Formerly known as The Holy Road, multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Stolber has shared ‘Scattered Red, Blue & Black’ – the first release under his new moniker, A Knife Ballet. Challenging himself to lean more into exploring different types of guitar sounds, but with a powerful cello from guest Maddie Cutter (Martin Grech) underpinning the seven minutes, this…
Experimental post-pickers Folly Group have shared new single ‘Pressure Pad’ ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Down There!’ on 12 January. Inspired by the grand cinematic sounds of Massive Attack and Gorillaz but with the added math rock stylings of Youthmovies or early Foals – plus a healthy dose of Afro-Cuban rhythms –…
Maybeshewill have shared the video for ‘Refuturing’ ahead of the release of new album – and first since their 2016 hiatus – ‘No Feeling is Final’ (out on the Robot Needs Home Collective label on 19 November. Guitarist Robin Southby says: ‘Conceptually, Refuturing (and the album as a whole) is concerned with the existential dread…
Jonathan Stolber’s The Holy Road follows up last year’s Piano Day release ‘The Minotaur (Mesto in A-Minor)’ with new EP ‘An Unshakable Demon’. The EP has been mixed by Steven Durose (Oceansize) and mastered by Frank Arkwright at the iconic Abbey Road studios and featured guest appearances by Drahla’s Chris Dufin, Eaststrikewest’s James Saddington and…
Brilliantly named, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick are a six-, sometimes seven-, piece from Philadelphia who play off each other – both vocally and musically – to create goosebump-inducing soundscapes full of raw power and emotion. Following the popularity of cassette and digital sales, their debut album ‘Ways of Hearing’ has now been…
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…
Bleach Lab follow up ‘Never Be’ and Old Ways’ with new single ‘Flood’ – the final song to be released ahead of their debut EP ‘A Calm Sense of Surrounding (out on 19 March). Jenna Kyle says ”Flood’ is one long metaphor for being completely overwhelmed and overcome by someone and losing all sense of…
Manchester-based rock band The Hyena Kill release ‘A Disconnect’ via APF Records on 5 March. The album finds the band reflecting on a number of traumatic and tragic incidents in the members’ personal lives, with vocalist/guitarist Steven Dobb saying: ‘The bulk of material was written during a very low point in my life, and as…
February has been an odd month – again going by so fast and so slowly at the same time. But music is keeping us all going – and any month that features new albums by TV Priest, The Hold Steady, Katy Kirby and Wild Pink is fine by us. Here’s a Spotify playlist of the…
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