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With her second album, CYRK, hitting the shelves on 30 April, Cate Le Bon is set to release a Record Store Day exclusive split single with Gruff Rhys. Cate Le Bon and the Super Furry Animals singer have a long history: Le Bon was a major player in Rhys’s Neon Neon project. She toured extensively with Rhys after appearing on 2008’s acclaimed Stainless Style album. Rhys signed Le Bon to …
Cold Specks is the moniker of the young female Canadian singer Al Spx, despite having an incredibly unique and soulful voice that has been compared to Mahalia Jackson and Sister Rosetta Tharpeshe she didn’t get the hype in Toronto that she’s now getting in the UK. It wasn’t until she moved to London about a year and a half ago to record her debut album I Predict A Graceful Expulsion …
Lightships is the new project of Teenage Fanclub bassist Gerard Love whose debut single Sweetness In Her Spark is released on Monday the 26th of March. The single will be backed by a cover of “Do Your Thing”, written by avant-garde composer, instrument inventor Moondog from his 1978 album ‘H’art Songs’. The track has also been covered by the scottish band BMX Bandits who Lightship clarinet player Jim McCulloch was …
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds is set to release his first Hollywood film score for Sam Levinson’s Sundance Winning feature film debut ‘Another Happy Day’, starring Ellen Barkin and Demi Moore. The album is release via UK modern classical label Erased Tapes Records who also released ‘A Winged Sullen for the Victory‘. Ólafur has proven yet again that the space between the notes evoke as much power as the music itself. …
With her debut Child Bride due for release next month, Hannah Cohen has just premiered another video from this much-anticipated album, for the gorgeous track “Don’t Say“. Directed by Matthu Placek, Hannah’s subtle performance is caught in a single shot, brought to our attention via Visionaire founder and makeup maestro James Kaliardos. Hannah Cohen will be playing her first-ever London headline show at the Vortex in Dalston in May… Wednesday …
Laura Marling is to play the Royal Albert Hall this summer on 7th July, and on a Saturday! Laura Marling and the band will perform songs from ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’ as well as some tracks from earlier days and albums too, there will be no support acts for the show. She’s come a long way since this video which was taken in the same year we first started …
Antirecords unveil another new track from Yann Tiersen‘s new album ‘Skyline‘ due out April 17th! “I’m Gonna Live Anyhow” features some great looping vocals and harmonising. Skyline is Tiersen seventh studio album which antirecords state is ‘cementing the sound of its darker sister, the critically acclaimed Dust Lane. Says Tiersen, “Strangely while Skyline musically comes across as lighter and happier than Dust Lane the subject matter is somewhat darker – …
Ocean Colour Scene front man Simon Fowler has been working with Pledge Music and is set to release his Merrymouth album featuring the award winning folk musicians John McCusker and Andy Cutting. Whist Ocean Colour Scene take most of the 2012 off to concentrate on writing material for a new album Simon has taken the opportunity to release his long awaited folk album. Simon and his band Dan Sealey, Mike …
In 2011 M.N Hopwood wrote his debut album ‘And to this Last’ (due for release in September 2012) capturing moments of beauty on recordings made in an old saxon church, situated in the foothills of the Sussex Downs. The church was used as an instrument and the space encompassed the songs giving them life and vibrance, incorporating the sounds of the place, the landscape and the people who came and …
Listen to the latest track from sigur rós. Ekki Múkk is taken from their forthcoming album valtari due for released on May 28th. “i really can’t remember why we started this record, i no longer know what we were trying to do back then. i do know session after session went pear-shaped, we lost focus and almost gave up…did give up for a while. but then something happened and form …
The Levellers have unveiled their new video for ‘Truth Is‘, the first single from the forthcoming studio album, ‘Static On The Airwaves‘. The single will be released on Saturday 21st April and a Limited Edition Red Vinyl 7″ version will also be available exclusively as part of Record Store Day, with the digital download being available from online music stores the following day. Static On The Airwaves is released in …