Brighton's The Great Escape Festival , by some margin the largest new music industry event in Europe, is upon us and 300+ artists will be descending upon this tiny town to play shows Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In this week's This Music Wins I take you through 4 artists I think you should check out - Boy Friend, Porcelain Raft, Slow Down Molasses, and Milagres. Resonance FM is also running its own stage - on which I will be performing with Kinnie The Explorer. Arrive promptly 7pm @ The Haunt on Saturday 12th of May to catch [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Tame Impala, Atlas Sound, M83 Song: Kinnie The Explorer - Empyrean [download here ] What's so good? Buckle your [...]
Jamie Isaac - Wash / Can See (Housewarming Records) Last Friday, I played a show with my band Kinnie The Explorer at Cafe Oto in Dalston. Not only was the show a secret warm-up gig for Irish psychedelic folk band Dr Strangely Strange (playing under the pseudonym Mountains Of The Mind ), but it was also the debut show for London's rising talent Jamie Isaac. The seventeen-year old is a solo artist with an accomplished young band behind him, allowing his reverb-soaked piano songs to float in amongst the subtleties of [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Animal Collective, Kinnie The Explorer, Talk Talk "Share-a-tories - Cycling" What's so good? Share-a-tories comes from Boston, Massachusetts and is the brain child of Andrew Morehart. That's pretty much all I know about them - although I do know that I love their single, "Cycling." This track is taken from their EP, Dissolved In The Dark [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Wild Beasts, Apostle of Hustle, Real Estate "Kinnie The Explorer - Scissor Dance" What's so good? I just discovered Kinnie The Explorer about a half hour ago, so I'm right with you shufflers in discovering their fun new single, "Scissor Dance." Kinnie The Explorer is from the UK and are preparing to release their self-titled debut LP [...]
Kinnie The Explorer - Scissor Dance An unusual post in that it is of my own band, 'Kinnie The Explorer'. This song is taken from our forthcoming, self-titled debut LP, to be released on Ltd Edition 12" Vinyl on February 1st 2012. We're playing some shows in London and Brighton this weekend too, full details here . Kinnie The Explorer - Scissor Dance ( MP3 ) ( pre-order the album )
London / Brighton Live (Oct. 24 - Oct. 31) Zun Zun Egui - Fandango Fresh ( MP3 ) (Tuesday - Shacklewell Arms) Waskerley Way - Storm Song ( MP3 ) (Saturday - Mother Live) Fire Island Pines - Bratislava ( MP3 ) (Saturday - The Brunswick, Hove) Tinariwen - Assouf ( MP3 ) (Wednesday - KOKO) —————————— —————————— —————————— —————————- Monday [...]
Source: Kinnie The Explorer We are very pleased to announce our tour dates for this Spring, including dates with Dan Wilson, Oscillatorial Binnage, Friends Electric, Rapids, Saturday Sun and Stars and Sons, bookings from This Music Wins, Hand In Glove Records, Club Integral, The Other Space and Cabaret Futura, and dates in Poole, Bournemouth, Southampton, Brighton and London. FEBRUARY 19TH Hand In Glove Records Showcase: Friends Electric, Mutant Vinyl, Kinnie The Explorer + more @ Chords, Poole ***POSTPONED*** ( Event Page ) £6 [...]
The first show of my new series on Resonance FM, as detailed here , goes out Saturday 15 January 2011 at 6.30pm, and the tracklisting and MP3s are below. There's music from emerging hip-hop folk act FILMS, Swedish pop singer Lykke Li, Chicago's best new glam rock band Smith Westerns - as well as tracks from Beach House and Geoff Barrow of Portishead produced singer Anika. Download the show below, and the MP3s below that. TMW Radio Show (15th Jan 2011) (MP3) 1. Kinnie The Explorer - Fairy Lit Hung [...]
It is a sound of music that almost inherently causes me to use oxymoronic phrases to describe it. So I won't bother embarrassing myself. Just check out Kinnie The Explorer . Kinnie the Explorer - Blind Spider from Elliott Trent on Vimeo .
I've kept firm tabs on the one man lo-fi project Coma Cinema ever since I discovered his two albums available to download for free at his website. Since my revelation, he's struck up a convenient friendship with Transparent Records and announced his third album, 'Blue Suicide', which will drop via Fork and Spoon (vinyl) and Wonder Beard Tapes (cassette) some time early 2011. A few hours ago he released another new track from that album, 'Hell', via the Transparent blog. It by no means ventures far from his 'winning formula' of refreshingly simple and one-tone [...]
Album Artwork by Anna Deutsch Ed Baxter is the programming director of Resonance104.4fm. He was nominated for the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010 "Station Programmer of the Year", featured in The Independent on Sunday's Happy List in 2009 and was runner-up for the PRSF New Music Award 2008. He has toured with Faust, Otomo Yoshihide and Alvin Lucier. This Music Wins is featuring him a guest contributor, and his review is going to accompany the première of Kinnie The Explorer's new single "Fazell's Garden". A few weeks back I stumbled across Kinnie The Explorer's EP, [...]
A whole lot of things have happened since the last round-up, not just in the music world. I've been tied down by the band's gig with Noah & The Whale at Bournemouth O2 Academy a couple of wednesday's ago, illness, a short holiday to the wonderful Firenze, starting a new job and finishing school forever. Here's some of the things which have been announced in music whilst all that was going on. Blonde Redhead announced details of eigth studio album "Penny Sparkle". The New York trio's third release will drop on 4AD records September 13, [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Bombay Bicycle Club, The National, Explosions In The Sky Download audio file (127509635801Sleep.mp3) What's so good? This is a bit of a unique review in that it covers a band with a member that frequently contributes to Indie Shuffle as a guest contributor. Namely, Peter Lancely , who's recently updated blog can be viewed here: This Music Wins . Regardless of that affiliation, I'm going to have [...]
Trophy Boyfriend aka Gregor Ruigrok dropped his Distant Chimes EP earlier this month, and having just picked it up, I have to say the music is as nice and optimistic as the album cover. From the predominantly rainy Ireland, TB makes nostalgic dance, Washed Out influenced chillwave with booming percussion, 80s soft synths and lo-fi production. He's stuck in some lovely Pacific-esque vocal layering on the title track, and some wonderfully fashionable lo-fi guitars feature heavily at the start of "Like You Were Frozen Just As You Were About To Speak". That is, [...]
Peter Wolf Crier have been around for a while but my awareness of them certainly hasn't - they've only really become real to me in the last week or so, at a time where I've been fairly busy with creating my own album releases and trying to keep my head above water with the mounting levels of things I need to catch up on in time for this Summer. The new song from Minnesota folk-pop duo is called Hard As Nails, and joins an already very strong repertoire of material for a band who only formed in August 2009. [...]
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