Posts Tagged ‘double A-side’

Watch: ‘Aquatint’ and ‘Pad Tide’ by Glissandro 70

Posted: 30 March 2026 in Singles and EPs, Recommended Streams and Videos
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The exploratory electronic duo of Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri returns 20 years after its self-titled debut. G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa is out  on 1st May 2026.

Hear the skittish industrial stutter of ‘Aquatint’ and fractured beats of ‘Pad Tide’ here:

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20 years after its self-titled debut, Glissandro 70’s follow-up straddles the Album and Archive: a decade’s worth of recordings that were abandoned, lost in a hard drive mishap, recovered in the form of rough stereo mixes, reappraised with the balm of time, and restored/augmented/enhanced to forge a captivating new LP.

Glissandro 70 is the collaboration between Toronto musicians Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri, first formed in 2003 as a mostly studio-based project of longform loop-based guitar and rhythm-driven experimentation. An eponymous (and up to this point singular) album appeared on Constellation in 2006, blending Dunsmuir’s afrobeat and Perri’s tropicalia influences through their shared reverence for Arthur Russell and dub techno.

While continuing to collaborate musically and foster a close friendship, Dunsmuir and Perri largely went on to helm their own projects thereafter. Perri transitioned from his ambient electronic sobriquet Polmo Polpo to a string of acclaimed singer-songwriter albums under his own name starting in 2007, with a side quest as ringmaster for the inscrutably leftfield electronic collaborations of Off World. Meanwhile Dunsmuir continued deploying lo-fi loops and broken beat iconoclasm as Guitarkestra and Kanada 70 (whose early tracks provided the original birthplace of Glissandro 70) and intermittent live concert Hi-life extravaganzas at the head of Toronto’s Dun-Dun Band (recently captured on wax for the first time by Ansible Editions).

G70 2: Bones of Dundasa arrives 20 years after the Glissandro 70 debut as an archival celebration, revisiting unfinished paths and re-assembling rediscovered recordings originally made between 2005 and 2015. The new album includes a cover of Arthur Russell’s ‘Lucky Cloud’ (augmented by Peter Zummo’s trombone newly recorded in 2025) and a previously unreleased Dan Bodan remix of the debut record’s ‘Bolan Muppets’, alongside 10 tracks of sample- and beat-based vignettes brimming with skittish guile.

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Listen: ‘Time to Dream’ / ‘Signal’ (remix) by Magic Wands

Posted: 22 September 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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US dark/dream-pop duo Magic Wands have released a new digital double single today that couples the brand new song ‘Time To Dream’ with a remix by Metropolis Records labelmates Lost Signal of their ‘Armour’ single issued in October 2024. Video clips of the original version of ‘Armour’ and the remix have also been made available and can be seen here (original)….

…and here (remix):

“‘Time To Dream’ is about entering a dreamlike state where the boundaries between reality and imagination dissolve,” the duo explain. “It was inspired by magic and a sense of stepping through the looking glass.”
‘Time To Dream’ is included on a new Magic Wands album entitled ‘Cascades’, which is out on 24th October via Metropolis Records. It also includes the original single version of ‘Armour’, as well as the previously issued ‘Hide’, ‘Moonshadow’ and ‘Across The Water’ . It will be promoted with an appearance at the Substance festival HERE in Los Angeles on 7th November, with further shows to be arranged.

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Magic Wands is a dark-pop duo originally formed in Nashville by guitarists and vocalists Dexy and Chris Valentine. Now based in Los Angeles, they are known for their shimmering and dreamy sound, which incorporates elements of shoegaze, dream pop, post-punk and goth. They utilise heavily textured guitars, synth drones and ethereal vocals to conjure an otherworldly atmosphere in their songs.

Dedicated to creating music that is both imaginative and emotionally engaging, Magic Wands found success soon after forming in 2008, gaining a loyal fanbase that has grown ever since. They have issued five studio albums to date, the most recent of which is ‘Switch’ (2023). Its songs were also remixed by guest artists and released as ‘Switched’ later that year.

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Cold Comfort – Suck My Blood (Please Don’t) / I Shot The Messenger

Posted: 18 February 2022 in Singles and EPs
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Die Das Der records – 18th February 2022

Cold Comfort is, it would seem a ‘one man punk machine’. This double-A-side effort is certainly pretty punk, both in terms of musical style and approach, in that we’re talking about sub-three-minute three-chord thrashabouts with DIY production values, accompanied by a video for one of the songs that has recreated the experience of early Internet animations. And that’s a large part of the appeal.

It’s immediately apparent that Cold Comfort places some investment in quirky humour / irony: the song titles on this release are not-so-subtle inversions, although they’re a step up from sticking ‘not!’ after each of them. And it’s very soon apparent that subtle isn’t Cold Comfort’s forte, but there’s nothing wrong with that. After all, punk and subtle don’t really go together.

‘Suck My Blood (Please Don’t)’ is a two-minute blast of primitive overloading guitars and its grungy punk is rough and ready and exploding with energy. And yet there’s still time and space for a nagging lead guitar line and a hook reminiscent of DZ Deathray. On top of that, it inverts vampiric kink tropes with its parenthetical ‘Please Don’t’, as well as booting the machismo of horror conventions into touch in the video as a digitized CC runs away from bats.

‘I Shot The Messenger’ is more spirit of ’78, with heavy hints of The Fall pitched against a booming bass that’s pinned to a vintage drum machine track that’s got the ferocity of Metal Urbain and the bedroom basicness of Young Marble Giants.

It’s not pop-punk in the contemporary sense: it’s pop-punk in the way The Buzzcocks and The Adverts were punk while writing pop songs. It’s fun, but still kicks arse, and it’s a rush.

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