Weekly Playlist: 27 February 2015
Monthly Archive: February 2015
First Listen: Short Skirts – All Sliced Up
Raw power that immediately recalls Iggy and the Stooges, “All Sliced Up,” the new single from Norway garage rockers Short Skirts, is a harrowing tale of a night gone wrong. Packed with aggression, “All Sliced Up” still manages to revel…
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Video: Birds of Night – Dark
Denton, Texas foursome Birds of Night are set to release their self-titled third album, Birds of Night, on 21 April. “Dark,” the scuzzy first single from the McKenzie Smith-produced album, is a groove-heavy slab of guitar rock that opens the…
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Video: Allegories – Evaporate
Canadian studio auteurs Allegories return with a new video, one which could be taken as a PSA for proper workplace hygiene and kitchen safety. Casting MEAGHA as the video’s domestic diva, “Evaporate” is the first collaboration between the two parties….
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First Listen: Turn to Crime – Prince of Slackers
Revving up to indifferent hooks and a guitar riff deserving of an infinite loop Detroit’s Turn to Crime announce their sophomore album with first single “Prince of Slackers.” Following on 2014’s debut Can’t Love, the trio of Derek Stanton (formerly…
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Video: Mike Pace and the Child Actors – Kiss & Fly
The third time’s the charm for former Oxford Collapse frontman Mike Pace. Having recently issued his solo debut, Best Boy, under the moniker Mike Pace and the Child Actors, Pace has released a third video from the album, a cheeseball sendup of…
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Download: Porter – Hardest Healin’
Clown prince of the trailer park Porter takes a serious turn on his debut solo album, This Red Mountain. Last heard on 2013’s Porter and The Pollies, the former Back Row Baptist and one-half of Some Dark Holler has struck…
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Download: Olgwi – Deep Wind
There’s a verdant hopefulness within the icy folk of “Deep Wind,” the new single from Sweden’s Olgwi. The solo project of Olof Widenfalk, Olgwi was birthed in 2010 before delivering minimalist songs in 2012. Working with co-producer and multi-instrumentalist Nicke…
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Download: Highlander – Except for Your Friend
The instrumental stutter that gives way to the ambient sign off on “Except for Your Friend” sums up the lack of personal connection recounted on the new single from Atlanta-based Highlander. Positing the shifting tides of time, there is an…
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Weekly Playlist: 20 February 2015
First Listen: Fall Electric – Over You
At first diaphanous, the jazz-rock arrangement of “Over You” by Perth, Australia quartet Fall Electric reaches its crescendo once cellist Tristan Parr enters the fray. Bridging the gap between Radiohead’s electronic theatrics and War on Drugs’ unfurled guitar heroics, Fall…
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Video: Happy Fangs – Raw Nights
A lightning guitar assault marched directly into your eardrums by feline singer Rebecca Bortman, “Raw Nights” is the opening track from Capricorn, the latest release from San Francisco trio Happy Fangs. Holding her own amidst the chaos created by guitarist…
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