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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