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PIN UPS – ” Lunchtime “

Posted: October 28, 2019 in MUSIC
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Featured in back in February with ‘Lunchtime’, London grunge-pop-with-attitude trio Pin Ups
are back with an ace new eight-minute gem, ‘Lazy”.

Here it is people: our new single ‘Lazy’ is out now across all major sites. When we entered the studio with Richard James with the intention of recording this 8 minute long monster, we weren’t entirely sure what the final outcome would be. It’s turned out to be, in our opinion, the most ambitious, exciting and sonically adventurous record we have produced yet.

Produced by Richard James (Foals), bassist Louis Baker takes on lead vocals on the lyrical drug/sleep induced dream world track.

‘Lazy’ opens on a psychedelic, dreamy drift, before veering off into an extended, mind-bending instrumental jam, combining an infectious groove with soaring guitars and synths – the like of which will knock all else into a cocked hat this week!

Pin Ups have really come into their own here, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see them featuring on a few ‘ones to watch’ lists for 2020.

SORRY – ” Right Round The Clock “

Posted: October 26, 2019 in MUSIC
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This week North London band Sorry shared a new song, “Right Round the Clock,” via a video for the track. The new single is taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album, “925”, which is due out in spring 2020 via Domino Recordings. The exact release date and other album details are to be announced. The band’s Asha Lorenz directed the video alongside frequent collaborator Jasper Cable-Alexander.

Lorenz had this to say about the video in a press release: “The video is supposedly a daydream hallucination we did with our friend Jasper. Bit sexy bit silly, make what you like of it hope you enjoy!”

Sorry is led by childhood friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen and the lineup is rounded out by Lincoln Barrett on drums and bassist Campbell Baum. Previously the band’s track “Jealous Guy” (not a John Lennon cover), was their debut.

ANNA MEREDITH – ” Fibs “

Posted: October 26, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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British experimental musician Anna Meredith has released a new album, “Fibs”, via Black Prince Fury . Now that the album is out, we can highlight one of our favorite album tracks that wasn’t already a pre-release single: “Killjoy.” The eagerly anticipated second studio album, Fibs, due for release on 25th October via Moshi Moshi/Black Prince Fury.

Arriving three and a half years on from the release of her Scottish Album of the Year Award-winning debut studio album Varmints, FIBS is 45 minutes of technicolour maximalism, almost perpetual rhythmic reinvention, and boasts a visceral richness and unparalleled accessibility.

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Previously Meredith had shared Fibs’ first single, “Paramour,” via a hypnotic video for the track featuring a Lego train traveling around Meredith and her band as they perform the song. It’s surely one of the best music videos of the year. Then she shared another song from the album, “moonsmoons,” as well as an Augmented Reality app for the song that uses Spatial Audio so that you can place various instrumental parts of the song in various areas in whichever space you are in. Then she shared “Inhale Exhale,” in which she sang the song in a carwash.

FIBS is the follow-up to her acclaimed 2016-released debut album, Varmints. Since then she has kept busy, doing the soundtrack to the Bo Burnham-directed film Eighth Grade and working as a classical composer. And, a press release points out, that she “was recently named a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s birthday honors list for services to music, making her Anna Meredith MBE.”

Of the album title FIBS, in a previous press release Meredith said fibs are “lies – but nice friendly lies, little stories and constructions and daydreams and narratives that you make for yourself or you tell yourself.”

released October 25th, 2019

NILUFER YANYA – ” H34T RISES “

Posted: October 18, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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A remixed and pumped-up version of ‘Heat Rises’ from Yanya’s superb debut LP Miss Universe results in ‘H34T Rises’. Not that we needed convincing on the original cut but this new edit gives the track a beefier, more electro driven feel. Peep the video shot in Istanbul too.

She emerged in May 2016 with an elegant take on the Pixies “Hey” and followed it up with two stunning songs of her own, “Small Crimes” and “Keep On Calling”. In the space of three songs she outlined her aesthetic – sparseness, deftly intricate guitar and vocal melodies and brilliantly observational lyrics.

Yanya cites Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley and Connan Mockasin amongst her influences She grew up in West London and her parents are both artists, coming from a multi-cultural heritage of Turkish, Irish and Bayan. Yanya started learning the piano at the age of six but at twelve realised a long held ambition to learn the guitar. Her Mother encouraged her to take up the cello at the same time, which Yanya persevered with for a few years, but the practical issues of carrying it, coupled with her emotional attachment to the guitar led her away from classical music.

Inspired by her sister’s CD collection, in her early and mid-teens Yanya developed a taste for skater-rock and indie bands but discovering a passion for Jazz was the eureka moment, the trigger for the type of expression she was looking for as a songwriter. After taking her A Levels Yanya got a scholarship, started performing her songs and now, is one of the most exciting new talents around.

RHYS LEWIS – ” What If “

Posted: October 7, 2019 in MUSIC
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“What If”, Rhys Lewis addresses this often-detrimental rumination in a way that’s earnestly emotional and touchingly impassioned. Although his lyricism is stunning, with just his vocal performance Lewis manages to convey both the emotions behind his painful reflections on lost love and the intense adoration he once felt. It’s perhaps in the track’s second verse that Lewis reaches his most earnest detailing in previous inability to see in himself what his ex-girlfriend saw in him.

Love can be a boundless feeling. It can lock us into an armored bubble, keeping us from harm. Although it has its magic, love can break hearts and it can silence the clash of two pairs of lips. Dreaming of love will never be as intense as the real coming together of two honest chasers of passion. We all need affection to live a purposeful life. We also need to pick ourselves up when love begins to lose its flame.

Singer/songwriter Rhys Lewis embarks on creating fables within his songs. The young musician tantalises with new track “What If”. It’s a multi-layered, triumphant, cathartic ballad of sorts. Throughout the track, he conveys a sense of loss, describing that he must patch up love’s stricken body, and that he must bring the girl back into his world.

The descriptions are poignant. Lewis’s ability to stir up emotion makes him such a unique songwriter. He dazzles but also seeks redemption, and he implements into everything he produces, a light. This light may not always be brighter than the sun, but it’s always there.

“What If” is yet another forward thinking track. It doesn’t raise hell, but the subject matter is eventful and the arrangements are intricate. Lewis knows how to construct chords and compelling lyrics which intertwine to create a showpiece.

BAT FOR LASHES – ” Lost Girls “

Posted: September 29, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Londoner plugs in the synths for a journey into the supernatural. Natasha Khan’s latest is a synth-pop love letter to the ’80s sci-fi and fantasy films of her youth. “Lost Girls” is the fifth studio album by Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes. It was released on 6th September 2019 through AWAL  Recordings. It is Khan’s first album since 2016’s The Bride. The lead single “Kids in the Dark” was released on 10th June 2019.

Lost Girls is no less fantastical. Loosely centered around a new character (Nikki Pink) and a gang of biker women who roam the sunset streets of an eerie, make-believe vision of LA, it’s essentially a love letter to the ’80s sci-fi and fantasy films of her youth. She wrote the songs while working on a script of her own, and the starry-eyed, big-screen synth-pop of “Kids in the Dark” sounds like the soundtrack to the big romantic clinch in her own coming-of-age flick.

Khan has cited 1980s music and cinema as an inspiration for the record, citing artists such as Bananarama, Cyndi Lauper and The Blue Nile as well as film composer John Williams.

released September 6th, 2019

Bat For Lashes rarely makes anything less than a big statement with each of her releases—even the one-off side projects—and Lost Girls is not an exception. In some respects it feels like a paring down; the songs are shorter, the concept a bit less cosmic or emotionally overwhelming, but the final product remains grand, a rich headphone experience as much as it is a backdrop for some particularly elaborate daydreams.

WHITE LIES – ” Hurt My Heart “

Posted: September 27, 2019 in MUSIC
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White Lies have shared their new single ‘Hurt My Heart’. The three-piece are currently in retrospective mode, re-visiting debut album ‘To Lose My Life’ on its 10th anniversary.

Recorded in Los Angeles whilst on hiatus and what has been a busy year traversing various continents in support of album ‘Five’ released earlier this year, their first for new label [PIAS] Recordings.
The brooding, synthpop sound  of ‘Hurt My Heart’ is one of a couple of tracks the band recently recorded with US producer Andrew Wells (5 Seconds Of Summer. Fall Out Boy).

Band Members
Harry McVeigh,
Charles Cave,
Jack Brown

White Lies are to play shows in the UK:

SUN BLOOM – ” Take It Away “

Posted: September 26, 2019 in MUSIC
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London based trio Sun Bloom make dance-able indie rock with a twist. Side servings of pop and surf music mean there’s something for everyone to throw a beer around to.

A last slice of summer from London’s indie-surf-popsters Sun Bloom – “Take It Away”. Grab your board Singer Viv Youel says of the video:
“it’s a homemade video that captures the hazy joy of days at the seaside, trips abroad and summers spent in back gardens, larking around with not much on. A nostalgic insight into Summer times from different eras. I wanted the vintage footage to reflect the story of the lyrics, which are about looking back, and missing someone from your past who’s now far away- the memory persisting despite the distance.”

Sun Bloom’s sizzling surf-rock sound feels instantly reminiscent of the likes of Alvvays or Best Coast—but British. Their surf-inspired dream-pop sound is undeniably addictive and clearly a strong start for this budding band.

BEABADOOBEE – ” She Plays Bass “

Posted: August 24, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Bea Kristi is all of 19, and her music as Beabadoobee has already evolved in profound ways. She got her start as a bedroom-bound pop singer whose hushed, Elliott Smith-inspired whispers radiated soft intimacy. But as her star has risen — after going viral on YouTube in 2017, she’s released a handful of EPs and racked up tens of millions of streams — her newest singles have located her sharper, more forcefully anthemic edges.

Following the release of a handful of EPs on Dirty Hit, home to The 1975, beabadoobee celebrated mainstream success as the guest vocalist on Powfu’s UK top five single Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head). The track sampled beabadoobee’s 2017 debut Coffee, and paved the way for her first solo charting single, Care. Listed on the BBC’s Sound Of 2020 and nominated for the BRIT Award’s Rising Star accolade, beabadoobee (real name: Beatrice Laus) revealed details of her Fake It Flowersf ull-length in July 2020, to be released in October of this year.

Based on your previous use of Gigs and Tours, we think you might be interested to know about Beabadoobee’s latest announcement!
Beabadoobee, one of the UK’s most exciting recent breakthrough artists has confirmed a run of headline shows for 2021 in celebration of the release of her debut album next month!

The artist has also recently shared her new single ‘Worth It’ from her highly anticipated upcoming debut album ‘Fake It Flowers’, out October 16th via Dirty Hit.
The ‘Fake It Flowers’ tour will take place in September and October next year and includes a hometown show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town.

MIRRORS FESTIVAL – Various Venues Camden Town London 2nd November 2019

Posted: August 13, 2019 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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