Mayors of Miyazaki – Holy Cop!
Release on 3rd June 2013 via We Be Records
With a name like Mayors of Miyazaki, this is a band that clearly delights in befuddlement. Just listen to the riffs that these ‘math punks’ from London have collated for their second album Holy Cop! – sometimes dizzying, occasionally discordant and frequently spellbinding – and you will soon appreciate that their music can be as baffling as their name.
Released on June 3rd through We Be Records, Holy Cop! is h...
Denovali Label Evening IX (Poppy Ackroyd + Petrels + John Lemke) at The Islington, London
15th May 2013
London born musician and composer Poppy Ackroyd is classically trained on violin and piano, but her experimental approach to playing these instruments has taken her music in an unusual direction. Her debut album Escapement was created with sounds using only the piano and the violin. Ackroyd describes her instrumentation as “played both conventionally or created inside the piano using fingers,...
Wampire – Curiosity
Released on 13th May 2013 via Polyvinyl
Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers?
Having snagged the production duties of Jacob Portrait from band of the year (so far, at least) Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Portland duo Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps sound like they’ve had a blissful time and created some stunners for the summer.
The first sounds from numero uno The Hearse, also the lead single, immediately take one back – if one is fortune enough to remember the early 80s...
Vision Fortune – Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune
Released on 13th May 2013 via Gringo Records/Faux Discx
Books are great. Reading too, no question about it. We wouldn’t be here today without words on paper and the number of songs based on literature is near infinite. The Cure’s Killing an Arab, for instance, inspired by Camus, or Oasis’s Cigarettes & Alcohol lit up by Dostoevsky. One of those may just be a fantasy.
However, an entire album inspired by an article, well that’s s...
Portico Quartet (w/ Anchorsong) at Koko, London
17th April 2013
I first heard of Portico Quartet after their third, self-titled album made number three in CRACK magazine’s albums of 2012. The term ‘Jazz-techno’ was used in that review and my attention was grabbed. I later found said album on Spotify and was greeted by a strange, cinematic, but totally self-assured, record that does indeed combine traditional jazz instrumentation with swathes of electronic experimentation. The minimalist composi...
This video is just too much fun not to share. The latest from Broken Anchor, Never Leave Me Alone is taken from their debut record Fresh Lemonade. Fresh Lemonade is released on 20th August 2013.
Mayors of Miyazaki – Holy Cop! Release on 3rd June 2013 via We Be Records With a name like Mayors of Miyazaki, this is a band that clearly delights in befuddlement. Just listen to the riffs that these ‘math punks’ from London have collated for…
Definite nods to Daft Punk and The Chemical Brothers run rife in this new track by Sydney electronic producers Leaderboy. Much love has been given to the track too, including from Triple J, who used it on their latest What So Not mix-up. Perhaps high…
Australian duo VOWS will release their self-titled EP this June to oodles of excitement. The pair unleashed the track Symbol System and received ladlings of love from around the world…
First listen of this barnstormingly good single from forthcoming album False Cities proves Christopher Paul Stelling has come a long way since his 2012 debut Songs of Praise and Scorn.…
Denovali Label Evening IX (Poppy Ackroyd + Petrels + John Lemke) at The Islington, London 15th May 2013 London born musician and composer Poppy Ackroyd is classically trained on violin…
Wampire – Curiosity Released on 13th May 2013 via Polyvinyl Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers? Having snagged the production duties of Jacob Portrait from band of the year…
Vision Fortune – Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune Released on 13th May 2013 via Gringo Records/Faux Discx Books are great. Reading too, no question about it. We wouldn’t…
Portico Quartet (w/ Anchorsong) at Koko, London 17th April 2013 I first heard of Portico Quartet after their third, self-titled album made number three in CRACK magazine’s albums of 2012.…
Willy Moon XOYO, London 5th March 2013 In the short span that Willy Moon has graced our radio waves, the Kiwi-Brit performer has already become somewhat of a household name.…
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