai.co.uk/
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