Kælan Mikla’s new single “Hvítir Sandar” is a collaboration with French post-metal pioneers Alcest. Video directed by Máni Sigfússon; director of photography Blair Alexander Massie “Hvítir Sandar” appears on Kælan Mikla’s forthcoming “Undir Köldum Norðumljósum”, the fourth album by the Icelandic band, set for an October 15th release on Artoffact Records. Kælan Mikla gives this statement…
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[streaming] bdrmm – Is That What You Wanted To Hear?
A track taken from bdrmm’s debut album, ‘Bedroom’, which is released on July 3, 2020, via Sonic Cathedral. The 10-track album was recorded late last year at The Nave studio in Leeds by Alex Greaves (Working Mens Club, Bo Ningen) and mastered in Brooklyn by Heba Kadry (Slowdive, Beach House). It’s a hugely accomplished debut…
THE BV’S – Interpunktion E.P. (Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten, 2018) Gli instancabili cultori di sonorità liquide applicate a canzoni pop dai contorni piacevolmente sfumati hanno trovato nell’album di debutto una band tedesca materia per alimentare sogni e agrodolci malinconie, indissolubilmente connessi ai ricordi della stagione del C-86 e della Sarah Records. In appendice a “Speaking From…
[streaming] Drowse – Quickening
Taken from the new album by Drowse, “Cold Air”, out March 9th via The Flenser. Drowse is the work of Portland, OR artist Kyle Bates with visual and sonic contributions from Maya Stoner. “Why am I afraid of my own thoughts?” After a severe mental breakdown, Kyle Bates of Portland OR’s Drowse was prescribed a…
A THOUSAND HOURS – Sleep (Vesper, 2017) A brevissima distanza da un esordio (“Endless Grey“) che aveva impressionato per le sue incantate dolcezze atmosferiche, ma non solo, il quartetto degli A Thousand Hours accentua nell’immediato seguito i caratteri più propriamente wave di un registro che già evidenziava omaggi allo shoegaze e alle carezze sognanti dei…
THE WORKHOUSE – Now I Am On Fire (Oscarson, 2017) Dagli apici della parabola del post-rock alla riscoperta dello shoegaze e, poi, della wave; i quindici anni di attività di The Workhouse hanno attraversato temperie espressive diverse, seguendole in parte, ma piuttosto mantenendo sempre a distanza di sicurezza la personalità di una band che la…
[streaming] The Workhouse – A Moment Of Clarity
“A Moment Of Clarity” is the first track out of “Now I Am On Fire”, the fourth album from The Workhouse and their second release on German record label Oscarson, out March 4th 2017. Combining influences from early Factory records, The Chameleons and Interpol together with re-formed nineties shoegazers Ride and Slowdive, the band mix…
THE WORKHOUSE – The Sky Still Looks The Same (Oscarson, 2014) Uno splendido gatefold con cd-r 3” accluso costituisce il graditissimo ritorno alla produzione discografica – a tre anni dal terzo album “The Coldroom Sessions” – del culto oxfordiano dei Workhouse. Dei cinque brani di “The Sky Still Looks The Same”, ben tre sono guidati dal…
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