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It’s almost been twelve months since Art Brut released their album, Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! We did hear from Eddie Argos and the gang back in April when they teamed up with We Are Scientists, for that sweet Traveling Wilburys cover, and today there’s good news – the creative momentum is being maintained…
Just Mustard have just shared a new single and video called ‘Seven’. This is another release on the band’s own Pizza Pizza Records label. Further evidence of the Just Mustard’s desire to cut their own path. Vocalist Katie Bell, guitarists David Noonan and Mete Kaylon, bassist Rob Clarke and drummer Shane Maguire formed the band…
Gong Gong Gong have just shared a new track from their upcoming album, Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏. The track is called ‘Ride Your Horse 騎你的馬’ and there’s a video, which was shot recently in Beijing. Since we last spoke to Joshua Frank and Tom NG they have been profoundly busy. Tours and work have taken them…
Today, in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the autumnal equinox. Seasons are shifting. It’s a good time for reflection. Rosie Tucker has shared a new track called ‘Ambrosia’ via New Professor Music. ‘Ambrosia’ is the first new material we’ve heard from Tucker since her album Never Not Never Not Never Not. The intimacy of the songwriter’s…
The first seven and half seconds of ‘Trippple’ feel like the cornerstone to the entire sequence of songs on the new album from Operator Music Band. Track seven of Duo Duo opens with a pulsating nod to the electronic heart at the center of things. Before drums kick in with structure and drive our ears…
As one third of Mountain Man Molly Sarlé showed something of what she could do with her voice. Words like ‘heavenly’ or ‘reflective’ get floated around when referencing the artist’s work with that band. These are accurate descriptions, but they can lead the mind to things which are often flighty or light of substance. Fans…
‘Don’t Wake Up, Wake Up’ from No Swoon is a thing of swopping beauty, informed by the colors of post punk and arthouse rock.
The album artwork for Miami Memory shows a shirtless Alex Cameron. The artist is pictured in front of a wall plastered with photos, postcards and paintings. Sky scrapers, sea shells, polaroids depicting sections of naked flesh. One small image shows the singer, dancing. Another photo shows half of the face of Cameron’s actor/artist partner, Jemima…
Amy O has an album called Shell which will be released on October 25, via one of popbollocks’ favorite labels, Winspear. Here, artist label deliver a dispatch of typically understated beauty. It’s a track called ‘Rest Stop’. Brevity lends to the charm of a track whose focus is the end of summer, and also some…
‘Waiting on the Moment’ carries with it Bree’s shimmering and dark world view. Leaning in on a imagist poetry, and sharing a narrative of the broken hearted