The Fat Angel Sings

Barry Adamson has released his first music since 2018’s anthology Memento Mori, and it comes in the form of the incredible track ‘Broken Moments’. Hear it below!

Barry also has his exciting upcoming autobiography on the horizon, ‘Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars’. He’ll be launching the book at the Walthamstow Rock ‘N’ Roll Book Club on 30th September, where he’ll be in conversation and playing some tracks live!

released September 2nd, 2021

Rough Trade Shops tip. This band is special. Horsegirl are a noisy rock trio from Chicago composed of Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng and Gigi Reece, all 17-18 years old. Inspired by the shoegaze and post-punk sounds of the ’90s US and UK indie underground, in their year together they have played contemporary art museums, all ages venues, open mics and house parties. The ‘Ballroom Dance Scene’ b/w ‘Sea Life Sandwich Boy’ 7” is their first physical release and is out via Sonic Cathedral.

This is Horsegirl’s directorial debut

First written during a Chicago teacher’s strike in 2019, ‘Ballroom Dance Scene’ presents Horsegirl’s glassy guitars and vocal counterpoint, like a cross between Yo La Tengo and The Raincoats. The competing vocal melodies cascade over one another, detailing the lives of various fictional characters. With a title inspired by a misread product name sold at their local grocery store, ‘Sea Life Sandwich Boy’ was the first track Horsegirl wrote together and comes across like Pavement or The Breeders (or, perhaps more accurately, The Amps).

Released 17/09/21 on Sonic Cathedral Records

Welcome to this brand-new collection of every single
Bob Dylan album on high-quality 180-gram vinyl plus your collectors’ magazine.

For the first time ever, discover the works of the iconic singer-songwriter with a collection of Bob Dylan’s studio albums (including double and triple LPs) on high-quality 180 gram vinyl alongside an eight-page fact-packed companion magazine.

Every issue of Dylan Vinyl: The Definitive Collection comes with a fantastic eight-page magazine that explores the context to the album, offering insights into the global events surrounding its creation, detailed notes for every track and information about recording sessions and personnel.

Song writing project of Justin Sullivan (Kevin Morby, The Babies, Flat Worms). Songs from the cafe of eternal youth.

Album is in pre-order and will be available on February 11th, 2022.

Releases December 1st, 2021

Recorded at Valentine Recording Studios in Los Angeles on March 6th, 7th and 8th and at Compn’y Studios in Burbank on March 11th, 12th and 15th. Produced by Justin Sullivan and Jarvis Taveniere.

Horns on “Let Me Let It Go” engineered by Spencer Guerra and recorded at Loantaka Sound. Cover photo by Jeff Davenport. Layout by Mike Krol.

From the album, “Forever Night“, available on February 11th, 2022 on Dangerbird Records.

In early December, Hand Habits, aka Meg Duffy, shared a photo alongside Sasami Ashworth that revealed an exciting development: “Me and my producer [SASAMI] we are almost done with my LP3 hello internet.” Arriving two years after Duffy’s last solo effort, 2019’s placeholder, a new Hand Habits record will be much-needed after the chaos of 2020. To tide yourself over in the meantime, watch Duffy cover Tom Petty’s “Walls” alongside Angel Olsen.

Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), is back with their new album “Fun House” – the most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not intended as a reaction to the pandemic, but it was very much the result of taking a difficult, if much-needed, moment of pause. Emboldened by going into therapy and coaxed by Ashworth to push the songs into unexpected new shapes, the resulting music is more acutely personal and stylistically adventurous than anything you’ve heard from Hand Habits before. The push/pull of styles, paired with songs that move deftly between the present and past, give the record a wildly diverse, hall of mirrors quality that befits its name. Where previous Hand Habits records could be fairly insular affairs, “Fun House” feels ebullient, lush, a fully-realized conversation.

releases October 22nd, 2021 through Saddle Creek Records.

Produced By: Sasami Ashworth

“Hawthorne Heights shows time and time again their ability to form a current sound while staying true to their own sound. The band are adaptable while recognizing where their music lies. This is bundled with passion making fans feel validated as they enter new eras of their favourite band.

Ohio band Hawthorne Heights are set to drop their newest record, The Rain Just Follows Me, via Pure Noise Recordings ,

Title track “The Rain Just Follows Me” delivers a fast-paced yet serene sound. Using descending melodies, the track feels whole. While adding elements of piano and isolated vocals gives fans a moment of relief.  “Holy Coast” manifests that early-2000’s emo anthem that is easy to fall in love with. The track takes listeners on a nostalgic ride while still incorporating the new era that the band is leading fans into.

Following “Holy Coast” is “Tired and Alone;” the track is full of a swinging chorus that is impossible to forget, making this song an easy one to leave on repeat. The intro to “Thunder In Our Hearts” introduces itself on an aggressive note but ascends into a melodic verse. The chorus is hooky laced with infectious screams, making for an ear pleasing contrast.

On a more solemn note, “Spray Paint It Black,” the word “winter” is articulated, releasing the feeling of the frigid season. Lead vocalist J.T Woodruff stresses vocals with raw growls, emphasizing the band’s ability to create a refreshing sound.

Leaning on their more pop-punk sound, “Palm Canyon Drive” and “Seafoam” fit perfectly together. These tracks engulf listeners into their catchy euphoria, leaving an everlasting impression.

Exhibiting crisp dynamics comes “Words Can’t Hurt,” showcasing a swift back-and-forth between clean and screaming vocals and a punching decline throughout the bridge.

As the record ends, listeners are greeted with a heavy beginning that swiftly transitions into steady beat within “Bambarra Beach (The End)” adding cinematic dramatics highlighting whispering vocals alongside crashing music.

Hawthorne Heights forms emotional connection with their fanbase as they continue on their career as iconic inspirations. Leading single “Constant Dread” puts forth an aura of familiarity that lures listeners into a certain kind of comfort. The band recognizes the evolution that emo-alternative music has taken throughout the years and applies that to this track.

released September 10th, 2021

On their new album “Good For You”, Houndmouth share a collection of songs set in places as far-flung as the Alamo and the Hudson River, each populated by a motley cast of characters: fairy-tale princesses and vampires, parking-lot lovers and wanna-be beauty queens. The fourth full-length from the Indiana-bred band—vocalist/guitarist Matthew Myers, drummer/vocalist Shane Cody, and bassist/vocalist Zak Appleby—the result is a lovingly gathered catalogue of those wild and fleeting moments that stay lodged in our hearts forever, taking on a dreamlike resonance as years go by.  Good For You bears a hi-fi minimalism that beautifully illuminates its finespun storytelling.

For Houndmouth, the making of Good For You allowed for a major leap forward in their song writing and sound while recalling the pure abandon of the band’s early days. “I remember the first time I ever came to the Green House and saw what was happening here and I thought, ‘I’m never leaving this place,’” says Myers, who met Appleby and Cody in high school and started collaborating with them in college. “This album felt like being back in that time again, only now everything’s a little more dialled-back and cared-for. It was like a return to the way we fell in love with playing music together.”

Houndmouth’s new record “Good For You”, out November 5th, 2021.

Courtney Barnett is prepping to release her album “Things Take Time, Take Time” on November 12th. We’ve gotten to hear a couple singles, including “Rae Street” and “Before You Gotta Go.” Now, Barnett has released a video for the latter directed by Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore. It finds her becoming an ethnographer, looking for a response from just about everything—caves, the edges of cliffs, lush forests, tiny houses, a horse, a dog that does not want to be bothered, bright red mushrooms. The visual becomes more surreal as it progresses, with, notably, a gigantic copy of Barnett’s head popping up amidst landscapes.

“Making this clip was an interesting experience for me,” Dalimore said of the video. “I love how brilliantly simple Courtney’s idea was, it brought real joy shooting part of it together, just me, her, and my DOP with the other part being two long days directing over Zoom across the Tasman Sea. I watch it now and feel that sense of peace, that potent calm you can only get immersed in the beauty of nature.”

On top of the new video, Barnett has also launched an interactive website for users to play around with stems for the different vocal parts and instruments from Barnett’s recordings. “The listener can (for example) listen to Barnett’s dry vocal harmonies as an a capella, or focus on the rhythms of drummer Stella Mozgawa, or Barnett’s beautiful and sensitive finger-picked electric guitar,” read the press release.

My Morning Jacket have announced a new album and shared its first single, “Regularly Scheduled Programming” via a video for it. “My Morning Jacket” is due out October 22nd via ATO.

My Morning Jacket’s frontman Jim James had this to say about “Regularly Scheduled Programming” in a press release: “This song really hits home for me after what we’ve gone through with the pandemic. But even before then, it felt like so many of us were trading real life for social media, trading our own stories for the storylines on TV, trading our consciousness for drugs. We need to help each other wake up to real love before it’s too late.”

Signalling that things are back on track for the group. It may have been only a year since their last album release, but it’s been six years since they recorded a new one. Now they’ve shared another single that really gets down the the simplicity of things—love, man.

“Love Love Love” is a rumbling Americana jam session that has a hints of Magical Mystery Tour–era Beatles and The Doors to it. The track’s premise is as straightforward as its title: “The more you give, yeah, the more you get now,” frontman Jim James quickly declares. “Go tell it to the world.” James explained: “‘Love Love Love’ is trying to steer the ship away from everything I’m talking about in ‘Regularly Scheduled Programming,’ and speak toward positivity and pure love, finding truth within yourself and in the world around you.

James produced and engineered “My Morning Jacket” over two multi-week sessions at Los Angeles, CA’s 64 Sound. A press release says that the band almost called it quits prior to recording the album, but were inspired by performing four shows in summer 2019, in particular two nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, that encouraged them to make a new album and keep going as a band.

“I hope this album brings people a lot of joy and relief, especially since we’ve all been cooped up for so long,” says James in the press release. “I know that feeling you get from driving around blasting music you love, or even lying in bed and crying to the music you love. The fact that we’re able to be a part of people’s lives in that way is so magical to us, and it feels really good that we’re still around to keep doing that.”

My Morning Jacket released a new album “The Waterfall II”, just last year via ATO after announcing it only a few days earlier. The album was the long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s  “The Waterfall” and was recorded at the same time as that album. When The Waterfall was released it was said to be part one of a two-part album and five years later they delivered on that promise. While no pre-release singles from the album were shared, when the album was released “Feel You” and “Wasted” .

Their upcoming shows will be My Morning Jacket’s first full on headline tour in five years. Brittany Howard as support for some of the dates and support will also come from Flock Of Dimes, Bedouine, and Durand Jones. The band are partnering with PLUS1 so that $1.00 from every ticket “will go to support non-profits working for environmental justice, racial equity, and securing access to mental health care for all.”

In 2019, James released “The Order Of Nature” live album recorded with The Louisville Orchestra in collaboration with conductor/arranger/composer Teddy Abrams, via Decca Gold.