Over a year ago the Wisconsin-via-Nashiville duo of Eric Hillman and Brian Holl formed Flights and set to work on recording an album. Earlier this year, after changing their name to Foreign Fields, their stunning debut LP Anywhere But Where I Am was released. A deft and sprawling marathon, the album is one the most perfectly constructed and beautifully delivered records of the year. The band recently hooked up with Mitch Buss to set about filming their first official video for The River Kings; a track taken from the aforementioned [...]
By Katie Malcolmson Let me get this out of the way. I bloody love Hole . I love them. I love their imperfections, their sloppiness, and their bordering-on-ridiculous-brash lyrics. I love Courtney Love’s Hollywood “ I’m totally A-list okay? ” attitude and lipstick smeared mouth, her bull-in-a-china-shop outspokenness, and her desperation to be taken seriously, her limelight grabbing, attention-seeking ways, her glamorous (and not so glamorous) breakdowns and her front page flings (*cough Steve Coogan cough*). She is a complete oxymoron and so are Hole. Everyone doesn’t love them, and they [...]
Seriously, Runaround WHO?! Runaround Kids , actually. The Wakefield trio are a rising force in the UK and on these prestigious pages; they’ve been releasing consistently great material on a plethora of formats and appearing on bills that your shitty band is well jealous of. In June we dubbed them “The Mikey Whipwreck of Indie-Pop” and just last month we virtually frothed at the mouth over their new split Cassingle with The Spills (listen here)…this month we’re dubbing them “the fifth, sixth and seven Beatle” – do you like them yet? When’s your Dolmio day? [...]
It's been three weeks now since TOY released their self-titled debut album and it's a record that is showing no signs of slowing down. Graciously received upon release, the record is going through that whole word-of-mouth stage that slow-burning rock epics tend to generate. And what a record it is. Dense and swirling guitars, pulsing rhythms and enough fresh ideas to blow those Autumnal blues clean away it's both a wonderful debut record and a bold statement of intent. Ahead of the bands first headline tour since the records release, we caught up with front-man Tom [...]
Loads of great tracks have trickled into our consciousness this week. Here are a selection of the best... Rhye ~ The Fall You may remember Rhye from the quite-stunning debut single that dropped earlier this year. Details about everything have been kept to a minimum, but we knew that The Fall is the title-track from a debut EP that will be released on November 12th via Innovative Leisure/Polydor. More up-tempo than Open ( see here ), The Fall [...]
Kim Monaghan is the sour face of Daddy Tank Records , a one-man freak show of the alien and strange. Their diverse catalogue of oddities has included Future Hip-Hop (Suck Susan), Almost-Indie (Hangin Freud), Backwards Jazz (Joe De Vita), Resurrection Rap (Social Studies), Electro-Glitch (Pang) and good old-fashioned 12-bar Robo-Geisha-Space-Blues (Lower Third). You can probably tell right now if this is for you or not and that’s fine, don’t flatter yourself. So, what does an Audio Pervert like Daddy Tank listen to when he isn’t stealing hearts and pumping glitch? The answer is here. [...]
You know, sometimes the world just has to dance. Sometimes you get tired of avant-garde experimental doom-folk recordings. Sometimes the word 'dream-pop' in an email just doesn't do it for you anymore. Sometimes, especially on a Friday evening, a couple of people re-work a classic 902s pop smash and all you want to do is close the bedroom door, play it ridiculously loud, and dance around the room until there is nothing but the dance. So, go ahead... Get a free download of the track via Facebook [...]
So Jean-Benoit Dunckel from Air has teamed up with a young lady who goes by the name of Lou Hayter (you may well have heard her on the keys in New Young Pony Club ) to release this 12-inch under the name ‘ Tomorrow’s World ’. The record features two workings of ‘ So Long My Love ’ a noir- ish , industrial pop effort featuring love struck vocals (too much love driving me away//too much love can feel like pain) from [...]
Words by Gianna Hughes The Sea and Cake have been recording music for as long as my younger sister has been alive. In the time it took for the Chicago-based band to release 10 albums, my sister has grown from birth into a legal adult who has experienced many of life’s joys and woes. Since 1994, she has come into her own. And this is the case with The Sea and Cake as well; they have grown alongside one another, and they are now both reaching maturity. [...]
One of our favourite tracks of the year has just got the visual treatment, as WALL has released the video for Magazine, her quite stunning debut single which came out this week via the new Black Cab Sessions record label. In our recent interview with Lyla, she described the single as " wishing you were somewhere else. There’s some Summery imagery in the song but it’s actually quite sad. It’s about being forgotten and left behind." Indeed. Check out the ace video below and grab yourself a copy of [...]
Oh kaleidoscopic videos, I do like you a lot. They're always so inventive and pretty aren't they? And so it is with the new video from London three-piece LULS , who's video for new single Swing Low was directed by MTV award nominated visual artist Ferry Gouw, who used " an old Victorian paper game as the basis for the visual concept. " Of course this would all count for diddly-squat if the song didn't match the rather-astounding visuals, but thankfully Swing Low is a resoundingly fiery and triumphant blast of indie-pop. Colour us smitten. [...]
Birmingham's Calories have always had that magic touch for producing short and messy rock songs that manage to feel thoroughly instant while oozing nostalgic romanticism. Where this nostalgia comes from hasn't always been wholly apparent, but on Summer's Not, a brand new non-album track released ahead of their third LP, this longing for the past is pushed completely to the forefront. Incessant drumming, crushing guitars and the repeated refrain " Summer's not the same as it was when we were young ", all combining brilliantly to create something both hedonistic and completely involving. Welcome back, [...]
Brendan Mattox is the brains behind Boston’s Marblemouth ; although low-key, Marblemouth are one of our highlights from 2012’s many debuts. Second EP Nocturnes was the real head turner for us at GFP (See; TOTD045 ) with its mix of ambient drone, grunge dirges, lo-fi hiss and Slint -like iced emotion. Turn it up loud and close your eyes. http://marblemouth.bandcamp.co m/album/nocturnes With virtually no online presence, we’re pretty excited to have the elusive Mr. Mattox talk us through his [...]
Artist : Tall Ships Title : Everything Touching Record Label : Big Scary Monsters / Blood & Biscuits Release Date : October 8th BUY IT Words by Tom Johnson If there is a suitable analogy buried within Everything Touching , the debut album from Brighton-via-Falmouth trio Tall Ships , it [...]
Oh, mighty PAWS …we do so care for you and your “ infectious, lo-fi, garage pop-rock ”…oh yes we do! Their fabuloso debut album is but a short while away and today we premiere their single number two on this very page. ‘ Cokefloat! ’ has many tricks up its fizzly sleeve and Sore Tummy is certainly one of them, offering a guest appearance by Alice Costelloe of Big Deal ; bringing her dulcet tones to PAWS’ ever vibrant canvas of awesome rockery. PAWS are still very [...]
Australia's finest ME play the last of their dates with Motion City Soundtrack at Leeds' Cockpit tonight and, as a fitting tribute, we're very pleased to premiere these two exclusive acoustic performances. The band have recently put the finishing touches to their debut LP and it's due out in February of next year. Check out the two videos below and be sure to head to over to their Facebook page to keep up-to-date on all things ME . [...]
Though only in their infancy as a band, Swinger are another 2012 debut of note. One demo in and they’re coolly recalling the indie-psych waves of Velocity Girl and Love Battery ; they’re a smugger Sub Popper’s delight. The striking clarity of their dual vocal really brings this jangly shoegaze noise to life, in an ocean of bigger/duller competition. The simple but ample sound of Katie Harris’ effortlessly hypnotic melodies overlaying Fergus Clarke’s deeply emotive Serpico whine is definitely something I’d be very glad to hear more of come 2013. [...]
There have been occasions in my life when I thought that perhaps music means too much to me. There have also been times when I'm almost certain it does. Pinning hopes and fears and dreams on to the art created by people we don't know and will probably never meet is never likely to provide adequate answers to our own strife. Of course, like any form of art, it can offer escapism and food for the soul - but is it healthy to expect something from it in return? Are those people who are quite happy to casually listen to chart hits [...]
Words by Rob Jurewicz How To Dress Well has always been about capturing a mood of loneliness, isolation and depression, a process of ‘drilling down into the melancholy’ to create a truly intimate space between the artist and the listener. Tom Krell’s skill at re-appropriating radio-friendly contemporary R’n’B is astonishing (just listen to his pseudo-cover of Beyonce’s Crazy in Love’) yet, one of the problems with creating a follow-up to the outstanding ‘ Love Remains ’ is whether or not to drop the clearly defined aesthetic that made it such a success. [...]
Best Coast The Borderline , London Tuesday 18th September One of my main gripes with the internet is it’s passion for hyperbole. Seemingly every record is labelled “ album of the year ”, every song “ a game-changer ”. Every cymbal hit, chord struck or melody sung is deemed better than the one which preceded it. Here at GFP we promote new songs as “ the best new music ” because we genuinely believe that it is. However, even the best sites and magazines can’t predict every band [...]
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