Pet Shimmers Deliver Sixth & Final Single From Debut LP
Yesterday Bristol left field pysch-pop septet Pet Shimmers dropped the sweetly absurdist slow burning single ‘Tyson’. It’s a most agreeable albeit bittersweet effort about remembering the simple honesty of a cute and honest trick performing dog who we presume is/was called Tyson. We also presume from reading between the lines that sadly Tyson is no […]
WITH THEIR DEBUT LP IMMINENT, TWEN RELEASE CATHARTIC NEW SINGLE “MAKE HARD”
Nashville via Boston DIY rock duo Twen have released the third (or fifth) lead in single ‘Make Hard’ from their soon to be released debut album Awestruck. With its grounded and measured musical character, it’s a very different animal to the previous two singles, the powerfully declarative ‘Baptism’ and the wistfully angular ‘Damsel’. Lyrically, it […]
TROPICAL FUCK STORM SHARE NEW SINGLE + VIDEO FROM BRAINDROPS
For those unfamiliar, Melbourne based experimental psych-noise-punk-rock quartet Tropical Fuck Storm are an underground Australian supergroup of sorts, one not averse to wearing their political and social hearts on their sleeve and staring down power with a steely resolve, unpretentious intellect and a healthy dose of self-awareness. Formed in 2017, the band consists of drummer […]
RECORD REVIEW: KOKOKO! (DRC/FRA) – FONGOLA (ALBUM OF THE WEEK)
Fongola (The Key) is the debut album from DIY electronic and experimental quintet KOKOKO!. Made up of four Congolese artists, Makara Bianko, Dido Oweke, Boms Bomolo and Love Lokombe and veteran French artist/producer Xavier Thomas aka Débruit, they form just part of a wider 70 member DIY arts collective from the Ngwaka and Lingwala neighbourhoods […]
FÖLLAKZOID SET TO DELIVER THE IMMENSE “I”
It’s been four years since their third long player so its great news to hear that Santiago experimental and electronic outfit Föllakzoid have announced the release date for their third long player I, which follows up album’s II (2013) and III (2105). To mark the occasion they’ve shared ‘IIII’, an immersive bang on thirteen minute […]
NEW & NOTABLE: ZOMBIES IN MIAMI (MEX) – SPACE IS THE PLACE
Hot on the heels of their split 4 tracker with New York City’s The Juan Maclean, Mexican left field electronic duo Jenice & Caniba aka Zombies In Miami have released Space Is The Place, their new three track EP for Prins Thomas’s Norwegian label Internasjonal. As the EP’s name suggests, the three tracks cater to […]
NEW & NOTABLE: KASSI VALAZZA (USA) – CHINO (SINGLE)
Portland based singer songwriter Kassi Valazza recently released her super impressive new single ‘Chino’. It’s delicate yet expansive affair, an instructively powerful and spacious mixture of western inspired country and tinges of psych rock. As bruising and self aware as it is wistful and warmly nostalgic, the track will appear on her forthcoming debut album […]
KIKAGAKU MOYO RELEASE MASANA TEMPLES
Photo Credit: Jamie Wdziekonski Last Friday saw Japanese psych-rock genre defiers Kikagaku Moyo release their excellent new album Masana Temples. Having decamped to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon to record the album, their fourth, with jazz musician Bruno Pernadas, the Tokyo and Amsterdam based quintet were aiming for a more expansive approach conceptually to psychedelic music […]
NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR NEW SILVER GIRL
Helsinki quartet New Silver Girl have followed up their sprawling debut single, ‘Phantom Ride’ with the proto-punk/motorik/psych rock inspired follow up ‘Starlight City’. It’s the second single from their forthcoming self titled debut album set for October on Soliti Records. Watch the video which sees frontman Olli Happonen star in what is in his own words […]
HIDEOUS SUN DEMON DROP THE RIPPING FAME, EROTIC, DREAM.
Fremantle punk trio Hideous Sun Demon dropped their ripping third full length Fame Erotic Dream last Friday. It’s an album that’s a relentless ride in every respect highlighted by its exceptional rhythm section, fiercely delivered vocals and kaleidoscopic guitar sounds that can go from full widescreen to spiky in the blink of an eye. This […]