Jane Weaver broadens her sonic palette with new album ‘Love In Constant Spectacle’ her most open-hearted, direct and intimate collection of material yet. “Taking in acid folk, space rock, eerie, drifting electronic experimentation, hypnotic, vaguely krautrock-y instrumentals and full-on pop… Jane Weaver never makes the same album twice” The Guardian
Following the magnificent ‘Tangled Love’, Ella releases a third slice of perfect pensive pop with a provocative love song set on a deserted beach as the lights fail. ‘All In’ is heavy on the reverb as Ella’s woozy recollections roll out.
Taking fragments and stories from Marina’s past, the new album welcomes an assembly of images, deftly weaving together a new future, in what feels for all the world like a glittering, clear-eyed modern classic of alternative folk and Americana. Her songs hold a dynamism that conjure distinctive worlds of their own.
New single ‘Romantic Worlds’ is an elaborate love song where exuberant synths explore brief encounters and our perceptions of modern romance. Accompanied by a fantasy inspired, hazy romantic new music video, it sees a couple transported to another dimension where they are challenged in an otherworldly universe to use their character skills in order to escape.
‘HAD3S’ is a call for people to find balance; we find ourselves at tipping point, standing in the shadow of Hades, god of the underworld. Whilst the contrasting ‘AOL SLYT’ was shot at Berlin’s craggy Hermannplatz. This second half exhibits the comfort and discomfort of both, fast food and music consumption.
To celebrate they revisit their debut with a new take on ‘Tropical Still Life (Floridian Variant)’. A mutant Cumbia groove set against a 60s bassline, the single’s haunted combo organs swell and swirl around kinetic rhythms. It’s woven together with serpentine strands of arabesque fuzz-guitar, as a voice calls from the darker shadows, inviting you to the floor.
Vanishing Twin’s seminal LP, 'The Age Of Immunology' declared “a masterpiece” by The Line Of Best Fit receives a LTD edition pressing. An essential take on psych-pop futurism and a must for fans of Broadcast, Sun Ra and Ennio Morricone.
Graham Reynolds Music continues his sortie into solo territory with new EP out today 'Music For Prophet', a hybrid of Eno-ambience and Reynolds’ inspired penchant for drama; the tower is an over-arching monolith from a dreamy road movie where Charles Mingus trades melodies with Floating Points.
Seventy-five minutes of glorious melodies that span 60s psych, English folk, Seattle art-punks The Wipers, the buzzsaw pop of Dinosaur Jr and Hendrix-esque explorations. There’s always an element of playful Englishness to their music.