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DEHD – ” Haha “

Posted: December 12, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Chicago group Dehd have released a new music video for their “Flower of Devotion” track “Haha.” The summer camp–themed visual stars performer Alex Grelle as duelling camp counsellors, as well as the band’s Emily Kempf and Jason Balla. Check out the colourful clip below. In 2019, The Chicago indie rock trio Dehd released the sparse and scrappy album “Water”, with songs informed by the romantic breakup of bassist Emily Kempf and guitarist Jason Balla, accompanied by Eric McGrady’s one-tom, one-snare minimalism. For their exquisite follow-up Flower of Devotion, Dehd upgraded to a proper studio, refining their gritty alchemy without scrubbing it too clean. Kempf and Balla trade yearning, hiccupy vocals across riffs that reverberate like heat waves off asphalt, as McGrady thuds away through the humid air. “If this is all that we get, so be it,” Kempf insists, a bit of wistful resignation that doubles as a mission statement for their proudly stripped-down approach.

“‘Haha’ is about finding humour in impossible situations—sometimes you just gotta laugh it off,” Emily Kempf said in a press release. “The video is led by our favourite Chicago star, Alex Grelle, playing both lead roles. Becky and Gary, two head counsellors at the illustrious and wholesome Camp HaHa, are constantly in competition with each other. Here’s the wacky TWIST—only one knows about it! Oh Gary, when will you ever learn! Becky will always be No1!”.

Dehd issued “Flower of Devotion” in July, out now on Fire Talk following their 2019 LP Water.

FRANKIE and the WITCH FINGERS – ” Reaper “

Posted: December 12, 2020 in MUSIC
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Surprise! We’ve got a brand new Spaghetti Jesus video for you, perfectly claymated for Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters. crusher ‘Reaper’, head over to youtube (link below) to check it out and bask in the apocalyptic glory” Reaper acts as a narrative precursor to Sweet Freak, providing further exploration into the realm of neon kaiju established prior. It tackles the swift inevitability of death and the fear of decay, all while the Head Collector lurks in the background, as we explore his past and future. It’s inspired by the cinematic style and substance of horror auteurs such as George Romero, David Cronenberg, and Clive Barker.” – Spaghetti Jesus

After a stretch on Chicago/LA flagship Permanent Records the band landed at yet another fabled enclave of garage and psychedelia – Brooklyn’s Greenway Records, now working in tandem with psych powerhouse LEVITATION and their label The Reverberation Appreciation Society, the group’s latest effort is dually supported by a RAS / Greenway co-release.

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COURTING – ” David Byrne’s Badside “

Posted: December 11, 2020 in MUSIC
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Liverpool four-piece Courting are part of a new wave of bands spearheading the Britpop revival. I’ll confess, I LOVE Courting, in fact, I am actually have a tee with their logo emblazoned on the front. Yeah, yeah, I know I’m probably supposed to be impartial, but these guys have real talent and they’re doing it the right way, whatever that is. Their last single, David Bryne’s Badside, was a and subsequently they made the 6 Music playlist, being championed heavily by Steve Lamacq. 

Previously four, Courting are now a five-piece from Liverpool signed to Nice Swan Records, describing themselves on Bandcamp as a Take That cover band. They’ve just announced an EP, Grand National, to be released in April. Like all music artists this year, they’ve suffered a severe lack of exposure due to covid restrictions, missing out on Glastonbury, but I feel once these guys get back on the road again they’ll be an unstoppable force.

Finalists in Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent competition 2020, the quartet draw influence from the likes of Parquet Courts, Pavement and LCD Soundsystem whilst maintaining a very British identity.

David Byrne’s Badside was released back in May to critical acclaim and sees the band taking the mick out of modern-day Britain with razor-sharp wit.

Speaking on the single, lead singer and guitarist Sean says: ‘David Byrne’s Badside has nothing to do with the Talking Heads frontman. It’s about class tourism and the casual racism that exists in Britain today. It’s a portrait of the type of person who votes UKIP and wants to close our borders yet promises they’re not a racist. The type of person who says to buy British yet owns a Porsche.

Courting…who are they? a blistering, fast-rising four-piece from Liverpool capable of taking on the world in the next 12 months. Their brand of tight but scrappy post-punk is reminiscent of Light Up Gold-era Parquet Courts but where they really shine is their unabashed, tongue-in-cheek lyricism that takes aim at the British way of life, delivered with a fun dose of self-deprecating humour by frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill.

Their debut EP Grand National is out in 2021 David Byrne’s Badside · Courting on Nice Swan Records Released on: 2020-05-15

WORKING MEN’S CLUB – ” Be My Guest “

Posted: December 11, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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West Yorkshire band Working Men’s Club dropped their long-awaited debut in September. Their eponymous collection of songs is equal parts Calder Valley restlessness and raw Sheffield steel; guitars locking horns with floor-filling beats, synths masquerading as drums and Minsky-Sargeant’s scratchy, electrifying bedroom demos brought to their full potential by Orton’s blade-sharp yet sensitive production.

A rumble on the horizon. Gritted teeth, nuclear fizz and fissured rock. A dab of pill dust from a linty pocket before it hits: the atom split, pool table overturned, pint glass smashed — valley fever breaking with the clouds as the inertia of small town life is well and truly disrupted. Here to bust out of Doledrum, clad in a t-shirt that screams Socialism and armed with drum machine, synth, pedal and icy stare are Working Men’s Club, and their self-titled debut album.

Their eponymous collection of songs featured on the album, Be My Guest is an industrial, unrelenting force and a prime example of their indie-dance-hybrid that people (us included) can’t seem to get enough of.

In anticipation of their debut album released October 2nd), the band took to Manchester’s YES for a bruising, brilliant livestreamed gig last month and this pummelling pop number opened proceedings.

Standouts include the nonchalant existential groove John Cooper Clarke — centred around the realisation that yes, even the luckiest guy alive, the Bard of Salford himself, will someday die. The washily-vocalled, Orange Juicily-guitared White Rooms and People, Cook A Coffee which is like a lost Joy Division number from an alternate universe and the frenetic, pew-pewing A.A.A.A.

NOVA TWINS – ” Play Fair “

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Heavy Music Award winners Nova Twins mix up riffs, hip-hop and nihilism in their hard-hitting music, and there’s no better example of this than “Play Fair” The track first appeared on Nova Twins’ debut album ‘Who Are The Girls?’, released earlier this year. The incendiary, utterly invigorating debut album from London’s Nova Twins formally introduced us to two future stars-in-the-making: vocalist and guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South, a duo whose unwillingness to conform to genre makes them all the more enticing. A wild-eyed crossover of distorted rock and electronic influences, Who Are The Girls? made for one of the most exhilarating and assured releases of the year. It built mountains of coruscating noise via scything riffs, metal thrashing and bass pedals alone, and rewarded the listener with its defiant lyrical content, with the no-shit stance refrain of ‘Bullet’ being a blazing example: “It’s my body, it’s my mind, do what I want with it’. More power to them.

Speaking about the track, the band said in a press release: ‘It’s the ultimate revenge tune, about powering through any hurdles that stand in our way. It’s a call to arms; rise against those who try to hold you back! If life hands you an unfair game, don’t play fair.’

Nova Twins’ Amy and Georgia along with producer Jim Abbiss wrote, recorded and produced their debut album ‘Who Are The Girls?’ 

Reflecting on venturing into the studio for the first time with a ‘big name’ producer, Amy, Georgia and Jim delved into their “ropey” demos written in a tiny room at Georgia’s house, unravelling they formed their raucous balance of electronics, punk and heavy hitting guitar and bass riffs. We’re given a glimpse into the secrets of the duo’s mammoth pedal boards, revealing how they are so much more than extensions of their instruments. Check out their drum parts written for drummers with more than two arms, studio debates about a cowbell, and how many biscuits were consumed during the making of the album. 

LANDE HEKT – ” Going To Hell ” EP

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Probably best known as a member of Muncie Girls, Lande Hekt first caught our ear with last year’s EP, “Gigantic Disappointment”. That release was recorded in the Adelaide Hills, and when returning to Australia to tour earlier this year, Lande went back to the studio, and working with producer, Ben David, put down the tracks that make up her debut solo album, Going To Hell. The record will be released in January next year, and this week Lande has shared the first taste of it, in the shape of new single, “Whiskey”.

The first song that Lande has shared as an openly gay person, like much of Going To Hell, Whiskey focuses in on the experience of coming out. As Lande explains, Whiskey is, “about learning how to come to terms with being gay or, more accurately, realising that pretending you’re not gay can’t go on forever“. While there’s inevitable difficulties in coming out, here Lande seems to focus on the huge positives, think about, “how there were so many things that didn’t feel right“, and the realisation of the relief of living your own truth. Musically, Lande seems to borrow from a vast array of influences from the driving guitars that are pure Sharon Van Etten to the easy vocal style and the shimmering outro The Twilight Sad would be proud of.

The track concludes with Lande’s repeated pronouncement, “is it the feeling of not having to pretend?”, arriving like a striking realisation that happiness lies in understanding the freedom being yourself can bring.

Ahead of the release of her debut solo album Going To Hell, Muncie Girls’ Lande Hekt unveiled her knockout single Undone. The incredible harmonies, crashing drum cymbals and fiery riffs go hand in hand with the relatable, regret-fuelled lyrics. Describing the track, Lande says: ‘This one is about feeling sorry for yourself when you break up with someone that you weren’t even going out with.’

We’ve all been there.

Going To Hell is out January 22nd via Get Better Records.

MORGAN HARPER-JONES – ” Lie To Me ” EP

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With echoes of Laura Marling, Joni Mitchell and Bon Iver heard throughout her music, while still retaining her own very uniquely honed sound, Morgan Harper-Jones possesses a voice to stop you in your tracks. Rochdale’s Morgan Harper-Jones has already set her stall out as a confident, honest songwriter with her first two singles “Lie To Me” and “Breathe”. Continuing down that road, with a take-no-prisoners swagger on her third single, she demonstrates maturity and sure-footedness on her latest offering, “Typical”.

Creating atmospheric tension from the start with off-kilter chords and Morgan Harper-Jones‘ gravelly vocals, “Typical” relies on raw emotion and subtle strings to elicit fleeting moments of positivity in between darker episodes of self-doubt. With rhythmic piano keys ticking away in the background conjuring up a sense of foreboding, the overall result is a dramatic and deliberate track from the 23-year-old.

Explaining the feelings behind “Typical”, Harper-Jones said, “It’s hard to love someone who doesn’t want to be loved… So honestly don’t waste your time or energy. I wrote ‘Typical’ as an ‘eye roll and exit’ song, loosely inspired by activist Gina Martin’s wise words: ‘Loving someone shouldn’t make you feel like you need to make yourself more loveable. You shouldn’t have to work to convince someone to love you and want to spend time with you. Your relationship, like your friendships, should be your solace in this mad world. Do yourself a favour and take inconsistency, lack of interest or de-prioritisation as a no.’”

With “Typical”, Harper-Jones has another striking single under her belt, with her natural song-writing ability shining through.

‘I wrote this with my friend Rob [Milton],’ Harper-Jones says, discussing her single Lie To Me. ‘We both decided we wanted to write a song that was mostly carried by a vocal and vocoder. I was literally ranting to him about my love life when the chorus lyric was written. The majority of the lyrics came out very naturally and conversationally and stuck.’

“Lie to Me” by British singer/songwriter Morgan Harper-Jones is a beautifully intense experience! The song instantly grabs you, raises the hair on your arms in a good way, and makes you fall head-over-heels in love with this incredible artist. The song itself is carefully arranged, giving Morgan Harper-Jones’ vocals the room they deserve to shine, plus a little guitar strumming, mindful drums, and not much else. She starts her song with “I’m not one for sweet nothings”, and when asked about the inspiration for “Lie To Me”, Morgan Harper-Jones sums it all up with:

Harper-Jones adds a top tip for songwriters: ‘Avoid sending a song you wrote about someone to that same person as a means to convey your emotions because it’s creepy and weird.’

21 year old singer-songwriter Morgan Harper-Jones has a beautiful and uniquely soulful voice and is inspired by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling & Alice Pheobe Lou.

LANTERNS ON THE LAKE – ” Spook The Herd ” Best Albums Of 2020

Posted: December 11, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Lanterns On The Lake‘s Hazel Wilde has spoken to NME about their nomination for Hyundai Mercury Prize. The Newcastle band have scored their first Mercury nod with their acclaimed fourth album ‘Spook The Herd’ – which sees them employing their unique brand of atmospheric indie to dissect the hell-scape that we’re all living through. Rising nationalism and entire countries being let down by their leaders are all pertinent themes on the record, but they are always tackled with a degree of impressive subtlety.

“We never do sit down and say ‘this is what we’re going to write a record about’, because it feel too forced and not natural,” said Wilde.

“But that stuff, climate change and global politics is just what you see when you’re flicking through the news. Those things are on my mind and they’re the things we talk about as a band. It seeps into the music.” She continued: “We’re not political with a ‘capital P’ in the songs, but not in a social commentary kind of way – it’s a personal point of view. We’re not trying to lecture anybody or proclaim that we’ve got the big answers to massive questions. It’s coming from the point of view of people who are just living in these weird times.”

“We’ve just discovered that there’s been a big leak in our rehearsal room and a load of stuff is knackered. It would come in pretty useful for that! But we’re not thinking of the winnings – we’re just chuffed to be on the shortlist and have the album heard by more people,” Hazel explained.

And while fans had to wait five years for the arrival of ‘Spook The Herd’, it seems that the follow-up could be here sooner than expected. She added: “I’m really itching to get started on the next one. We do have a few ideas that we started on, but that had to take a backseat at the start of this lockdown. I’m itching to just getting cracking on the next one, I’m sure it will find its own way.”

Mercury Prize nominees Lanterns on the Lake released a live rendition of their beguiling track When It All Comes True ahead of their album and had us hooked. Of the track vocalist Hazel Wilde says: ‘Sometimes when you write a song you are creating a world in the same way a film maker or an artist painting a scene would. This is a twisted coming-of-age love story where we’re let in on the thoughts of what seems like a deranged narrator with a premonition.’

“Spook the Herd” was the fourth studio album to come from Lanterns on the Lake. It was released on 28th February 2020 under Bella Union Records.

CHLOE FOY – ” Are We There Yet ? ” EP

Posted: December 11, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Chloe Foy has had an exciting year. Fresh off the back of playing SXSW in the Spring, where she captured the attention of US audiences and the likes of NPR radio’s Bob Boilen, she has gone on to rack up over 6 million plays on Spotify and tour in support of the mercurially talented Jesca Hoop, as well as embarking on her first ever headline UK tour. Effortlessly beautiful from beginning to end, singer songwriter Chloe Foy’s Callous Copper was the first track we fell in love with in 2020.

Taking inspiration from classical music as much as wider transatlantic trends in folk and indie, Chloe’s songs comprise of carefully constructed arrangements that delicately compliment her cryptic lyrics. ‘Callous Copper’ is an unabashed love song,’ shared Foy back in January. ‘It’s not common for me to be quite so open in my imagery, so I surprised myself with how I laid myself out quite so openly. It has imagery of love in all its seasons.’

With her strikingly beautiful voice and emotionally direct song writing impressing listeners globally, Chloe looks set to have an even better 2021, with a debut album in the pipeline, and with festival appearances already confirmed at Cambridge Folk, amongst others. Chloe is supported by the PRS momentum fund.

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‘Her huge talent lies in creating delicate yet intense atmospheres that swallow us in bliss, while her voice remains our steady link to reality.’ – The405

‘Beautiful and Relatable’ – The Line of Best Fit

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‘She might just be our favourite songwriter of this, or any year’ – Ear To The Ground, ‘definitely a name to watch’ – Folk Radio UK

SONGHOY BLUES – ” Optimisme “

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Songhoy Blues is a band whose experiences in Mali have opened their eyes to universal problems plaguing people everywhere. Using the pain and lessons learned from having to leave their hometowns in northern Mali, the band realizes that human rights is a concept that extends far beyond what they have seen with their own eyes and far beyond just the borders of Mali. In order for the band to see their homes restored, they understand the fight must be fought on all fronts, for everybody across the spectrum. They are no longer refugees or exiles or four people with instruments—they are Songhoy Blues, a musical voice for empowerment and equality.

Working with Matt Sweeney, who encouraged the band to make the album they want to make, “Optimisme” confronts our world today. On “Badala” and “Gabi,” Songhoy Blues seeks the empowerment of women, asking for centuries-old misogynistic practices to be done away with. With “Worry,” the band advises both the young and the old that positive vibes and persistence are the best tools to fight our struggles. In “Asssda,” the band praises and thanks the everyday warriors who wake up everyday to sweat for the betterment of their communities and in “Dournia,” the band laments the lack of compassion and empathy between humans today in the face of increasing materialism and selfishness. “Bon Bon” warns of being fooled by shiny promises, and in “Barre” the band asks for the youth to get involved at home for change while warning off those who wish to divide in “Fey Fey.” Each time Songhoy Blues steps to the mic on Optimisme the band confronts, consoles, praises, thanks, and encourages the listener toward a better world tomorrow. 

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released October 23rd, 2020

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