30 July 2018

Some old ones this week because why not

The Immediate - Sever
Off the new album More Sheep Than Humans which came out last month.

Kagoule - Egg Hunt
The lead track from the new LP Strange Entertainment.

Jon Spencer - Do the Trash Can
Without his Blues Explosion these days, this is off Spencer Sings The Hits.

Deux Furieuses - Silenced By The Roar
A track from this time last year that I'd not heard before. Worth catching up on.

Menace Beach - Crawl In Love
A new album from the Leeds band is out on September 7, titled Black Rainbow Sound.

Blam Blam Blam - No Depression In New Zealand
Going back to 1981 here and some Antipodean post-punk. Because why not.

Concretism - Magnox
Off the Essex band's 2015 EP EP06. Suitably apocalyptic.

Optiganally Yours - How Do You Feel?
From San Diego, this is off the LP O Y In Hi-Fi which is quirkily affecting.

Cornershop - Double Denim
Always a pleasure to bring new stuff from Cornershop to the table. This is half of a double A single with Sugar Sugar.

Darto - Brotherhood
From Seattle, this is off Fundamental Slime. Terrific title.

Dead Bambies - Meltdown Of Love
Japanese rock off a compilation from Thomas Impostor records. Tokyo Chikatetsu vol 1 is out now. Bloody brilliant.

Digital Shades - Blue
A new project from John Kunkel from The New Division and James Meays from Missing Words. An EP is due soon.

Beach Skulls - Ain't Easy
A second album from the Mancunians, Las Dunas is out now.

Mr Airplane Man - I'm In Love
This is off Jacaranda Blue which came out in March.

Vital Idles - Rising Damp
Nothing to do with Leonard Rossiter. This is off Left Hand, which the Glasgow band put out early this month.

Alone - Our National Shame
Still putting out tracks every month, always a pleasure.

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16 July 2018

Here we go again.

Walter Lure & The The Waldos - Crazy Kids
The last surviving member of The Heartbreakers, Lure and The Waldos have a new LP out, this being the title track.

Sarandon - Mustn't Grumble
Sarandon's Age Of Reason LP, released in 2011, is quite the thing. Packed with really short tracks and then this 5-minuter.

UkePunk - Life And The World
Sex, Pies & Austerity is the forthcoming album from our favourite Ramsbottom-based ukulele punk act.

BEAK> - Brean Down
New stuff from Geoff Barrow and his BEAK> project. Their third LP is titled >>> and who knows how that's pronounced. 'Greater than, greater than, greater than'?

Okay Champ - William Tell
From Newcastle, there's quite the buzz about these. Easy to see why.

Vukovar - Dead Pressed Flowers
Makers of two of my favourite albums of last year, here's one from the new one Infinitum.

Linda Em - Wild Fire
The first of three tracks with a very country vibe. In fact, why don't I play them all back-to-back?
First, London-based Irish singer Linda Em with a track from the EP London Irish which is out in autumn.

Jessica's Brother - Humdinger
Also from London, though featuring Jonny Huddersfield Helm on drums, come Jessica's Brother with a track from the self-titled debut.

Milk Kan - Brixton Hill Revisited
Also from London, south London, come Milk Kan and what they're calling 'drill country'. The EP The Glitch Country is available now.

Therapy? - Callow
And now for something completely different. A new track from the veteran rockers addressing the new age of anxiety taken from the forthcoming LP Cleave.

The Salient Braves - Slob
Barnsley's premier pop act with a new track, available from today.

BOO - Bella
That's the Battery Operated Orchestra to you. New single, out now.

Teleman - Cactus (Boxed In remix)
A terrific track in it's own right - that I played a few weeks back - now mixed up by Boxed In - another band I have a lot of time for - in a terrific stylee.

The Senior Service - The Contender
Off the second album King Cobra - out now on Damaged Goods - this is quite brilliantly uncategorisable.

Afghan Sand Gang - Mantra
As is this, to the ends that they themselves have coined the term 'kraut dance'. They're from Mossley and the EP Machine Music is both out now and highly recommended.

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9 July 2018

Evenin'

The Cavemen - Lust For Evil
A new one from the New Zealanders off the LP Nuke Earth.

Yassassin - Citizen
The new single from the ever-evolving London-based collective.

Moderate Rebels - Beyond Hidden Words
The London anti-music collective with what they call an un-song.

Seasurfer - Sad Song
I don't know where I found this. The Internet tells me they're from Hamburg, but that's about it.

The Vega Bodegas - Monkey Ate The Monkey
Taken from the new album A Complete History of Witchcraft which is out on Friday.

Klammer - Spiral Girl
Another one taken from the third LP You Have Been Processed out next month.

Silverbacks - Dunkirk
New single from the Dublin art-punks describing the site of the famous retreat as a built-up holiday destination.

Sunstack Jones - Say Something
From the self-titled album by the Liverpudlians which came out at the back end of last month.

Four Candles - Strange Things Are Happening
Clearly it was the name that caught my eye. These are from Salford and comes from the EP Spiritual Rapture, out now.

Pellethead - Hear Me Now
I don't know why this has cropped up now. It came out in 2007 on the LP Sleepwank. Still fucking good though.

Wooden Shjips - Staring At The Sun
A fifth LP from the band with the rogue J and following in kind. Tremendous. V is out now.

Funky Bijou - Karate Break
Funky and French, off the EP Yasuke.

Roisin Murphy - Plaything
The former Moloko singer with the second of four 12" singles that make up a series. Bloody excellent.

Fonda 500 - Golden Digits Of Devilry
New stuff from the Hull veterans of the acid scene. I Heart Fonda 500 is out now.

Orbital - PHUK
'Please help UK', it stands for. Taken from the new LP Monsters Exist.

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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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18 June 2018

Let's face it, nobody was listening what with England kicking off at the same time.

Teleman - Cactus
A third album is coming in September, Family Of Aliens, which the band say is the result of a freer and more collaborative writing method. It does show in a way and this band go from strength to strength as a result.

Dave Dark & The Sharks - Spacetime Tours Inc
Welsh electronica, from Newport no less, and a new single.

L/F/D/M - Turning To Lime
A track from the album Death: An Introduction which came out in March.

The Body - Nothing Stirs
Terrific stuff from Portland, Oregon. The album is I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer which came out last month.

Perpacity - Telethon
Ian Harling and Martin Nyrup make up Perpacity despite being based in the UK and Denmark respectively. This is the second track from the forthcoming LP The Order Of Now, out in September.

Astral Skulls - Take It Away
From Melbourne, this is the flip side to the April single This Place.

Mourn - Barcelona City Tour
From Barcelona, this is off Sorpresa Familia which came out last Friday.

Flasher - Pressure
A trio from Washington DC with this taken from the LP Constant Image.

Mishka Shubaly - Animals
A terrific new LP from the New Yorker, two years in the making. When We Were Animals came out last month.

Geniuser - Epiphany
Danish, but now based in London, Geniuser's new album I Am has been crowdfunded and is out on the 22nd.

Vacances - Hearts
New Yorkers shifted to Europe for this, absorbing as much as possible on the way to create a new sound.

Los Blancos - Cadi
Welsh language stuff from Camarthen, this is off the new double-A which has Clarach on the other side. Out on Friday.

STNNNG - New National Anthem
Out in 2005 on the LP Dignified Sissy, this gets a shove from the band re NFL protests and Trumpian didacticism about it all.

Papernut Cambridge - New Forever
Off the new LP Outstairs Instairs which is out a week on Friday.

Castlebeat - Video Tape
More from New York, DIY goth-pop from Josh Hwang. The LP VHS came out in March.

Spray - Singing For England 2010
And as England are playing right now, here's Spray's wonderful record from the South African edition. Brilliant.

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4 June 2018

A packed show, so no messing. Let's get into it.

Alien Nosejob - Caffeine OD
These are from Clunes in Victoria, Australia and this comes off the 7" Death Of The Vinyl Boom. Superb.

Vulgarians - Of Humdrum Consumption
To Hull, and another band to make use of the production talents of Hookworms' MJ.

Lithics - Excuse Generator
Portland, Oregon, next. This is the lead track from the LP Mating Surfaces.

Swine Tax - Tory Water
Angry young people - and that's fair enough, I mean you've seen the state of things, right? - from Newcastle. This is off the EP This Is Not A Band.

Drahla - Twelve Divisions Of The Day
From the Come Play With Me stable, this is the Leeds outfit's new single, out on the 20th.

The Golden Age Of TV - Television
Also from Leeds and also from the CPWM stable.

Star Rover - Method Actor
The fourth single taken from the self-titled LP from the Edinburgh art-rockers. Far too good to ignore.

The Autumn Stones - Mandatory Love
A new single from the Toronto band which came out last week.

Vast Asteroid - Drown
An LA band, this is off the self-titled LP that came out at the back end of last year.

Glassmaps - My Heart, My Head
New single from Joel Stein, from Brighton and recorded in Eastern Germany.

Roy - Paranoid Feeling
Another one from Toronto and yet another self-titled LP.

Ora Iso - Wicked Gain
An utterly incredible cover of the Chris Isaak record Wicked Game which is a digital only bonus track from the LP Image Certifies that came out in April. They're from New York, albeit singer Kathleen Malay arrives via Indonesia and Australia.

Kamaal Williams - High Roller
Stunning stuff from Londoner Williams plus band. The LP The Return is a rich tapestry of new jazz sounds.

Sabres Of Paradise - Lick Wid Nit Wit
A track sort of rediscovered. Previously only available on a multi-artist compilation in the late '90s, it's now had a proper release. The vinyl has sold out - unsurprising - but still very available digitally. Brilliant.

Tom Dragebo - How Long
The title track to the EP from the Norwegian producer.

PIXSID - The Sea (Boomin' Dub mix)
Australian singer Marie Craven - aka Pixieguts - collaborated with musicians and producers from all over the world in creating the album I Sand which came out in 2011. A new video for this track prompts it's inclusion this week. That and it being a calming way to end the show.

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21 May 2018

Hello again.

Soft Science - I Don't Know Why I Love You
The flip side of the single Undone from the Californian syndicate is a House Of Love cover.

The Golden Dregs - What A Life, What A Waste
This is the project of Falmouth's Ben Woods with the album Lafayette out on Friday on SW label Art Is Hard.

Hearts & Rockets - Psychic Powers
Formerly Heat Wave, the now rebranded Melbournians have a split 7" out with city peers Piss Factory.

Breakfast Muff - Crocodile
The title track to the EP that came out last month from these cheeky Glaswegians.

Acid Dad - Marine
A track from the self-titled LP from the New Yorkers which came out in March.

Baywaves - 1954 Egyptian Drama
From a burgeoning Madrid underground scene come Baywaves with their EP It's Been Like which came out last week.

The Lovely Eggs - Big Sea
Lancaster married couple with another single from the This Is Eggland LP.

UkePunk - Susie Dent
Ramsbottom's premier ukulele-based punk outfit and friends of the show with their new single, out now, in tribute to everyone's favourite lexicographer.

Youth Man - Statuesque
From Birmingham, this is off the EP Five Songs which contains.. err.... five songs.

Drenge - This Dance
The Loveless brothers a back after a small hiatus and after their Grand Reopening tour have put out this new single.

Slowcoaches - Found Down
New single from the London punk trio.

The Jack Cades - Identity Crisis
Old-fashioned garage rock from Elsa and Mike Whittaker from Warwick. The album Music For Children came out last Friday.

Gabe Gurnsey - Ultra Clear Sound
Half of Factory Floor with a solo record that's very different to that. The album Physical is out in August.

InfraGhosts - Phantom Pain
Melbourne's Laura Davis is InfraGhosts and this single came out in March.

The Lucid Dream - SX1000
Something a bit different from Carlisle's Lucid Dream. They've recently completed their 4th album and this is the first single from it.

Istanbul Hippodrome - Atomised
Stunning stuff from the Folkestone band about whom I'd learn more if Facebook wasn't utter turd.

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