Modernity is an absurd thing. Whilst, within this post-covid landscape, human beings work isolated in their homes, all they really want is connection and to feel OK in ways that former generations were able to take for granted. On their second album ‘Domestic Majestic’, Silent Forum drill down deeper into this sentiment, taking in self-help,Continue reading “Silent Forum – Domestic Majestic”
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WRKHOUSE – Getaway
If you like a sure and certain ominous, dark groove with your course, fuzzy guitar and celestial synths, then WRKHOUSE are the lads you’ve been waiting ever patiently for. Their debut single ‘Getaway’ sees them bringing the aforementioned elements, topped off with a treacle-smooth, soulful melody, not unlike Manchester electronic-pop maestros Hurts with a grittier,Continue reading “WRKHOUSE – Getaway”
Grace Calver – Will U Be Mine?
Essex multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and all round DIY popstar Grace Calver’s musical oeuvre to date has been bursting with forlorn, yet still seriously catchy, bubblegum tunes mulling over a dysfunctional love life, but with new single ‘Will U Be Mine?’ it seems the skies are getting brighter as she turns up the sun, the performer beckoningContinue reading “Grace Calver – Will U Be Mine?”
Stone Deaf – What Good Is Sorry?
Swansea newcomers Stone Deaf have come stampeding out of the starting blocks since their formation less than 12 months ago, and their second single, ‘What Good Is Sorry?’, is an absolute turbo-charged, blues-rock tinged, beast of a tune, bursting with fragments of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s mean americana and Dirty Pretty Things scuzzed-up indie. DistortedContinue reading “Stone Deaf – What Good Is Sorry?”
shortstraw. – clean up
Spitting gritty rap-punk verbalisations over abrasive industrial beats, Erin West is better known as shortstraw. and her latest single ‘clean up’ is two minutes and thirty seconds of smart, self-aware and straight-talking disruptive lyricism delivered over a spectacularly scuzzy rhythm. Sharing sagacious compact urban aphorisms, like: “Counting my loose change, I watch the world goContinue reading “shortstraw. – clean up”
Carpark – Happy On Mars
When we used to wonder if what we don’t have would be better than what we do we used to pose the question: “is the grass is greener on the other side of the fence?” but Carpark have updated the conundrum for the post-Elon Musk, AI-loving, solar system colonialist era, on their latest ethereal dream-popContinue reading “Carpark – Happy On Mars”
SAHAJi – Future In The Sky
Japan’s love of British rock’n’roll has long been a trope, but the traffic has largely been one way, with planes and planes of young guitar slingers heading east from the UK to make it big but far fewer Japanese songsters getting to make the trip in return. Enter brothers Shotaro and Youshiro Nishida, better knownContinue reading “SAHAJi – Future In The Sky”
Real Farmer – The Straightest Line
Dutch DIY-punk noisemakers Real Farmer’s second single on Strap Originals is a gloriously ramshackle vitriolic sideswipe at the self-righteously sober. Preaching from the viewpoint of the victoriously misanthropic, ‘The Straightest Line’ uses razor sharp guitar lines, breakneck drumming and frontman Jeroen Klootsema’s Joe Strummer-like vocal bark to put forward the well considered case of theContinue reading “Real Farmer – The Straightest Line”
AIRFLO – Swansong
Drifting in with dreamy strumming and gentle vocals, we presumed at first that Bristol and Newport’s AIRFLO had gifted us a charming little acoustic number for their second single. As we sat and listened, however, it became searingly obvious that ‘Swansong‘ is a bit more of a hefty, profound beast than its tender opening chimesContinue reading “AIRFLO – Swansong”
Midding – And Then, They Sing
“Heaven is this place” croons Midding singer Joe Woodward, enigmatic and barely audible beneath layers and layers of sludgy beats, mesmerizing keyboards and possibly some guitar (we can’t hear any but he’s strumming on one in the video so we suspect it’s in the mix there somewhere), doling out celestial overtones to some already intenselyContinue reading “Midding – And Then, They Sing”
Edge of Arcady 