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SAINT AGNES – ” Merry Mother of God Go Round “

Posted: December 8, 2016 in MUSIC
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Saint Agnes as a band are a a stomping, snarling piece of psych rock, there’s an electricty running through the band, an indefinable chemistry which draws on the spirt of Jim Morrison’. The excitement is building, speculation as to what the title means grows and Jon is deciding which cowboy shirt to wear. The band are playing their last headline show of the year on December 8th at the Oslo in Hackney, London.

You can grab a copy of our new single on limited edition vinyl. Featuring a-side “Merry Mother of God Go Round” and an exclusive b-side cover of Nine Inch Nails’ We’re In This Together Now. 

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Saint Agnes:
Kitty Arabella Austen – Vocals, guitar, keys, percussion
Jon Tufnell – Vocals, guitar, harmonica
Ben Chernett – Bass and baritone guitar
Andy Head – Drums and percussion

Merry Mother of God Go Round recorded at Soup Studios, London
Engineered by Dave Holmes

 

The TELESCOPES – ” Taste “

Posted: December 3, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Generally written off as a Jesus and Mary Chain and Spacemen 3 rip The Telescopes earlier records are a lot more diverse than tag lines may describe. The Telescopes are to shoegaze what The Cro-Mags are to Hardcore. The Cro-Mags started late and therefore benefited from the influence of every major and influential hardcore punk bands of that era. They fused everything that they where influenced by and injected their own new york attitude into it. The Telescopes do a very similar move on their first LP ‘Taste’, and the title itself gives an air of pretension more overt and obvious than the Mary Chain or Spacemen 3 (see also the lyric in There Is No Floor, ‘there is no 13th floor’). The record was released in 1989 and its sound is equally influenced by records like Psychocandy or the Perfect Prescription but these dudes where obviously waaaay stoked on garage punk. Like they are definately down with the Stooges and Iggy Pop but they where probably waaay more excited about The Iguanas or Them. They also have much more of a Rolling Stones influence with a bit of the Buzzcocks

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The band has tread between shoegaze, psychedelic noise, and shimmering pop since they formed in Burton upon Trent, England, in the late ’80s, and they’ve remained opaque throughout; the founding singer/guitarist Stephen Lawrie is either charming or maddeningly cryptic in interviews, depending on who’s telling the story. 

Luckily, the Telescopes’ debut album, “Taste”, is a sumptuous example of how music can communicate what language can’t. It was released in 1989, when shoegaze was still fledgling, and it’s a varied sampler of the eventual staples of shoegaze: zonked-out space rock, drone-laced rhythms, gossamer guitars. The divergence from the eventual genre lies in Lawrie’s vocals, which don’t so much swoon as sock you in the stomach, especially on the lysergic “Threadbare.” On “Taste”, that shock to the senses proves enlightening. 

Our first album “Taste”. Originally released on What Goes On Records, almost 30 years ago, later re issued on; Cheree Records, RevOla Records/ Cherry Red Records and Bomp Records. Now available to download from our Bandcamp site..

FAMILY SCRAPS – ” Too Pure “

Posted: November 25, 2016 in MUSIC
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Early this year Matthew Johnson otherwise known as MJ from the band Hookworms began sharing solo material, stating that there “will be a whole record as soon as I can get some studio time to finish it.” It seems that time has finally arrived. Writing under the name Family Scraps, the musician has shared his debut single proper in the form of “Mistakes”.

Echoing melodies and shimmers of distortion are as engaging as they are electric. Punchy rhythms power the song from its core, vocals uttering words of self-deprication with an astounding grace. There’s a certain beauty in the breakdown, a blazing guitar solo guiding the way to the chorus’ gentle harmonies. Giving doom and gloom a polished sheer, Another track following the recent release on Too Pure Singles Club ‘It Follows’, is the latest effort from the musical maestro MJ. The frontman from Hookworms and the man now behind the Family Scraps moniker.

The track was recorded during the Christmas floods which destroyed his studio by the river in Leeds. It has the tone of hope whilst still taking in the damage. It reeks of the artists mercurial stamp and bodes well for the promised upcoming LP. Both tracks will be out on Too Pure Singles Club in early 2017.

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Both songs written by Matthew Johnson
A full length album will follow in 2017. No live dates are currently planned.

MALIHINI – ” Waiting “

Posted: November 17, 2016 in MUSIC
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‘Waiting’ is the debut single from South London by way of Rome duo, Malihini.

Giampaolo Speziale and Federica Caiozzo met in early 2015 in Rome and, in what Federica describes as a “moment of surrender”, decided to start making music together on a road trip through Austria, Germany and Poland. The duo gathered thirty improvised musical ideas and spent eight days recording with their friend and drummer Alberto Paone in a Roman studio.
In June of this year, Giampaolo and Federica decided to break from their previous musical incarnations and moved from Rome to London, taking with them a hard drive of songs, a battered suitcase and vinyl copies of Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left and Stevie Wonder’s Hotter Than July. Settling in Camberwell in the house of an Egyptologist, they set about mixing the songs, the first fruits of which is the single ‘Waiting’.

Built around a simple Korg MS2000 synth refrain and featuring both Federica and Giampaolo on shared lead vocals, ‘Waiting’ takes us through the minds of a wrongly accused death row inmate and his lover who’s become delusional, lost in a dreamworld.

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Giampaolo Speziale and Federica Caiozzo met in early 2015 in Rome and, in what Federica describes as a “moment of surrender”, decided to start making music together on a road trip through Austria, Germany and Poland. The duo gathered thirty improvised musical ideas and spent eight days recording with their friend and drummer Alberto Paone in a Roman studio.

BLACK DELTA MOVEMENT – ” Seven Circles ” EP

Posted: November 17, 2016 in MUSIC
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Garage Rock & Roll outfit from Kingston Upon Hull, England, signed to Ruby Music.

Formed in 2010, The Black Delta Movement have released 4 EP’s, 2 singles, toured extensively across the United Kingdom and supported the likes of Drenge, Temples, Kaiser Chiefs, The Stranglers, The View, Shaun Ryder, Twin Atlantic, The Moons and many more

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BRYDE – ” Honey ” EP2

Posted: September 21, 2016 in MUSIC
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The latest Tipping Point Records release by Bryde is already creating waves, taking thrilling dynamic cues from PJ Harvey’s early output, Bryde’s latest single ‘Honey’ is a hard hitting sonic assault which sees the London artist turn up the electric guitars.

It bears the indelible stamp of Bill Ryder-Jones who takes production duties. The outcome is an intensely gratifying salvo of unabashed attitude, replete with lyrics that wouldn’t be out of place in a Courtney Barnett song: “you’re like a bad word, I think I misheard”.

Since setting out as Bryde, Sarah Howells has proven herself to be one of the most singular vocalists and songwriters in todays music scene . After a great set at this years Green Man festival. She’s a powerful projectionist with a tonal range that will likely see her drawing comparisons with her international axe-wielding peers Angel Olsen, Mitski and St Vincent.

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Praise for the Welsh songwriter has been bestowed from bloggers like, Earmilk, Nylon, 6Music andRadio 1.

‘Honey’ is available on all streaming services now and is the first part of an EP to be released in November via Tipping Point Records..

MILK TEETH – ” Vile Child “

Posted: August 27, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The ramshackle charm of Milk Teeth’s debut full-length ‘Vile Child’ made it one of the year’s most loveable albums. Mixing dirty garage grunge with squalling hardcore and languid slacker rock, the Bristol four-piece sound like a blend of Pavement, Dinosaur Jr and Glassjaw, while earlier this year they struck gold with single ‘Swear Jar’: a perfect slice of 90s nostalgia

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MARTHA / RADIATOR HOSPITAL – ” Split 7 “

Posted: January 17, 2016 in MUSIC
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Is this an EP or simply a split single? “When it rains, well it really fucking pours” sing Martha and they’re right, if an EP with one brilliant band on it counts as raining then this EP with two brilliant bands on it definitely counts as pouring. A total deluge would be more accurate. This record is a marriage made in indie/pop/punk/lo-fi heaven. Bonus Points for breaking down the North East England / Pennsylvania divide .We are a rock band of rockers who love to rock. We also can be just one person who is much quieter but still loves to rock.

SEA PINKS – ” Green With Envy “

Posted: January 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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Green With Envy” by Sea Pinks (2016, from the album Soft Days).
Sea Pinks is a low-fi indie/jangle-punk trio from Belfast. Their new album is their fourth, but from what I’ve read, it’s the first thing they’ve done with the mindset of a trio. The band started off as a solo project for Neil Brogan, who was playing drums for Girls Names at the time. That new Girls Names record made my 2015 Honorable Mention list, which you can see here. Because I like Girls Names, I knew about Sea Pinks, but I’d never heard any of their stuff until I got their new record the other day.

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They say they’re influenced by “beach glass, bleached grass, and ghost guitars”. I’m not sure what any of that means, but it sounds like something that might have been on Slumberland or K Records back in 1995. It’s a little surfy, a little DIY, a lot cloudy and cold. Although I said it has that Slumberland ’95 feel, or the K Records ’95 feel, there’s certainly no mistaking that this is not from this side of the Atlantic.

RALEGH LONG – ” Hoverance “

Posted: January 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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taken from the mini album”Demented Beauty” Ralegh Long is an English Singer-Songwriter. His critically acclaimed debut album, “Hoverance”, was released on Gare du Nord records in April 2015. It is a beautifully pastoral record, in the tradition of Bill Fay and Nick Drake. The Guardian praised it for its ‘twilit ambience and demented beauty’, and in a 4 star review MOJO celebrated its ‘spooky pastoralism’. 

To write the album, Long left London and returned to the surrounding countryside where he grew up. Sitting at a piano overlooking the fields he wrote a debut album suffused with natural imagery and mysticism. He then returned to London and gathered a group of friends to record the album. The cast of collaborators includes Tom Dougall of the band TOY on guitar, Jack Hayter (ex-Hefner) on pedal steel, string-arranger Louis-Phillipe (El records, The Clientele) and chamber group A Little Orchestra.

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Long then spent the summer of 2015 touring, culminating in a headline show for Parallel Lines at St. Pancras Old Church – where he was backed by A little Orchestra. Tracks from Hoverance received airplay on BBC6, from DJs including Lauren Laverne, Guy Garvey and Gideon Coe, BBC Scotland, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. The album’s opening track, ‘Gulls Hovering’ was chosen as a ‘Headphones Moment’ by Laverne. Long is currently writing and recording an E.P due for release early 2016.

 

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