Single from the upcoming EP ‘Live Slow Die Old’ out Oct 23. Desert Blonde, a.k.a. the Brooklyn-based musician Zach Hinkle, has shared “Stay For Good,”–the second single from his upcoming new EP, Live Slow Die Old–along with a new video for “It Ain’t Bad (To Be Alone).” < p style=”text-align:justify;”>Hinkle’s dry-witted, sincere lyricism and tear-in-your-beer…
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[video of the week] Keeley Forsyth – Photograph
Taken from then new EP Photograph released on November 20th 2020. Keeley Forsyth is a composer, singer and actor from Oldham in the north-west of England. Forsyth’s first acting role was as Nicky in the BBC children’s television series The Biz in 1995, appearing alongside Paul Nicholls. She subsequently appeared in several television series. In…
[video of the week] Sam Burton – I Am No Moon
Third single from Sam Burton’s forthcoming album, “I Can Go With You”, out Oct 30th via Tompkins Square. Sam Burton has shared a new song “I Am No Moon”, along with an official music video. This is the third single ahead of his upcoming album I Can Go With You to be released October 30…
[video of the week] Claire Deak & Tony Dupé – The Rain
“The Rain” is the second single taken from “The Old Capital”, debut album from Melbourne composers Claire Deak & Tony Dupé, out October 9th, 2020 on Lost Tribe Sound. The album is their first recorded collaboration, though Dupé has released two solo albums under the name Saddleback. The duo describes themselves as a home orchestra…
[video of the week] Faten Kanaan – The North Wind
Taken from the album “A Mythology of Circles”, out on Fire Records 13th November 2020. Brooklyn-based composer Faten Kanaan explores cyclical patterns and ‘variation through repetition’. Harmony and counterpoint are treated as narrative tools- with sound, silence, and the resulting mystical relationships between notes used as intuitive gestures to tell a wordless story. Inspired by…
[video of the week] anrimeal – Marching Parades
Taken from “Could Divine”, out November 20th on Demo Records & Crossness Records. anrimeal is the recording project of Ana Rita de Melo Alves. Originally from Porto, Ana moved to her current home of London in 2016, where she founded the ambitious DIY label Demo Records. While using this imprint to amplify other leftfield bedroom…
[video of the week] Loma – Half Silences
“Half Silences” by Loma, from their album “Don’t Shy Away” (Release Date: 10/23/2020 on Sub Pop). On December 26th, 2018, Emily Cross received an excited email from a friend: Brian Eno was talking about her band on BBC radio. “At first I didn’t think it was real,” she admits. But then she heard a recording:…
[video of the week] Max Ananyev – Man On Heaven
Taken from “Midday”, out now via Whitelabrecs. Max Ananyev is a composer and classical guitarist originally from Far Eastern-Russia, who currently resides in Saint-Petersburg. Max began studying and playing classical guitar in music school as a child, composing his own pieces from this early age. In the last 10 years, he has become increasingly focused…
[video of the week] Sophie Jamieson – Forward
From the Release EP (release date December 1st 2020). Video filmed, directed & edited by Sophie Jamieson. Earlier this year, Sophie Jamieson released the Hammer EP which received a lot great feedback, now she’s back with her new track ‘Forward’. The subject matter of ‘Forward’ is about being lost, and not knowing which way to…
[video of the week] David A Jaycock – The Murderous Huntsman
David. A Jaycock announces new album ‘Murder, and the Birds’, out via Triassic Tusk Records on August 24th 2020. ‘Murder, and the Birds’ is a pastoral retelling of lost songs with no lyrics and lyrics with no songs. Mostly. David, an “underground psychedelic freak-ball” and sometime collaborator of Marry Waterson, The Big Eyes Family Players…
[video of the week] Julius Way – One
Taken from the upcoming album “The Husk”, out late August 2020, and released as part of the single “How Long / One”, available via https://juliusway.bandcamp.com/album/how-long-one. Julius Way is the songwriting project by Matthew Adams. It began while busking up in Aberdeen. Since then his recording locations have included a derelict ex-home for the blind with an…
[video of the week] Campbell Sibthorpe – Dandelion
Taken from “Ytown”, the long-awaited EP from London-based folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Campbell Sibthorpe, released on 21st July 2020. Following a steady release of singles, the most recent being the praised choral ‘Good Lord’, Ytown ties together these lone stories and gives them the opportunity to expand into a journey that invites. A compelling commute…
[video of the week] Dana Gavanski – At Last I Am Free
Taken from the forthcoming “Wind Songs” EP. The ethereal tones of Serbian-Canadian musician Dana Gavanski can stir a breeze and destroy like a storm. Following the release of “I Talk To The Wind,” she shares the second single to be taken from her forthcoming “Wind Songs” EP, a collection of covers set for release on…
[video of the week] Bendrix Littleton – Deep Dark South
Bendrix Littleton announced his debut album Deep Dark South (releasing September 25, 2020 with NNA Tapes) and shared a video for the contemplative lead single and title track “Deep Dark South,” which is a compilation of iPhone clips shot around the time of the record’s creation and edited together by Will Taylor (from rock duo…
[video of the week] This Is The Kit – This Is What You Did
Taken from This Is The Kit‘s new album ‘Off Off On’ out October 23rd via Rough Trade. “We were on the same page about a lot of musical ideas, as well as doing things I wouldn’t do musically. It was a lovely mixture of ‘you’re exactly in my brain and exactly at the opposite end…
[video of the week] Steven Adams and The French Drops – My Brother, The Racist
Taken from the forthcoming album “Keep It Light”, out August 21st 2020 via Fika Recordings. “True story. It’s an awkward thing to sing about, but it felt like the right thing to do. Write about what you know. I worried that it was a bit depressing, but as soon as we started playing together it…
[video of the week] Fair Mothers – Harpy
“Harpy” is the new single from “In Monochrome” by Fair Mothers, out on Song, by Toad Records on August 14th 2020. Video directed by Adam Stafford. “In Monochrome” is the second album to emerge from the Happiness Hotel recording sessions with Fair Mothers over the course of 2017 and 2018, following on from “Separate Lives”,…
[video of the week] Popular Music – Philadelphia
The group Popular Music — a new duo of Zac Pennington (née Parenthetical Girls) & Prudence Rees-Lee (aka Prudence) — are pleased to present the latest installment of their sad sack singles club, available everywhere June 12. “Philadelphia” is comprised of VHS and Super8 footage graciously provided from the personal archives of Kristina Karpinski, Emelie…
[video of the week] Songs of Green Pheasant – Hello
Rusted Rail is delighted to release the new digital single from Songs of Green Pheasant – ‘Hello’. The tune is a summer folk-pop gem and is the first single ahead of the release of the full length Songs of Green Pheasant album “When The Weather Clears”, which will see the light of day on CD…
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