BLACK MARKET KARMA teams up with Spacemen 3 founding member SONIC BOOM on kaleidoscopic single ‘The Sour Truth with Sonic Boom’ London psychedelic pop artist Black Market Karma presents ‘The Sour Truth’, their long-awaited collaboration with legendary musician-producer Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember) of Spacemen 3 and Spectrum fame. This single will be released on 10″ vinyl and digitally via…
Chordophone collective Lusitanian Ghosts release upbeat ‘September’ single ahead of new ‘Lusitanian Ghosts III’ album “Magnetic appeal… creating a broader cultural and sonic arsenal, while maintaining a buoyancy that takes the listener on a fantastic ride from start to finish” ~ The Spill Magazine “Lusitanian Ghosts impressively channel tools of the past to create a beautiful…
NEVARIS and BILL LASWELL present an audio-visual vignette of NYC on ‘Interference’ single ”Love this! They’ve made a work of supreme creativity” ~ Carlos Santana “An excellent, calm and collected blend of grooves and moves, ambience and addiction, brass and bass, analogue and digital, the old and the new, the timeless and the forward-thinking all…
Manchester’s Harry Stafford (Inca Babies) & North Carolina’s Marco Butcher lay down the ‘Rules of the House’ ahead of new album “Unapologetically weaving their way through varied genres, Stafford and Butcher’s bluesy story-based music is raw around the edges, while sucking you willingly inside – a sonic diamond in the rough, so to speak” ~…
Alternative folk-rock troubadour Fred Abong (Throwing Muses, Belly) unveils ‘Fear Pageant’ title track from seventh album “Purity and honesty in his approach that gets more and more intense with each track… like you’re riding a wave of energy” ~ Higher Plain Music “Thoughtful, minimalist. The ghost of Syd Barrett watches over everything… ‘another sonic leap…
Alternative-electronic duo Alien Gothic presents ‘Shine The Lights’, second dark offering from debut album ‘High and Dry’ “The two lead tracks sound closest to A Shoreline Dream… However, ‘Shine The Light’ also exhibits pronounced elements of Bauhaus and Front Line Assembly” ~ Amplify Music Magazine “Both symphonic and diabolical (in the way that Dante would…
Southampton indie power pop artist Mike Gale releases ‘Grumble Pie’ single, previewing landmark album “‘Summer, Be Gone’ actually feels like a warm zephyr floating through an open window on a balmy summer’s day… like water bouncing off silk… a most wonderful and unique chorus which goes against the pop-norm by being a ghostly shimmer of…
US-Swedish indie dream-rock duo I Am a Rocketship releases ‘La Cruella’ album “‘Gravity’ is a gently warm song that defies its title by floating on thermal currents, achieving buoyancy through gently pulsing bass lines, splashes of piano and the subtle breeze of Kippner’s elegantly soft vocals… This is a lesson in the underrated art of…
Germany’s PARA LIA offers practical lessons on new ‘C’est La Vie’ single, previewing ‘In Clash With The Zeitgeist’ album “J Mascis style guitar works alongside sharply defined songwriting, with elements of The Cure in their late 80s pomp” ~ Clash Magazine “The embers of Arcade Fire and The Mission with a more pop bent… Listen…
THE 3 CLUBMEN (Jen Olive, Stu Rowe and XTC’s Andy Partridge) offer inspiring single ‘Look At Those Stars’ from debut EP “The 3 Clubmen are doing everything wrong…and it’s just right”, says Andy Partridge. “Dazzling pop, seriously good fun, and when you get musicians as outstanding as this they can make the complex layers of…
Inca Babies’ Harry Stafford and trash blues guitarist Marco Butcher take us on a ‘Walk Among The Spectres’, previewing new album “Unapologetically weaving their way through varied genres, Stafford and Butcher’s bluesy story-based music is raw around the edges, while sucking you willingly inside – a sonic diamond in the rough, so to speak” ~…
