“Adem” is the title track of yadayn‘s forthcoming fourth album, to be released on Navalorama Records June 26th. “Yadayn (an Arabic word for “two hands”) is a solo project of Belgian musician Gowaart Van Den Bossche which he describes as “two hands + guitars, mostly”, a description which would be an accurate, but woefully understated,…
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[video of the week] Girl Ray – Preacher
Girl Ray’s official video for “Preacher” and the sequel to Nettles of the Parish ft. professional legends/actors Mike O’ Malley, Alex Parish and Poppy’s mum. Taken from their forthcoming debut album “Earl Grey”, released on Moshi Moshi Records on 4th August. Girl Ray, the North London-based 18 year-old three-piece formed of Poppy Hankin (guitar/vocals), Iris…
[video of the week] Elle Mary & The Bad Men – Pretend
“Pretend” is the first single out of the debut album by Elle May & The Bad Men, Manchester based trio led by Welsh songwriter Elle Mary. Drawn to the communicative and bonding qualities of plainsong but explorative beyond its stylistic connotations; enough of a pack member to want a band yet also keen to imbue…
[video of the week] Modern Cosmology – C’est Le Vent
Modern Cosmology is the new project from Laetitia Sadier with the Brazilian group Mombojó. Laetitia Sadier is still making great collaborations all over the world, broadening a songbook that is more and more complex but always highly beautiful. But this collaboration with the Brazilian group Mombojó, which is what finally brought about this new group…
[video of the week] Fred Woods – Nightingale
Fred Woods is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Montreal, QC. In 2013, he released his first album “Documenta“, mixed by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Montreal’s Hotel 2 Tango. He has shared the stage with Andy Shauf, Sophie Jamieson, Jesse Mac Cormack and Emilie & Ogden. With improvisation as his driving force, Fred continues to forge…
[video of the week] Calming River – For The Echoes To See
Delicate, tender and poignant, Calming River returns following his critically acclaimed 2015 EP with the dark and brooding new single, “For The Echoes To See”, released Friday 26th May 2017. Intricate fingerpicking, numerous tunings and contemplative lyrics create an intimate and beautiful aesthetic showcasing the British-born, Denmark-based songwriter at the peak of his powers. The…
[video of the week] James Elkington – Make It Up
“Make It Up” is the first song out of “Wintres Woma”, out June 30, 2017 on Paradise of Bachelors. Drawing from British folk, avant-rock, and jazz traditions alike, “Wintres Woma” — Old English for “the sound of winter”— is James Elkington’s debut solo record, but you’ve likely heard his masterful guitar playing and arranging, even…
[video of the week] Keaton Henson – Epilogue
Keaton Henson has unanticipatedly unveiled beautiful enigmatic new song ‘Epilogue’, which is available today via Play It Again Sam. A toast – amongst other things – to “the ties that I’ve cut along the way”, ‘Epilogue’ slowly unfolds a haunting piano ballad into a symphonic climax, which lyrically seems to bid farewell not only to…
[video of the week] Crescent – Get Yourself Tidy
Crescent – Get Yourself Tidy (Official Video) taken from the new album “Resin Pockets” available 26th May 2017. This video was made by Sam & Matt Jones & features footage of them recording the album. If it’s been a long while since Little Waves, the intimate treasure they released in 2007, that’s because much like…
[video of the week] Julia Lucille – Darkening
“Darkening” from the forthcoming album “Chthonic” coming April 7, 2017 on Keeled Scales. While Julia Lucille may not be an Austin native, her arrival and presence in our city and state has surely inspired her latest musical outing. This sprawling number wears the soul of nights spent cruising down empty highway rods, aided by slide…
[video of the week] Sóley – Grow
“Grow” is the second single of Sóley‘s upcoming album “Endless Summer” which will be released in May 2017 via Morr Music. Born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, Sóley has attracted a huge following with her fairytale song craft over the last years. After the EP “Theater Island” (2010) announced her as a solo musician, the fantastical, sepia-toned…
[video of the week] Bank Myna – Lighthouse
Parisian quartet Bank Myna illustrates ‘Lighthouse’, from the band’s debut EP released in April 2016, with a dreamlike and symbolic short movie about a father-son relationship, shot by Antoine Toulliou and produced with the help of Les Films du Chat d’Oz. Used to long formats, the band with aerial and contrasted songs offers a captivating…
[video of the week] A Lilac Decline – A Fine Day At Last
Taken from the album “The Mountain Rages”, out March 31st on Rusted Rail. “The Mountain Rages” is the debut album by A Lilac Decline, the anagrammatic musical pseudonym of visual artist Cecilia Danell. Originally from Sweden but resident in Ireland for over a decade, Danell is a member of fellow Rusted Rail acts Cubs and…
[video of the week] Six Organs Of Admittance – Adoration Song
Taken from the new album “Burning the Threshold”. Video directed by Elisa Ambrogio. “Burning the Threshold” brings a wealth of Six Organs-styled lightness into one of his sweetest musical meditations yet. A head-full of ideas were driving Ben Chasny to think and speak music as a spirituality superimposed onto a reality, with the ghosts of…
[video of the week] Tom Woodward – Beautiful Shadows
Single from the album “Beautiful Shadows”, available March 8th, 2017. Born in Canberra, 1984, alt-country singer songwriter Tom Woodward has performed countless gigs by himself and with his bands The Henchmen, The Spirits of the Dead and The Mating Season at various pubs, clubs and festivals across Australia. His songs are imaginative depictions of human…
[video of the week] Chantal Acda – Fight Back
Taken from the new album by Chantal Acda, “Bounce Back”, coming April 21st at Glitterhouse Records. Chantal Acda released her first solo album ‘Let Your Hands Be My Guide’ in 2013, followed by the evenly beautiful ‘The Sparkle In Our Flaws’ in 2015. Past collaborators and musical soul mates include Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, Heather…
[video of the week] Aldous Harding – Horizon
“Horizon” by Aldous Harding, out now on 4AD/Flying Nun. Aldous Harding’s music is not for the faint of heart. Disarming in its desolate imagery and stark instrumentation, it deals with the raw materials of life: death, birth, grief and love. There are few happy endings, but the power is in how Harding enters into battle;…
[video of the week] Shevek – Analysis
From the “Jonasstrasse” EP released through Musclemilk Records on 3rd February 2017. Shevek is the new project by Tristram Bawtree (Tristram, Eye And No Eye). Shevek cobbles together noises to arrest the slow slide into apathy. Sings songs about care-work, Paul Auster novels, hubris, the Id, staring at cities from a distance, and trying to…
[video of the week] The Homesick – St. Boniface
First single of our upcoming debut album “Youth Hunt” out on 10/03/17 on Subroutine Records Since the release of their first EP three years ago, when the boys were not yet old enough to order beer, their pop has developed into something more daring, noisy and experimental. Selected Dutch and British media are already hooked,…
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