25 June 2018

Evenin'

Dentist - Corked
From the forthcoming album Night Swimming, out on July 20. This is New Jersey surf-indie fused pop.

Lauren Lakis - Lead Us On
A track from Baltimore's Lakis's debut LP Ferocious which came out last week.

Feral Five - Man Cat Doll Machine
Taking inspiration from Picasso for this and making it for Martyn Ware's Everything you Can Imagine Is Real exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, this is the title track to the new EP. Nicely Siouxsie-esque.

David Byrne - Doing The Right Thing
Still going, American Utopia is his tenth studio album as a solo artist.

Deer - Alive
From Mexico but based in Hong Kong, this is the new single, out last week.

Me Lost Me - Eyes And Ohs
Electro-folk from Newcastle artist Jayne Dent. Crowdfunding her debut album, it should be out in autumn.

Tim Carr - Take Me There
A new single from LA multi-instrumentalist Carr, out a couple of weeks ago.

Cocoa Futures - Circus
A new single from Greg Sanderson's project which is rather charming.

Engine - And I Say
Leeds band following up the extraordinary album Cucumber Water with this new single.

77:78 - Chilli
A side-project from Aaron Fletcher and Tim Parkin of The Bees. This is off the debut album Jellies.

The Fadeaways - It's A Crying Shame
Good old-fashioned rockabilly from Tokyo. The EP Dirty Water came out at the end of May.

The Wave Pictures - The Burnt Match
The new album, the first of two this year, Brushes With Happiness came out on Friday.

The Last Skeptik - Out Of Mind
The only track off the new album Under The Patio that sees Skeptik on his own. The other 14 all feature other artists in collaboration. It came out last week and is ace.

Night Giants - Resistor
A fourth track from the Leeds techno duo. We need a long player now.

Steve Cobby & Danielle Moore - Lefthanded Books
As the sun is out, a summery track from Cobby and Moore taken from the 2016 compilation Summer Riot V from Futureboogie records. Lush.

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Not sure about next week. Might be a stretch. We'll see.

8 January 2018

In the new (old) Monday slot.

Roger Robinson - New Maps
London/Trinidad dub poet Robinson brought out the LP Dog Heart City in August. And it's bloody amazing.

Suburban Homes - Unemployed
Crawley-based self-styled losers with their October single.

Ferocious Dog - American Dream
Whatever else, at least Trump is providing artists with inspiration. Small comfort, I know. This is off the Nottinghamshire neo-folksters third album, Red.

The Chats - Temperature
One from last summer, this is off the Queenslanders EP Get This In Ya.

Queen Zee & The Sasstones - Idle Crown
Liverpool garage-punk freaks with their single from back in November.

Inferior Complex - You're The Only One For Me
Southampton band and you can see immediately why they were attractive to Manchester label German Shepherd. Very New Order. This came out a couple of weeks back.

Thick Syrup - Jennifer
The lead track from the forthcoming album Living In Leeds due out on Gringo in February. They're from Leeds. Obviously.

Hello Operator - Oosh
From my home town of York, this is their single from October.

Engine - Cucumber Water
Back to Leeds and this is the title track to the EP that came out last month.

Wasuremono - For All The Bears
From Wiltshire, despite the Japanese name, this is off Something Left Behind which is out on the 31st.

EMA - MopTops (Dance While The World Stops)
Erika M Anderson is from Portland, Oregon, and the LP Exile In The Outer Ring came out last month.

Tombstones In Their Eyes - Shutting Down
The new single from the LA psych-rockers.

Rob Mayzes - Dust
The title track from the EP that came out a few weeks ago.

Steve Cobby - Heure d'Or
The maestro with a track from the LP Hemidemisemiquaver which is flippin' ace and you need to own.

Lesbian Horse - Battle Weapon C
Been a while since we had a track from Sam Jones's alter-ego, but he keeps plugging away on Soundcloud and this is among his best work.

The Caulfield Beats - Come Get Some
And finally, electro-garage from London off the LP NewAcid which came out in September.

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Back same time next week

18 April 2017

Loads of top stuff this week, so let's get at it.

Post War Glamour Girls - Pollyanna Cowgirl
Another track from the Leeds up-and-comers' new album, Swan Songs which is out next Friday.

The St Pierre Snake Invasion - Dick E Mozart
More noise from the Bristolian outfit. This is part of a double-A release due May 26.

Deny All Robots - Meesces
This appeared on the Lichfielder's EP Crash that came out last year, but has just had a video published.

The Orielles - Sugar Tastes Like Salt
To Halifax, Nova Scotia now and an 8-minute epic which marks their first release for new label Heavenly.

Christian Fitness - Bees Mode
Andy Falkous returns with part 4 of his side-project, Slap Bass Hunks. Due imminently.

BEAK> - Sex Music
Portishead's Geoff Barrow is back with his side-project BEAK> and a new single slated for a launch in June.

The New Pornographers - Play Money
A new LP from the Vancouver veterans. Whiteout Conditions is their seventh studio album and is out now.

Touts - Sold Out
A debut single from highly-rated Derry trio, pitched as being somewhere in the cleft between the Undertones and Stiff Little Fingers. Praise indeed.

Los Peyotes - Bdaaa!!!
A few years old this, but stuff it. Los Peyotes are an Argentinian/Peruvian four-piece and this is off what remains their latest album, 2010s Garage O Muerte. Just brilliant.

Yah - Dungeness Bank Holiday
Dean Cavanagh is Yah and this will be released next month as part of his label's 3rd anniversary, that being Rhode Island's Filthy Broke Recordings.

Factory Seconds - Caught In The Layers
The latest one from Art Is Hard records postcard club which continues to be a source of delight.

Peter Perrett - How The West Was Won
Former Only Ones frontman with the title track to his first solo LP. Out June 30.

Xam Duo - Tisch Tennis
A quirky offering with more than a hint of Kraftwerk about it. This is out on Wednesday.

Steve Cobby - Arvan
A previously unreleased track from the late 1990s, very much in the ambient bracket.

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Don't think I'm about next week, so 193 will have to wait.