The Guardian (British newspaper): “A cheerfully rocking album about global collapse… Flight b741 is a striking combination of form and emotion from a band where the former has often been scrutinised by critics at the expense of the latter. Flight b741 charts a bumpy path, but the destination makes it worth it.” Score: 4/5.
Photo by Maclay Heriot
TUTV: After 25 albums, it sounds as if the prolific Aussies decided to simply rock out
for a change, and they do it with striking 70s-inspired strokes with sultry harmonica-blues echoes here and there. Conventional guitar solos pop up in every track.
Zestful and highly vibrant melodies are embedded in rip-roaring scores going airborne now and then, and peppered with ardent vocality all the way. This KG&TLW opus will
excite my ears for quite a while.
Key tracks: Field Of Vision / Le Risque / Rats In The Sky / Daily Blues
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Track: LE RISQUE
The first taster of their 26th LP in 14 years (!!!)
baptized Flight b741. It will hit the streets on
August 8.
A pumped-up-bass & frenzied guitar-crazy stomper that rocks and rolls straight on with racy panache. Steamy stuff. It has drummer Michael Cavanagh on vocals for the first time.
“Paint It All in Blue” is the second taster from Norwegian band Mayflower Madame’s highly anticipated third album. Following the much acclaimed first single “A Foretold Ecstasy”, the new offering instantly puts a spell on you with its throbbing bass lines, motorik drums and hypnotic guitars, while midway it all opens up and leaves you drifting in a sea of dreamy melancholia. Combining the rhythmic grooves of kraut-rock and post-punk with the dazzling atmospherics of shoegaze and neo-psychedelia, the result is a profoundly dynamic song unfolding layer by layer.
Justin Case: “I want it to end upon a Driving Rock Anthem compilation.
You know,the kind of CD you’d initially pass over at a carboot sale, only to
return later,driven by a strange compulsion to buy it. We want to be that
guilty pleasure!”
I hope these weirdos give us a couple of more guilty pleasure
juggernauts we didn’t ask for, to go nuts to this summer.
Artist: SELMA HIGGINS Who: Described as “A meteor strike in Danish music” by leading culture newspaper, Politiken. She has proved herself as an artist who never limits her musical output to
a specific sound or style.
Higgins:“I wanted to make it a sensuous, sensual song, almost like Grease’s ‘Summer Nights’. The feeling of butterflies in your stomach and wanting to open yourself to someone. And the excitement, because it’s the summer, anything can happen. And that’s such a feeling.”
Don’t be fooled by her cute Pippi Longstocking freckles. Selma Higgins is
up to no good in the mad fun DIY-video for this funky and trippy summertime pop gem.
Last Saturday Australian‘s psych-prog-rock squad KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD announced details of the birth of their 26th LP in 14 years (hello Radiohead, where are you?), baptized FLIGHT b741. It’ll will hit the streets on August 8.
And here’s the first taster. LE RISQUE is a pumped-up-bass & frenzied guitar-crazy stomper that rocks and rolls straight on with racy panache. Steamy stuff. It has drummer Michael Cavanagh on vocals for the first time.
Psychedelia addicts from down under KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD must
be the hardest working band on the planet. So far they released 25 albums in 13 years,
an average of almost 2 per year (hello Radiohead?). Their most recent one is last year’s The Silver Cord (stream below). So, there’s a lot of artwork to choose from. TUTV picked these 5 ones.
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1. Ice Cream (Pay Phone) by BLACK PUMAS (Austin, Texas)
📸 Jody Domingue Studios
The soul pumas have their brand new album Chronicles Of A Diamond
out, with this funky ripper as one of the highs off the record.
Sicilian musician/producer Gae Vinci released his top-notch debut album Lonely Ballads last May, mixing electronica, psychedelia and electric shoegaze
layers.
To keep the momentum going, renowned British darkwave duo The KVB remixed All The Times, one of the album’s highlights. Their atmospheric approach adds a heart-warming Depeche Mode-esque vibe.
The accompanying, eye-catching video was an idea of Gae Vinci, who
chose and edited clips, transposing into visual The KVB‘s sound.
Last Friday these ridiculously productive psych-prog rockers from down under unleashed their 25th album in 13 years. Hallelujah. On The Silver Cord they swapped guitars for electronica.
Swan is a great example of it. Yes, the Aussies go disco.
Stress Dolls is the moniker of American alt/pop/rock artist Chelsea O’Donnell.
Ghostwriter is the 2nd single off her upcoming debut album.
“There are many times where I don’t really know what a song is about until long after
I write it, and “Ghostwriter” was no exception. I came to recognize it as a metaphor about my relationship to anxiety: I want to be the narrator of my own story, but there are lots of times where I feel like my anxious feelings take the reins, even if I don’t want them to. I take the credit, or blame, for my own actions, but the metaphor of anxiety as a ‘ghostwriter’ felt fitting to me.”
Ghostwriter is a speedy, shivering and steamrollin’ indie pop tune with
some surprisingly exciting violin play embedded in an guitar-driven flair.
“I find myself writing about moving on and freeing yourself from bad vibes quite often. I guess it’s just the theme of my life, and these songs are my way of meditating on these relationships and finding peace with it.”
It Goes On is a jangly psych-pop dream propelled by glowing
guitars and has a galvanic chorus that sticks instantly.
Arih SK is an artist living and working in St. Catharines, Ontario. He’s known for writing short, slightly upbeat songs with simple melodies about loss, nostalgia, family, and relationships.
“This song is inspired by Alex The Parrot, who was part of the avian learning experiment. He could tell between different colours and shapes, could count, and he was the first non-human animal to have ever asked a question (what colour am I?). Sadly, the experiment was abruptly ended by Alex’s untimely death. The chorus of the song borrows Alex’s last words, which were the same words he said at the end of every day’s session: “You be good. I love you. See you tomorrow. My daughter Olive sings on this track with me.
‘You Be Good’ is a sweet, tender and catchy father/daughter lullaby. Lovely!
This US outlaw alt-folk group have come a long way since their humble beginnings when they used to busk for loose change, actually taking their name from a time when they were accused of stealing a corner on Tejon Street in their home city of Colorado Springs during a turf war between rival buskers.
Last week they released their brand new
full length, baptized Juxtaposition.
The End Of Apathy is one of the stand out tracks on the record.
A punky folk chant fueled with manic mandolin riffage.
UNCUT Magazine: The Aussie Maestros deliver seven concise tracks of electronica, largely indebted to Giorgio Moroder but with ventures into many of those elements Moroder inspired, from disco to techno and even jungle.
TUTV: The incredibly productive misfits step into another sonic universe – leaving
their by now familiar psych-prog rock one – this time. No guitars here, unless they
mixed them unrecognizably. It’s all about experimenting with electronica, synths
and related devices, all the way through.
Their hurried psychedelic rainbow sound is still intact, yet it resonates more like EBM
for post-punk indies. Inventive but in the end still the Aussies we know. And guess what, there are only 7 songs, and for the first time not one reaching the 5-minute mark.
But for their fanatic fans, in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms, the band remixed
all 7 songs – with each one not shorter than 10 minutes – and pressed them on an
extra vinyl edition. You can also stream the whole shebang here on Spotify.
Score: 3.5/5.
