Squid follow up the incredible ‘Narrator’ with ‘Paddling’, the second single to be taken from forthcoming debut album ‘Bright Green Field’. The record, produced by Dan Carey, will be released on 7 May via Warp Records while the new song – already a live favourite (if you can remember shows?) is: ‘Written from two different…
Akron, OH-based duo En Garde (Ross Horvath – vocals/guitar – and Andy Hendricks – drums) have shared a collection of songs recorded back in 2012 with Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Algernon Cadwallader) via the always sublime Count Your Lucky Stars Records. The EP opens with the urgent, intense and impassioned ‘Our Hands’. Reminding us of…
Leeds-based trio Beluga have shared their debut single ‘Painting with Three Colours’ – and it’s a song that take you on a fascinating journey. Part King Crimson-style prog, part traditional jazz and with some Physics House Band-style riffs thrown in for good measure, the band leave barely any genre untouched. There are bursts of saxophone…
Blackpool’s finest, Those Fucking Snowflakes, have signed to Louder Than War records and are all set to release their new EP, ‘Everything is Absolutely Fkkkkkkd’, on 22 January on limited 10″ yellow vinyl. The band have always been against the contempt our leaders treat so many of us with but the events of 2020 ensured…
New Jersey trio Vasudeva release their new record ‘Generator’ via Skeletal Lightning on 10 April and it’s an album that sees the already genre-hopping instrumentalists delve into more new sounds than ever before – from their traditional post/math-rock sound to ambience and sounds that will get you dancing in your living room during these strange…
Hailing from the San Francisco Bay area, math rock duo Floral have shared ‘This Year’ – their first new single in half a decade – ahead of the release of their new self-titled LP on 15 February (pre-order via Bandcamp here). Recorded and produced by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Jeff Rosenstock), ‘This Year’ is a twisting,…
Human Pyramids will release their third album ‘Power Pose’ on Christmas Day – and what a festive treat it is. Released by Three Mile Town worldwide and Ricco Records in Japan, the record might just be Axes man Paul Russell’s cinematic, orchestral super group’s most joyous collection of songs to date. Recorded all over Scotland,…
Brighton band Wild Cat Strike have shared a video of a stripped-down live version of album favourite ‘Lemonade’ – featuring the vocal and harp-playing talents of Natalie Evans. The sparse and intimate setting and acoustic rework gives the duet a powerful poignancy as Natalie and WCS frontman Danny discuss developing a fear of drowning, looking…
Brighton/London instrumental prog rockers POLY-MATH have shared their new 15-minute (!) single ‘Sensors in Everything’ ahead of UK and EU tour dates with Body Hound. It’s the first song to feature new member Josh Gesner on keyboards and synthesisers and also the first of an ambitious two-part release for 2020, which the quartet have recorded…
Olympians are set to release their second album, ‘Lake Mannion’, on 31 October (buy here). It’s a record that finds the band realising how average they are as people – and how that might actually be OK. ‘We’ll Burn That Bridge When We Come to It’ finds Dan Harvey musing about a time that might…
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