26 February 2018

Good evening.

LA Salami - Jean Is Gone
A new track from the London singer/songwriter ahead of the release of his second LP, The City Of Bootmakers.

CTMF - Something's Missing Inside
The latest single to be taken from the Brand New Cage album.

Liines - Shallow
Onto their second bassist, but losing nothing in the process, here's the new single from the Manchester rockers.

Otherkin - React
Highly rated band from Dublin with a track from last year's album OK.

Catholic Action - Black & White
Also carving themselves a niche, these are from Glasgow and the LP In Memory Of came out in the autumn.

Vinyl Staircase - Cherry
Unashamedly 1960s garage revivalist stuff from Dorking in Surrey.

The Wrong Society - Tell Me You'll Be Mine
More garage rock, this time from Hamburg. This came out three weeks ago.

Mary & The Ram - The Cross
To my home city of York now for the new single from the goth-punk duo with production from the legendary John Fryer.

Autonomads - All Roads Lead To Hulme
Manchester ska-dub-punk from the EP All Quiet On The Western Front which came out a couple of weeks back.

Shame - Concrete
Highly-rated, by us and many others, London five-piece with a track from their debut long-player Songs Of Praise. Get on them now.

Insecure Men - Subaru Nights
Ex-Fat White Family man Saul Adamczewski and Ben Romans-Hopcraft are Insecure Men, but come from the total opposite angle. Their self-titled album came out last Friday.

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Cockcrow feat. Siobhan Wilson
Ex-Arab Strapper and Hubbert combine on a new LP, Here Lies The Body, which is due out in May.

MAFF - Hawaii
Some Chilean shoegaze now which a track from the forthcoming EP Melaniña, due out on April 2.

Sonny - The Town & The City feat. Russ Litten
Something that Hull poet Litten posted on his Twitter account. No idea about anything else regarding it.

Mark Pritchard - Come Let Us feat. Gregory Whitehead
British-born, but now based in Australia, Pritchard has taken Whitehead's radio art series Ziggurat - recorded back in 1985 - as the basis for this track from the LP The Four Worlds which is out on March 23.

Soothsayers - Dis & Dat (Steve Cobby remix)
The track Dis & Dat appears on the album Tradition which came out earlier this month, but this remix is available on the digital single.

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4 October 2016

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Silver Arm - Do the Crow
Southern rockers with new material. Have that.

Federal Unicorn - State Of Decay
Great name. This is off the EP Substances which is out now. From Denmark.

Liines - Disappear
Big fan of this Manc trio. This is one side of a new double-A side out on October 28.

Featured Album: The Diagram Brothers - The Peel Sessions
Bricks
Bikers
The Diagram Brothers were proper quirky, using discordant sounds - Discordo, they called it - and formed in the post-punk era Manchester. Stuart Maconie described them as "funny, slightly scary and not like anything else on earth". These two tracks featured on the John Peel show in March 1980.
And yes, bricks aren't expensive. Until someone starts flogging designer ones.

This Becomes Us - Painter Man Is Coming feat. Black Francis
Future Of The Left bassist Julia Ruzicka follows husband Andy Falkous in producing a side-project. The names she's been able to call on are impressive, none moreso than Pixies singer Black Francis. The self-titled LP is out shortly.

The Wave Pictures - Pool Hall
The prolific trio's new album is Bamboo Diner In The Rain and this is a typically excellent track from it.

Smoove and Turrell - Fight On
I've been meaning to have these on for a while, so finally... From Newcastle and made up of DJ/producer Smoove and soulful singer John Turrell, their new album is Crown Posada and it out in a fortnight.

The Baggios - Saruê feat. Jorge du Peixe
To Brazil next and show favourites The Baggios have a new LP out. Brutown came out at the end of September.

The Early Years - Nocturne
Off the imaginatively-titled second LP II which is out now. Post-rock - maybe. Post-modern - almost definitely.

Fehm - Nullify
Leeds now and off the EP Content Nullify which is out at the back end of November.

Featured Album: The Diagram Brothers - The Peel Sessions

The Expert
From their last Peel session in June 1982 and easily my favourite track of theirs. The three sessions they did have been parsed and collated into a top album.

Hugh - Look Back In Laughter
John Idehen and Izzy Brooks front this London trip-hop outfit. This is out on October 12.

Knickerdropperglory - Something About you Girl
Superb name. Don't know much about these, just that they're from Bournemouth.

Yello - Limbo
A new LP - their 13th - from Swiss dance veterans Brois Blank and Dieter Meier. Toy came out last Friday. Ooooh, yeaah.

Larry Fisherman - Dang feat Anderson .Paak
And to finish, a light, frothy dance track from July's Divine Feminine LP.

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29 March 2016

Hello again.

Two Car Family - Land Is Mine
Shoegazey type of stuff from out of Leeds. That's all I got.

Liines - Blackout
Manchester now, the new single from these. They're really good, especially live. This came out on the 11th.

Pale Kids - Sick (For A While)
Perky punky stuff from Durham. The EP is Home By Nine and came out last Friday.

Right Hand Left Hand - Tarts And Darts
Cardiff next, from their self-titled second album which came out in February.

Skeleton Frames - Leech
On South-Western label Art Is Hard come these south-westerners. Great grungey stuff.

Blood Lips - Burn After Breeding
About as metal as I get. It's got something about it that draws me in. They're Welsh, incidentally.

Steve Taylor and The Danielson Foil - Nonchalant
Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil team up with Daniel Smith of Danielson to produce something new. Lo-fi goodness from the EP Wow To The Deadness which is out on April 22.

Nishe - Out Of Place
London 5-piece from the EP Underlaps which came out last December.

Loose Tooth - Everything Changes
Another one from the Melbourne slacker-rock scene. This is off Saturn Returns which is out on Friday.

Cold Pumas - A Change Of Course
Brighton next, and the album Saturn Returns, their second, is out in summer. It has a real summery vibe, so that should work.

Sunface - Sunface
I got nothing. Just enjoy it.

Tail Feather - Space Travel
Glorious. Reading psych-rockers with their new single which came out a few weeks ago.

exmagician - Place Your Bets
Belfast duo that we have played before. Scan The Blue is the LP, came out on Thursday.

Mull Historical Society - The Ballad Of Ivor Punch
Colin Macintyre is Mull Historical Society and his novel The Letters Of Ivor Punch is released on April 8, the same day as the LP Dear Satellite. Call it a companion piece if you like.

Twinfield - Ceri Dwi Angen Cysgu
Welsh, innit. It means 'Ceri, I Need To Sleep'.

Happy Meals - If You Want Me Now
Glaswegian duo whose new EP, Fruit Juice, is out in May. Lovely.

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10 November 2015

Hello again.

Liines - Never There
I've been gigging. These were supporting Ex Hex at Manchester's Ruby Lounge on Sunday and were ace. More of the main act later, but this the debut single from Liines, out November 21.

Greys - The Voyeur
To Toronto now and this lot had an LP out last year. This is their first stuff since, off an EP called Repulsion.

Ela Orleans - The Sky And The Ghost
From Poland but based in Glasgow - coming over here, enriching our culture - the album Upper Hell came out in May. I've only just heard stuff off it, this being the pick. Blissful.

Featured Album
Ex Hex - Radio On
Ex Hex - War Paint
Like I say, I've been gigging. I snapped up a ticket to see these when I heard they were over here as it was a surprise to me that they were even in the UK. They're from Washington DC and the debut album Rips came out last year. I've already played tracks from it, but I'm going to feature it properly here as they were ace on Sunday.

Editors - Life Is A Fear
Not a band I thought I'd find myself playing, but this, their new single, is a bit good. In Dreams is the new LP, out last month.

Samuel Claiborne - Say Goodbye To America
This is ace. Claiborne is from upstate New York and this is off the album Love, Lust And Genocide. I think you get a clear picture of his politics.

Lonely Robot - The Boy In The Radio
Guitarist John Mitchell has had many guises, this being his latest one. This is the latest single taken from Please Come Home which came out in February. I'm still not 100% sure that I like it. I think I do.

LeRoy - Skai
To Munich now for this, which is pretty special. Off the album Skläsh which came out last month. Terrific.

TVAM - Porsche Majeure
Making a late bid for record of the year is this from Wigan's Joe Oxley. On a double-A side single. Out now. Get it.

Featured Album
Ex Hex - Waste Your Time
Another track from Rips which if you don't have, you should. Good old-fashioned rock n roll.

Ash Walker - Bamboo Circus feat. Segilola
Dub, next. The EP is called Agnostic, it came out in July and is good.

Fold - Detroit Red
Funk time for the rest of the night, starting with this from the new album, Fold. Describing themselves as experimental funk and hip-hop from Leeds, this features the voice of Malcolm X - Detroit Red being his nickname when he was grifting on the streets of Motown as a youth - with some apposite comments about the state of race relations in the US.

Savant - Stationary Dance
Off a compilation called Artifical Dance, this is Kerry Leimer from Seattle.

Lesbian Horse - I Have Some Very Strong Views About Whatever Happened To Rock 'n' Roll
Show favourite Sam Jones once again. Some weeks he'll put a dozen tracks out, some weeks he won't. This arrived last week and is among his best.

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