Weekly Playlist: 13 November 2015
Monthly Archive: November 2015
First Listen: The Goldhearts – Here’s the Thing
Blunt, brash and bemusing, Australian quartet The Goldhearts dictate your every move on “Here’s the Thing,” the nascent band’s second single. Polished yet primitive by design, “Here’s the Thing” is a fuzz bomb anthem of empowerment. To be included on…
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Video: The Velvet Hands – Games
Barely old enough to be off the playground, fresh-faced UK duo The Velvet Hands went straight from the garage to the O2 Academy Bristol with debut single “Games.” Brimming with youthful vigor and snarling attitude, 18-year-olds Toby Mitchell and Dan…
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Download: Ringo Deathstarr – Heart and Soul
In advance of Pure Mood, the forthcoming album from Austin, Texas noise rockers Ringo Deathstarr, the trio has released a non-album cover of “Heart and Soul” from ’80s British pop group T’Pau. Like the original (which drew the ire of…
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First Listen: Blue House – Hot Air Balloons
Keeping the jangling guitar of The Smiths while updating the piano of The Beautiful South to synths, “Hot Air Balloons” is a churning pop dispatch from London’s Blue House. Featuring James Howard (Fiction) and Ursula Russell (Drop Out Venus), debut…
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Video: Library Voices – Escape Artist
Synchronized swimming and post-meet snacks follow a night on the town on “Escape Artist” from Canada’s Library Voices. The confessional third single follows the release of the band’s just-issued third album, Lovish. Watch the video for “Escape Artist” below and…
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Weekly Playlist: 6 November 2015
First Listen: ShirleySaid – Crash
A hazy storm of synths and guitar whisks you away on feeble clouds soon to part on “Crash.” The forthcoming single from ShirleySaid, the London-based duo of Giulia Scarantino and Simone Bozzato, the teetering “Crash” is fraught with doubt and…
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Download: Cashavelly Morrison – Long-Haired Mare
As timeless as the genre itself, “Long-Haired Mare,” an Appalachian murder ballad from North Carolina’s Cashavelly Morrison, is the lead song and single from the just-released debut album The Kingdom Belongs to a Child. Featuring the assured murmur of Morrison…
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Review: Daniel Markham & Claire Morales – Harmony in Hell
To mark Samhain, Denton, Texas musicians Daniel Markham and Claire Morales have donned musical costumes to create Harmony in Hell, a stripped-down collection of incantations for the darker half of the year. With appearances by the likes of Nosferatu (“Never…
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Video: Violent Mae – In the Sun
A band by happenstance, Violent Mae, the recording moniker of Connecticut duo Becky Kessler and Floyd Kellogg, will release its sophomore LP, Kid, on 20 November. Following on their eponymous 2013 debut, “In the Sun” is Violent Mae’s first single…
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