Category: Hear this
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Hear This: Lake Malice – Magic Square
A thick, well produced, deluge of riffs and electronics from this duo, guitarist Blake bringing no shortage of riffs while vocalist Alice goes effortlessly from blood curdling screams to nicely sung lines. A song about the rise of the true crime documentary over the pandemics (something I’ve admittedly fallen into at times) the dark subject…
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Hear This: Lauran Hibberd – Step Mum
A really fun burst of slacker pop, Step Mum is a mixture of funny lines, catchy hooks and fuzzy guitars. The interesting vocal style is fairly quirky but it works really well in this fast paced two minutes of energy. Lauran Hibberd says “I just realised there were not enough songs in the world about…
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Hear This: black midi – Welcome To Hell
I’ll start by saying the one thing I don’t like about this track, the vocals. There’s something about them just I just don’t enjoy; they’re very marmite, some people love them, some people hate them. With that out of the way, Welcome To Hell is yet another rung in the ladder of black midi‘s increasing…
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Hear This: Clean Cut Kid – Little Black Space
A nice burst of indie pop from Liverpool’s Clean Cut Kid. A retro production style works well alongside the anthemic chorus to the song, a catchy hook that’ll no doubt get people dancing in festival crowds over the summer. Quite a pleasant listen! Apparently they produced the album, in it’s analogue slightly lo-fi glory, themselves…
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Hear This: David Gould – Half Way House
I’ve been a fan of David’s music for a while now – I admire his guitar playing but over the last few years his production has definitely stepped up a few gears. Halfway House was released at the end of March but it’s one that’s still getting fairly regular plays. The song is based around…
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Hear This: Babii – Liite
I’m never sure what genre of music this falls under. A wonderful, ethereal, few minutes of electronic music with vocals which sort of lightly glide into your ears. It’s quite relaxing yet there is quite a lot going on in the three minutes of music, enough to merit a few repeat listens to hear all…
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Hear This: Stu E Skinner – Healing Water
The single version of Healing Water, the new track from Stu E Skinner, is a great example of tactfully fleshing out an acoustic track – the extra elements; the slide guitar, the gentle kick, the bass part and the occasional keys at no point overpower the main finger picked base to the song. Because at…
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Hear This: Keg – Kids
I became aware of Keg when they played a fun-as-hell gig over at Three Wise Monkeys earlier this year. Musically they’re a band with a lot going on – synths, cowbell, trumpet, guitar, bass, drums and a shouted vocal style – with a clear nod to bands like Talking Heads. This track, Kids, is possibly…
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Hear This: Eat Your Own Head – Denied
Eat Your Own Head (the artists previously known as Hank, for any of you who saw them previously in town) have a debut album on the way soon and have been gracing us with a few tracks to wet the appetite. This track, Denied, is arguably less mathy than a lot of their previous tracks…
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Hear This: Geoff Lawrence – Little Boys Room
There have been a couple of great tracks from Geoff Lawrence recently. Call Me Tuesday, featuring his daughter Effie, was a beautiful piece of music and now this, Little Boys Room takes his music in another direction. It’s a lot more relaxed than the music from his previous bands, in a way that really lets…
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