MARIKA HACKMAN – ” I’m Not Where You Are ” (acoustic)

Posted: July 5, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Marika Hackman is back with ‘the one’, the second single from her forthcoming third album ‘Any Human Friend’, out 9th August via AMF Records (Loyle Carner) and on Sub Pop in North and South America.

Displaying an unapologetic attitude and a more liberated sound than ever before, ‘the one’ has been co-produced by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, Let’s Eat Grandma) and Marika herself. ‘the one’ shows why Marika is fast turning herself into one of the most interesting songwriters of her time. Layered synthesisers make this the album’s most unexpected musical turn, alongside Marika’s signature new wave guitar fretwork and Blondie style delivery, she’s never sounded as widescreen.

The first song written for forthcoming album Any Human Friend, ‘the one’ is “probably the poppiest song I’ve ever written” she says. “I loved the idea of inhabiting this ridiculous arrogant rock star character who has totally fucked their career by writing too many sad songs.” To that end, it features a riot grrrl Greek chorus hurling such insults at her as “You’re such an attention whore!”

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Marika is a ‘Rid of Me’-era PJ Harvey for the inclusive generation: unbounded by musical genre, a preternatural lyricist and tunesmith who isn’t afraid to go there. Hackman’s 2015 debut, ‘We Slept at Last’, was heralded for being nuanced and atmospheric. She really found her footing with her last release, ‘I’m Not Your Man’, and its exceptional, swaggering international hit ‘Boyfriend’, which boasts of seducing away a straight guy’s girlfriend.

Having recently teased new music at the BBC 6 Music festival, The Great Escape, All Points East, and Field Day, Marika is gearing up for an exciting year of touring. Keep an eye on this one!

CAGEWORK – ” Cagework “

Posted: July 5, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Cagework dropped ‘Simmer’ in April 2018, receiving praise and support from the likes of So Young, Clash, Too Many Blogs and Rough Trade, with repeated spins from Huw Stephens, Gideon Coe and ‘Night Tsar’ Amy Lamé.

But what about since then? “We played through the initial excitement around the release of Simmer, which was really encouraging,” says Sam Bedford, principal songwriter of the trio. They went out on the road for spot shows and short runs of dates.

“After a while though, we needed to reassess what we wanted to do next and how to approach that.” The band took a step back from live after the summer to take stock. Cagework started as a bedroom project in the South West of England and it slowly got out of hand. So out of hand, in fact, that it became a band.

Taking inspiration from odd, lo-fi indie, post-hardcore and early emo, with smatterings of avant-garde folk, the band drew these somewhat disparate influences together to create an equally juxtaposed sound; dissonant, atonal and yet somehow hook-driven. Coming into Autumn, amidst growing global anxiety and fidgetiness of their own, a release began to take shape. The band recorded six tracks to a length of just under 15 minutes in their makeshift basement studio.

“It seems strange to want to draw a line under such a short period of time, considering we’ve been a band for less than a year,” says Sam. “But we were looking ahead and really wanted to have these songs documented, with so many more being written all the time.”

The EP was intended to be a self-release in early 2019, but through fate and good fortune, the home recordings found their way to Physical Education Recordings.

The band travelled up to Phys Ed founder Justin Lockey’s South Yorks studio to track their EP in much more compassionate and enabling surrounds.

The resultant self-titled debut is 16-and-a-bit minutes spread across seven tracks. There’re temporal and dynamic shifts, but there’s a thread of continuity. Sure, it’s not furiously angry, but who can sustain anger like that?. This EP reflects the familiar, pervasive malaise of 2018 and, by the looks of things, 2019. It also responds with a message of the need to reflect, a process the band spent enough time on to be relatively authoritative providers of such advice.

EMMA RUSSACK – ” Winter Blues “

Posted: July 4, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In keeping with the way Russack recorded her two 2018 albums she made with fellow Melbourne musician and great friend Lachlan Denton, over a year with Liam Halliwell and Dylan Young on hand, each track on the album was recorded in one take and live to tape at Phaedra Studies and mixed immediately thereafter by John Lee. Hence, not only its rusticity and fragility but also its immediacy and authenticity.

Emma gave us a taste of the album in the single What Is Love? late in 2018. Recorded for the short film An Athlete Wrestling a Python, Emma writes about the simplicities of love, asking “What Is Love?”. During the song she asks, “is it borrowing a t-shirt?” or is it “reading over shoulders?”. It is many things! Apart from the personal lyrical content, the other prevalent thing in the song is the piano taking the lead. It also does soon the new single Winter Blues. The four-and-a-half-minute single is the album’s centrepiece. Incredibly subtle and incredibly beautiful, the song floats in a sombre key, intermittently dotted by Russack’s contemplations, “blame it on the winter blues”.

The piano is also showcased on the album’s quieter moments: Like the Wind, Horses and the album’s stunning finale Never Before.

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releases July 5th, 2019
Players: Liam Halliwell, Dylan Young, Emma Russack 

OLA’s KOOL KITCHEN – Radio Show Ep 390

Posted: July 4, 2019 in MUSIC
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Ola’s Kool Kitchen is a show on KCLA 99.3 FM in Los Angeles, 107.5 andhow.FM, Rock Velvet Radio, Maximum Threshold Radio, Rock Radio UK, Sword Radio UK, Jammerstream One, Kor Radio, Bombshell Radio, Hank’s Alternative Radio, Pop Radio UK and Radio Wigwam and you can hear more shows here

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Show 390 1. Kristin Hersh – LAX-Possible Dust Clouds-Fire Recordings 2. The Raconteurs-Now That Your Gone -Help Us Stranger-Third Man Records 3. Bui-Something Else To Talk About-single-Gala Hala 4. Pinky Pinky-Do Me Dirty (Charlie) single-Innovative Leisure 5. Fresh Pelican – Fire Fire 6-Jungle Trash-self release 6. Flowers-Flat Tired Chuck-Doom City-Luik Records 7. X-Ray Spex – Warrior In Woolworths- Germfree Adolescents-EMI Records 8. Hot Chip-No God-A Bath Full of Ecstasy-Domino Records 9. Jane Weaver-H>A>K (Loops Variation)- Loops In The Secret Society-Fire Records 10. Dr John – I Walk on Guilded Splinters-Gris Gris-Atco 11. Black Pumas-Fire-Black Pumas-ATO Records 12. Johnny Dioxide – Manny Mannuz-Moontower-self release 13. Lucy and the Rats-Stick to You-single-Dirty Water Records

J. McFARLANE’S REALITY GUEST – ” Ta Da “

Posted: July 4, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The new project of Australian artist Julia McFarlane. J McFarlane Reality Guest ,As a member of the group The Twerps, McFarlane has traversed guitar-centric, melodic pop music for some years while honing a highly unique, personal musical language. ‘Ta Da’ is the first recorded unveiling of McFarlane’s affecting, oblique songwriting panache. Originally released in her native Australia on Hobbies Galore, ‘Ta Da’ will be released worldwide by Night School Records in June 2019. ‘Ta Da’ showcases McFarlane’s songwriting immersed in psychedelic music and synths.

It’s a brilliant, deft concoction swimming in Young Marble Giants-type minimalism washed with bare pop and harmony similar to Kevin Ayers making sense of a Melbourne suburb full of faces half-recognised in the blanching sun. McFarlane’s vocal is straight forward, lyrically conversational but still not completely in focus, a surreal kitchen sink drama filtered through a dream where everything is in an unusual place. Reality Guest similarly draws on BBC Radiophonic Workshop-style noise synths, flute solos, palm-muted guitar and a sleepy, psychedelic tone that drifts away into the sunset, simple and direct.

From the album TA DA, available though Night School Records

UV-TV – ” Happy “

Posted: July 4, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Back in 2017, the Gainesville-bred group UV-TV put out a killer full-length album, “Glass”, and and an equally exciting EP, Go Away. Today, they’re back with news of a new album, which is called “Happy”, and a change of scenery, with the group

If one’s been keeping up with the melodic punk music of UV-TV, then their new album Happy will feel like a natural evolution to the stripped-down, sped-up gazey, twee sound of past releases, Go Away and Glass (2017). For Ian Bernacett and Rose Vastola, the masterminds behind the band, 2018 was spent writing and recording the 9-track LP while simultaneously uprooting from Gainesville and migrating north to NYC, where the album was finally mixed and mastered.

The album explores the tropes of letting go of the past, with an amicable catharsis. Despite the album name, the overall tone of the record comes across as a moodier interpretation of their almost jovial punk attitude—with the title track exemplifying that this is a much more personal and thoughtful album. Right out of the gate, the production is cleaner and more buttoned up, perhaps signifying that this record is more serious in nature. While Ryan Hopewell’s charged drumming kicks off the first track, giving us the familiar UV-TV energy, stylistic nuances quickly prove that the band has been drawing on some deeper influences, including The Pastels, Echo And The Bunnymen, and Slowdive, amongst others. As the arc of the album goes to a more vulnerable place, it becomes obvious there’s a new kind of sincerity in their choices compared to the last two releases. By the final track, the entirety of the album has conceptualized the personal and musical growth of the band since last heard in 2017. UV-TV was born in 2015, in the chaos of Gainesville’s thriving DIY scene. With Ian Bernacett’s driving riffs and Rose Vastola’s rock-steady vocals, the two have a knack for writing solid, energetic songs with a sweetness that sticks in the head. As the band continues to push the genre boundaries across their discography, their roots are still deeply embedded in the prolific punk movement they’ve grown from.

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First single off the new record “Happy” out July 19th on Deranged Records

TERRY – ” Spud “

Posted: July 4, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“What to do with a spud like you?” Melbourne post-punk wags Terry return this summer with their new EP ‘Who’s Terry?’ (July 19th). You can just make him out in his hobnail boots, peering from behind the sandwich board, wink, wink. Following on from last year’s huge-sounding ‘I’m Terry’ album, this third EP from the band brings you right up to date with their wobbly politico-pop.

Single from upcoming 7″ out through Upset the Rhythm soon..

TRASH KIT – ” Horizon “

Posted: July 4, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Trash Kit are Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Gill Partington (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan, Sacred Paws, Shopping and Bamboo, united by a shared decade of spry musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads with Trash Kit. Their songs once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. This new focus began with their last album ‘Confidence’ (2014) and has now grown into something exhilarating and rapturous.

New songs like ‘Disco’ have had their very fabric stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision.

They make their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge “Horizon” album. For this album, carefully crafted through years of playing out live, the band have chased down the distance between what they wanted the record to sound like and its realisation. They’ve augmented these songs with choral arrangements, piano, saxophone, harp, viola and cello. Pulling ideas from everywhere between the earth and sky, to push themselves further, to go beyond. Aggs‘ guitar playing for this album was informed by her love of guitar music from Zimbabwe, her cyclical motifs billow with lean Mbira rhythms. Horwood has similarly approached her drumkit with an untamable freedom, allowing it to breathe as a vivid lead instrument. Trash Kit’s music is woven with silence and punctuation, and this is where the resonant, driving bass of Partington fits in. The bass has become now central to shaping the melody of this new collection of songs.

‘Horizon’ by Trash Kit, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Horizon’. Released through Upset The Rhythm on LP. CD and digitally on July 5th.

STELLA DONNELLY – ” Beware Of The Dogs ” Best Albums Of 2019

Posted: July 3, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“Beware Of The Dogs”feels like the embodiment of a movement of young artists in Australia who are refusing to let this oppressive behaviour slide. What a debut from Perth’s Stella Donnelly! She combines witty, intimate, hyperlocal songwriting – which more often than not takes down hierarchical power structures and toxic dudes, see opener Old Man – with slack, shoegazing guitar lines.

There are subdued moments, like Mosquito, where her girlish vocals come to the fore, only for songs like the title track to build to a loud, impassioned – and funny – call-to-arms:”There’s no Parliament worthy of this countryside/All these pious fucks taking from the 99,” she cries. Let ‘em have it, Stella.

Stella Donnelly latest album ‘Beware of the Dogs,’ out March 8 on Secretly Canadian

FONTAINES D.C. – ” Sha Sha Sha “

Posted: July 3, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Few bands have captured the same excitement for rock as well as Fontaines DC do on “Dogrel”.

At its heart, Fontaines DC’s debut is about a city losing its spirit to gentrification, an attempt to document Dublin’s culture and character before the times plaster over the craic and move on.

With that romantic goal in mind, Dogrel is full of literate lyrical sketches. Frontman Grian Chatten’s drawled pub poetry captures Irish Republican cabbies (“He spits out ‘Brits out’ only smokes Carrolls”) as easily as the emptiness of capitalist pursuits (“Money is the sandpit of the soul”) and the band colour it all with raucous post-punk and garage rock.

Fontaines DC are a cracking new band from Ireland who’ve really excited me this year. Their debut LP Dogrel is full of intense, dynamic, rocket fuelled post-punk. It sounds inquisitive and passionate, like a band with a deep love of musicianship still exploring the edges of their sound.

Fontaines DC also love poetry and sing about James Joyce, which feels very romantic, especially since many of their songs are about life in Dublin. It’s thrilling, gritty rock from a band with infinite possibilities ahead of them. The result is universal, despite the record being as intrinsically linked to its hometown as a gold harp on a pint glass.

‘Sha Sha Sha’ is taken from the debut LP ‘Dogrel’ by Fontaines D.C. Out now on Partisan Records –

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