Taken from the new album “Afterlife”, out 29th April 2016 Video directed by Jonathan Hyde Left With Pictures are an orchestral pop ensemble from London. Formed in 2005, they started with three hard-up, classically trained musicians who forsook the orchestra pit for the sanctuary of their keyboard player’s loft. Armed with synths, guitars, strings, kazoos, found-sounds…
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[video of the week] RM Hubbert with Kathryn Joseph – The Dog
RM Hubbert returns with a brand new collaborative album called “Telling The Trees” featuring a host of stellar contributions from some of his favourite artists. “The Dog” was co-written by the fabulous, SAY Award-winning Kathryn Joseph and her vocal on this heartbreaking track (alongside Hubby’s) really make for something very special indeed. “Telling The Trees” is…
[video of the week] Minor Victories – Folk Arp
Minor Victories – the exciting collaboration between Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Editors’ Justin Lockey and his brother James – will release their self-titled debut this summer, and today the band announce their first-ever North American tour dates. These will follow their inaugural UK/European shows next month. See below to find a show near…
[video of the week] Anoushka Shankar – Land Of Gold ft. Alev Lenz
Music video by Anoushka Shankar performing “Land Of Gold”. (C) 2016 Deutsche Grammophon. Sitar master Anoushka Shankar, who was trained on the instrument from an early age by her father Ravi Shankar, has created a protest album of sorts with her latest release, Land of Gold. Deeply concerned about the plight of the world’s refugees,…
[video of the week] Samaris – Wanted 2 Say
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilqhgHiQ1l4] Written and recorded over the past year in Berlin, Reykjavik and Ireland, “Black Lights” is Icelandic trio Samaris‘ most fully realized and accessible record yet – sung for the first time entirely in English, and headed up by lead-off single “Wanted 2 Say,” released on 8th April. “Black Lights” is a reflection on both…
[video of the week] Sara Forslund – Did You Ever
Taken from Sara Forslund’s debut album “Water Became Wild” (2015). Written / Directed by Elin Wramneby With Isabel Lanzarotti 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 the local priest and was nicknamed `The…
[video of the week] Barbarisms – I Have Not Seen You In Days
“I Have Not Seen You In Days” is the first single from the next Barbarisms album “Browser”. “Browser” will be released on Monday 2nd May on A Modest Proposal Records. On June 3 via DevilDuck Records in G/S/A & June 10 via CFK Records in UK/Europe. Barbarisms are a Stockholm lo-fi indie-folk trio led by…
[video of the week] Julianna Barwick – Nebula
“Nebula” taken from “Will” by Julianna Barwick, out on May 6th, 2016 on Dead Oceans. A film by Derrick Belcham Produced by The Philip Johnson Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, A Story Told Well, Dead Oceans, Irene Shum and Kate Lichota Directed by Derrick Belcham Music written and performed…
[video of the week] Uniform Motion – False Start
Uniform Motion is an illustrated indie-folk band combining music with visual arts created by Andy Richards and Renaud Forestie in 2008, joined by Olivier Piotte (drums, percussions, keys) in 2011. “False Start” is the first track of their 5th studio album, “5”, that will be released on 13 May 2016: https://uniformmotion.bandcamp.com/album/5 Video directed by Vincent Baudry,
[video of the week] Lush – Out of Control
Having announced their return in autumn of 2015, London dream-pop act Lush have revealed their first new music since 1996, ahead of a return to the live arena. “Out of Control” is the opening track from a new EP “Blind Spot”, which will be released on April 15, via 4AD, ahead of three UK live…
[video of the week] Kevin Verwijmeren – Last
Taken from the new album by Kevin Verwijmeren, “Those Glorious Heights”, out February 26th via Icarus Records and Vynilla Vinyl. Kevin Verwijmeren is a 24 years old physics student and electronic musician currently based in Delft, The Netherlands. Around the year 2013 he really started to develop music on a more serious level. His aim…
[video of the week] Stefano Guzzetti – Mother
Taken from the album “Leaf”, out January 21st on P*Dis (exclusive for Japan), March 5th (digital via Home Normal) and March 15th on Stella Recordings (cd) and Brooklyn Bridge Records (lp). Gianluca ‘Marjani’ Marras. Story, script, direction and illustrations Giovanni Pintus. Direction, editing, animations and post-production “Leaf” is the new work by Stefano Guzzetti and it’s…
[video of the week] Ralegh Long – Afternoon Change (Live in the Warehouse)
Ralegh Long performing “Afternoon Change” | Live in the Warehouse Written and composed by Ralegh Long Directed by Federica Camiciola/Mamuri Production Sound engineer: Francesco Fanciullacci Recorded in the Audioglobe warehouse on January 25th 2016 Ralegh Long is an English Singer-Songwriter. His debut album “Hoverance”, is released on Gare du Nord records on 6th April 2015….
[video of the week] Youth Lagoon – Rotten Human
Youth Lagoon is sharing the video for the song “Rotten Human” off the new record, “Savage Hills Ballroom”, out on Fat Possum. Shot in Iceland, the video was directed by Patrick Blades and stars Daytona Williams, and is as surreal as it is hypnotically beautiful. Youth Lagoon is the stage name of the Boise, Idaho-based…
[video of the week] Money – I’ll Be The Night
Money have shared the video for lead single “I’ll Be The Night” from their upcoming second album “Suicide Songs”. The video shows songwriter Jamie Lee in his natural habitat, surrounded by influences in his London bedsit and along his travels to his local pub and surrounding neighborhood. Directed by Liam Healy, who describes it as…
[video of the week] Music For Eleven Instruments – Good Morning Imagination
Stop-motion video created and directed by Adriano Motta Produced by Salvatore Sultano, Adriano Motta Track taken from the new album by Music For Eleven Instruments, “At The Moonshine Park With An Imaginary Orchestra”, out February 19th via Dead Pop Opera Records. Music For Eleven Instruments is an orchestral indie pop project created by Salvatore Sultano, from Gela,…
[video of the week] Brave Timbers – Swimming In The Isar
Track taken from “Hope”, the new album by Newcastle-based Brave Timbers, originally the solo-project of multi-instrumentalist Sarah Kemp. This is their second album following 2010’s “For Every Day You Lost“. Sarah is joined on this album by Andrew Scrogham and together they recorded “Hope” in a Victorian concert hall in Salford, UK. Their music has…
[video of the week] Hearts Hearts – Hunter Limits
Official Video for “Hunter Limits” by Hearts Hearts, from their debut album “Young”, released via Tomlab, Jan 22th 2016. Perhaps fitting for a band conceived in a monastery in Upper Vienna, Hearts Hearts create beautiful, elegiac songs which live at the intersection of classical and contemporary electronic and pop music. Anchored by Österle’s voice and…
[video of the week] Sunturns – Sunni
“Sunni” is the opening track on Sunturns’ new album Christmas II – available from Fika Recordings and Arch. It is a piano ballad that evolves in to a post-rock tune about meeting a girl called Sunniva. Sunturns are a Norwegian super-group devoted to Christmas, featuring members of Making Marks, Moddi, The Little Hands Of Asphalt,…
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