Well this has come out of nowhere: Interpol unveil a new song, ‘Toni’ with a video, while simultaneously announcing they’ve a new album, The Other Side of Make-Believe, out on Matador Records in 15th July 2022.
Check ‘Toni’ here:
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Watch: ‘Toni’ by Interpol
Posted: 7 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Interpol, Matador Records, New Album, The Other Side of Make-Believe, Toni, video stream
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Watch: ‘Marry the Night’ by GHXST
Posted: 5 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: electro, GHXST, goth, Marry the Nigght, No Wave, Noise, video stream Admire
Having announced their debut album Admire last month with first single ‘Pls, You Must Be a Dream’, LA-based noise duo GHXST has now shared new track ‘Marry The Night’.
‘Marry the Night’ is a love song for nights after hours spent walking through empty streets. The track opens with a lulling atmospheric loop that gradually opens into heavier spaces, with Shelley X’s signature delayed vocals echoing against drop-tuned guitars. Throughout, a drum machine pulses, like beats echoing from outside a Brooklyn warehouse. It’s gloomy listening, but the gloom is somehow warm and inviting.
The video is a compilation of stories shot on iPhone by friends of the band. Scenes jump from New York to New Orleans to Palau to Los Angeles. There’s no narrative, but the moody, b&w scenes feel like flipping through someone’s lost memories from an endless day.
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Watch: ‘Say So’ by Wild Wild Wets
Posted: 4 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Psychedelic, Say So, video stream, Wild Wild Wets
San Diego’s Wild Wild Wets are gearing up for the release of their just-announced new album Love Always.
The band has launched album pre-orders/pre-saves and is debuting the first single ‘Say So’ which is now streaming here:
Co-frontman Mike Turi (along with bandmate Taejon Romanik ) says of the track and companion music video, "Our good friend and producer, JeanCarlo Mendez, not only made the album happen, he has gone out of his mind putting together this wild visual video for "Say So" using old-school analog video techniques from the 80’s. His style and sensibility is obviously very much our vibe and he and his teammate Brandon Mosquera nailed the edit on this project."
Mendez adds, ‘Say So’ was immediately one of my favorite tracks. For the video I wanted to make an early MTV Era meets early 2000’s Ipod commercial… But on Acid. We used late 80’s era video switchers to create the feedback, and old CRT monitors to create the banding and scan-lines you see in the video. "Say So" is a fun psych-pop track with infectious energy, yet Sparks-esque, in its fermented dreariness (case in point the lyric: "I never met someone who could make me feel so high and not care if I’m alive" and references to ‘Formaldehyde Perfume’).
Watch: ‘Tria Prima’ by Esoterik
Posted: 3 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Alchemy, Darkwave, Depeche Mode, Electropop, Esoterik, goth, pagan, synth, Tria Prima, video stream
Pagan synth duo, Esoterik have unveiled their new full-length LP, Alchemy.
The concept of Alchemy has many different forms and interpretations but the analogy holds true for any artist in that we take elements or ingredients, which on their own have a certain character and then take on a transformation into something that didn’t exist before.
Is it magick or is something more tangible? Who’s to say? But there’s no denying that words have power and music in itself has the ability to illicit a variety of emotions that time stamp our journey throughout life.
About the album, Alchemy, the band says the following, "We took a different approach with this album than we have in the past with a clear vision from the start thematically of what we wanted to achieve and then crafted each track around that."
As a taster, they’ve delivered a video for ‘Tria Prima’ which you can watch here:
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Listen: ‘Demon Wolf’ by Grafvitnir
Posted: 1 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: black metal, Carnal Records, Demon Wolf, Grafvitnir, travcvk stream, Tunes of Sitra Ahra
Swedish black metallers Grafvitnir are back from the shadows with their eighth opus, titled Tunes of Sitra Ahra.
Venomous incantations accompanied by haunting riffs and eerie melodies with a touch of Nordic melancholy and coldness.
Eight tracks capturing the ferocious wrath of a people betrayed and the essence of the dark liberator of illumination.
Album is scheduled for its CD and digital releases on 29 April 2022 via Carnal Records.
Listen to the album’s first track, ‘Demon Wolf’ here:
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Watch: ‘Spring’ by GGGOLDDD
Posted: 1 April 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Dark alternative, GGGOLDDD, Spring, This Shame Should Not Be Mine, video stream
Dark alternative act GGGOLDDD have revealed a poignant new video for ‘Spring’ from their album, This Shame Should Not Be Mine, which is out today. Despite the name and the flowers that surround vocalist Milena Eva in the video, ‘Spring’ is one of the darkest tracks on the album.
Milena Eva comments: ”This song describes the moment I realized what happened to me after I was raped. I was confused. I froze. I don’t remember if it took hours or days or months. I felt empty and alone. And outside winter was turning into spring, like nothing had happened.”
Watch the video now:
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Watch: ‘Phantoms’ by Pure Reason Revolution
Posted: 30 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: 2022 European tour dates, Above Cirrus, InsideOutMusic, Phantoms, Pure Reason Revolution, video stream
Pure Reason Revolution recently announced their fifth studio album Above Cirrus will be released on 6th May 2022 via InsideOutMusic. The is the follow-up to 2020’s Eupnea, which was the band’s first record since reuniting in 2019. This time around, Jon Courtney, Chloë Alper & Greg Jong (who returns as a full-time member for the first time since the ‘Cautionary Tales For The Brave’ EP) find themselves adapting to a world that is radically changing before their eyes, and on this new record, exorcising the isolation and uncertainty in search of something greater.
Today the band are launching a brand new single titled ‘Phantoms’. Watch the video, once again created by Thomas Hicks, here:
The band are also about to head out on a European tour alongside Gazpacho in April 2022. Find the full list of dates below:
8th April – Club Cann, Stuttgart, Germany
9th April – Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany
10th April – Columbia Theater, Berlin, Germany
11th April – Die Kantine, Cologne, Germany
13th April – Mezz, Breda, Netherlands
14th April – Hedon, Zwolle, Netherlands
16th April – Petit Bain, Paris, France
17th April – Earth Theatre, London, UK
Listen: ‘Abolish the Overseer’ by PETH
Posted: 27 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Abolish the Overseer, Heavy, Merchant of Death, oppression, PETH, psych metal, single stream
Jonestown, Texas-based proto-metal/heavy psych bringers PETH have shared ‘Abolish the Overseer’ single off their upcoming debut, Merchant of Death, which is set for release on 27 May 2022 via Electric Valley Records (digital and vinyl – multiple variants) and The Cosmic Peddler (vinyl – US Editions).
According to PETH: “‘Abolish The Overseer’ is a new age proto-metal song dedicated to the trashing of any form of oppression in modern society.”
Listen here:
Central Texas is well known for its underground heavy rock ‘n’ roll from the late ‘60s,’70s, and ‘80s: — a series of sounds different than any other place on earth have been originated and evolved from here time and time again. Fast forward some 50 years later and there are still the same hell-raisin, beer-drinking, guitar-slinging rock ‘n’ cowboys makin some noise in the Lone Star! Hence, it’s no surprise that in the 21st century, a band like PETH come along and start making some big ‘70s Texas noise!
Born in the middle of the 2020 pandemic, these four native Texans have been doing all the maniacal and lawless exploits with a wild mix of early ‘70s proto-metal and heavy psych/occult rock soundscapes matched to that of early Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Medusa, Venom, Blue Cheer, Pentagram, ZZ Top, and the likes. Conjuring evil guitarmonies (what they call guitar harmonies), explosive trucking bass and drum section, and two knock-out vocalists, PETH truly help preserve the spirit of Texas’s old way of life while helping usher in this new era of rock ‘n’ roll for generations to follow.
PETH’s debut LP, Merchant of Death, is a hidden gem of the ‘70s/’80s metal invasion, but got discovered in the 21st century. The album in part brings menacing aggressions, in part brings breathtaking rhythms, but steers clear of the modern, lustrous sonic aesthetics. Roll out the red carpet for Merchant of Death and revel in the wilderness.
Watch: ‘Knochen und Blut’ by St. Michael Front
Posted: 24 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Brooding, Chanson Noire, Gothic, Knochen und Blut, Schuld & Sühne, St. Michael Front, video stream
When negative childhood experiences leave the soul scarred, some angry feelings remain even in adult live and may result in strong words or evoke black-and-white images in the head akin to an old crime thriller. The second single from St. Michael Front’s sophomore full-length Schuld & Sühne (‘Crime and Punishment’) is loosely based on such memories that have been turned into this song’s bold title ‘Knochen & Blut’ (‘bones and blood’), which has been visually cast into a video-clip.
The Hamburgian ‘Chanson Noire’ duo formed by guitarist Bruder Matthias and singer Bruder Sascha will release Schuld & Sühne on Friday, 13th of May.
Watch the video for ‘Knochen und Blut’ here:
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Listen: ‘When We Were Nothing’ by Avalyn
Posted: 24 March 2022 in Recommended Streams and VideosTags: Avalyn, Chapterhouse, Dense, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Post-Punk, Ride, Shoegaze, Slowdice, When We Were Nothing
Avalyn formed in late 2021 after long-time friends Andy Power (Guitar & Vocals) and Ben Croft (Lead Guitar) decided to start writing together due to them both being dissatisfied with their previous musical efforts. Soon joined by Cain Garcia (Drums) and Emily Turnbull (Bass & Vocals), the band appeared all over their local music scene in 2021, including playing their first gig supporting Junodream alongside Lime Garden at The Shipping Forecast in Liverpool, as well as going into Whitewood Recording Studio with Robert Whiteley to record their latest offering.
Influenced by the great punk powerhouses, Avalyn takes their cues from the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Lush. What emerges is the ferociously uplifting sound that can be heard on the group’s latest track; ‘When We Were Nothing’, out 24th March. Featuring mastering work from the Lead Singer & Guitarist of the seminal 90s Shoegazing band RIDE, Mark Gardener, the track melds brooding experimentalism, with an unshakeable punk sound. Thrashing guitars play under Power’s haunting vocals, as he sings about the euphoric uncertainty that comes with youth, and the always present, uncertain future.
“When We Were Nothing was the second song we ever wrote together as a band,” says Power. “Our guitarist Ben brought in the main riff and I could tell from the beginning it was going to be great, so I wrote a verse for it and then we wrote the lyrics together. Everything really came to life once we brought it into the practice room with the addition of Cain’s drum part and Emily’s bass and vocal Recording with Rob Whiteley was a lot of fun as we felt like he was able to help give us the freedom to experiment with the sounds we wanted as well as being able to put all our ideas together into a cohesive mix. The mastering job from Mark Gardener was the final touch that has taken the song to another level and we’re excited to continue working with him going forward.”
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