Interview with singer songwriter Richard Walters

With five crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed albums and four EPs to his name since 2007, singer song­writer Richard Wal­ters is noth­ing if not pro­lif­ic. And now the solo artist is on the cusp of releas­ing a dig­i­tal sin­gle called The Man I Loved from his upcom­ing EP in Jan­u­ary 2022. There are fur­ther strings to his bow:…

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Nightmares on Wax new single with OSHUN

Night­mares on Wax is set to release his album Shout Out! To Free­dom on 29th Octo­ber and so far, things are look­ing very pos­i­tive for the artists ninth work. Night­mares on Wax, aka George Eve­lyn, has revealed an impres­sive list of col­lab­o­ra­tive forces: Green­tea Peng, OSHUN, Shaba­ka Hutch­ings, Halle Supreme, Pip Mil­lett and more.  He first…

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Aftertouch: magical new album from Absolutely Free

Emerg­ing from a misty and dreamy land­scape comes the sec­ond album from Cana­di­an out­fit Absolute­ly Free called After­touch, released Sep­tem­ber 24 on Boiled Records. The band caught my atten­tion ear­li­er in the year with the thought-pro­­vok­ing sin­gle How to Paint Clouds – the sec­ond track on this new release. Absolute­ly Free, com­pris­ing the core trio…

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Psych artists Absolutely Free release lush single How to Paint Clouds

Toron­to trio Absolute­ly Free share their first release in sev­en years. Called How to Paint Clouds, the sin­gle is from the band’s impend­ing sec­ond stu­dio album After­touch which lands on Sep­tem­ber 14th.  Since the band’s Polaris Music Prize-nom­i­­nat­ed debut album in 2014, Absolute­ly Free have been involved with mul­ti­me­dia projects such as Gene­va Freeport EP in 2019…

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Dakota Jones share single: I Did it to Myself

Now this is just the sort of sul­try num­ber to make you long for the prop­er return of live music, an evening in an inti­mate venue, doing your stuff on the dance floor with social dis­tanc­ing noth­ing but a dis­tant mem­o­ry. The artists in ques­tion are Dako­ta Jones, a funk blues and soul out­fit making…

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Long awaited new single by W H Lung ‘Pearl in the Palm’

W H Lung have just released the first track from their high­ly antic­i­pat­ed sec­ond album, Van­i­ties, due 3rd Sep­tem­ber. Called Pearl in the Palm, the sin­gle marks a depar­ture from the Man­ches­ter band’s first album Inci­den­tal Music. When an artist you’re par­tic­u­lar­ly fond of announces a change of direc­tion there’s a bit­ter­sweet moment. Yay, new…

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The Weather Station announce European tour

One of this year’s most riv­et­ing and orig­i­nal albums is The Weath­er Sta­tion’s Igno­rance. The project with Tama­ra Lin­de­man at the helm has cre­at­ed a dev­as­tat­ing and per­son­al nar­ra­tive about cli­mate change.  Gourmet Gigs reviewed the dra­mat­ic sin­gle Atlantic: “it is a star­tling, unusu­al and brood­ing work, ele­gant­ly arranged with a lush expan­sive­ness yet suffused…

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Sylvette share new song Blanket of Dust

Man­ch­es­ter-based five-piece band Syl­vette present their new track called Blan­ket of Dust today, 21st May. And how love­ly that got a launch morn­ing play on Chris Hawkins’ ear­ly morn­ing show on BBC 6 Music. This lat­est release fea­tures ele­ments we’ve come to expect from Syl­vette but this has rather a dif­fer­ent feel. Blan­ket of Dust is…

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Suzie Ungeleider reveals new video

Suzie Ungelei­der has just released a new track called Baby Blues from her upcom­ing album My Name is Suzie Unger­lei­der. Fans of Amer­i­cana will be famil­iar with Suzie’s for­mer per­sona – she per­formed in the guise of Oh Susan­na for many years, and has toured the UK, with sold out shows at Lon­don’s 100 Club…

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Better in Space: GracieSouz reveals new EP

Lock­down has caused many a col­lab­o­ra­tive project to tem­porar­i­ly frag­ment, result­ing in solo work that may be of a more intense and intro­spec­tive nature. Out today is Grace de Souza­’s excit­ing new solo EP called Bet­ter in Space. Grace is a mem­ber of Lon­­don-based band KIN (see inter­view with KIN band here). Grace found herself…

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