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SHAME – ” Tasteless “

Posted: April 24, 2017 in MUSIC
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2016 saw the South London five piece Shame make a stand to attention with their breathlessly unhinged punk rock and wildly unbound live shows, 2017 is the year that they intend to push this up a notch.

To get things going, the band have shared the video for the snarling live anthem ‘Tasteless’, directed by lead singer Charlie Steen alongside Lou Smith. In Steen’s own words: “There always seems to be comfort in the collapsed, the constant pursuit for oblivion.

“What we portray is the detachment from what we have created ourselves, the willingness to destroy and demean it through stabbing, spray painting and eventually burning. All for one man’s slight amusement.

“It is a comment on removing oneself from thought and reasoning and accepting how nothing is truly permanent, nothing is completely original and only by understanding this can progression be made. The only boundary being reality itself, something many tend to avoid.”

7″ vinyl with Visa Vulture b-side out on Fnord available 14th April. Order from Rough Trade , Shame continue to cement themselves as a must see live act,

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The SPOILERS – ” Nothing “

Posted: April 23, 2017 in MUSIC
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Released months after their debut LP, Spoilers skip the distorted tones of their ‘Anti Vibe’ 12″ and choose to take a direct, focused response to single-issue voters, echo chambers and e-activism with ‘Nothing’.
Sharp-sounding clangy guitars strum out this catchy punk rock, reminiscent of early Wire, Parquet Courts and Uranium Club. Recorded and mixed by the band’s bassist Christopher Smith at their rehearsal space/studio Kluster Rooms and self-released by the band’s own label Anti Vibe Music Group on limited edition orange cassette.
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released April 21, 2017

Mario Daddabbo (Drums), Craig Sharp (Vox & Guitar), Chris Smith (Bass) & Eddie Whelan (Vox & Guitar).

LITTLE CUB – ” Too Much Love / Hypnotise “

Posted: April 7, 2017 in MUSIC
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Still Life by Little Cub. Vinyl LP, CD.

South London trio Little Cub will release their debut album “Still Life” on 28th April on Domino Records. Marrying a wry, worldly and subversive form of diarist lyricism with sumptuously evocative electronic production, Still Life announces the arrival of a band at once deeply in tune with the greatest traditions of progressive, homespun British pop music and at odds with the increasingly vacuous pop culture they are born into

Here’s a sombre reflection on life in 21st century England, with an equally dystopian music video to accompany. The band hail from south London, and their debut album, Still Life, drops at the end of this month on Domino Records.

CHEMTRAILS – ” Headless Pin Up Girl “

Posted: April 7, 2017 in MUSIC
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London, based UK garage psychedelic band Chemtrails “Headless Pin Up Girl” from the sophomore EP ‘Headless Pin Up Girl’ available via PNKSLM Recordings

As much as this may act as a landmark for the band it will be felt more personally by band leader Mia Lust who uses this to showcase personal struggles. Lust manages to convey the sense of technically being allowed to fulfil one’s dreams, ambitions and wants but still having to deal with the inevitable backlash for pursuing that. Over some salt-bleached harmonies and fuzzy lo-fi strings Lust takes you on a journey, one which ends with Lust’s eventual decision to come out as transgender and begin transitioning.

Lust further explains: “Headless Pin Up Girl” is a song I actually wrote a few years ago, and the last song I wrote before deciding to come out as transgender and begin transition. The title was inspired by online cross dressing forums I used to visit, which had a lot of pictures of people dressed up all pretty and femme, but with their heads out of shot to hide their identities. The song says as much as I could possibly say at the time without just stating the fact that I’m trans, but it could equally well be about anyone that knows the feeling of not being able to be themselves, or anyone that has kept secrets out of shame and embarrassment.”

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Punk Slime Recordings are proud to present the London quintet Chemtrails, led by the musical and romantic partnership of Mia Lust and Laura Orlova. After their debut live show at Trans Pride festival in Brighton, and sharing a few demos on online early last year (which quickly picked up praise from the likes of Elvis Depressedly frontman Mat Cothran) Chemtrails introduced themselves with the debut single “Aeons” in late September before a hometown gig as part of PNKSLM’s Slime Ball weekender.

Mia (vocals, guitar),
Laura (vocals, guitar),
Another Laura (vocals, bass),
Ian (keyboard),
Sam (drums).

DIY POP FEST – Shackwell Arms London

Posted: April 3, 2017 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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DESPERATE JOURNALIST – ” Resolution “

Posted: April 1, 2017 in MUSIC
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Desperate Journalist have just released latest single Resolution, a mix of noir power chords.

Singer Jo Bevan said, “The song was written in a hotel room after a New Year’s Eve party when I was feeling particularly peculiar, unable to drink and on a lot of codeine. New Years Eve is obviously an unusually heightened time to feel completely out of the loop with a group and when that happens to me, like everything else I can’t really cope with, I romanticise it into filmic fragments.

“The countdown to midnight was dramatized massively by the band we were watching (as is standard), and I couldn’t escape fixating on teenage thoughts like: how many cliched repetitive conversations/Fun Times you have with people on Significant Days of the Year, how emotionally awkward the midnight kiss was for so many of us, the people making big pointless romantic gestures, and the general warm frenzy of everyone else from the weird cold bubble of where I was. So broadly speaking, the song is about being detached and overstimulated.”

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Glowering indiegoth melody crunchers Desperate Journalist have announced their biggest headline show to date at the Scala in Kings Cross on Thursday April 6th. Their terrific new single called Resolution is out now

 

 

HMLTD – ” To The Door “

Posted: March 20, 2017 in MUSIC
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HMLTD are one of the most musically confounding and interesting looking new bands in London the six-piece from the south of the city, have over the past year gained a cult following on the back of a set of singles which combined razor-sharp post-punk with glam rock feel and spaghetti western-style imagery .With HMLTD,  there are no half measures. Everything about this band is channelled into their art, their music, their look and their videos. They give everything they’ve got into the delightfully complex and boundary-pushing universe they have crafted.

That sentiment and mission is none more evident than in their latest visual experience for their third single release ‘Single To The Door’, a dystopian sci-fi Western delight once again directed by collaborator Jenkin van Zyl. It opens with jangling Pulp Fiction style guitars, but then electronic womps soon take over,

Bandsman Henry  Spychalski with a look like Thin White Duke-era Bowie explained the story behind the video. “It took one day to film, it was intense. The video was recorded in London, just North of Camden, we rented the mechanical bull, I had to ride on that for about an hour. If I can say so, I was the best on the mechanical bull, I was having to swing a microphone in the air, which is actually quite difficult, while I was on a mechanical bull lip syncing the track – many times I hit myself in the face with the microphone, I started bleeding and stuff. It’s hard.”

SHAME – ” Tasteless “

Posted: March 9, 2017 in MUSIC
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South London post-punks Shame share their restless new track “Tasteless”,

The quintet force their acclaimed live show into three minutes of pure adrenaline on “Tasteless”, with sawblade riffs and hoarse-throated yowls liberally scattered across rampaging basslines and percussion. It’s the frothing energy and unrestrained charisma of Shame made fiercely permanent.

The band’s lead singer Charlie Steen explains that “Tasteless” is about “protesting against people’s constant acceptance and indifference towards deeply troubling issues within society as well as politics, only seeming to care when it is something that will affect them. [It’s] a comment disregarding some people’s over-sensitivity when a person or group of people speak out about something.”

Shame have a lot of shows planned for the coming weeks and months, including a stint at SXSW, Warpaint support slots, and their own headline dates.

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GIRL RAY – ” Stupid Things “

Posted: March 6, 2017 in MUSIC
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Girl Ray an indie-pop trio from London, craft subtle, winsome songs about teenage romance and youthful angst. On their latest single, “Stupid Things,” they evolve this sound into something more complex yet equally youthful. In its solitary piano and lovelorn refrain, “Stupid Things” nods to the balladry of female singers like Carole King and Carly Simon, yet feels slightly off-kilter—less an homage to these 1970s stars than a rethinking of their classic sound. Singer/guitarist Poppy Hankin has an alluring, peculiar singing voice; her tone is at once lulling yet high and boyish, relaxing yet tense. Here, she he channels it into downtrodden whispers (“It was just to feel close to you/I’ve never done so many stupid things”) against a loose, groovy bassline, playing with her pitch until it’s dissonant against the slinky melody.

 Stupid Things is “about crushing really hard on someone, and finding myself doing fucking ridiculous things, like watching films that they mentioned fleetingly or ordering their favourite drink at a bar”, according to songwriter Hankin In this contrast, Girl Ray captures how fleeting, heart-wrenching, and ultimately self-deprecating young love can be. the band is made up of Iris McConnell (drums), Sophie Moss (bass).

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Other Girl Ray tracks include Trouble – about “turning into someone you don’t like” – with its popping bassline and pop harmonies over endearingly ramshackle percussion; the dolorous Where Am I Now, on which you can hear why Hankin, has been described as the Finchley Nico;

PHOBOPHOBES – ” The Never Never “

Posted: February 22, 2017 in MUSIC
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South London’s Phobophobes share the same aesthetic and healthy cynicism for the commercial world as contemporaries just like The Fat White Family, Meatraffle, and Goat Girl.

And never more so on latest single “The Never Never”, an ode to the precarious survivalism of society’s most disenfranchised. Swirling through repetitive slogans, rubbishing the adverts that promise a life we can’t really afford as pastiche, and asking earnestly, “what separates those treading water to survive from the religious idols who struggled so similarly?”

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