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Hailing from the far north of Norway's Arctic circle, Alta, Petter Carlsen creates his own unique mix of proggressive rock and indie-pop without limits; fusing atmospheric vocals, melancholic soundscapes and indie guitars with a prog feeling. His ne

A Polaroid for a polarized world, of something bigger than any one of us individually. At the beginning of autumn 2019, back in Berlin after a 6,000 mile North American tour and barely over the jetlag, Laura Carbone and her boys-in-black were invited

After last years Grammy nominated collaboration album with Iron & Wine, Calexico returns with a cross cultural christmas album. Contains eight new compositions and covers of John Lennon, Tom Petty and Hugo Blanco / Featuring international collaborato

BRANDÃO, FABER, HUNGER - TRIO DEBUT ALBUM 'ICH LIEBE DICH' OUT DECEMBER - Suprise Suprise - Faber, Sophie Hunger and Dino Brandão debut new project with the release of their first collaborative album 'Ich liebe Dich', due out December (right on time for Christmas). It will have taken a lockdown to get talented Swiss artists and real-life friends Sophie Hunger, Faber and Dino Brandão to collaborate as a trio for the first time. Today, they unveil an exciting new project, Brandão Faber Hunger and announce a love manifesto, 'Ich liebe Dich', coming out on December on Two Gentlemen. 'Ich liebe Dich' is a collection of 12 original songs in Swiss German dialect, recorded in August 2020 at the La Frabrique Studio, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. This album is a movement that sounds like the beginning of the world and yet remains almost untraceable in the Swiss-German musical tradition. This is an attempt to bring love back to the centre of reality. Packaging details - CD - LP (180g Vinyl plus CD added!)

TRACKLISTING: 1. Like Water 2. Down Faced Doll 3. The Weightiness Of The Pointlessness 4. My Wet Face 5. Present Day Array 6. This Week Has Made Me Weak 7. Bright Hours 8. The Rowing Boat Song 9. Feathers In The Fire 10. Gave A Time 11. I Make A Fist 12. Like Water (reprise) OVERVIEW: Distressed of sound and disturbed of subject matter, “Down-Faced Doll” sees the classic indie outfit connect with their dark-sides to deliver a cacophonous alt/folk stomp unlike anything they’ve released before. Based on a chilling true story told through the eyes of a discarded toy, its lyrics like clues, begin to lay evidence to a scene enough to turn anyone’s blood blue. As vocalist Ian H. says: “By far the most disturbing song I’ve ever written. Some songs seem to have a strange compelling energy which no one can rightly claim authorship to. They ‘write themselves’ but of course a great deal of working and shaping occurs too… A true story - well the first two verses are. The last two verses are my attempt to imagine “how did it ever get to this”…” Customised with discomposing Eastern-inspired guitar riffs and clamouring percussive rhythms, “Down-Faced Doll” instils an unshakable feeling of paranoia, pursuit and unsease to match its haunting storyline. “Ewan and Stephen immediately tuned into its unsettling vibrations to create sounds and dark corners as you are unwillingly dragged through the scenario.” Ian adds. Created & produced by Bradford (Ian Hodgson, Ewan Butler & Stephen Street), “Down-Faced Doll” was mixed by Stephen Street (Blur/New Order/ Kaiser Chiefs) and mastered by John Davies. It is taken from what will be Bradford’s first new studio album in over three decades: ‘Bright Hours’ - set for release early-on in 2021. Bradford are a revered indie band formed in Blackburn in 1988. Championed by Morrissey, the band earned a cult status with their acclaimed debut album 'Shouting Quietly' in 1990, a record as-produced at the time by Stephen Street. Touring with the likes of Joe Strummer, The Sugarcubes, Morrissey and more, the band burned brightly and brilliantly. Fading away against the neon glow of the Madchester era, the band split in 1991. Fast forward to 2018 and a re-mastered 30 song collection entitled ‘Thirty Years Of Shouting Quietly’ was released on Turntable Friend Records. The album was re-appraised as a 'lost English classic'. This rekindling of belief slowly re-ignited the magic and chemistry that always existed between the band [now Ian H and Ewan Butler] and Stephen Street. So much so, that Stephen decided to join forces with them and become a fully fledged member of the band. With a new look line-up on illuminating form, as a trio Bradford have lovingly crafted a jewel of a new album: ‘Bright Hours’ to be released early in 2021. Directly following “Like Water”, their latest single “Down-Faced Doll” is a definitive signal that ‘Bright Hours’ will be every bit worth the long wait... OTHER ACTIVITY: https://www.facebook.com/BradfordTheBand/

This limited edition version also includes an exclusive 12?x 12? print. hand-signed by Bob Mould himself and a 72ps booklet. Edsel presents ‘Distortion: 1989-2019, an expansive 24CD box set chronicling the solo career of legendary American musician

Black Needle Noise is the spiritual home of This Mortal Coil, a shimmering kaleidoscope of raw musical talent. Black Needle Noise has been called the spiritual home of This Mortal Coil, a kaleidoscope of musical talent and a wall of industrial sy

Bitch Falcon; a name you won't forget and a band who won't let you forget them. This trio from the vibrant, much-hyped music scene of Dublin was formed by front-woman Lizzie Fitzpatrick with her friends in a small kitchen in the city in 2014. Since t

TRACKLISTING: 1. Function 2. Life In Design 3. Modern Junk 4. Shakes 5. Seat 35 6. Blackhole 7. Flames 8. Otherside 9. Changes 10. Universe 11. Invisible 12. Undone OVERVIEW: BirdPen - All Function One, an album about isolation, the fear of going outside in an uncertain world, virtual sex, deep fakes, digital sadness and living a hollow cyber life. Musically flowing with soundscape guitars, soaring melancholic strings, rolling heavy bass, kraut drumbeats, subtle electronics and emotionally performed meaningful lyrics. An album fitting with the times and the current un-certain, sometimes lost world. OTHER ACTIVITY: https://birdpen.com/

The Besnard Lakes have passed through death and they're here to tell the tale. Nearly five years after their last lightning-tinted volley, the magisterial Montreal psych-rock band have sworn off compromise, split with their long-standing label, and completed a searing, 72-minute suite about the darkness of dying and the light on the other side. The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is the group's sixth album and the first in more than 15 years to be released away from a certain midwestern American indie record company. After 2016's A Coliseum Complex Museum - which saw Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas attempting shorter, less sprawling songs - the Besnards and their label decided it was time to go their separate ways; with that decision came a question of whether to even continue the project at all. What use is a band with an instinct for long, tectonic tunes - rock songs with chthonic heft and ethereal grace, five or 10 or 18 minutes long? How do you sell that in an age of bite-sized streaming? How do you make it relevant? "Who gives a shit!" the Besnard Lakes realized. Ignited by their love for each other, for playing music together, the sextet found themselves unspooling the most uncompromising recording of their career. Despite all its grandeur, ...The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings honours the very essence of punk rock: the notion that a band need only be relevant to itself. At last the Besnard Lakes have crafted a continuous long-form suite: nine tracks that could be listened together as one, like Spiritualized's Lazer Guided Melodies or even Dark Side of the Moon, overflowing with melody and harmony, drone and dazzle, the group's own unique weather.   Here now, the Besnard Lakes finally dispensed with the two/three-year album cycle, taking all the time they needed to conceive, compose, record and mix their opus. Some of its songs were old, resurrected from demos cast aside years ago. Others were literally woodshedded in the cabanon behind Lasek and Goreas's "Rigaud Ranch" - invented and reinvented, relishing this rougher sound. Some of that distortion makes its way into the final mix: an incandescent crackle that had receded from the Besnards' more recent output.   Rightly - nay, definitively! - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a double LP. "Near Death" is the title of the first side. "Death," "After Death," and "Life" follow next. It's literally a journey into (and back from) the brink: the story of the Besnard Lakes' own odyssey but also a remembrance of others', especially the death of Lasek's father in 2019. Being on your deathbed is perhaps the most psychedelic trip you can go on: in Lasek's father's case, he surfaced from a morphine dream to talk about "a window" on his blanket, with "a carpenter inside, making intricate objects." That experience pervades the album, catching fire on the song "Christmas Can Wait"; elsewhere the band pays tribute to the late Mark Hollis and, on "The Father of Time Wakes Up," they mourn the death of Prince.   In these scorched and pitted times, as the world smoulders, there might be nothing less trendy than an hour-long psych-rock epic by a band of Canadian grandmasters. Then again, there might be nothing we need more. ...The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a bright-blazing requiem: nine tunes that are one tune and six musicians who make one band - unleashed and unconstrained, piercing and technicolour. At the end of the golden day, the Besnard Lakes are right where they should be.

Sonic Healing is the third full-length release by Martin Steers Bad Stream project. Conceived and recorded in March 2020, it reflects the tectonic shifts in society taking place at that time while also responding to personal tragedy: having suffer

Schenkt man Aidan Moffat, dem Arab Strap-Frontmann, Glauben, so soll es beim siebten Studioalbum der Band um Hoffnungslosigkeit gehen. Und Dunkelheit. Aber auf lustige Weise. 15 Jahre sind seit dem Erscheinen Ihres letzten Albums, The Last Romance (2005), vergangen. Schon im Vorfeld der Albumankündigung konnte die Band mit einer ersten Vorabsingle, dem Album-Vorboten „The Turning Of Our Bones“, auf sich aufmerksam machen.

Salt is a near faultless piece of work - Beat Magazine | 9.5 + Best New Album Highly anticipated is an understatement when it comes to the debut album from Aussie singer-songwriter Angie McMahon - THE MUSIC | 4 STARS + Album Of The Month Making

All Them Witches have built a career out of playing music that can not be pigeonholed into one specific genre. Nothing as the Ideal was recorded in Studio 2 at the world famous Abbey Road with the help of longtime mixing engineer Mikey Allred. The hi

Dublin alt-folk artist Ailbhe Reddy announces debut album ‘Personal History, set for release 2nd October via Friends of the Family Three years in the making, her forthcoming record will find Ailbhe ruminating on the rites of passage in life as a yo